| SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA Patent applications |
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| 20120036432 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When generating image data for preview image corresponding to document data of a plurality of pages, for each page, and displaying preview images based on the generated image data, a preview image display based on the already-generated image data is started before the image data generation for all the pages is completed, and an instruction of a process for the preview image is accepted and the process is executed before the preview image display for all the pages is completed. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034765 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THIN FILM TRANSISTOR - An object is to provide a manufacturing method of a microcrystalline silicon film with improved adhesion between an insulating film and the microcrystalline silicon film. The microcrystalline silicon film is formed in the following manner. Over an insulating film, a microcrystalline silicon grain having a height that allows the microcrystalline silicon grain to be completely oxidized by later plasma oxidation (e.g., a height greater than 0 nm and less than or equal to 5 nm), or a microcrystalline silicon film or an amorphous silicon film having a thickness that allows the microcrystalline silicon film or the amorphous silicon film to be completely oxidized by later plasma oxidation (e.g., a thickness greater than 0 nm and less than or equal to 5 nm) is formed. Plasma treatment in an atmosphere including oxygen or plasma oxidation is performed on the microcrystalline silicon grain, the microcrystalline silicon film, or the amorphous silicon film, so that a silicon oxide grain or a silicon oxide film is formed over the insulating film. A microcrystalline silicon film is formed over the silicon oxide grain or the silicon oxide film. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033753 | Communication Method and Radio Transmitter - Radio transmission is performed even to a communication party whose bandwidth that can be used for transmission and reception is limited without having an influence of an offset of a DC component. A radio transmitter applied to an OFDMA communication system in which a plurality of different terminals performs communication using OFDM signals at the same time that includes a mapping part that allocates transmission power to each subcarrier, and also selects a subcarrier to which minimum power of the transmission power to be allocated is allocated and modulates transmission data in units of communication slots to output the modulated data; and a transmission part for transmitting radio signals including the modulated data using each of the subcarriers. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033571 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system includes a first channel state measurer and a second channel state measurer. When a second communication device measures a state of a channel between the second communication device and a first communication device using reference signals transmitted from the first communication device, the first channel measurer is configured to measure a state of the channel including an interference due to a signal transmitted from another first communication device. When measuring the state of the channel between the second communication device and the first communication device using the reference signals transmitted from the first communication device, the second channel state measurer measures the state of the channel while suppressing the interference due to the signal transmitted from the another first communication device. Accordingly, the wireless communication system can generate adequate feedback information both when cooperative communication is performed and when cooperative communication is not performed. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033569 | ADAPTIVE BUFFER STATUS REPORTING - The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network from a first station to a second station, wherein the first station comprises at least one buffer memory for storing data packets to be transmitted, the method comprising the steps of (a) the first station estimating the status of the at least one buffer memory, (b) the first station transmitting at least one buffer status packet representative of the buffer memory status, wherein the method further comprises (c) adapting the value of a first parameter of the buffer status packets on the basis of a data traffic characteristic. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033399 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PSEUDO-SUNLIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A light source device according to the present invention includes: a light source section; a light guide member provided at a position where the light guide member receives light emitted from the light source section, the light guide member having a tapered shape in which the light guide member gradually increases in width from its incident surface toward its emission surface, and an optical filter provided at a position where the optical filter receives light emitted from the light guide member, the optical filter reducing a spectrum having a predetermined waveband from the light. This makes it possible to provide a light source device which can control a radiation angle of light and which is downsized, and a pseudo-sunlight irradiation device including the light source device. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033167 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING POLYMER LAYER, AND COMPOSITION FOR FORMING LIQUID CRYSTAL LAYER - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of reducing the probability of image sticking. The liquid crystal display device comprises a pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, wherein at least one of the substrates comprises an alignment film and a polymer layer on the alignment film, and the polymer layer is formed by polymerization of a polymerizable monomer triggered by a polymerization initiator existing at a concentration of 1 mol % or lower relative to the polymerizable monomer. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032969 | MULTI-DISPLAY SYSTEM - A multi-display system includes a test pattern display controller that causes a test pattern to be displayed in a predetermined display region on a periphery of an LCD module of each image display device, an optical transmitting unit that constitutes a plurality of transmission channels each capable of transmitting an emitted light from each of the display regions, a spectral radiance sensor that detects spectral characteristics of the emitted light transmitted by each of the transmission channels, and an adjustment unit that adjusts, based on the spectral characteristics detected by the spectral radiance sensor, luminance and chromaticity of the image display device having the LCD module that has outputted the emitted light having the spectral characteristics so that the difference from luminance and chromaticity of the adjacent image display devices decreases. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032615 | Shift Register - Provided is a shift register configured by cascade connecting unit circuits each including a bootstrap circuit. In at least one example embodiment, for the unit circuits, a time period during which a transistor is in an ON state and a clock signal is high level corresponds to a clock passing period. Among transistors whose one conduction terminal is connected to a gate of the transistor, channel lengths of transistors configured such that a low-level potential is fed to gates of the transistors to turn the transistors to an OFF state in the clock passing period and that a low-level potential is applied to the conduction terminal of the transistors in the clock passing period are made longer than the channel length of the transistor. With this, it is possible to reduce a leakage current in the clock passing period, and to prevent the fluctuation of a gate potential of the transistor and dullness in an output signal from occurring. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032578 | LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF - A light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting device emitting primary light and a wavelength conversion unit absorbing a part of the primary light to emit secondary light. The wavelength conversion unit includes a first wavelength conversion unit containing at least a nanocrystalline phosphor and a second wavelength conversion unit containing a rare-earth-activated phosphor or a transition-metal-element-activated phosphor. In the light emitting device, the first wavelength conversion unit and the second wavelength conversion unit are closely stacked in order. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032263 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME - A semiconductor device has a planarizing layer that is made of an inorganic film, and has a recessed portion formed in a region thereof in which a conductive film is disposed. A first contact hole penetrating through at least an interlayer insulating film is formed on a first wiring layer, while a second contact hole penetrating through at least the interlayer insulating film is formed on the conductive film so as to run through the inside of the recessed portion. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032202 | PLANAR LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE PLANAR LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A planar light source device is provided which satisfies the inequality α | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031968 | Printing apparatus - A charging processing unit calculates a pre-charged amount of money based on print conditions and charges the calculated pre-charged amount of money to a card through a card reader. A job control unit starts a print job to print until a penultimate page, when pre-charging is finished. Further, when an accumulated amount of money is specified by generating image data of the final page and the accumulated amount of money is smaller than the pre-charged amount of money, the printing is stopped before the final page is printed. The charging processing unit causes an UI control unit to display a message requesting to place the card again. When the card is placed in response to the message and pieces of the card information matches each other, a refunding process is carried out. The job control unit restarts printing the final page after a refunding process. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120027470 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A developing device | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027461 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A control portion obtains a first difference in a movement amount between paper passing period and paper non-passage period of a transfer belt, and determines whether or not a first absolute value thereof is a first threshold value or more. In a case where the first absolute value is the first threshold value or more, a transfer belt unit positional adjustment motor is driven to adjust a first angle with respect to a first direction of a transfer belt unit with respect to a photoreceptor drum. In a case where the first absolute value is less than the first threshold value, a second absolute value of a second difference between a movement amount and a designed value set in advance of the transfer belt is obtained, and whether or not the second absolute value is a second threshold value or more is determined. When the second absolute value is less than the second threshold value, the processing is finished, and when the second absolute value is the second threshold value or more, a second angle with respect to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction of the driving roller with respect to the photoreceptor drum is adjusted so as to be less than the second threshold value by a driving roller positional adjustment motor. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027460 | MOUNTING STRUCTURE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A mounting structure includes a supporting member and an engagement member. The supporting member includes a first engaging section at one edge portion and a second engaging section at the other edge portion, and supports or positions an object to support. The engagement member includes a first engagement section capable of engaging with the first engaging section and a second engagement section capable of engaging with the second engaging section, and is a member for holding the supporting member with the supporting member being mounted onto the engagement member. Also, the supporting member supports or positions the object to support with the first engaging section and the second engaging section respectively engaging with the first engagement section and the second engagement section. The first engaging section has a higher rigidity than the first engagement section. The second engaging section has a higher rigidity than the second engagement section. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027452 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic charger device according to this invention includes a cleaner member, an operating rod, a guide portion, and a bending member. The cleaner member is configured to clean an electrode housed in a housing by pressing against the electrode. The operating rod has one end in a longitudinal direction to which the cleaner member is fixed. The guide portion is disposed at one end of the housing in a primary scanning direction and has a through-hole through which the operating rod extends in the longitudinal direction, the guide portion supporting the operating rod to enable the cleaner member to reciprocate between a first position and a second position. The bending member is configured to bend the operating rod in such a manner that an intermediate portion of the operating rod projects away from an image bearing member when the cleaner member is in the first position. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026743 | LIGHTING APPARATUS - A lighting apparatus includes a metal mounting fixed to a needed place such as a ceiling or a wall, rod-shaped holding metal fixtures, and a lighting apparatus body constituted by a chassis to which one end portion of each holding metal fixture is loosely fitted, a board which is fixed to the chassis and on which light emitting diodes are mounted as luminous elements, a reflecting panel, a cover (diffusing panel) that covers the light emitting diodes, and so on. By inserting the lock section of the other end portion of each holding metal fixture into an insertion hole and then locking each holding metal fixture on the metal mounting, the lighting apparatus body is held in a state of being separated from the metal mounting. