Patent ID: 8226261

Claim:
An illumination device for a liquid crystal display comprising: illumination areas; drive circuits corresponding to respective ones of the illumination areas; a first separation wall surrounding said illumination areas; and a second separation wall partitioning each of said illumination areas and being lower than said first separation wall; wherein each of the illumination areas includes a first light-emitting device package, a second light-emitting device package, and a third light-emitting device package; each of the first, the second, and the third light-emitting device packages includes light-emitting devices; the first and the second light-emitting device packages are adjacent to each other in a row direction, an arrangement of emission colors in the first light-emitting device packages being different from an arrangement of emission colors in the second light-emitting device packages; the first and the third light-emitting device packages are adjacent to each other in a column direction, an arrangement of emission colors in the first light-emitting device packages being different from an arrangement of emission colors in the third light-emitting device packages; and the drive circuits are configured to drive the light-emitting devices in respective ones of the illumination areas, based on image data inputted to the liquid crystal display.