Patent ID: 8537097

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel; a backlight disposed at the back of the liquid crystal display panel, the backlight including a white light-emitting diode as a light source; and an LED drive circuit configured to drive the white light-emitting diode, wherein: the LED drive circuit includes a booster circuit configured to output a boosting voltage so that a control voltage becomes a constant voltage, a resistance circuit configured to generate the control voltage to be input to the booster circuit, a first stage current mirror circuit including an input side transistor supplied with a current flowing through the resistance circuit and an output side transistor through which a reference current proportional to a current flowing to the input side transistor flows, a second stage current mirror circuit including an input side transistor supplied with the reference current and an output side transistor through which a driving current proportional to a current flowing to the input side transistor flows, a light-emitting diode column including the white light-emitting diode configured to be supplied with the driving current from the second stage current mirror circuit, and a dimming control circuit including a bypass transistor to bypass the reference current supplied to the input side transistor of the second stage current mirror circuit from the output side transistor of the first stage current mirror by permitting the reference current to flow through the bypass transistor based on a dimming control signal input to the dimming control circuit.