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026555 | OUTPUT SYSTEM, CREATING APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, OUTPUT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When output data is created, image data for preview image is generated based on the output data. Based on the image data, a preview image corresponding to the output data is displayed. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026450 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL INCLUDING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel according to the present invention includes the steps of providing a marking pad including a marking region formed of a stack constituted only of a metal film serving as a lower layer and an ITO film serving as an upper layer on a main surface of a glass substrate, bonding a glass substrate to the glass substrate so as to be opposed to the main surface of the marking region in the marking pad at a distance therefrom, and providing marking by providing a through hole in the marking region in the marking pad by irradiating the marking region in the marking pad with laser beams through the glass substrate. Thus, the marking pad provided on the glass substrate for the liquid crystal panel can be provided with marking of high definition even though laser beams are emitted through another glass substrate for a liquid crystal panel paired with the glass substrate for the liquid crystal panel. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026427 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THE SAME - In an image display apparatus, the diffusing plate includes a rectangular plate body section and diffusing plate projecting sections that project to an outside in parallel with a main surface of the body section. The diffusing plate projecting sections are provided at all perimeter sections that form four sides of a rectangular shape when the body section is viewed from a thickness direction Z thereof. Optical sheets have sheet projecting sections provided at perimeter sections that form two sides parallel to each other among four sides that are rectangular when the sheet body section is viewed from the thickness direction Z. At this time, one optical sheet has sheet projecting sections provided at perimeter sections that form two long sides of the sheet body section. The other optical sheet has sheet projecting sections provided at perimeter section that forms two short sides of the sheet body section. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026426 | GROUP OF PHOSPHOR PARTICLES, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE USING SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL TELEVISION RECEIVER - Provided is a phosphor particle group of divalent europium-activated oxynitride green light emitting phosphor particles ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026415 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel comprising a scan signal line ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026138 | DISPLAY DRIVER CIRCUIT AND BOARD MODULE INCLUDING SAME - In the case where input terminals of a display driver circuit are compatible with two or more types of interface specifications, an LSI chip, which is the display driver circuit, has some input terminals connected to parallel data lines and its output terminals connected to display lines, and these input terminals and output terminals are arranged along a long side located on the display portion side. In at least one example embodiment, the rest of the input terminals, which are intended for parallel interface, are arranged along a long side located on the FPC board side. With this configuration, the long sides of the LSI chip can be rendered shorter (than in the case where all input terminals are arranged in a row) without causing malfunction. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025739 | LED ILLUMINATING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE LED ILLUMINATING DEVICE - In order to obtain an LED illuminating device which reduces the wire connection cost by reducing the number of wiring lines and which can also reduce the substrate cost even with a configuration in which the light-emitting surface is formed by combining a plurality of LED unit substrates and in order to obtain a display device which reduces the manufacturing cost by using this LED illuminating device, an LED illuminating device | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025182 | DONOR SUBSTRATE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF TRANSFER FILM, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT - The present invention provides a donor substrate, a process for production of a transfer film, and a process for production of an organic electroluminescent element, that allow obtaining a transfer film having a uniform composition distribution by way of a simple configuration. A donor substrate of the present invention is a substrate comprising a photothermal conversion layer and a donor layer, wherein the donor layer has a first organic layer arranged on a side of a transfer surface, and a second organic layer arranged on a side of the photothermal conversion layer; the first organic layer and the second organic layer are formed of vaporizable organic materials having dissimilar vaporization-starting temperatures; and the organic material that forms the first organic layer has a vaporization-starting temperature higher than that of the organic material that forms the second organic layer. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025146 | II-III-N SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - The present application provides nitride semiconductor nanoparticles, for example nanocrystals, made from a new composition of matter in the form of a novel compound semiconductor family of the type group II-III-N, for example ZnGaN, ZnInN, ZnInGaN, ZnAlN, ZnAlGaN, ZnAlInN and ZnAlGaInN. This type of compound semiconductor nanocrystal is not previously known in the prior art. The invention also discloses II-N semiconductor nanocrystals, for example ZnN nanocrystals, which are a subgroup of the group II-III-N semiconductor nanocrystals. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025139 | II-III-V COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR - The present application provides a new composition of matter in the form of a new compound semiconductor family of the type group Zn-(II)-III-N, where III denotes one or more elements in Group III of the periodic table and (II) denotes one or more optional further elements in Group II of the periodic table. Members of this family include for example, ZnGaN, ZnInN, ZnInGaN, ZnAlN, ZnAlGaN, ZnAlInN or ZnAlGaInN. This type of compound semiconductor material is not previously known in the prior art. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025060 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION DEVICE - A color filter is formed using a simple manufacturing method, and bias application to a pixel separating electrode allows sensitivity in low illumination intensity to be improved. In a solid-state imaging element, in which a plurality of unit pixel sections are disposed two dimensionally on a side closer to a front surface of a semiconductor substrate or a semiconductor layer, each unit pixel section having a light receiving section for generating a signal charge by light irradiation, an adjoining unit pixel section is formed in the same color to allow for lesser alignment accuracy of the color filter. A pixel separating electrode is formed in the adjoining unit pixel section, and a signal charge is shared by bias application during low illumination intensity, thereby improving an effective photodiode area. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120020687 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD THEREOF - Image forming apparatus includes: image forming sections for respective colors, image forming sections provided so as to face outer surface of intermediate transfer belt on outward path; transfer roller provided on returning path, transfer roller which is moved to contact position where transfer roller is pressed against intermediate transfer belt or to detachment position where transfer roller is detached from intermediate transfer belt; and density sensor detecting density of toner image on intermediate transfer belt, density sensor provided between transfer roller and endmost photoreceptor on downstream side of outward path. In image quality adjustment operation, image forming sections form toner image row on intermediate transfer belt which is row of toner images for image quality adjustment, and density sensor measures densities. Length of toner image row is smaller than length of intermediate transfer belt between endmost photoreceptor drum on downstream side and transfer roller. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020686 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a PTC and a toner concentration sensor that are disposed adjacent to and downstream of a fourth image forming unit. The PTC and the toner concentration sensor are opposed to an intermediate transfer belt. A counter roller is opposed to the PTC across the intermediate transfer belt. The counter roller moves to, during the toner concentration detection, a position opposed to the toner concentration sensor across the intermediate transfer belt. Compared to the PTC and the toner concentration sensor each having a counter roller, less rollers may be provided, thereby reducing degradation of the intermediate transfer belt due to wear. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020114 | BACKLIGHT STRUCTURE - A liquid crystal display apparatus ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019863 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INFORMATION DISPLAY - An image forming apparatus includes a display having a function of editing input image data and a function of displaying page images immediately after reading in order. When a first type of instruction to change shape of an image formed on a recording medium is given, the edition is not reflected on a document display mode screen image, and when a second type of instruction to edit page by page the recording medium having images formed thereon is given, the edition is reflected on the document display mode screen image. By switching between a finish preview screen image and the document display mode screen image, the image after edition and the image immediately after reading can be compared easily. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019861 | DISPLAY OPERATION DEVICE ALLOCATING A PLURALITY OF FUNCTIONS TO A KEY, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF RECEIVING USER OPERATIONS - A display operation device has a display-integrated operation panel with a display screen, on which a monochrome copy start key and a color copy start key are displayed. When black-toner-out or color-toner-out occurs, on the monochrome copy start key and the color copy start key, another UI component such as black-toner-out key and color-toner-out key is displayed. Such a UI component is displayed at the display position of the monochrome copy start key and the color copy start key, being superposed on these keys. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019848 | PRINT SYSTEM, PRINTING DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - When a request for acquiring image correction data is issued, as is periodically done by a communication terminal, a printing device transmits the image correction data, if the state of the printing device is in a normal mode or in a first energy saving mode. If the acquisition of the image correction data as is periodically done by the communication terminal fails, the printing device transmits the image correction data to the communication terminal at the time when the communication terminal creates print data. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019764 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL INCLUDING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel according to the present invention includes the steps of simultaneously forming a gate electrode of a TFT and a lower layer of a marking pad, simultaneously forming a gate insulating film of the TFT and a protective insulating film covering the lower layer, performing various film deposition processes and patterning processes while the lower layer is covered with the protective insulating film, exposing a main surface of the lower layer except for its periphery by removing at least a part of the protective insulating film, simultaneously forming a pixel electrode and an upper layer of the marking pad covering the main surface of the lower layer in a portion not covered with the protective insulating film, and providing marking by providing a through hole by irradiating the marking pad with laser beams. Thus, the marking pad including a metal film provided on a glass substrate for a liquid crystal panel can be prevented from corroding in a production process. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019757 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The MVA liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a first domain regulating structure formed in a first substrate and a second domain regulating structure formed in a second substrate. The first domain regulating structure includes a first linear component extending in a first direction and a second linear component extending in a second direction different from the first direction by about 90°. The second domain regulating structure includes a third linear component extending in the first direction, and a fourth linear component extending in the second direction. When a voltage is applied across a liquid crystal layer, four domains in which the tilt directions of liquid crystal molecules are mutually different by about 90° are formed. An arbitrary pixel includes at least one first electrode formed in the first substrate and a second electrode formed in the second substrate. Each of the at least one first electrode has a continuous opening pattern, and the first and second linear components of the first domain regulating structure are included in any of the continuous opening patterns included respectively in the at least one of first electrode. According to the MVA liquid crystal display device of the present invention, restoration can easily be performed. