Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

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Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Omron Corporation

Yoshihiro Mizuguchi

Hiroshi Hamada

Shunpei Yamazaki

Yoshiharu Hirakata

Takeshi Nishi

Shunichi Naka

Shuhei Tuchimoto

Shigeru Aoyama

Tsukasa Yamashita

Hiroshi Nakanishi

Takashi Shibatani

Hiromi Kato

Hiroshj Hamada

A liquid crystal projector in which light is effectively used and an excellent picture can be obtained is provided. In the liquid crystal projector, dichroic mirrors arranged at different angles are used to separate white light into beams of light of three primary colors of R, G, and B, and the respective beams of light are incident on microlenses at different angles. The respective beams of light of the three primary colors are distributed by the microlenses to optical components corresponding to pixels, and highly collimated light beams can be obtained by the optical components. Since the highly collimated light beams are made incident on the pixels of the liquid crystal panel, the beams can be certainly made incident on desired pixels.

Liquid crystal projector

A liquid crystal projector in which light is effectively used and an excellent picture can be obtained is provided. In the liquid crystal projector, dichroic mirrors arranged at different angles are used to separate white light into beams of light of three primary colors of R, G, and B, and the respective beams of the light are incident on microlenses at different angles. The respective beams of light of the three primary colors are distributed by the microlenses to optical components corresponding to pixels, and highly collimated light beams can be obtained by the optical components. Since the highly collimated light beams are made incident on the pixels of the liquid crystal panel, the beams can be certainly made incident on desired pixels.

A projection type color image display apparatus includes: a light source for emitting white light; a first optical element for dividing the white light into a plurality of colored lights and for converging each colored light to form a plurality of spots, the spots of each colored light being formed at different positions from the spots of the other colored light; a liquid crystal display element including a plurality of pixels, the pixels corresponding to the spots and modulating the respective colored lights, whereby an image displayed by the liquid crystal display element is carried by the colored lights; a second optical element for diffracting the colored lights modulated by the liquid crystal display element to make a principal ray of each colored light substantially parallel to a principal ray of the other colored light; and a third optical element for receiving the colored lights from the second optical element and for projecting the image displayed by the liquid crystal display element while the image is enlarged.

Projection type image display apparatus

A color liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a transmission type liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix along a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein incident light is spatially modulated by selecting one of the plurality of pixels, a white light source for emitting white light; dichroic mirrors for splitting the white light emitted from the white light source into at least three bundles of rays of different wavelength bands, the bundles of rays going out from the dichroic mirrors at different angles; lenticular lens layers provided between the liquid crystal display device and the dichroic mirrors, the lenticular lens layers converging the bundles of rays led through the dichroic mirrors onto different ones of the plurality of pixels depending on the wavelength bands thereof, wherein the lenticular lens layers includes a first lenticular lens layer and a second lenticular lens layer, the first lenticular lens layer includes a plurality of first lenticular lenses extending along the first direction, and the second lenticular lens layer including a plurality of second lenticular lenses extending along the second direction, and wherein the first lenticular lenses are arranged at a pitch which is at least three times as large as a pitch at which the plurality of pixels are arranged along the second direction, and the second lenticular lenses are arranged at a pitch which is equal to a pitch at which the plurality of pixels are arranged along the first direction.

Transmission type color liquid display apparatus with first and second

The present invention discloses an opposed substrate for use in a liquid crystal display element, for example. The opposed substrate is constructed by a transparent substrate, microlenses formed on the substrate, a bonding layer, and cover glass. An alignment film and transparent electrodes are formed on the cover glass. The microlenses and the bonding layer are formed by selected resins which have thermal resistance to high temperatures not lower than 150.degree. C., permit heating treatment for forming the alignment film, and satisfy the difference in the refractive indexes between the resins, .increment.n.gtoreq.0.1, so as to enable the microlenses to have a numerical aperture not lower than 0.1. It is thus possible to prevent the decomposition of resins and separation of the microlens in heat treatment and to provide a high-quality, highly reliable liquid crystal display element.

LCD microlens substrate with a lens array and a uniform material bonding

In a method of producing a condenser lens substrate, after a first clear substrate and a second clear substrate where a micro-lens having a spherical surface or a lenticular lens is formed are stuck to each other, at least one of the clear substrates is ground. At this time, the clear substrate is ground so as to have a thickness that a focus of the micro-lens or the lenticular lens is positioned in the vicinity of the outer surface of the first or the second clear substrate. This makes it possible to form a micro-lens or a lenticular lens having a short focus in a substrate of a liquid crystal display element. As a result, when a condenser lens substrate is produced, a possibility of breakage of the clear substrate is eliminated, and handling and sticking of clear substrates become easy, thereby making it possible to improve mass-productivity of a condenser lens substrate.

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Yoshihiro Mizuguchi