PROJECTOR AND OPTICAL UNIT
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1. A projector comprising:
- a light source unit;
three or more liquid crystal panels each including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate including reflective pixel electrodes formed on a side thereof, the second substrate being light-transmissive and including a common electrode formed on a side thereof facing the side of the first substrate, the common electrode being light-transmissive, each of the three or more liquid crystal panels being supplied with a light beam emitted from the light source unit, the light beams being in different wavelength ranges; and
a projection optical system that projects light generated by combining the light beams modulated by the three or more liquid crystal panels,wherein the common electrode of a short-wavelength liquid crystal panel, the short-wavelength liquid crystal panel being one of the three or more liquid crystal panels that modulates a light beam in a shortest wavelength range among the three or more liquid crystal panels, has a film thickness that is smaller than a film thickness of the common electrode of any one of the other liquid crystal panels, andwherein the film thicknesses of the common electrodes of the other liquid crystal panels are the same.
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Abstract
A projector includes a plurality of reflective liquid crystal panels (for example, a red liquid crystal panel, a green liquid crystal panel, and a blue liquid crystal panel). The film thickness of an ITO film that forms a common electrode of the blue liquid crystal panel is smaller than the film thickness of an ITO film that forms a common electrode of any one of the red liquid crystal panel and the green liquid crystal panel. The film thicknesses of the ITO films that form the common electrodes of the red liquid crystal panel and the green liquid crystal panel are the same.
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1. A projector comprising:
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a light source unit; three or more liquid crystal panels each including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate including reflective pixel electrodes formed on a side thereof, the second substrate being light-transmissive and including a common electrode formed on a side thereof facing the side of the first substrate, the common electrode being light-transmissive, each of the three or more liquid crystal panels being supplied with a light beam emitted from the light source unit, the light beams being in different wavelength ranges; and a projection optical system that projects light generated by combining the light beams modulated by the three or more liquid crystal panels, wherein the common electrode of a short-wavelength liquid crystal panel, the short-wavelength liquid crystal panel being one of the three or more liquid crystal panels that modulates a light beam in a shortest wavelength range among the three or more liquid crystal panels, has a film thickness that is smaller than a film thickness of the common electrode of any one of the other liquid crystal panels, and wherein the film thicknesses of the common electrodes of the other liquid crystal panels are the same. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An optical unit comprising,
a plurality of liquid crystal panels each including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and second substrate, the first substrate including reflective pixel electrodes formed on a side thereof, the second substrate being light-transmissive and including a common electrode formed on a side thereof facing the side of the first substrate, the common electrode being light-transmissive, each of the plurality of liquid crystal panels being supplied with a light beam, the light beams being in different wavelength ranges; - and
a light-combining optical system that emits light generated by combining light beams emitted from the plurality of liquid crystal panel, wherein the common electrode of a short-wavelength liquid crystal panel, the short-wavelength liquid crystal panels being one of the plurality of liquid crystal panels that modulates a light beam in a shortest wavelength range among the plurality of liquid crystal panels, has a film thickness that is smaller than a film thickness of the common electrode of other liquid crystal panel of the plurality of liquid crystal panels.
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