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019746 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019740 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a liquid crystal display panel wherein the utilization efficiency of light can be improved, while suppressing deterioration of the contrast. Specifically, a color filter ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019519 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing device which enables image display that takes full advantage of a color reproduction performance of a panel without providing a viewer with a feeling of strangeness. In at least one embodiment, an image processing device includes: a first color space converter configured to convert an externally transmitted RGB signal into an XYZ signal; a three-dimensional matching processor configured to perform conversion to tristimulus values of the XYZ signal to generate an XYZ signal; and a second color space converter configured to convert the XYZ signal to an RGB signal for a liquid crystal panel. The three-dimensional matching processor performs the conversion to the tristimulus values such that saturation and brightness of only colors whose chromaticity coordinate is outside a boundary line provided on an xy chromaticity diagram are increased, and maintains the tristimulus values as they are such that colors whose chromaticity coordinate is within the boundary line are displayed in colors accurate to colors represented by the RGB signal. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019496 | OPTICAL SENSOR CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING OPTICAL SENSOR CIRCUIT - A field-effect transistor ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018947 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018774 | FABRICATION OF NITRIDE NANOPARTICLES - A method of manufacturing a nitride nanoparticle comprises manufacturing the nitride nanostructure from constituents including: a material containing metal, silicon or boron, a material containing nitrogen, and a capping agent having an electron-accepting group for increasing the quantum yield of the nitride nanostructure. Nitride nanoparticles, for example nitride nanocrystals, having a photoluminescence quantum yield of at least 1%, and up to 20% or greater, may be obtained. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018765 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate, an n-type semiconductor layer located above the substrate, a semiconductor light-emitting layer located on the n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer located on the semiconductor light-emitting layer. The semiconductor light-emitting device also includes an insulation film located on part of the p-type semiconductor layer in an unexposed section, a first transparent conductive film located on substantially the whole of the p-type semiconductor layer where the insulation film is not located in the unexposed section, and a second transparent conductive film located on the insulation film and the first transparent conductive film. The semiconductor light-emitting device further includes an n-side electrode located above the n-type semiconductor layer in an exposed section and electrically connected to the n-type semiconductor layer, and a p-side electrode located on the second transparent conductive film above the insulation film and electrically connected to the p-type semiconductor layer. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120015641 | CONTROL SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROLLED DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - Provided are a control system, a mobile terminal device, a controlled device, a control method, and a computer-readable non-transitory recording medium storing a control program which are capable of reducing misoperations by a user. The mobile terminal device of the control system includes an instruction determining unit for determining specifics of an instruction based on a signal from an input unit, according to a current operating mode of either a first mode (controlled-device operating mode) or a second mode (terminal-itself operating mode), a process executing unit for executing a process corresponding to determined specifics of an instruction when in the second operating mode, a change determining unit for determining whether or not the operating mode is changed from the first mode to the second mode, and an informing process unit for performing a process of informing of a change in operating mode by at least one of vibration, light, and, sound if it is determined that a change in operating mode is made. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014133 | LIGHT SOURCE MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - According to a light source module of the present invention, a plurality of light guides ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014093 | CHASSIS, LIGHTING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A backlight chassis | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013974 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A display device ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013931 | MULTIFUNCTION APPARATUS - A multifunction apparatus includes an application information storage section in which, for each of a plurality of applications, (i) identification information for identifying the each of the plurality of applications and (ii) function information indicating what function(s) has been previously carried out in a cooperation process carried out by the multifunction apparatus and the application in cooperation with each other, are stored, and a device control section which determines, when the device control section receives an instruction to start a cooperation process, whether or not Condition A is satisfied, the device control section causing, if Condition A is satisfied, a switching operation for switching an image forming section from a waiting mode to a normal operation mode to be started, Condition A: function information associated with identification information indicating the selected application indicates a specific function which causes the image forming section to operate. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013928 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, a display image generator for generating a display image, a display panel and a control unit-side controller for giving display guidance on the input status of image data from the document reader, on the display panel. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The control unit-side controller performs control such as to display a display image in the first display area, move the display image displayed in the first display area toward the second display area, and then display the moved one in the second display area. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013839 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are a display panel and a display device which are capable of suppressing the occurrence of horizontal crosstalk and ensuring the aperture ratio of the whole display panel. The auxiliary capacitance electrode of a pixel forming portion ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013826 | Liquid crystal display device - A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first polarizer provided on a surface of the first substrate which is on the opposite side to the liquid crystal layer; a second polarizer provided on a surface of the second substrate which is on the opposite side to the liquid crystal layer; a first phase compensation element provided between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal layer; and a second phase compensation element provided between the second polarizer and the liquid crystal layer. A plurality of pixel areas are provided for display. The first substrate includes at least one transmissive electrode, and the second substrate includes a reflective electrode region and a transmissive electrode region in correspondence with each of the plurality of pixel areas. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013824 | BACKLIGHT UNIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A backlight unit including holding members capable of preventing occurrence of a noise caused when the members are brought into contact with an optical member such as a diffusion plate. A backlight unit ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013811 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight unit | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013810 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A lighting device | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013788 | Exposure method and exposure device - An exposure method capable of performing accurate exposure without using a large photomask. The exposure method performs exposure while relatively moving a photomask above a substrate and includes a step of performing position correction of the photomask by performing, on a front side of the photomask relatively moved in a moving direction, image recognition of a pattern prearranged on the substrate such as a line and a black matrix and by correcting deviation of the photomask with respect to the pattern, and a step of checking the position correction of the photomask by performing image recognition of a reference mark arranged on the photomask and by determining whether or not the position correction of the photomask is accurately performed in the step of performing the position correction of the photomask. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013654 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display panel ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013650 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device with a simple structure is provided where the number of electrical lines connected to the active matrix substrate can be reduced even when the number of pixels in the display module is increased. A liquid crystal display device includes a superimposing circuit (superimposing module) that superimposes a lighting signal for a light-emitting diode (light source) on a drive signal for a data line drive circuit (drive circuit) and a scan line drive circuit (drive circuit) to generate a superimposed signal. On the active matrix substrate are provided a photosensor unit (light-electricity transducer) that receives light from the light-emitting diode and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to the received light, and a decoding circuit (decoding module) that decodes the electrical signal from the photosensor unit to the drive signal for the data line drive circuit and the scan line drive circuit. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013646 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD - A television receiver according to at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a display section capable of displaying a TV image and a harmonious image being in harmony with a wall surface against which the image display device is provided. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013595 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A display device includes, in a display region, a first circuit including a photodiode ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013593 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a first electrode and a second electrode which are arranged side by side with each other on a first substrate; a conductive layer which is arranged on a second substrate so as to face the first electrode and the second electrode; a voltage supply portion for applying a voltage to the first electrode through a first wiring line; a detection portion for detecting the voltage that is applied to the first electrode through the conductive layer, the second electrode, and a second wiring line as a result of the conductive layer making contact with the first electrode and the second electrode; and a second switching element which is interposed at least one of between the first electrode and the first wiring line and between the second electrode and the second wiring line. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013574 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: an optical sensor circuit provided in a display region, the optical sensor circuit including a light-receiving element and detecting intensity of light incident to the light-receiving element; and a pressure detection circuit which detects pressure applied to a display surface of a display panel on a basis of a change of the display surface in a panel thickness direction which change is caused by the pressure, with respect to a region in which the pressure is to be detected, both of the detection of the pressure by the pressure detection circuit and the detection of the intensity of the light by the optical sensor circuit being carried out within a period allocated to acquisition of detection data concerning the pressure in the display region. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012876 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - The present invention provides a light emitting device which can be improved in reliability and moreover which can be manufactured with low cost. A surface-mount type light emitting device | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012834 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - The present invention provides an organic EL display device and a color filter substrate that can be manufactured inexpensively and easily and that allow reducing the size of pixel regions, and also provides a manufacturing method of the organic EL display device and a manufacturing method of the color filter substrate. The organic EL display device of the present invention is an organic EL display device which comprises a substrate in which a plurality of pixel regions of first to third colors is disposed within a display area, and in which a functional material layer comprising an organic emissive layer is disposed at each of the plurality of pixel regions, wherein first to third partition parts are disposed on the substrate within the display area, first to third frame-like structures are disposed on the substrate outside the display area, the pixel region of the first color is disposed within a first demarcation region demarcated by the first partition part, the pixel region of the second color is disposed within a second demarcation region demarcated by the second partition part, the pixel region of the third color is disposed within a third demarcation region demarcated by the third partition part, the first demarcation region is connected to the interior of the first frame-like structure, the second demarcation region is connected to the interior of the second frame-like structure, and the third demarcation region is connected to the interior of the third frame-like structure. