Patent ID: 7995159

Claim:
A liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising: a liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a second substrate disposed in an opposing relationship to said first substrate with a space left, and a liquid crystal layer provided in the space between said first and second substrates; a light source configured to emit light through the liquid crystal panel; said liquid crystal panel including a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels are provided on the faces of said first and second substrates which oppose to each other such that illuminating light irradiated from the light source from said first substrate side upon said second substrate side is transmitted through said pixel region to display an image; and said liquid crystal panel further including only one light scattering layer provided on the face of said first substrate on which the illuminating light is illuminated and configured to scatter and transmit the light, wherein at least one additional optical film is provided between the light scattering layer and the light source, wherein a plurality of phase difference plates are provided on the rear face of the TFT array substrate, and a first phase difference plate having a different phase difference than a second phase difference plate, and wherein the light scattering layer is provided between the TFT array substrate and the plurality of phase difference plates.