Patent ID: 8243367

Claim:
A manufacturing method of a three-dimensional image display apparatus, the three-dimensional image display apparatus including: an image display section that includes an image generating section constituted by 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 (i) the right eye image light as linearly polarized light whose polarization axis extends in a given direction and (ii) the left eye image light as linearly polarized light whose polarization axis extends in a direction parallel to the given direction; and a retarder that is positioned in front of the image display section in a light proceeding direction, the retarder including a right eye polarization region and a left eye polarization region, wherein when the right eye image light and the left eye image light emitted from the image display section are respectively incident on the right eye polarization region and the left eye polarization region of the retarder, the retarder (I) emits the right eye image light as linearly polarized light whose polarization axis extends in a certain direction and emits the left eye image light as linearly polarized light whose polarization axis extends in a direction orthogonal to the certain direction, or (II) emits the right eye image light as circularly polarized light whose polarization axis rotates in one direction and emits the left eye image light as circularly polarized light whose polarization axis rotates in an opposite direction, and the manufacturing method comprising: attaching an adhesion sheet containing a curable resin having a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or lower to at least one of an exit surface of the image display section and an entrance surface of the retarder, the adhesion sheet being formed in a region in which the right eye polarization region and the left eye polarization region in the retarder overlap the right eye image generating region and the left eye image generating region in the image display section; layering the retarder on the image display section in such a manner that the entrance surface of the retarder faces the exit surface of the image display section; applying a resin onto a periphery portion of the image display section and onto a periphery portion of the retarder; adhering together the periphery portions by curing the resin applied to the periphery portions after layering the retarder on the image display section and applying the resin to the periphery portions; and adhering together the exit surface of the image display section and the entrance surface of the retarder by curing the resin between the image display section and the retarder after adhering together the periphery portions.