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011435 | Display apparatus and display method - Image data for a preview image corresponding to a plurality of pages of a document is generated in each page. Display of the preview image based on the image data that has been generated is initiated, before the image data generation for the preview images in all pages is completed. The preview image is promptly displayed without keeping a user waiting until the image data generation for the image previews in all pages corresponding to the plurality of pages of the document is completed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011385 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, POWER SAVING MODE SHIFT CONTROLLING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Considering a position relation between client devices and an image processing apparatus, the image processing apparatus is appropriately shifted to a power saving mode. A position information storage portion stores information of a position relation between each of the client devices and the image processing apparatus, a monitored target extracting portion extracts, from among the client devices, a client device to be monitored whether or not to be online based on information including at least the information of the position relation, a status confirming portion confirms whether or not the client device extracted is online, a power saving mode shift judging portion judges whether or not to shift the image processing apparatus to a power saving mode based on a confirmation result, and a power controlling portion controls shifting to the power saving mode of the image processing apparatus based on a judgment result. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009959 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - A mobile communication system comprised of one or a plurality of base station apparatuses and a mobile station apparatus; characterized in that the one or plurality of base station apparatuses positions one or a plurality of logical antenna port reference signals, which are inside one or a plurality of logical antenna ports respectively, to different sub-frames; and the mobile station apparatus uses the logical antenna port reference signals of the one or plurality of logical antenna ports to perform channel status measurement. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009917 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A MIMO NETWORK - The present invention relates to method for communicating in a network, said network comprising a primary station and at least one secondary station having a plurality of antennas, the method comprising the step of the primary station transmitting to a first secondary station an indication of a first receive combining matrix that the first secondary station should use to combine the signals received at its said plurality of antennas from a first subsequent transmission from the primary station. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008994 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A color image forming apparatus including a test pattern formation portion that forms test patterns of a plurality of colors in an image formation area in which images of the plurality of colors are formed on an image carrier and in an image non-formation area outside the image formation area on the image carrier, a detection portion that detects a shift of each of the test patterns of the plurality of colors formed in the image formation area and a shift of each of the test patterns of the plurality of colors formed in the image non-formation area, a computing portion that obtains, for each color, an offset value indicating an offset between the shift of the test pattern in the image non-formation area and the shift of the test pattern in the image formation area, and a storage portion that stores the offset value for each color. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008340 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display device ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008267 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a support member configured to support a first display section and a second display section each including a flexible substrate in a manner which allows the first and second display sections to be transformed into a closed position and an open position. The support member is configured to sandwich the first and second display sections, and has a first convex surface portion which supports a surface of the first display section opposite to the second display section when the first and second display sections are transformed, and a second convex surface portion which supports a surface of the second display section opposite to the first display section when the first and second display sections are transformed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008163 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a storage unit for storing a job-waiting list in which job information of a job in a waiting state among a plurality of jobs received for image forming is registered, and a transitional time within which to transit from a waiting mode to an energy-saving mode; a waiting list control unit for controlling to register to the job-waiting list the job information of the job instructed to act within a predetermined count period, when a job is being in progress, and controlling to store into the storage unit a time within which to initially register the job information to the job-waiting list; an accumulation-time count unit for, in the case where it is determined that all the job information stored in the job-waiting list has been absent, counting an accumulation time obtained by accumulating an elapsed time, in the predetermined count period, the elapsed time being counted from a time when the job information is registered to the job-waiting list to a time when all the job information registered in the job-waiting list has been absent after start of processing of the last job registered in the job-waiting list; and a transitional-time set unit for setting the transitional time based on the counted accumulation time. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008158 | DISPLAY OPERATION DEVICE HAVING FUNCTIONS DISTINGUISHED BY COLORS OF OPERATION BUTTONS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS ADOPTING THE DISPLAY OPERATION DEVICE - A display operation device includes: a display-integrated operation panel; a first UI component display device displaying a read start key; a read activating device responsive to a user operation of the read start key, for starting a document reading process; a second UI component display device, responsive to activation of the document reading process, for displaying a read stop key in place of the read start key; and a reading process stopping device, responsive to a user operation of the read stop key, for stopping execution of the reading process. When reading ends, an additional read key is displayed in place of the read stop key. The background color of read stop key is selected to be much different from the background color of read start key, and the background color of additional read key is selected to be analogous to the background color of read start key. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008155 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A transparent sheet is attached onto an inclined surface of an original guide plate of an image reading apparatus, and similarly, a transparent sheet is attached onto an inclined surface at an edge portion of a reading guide plate, thereby preventing an original from being chipped by the ground glass-like inclined surfaces and illumination light from being diffused by the ground glass-like inclined surfaces. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008064 | CHIP COMPONENT MOUNTING STRUCTURE, CHIP COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are a chip component mounting structure and a chip component mounting method, wherein when a plurality of chip components having different heights are mounted on a substrate via an anisotropic conductive film, position gaps which occur when the chip components are pressure-bonded to the substrate are prevented, and the chip components can be accurately mounted to the substrate at target positions; and a liquid crystal display device provided with the substrate. In the chip component mounting structure, a position fixing resin ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008063 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device capable of uniformly irradiating the entire liquid crystal panel with light (that is, capable of preventing light irradiation non-uniformity that can be recognized by viewers), without excessively increasing the number of point light sources (LEDs). In the liquid crystal display device of the present invention, in a backlight substrate region where a plurality of point light sources (L | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007843 | TFT SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a TFT substrate capable of accurately maintaining potentials of pixels on the TFT substrate. The TFT substrate includes gate bus lines (G | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007608 | ARRAY ELEMENT CIRCUIT AND ACTIVE MATRIX DEVICE - An active-matrix device is provided which includes a plurality of array element circuits arranged in rows and columns; a plurality of source addressing lines each shared between the array element circuits in corresponding same columns; a plurality of gate addressing lines each shared between the array element circuits in corresponding same rows; a plurality of sensor row select lines each shared between the array element circuits in corresponding same rows, wherein each of the plurality of array element circuits includes: an array element which is controlled by application of a drive voltage by a drive element; writing circuitry for writing the drive voltage to the drive element, the writing circuitry being coupled to a corresponding source addressing line and gate addressing line among the plurality of source addressing lines and gate addressing lines; and sense circuitry for sensing an impedance presented at the drive element, the sense circuitry being coupled to a corresponding sensor row select line; and a row driver and a column driver. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007169 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD - The present invention provides a semiconductor device including:a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type; a first well region of the first conductive type formed in the semiconductor substrate; an epitaxial region of a second conductive type formed in the semiconductor substrate and arranged in a region adjacent to the first well region; a buried region of the second conductive type that is formed in a region at a lower part of the epitaxial region and that has an impurity concentration higher than that of the epitaxial region; a trench formed at boundaries between the first well region and the epitaxial region, and between the first well region and the buried region; a first semiconductor element that is formed on the first well; and a second semiconductor element that is formed on the epitaxial region. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007039 | CRYSTAL GROWTH METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of crystal growth is provided which can suppress development of dislocations and cracks and a warp in a substrate. The method of crystal growth of a group III nitride semiconductor has: a step of heating a silicon substrate; and a step of forming a depressed structure on the substrate surface by advance-feeding onto the heated silicon substrate a gas containing at least TMA (trimethylaluminum). | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120005493 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THIS SYSTEM - In order to provide a power supply control system for driving power supply units efficiently depending on difference between loads, a power supply control system for controlling power supply operation to supply power to an electronic device having a first drive mode and a second drive mode that is driven under a load lower than a load in the first drive mode includes: power supply units each of which includes transformers; and a PFC switching/power supply unit switching section (power supply unit selection section) that, depending on which one of the first and second drive modes the electronic device is in, selects power supply unit(s) to be used from the power supply units, wherein the PFC switching/power supply unit switching section selects the one or a plurality of power supply units to be used from the plurality of power supply units such that each power supply unit to be used to supply power to the electronic device in the second drive mode is one or some of each power supply unit to be used to supply power to the electronic device in the first drive mode. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002612 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A MIMO NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network, said network comprising a primary station and at least a first secondary station, wherein the first secondary station transmits to the primary station an indication of a first plurality of precoding vectors, wherein the number of first precoding vectors is greater than a preferred rank of transmission from the primary station to the first secondary station. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002602 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - TPC is appropriately operated in response to access method switching timing, an error is prevented from occurring in communication, and influence given to another cell due to transmission of unnecessary power is reduced. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002514 | Information recording and reproducing apparatus, program for controlling same, computer-readable storage medium, method for controlling information recording and reproducing apparatus, and information storage medium - An invention disclosed includes a layer number obtaining section ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002410 | LIGHT SOURCE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A light source capable of emitting light of which intensity is uniform throughout its length. A light source ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002398 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER APPARATUS COMPRISING THE DISPLAY DEVICE - In a backlight apparatus, laminated optical sheets are housed in a tray such that a wall portion thereof surrounds their circumferences so that the optical sheets receive light from fluorescent lights. Tips of one corner portion A of optical sheets preferably have a shape in which the tips are trimmed by line segments extending between two edges defining the corner portions. At the wall portion of the tray, an opposing surface is formed along the line segments of the corner portions so as to correspond to the shape of the corner portions having tips trimmed off. The opposing surface restrains the line segments. