A sensor head has a multiplicity of linear image sensors in correspondence with
different radial directions of light emitted from a pixel in a pixel line of an
LCD panel. The linear image sensors extends in the direction of the axis of an
imaginary semi-cylinder. The linear image sensors have light receiving faces that
are angularly spaced apart on an imaginary semi-cylinder, with their light receiving
faces having normals passing through the axis of the imaginary semi-cylinder. Interposed
in the space between the LCD pixel and the linear image sensors is an optical system
having a multiplicity of light paths associated with respective angular components
of the radiation emitted from the pixel line. Each of the light paths receives
a predetermined angular component of light and transmits the light thus reveived
to a corresponding one of the linear image sensors.