Patent ID: 7768204

Claim:
An illumination device comprising: a plurality of light emitting units, each of the light emitting units having a light emitting element and a first fluorescent material region containing a fluorescent material and provided at a light emitting side of the light emitting element; a plurality of second fluorescent material regions containing a fluorescent material at a light emitting side of respective light emitting units, wherein the first fluorescent material region having a first emission conversion property, is provided at a light emitting side of at least one light emitting unit; and a second fluorescent material region, having a second emission conversion property that is different from the first emission conversion property, is provided at the light emitting side of at least one light emitting unit, wherein a chromaticity distribution of light emitted from the second fluorescent material regions is reduced from a chromaticity distribution of the light emitted from each light emitting unit.