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002149 | OPTICAL SENSOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME - An optical sensor is provided with a photodiode (D | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002144 | Liquid crystal display device - A liquid crystal display device includes: a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer; first and second substrates facing each other with the liquid crystal layer interposed; first and second electrodes arranged on the first and second substrates to face the liquid crystal layer; and at least one alignment film in contact with the liquid crystal layer. A pixel region includes a first liquid crystal domain in which liquid crystal molecules are tilted in a first direction around the center of a plane, and approximately at the middle of the thickness, of the liquid crystal layer responsive to a voltage applied. The first liquid crystal domain is close to at least a part of an edge of the first electrode. The part includes a first edge portion in which an azimuthal direction, perpendicular to the part and pointing toward the inside of the first electrode, defines an angle greater than 90 degrees to the first direction. The first or second substrate has an opaque member including a first opaque portion for selectively shielding at least a part of the first edge portion from incoming light. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002142 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to face each other, a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a black matrix provided on the first substrate, where a display region for displaying an image and a frame region around the display region are defined, and in the frame region, the black matrix includes a plurality of light-blocking regions spaced apart from one another. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002139 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002135 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight unit | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002128 | DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this arrangement, it is possible to easily and properly recover the signal lines from disconnection. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002117 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A lighting device | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002102 | CAMERA MODULE - A camera module includes a lens drive device that moves an image pickup lens along an optical axis. The lens drive device has electromagnetic drive means that drives the image pickup lens by electromagnetic force with use of a coil and a magnet. The image pickup lens has a planimetrically rectangular shape. The magnet and the coil are disposed along each of at least one pair of opposite sides of the rectangular shape. By utilizing the characteristics of the image pickup lens having a rectangular shape, the magnet and coil of the lens drive device are disposed along each of the at least one pair of opposite sides. This makes it possible to provide a camera module having a lens drive device with a smaller footprint (amount of space that the camera module uses) than in the case of an arrangement of magnets at the corners of the image pickup lens. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001970 | DROPLET EJECTION DEVICE AND DROPLET EJECTION METHOD - A droplet ejection device in which cavitation is prevented and droplets are favorably ejected includes a nozzle, a liquid chamber communicating with the nozzle and arranged to house a material solution supplied through a liquid supply channel, a piezoelectric vibrator provided to the chamber, and a control mechanism arranged to apply driving voltage to the vibrator, and is arranged to eject droplets of the liquid from the nozzle by increasing and decreasing a volume of the chamber by the vibrator that is deformed in accordance with the voltage that is applied from the control mechanism, wherein the control mechanism is arranged to change the voltage, which is applied to the vibrator when the volume of the chamber is increased so as to suck the liquid into the chamber from the supply channel, in stages such that the volume of the chamber is increased in a plurality of stages. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001964 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - In the present liquid crystal display device ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001877 | Display device and display method - In the display device and the display method of the present invention, a scanning signal line driving circuit controls falls of a scanning signal line, so as to make level shifts occurring to pixel potentials substantially uniform throughout display plane, the level shifts being caused by parasitic capacitances which parasitically exist in scanning signal lines. Fall waveforms of the scanning signal change at a change rate Sx which is a change quantity per unit time, and by desirably setting the change rate Sx, a change rate Sxl in the vicinity of an input-side end of the scanning signal line and a change rate SxN in the vicinity of the other end thereof are substantially equal to each other, not being influenced by signal delay transmission characteristic which the scanning signal line possesses, like scanning signal line waveforms Vg(1, j) and Vg(N, j). | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001839 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel that includes a scan signal line ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001838 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel including a scan signal line ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001190 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME - The invention provides a thin film transistor that can improve its operating speed by improving crystallinity near a bottom surface of a channel layer. Of laser light irradiated onto an amorphous silicon layer, light transmitted through the amorphous silicon layer is absorbed by a gate electrode | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001082 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - A response with a wider dynamic range is obtained without a need for irradiating strong radiation onto a subject (human body). A CCD controller | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110320920 | CODING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PUNCTURING PATTERN SELECTING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - By controlling to select encoding appropriately considering characteristics of equalization and decoding of a receiving apparatus employing a turbo equalization technology, it is possible to attain a high transmission characteristic. Information bits of two systems including a sequence which is input to a first RSC encoding unit | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320131 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, TELEMEDICAL SYSTEM, TELEMEDICAL METHOD, PROCESSING CONTROL PROGRAM, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In order that a telemedical system which can take into account reliability of data from a patient is provided, a patient-side terminal in the telemedical system is connected with a server via a communications network, and includes a communication section which obtains first biological information indicating a physiological state of a user from a sensing apparatus which measures a physiological state of a user, an input section which accepts an input from a user so as to obtain second biological information, and a control section which (i) adds, to the first biological information, first distinguishing information indicating that the first biological information is information obtained by the communication section, and (ii) adds, to the second biological information, second distinguishing information indicating that the second biological information is information obtained by the input section, so that the first biological information and the second biological information are distinguished from each other. The communication section transmits the distinguishable first and second biological information to the server. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318026 | DEVELOPER RECOVERY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A developer recovery device is provided with a recovery container that receives and accommodates a developer recovered from an image carrier, an agitator member that agitates the developer inside the recovery container, two shafts to which mutually engageable cams are respectively provided and that transmit rotational force to the agitator member, a spring that biases and causes to move one of the cams such that the two cams mutually engage and that causes a shaft connection between the two shafts to be joined, a torque limiter that carries out joining of the shaft connection, in which the two cams are caused to mutually engage to join the shaft connection, and disjoining of the shaft connection, in which the two cams are caused to move apart to disjoin the shaft connection, and a full-state determination portion that detects a disjoined state of the shaft connection and, based on the detected disjoined state, determines that the recovery container has become full of developer. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317733 | Nitride semiconductor laser chip and method of fabrication thereof - A nitride semiconductor laser chip that operates with reduced electric power consumption and helps achieve cost reduction has: an active layer formed of a nitride semiconductor; a nitride semiconductor layer formed above the active layer; a ridge portion formed in a part of the nitride semiconductor layer; and an electrically conductive film having a light-absorbing property and formed at least in a region outside the ridge portion above the nitride semiconductor layer. The ridge portion has a ridge width of 2 μm or more but 6 μm or less. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317627 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INTERMITTENT RECEPTION METHOD - An efficient discontinuous reception operation is provided for a mobile station device in Advanced-EUTRA. In a mobile station device connected to a base station device using a plurality of component carriers, during discontinuous reception, one discontinuous reception parameter is applied to all the component carriers used by the mobile station device to thereby perform the operation of monitoring a control channel in all the component carriers, and when the control channel addressed to the mobile station device is received in one or more component carriers during a reception ON period, the reception ON period is extended in all the component carriers. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317577 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - Provided are a communication system, a base station apparatus, a mobile station apparatus, and a communication method which can effectively manage measurement information held by a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus in a system comprising a plurality of component carriers. The mobile station apparatus is used in a mobile communication system configured by a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. For a plurality of cells with the cell having different frequency, a reference cell with respect to an object to be measured is defined as a measurement reference cell when executing a measurement. The mobile station apparatus specifies one or more of the measurement reference cell for the object to be measured and executes a measurement of the object to be measured for the specified one or more of the measurement reference cell. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317560 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, QoS CONTROL STATION AND MOBILE STATION - A first access network in which a bearer transfer path that guarantees a predetermined QoS has been established and a second access network in which a transfer path which is different from that in the first access network has been established are provided, and PCRF | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317304 | MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a magnetic recording/reproduction device | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317270 | ANTIREFLECTION FILM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ANTIREFLECTION FILM, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present application aims to provide an antireflection film having low reflectivity and suppressing glare. In at least one example embodiment, the antireflection film includes a surface that includes a moth-eye structure including multiple projections. Apexes of any two adjacent projections are apart from each other by a distance not longer than a wavelength of visible light. The moth-eye structure has sticking structures each of which includes projections with tip portions of the projections adhering to each other. Each of the sticking structures is 0.05 μm or greater and smaller than 1 μm in diameter. The sticking structures exist at a number density in planar area of the antireflection film of 0.01 pcs/μm | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317116 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - In a liquid crystal display apparatus | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317115 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A liquid crystal display device is configured such that the liquid crystal display device detects a pressed position by having contact regions, which are a part of the first substrate and a part of the second substrate, in contact with each other when the first substrate or the second substrate is bent by being pressed and in each of the contact region of the first substrate and the second substrate, a conductive film that repels an alignment film before hardening is arranged such that the conductive film is exposed from the hardened alignment film. