Liquid crystal device and liquid crystal display apparatus

摘要

A microlens-equipped liquid crystal device capable of ensuring a high picture quality can be provided by obviating an adverse effect of a disclination of the liquid crystal at each pixel. Each microlens (211) is disposed to form an optical axis deviated from the centre of an associated pixel (212) so as to form a condensed light spot (215) substantially free from overlapping with a disclination (214) (alignment disorder region) occurring along at least one side of a rectangular pixel. Preferably, the pixels are arranged to form a plurality of pixel units each including three primary colour pixels of R, G and B, so that two of the three primary colour pixels are arranged alternately in a vertical direction, and different two of the three primary colour pixels are arranged alternately in a horizontal direction, and a plurality of microlenses are arranged two-dimensionally at a pitch of two pixels so that three light fluxes having passed through three primary colour pixels forming one pixel are emitted through an identical one microlens. <IMAGE>