It is possible to inhibit artifacts, even when a special image has been input. The visual processing device of the invention is provided with a spatial processing portion (10) that extracts surrounding image information US from an image signal IS that is input, a special image detection portion (40) that outputs a special image effect adjustment signal DS according to a degree of the statistical bias of the image signal IS, a continuous changing portion (50) that outputs an effect adjustment signal MOD in which the special image effect adjustment signal DS is continuously changed between frames, an effect adjustment portion (20) that outputs a synthesized signal MUS in which the effect of the visual processing is differed depending on the effect adjustment signal MOD, and a visual processing portion (30) that outputs a processed signal OS that is obtained by visually processing the image signal IS based on the image signal IS and the synthesized signal MUS.