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317095 | SUPPORTING UNIT, SHEET SET, ILLUMINATING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A supporting unit ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317094 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a backlight device ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317091 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The backlight unit | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317090 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The backlight unit | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317080 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A lighting device | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316989 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316821 | DRIVING CIRCUIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION DEVICE - A driving circuit according to the present invention for driving a display apparatus based on display data and a control signal includes: a delay circuit for delaying the input control signal; and a data load section for loading the input display data to the display apparatus at a timing generated by the delayed control signal, where the delay circuit delays the control signal in such a manner that load timing at which the display data is loaded to the display apparatus varies according to fixed timing determined by a constant cycle. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316810 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH PANEL - A liquid crystal display device | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316771 | Display apparatus, television reception apparatus and pointing system - A display apparatus is connected to a computer that constitutes an external device. In at least one example embodiment, the external device outputs an image to the display apparatus via a video output port. When a pointing device directs a laser beam towards an image display module of the display apparatus, the display apparatus detects the laser beam using an incorporated photosensor, and identifies the coordinates in the image corresponding to that photosensor. Then, the location information for the identified coordinates is output to the external device via a pointing device input port. The external device recognizes the coordinate location and outputs a cursor indicating the pointer location superimposed on the output image. The display apparatus displays an image containing the cursor on the display screen. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316427 | PHOTODIODE, DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH PHOTODIODE, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE PHOTODIODE AND THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A photodiode ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316426 | AUDIO-VISUAL ENVIRONMENT CONTROL DEVICE, AUDIO-VISUAL ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM AND AUDIO-VISUAL ENVIRONMENT CONTROL METHOD - An illumination device detecting section ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316005 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a liquid crystal display apparatus ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315995 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Disclosed is a semiconductor device which includes a substrate | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315991 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An array substrate disclosed herein includes: scanning signal lines ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315966 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An organic electroluminescent display device ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110311918 | PRODUCTION METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a production method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device, in which generation of a joint line on a display screen is suppressed and yield can be improved even if a substrate is subjected to an alignment treatment by completing exposure for the substrate through several exposures in a liquid crystal display device including pixels each having two or more domains. The present invention is a production method of a production method of a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal display device including: a pair of opposed substrates; a liquid crystal layer formed between the pair of opposed substrates; and an alignment film arranged on a liquid crystal layer side surface of at least one of the pair of opposed substrates, and the liquid crystal display device having two or more regions which differ in alignment azimuth in a pixel, wherein the production method comprises an exposure step of exposing the alignment film in such a way that a substrate plane is divided into two or more exposure regions through a photomask in each exposure region, and in the exposure step, exposure is performed in such a way that adjacent two exposure regions have an overlapping exposure region where the adjacent two exposure regions partly overlap with each other, and the photomask has a halftone part corresponding to the overlapping exposure region. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310545 | DISPLAY AND DAMPING MEMBER ATTACHED TO DISPLAY - A display wherein a damping member ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310488 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A direct-viewing type display device | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310470 | DISPLAY DEVICE - At least one embodiment of the present invention provides a display device that is capable of suppressing reflection and temperature increases in a display panel so that a favorable display characteristic is obtained even during outdoor use, and that can be realized by a simple configuration. In at least one example embodiment, the present invention is a display device including: a display panel; and a protective plate disposed further toward a viewing surface side than the display panel, wherein a low reflection film formed with a nanostructure is provided on a main surface of the protective plate on the viewing surface side, and a circularly polarizing plate and an infrared ray shielding film are disposed in sequence from the protective plate side toward the display panel side on a main surface of the protective plate on a side for disposing the display panel. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310414 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An object area containing a text or a graphic is extracted from a document image containing the text or the graphic. Then, on the basis of the extracted object area and stored size information, a cropping area is determined that surrounds the object area with given margins. Further, setting of margins is received. Then, on the basis of the object area and the received setting of the margins, the cropping area is determined. Then, the cropping area determined on the basis of the object area and the size information or alternatively the cropping area determined on the basis of the object area and the setting of the margins is cropped from the document image. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310338 | PRODUCTION METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a production method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device, in which generation of a joint line on a display screen is suppressed and yield can be improved even if a substrate is subjected to an alignment treatment by completing exposure for the substrate through several exposures in a liquid crystal display device including pixels each having two or more domains. The present invention is a production method of a production method of a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal display device including: a pair of opposed substrates; a liquid crystal layer formed between the pair of opposed substrates; and an alignment film arranged on a liquid crystal layer side surface of at least one of the pair of opposed substrates, and the liquid crystal display device having two or more regions which differ in alignment azimuth in a pixel, wherein the production method comprises an exposure step of exposing the alignment film in such a way that a substrate plane is divided into two or more exposure regions through a photomask in each exposure region, and in the exposure step, exposure is performed in such a way that adjacent two exposure regions have an overlapping exposure region where the adjacent two exposure regions partly overlap with each other, and the photomask comprises a halftone part corresponding to the overlapping exposure region. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310334 | Retardation film, polarizing film, liquid crystal display, and method of designing retardation film - To provide a retardation film in which the retardation condition is adjusted to achieve a liquid crystal display without coloration over a wide viewing angle range and having a high contrast ratio, and a method of designing the same, as well as a polarizing film and a liquid crystal display using the same. A liquid crystal display comprising a liquid crystal cell and polarizing films in a Cross-Nicol relationship with each other on both sides of the liquid crystal cell; wherein at least one polarizing film includes a retardation film having reverse wavelength dispersion property; and the liquid crystal display further includes a retardation film having a wavelength dispersion property substantially the same as a liquid crystal layer configuring the liquid crystal cell. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310330 | THIN BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - According to a conventional backlight device for use in a thin full-color display device in which pixels are subjected to a color separation by colored lights, a large chromatic aberration occurs, thereby causing a deterioration in image quality. A thin backlight system in accordance with the present invention includes: a light emitting section ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310319 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310072 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display part ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310059 | TOUCH SENSOR, DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH SENSOR, AND METHOD OF GENERATING LOCATION DATA - A display device with a touch sensor according to the present invention includes an active matrix substrate and a transparent counter electrode. On a first surface of the active matrix substrate, multiple pixel electrodes are arranged in matrix. The transparent counter electrode is opposed to the first surface of the active matrix substrate. The display device further includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a switching circuit. The first circuit supplies a voltage or a current to the transparent counter electrode for display purposes. The second circuit detects currents flowing from a number of points on the transparent counter electrode. And the switching circuit selectively connects electrically one of the first and second circuits to the transparent counter electrode. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309467 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a substrate for bonding ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309438 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The semiconductor apparatus according to the present invention includes: a second-conductivity-type first diffusion region formed on the semiconductor layer; a first-conductivity-type second diffusion region formed in the first diffusion region; a second-conductivity-type first high concentration diffusion region and a first-conductivity-type second high concentration diffusion region formed in the second diffusion region; a second-conductivity-type third high concentration diffusion region, separated by a given distance from the second diffusion region, in the first diffusion region; and a gate electrode formed above and between the first high concentration diffusion region and third high concentration diffusion region, with a gate insulation film interposed therebetween, where the gate electrode is formed overlapping the first high concentration diffusion region, and the gate electrode is electrically connected with the first high concentration diffusion region and second high concentration diffusion region, at the same potential. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309406 | LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS PACKAGE, LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS, BACKLIGHT APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A light-emitting apparatus package of the present invention includes (i) an electrically insulated ceramic substrate, (ii) a first concave section formed in the direction of thickness of the ceramic substrate so as to form a light exit aperture in a surface of the ceramic substrate, (iii) a second concave section formed within the first concave section in the further direction of thickness of the ceramic substrate so that one or more light-emitting devices are provided therein, (iv) a wiring pattern for supplying electricity, which is provided in the first concave section, and (v) a metalized layer having light-reflectivity, which is (a) provided between the light-emitting device and the surface of the second concave section of the substrate, and (b) electrically insulated from the wiring pattern. On the account of this, the light-emitting apparatus package in which heat is excellently discharged and light is efficiently utilized and a light-emitting apparatus in which the light-emitting apparatus package is used can be obtained. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309363 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE - A gate electrode is provided on a layered structure formed by successively stacking a conductive layer and an insulating layer. A storage capacitor includes a lower electrode formed in a same layer and made of a same material as the conductive layer, a dielectric layer provided on the lower electrode, formed in a same layer and made of a same material as the insulating layer, and an upper electrode formed in a same layer and made of a same material as the gate electrode to overlap the lower electrode with the dielectric layer sandwiched therebetween. A contact hole for connection to the storage capacitor is continuously formed in the interlayer and gate insulating films. The dielectric layer and the upper electrode are formed to have a lower conductive layer forming the lower electrode partially exposed from the dielectric layer, the upper electrode, and the interlayer and gate insulating films. