Disclosed are a display device and a control method. The display device includes: a transparent substrate; a transflective film disposed on a first side of the transparent substrate; a display screen disposed on a second side of the transparent substrate, the first side being opposite to the second side; and an infrared gesture recognition circuit disposed on the second side of the transparent substrate, where an orthographic projection of the infrared gesture recognition circuit on the transparent substrate and an orthographic projection of the display screen on the transparent substrate do not overlap each other; and the infrared gesture recognition circuit is configured to recognize a gesture at a side of the transflective film and control interface display of the display screen according to the determined operation gesture.