Patent ID: 8111339

Claim:
A liquid crystal projector which projects a three-dimensional image based on an image signal for a left eye and an image signal for a right eye, comprising: a liquid crystal panel that independently displays an image for the left eye and an image for the right eye in a one-field time period based on the image signal for the left eye and the image signal for the right eye by line-sequentially scanning a screen; an optical shutter having a plurality of horizontally elongated first divisional regions arranged above each other in a vertical direction, the plurality of first divisional regions each being independently controllable from each other in regard to whether or not light should be blocked; a polarizing element having a plurality of horizontally elongated second divisional regions arranged above each other in the vertical direction, the second divisional regions each being independently controllable from each other in regard to whether the polarization direction corresponds to the left eye or the right eye; and a control circuit that controls the first divisional regions and the second divisional regions in synchronism with the line-sequential scanning by said liquid crystal panel.