Patent ID: 8379168

Claim:
A liquid crystal display element, comprising: a pair of substrates, upper and lower; a pair of polarizing plates sandwiching said pair of substrates from the top and the bottom; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between said pair of substrates; and a number of openings for transmitting light which are created within pixels provided on one of said substrates and regulate the amount of light which transmits through said liquid crystal layer, characterized in that light collecting elements for collecting light in said openings for transmitting light are provided on said lower substrate side, and said light collecting elements are formed continuously so as to correspond to said number of openings for transmitting light, and the form of said light collecting elements varies in a plane parallel to said lower substrate, wherein the interval of the displacement of said light collecting elements in the column direction is 100 μm or less or the interval of said pixels or less.