Patent ID: 7611246

Claim:
A projection display, comprising: a light source; an image display element that forms an optical image by using light emitted by the light source; a projection lens that performs magnified projection of the optical image; a polarization conversion element that emanates light which is incident on the image display element, as polarized light and that includes a plurality of units arranged in an even number of rows along a first direction to be symmetric with respect to a center axis; a first array lens including a plurality of first lens cells that are arranged along a direction substantially parallel to the polarization conversion element and that are arranged in the first direction in an odd number of rows which is greater than the number of rows of the plurality of units; and a second array lens including a plurality of second lens cells that are arranged in the first direction in an odd number of rows respectively in correspondence to the first lens cells of the first array lens, wherein a width of a second lens cell of a center row in the first direction is narrower than widths of second lens cells of other rows.