Patent ID: 6910777

Claim:
A projector, comprising: a light source to emit light including visible light; a color-separation optical system to separate a flux emitted from the light source into four kinds of color light; a light-modulation optical system including a first two-color-modulation electro-optical device to modulate any two of the four kinds of color light separated by the color-separation optical system and a second two-color-modulation electro-optical device to modulate the remaining two kinds of color light; and a color-synthesis optical system to synthesize the four kinds of color light modulated by the light-modulation optical system, each of the first and second two-color-modulation electro-optical devices include a pair of substrates; an electro-optical material sandwiched between the pair of substrates; a microlens array disposed on one of the pair of substrates and close to the color-separation optical system; and a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes formed on the other substrate and arranged so as to correspond to respective microlenses of the microlens array.