Patent ID: 6882381

Claim:
A liquid crystal display apparatus comprising: an illumination section having a light source and an optical guide member, and a reflection type LCD having a display region including a plurality of pixels for performing a display function, the optical guide member having first and second principal faces opposite to each other and first and second end faces opposite to each other, wherein the reflection type LCD is disposed on or above the first principal face of the optical guide member, wherein light from the light source enters the optical guide member at the first end face, exits the optical guide member at the first principal face so as to be incident on the reflection type LCD and reflected therefrom, reenters the optical guide member at the first principal face, and exits the optical guide member at the second principal face toward a viewer, wherein the reflection type LCD includes a plurality of color composite pixels and a color filter layer having a regular array of a plurality of color filters, each of the plurality of color composite pixels including a plurality of color pixels, each of the plurality of color pixels being defined by a corresponding one of the plurality of color filters, the plurality of color pixels having a pitch P 1 along a side of each color pixel, and the plurality of color composite pixels having a pitch P 2 along a side of each color composite pixel, the pitch P 1 being smaller than the pitch P 2 , each of the color pixels being arranged with respect to the light source such that the side having the pitch P 1 is perpendicular to the light entering the first end face of the optical guide member, each of the color composite pixels being arranged with respect to the light source such that the side having the pitch P 2 is parallel to the light entering the first end face of the optical guide member, and the light source being disposed in the vicinity of a side of the display region extending substantially in parallel to the side of each color pixel having pitch P 1 .