Gesture recognition method and display equipment

The invention discloses a gesture recognition method and display equipment, and the method comprises the steps: determining whether to simplify the step of determining the position information of a hand region or not through employing the confidence of a hand posture, and simplifying the step of determining the second hand information when the confidence of the hand posture corresponding to a previous frame of original color image is not smaller than a preset confidence. And thus, the gesture recognition time is shortened. The method comprises the following steps: when an obtained original color image is not a first frame of original color image, determining a hand posture confidence coefficient corresponding to a previous frame of original color image; if the confidence coefficient is not less than the preset confidence coefficient, predicting hand region position information of the original color image obtained this time according to first hand information obtained by the previous frame of original color im