Patent ID: 9581855
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G02F,H04N

Claim:
1. A liquid crystal device comprising: an element substrate and a counter substrate that face each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a pixel electrode that is provided on a surface of the element substrate close to the liquid crystal layer; a switching element that is provided between the element substrate and the pixel electrode; and a light shielding portion that shields light which is incident into the switching element, wherein the liquid crystal device includes a first lens array that is provided to be closer to a light incident side of the liquid crystal device than the light shielding portion, and a second lens array that is provided between the first lens array and the light shielding portion, wherein the second lens array includes a plurality of first lenses each of which has a surface convex toward the light shielding portion, and wherein the second lens array includes a first slit which is provided between two first lenses adjacent to each other among the plurality of first lenses of the second lens array so as to extend toward the light shielding portion.