Abstract: An eyeglass member which is attachable to and detachable from a frame mounted to a head of a user, including: a right-eye polarized-light modulation layer which has a first optical axis and modulates polarized light at a right-eye region positioned in front of a right eye of the user; a left-eye polarized-light modulation layer which has a second optical axis different from the first optical axis and modulates polarized light at a left-eye region positioned in front of a left eye of the user; a polarizing layer which is laminated on and astride both the right-eye polarized-light modulation layer and the left-eye polarized-light modulation layer and has an absorption axis extending in an equal direction across the right-eye region and the left-eye region; and a labelling portion which indicates a left-right orientation for mounting to the frame.

Abstract: Provided is an exposure apparatus including a transporting section; a first polarized light output section that outputs first polarized light; a second polarized light output section that outputs second polarized light; a first mask section that has formed therein a first aperture section that passes the first polarized light for exposing an orientation film and blocks the first polarized light; and a second mask section that has formed therein a second aperture section that passes the second polarized light for exposing the orientation film and blocks the second polarized light. The first aperture section and the second aperture section are formed to expose a certain region of the orientation film in an overlapping manner.

Abstract: Conventional optical elements cannot emit circularly polarized light beams obtained by beam separation in the same direction. An optical element includes a polarization splitter element configured to split incoming light into a first circularly polarized light beam and a second circularly polarized light beam that has different handedness than the first circularly polarized light beam, where the polarization splitter element is configured to reflect the first circularly polarized light beam and allow the second circularly polarized light beam to transmit, and a reflector element configured to reflect the first circularly polarized light beam that has been reflected by the polarization splitter element, to proceed in a direction in which the second circularly polarized light beam is allowed to transmit.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes: an image output unit that outputs image light that has a particular polarization, the image output unit having: a retaining substrate including a transparent glass; an optical element retained by the retaining substrate; and a resin polarizing plate pasted with a first adhesive layer on a side of the retaining substrate opposite to a side where the optical element is retained; and a retarder that is pasted onto the polarizing plate with a second adhesive layer and has: a transparent resin base; and a plurality of phase retarding parts that are provided on the resin base and output the image light as mutually differently polarized light, the image light having been incident on the plurality of phase retarding parts, wherein the second adhesive layer is as hard as or harder than the first adhesive layer.

Abstract: A light diffraction element comprising a transparent substrate and a first orientation layer that is formed on one surface of the substrate and includes anisotropic polymers and a first pattern of an orientation direction arranged periodically in a first direction along the primary plane of the substrate. The first pattern includes three or more small regions that are arranged in the first direction and in which the orientation direction of the polymers included in the first orientation layer are different from each other, and generates diffracted light as a result of interference between light passed respectively through the three or more small regions.

Abstract: Provided is an exposure apparatus including a transporting section; a first polarized light output section that outputs first polarized light; a second polarized light output section that outputs second polarized light; a first mask section that has formed therein a first aperture section that passes the first polarized light for exposing an orientation film and blocks the first polarized light; and a second mask section that has formed therein a second aperture section that passes the second polarized light for exposing the orientation film and blocks the second polarized light. The first aperture section and the second aperture section are formed to expose a certain region of the orientation film in an overlapping manner.

Abstract: A retardation plate manufacturing method for manufacturing a retardation plate that has an orientation pattern in which is formed a plurality of regions having optical axes oriented in different directions from each other, the retardation plate manufacturing method comprising arranging an unoriented light orientation layer that is to be oriented by light on a first surface of a substrate; preparing a retardation mask including an orientation pattern in which is formed a plurality of regions that have a quarter wavelength retardation plate retardation function and correspond to the plurality of regions in the orientation pattern of the retardation plate; and orienting the light orientation layer by irradiating the retardation mask with elliptically polarized light and irradiating the light orientation layer with polarized light emitted form the retardation mask.

Abstract: A light diffraction element comprising a transparent substrate and a first orientation layer that is formed on one surface of the substrate and includes anisotropic polymers and a first pattern of an orientation direction arranged periodically in a first direction along the primary plane of the substrate. The first pattern includes three or more small regions that are arranged in the first direction and in which the orientation direction of the polymers included in the first orientation layer are different from each other, and generates diffracted light as a result of interference between light passed respectively through the three or more small regions.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes: an image output unit that outputs image light that has a particular polarization, the image output unit having: a retaining substrate including a transparent glass; an optical element retained by the retaining substrate; and a resin polarizing plate pasted with a first adhesive layer on a side of the retaining substrate opposite to a side where the optical element is retained; and a retarder that is pasted onto the polarizing plate with a second adhesive layer and has: a transparent resin base; and a plurality of phase retarding parts that are provided on the resin base and output the image light as mutually differently polarized light, the image light having been incident on the plurality of phase retarding parts, wherein the second adhesive layer is as hard as or harder than the first adhesive layer.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a three-dimensional image display apparatus including an image display section and a retarder is provided. The manufacturing method includes attaching an adhesion sheet containing a curable resin to at least one of an exit surface of the image display section and an entrance surface of the retarder, layering the retarder on the image display section such 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, and adhering together the image display section and the retarder by curing the resin between the image display section and the retarder, after adhering together the periphery portions.

Abstract: It is aimed to reduce the occurrence of crosstalk attributable to the thermal expansion/contraction of a retarder and an image display section, and the unevenness in color attributable to the uneven surfaces of the retarder and the image display section. It is also aimed to reduce the misalignment of the retarder with respect to the image display section. The exit surface of an image display section 130 and the entrance surface of a retarder 180 are adhered to each other by using an adhesion layer 300. Additionally, the left and right edges of the image display section 130 are adhered to the left and right edges of the retarder 180 by using adhesion regions 400. Here, the adhesion regions 400 have a higher glass transition temperature than the adhesion layer 300.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a three-dimensional image display apparatus including an image display section and a retarder is provided. The manufacturing method includes attaching an adhesion sheet containing a curable resin to at least one of an exit surface of the image display section and an entrance surface of the retarder, layering the retarder on the image display section such 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, and adhering together the image display section and the retarder by curing the resin between the image display section and the retarder, after adhering together the periphery portions.

Abstract: It is aimed to reduce the occurrence of crosstalk attributable to the thermal expansion/contraction of a retarder and an image display section, and the unevenness in color attributable to the uneven surfaces of the retarder and the image display section. It is also aimed to reduce the misalignment of the retarder with respect to the image display section. The exit surface of an image display section 130 and the entrance surface of a retarder 180 are adhered to each other by using an adhesion layer 300. Additionally, the left and right edges of the image display section 130 are adhered to the left and right edges of the retarder 180 by using adhesion regions 400. Here, the adhesion regions 400 have a higher glass transition temperature than the adhesion layer 300.