Patent ID: 7808564
Filing Date: 2010-10-05
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A manufacturing method used for a stereoscopic image display apparatus that includes an image display section and a retarder, the image display section including an image generating section that includes a right eye image generating region for generating right eye image light and a left eye image generating region for generating left eye image light, the image display section emitting the right eye image light and the left eye image light as linearly polarized light rays whose polarization axes are parallel to each other, the retarder provided at the emission side of the image display section and including a right eye polarization region, a left eye polarization region, and a light shield that is provided on an incident-side surface of the retarder in a boundary between the right eye polarization region and the left eye polarization region and that shields the incident right eye image light and the incident left eye image light, the retarder, when the right eye image light is incident to the right eye polarization region and the left eye image light is incident to the left eye polarization region, emitting the incident right eye image light and the incident left eye image light as linearly polarized light rays whose polarization axes are orthogonal to each other or circularly polarized light rays that have polarization axes whose rotation directions are reverse to each other, the manufacturing method comprising: applying a resin to a region where the right eye image generating region and the left eye image generating region of the image display section overlap with the right eye polarization region and the left eye polarization region of the retarder, on at least one of an emission-side surface of the image display section and the incident-side surface of the retarder; after the applying, laminating the image display section and the retarder so that the emission-side surface of the image display section faces the incident-side surface of the retarder; attaching the image display section and the retarder by hardening the resin between the image display section and the retarder laminated to each other in the laminating; and between the applying and the laminating, degassing the resin in a vacuum furnace.