Liquid crystal projector

A liquid crystal projector comprising:

• a light source that emits white light;
• a polarizing beam splitter that separates the white light emitted from the light source into S-polarized light and P-polarized light;
• a first reflective liquid crystal panel disposed to receive the S-polarized light;
• and
• a second reflective liquid crystal panel disposed to receive the P-polarized light,
• wherein
• the first reflective liquid crystal panel and the second reflective liquid crystal panel each have a color filter layer and a plurality of pixels,
• each of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of subpixels of colors that are different from one another,
• a projected image is formed by projection of reflected light from the first reflective liquid crystal panel and reflected light from the second reflective liquid crystal panel,
• when each subpixel of the first reflective liquid crystal panel is referred to as a first subpixel, each subpixel of the second reflective liquid crystal panel is referred to as a second subpixel, and a combination of the first subpixel and the second subpixel that correspond to an identical subpixel in the projected image is referred to as a subpixel set, a plurality of types of subpixel sets that are different in combination of the colors of the first subpixel and the second subpixel from each other are present,
• when, of the plurality of types of subpixel sets, a subpixel set in which a sum of luminance index values of the colors of the first subpixel and the second subpixel is largest is referred to as a first-class subpixel set, the combination of the colors of the first subpixel and the second subpixel of each of the plurality of types of subpixel sets is set so that the sum of the first-class subpixel set is smaller than in a case where it is assumed that the colors of the first subpixel and the second subpixel of each of the plurality of types of subpixel sets are identical.