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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yoshihiro Masumoto, Kobe, JP;
Hideki Ohmae, Suita, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359 73 ; 359 40 ;
Abstract
In a liquid crystal light valve apparatus comprising an incident side polarizing plate, a twisted nematic liquid crystal cell of active matrix type and an outgoing side polarizing plate, two phase difference plates are provided between the incident side polarizing plate and the liquid crystal cell. Optical axes of both the phase difference plates are perpendicular with each other, and one of them is slanted by an angle, and thereby, a phase difference which is caused by the liquid crystal cell is compensated by the phase difference caused by two phase difference plates.