To provide a stereoscopic picture display device capable of easily adding a sense of realism similar to that of holography by moving the visual point of a screen in accordance with the movement of the observer.
A picture for right eye and a picture for a left eye are separately displayed on color liquid crystal displays 6a and 6b, and the display parts of back light devices 7a and 7b for illuminating the displays from behind are enlarged by optical elements 6a and 6b. The picture of an observer's face photographed by infrared cameras 3a and 3b are displayed by the back light devices 7a and 7b, simultaneously, information on the observer's position is detected by a controller 11 based on the barycentric coordinates of the picture of the face and in accordance with the information, a swinging mechanism for a stereoscopic television camera is controlled by the controller 11.