Liquid crystal display device

Abstract

A liquid crystal display device (100A) includes: a backlight (30a) with a curved emitting surface; and an LCD panel (10a), of which the surface that receives light emitted from the backlight and the surface that transmits light to conduct a display operation both have substantially the same degree of curvature as the emitting surface of the backlight. Supposing a plane that includes four points on two opposing ones of the four sides that define the extension of the emitting surface (32a) of the backlight is a reference plane (RPa), the light emitted through the emitting surface has an intensity distribution that has a half-width angle of ±30 degrees or less with respect to a normal to the reference plane.

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