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110305121 | NEAR-FIELD LIGHT GENERATING DEVICE, RECORDING HEAD, AND RECORDING DEVICE - A near-field light generating device ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305040 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A backlight serving as an illumination device includes an LED substrate having a main surface, and plurality of light source units. Each light source unit includes a light guide plate guiding light frontward of the main surface, and a fixture pin provided at the light guide plate for affixing the light guide plate to the LED substrate. The plurality of light source units are arranged planarly on the main surface such that the fixture pin of one light source unit is covered with the light guide plate of an adjacent light source unit to be hidden. The light guide plate is provided pivotable about the fixture pin relative to the LED substrate. By such a configuration, there is provided an illumination device superior in workability at the time of component-exchange of a light source unit. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304809 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An active matrix substrate ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304801 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A rear-side polarizing plate | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304798 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304656 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A display device ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304538 | OPTICAL POINTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE OPTICAL POINTING DEVICE - An inclined plane ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303964 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a nonvolatile memory | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303916 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device of the present invention includes: a lower electrode ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110302637 | SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A distribution server receives authentication information acquired from an IC card reader of a client PC and authenticated by an authentication server. The distribution server adds setting information on the basis of the received authentication information in an installer of a device driver for an image formation section of an MFP to thereby generate a custom installer of the device driver. The distribution server distributes the generated custom installer to an address of a user to be authenticated based on the authentication information. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302490 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD - A preview image generating part acquires printing data and then generates a plurality of preview images. A display control part stacks the plurality of generated preview images in the page order and displays two adjacent preview images in the front row. A reverse display control part page-feeds one preview image in the front row sequentially and gradually and reverses the front face to the back face, and then adopts it as the other-side preview image in the front row. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299723 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium - An image processing apparatus includes a watermark adding section for adding a watermark for copy control to an image, where the watermark includes a dot pattern which becomes visible when copy, and a pattern adding section for adding a predetermined pattern to an appropriate position of an image, wherein the watermark adding section includes a watermark generating section for generating a watermark for copy control, where the watermark includes a dot pattern which becomes invisible when copy, a determining section for determining whether or not the pattern adding section adds the predetermined pattern to the image, when the generated watermark is added to the image, and a region setting section for setting a region where the predetermined pattern is to be appeared at a different portion where the dot pattern is added, when the determining section determines that the predetermined pattern is to be added to the image. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299508 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, WIRELESS RECEIVING APPARATUS, WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND WIRELESS RECEPTION METHOD - The channels of A-EUTRA component carriers on which the mobile station devices of EUTRA do not stand by are configured without almost changing the conventional EUTRA channel configurations. A wireless transmitting apparatus, which performs radio transmission to a plurality of wireless receiving apparatuses by assigning one or more component carriers to a downlink, includes a control channel element processing section | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299144 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus comprises: an image reading unit that includes a platen glass and a color contact image sensor configured by a line image sensor for reading red, a line image sensor for reading green, and a line image sensor for reading blue, the line image sensors being disposed in a sub-scanning direction of an original; and an automatic original feeder. In the image reading apparatus, the line image sensor for reading red and the line image sensor for reading green are disposed so that a line gap therebetween is two lines, and in a monochrome mode in which a color original is read and output as a monochrome image, the color original is read using the line image sensor for reading red and the line image sensor for reading green. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299019 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING ALIGNMENT CONTROL FOR BRIGHTNESS AND RESPONSE - A liquid crystal display apparatus including a pair of substrates having electrodes and vertical alignment layers. A liquid crystal having a negative anisotropy of dielectric is inserted between the substrates. Each substrate has linearly arranged alignment control structures for controlling the alignment of the liquid crystal. The alignment control structures are formed in the form of projections or slits. Each alignment control structure is formed of a plurality of constituent units. In addition, means for forming a boundary of alignment of liquid crystal (singular point in director field) to control the liquid crystal located on the alignment control structures. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299013 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A planar illumination device is provided that enhances the efficiency of use of light and its brightness while suppressing uneven brightness, that reduces an increase in the manufacturing cost and that can reduce the thickness of the planar illumination device. In this backlight device (planar illumination device) ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299009 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - a lighting device | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298992 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight unit | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298845 | PANEL CONTROLLER, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, SIGNAL MODULATION METHOD, SIGNAL MODULATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The object of the invention is to prevent a large amount of unnecessary images from being displayed on an image on a liquid crystal display panel, due to a signal value of a pulse width modulation signal (PWM) which exceeds the minimum signal value of a vertical synchronization signal when the vertical synchronization signal (VS) interferes with the pulse width modulation signal (PWM) within a period of one frame. A liquid crystal display panel controller makes an intermediate signal value (M | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298774 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - An LUT fixedly stores correction values to compensate for a pull-in voltage in pixels in a liquid crystal panel. In at least one example embodiment, the display control unit outputs an input video signal Xa, a video signal Xp of a previous frame read from a frame memory, and a pixel polarity indicating a polarity of a pixel applied voltage on the pixel basis, and outputs a correction value read from the LUT to a data line driving circuit as a video signal Xb after correction. The data line driving circuit performs alternate current driving, based on the video signal Xb after correction. The LUT stores different correction values between when a positive polarity voltage is applied and when a negative polarity voltage is applied, for at least a part of combinations of values of the input video signal Xa and the video signal Xp of the previous frame. This can reduce a difference in response speed between when the positive polarity voltage is applied and when the negative polarity voltage is applied, thereby enhancing display quality. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298773 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - An output stage of a common electrode driving circuit includes a plurality of sub-output stages each of which is capable of supplying a voltage to a common electrode, wherein each supply period of a common electrode potential of each polarity is divided into a plurality of partial periods, a voltage is supplied to the common electrode during each of the plurality of partial periods by one or more sub-output stages selected for said each of the plurality of partial periods, and overall load driving capability of an initial sub-output stage constituted by the one or more sub-output stages selected during a partial period including start of an operation of polarity inversion of the common electrode potential is smaller than overall load driving capability of a final sub-output stage constituted by one or more sub-output stages selected during a partial period in which a finally attained potential of the common electrode potential of each polarity is supplied. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298772 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE - A liquid crystal display panel of at least one embodiment of the present invention is a liquid crystal display panel of an active matrix type, increasing a voltage applied to liquid crystals by applying a voltage to each storage capacitor line connected to a storage capacitor in each of pixels, the voltage applied to the liquid crystals being increased when an image is to be displayed, the pixels being connected to the each storage capacitor line in such a manner that a plurality of pixels of one specific primary color are connected to a specific storage capacitor line, the plurality of pixels of the one specific primary color being in a horizontal row of a display region of the liquid crystal display panel, the plurality of pixels each being connected to the specific storage capacitor line via the storage capacitor, the pixels each including a drain electrode of a switching element to which a voltage is applied, the voltage applied to the drain electrode taking a value in accordance with an effective voltage to be applied to the storage capacitor, the value corresponding to the specific one primary color of each of the pixels including the storage capacitor. This makes it possible to prevent deterioration in display quality of a display image, in the liquid crystal display panel which is configured to apply a voltage to the storage capacitor in each of the pixels so as to increase a voltage applied to the liquid crystals. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298595 | INDOOR LINE TERMINAL STATE DETERMINATION APPARATUS, PLC ADAPTOR, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING INDOOR LINE TERMINAL STATE - A technique capable of recognizing a usage state of a power of a user, curbing additionally needed power consumption is provided. Scanning bit stream data containing information regarding scan frequencies and an initial-stage power of each of the frequencies is outputted from an output part, decomposed into data of respective scan frequencies, transformed to time series digital data in an IFFT module, transformed to scanning analog data by D/A transform in an AFE, and transmitted to a power line. Reflected analog data received from the power line is transformed by A/D transform in the AFE, transformed to frequency series reflected spectrum data in the FFT module, and sent to a check part. The check part checks combination of attenuation rates of respective scan frequencies against registered pattern data registered in a pattern correspondence relationship storage part, and outputs a related connection state of an outlet as a checked result. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298531 | CHARGE STORAGE CIRCUIT FOR A PIXEL, AND A DISPLAY - A charge storage circuit for a pixel comprises a charge storage node. First and second series-connected transistors ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298484 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic circuit of at least one embodiment of the present invention includes: a plurality of electronic parts, of the plurality of electronic parts, at least one electronic part being at least one main part and the other electronic parts being auxiliary parts, the at least one main part being necessary for determination of whether or not the electronic circuit operates normally, the auxiliary parts being unnecessary for determination of whether or not the electronic circuit operates normally, the auxiliary parts being connected to a line which is connected to the at least one main part so as to supply a signal necessary for operation of the at least one main part or output a signal obtained by the operation of the at least one main part. This provides an electronic circuit which is capable of properly detecting a circuit wiring disconnection and easily detecting faulty wiring between elements without the need of providing the electronic circuit with more components for detecting a circuit wiring disconnection. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298074 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION DEVICE - A solid-state imaging element according to the present invention includes a plurality of light receiving sections formed in a pixel array, each light receiving section constituted of a semiconductor element for performing a photoelectric conversion on and capturing an image of image light from a subject, the solid-state imaging element further including: a light shielding wall or a reflection wall provided therein for pixel separation, in between the light receiving sections adjacent to one another in a plan view on a light entering side from the light receiving sections; and a color filter wherein at least a part of the color filter is embedded between the light shielding walls or the reflection walls, in such a manner to correspond to each of the plurality of light receiving sections, so that the distance between the color filter and a substrate can be shortened. