IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR

It is an object to provide an image processing device, an image display device, and an image processing method therefor that are capable of curbing generation of a pseudo edge in a digital image.The image processing device and the image display device are provided including a threshold-value control unit 29 that obtains a threshold value depending on a tone in image data; a smoothing filter unit 60 that applies a smoothing process to a predetermined tone in the image data while preserving, depending on the threshold value, a predetermined edge in the image data; and an output unit that outputs image data having been processed by the smoothing filter unit 60.