Patent ID: 8363182

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device of a field sequential system, comprising: an illumination element used as a backlight for the display device and including a first light source for emitting light of a first color, a second light source for emitting light of a second color which is different from the first color, and a third light source for emitting light of a third color which is different from the first and second colors, the illumination element being capable of emitting light of the first, second, and third colors independently by time division; and a liquid crystal display panel for modulating the light emitted from the illumination element, wherein, the liquid crystal display panel includes a first color filter exhibiting a high transmittance for light of the first color, and wherein the light of the first color mainly has a spectrum in a green wavelength region, and the liquid crystal display panel includes no color filters other than the first color filter.