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297936 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A semiconductor device | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297873 | ETCHING SOLUTION COMPOSITIONS FOR METAL LAMINATE FILMS - Disclosed are etching solution compositions that comprise fluorine compounds and iron ions, which are used for bulk etching of metal laminate films wherein a layer comprising aluminum or an aluminum alloy is laminated on top and a layer comprising titanium or a titanium alloy on bottom, and an etching method using said etching solution compositions. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297640 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLD AND ELECTRODE STRUCTURE USED THEREFOR - A motheye mold fabrication method of an embodiment of the present invention includes: (a) anodizing a surface of an aluminum film or aluminum base via an electrode that is in contact with the surface, thereby forming a porous alumina layer which has a plurality of very small recessed portions; (b) after step (a), allowing the porous alumina layer to be in contact with an etchant, thereby enlarging the plurality of very small recessed portions of the porous alumina layer; and (c) after step (b), further anodizing the surface via the electrode to grow the plurality of very small recessed portions. In at least one example embodiment, step (b) is performed in such a controlled state that part of the electrode which is in contact with the surface in the etchant would not be exposed to the etchant. Thus, production of a defect due to nonuniform corrosion can be prevented. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110292911 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, HANDOVER METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A handover procedure is easily performed in a carrier aggregation state of receiving a plurality of frequency bands. There are provided a plurality of reception branches for performing a reception process for each frequency band, and a reception-signal processing control section | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292824 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO LINK SYNCHRONIZATION DETERMINING METHOD - While a mobile station apparatus is receiving a plurality of frequency bands, effective determinations of wireless link synchronization can be achieved. The mobile station apparatus measures the reception qualities of a plurality of different downlink frequency band signals (DL_CC | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292684 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, SURFACE ILLUMINANT DEVICE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A projecting part ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292636 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A light emitting device capable of improving light extraction efficiency is provided. The light emitting device includes: a laser generator which outputs linearly polarized laser light; a fluorescent body which is irradiated with the laser light from the laser generator; and a reflective polarization filter which is arranged in a region through which the laser light outputted from the laser generator passes. The reflective polarization filter is formed to transmit linearly polarized light of the laser light and reflect linearly polarized light having a polarization plane which is perpendicular to a polarization plane of the linearly polarized light of the laser light. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292491 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A display device ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292444 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM AND DISPLAY METHOD - When an image formation instruction for created document data is received, image data for a preview image corresponding to the document data is generated, the preview image based on the image data is displayed on a display, and an image is formed using data for image formation based on the image data for the preview image. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292097 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - An illumination device is provided which can reduce a movement blur and a tailing phenomenon on a motion picture display while a drop in display brightness is suppressed, and which can suppress power consumption, can be made small and light, and can prolong the lifetime, and a liquid crystal display device using the same is provided. A light source control part of a control circuit synchronizes a latch pulse signal outputted from a gate driver control part to a gate driver, and outputs light emission control signals to respective light source power supply circuits. The respective light source power supply circuits change emission states of cold cathode fluorescent lamps to one of a first to a third emission states on the basis of the inputted light emission control signals, and illuminate an LCD panel from a rear surface of a display area. A first stage emission state is a non-lighting state, a second stage emission state is a maximum lighting state in which maximum lighting brightness is obtained, and a third emission state is an intermediate lighting state in which brightness of about one half of the second stage emission state is obtained. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292096 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A normally black liquid crystal display device of the present invention is provided with a liquid crystal display panel | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292068 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method in which a shaded image signal is obtained by carrying out a shading process based on a previous image signal and a current image signal, a weighting of the shading process is changed in accordance with a signal level of the previous image signal and that of the current image signal, and a sub frame period is provided by dividing a frame period; thereafter, the shaded image signal is outputted to the sub frame period. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292025 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention achieves a display device capable of quick compensation of charging of parasitic capacitance with a simple configuration and low power consumption. The display device in accordance with the present invention includes (i) pixels, (ii) signal wires (Sj), and (iii) an operational amplifier (OP | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292007 | SHIFT REGISTER, DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME, AND METHOD OF DRIVING SHIFT REGISTER - A display device is implemented that does not cause abnormal operation even if a shift in threshold voltage occurs in a transistor composing a shift register. Each bistable circuit includes an output terminal that outputs a state signal; a thin film transistor having a drain terminal to which a clock signal is provided, and having a source terminal connected to the output terminal; a thin film transistor for charging a region netA connected to a gate terminal of the thin film transistor; a thin film transistor having a drain terminal connected to the netA; a thin film transistor having a drain terminal connected to the output terminal; and a second node potential control portion that detects a higher one of the threshold voltages of the thin film transistors and sets, based on the detected threshold voltage, the potential of a region netB connected to gate terminals of the thin film transistors to a relatively low-level potential and a relatively high-level potential. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291977 | TOUCH PANEL INCORPORATING DISPLAY DEVICE - In a touch panel incorporating a display device, a first sensor line ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291673 | CHEMICAL SENSOR - Provided is a chemical sensor requiring no ion-sensitive film. Specifically provided is a chemical sensor ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291562 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A lighting device of the present invention includes a number of discharge tubes | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291126 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An active matrix substrate ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291097 | TFT ARRAY SUBSTRATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - An embodiment of the present invention provides a TFT array substrate, in which TFT elements and pixel electrodes being correspondingly connected with the TFT elements are arrayed in matrix on an insulating substrate, the TFT array substrate including: gate bus lines made from a first metal material; source bus lines made from a second metal material; pixel electrodes made from a third metal material; a clock wiring made from the first metal material; a branch wiring made from the second metal material; and a connection conductor made from the third metal material, the connection conductor connecting the clock wiring and the branch wiring at a connection part in a periphery area, the connection part having a branch-wiring via hole, which exposes the branch wiring which is covered with the connection conductor, and overlaps the clock wiring at least partly in a plane view. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110289545 | SINK DEVICE AND WIRELESS TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - When reproducing AV data transmitted from a source device by multicast wireless transmission, a sink device can check the wireless connection status of other sink device which reproduces AV data from the same source device. The sink device ( | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110287565 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - Exposure is performed by controlling an exposure amount applied to a photosensitive resin | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286501 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION QUALITY INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD - To enable CQI information to notify the transmission side to be compressed with efficiency, while minimizing the effect on scheduling on the transmission side, provided are reception sections | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286436 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - Each of mobile station apparatuses | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286225 | LED LIGHTING DEVICE - An LED lighting device that allows easy attachment, replacement, and cleaning of a lighting apparatus, as compared to a fluorescent lamp, is provided. An LED lighting device | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286203 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND BACKLIGHT DEVICE - The present invention relates to the rigidity of a backlight chassis and is applicable to a liquid crystal display device including a backlight chassis and a light source located in the backlight chassis. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a backlight chassis ( | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285948 | PRODUCTION METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY INCLUDING SCANNING EXPOSURE - To provide: a production method of a liquid crystal display device, the production method being capable of efficiently and stably providing alignment treatment for an alignment film of the liquid crystal display device, in which a plurality of domains is formed in a pixel region; and an exposure device for alignment treatment. A production method of a liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate facing to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates; a first alignment film provided on the liquid crystal layer side surface of the first substrate; and a second alignment film provided on the liquid crystal layer side surface of the second substrate, wherein the production method comprises subjecting the first alignment film and/or the second alignment film to scanning exposure continuously over a plurality of pixel regions, and the scanning exposure comprises exposing the first alignment film and/or the second alignment film while scanning an inside of each pixel region more than one time in antiparallel directions to form, in the each pixel region, regions for aligning liquid crystal molecules to the surface (s) of the first alignment film and/or the second alignment film in antiparallel directions. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285934 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A direct-viewing type display device | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285923 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight unit | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285922 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight device | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285829 | IMAGE WATCHING GLASSES IDENTIFICATON DEVICE, IMAGE WATCHING SYSTEM, PAIR OF IMAGE WATCHING GLASSES, IMAGE WATCHING GLASSES IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An image watching glasses identification device | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284860 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for producing a semiconductor device includes a step of forming a first insulation film, a step of forming a separation layer in a base layer, a step of forming a light-blocking film on the surface of the first insulation film, a step of forming a second insulation film such that the light-blocking film is covered, a step of affixing the base layer provided with the light-blocking film to a substrate, a step of separating and removing along the separation layer a portion of the base layer affixed to the substrate, and a step of forming a semiconductor layer such that at least a portion thereof overlaps with the light-blocking film. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110281615 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - Provided are a communication system, a base station apparatus, a mobile station apparatus, and a communication method which can effectively manage measurement information held by a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus in a system comprising a plurality of component carriers. The mobile station apparatus is used in a mobile communication system configured by a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. For a plurality of cells with each cell having different frequency, the mobile station apparatus manages each of the cells activated by the base station apparatus to be a belonging cell and manages a cell adjacent to the first cell among the aforementioned cells as a cell other than the first cell. | 11-17-2011 |
