A liquid crystal device and a method for driving the same.

摘要

A liquid crystal device includes: a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates; at least one polarizing element; a plurality of pixels; a retardation (d x DELTA n) of the liquid crystal layer satisfying one of a relation: <MATH> in a case where an incident light is output after passing through the liquid crystal layer once, and a relation: <MATH> in a case where the incident light is outputted after passing through the liquid crystal layer twice, where a thickness of the liquid crystal layer is d, a birefringence is DELTA n and a wavelength of the light incident on the liquid crystal layer is lambda ; and driving voltage supplying means for applying a driving voltage including a voltage higher than a maximum voltage providing an extremum of the output light intensity in a voltage-output light intensity characteristic of the pixels to the plurality of pixels. <IMAGE>