| SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA Patent applications |
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| 20120131452 | 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 control unit-side controller includes: a display image displaying controller that performs such control as to display a display image from the display image generator on the display panel when the image output by an image output unit is started; and an output image displaying controller that performs such control as to move the display image displayed on the display panel toward a predetermined position. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128329 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, CONTENT RECORDING MEDIUM, CONTROL PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - The AV data reproducing apparatus includes: (i) a reading section for reading out, from a recording medium, additional function information indicating an additional function correlated with a manipulation input; and (ii) an additional function program executing section for executing the additional function in response to the manipulation input. With this, an operation unique to the content can be carried out by executing the additional function (additional function program) indicated by the additional function information stored in the recording medium together with the AV data. This makes it possible for the AV data reproducing apparatus to carry out an operation other than an operation intrinsically corresponding to a key. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128328 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, CONTENT RECORDING MEDIUM, CONTROL PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - The AV data reproducing apparatus includes: (i) a reading section for reading out, from a recording medium, additional function information indicating an additional function correlated with a manipulation input; and (ii) an additional function program executing section for executing the additional function in response to the manipulation input. With this, an operation unique to the content can be carried out by executing the additional function (additional function program) indicated by the additional function information stored in the recording medium together with the AV data. This makes it possible for the AV data reproducing apparatus to carry out an operation other than an operation intrinsically corresponding to a key. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128178 | SOUND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, SOUND REPRODUCING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Sound reproduction is controlled so as to be heard in the optimal state for the hearing function specific to elderly people. A frequency characteristic setting portion for setting the frequency characteristics of an inputted sound signal, and a sound volume setting portion for variable controlling the volume is disclosed. The frequency characteristic setting portion changes a frequency characteristic in which a sound band including a human voice band is emphasized to a frequency characteristic in which the characteristics of a gain in accordance with a frequency gradually becomes flat with an increase in the volume set by the sound volume setting portion. As a result, the frequency band of the human voice is strongly emphasized so as to help elderly people hear it at a low volume, and, as the volume grows higher, a frequency characteristic is changed to a flatter frequency characteristic, thereby making it possible to output easy-to-hear sound while reducing inconvenience caused by the emphasis of a specific frequency band. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127840 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE, RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In an optical disc ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127416 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having improved transmittance. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to face each other, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a pixel electrode to which a signal voltage is supplied and a common electrode to which a common voltage is supplied. The pixel electrode and the common electrode both comprise comb teeth. The comb teeth of the pixel electrode and the comb teeth of the common electrode are disposed with each other alternately via an interval. The liquid crystal layer contains liquid crystal molecules having positive dielectric anisotropy. The liquid crystal molecules are aligned in a direction orthogonal to a surface of the first substrate in a voltage non-application condition. The first substrate includes an extension wiring provided in a position overlapping at least one comb tooth of the comb teeth of the pixel electrode and the common electrode so as to extend along the at least one comb tooth via an insulating film, and the extension wiring serves as a wiring to which the signal voltage is supplied. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127408 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In an MVA liquid crystal display device of the present invention, each pixel includes at least one electrode ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127407 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes an alignment sustaining layer formed of a photopolymerized material on each of surfaces of a pair of alignment films which are closer to a liquid crystal layer. The alignment sustaining layer is configured to regulate a pretilt azimuth of a liquid crystal molecule of the liquid crystal layer during absence of an applied voltage. A nematic liquid crystal material of the liquid crystal layer comprise a liquid crystal compound having a terphenyl ring system as an indispensable component, and the liquid crystal layer further comprises part of a photopolymerizable compound. A content of the photopolymerizable compound relative to the nematic liquid crystal material is less than 0.015 mol %. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127398 | BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A backlight system includes: a light-emitting section ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127396 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE - An active matrix substrate is provided with a lead wire led from a switching element to a surrounding region; a pad portion formed in the lead wire and positioned in surrounding region; an insulation film including a planarization film positioned uppermost, and a passivation film and a gate insulation film positioned under planarization film, formed so as to cover the pad portion, and having a contact hole formed so as to reach pad portion; and an ITO film positioned in contact hole, and formed on pad portion. ITO film is formed so as to be spaced from planarization | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127395 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device realizing reduction in cost and suppression of power consumption and suppressing generation of a lamp image. A lighting device | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127393 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a display device configured to prevent its size from becoming large. The display device includes a case member ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127387 | ELECTRODE SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE SUBSTRATE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch panel including: first electrode patterns provided on a transparent substrate and extending in a first direction; and second electrode patterns provided on the substrate and extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction, each of the first electrode patterns being constituted by transparent electrodes and conductive connecting sections via which the transparent electrodes are connected to each other, and each of the second electrode patterns being constituted by transparent electrodes and conductive connecting sections via which the transparent electrodes are connected to each other, each of the second electrode patterns intersecting the first electrode patterns via an insulation layer at the respective conductive connecting sections of said each of the second electrode patterns, and in at least one of the second electrode patterns, at least one of the conductive connecting sections of said at least one of the second electrode patterns being a metal wire. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127220 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides an analog gradation-driving active matrix substrate suppressing reduction in the response time of the current-driven light-emitting element; a display device; and an organic EL display device. The active matrix substrate of the present invention is an analog gradation-driving active matrix substrate, comprising:
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| 20120127153 | Display Device And Display Device Driving Method - An active matrix display device is disclosed in which, during each kth period, each data signal line is supplied with a signal whose electric potential polarity is constant, and a picture element to which a signal finishes being written within the kth period is caused to be in a selected state from a (k−1)th period to the kth period so as to be conductive to a data signal line connected thereto, and during each kth period (1≦k≦n−1) for the effective display region, a data signal line that is not connected to a picture element to which a signal finishes being written within the kth period is supplied with a signal that was supplied to this data signal line during the (k−1)th period. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127109 | PORTABLE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PORTABLE DISPLAY DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a portable display device sufficiently small to be held with one hand that enters a state for accepting a gesture when a fixed coordinate position near a central portion between a left display unit ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126711 | PLANAR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A sensor circuit or a display apparatus from which a highly accurate sensor output can be obtained includes a photodiode, a capacitor that is connected to the photodiode via an accumulation node and accumulates charges according to an electric current in the photodiode; a sensor switching element transistor that causes the accumulation node and an output line to be conductive with respect to each other in response to a readout signal and outputs an output signal according to the potential of the accumulation node to the output line; a variable capacitor that is provided between the accumulation node and an input electrode, and whose capacitance varies when a pressure is applied by a touching operation; and a control switching element transistor to which a control signal for switching conduction and non-conduction between the variable capacitor and the accumulation node is input. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126261 | LENS, LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE, LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT PACKAGE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126236 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ARRAY SUBSTRATE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides an array substrate, a method for manufacturing an array substrate, and a display device which are such that reflow failure of a resist mask does not occur readily at the time of manufacture of the array substrate, so the array substrate can be manufactured reliably. At the time of forming a TFT, third wiring | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126218 | ORGANIC ELEMENT AND ORGANIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An organic electric-field element includes an elongated support base member, a first electrode provided on the support base member, an organic layer provided to cover the first electrode, and a second electrode provided to cover the organic layer. At one end portion of the support base member, a two-layer structure region including the support base member and the first electrode is provided, and a three-layer structure region including the support base member, the first electrode, and the organic layer is provided, extending continuously from the other end of the two-layer structure region. At the other end portion of the support base member, a two-layer structure region including the support base member and the second electrode is provided, and a three-layer structure region including the support base member, the second electrode, and the organic layer is provided, extending continuously from one end of the two-layer structure region. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120125435 | SOLAR CELL MODULE AND SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM - The present invention provides a solar cell module which has high design freedom and can be easily manufactured at low cost. A solar cell module ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120125406 | STACKED PHOTOVOLTAIC ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STACKED PHOTOVOLTAIC ELEMENT - Disclosed is a stacked photovoltaic element, including: a first photovoltaic element portion including at least one photovoltaic element, stacked over a substrate; an intermediate layer made of a metal oxide, stacked over the first photovoltaic element portion; a buffer layer in an amorphous state, stacked over the intermediate layer; and a second photovoltaic element portion including at least one photovoltaic element, stacked over the buffer layer, wherein a conductive layer of the second photovoltaic element portion in contact with the buffer layer is a microcrystalline layer. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120123769 | GAIN CONTROL APPARATUS AND GAIN CONTROL METHOD, AND VOICE OUTPUT APPARATUS - Provided is a technology which adjusts an input signal such that the volume of a conversation or speech contained in a content is substantially constant, thereby alleviating the audience from a burden of making a volume control operation. An acoustic signal processor comprises an acoustic signal storage unit which buffers an acoustic input signal for a predetermined period of time; a voice detection unit which detects a voice section from the buffered acoustic signal; an acoustic signal-to-loudness level transformation which calculates a loudness level from the buffered acoustic signal; a threshold/level comparator which compares the calculated loudness level with a predetermined target level; a voice amplification calculation unit which calculates a gain control amount for the buffered acoustic signal on the basis of the detection and comparison results; and an acoustic signal amplifier which amplifies or dampens the buffered acoustic signal in accordance with the calculated gain control amount. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121302 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes photoreceptor drums, a charger, an exposure unit, a developing unit, an intermediate transfer belt and a fixing unit for fixing a toner image to a recording medium. The fixing unit includes a fixing part and a pressing part. The fixing part has a fixing roller, a heating member and a fixing belt. The pressing part has a pressing roller. The heating member is arranged close to, and so as to cover, the outer peripheral side of the fixing roller, and formed with an opening. Both edges of the opening extending along the axial direction of the fixing roller, are positioned closer to the pressing part side than the center axis of the fixing roller is. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121061 | SHIFT REGISTER - A shift register according to the present invention is supported on an insulating substrate and has multiple stages that sequentially shift an output signal from one stage to the next. Each of those stages has a circuit | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120942 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - To suppress deterioration of channel estimation accuracy even when a terminal moves at high speed in a system for switching among a plurality of insertion patterns of channel estimation signals, in a wireless communication system for using one of a plurality of types of frame formats with different insertion positions of a channel estimation symbol, and spreading data in the frequency domain to perform communications, the types of frame formats include at least a first frame format having a channel estimation symbol in which channel estimation signals are allocated to all subcarriers, and a second frame format having a channel estimation symbol in which a channel estimation signal and data is multiplexed, and PAPR characteristics of a subcarrier for data transmission in the second frame format are the same as PAPR characteristics of a subcarrier for transmitting a symbol assigned only the data. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120656 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120616 | WIRING BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A wiring board is provided which can prevent a metal electrode from corroding due to a defect in a transparent conductive electrode covering an end face of an organic insulating film. An active-matrix substrate includes: a glass substrate; a metal wire provided on the glass substrate; a gate insulating film covering the metal wire; an interlayer insulating film covering the gate insulating film; and a transparent electrode formed on the interlayer insulating film. The scanning wire provided with a terminal area where the transparent electrode is laminated directly on the scanning wire. The transparent electrode extends over the terminal area in such a way as to cover an end face of the interlayer insulating film that faces the terminal area and an end face of the gate insulating film that faces the terminal area. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120459 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cover member holds an optical scanning device and is supported on A main body in such a manner as to be pivotable between an open position and a closed position. The optical scanning device has a shutter member, a housing, and a dustproof member. The main body has a contact member which is capable of coming into contact with the shutter member through an opening. The contact member causes the shutter member to be displaced between an optical path closing position and an optical path opening position. The shutter member includes a closing portion which closes the opening when the shutter member assumes the optical path closing position. The dustproof member is disposed to extend around the opening on the outside and is configured to press against an entire periphery of the contact member when the cover member assumes the closed position. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120444 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus which (i) determines whether or not characters to be subjected to a character recognition process in image data have a size larger than a predetermined size, (ii) in a case where the characters is determined as larger than the predetermined size, reduces at least a region including the characters so that the size of the characters fits within the predetermined size, and (iii) performs a character recognition process of the characters with use of the reduced image data. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120432 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120352 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an MVA type liquid crystal display device ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120349 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a circularly polarizing VA mode liquid crystal display device having an excellent gray scale viewing angle from an intermediate gray scale to a high gray scale at an azimuth angle of 45°. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes: a first polarizer; a first λ/4 plate; liquid crystal cell; a second λ/4 plate; and a second polarizer in this order, wherein when an azimuth of an absorption axis of the second polarizer is defined as 0°, an in-plane slow axis of the second λ/4 plate forms an angle of approximately 45°; an in-plane slow axis of the first λ/4 plate forms an angle of approximately 135°; the absorption axis of the first polarizer forms an angle of approximately 90°, and wherein a display brightness is varied by changing an alignment state of liquid crystal molecules in a liquid crystal layer from a state that the liquid crystal molecules are approximately vertically aligned to a substrate surface, to a state that the liquid crystal molecules are tilted to the substrate surface; and the liquid crystal layer has a domain in which the liquid crystal molecules are tilted in an azimuth angle range of 12.5° to 32.5°, a domain in which the liquid crystal molecules are tilted in an azimuth angle range of 102.5° to 122.5°, and a domain in which the liquid crystal molecules are tilted in an azimuth angle range of 192.5° to 212.5°, and a domain in which the liquid crystal molecules are tilted in an azimuth angle range of 282.5° to 302.5°. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120343 | LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE, LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAYING DEVICE, AND TELEVISION-RECEIVER DEVICE - An LED module (MJ) includes an LED ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120338 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules provided between a first substrate and a second substrate; pixels forming a display area; electrodes for applying a voltage across the liquid crystal layer within each of the pixels; a plurality of domain regulating structures for dividing orientations of the liquid crystal molecules and forming multiple domains within each of the pixels, when a predetermined voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer within each of the pixels; and a structure which is formed in an outer area located next to the display area and is substantially the same as at least one of the plurality of domain regulating structures. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120326 | EDGE-LIGHT ILLUMINATING DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVING DEVICE - Provided is an edge-light illuminating device capable of preventing formation of a gap between point light sources and edge faces of a light guide plate, and also capable of allowing heat expansion of the light guide plate. An edge-light illuminating device | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120325 | SUPPORT PIN, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVING DEVICE - In a support pin ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120324 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight unit | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120066 | INSTRUCTION ACCEPTING APPARATUS, INSTRUCTION ACCEPTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When an instruction is accepted from a user using a instruction acceptance image which is a stereoscopic image, a plurality of instruction acceptance images are displayed transparently or semi-transparently one on top of the other. Thus, many soft keys of the instruction acceptance images are listed simultaneously, and an instruction is accepted from a user via the displayed instruction acceptance images. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120048 | Drive Control Method, Drive Controller, And Display Device - A drive control method for a display panel configured to constantly provide a good display quality with ensuring that EMI countermeasures are properly carried out is accomplished. Image data used to display a plurality of drive regions of a display panel obtained by dividing the display panel is supplied to data drivers of the plurality of drive regions based on transmission clock signals respectively having different transmission clock frequencies suitable for the plurality of divided drive regions, a common drive-start control signal used for all of the plurality of drive regions is generated based on a reference clock signal having a clock frequency different from any of the transmission clock frequencies, and drive signals start to be output from the data drivers of the plurality of drive regions to display elements corresponding to the respective data drivers at a same timing based on the supplied drive-start control signal. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120046 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - An erasing TFT | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120045 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides an active matrix substrate and an organic EL display device in which reduction in the response rate of a current-driven light-emitting element is suppressed. The active matrix substrate of the present invention is an analog gradation-driving active matrix substrate, including multiple pixels each including a current-driven light-emitting element and a drive transistor. The current-driven light-emitting element includes a pixel electrode electrically coupled with the drive transistor. The drive transistor supplies a current to the current-driven light-emitting element through the pixel electrode. The multiple pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel disposed adjacent to each other. A gate electrode of the drive transistor of the first pixel is disposed between the pixel electrode of the current-driven light-emitting element of the first pixel and the pixel electrode of the current-driven light-emitting element of the second pixel in a plan view of a main face of the substrate. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120044 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - Provided is a liquid crystal display device performing a precharge and having a function of switching an order for selecting scanning lines, in which such as flicker and burn-in can be prevented from being produced. A scanning line drive circuit selects scanning lines either in ascending order or in descending order based on an order of arrangement according to a shift direction signal, and causes selection periods of the scanning lines to be partially overlapped for a precharge. A data line drive circuit applies voltages of different polarities to data lines by frame and by data line. A common voltage generating circuit generates two types of voltages whose levels are independently adjustable, selects one of the two voltages according to a scan selection signal and applies the selected voltage to a common electrode of a liquid crystal panel. As the common voltage generating circuit, a D/A converter may be used. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120040 | Drive Device For Display Circuit, Display Device, And Electronic Apparatus - A drive device includes a plurality of latch circuits provided correspondingly to a plurality of signal lines respectively. A plurality of latch circuits each obtain a plurality of bit data at a time that constitute pixel data and output the plurality of bit data sequentially. A plurality of latch circuits each include a plurality of latch unit circuits arranged in series along the direction in which a plurality of signal lines extend and each configured to obtain one-bit data and transfer the one-bit data. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119983 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - A drive order control circuit | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119981 | DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - In a display panel driving apparatus which generates gray scales corresponding to first through nth sub-frames into which one frame is divided, and drives a display panel based on the gray scales thus generated, in a rising response in which a gray scale of a previous frame is Tf and a gray scale of a subsequent frame is Tr, T | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119638 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - The present invention provides a light emitting element including a transparent substrate being transparent to laser light L and having a light receiving surface for receiving the laser light L and a reverse surface of the light receiving surface, and a light emitting section for generating fluorescent light upon receiving the laser light having passed through the transparent substrate, the light emitting section being provided to face the reverse surface, the transparent substrate having a heat conductivity and the light receiving surface having or provided with a microstructure in which either or both of a plurality of projections or a plurality of fine pores are arranged with intervals. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119322 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A plurality of light-shielding films etc. are formed on a surface of a first insulating film. Then, a dummy pattern is formed on a surface of a second insulating film between adjoining ones of the light-shielding films etc., so that a height of the dummy pattern is equal to that of the second insulating film on the light-shielding films etc., as measured from the surface of the first insulating film. Thereafter, a third insulating film covering the dummy pattern and having a flat surface is formed over the surface of the second insulating film. Subsequently, a base layer is bonded to a support substrate so that the flat surface of the third insulating film faces the support substrate. A semiconductor device is manufactured in this manner. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119199 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides an organic EL display device that has high out-coupling efficiency of light. The organic EL display device includes a semi-transparent cathode having high light reflectivity, high light transparency, low light absorptivity, and good electron injection properties. The organic EL display device of the present invention includes an organic EL element that includes an anode, an organic layer, an electron injection layer, and a cathode stacked in this order toward a viewing side, wherein the cathode is a thin film made of silver or a silver alloy, the electron injection layer includes a first electron injection layer arranged on the organic layer side and a second electron injection layer arranged on the cathode side, the first electron injection layer is formed as a thin film containing lithium fluoride, the second electron injection layer is formed as a thin film containing a magnesium-silver alloy that has a silver concentration of more than 70 wt % and less than 100 wt %, and an average total film thickness of the cathode and the electron injection layer is not less than 15 nm and not more than 25 nm. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120115399 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PROCESSED SUBSTRATE - Disclosed are a simple device for processing substrate which can make a surface of a processed substrate smooth, a method for processing substrate with the use of the processing device, and a method for producing a processed substrate with the use of the processing method. The device of the present invention for processing a substrate includes a jetting member ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115344 | CONTACT BLOCK - A contact block for electrically connecting connection terminals together includes a conductive block having an elastic body and a conductive member held inside the elastic body, and an alignment case having a through-hole into which the conductive block is inserted. The through-hole is formed in a shape corresponding to arrangement of the connection terminals. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115286 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR PRODUCING METHOD - Provided is a thin film transistor manufacture method by which a thin film transistor provided with LDD regions can be produced without increasing the number of photo masks used. An etching stopper layer ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115263 | CHIP-TYPE LED AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An embodiment of the present invention has an insulating substrate in which a first concave hole for mounting an LED chip and a second concave hole for connecting a metallic small-gauge wire are formed, where a metallic sheet that serves as a first wiring pattern is formed at a portion that includes the first concave hole, a metallic sheet that serves as a second wiring pattern is formed at a portion that includes the second concave hole, an LED chip is mounted upon the metallic sheet inside the first concave hole, the LED chip is electrically connected to the metallic sheet inside the second concave hole via a metallic small-gauge wire, and the chip-type LED is sealed with a clear resin. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113937 | MOBILE STATION, POSITION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A system includes a subscription storage that stores a group identifier for identifying a home base station | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113936 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A MOBILE NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method or communicating between a primary station and a plurality of secondary stations, comprising the primary station providing a plurality of resource sets, the primary station configuring a secondary station to search for a control channel on at least one of a plurality of search spaces each corresponding to a resource set, wherein at least part of one of the search spaces is used to transmit a control message to a secondary station, the control message being indicative of a resource allocated to the secondary station for transmitting to the primary station or receiving from the primary station data, and wherein the secondary station deduces from the part of the search space used for transmitting the control message an indication of the resource set from the plurality of resource sets within which the allocated resource is located. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113924 | Wireless Communication Apparatus, Mobile Terminal and Wireless Communication Method - Wireless communication with a communicating apparatus that is a limited band terminal capable of receiving only part of frequencies. A frequency channel allocating section allocates frequency channels, a terminal reception quality information processing section calculates an optimal modulation rate and required transmit power for each subcarrier, a subcarrier power control section controls a level of transmit power for each subcarrier, and a determining section checks a reception bandwidth of a communicating apparatus, while determining whether the communicating apparatus is a full band terminal capable of receiving all the frequency channels in the system band or a limited band terminal capable of receiving only part of frequencies. When the communicating apparatus is the limited band terminal, the transmit power of all or part of subcarriers is decreased in a frequency channel that is adjacent to a reception band allocated to the communicating apparatus and that is allocated to another communicating apparatus. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113923 | Wireless Communication Apparatus, Mobile Terminal and Wireless Communication Method - Wireless communication with a communicating apparatus that is a limited band terminal capable of receiving only part of frequencies. A frequency channel allocating section allocates frequency channels, a terminal reception quality information processing section calculates an optimal modulation rate and required transmit power for each subcarrier, a subcarrier power control section controls a level of transmit power for each subcarrier, and a determining section checks a reception bandwidth of a communicating apparatus, while determining whether the communicating apparatus is a full band terminal capable of receiving all the frequency channels in the system band or a limited band terminal capable of receiving only part of frequencies. When the communicating apparatus is the limited band terminal, the transmit power of all or part of subcarriers is decreased in a frequency channel that is adjacent to a reception band allocated to the communicating apparatus and that is allocated to another communicating apparatus. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113614 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A folding type display device ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113379 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113353 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight unit ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113331 | EDGE LIGHT TYPE ILLUMINATING DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EDGE LIGHT TYPE ILLUMINATING DEVICE - Provided is an edge light type illuminating device and the like that can suppress uneven brightness even when a reflective sheet is warped. The edge light type illuminating device includes a light source | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113166 | Display Method And Display Device - A display method of an embodiment (i) determines a suitable length of an off period of an LED in accordance with a gray scale transition time, i.e., a time during which a transmittance of a liquid crystal is being changed, and (ii) turns off a light source for the determined length of the off period in a first half part of a one frame period. This makes it difficult for a halfway change in a gray scale transition to be reflected in a brightness of a pixel. Also, by performing a gray scale transition emphasis process to a display signal when the gray scale transition is caused, it is possible to increase the brightness of the pixel in the midst of the gray scale transition and to reduce a response time of the pixel. As such, it is possible to further improve a quality of moving image display. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113164 | Liquid Crystal Display Device And Method For Controlling Display Of Liquid Crystal Display Device - A liquid crystal data calculation section forms, on the basis of input image data, liquid crystal data to display an image on a liquid crystal panel. In at least one example embodiment, an LED data calculation section forms, on the basis of the input image data, LED data for adjusting an amount of light of an LED backlight. An LED control section controls an amount of an output current of an LED power source on the basis of the LED data, and includes a protection function of limiting the amount of the output current so that the amount of the output current does not exceed a predetermined upper limit. In a case where the amount of the output current of the LED power source is reduced to the upper limit by the LED control section, a liquid crystal transmittance correction section corrects the liquid crystal data and increases transmittance so as to compensate reduction in luminance of the backlight. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113075 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - An embodiment of the present invention provides a display device which prevents effective voltages applied to liquid crystal from differing between positive and negative polarities, even when a generation timing of a timing signal is shifted. In at least one example embodiment, a driving signal has an electric potential waveform where one frame period is made up of first period, second period, third period, and fourth period. In first frame, each of a Low level in the first period and a Low level in the third period is lower in electric potential than a Low level in the second period. In second frame, each of a High level in the first period and a High level in the third period is higher in electric potential than a High level in the second period. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113060 | SENSOR CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A sensor circuit or a display apparatus from which a highly accurate sensor output can be obtained includes a photodiode (photodetecting element); a capacitor connected to the photodiode via an accumulation node; a reset signal line to which a reset signal is supplied; a readout signal line to which a readout signal is supplied; a thin-film transistor (sensor switching element) that makes the accumulation node and an output line conductive with respect to each other and outputs an output signal according to the potential of the accumulation node; a microswitch that is capable of switching connection and disconnection between the accumulation node and an input electrode and provides connection when a pressure is applied by a touching operation; and a thin-film (control switching element) for switching conduction and non-conduction between the microswitch and the accumulation node. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113059 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A signal processing device that can reduce the number of signal lines for outputting sensor signals includes a sensor interface unit that acquires, from a photosensor having multiple pixels, data of the pixels; a coordinate processing unit that generates position data indicating a detected position of a detection target from the data of the pixels; a video processing unit that generates image data in a predetermined format from the data of the pixels; a test mode control unit or switching control unit that switches which of the coordinate processing unit and the video processing unit is to perform processing on the data of the pixels; and a user interface unit that converts the position data generated by the coordinate processing unit and the image data generated by the video processing unit into a serial signal and outputs the serial signal to a serial bus. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112991 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An embodiment of a liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including pixels arranged in a pixel; and a backlight that irradiates it with light. In at least one example embodiment, the pixels included in the liquid crystal panel each include picture elements different in color. The picture elements are each provided with a color filter corresponding to the color of the picture element. The liquid crystal display device includes: an aperture ratio converting section that, to reduce optical cross talk, decreases an aperture ratio for inputted image data and outputs data of the aperture ratio; and a backlight data converting section that, to supplement the aperture ratio for the image data which is decreased by the aperture ratio converting section, converts data to increase a backlight luminance. This backlight luminance control prevents or reduces optical or electrical cross talk. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112618 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ILLUMINATING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An organic electroluminescence illuminating device (L) has a structure in which an organic electroluminescence element ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112291 | Semiconductor Apparatus And Manufacturing Method Thereof - A semiconductor apparatus according to the present invention has a P-type well and an N-type well, with impurity concentration of a high impurity concentration region deeper than the P-type well and the N-type well being from 1×10 | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112197 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAY DEVICE - A stem wiring ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112159 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT - A nitride semiconductor light emitting element includes: an n type nitride semiconductor layer formed on a substrate; a light emitting layer formed on the n type nitride semiconductor layer; and a p type nitride semiconductor layer formed on the light emitting layer. The n type nitride semiconductor layer is constituted by one layer or two or more stacked layers. At least one layer constituting the n type nitride semiconductor layer contains Si and Sn as n type dopants and contains In as an isoelectronic dopant. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112047 | SENSOR CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A sensor circuit or a display apparatus from which a highly accurate sensor output can be obtained includes a photodiode, a capacitor that is connected to the photodiode via an accumulation node and accumulates charges according to an electric current in the photodiode; a sensor switching element transistor that causes the accumulation node and an output line to be conductive with respect to each other in response to a readout signal and outputs an output signal according to the potential of the accumulation node to the output line; a variable capacitor that is provided between the accumulation node and an input electrode, and whose capacitance varies when a pressure is applied by a touching operation; and a control switching element transistor to which a control signal for switching conduction and non-conduction between the variable capacitor and the accumulation node is input. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120111835 | WET ETCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A wet etching apparatus includes: an etching vessel applying etchant to a substrate to etch the substrate; and a water cleaning vessel and a drying vessel connected to the etching vessel, successively processing the substrate, and provided with an air knife removing droplets on the substrate. The wet etching apparatus further includes: a duct connected at least to the etching vessel and having an interior maintained at a negative pressure; and an exhaust pipe connecting the water cleaning vessel and the drying vessel to the duct. The exhaust pipe is provided with an auto damper opening/closing the exhaust pipe and an inlet introducing external air. This allows the air knife to operate while allowing the wet etching apparatus to hold internal pressure lower than external pressure. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120108018 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR SUBSTRATE - A method for manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate includes a step of forming a gate electrode ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107018 | TONER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE TONER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There are provided a toner that allows prevention of environmental contamination and is nevertheless free from toner durability degradation, wherein a sufficiently wide color reproduction range can be secured even when it is applied to color toner, and variation in characteristics among toner particles can be suppressed, as well as a method of manufacturing a toner, a developing device, and an image forming apparatus. In the toner particle is formed the biomass resin-containing domain. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107016 | LENTICULAR LENS SHEET MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A lenticular lens sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a transparent toner layer forming section and a lens forming section. The transparent toner layer forming section includes a photoreceptor drum, a charging section and a exposure section that form an electrostatic latent image on the photoreceptor drum, a developing section that forms a transparent toner image, a transfer section that transfers the transparent toner image to one side of a transparent substrate, and a fixing section that heats the transparent toner image transferred to one side of the transparent substrate to fix the transparent toner image, thereby forming a transparent toner layer on one side of the transparent substrate. The lens forming section pressurizes under heating the transparent toner layer formed on one side of the transparent substrate to shape the layer into a concavo-convex shape, thereby forming a lens layer having a concavo-convex shape on one side of the transparent substrate. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106494 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A MOBILE NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for communicating between a primary station and a plurality of secondary stations, comprising (a) the primary station configuring a secondary station to search on a first channel at least one of a plurality of search spaces having a first structure, said first structure consisting of at least a first number of resource sets, where at least one resource set might be used to transmit a message to a secondary station, (b) the primary station setting a characteristic of the first channel to a first value. (c) the primary station changing the characteristic of the first channel to a second value upon detection of a capacity event in the search spaces. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106490 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An antenna for transmission of signals in respective element frequency bands is controlled to reduce power consumption and transmit a good quality signal. A mobile station apparatus performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus using a plurality of element frequency bands having a predetermined frequency bandwidth. The mobile station apparatus includes: a plurality of transmission sections having an antenna and power amplifier; a transmission processing section generating a transmission signal and outputting the signal to at least one of the transmission sections based on information indicating a first transmission mode in which signals are transmitted using a single transmission antenna and a second transmission mode in which signals are transmitted using different transmission antennas respectively. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106424 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A MOBILE NETWORK IMPLEMENTING DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION - The present invention relates to a method for operating a network comprising a primary station communicating with a plurality of secondary stations, the method comprising the primary station communicating with a secondary station in a discontinuous mode; the secondary station transmitting to the primary station a control message based on the current status of the secondary station; the primary station changing a parameter of the discontinuous mode based on the control message. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106389 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for operating a network comprising a primary station communicating with a plurality of secondary stations, the method comprising the primary station communicating with a secondary station in a discontinuous mode; the secondary station transmitting to the primary station a control message based on the current status of the secondary station; the primary station changing a parameter of the discontinuous mode based on the control message. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106388 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a communication system in which cooperative communication is performed, adaptive control is performed efficiently relating mainly to precoding processing. There are included, in an anchor base station | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106238 | STATIC RANDOM-ACCESS CELL, ACTIVE MATRIX DEVICE AND ARRAY ELEMENT CIRCUIT - A static random-access memory (SRAM) cell which includes: a sampling switch and a feedback switch; and a first inverter and a second inverter connected in series whereby an output of the first inverter is connected to an input of the second inverter. An input of the first inverter is connected to a data input of the SRAM cell via the sampling switch, and to a data output of the SRAM cell independent of the feedback switch, an output of the second inverter is connected to the input of the first inverter via the feedback switch, and first and second clock inputs of the SRAM cell are configured to control the sampling switch and the feedback switch, respectively. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106189 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A headlamp of one embodiment of this invention includes a laser element for emitting a laser beam, a light emitting section for generating fluorescence upon receiving the laser beam, and a reflecting mirror for projecting the fluorescence. Distribution of the fluorescence emitted by the light emitting section corresponds to Lambertian distribution, and an incident angle of the laser beam with respect to an excitation light irradiated surface, which is a surface of the light emitting section irradiated with the laser beam, is set so that use efficiency of the fluorescence emitted by the light emitting section is increased. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106188 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, AND VEHICLE - A headlamp of an embodiment of this invention includes a laser element, a light emitting section, and a parabolic mirror. A part of the parabolic mirror is provided so as to face an upper surface of the light emitting section, which upper surface has a larger area than that of a side surface of the light emitting section. The light emitting section emits fluorescence in such a manner that distribution of the fluorescence corresponds to the Lambertian distribution. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106186 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND VEHICULAR HEADLAMP - A headlamp includes (i) a semiconductor laser for emitting laser beams, (ii) a light emitting section that includes a first fluorescent material having a peak of emission spectrum which peak falls within a range from 450 nm to 500 nm, and that emits white fluorescence while being irradiated with exciting light emitted from the semiconductor laser, and (iii) a transmission filter for shielding the laser beams and transmitting the fluorescence emitted from the light emitting section. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106185 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATING EQUIPTMENT, AND VEHICLE HEADLAMP - A headlamp of the present invention includes: a laser diode for emitting a laser beam with coherence; and a light emitting section which, upon irradiation with the laser beam from the laser diode, emits light so that the light is outputted from the light emitting device. The headlamp further includes an excitation light output prevention member for preventing the laser beam from the laser diode from being outputted from the headlamp while the laser beam maintains coherence. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106184 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND VEHICULAR HEADLAMP - A headlamp includes a semiconductor laser for emitting laser beams having a bluish purple oscillation wavelength, a light emitting section for emitting light while being irradiated with the laser beams emitted from the semiconductor laser, and a transmission filter for shielding coherent components included in the laser beams whereas transmitting incoherent components included in the laser beams. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106183 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A headlamp includes an laser element for emitting a laser beam; a light emitting section for emitting fluorescence by receiving the laser beam emitted from the laser element; and a parabolic mirror for reflecting the fluorescence emitted from the light emitting section, the light emitting section being placed so that a focal point of the parabolic mirror and a periphery of the focal point are positioned on the light emitting section, the light emitting section being most strongly excited at a portion corresponding to the focal point, meanwhile, at a portion corresponding to the periphery of the focal point, the light emitting section being excited with intensity being dependent on light intensity distribution of the excitation light on an irradiation surface of the light emitting section. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106178 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND LASER ELEMENT - A light emitting device of the present invention includes a light-emitting section for generating fluorescence by receiving a laser beam, and a light irradiation unit for irradiating a light irradiated surface of the light emitting section with a laser beam that increases regularly in beam diameter in a direction in which the laser beam travels. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106155 | LIGHTING SYSTEM - There is provided a lighting system capable of suppressing a decrease in light output while preventing occurrence of glare. The lighting system of the present invention includes a light-emitting device and a jig for light control. The light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged so as to be distributed on a substrate, and the jig for light control is made up of a resin plate having a plurality of discrete openings for light-emitting surface partitioned by a louver. The light-emitting device and the jig for light control are overlaid so that a light-emitting portion is exposed from the plurality of discrete openings for light-emitting surface. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105764 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT, LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING REFLECTION SHEET FOR LIGHT SOURCE UNIT - It is an object of the present invention to provide a light source unit enabling cost reduction. A light source unit of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105739 | LENS UNIT, LIGHT EMITTING-MODULE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - In a lens unit ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105737 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present invention aims at providing a lighting device configured to suppress uneven brightness, and a display device or a television receiver which includes the lighting device. The lighting device of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105735 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Each pixel includes two pixel electrodes connected to each other via a capacitor, and in respect to a pixel ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105515 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In an LCD device, picture quality luminance is controlled through the combination of pulse-width modulation (PWM) system and current value control system, reducing the electrical power consumption associated with turning on an LED. In the LED backlight, the light emitting luminance of the LED is controlled by both PWM and also by current value control, which selects the value of the current supplied to the LED from a plurality of set values. At least one of the plurality of set values is a predetermined current value at which duty reaches a maximum value at the maximum luminance value used in a specified picture quality mode of the picture quality modes established in the liquid crystal display device. In the aforementioned specified picture quality mode, the greatest luminance value to be used is smaller than at least the greatest luminance value used in other specified picture quality modes. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105514 | Liquid Crystal Driving Circuit And Liquid Crystal Display Device - A liquid crystal driving circuit is disclosed which carries out time-division driving with respect to each pixel constituting a liquid crystal display panel by causing a bright and dark frame period and a positive and negative frame period to be different from each other, the bright and dark frame period being a period of brightness and darkness of luminance at which to drive the each pixel, the positive and negative frame period being a period of polarities of a voltage to be applied to liquid crystal of the each pixel. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105510 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND POTENTIAL SETTING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes source bus lines, gate bus lines intersecting with the source bus lines, pixels arranged in a matrix to correspond to intersections between the gate bus lines and the source bus lines, each of the pixels including a TFT, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer, and a potential control section for controlling the potential of the common electrode. The potential control section sets a voltage, obtained by reducing potential V | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105508 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME, AND DRIVING METHOD - A backlight device according to the present invention includes a lamination of two light guide layers, namely, a first light guide layer ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105468 | Display Device And Display Device Driving Method - A display device and a driving method of a display device are each capable of sufficiently removing an image ghost caused in a background during a low gray scale display. In an embodiment, each of the display device and the driving method includes at least one correction device for correcting supplied first image data to second data whose gray scale range has a range which is on a lower brightness gray scale than a lowest brightness gray scale level of the first image data. Thus, each of the display device and the driving method carries out a display in accordance with the second image data obtained by the correction device. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105445 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A three-dimensional image output device of the present invention includes a display control section for, in a case where a plurality of three-dimensional effects are set for initial sub-image data for displaying a three-dimensional image to be displayed in the sub-window, supplying, to the display device, a plurality of sub-image data, which are the initial sub-image data for which the respective plurality of three-dimensional effects are set, so that a plurality of three-dimensional images which use the respective plurality of sub-image data are displayed on the display screen. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105427 | DISPLAY DEVICE | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105418 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device with excellent display performance which has a high pixel aperture design and can avoid alignment disorder of liquid crystal molecules and improve image roughness. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal layer between a thin film transistor array substrate and an opposed substrate; and at least one electrode for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer. The thin film transistor array substrate includes: a transparent substrate; source lines and gate lines running in longitudinal and transverse directions, respectively, on a main surface of the transparent substrate; a conductive portion in a pixel defined by the source lines and the gate lines; and an insulating film covering the conductive part, and is provided with a contact hole electrically connecting an electrode on the thin film transistor array substrate among the at least one electrode and the conductive part through the insulating film. The opposed substrate comprising a protrusion extending from one end to an other end of the pixel. The at least one electrode is provided with at least one slit between the contact hole and a boundary of the pixel as viewed from a direction of a normal to surfaces of the substrate. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105404 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH LIGHT SENSORS - A recognition processing unit ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105396 | Scanning Signal Line Drive Circuit And Display Device Having The Same - A gate driver is provided with an odd-numbered stage shift register, an even-numbered stage shift register, and main lines including clock signal main lines. In at least one example embodiment, each stage of one of the shift registers receives the first clock and the second clock from the clock signal main lines, and the third clock and the fourth clock from an adjacently provided stage of the other shift register. Each stage of the shift register can receive the second clock from a different stage of the same shift register. With this, it is possible to reduce a picture-frame area of a panel in a display device provided with a scanning signal line drive circuit having the plurality of shift registers. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105395 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A stage of the shift register has (i) a set-reset type flip-flop which receives an initialization signal and (ii) a signal generating circuit which receives a simultaneous selection signal and which generates an output signal by use of an output of the flip-flop. In at least one example embodiment, the output of the flip-flop becomes inactive regardless of whether a setting signal and a resetting signal are active or inactive, as long as the initialization signal is active. The initialization signal becomes active before the end of the simultaneous selection, and then becomes inactive after the end of the simultaneous selection. This makes it possible to stabilize operation of the shift register after the end of simultaneous selection of a plurality of signal lines carried out by the display driving circuit at a predetermined timing. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105092 | DEFECT INSPECTING APPARATUS AND DEFECT INSPECTING METHOD - An evaluation apparatus includes a lighting control section for lighting a liquid crystal display panel including switch-type touch sensors, a pressing section for pressing the liquid crystal display panel that is being lit, and a sensor data acquisition section for acquiring outputs from touch sensors disposed within a region of the liquid crystal display panel that is pressed by the pressing section. The pressing section is made of a material having transparency. With this apparatus, it is possible to inspect switch-type touch sensors of a liquid crystal display panel for defects by checking a display state in a region to which a load is being applied. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104934 | LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS, VEHICLE HEADLAMP, ILLUMINATING APPARATUS, AND VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING THE LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - A light emitting apparatus includes: a laser element which emits laser light; a light emitting section which generates fluorescence in response to the laser light emitted from the laser element; a parabolic mirror which reflects the fluorescence generated by the light emitting section; and a multilayer filter which transmits the laser light and reflects the fluorescence, the laser element being provided outside the parabolic mirror, the parabolic mirror being provided with a window part through which the laser light passes, and the multilayer filter being provided so as to cover the window part. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104673 | STAGE APPARATUS FOR SURFACE PROCESSING - The present invention relates to a stage apparatus for placing a substrate to be surface-processed thereon. A substrate | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104530 | SUBSTRATE FOR DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel substrate includes a plurality of pixels, a pixel in the display panel substrate including a PIN diode for conducting therethrough a different electric current in accordance with an amount of light received by the light receiving element, a first inorganic insulating film formed on the PIN diode, a line formed on or above the first inorganic insulating film and electrically connected to the PIN diode, an organic insulating film formed on or above the line, a transparent pixel electrode formed on the organic insulating film, and a transparent cover electrode provided at such a position that the transparent electrode is located between the organic insulating film and the first inorganic insulating film and formed to cover at least a part of an I-layer of the PIN diode. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104406 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS - Disclosed is a high-quality, efficiently manufacturable thin film transistor in which leakage current is minimized. The thin film transistor is provided with a semiconductor layer ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104403 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a thin film transistor having a gate insulating film for suppressing a shift amount of a threshold voltage generated by use under a high temperature environment. In a thin film transistor having a channel layer made of microcrystalline silicon, a gate insulating film | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120102283 | MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The storage section of the multifunction peripheral stores location information containing a storage location of software which transmits a control command whose execution is permissible. The execution permission judging section of the multifunction peripheral includes (I) a storage location detecting section which detects a storage location of software which has participated in a transmission of a received control command and (II) a command permitting/prohibiting section which (i) prohibits execution of the received control command when a storage location indicated by the location information is not detected by the storage location detecting section but (ii) permits execution of the received control command when the storage location is detected by the storage location detecting section. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120100675 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - To provide a manufacturing method of a microcrystalline silicon film having both high crystallinity and high film density. In the manufacturing method of a microcrystalline silicon film according to the present invention, a first microcrystalline silicon film that includes mixed phase grains is formed over an insulating film under a first condition, and a second microcrystalline silicon film is formed thereover under a second condition. The first condition and the second condition are a condition in which a deposition gas containing silicon and a gas containing hydrogen are used as a first source gas and a second source gas. The first source gas is supplied under the first condition in such a manner that supply of a first gas and supply of a second gas are alternately performed. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120100429 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF AND ITS USE - A method of producing a positive electrode active material, comprising the steps of:
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| 20120100413 | SECONDARY BATTERY AND ASSEMBLED BATTERY - A secondary battery is provided that can be built into an assembled battery at lower cost than by building a secondary battery employing a laminate film into an assembled battery and that permits easy stacking. The secondary battery has: an electrode assembly including a positive electrode and a negative electrode; a package container including a package can in which the electrode assembly is housed and a lid member which seals an opening of the package can all around its circumference; and electrolyte liquid directly filling the housing container The outer bottom face of the housing container and the outer top face of the lid member are shaped such that one substantially fits into the other. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099679 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiving apparatus and reception method reduces degradation due to multipath interference without increasing the amount of computation even in a system that has a large number of subcarriers. A signal detector, using the symbol replica generated by symbol replica generator and the channel estimate which a channel estimator estimated based on the received pilot signal, suppresses interference attributed to delayed waves exceeding the GI and outputs a suppressed signal for the received signal. A demodulator decodes the signal of which interference has been alleviated, to determine code bit LLR as bit likelihood information. A decoder performs an error correction decoding process on the input code bit LLR. If no error exists in the result of error correction decoding, the decoder outputs information bits to complete the reception process. If there is an error in the decoded result, the decoder outputs the code bit LLR to symbol replica generator. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099674 | ANTENNA CONFIGURATION FOR CO-OPERATIVE BEAMFORMING - The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network, the network comprising at least a first cell and a second cell including respectively a first primary station having a first antenna array dedicated to the first cell and a second primary station having a second antenna array dedicated to the second cell, for communicating with a plurality of secondary stations, the method comprising the step of (a) providing with a co-operative beamforming transmission from the first and second primary stations to at least one first secondary station, wherein step (a) includes (a1) the first secondary station signaling at least one channel matrix to at least one of the first and second primary stations, and (a2) the first and second primary stations applying a precoding matrix across both the first antenna array and the second antenna array, and wherein the precoding matrix comprises a first vector for the first cell and a second vector for the second cell, the precoding matrix being based on the at least one channel matrix. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099578 | MOBILE STATION, POSITION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS, HOME BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A system includes a subscription storage that stores an APN for identifying a home base station and the service class available for a UE as subscription information, in correspondence with a mobile terminal identifier for identifying UE; a positional information update request receiver for receiving a positional information update request of UE | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099295 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHTING DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device realizing cost reduction. A lighting device of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099131 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof - An image forming apparatus includes a display device that displays an input screen image and a touch-panel arranged on the display device, and has a trial copy function of producing, when instructed to produce multiple copies of a document, a copy or copies to allow the user to confirm that the copy or copies are well. When the trial copy function is designated and a copy start key displayed on the input screen image is pressed, the image forming apparatus produces one copy or copies of the document, erases the copy start key from the input screen image, and displays a trial copy key, a trial end key and a balloon including help information. Since keys related to the trial copy are displayed in place of normally displayed keys, operation errors can be reduced and the user can easily execute the trial copy function. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099130 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is described. Selecting a function desired by a user from among functions provided in the apparatus is provided to improve operability as well as eliminating erroneous copy. In the image forming apparatus, an operation unit includes a display panel for displaying a function selecting portion. An operation unit side control portion, as the function selecting portion, has a first function selecting portion in which selectable function items are displayed corresponding to an operation mode and a second function selecting portion in which other function items which are selectable at the same time. The first function selecting portion and the second function selecting portion are displayed at the same time on the display panel, so that functions of the first function selecting portion and functions of the second function selecting portion are selectable at the same time. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099129 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a control unit equipped with a touch panel display and a control unit-side controller. The control unit includes multiple image display modes supporting functions of editing image data. The control unit side controller includes an image display mode selecting function which, when the user selects a desired function, selects an image display mode that is most suitable for the user's desired function, from the multiple image display modes, in accordance with the user's control operation of selecting a function and displays a frame corresponding to the selected image display mode, on the touch panel display. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099128 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, an image output unit and a control unit. The control unit includes a display image generator for generating a display image, a display panel and a control unit-side controller having a function of presenting the display image based on the image data input in a preview representation and an output processing function of implementing an output process. As the output processing function, two schemes are provided: a first output scheme wherein, when image data has been input through the input unit, the images are output after displaying the images to be output in a preview representation on a display panel, and a second output scheme wherein, when image data has been input through the input unit, the image is directly output without displaying the image to be output in a preview representation on the display panel. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099127 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image processing system, a multifunction printer carries out image reading or printing in accordance with processing execution condition information stored in a storage apparatus of a host PC. A storage apparatus of a client PC stores processing execution condition information. In a case where the client PC is connected to the host PC via the network, a control apparatus transmits the processing execution condition information stored in the storage apparatus to the host PC. The host PC stores the received processing execution condition information in the storage apparatus. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099050 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight unit ( | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099045 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a liquid crystal display apparatus ( | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099028 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device configured to partially adjust illumination brightness at low cost. A lighting device | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099027 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight unit ( | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099026 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT, LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An LED unit U of the present invention includes an LED | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098876 | Liquid Crystal Display Device And Light Source Control Method - A method is disclosed for controlling a light source installed in a liquid crystal display device. An embodiment includes a liquid crystal display panel for displaying an image by virtue of having liquid crystals whose orientation changes in response to application of a voltage; a backlight unit with a built-in PWM light modulation type LED for emitting light to be supplied to the liquid crystal display panel; and a control unit for controlling the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit. When the response speed of liquid crystal molecules is relatively high, the LED is driven at a relatively low drive frequency, and when the response speed of the liquid crystal molecules is relatively low, the LED is driven at a relatively high drive frequency. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098835 | INPUT DISPLAY APPARATUS, INPUT DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an input display apparatus comprising: a display section; a voice accepting section; and a position specification accepting section for accepting position specification on a display screen of the display section, a display attribute for display of a character corresponding to text data of a voice accepted by the voice accepting section is determined based on position specification accepted by the position specification accepting section, and the character is displayed based on the display attribute. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098804 | SHIFT REGISTER, DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME, AND METHOD OF DRIVING SHIFT REGISTER - A display device is implemented that can suppress degradation in display quality caused by crosstalk, without causing an increase in frame size or an increase in power consumption. In an embodiment, each bistable circuit includes an output terminal that outputs a state signal; a thin film transistor having a drain terminal to which a high-level potential is provided, and a source terminal to which the output terminal is connected; a thin film transistor having a source tee urinal connected to a region netA connected to a gate terminal of the thin film transistor, and a gate terminal to which a clock is provided; a thin film transistor for increasing the potential of a region netZ connected to a drain terminal of the thin film transistor; and thin film transistors for decreasing the potentials of the netA, the netZ, and the output terminal, respectively. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098791 | TOUCH PANELS, METHOD FOR FABRICATING TOUCH PANELS, DISPLAY DEVICES, AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING DISPLAY DEVICES - A touch panel includes a touch region for detecting a location of a touch by an object, and a plurality of touch location detection electrodes arranged in the touch region. The touch panel is configured to detect the location of the touch based on a capacitance formed between the touch location detection electrodes and the object. An optical characteristic of a gap between the touch location detection electrodes adjacent to each other is substantially equal to an optical characteristic of the touch location detection electrodes. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098462 | LED Driver Circuit, Light Source Device, And LCD Device - An LED driver circuit which provides a cost reduction is provided by employing a circuit configuration which allows a size reduction. In at least one example embodiment, the LED driver circuit includes a first switching element, a second switching element, a sense resistor, a sensing unit, a calculator, and a driver. The plurality of LEDs, the first switching element, the second switching element, and the sense resistor are coupled to each other in series in this order. The sensing unit receives a voltage at a node between the second switching element and the sense resistor, and generates voltage data representing the voltage. The calculator calculates a temporal average of a current flowing through the LEDs based on the voltage data, and generates current data corresponding to the temporal average. The driver drives the first switching element and the second switching element based on the current data. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098420 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ORGANIC EL LIGHTING APPARATUS | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098023 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device includes at least one n-type semiconductor layer, an active layer and at least one p-type semiconductor layer within a rectangle nitride semiconductor region on a substrate. The n-type semiconductor layer has a partial exposed area, a p-side branch electrode integral with a p-side electrode pad formed on a current diffusion layer formed on the p-type semiconductor layer, an n-side branch electrode integral with an n-side electrode pad formed on the partial exposed area of the n-type semiconductor layer, the p-side and n-side branch electrodes extend parallel to each other along two opposite sides of the semiconductor region, and conditions of 0.3| 04-26-2012 | |
| 20120097939 | ORGANIC EL DEVICE, METHOD FOR FABRICATING ORGANIC EL DEVICE, AND ORGANIC EL ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - An organic EL device | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120097639 | CONTACT-HOLE FORMING METHOD - A contact hole forming method according to the present invention includes a process (a) of forming an insulating film on a substrate and a process (b) of forming a contact hole in the insulating film by etching. Here, the process (a) includes steps of (a | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120094220 | PHOTO MASK, PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY METHOD, SUBSTRATE PRODUCTION METHOD AND DISPLAY PANEL PRODUCTION METHOD - Disclosed are an exposure mask, a photolithography method, a method of manufacturing a substrate and a display panel which can reduce the number of exposure masks required. The photolithography method uses an exposure mask | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093549 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes: a fixing belt in an endless form; a fixing roller; a separating roller for separating, from the fixing belt, a paper sheet onto which a developer is fixed and fused; a heating roller for heating the fixing belt; a pressurizing roller for forming a fixing nip portion between the fixing belt and the pressurizing roller; a first lever to which the fixing roller and the separating roller are fixed, the first lever pivoting around a first supporting point used as the center point; a second lever to which the fixing roller and the heating roller are fixed, the second lever pivoting around a second supporting point used as the center point; a first spring for biasing the first lever; and a second spring for biasing the second lever. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093251 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - To provide a radio communication system, a transmission apparatus, a central control unit, and a reception apparatus, which can enhance transmission performances without giving more interference than necessary. The radio communication system in which a plurality of transmission apparatuses | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093117 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - Transmission power of a plurality of uplink carrier components used for radio communication by a mobile station device and a base station device is efficiently controlled. The mobile station device communicates by radio with the base station device using a plurality of carrier component bands that are predetermined frequency bands. The mobile station device is provided with a radio resource control unit which manages an identifier for identifying the information format of a control channel for transmission power control and the fields for transmission power control of a plurality of uplink carrier components of the mobile station device in the information format, the identifier and the fields being assigned by the base station device, a reception processing unit which receives the control channel of the information format, and a transmission power control unit which, on the basis of transmission power control information included in the fields for transmission power control of the plurality of uplink carrier components, controls the transmission power of each of the uplink carrier components. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093114 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION CONTROL PROGRAM, AND MOBILE STATION CONTROL PROGRAM - A wireless communication system which includes a base station and a mobile station and in which the mobile station performs data transmission to the base station by allocating a transmission signal converted into a frequency signal to contiguous frequency bands or non-contiguous frequency bands divided into a predetermined number, wherein, when retransmission occurs in the data transmission the mobile station has performed by allocating the transmission signal converted into the frequency signal into the non-contiguous frequency bands, the base station determines a transmission power headroom of the mobile station in the allocation of the transmission signal to the non-contiguous frequency bands, and, if a result of the determination shows that there is not a transmission power headroom, the base station instructs the mobile station to allocate the transmission signal to the contiguous frequency bands and to perform the retransmission by increasing transmission power. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092692 | Information input device, control method thereof and image forming apparatus - An information input device includes a display device that displays an information input screen image and a touch-panel that is arranged on the display device and specifies a designated position on the information input screen image. On a function setting area, a plurality of function setting keys are displayed and, if a flick operation to the right made by the input device on the function setting area is detected, detailed setting items corresponding to each of the function setting keys are displayed on a detailed settings area. Consequently, contents of detailed settings can be displayed at one time in correspondence with each of the function setting keys. Therefore, it becomes possible for the user to easily confirm whether or not function setting is appropriate, and to smoothly select a function. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092601 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, AND REPAIR APPARATUS - Provided is a method for producing a liquid crystal panel capable of repairing a defective portion of an alignment film more easily. Provided is a method for producing a liquid crystal panel, including the step of repairing a defective portion | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092588 | ILLUMINATING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092574 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device with a high degree of freedom in the size of pixel electrodes. A liquid crystal display device ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092568 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight unit | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092388 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH THE PROGRAM IS RECORDED - To provide a display control device and a liquid crystal display device each of which prevents (i) an afterimage from appearing, (ii) an interpolation image broken due to a multiple rate drive from being visible, and (iii) a flicker from being visible due to black image insertion, a display control section ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092361 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Three colors of light-emitting elements ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092323 | Flip-Flop, Shift Register, Display Drive Circuit, Display Apparatus, And Display Panel - A flip-flop includes: a first, second, third, and fourth transistors; input terminals; and first and second output terminals, the first and second transistors constituting a first CMOS circuit such that gate terminals are connected and drain terminals are connected, the third and fourth transistors constituting a second CMOS circuit such that gate terminals are connected and drain terminals are connected, the first output terminal connected to a gate side of the first CMOS circuit and a drain side of the second CMOS circuit, the second output terminal connected to a gate side of the second CMOS circuit and a drain side of the first CMOS circuit, at least one input transistor included in the group of the first through fourth transistors, a source terminal of the input transistor being connected to one of the input terminals. This can provide a further compact flip-flop. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092317 | Display Driving Circuit, Display Device And Display Driving Method - A display driving circuit which carries out CC driving is configured such that a polarity of a data signal to be supplied to a source line is reversed every two horizontal scanning periods and a signal electric potential written from the source line to a pixel electrode changes in a different direction every two adjacent rows. In at least one example embodiment, this allows, in a display device which carries out CC driving, enhancement of a display quality by removing lateral stripes that are produced in a display video while n-line reversal driving is being carried out. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092311 | Shift Register, Display-Driving Circuit, Displaying Panel, And Displaying Device - Disclosed is a shift register for use in a display driving circuit that simultaneously selects signal lines, including, in a stage thereof: a flip-flop including an initialization terminal; and a signal generating circuit that receives a simultaneous selection signal and that generates an output signal of the stage by use of an output of the flip-flop, wherein: the output signal of the stage becomes active due to an activation of the simultaneous selection signal so as to be active during a period of the simultaneous selection; the output of the flip-flop is non-active while the initialization terminal, a set terminal, and a reset terminal of the flip-flop; and the initialization terminal of the flip-flop receives the simultaneous selection signal. This shift register makes it possible to downsize various drivers. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092302 | DISPLAY DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device equipped with a display panel that is provided with a photo-detection section with improved accuracy of detecting a touch position. A display panel ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092275 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus including an input detecting portion capable of detecting a plurality of touched positions simultaneously and a display portion, while a plurality of candidate images to serve as candidates are displayed as a list on the display portion and a touch is being detected by the input detecting portion, a selection image is selected based on a touched position. When the selection image is then being selected for a predetermined time or more, candidate images other than the selection image are changed to be displayed. It is thereby possible to provide an information processing apparatus or the like which is highly convenient for a user by changing a display state of candidates which are not in a selection state when selecting an item. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092233 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a display control apparatus, usability of which is improved such that, when contents are divisionally displayed on a plurality of screens, it is determined whether or not the plurality of contents displayed on the plurality of screens are related to each other to perform display control. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120091482 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120091452 | OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR, THIN FILM TRANSISTOR ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides an oxide semiconductor capable of achieving a thin film transistor having stable transistor characteristics, a thin film transistor having a channel layer formed of the oxide semiconductor and a production method thereof, and a display device equipped with the thin film transistor. The oxide semiconductor of the present invention is an oxide semiconductor for a thin film transistor. The oxide semiconductor includes indium, gallium, zinc, and oxygen as constituent atoms, and the oxygen content of the oxide semiconductor is 87% to 95% of the stoichiometric condition set as 100%, in terms of atomic units. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120091321 | OPTICAL SENSOR AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided are an optical sensor having a wider dynamic range with reduced temperature dependence, and a display apparatus in which these optical sensors are used. An optical sensor includes an accumulation node (INT); a reset signal line (RST); a readout signal line (RWS); a photodiode (D | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120088523 | NOTIFICATION DEVICE, NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NOTIFICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREUPON - A mobile phone ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120088195 | ALIGNMENT TREATMENT OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for producing a liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of spaced and opposed substrates, an electrode and an alignment layer formed on one substrate, an electrode and an alignment layer formed on the other substrate, and a liquid crystal filled between the pair of substrates. The method includes the step of realizing an alignment with a pretilt angle, by irradiating the alignment layer exhibiting a vertically orienting property with ultraviolet rays in an inclined direction through a mask having an opening, wherein the ultraviolet rays are simultaneously irradiated onto a first region of a display portion through the one opening of said mask and onto a second region of the display portion through the one opening of the mask. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087682 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD APPLICABLE TO IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING A PRINTING PROCESS CARRIED OUT BY IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a counting section, a storage section, a control section, and a driving member control section. The counting section counts the number of recording media subjected to successive printing. The storage section stores the number counted by the counting section. The control section performs a control process including: setting a power saving mode by selecting a printing speed of the fixing section which is lower than a preset normal speed used in the normal mode while selecting a preset fixing temperature of the fixing section which is lower than a preset normal temperature used in the normal mode when the normal mode is alive while a frequency of successive printing on not more than three recording media is a predetermined percentage or more. The driving member control section switches a current printing speed of the fixing section to a printing speed selected by the control section. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087460 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device comprising a circuit including a plurality of thin film transistors and at least one diode (D | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087459 | Shift Register And Display Device - To provide a shift register and a display device each capable of satisfactorily preventing noises of individual stage outputs without increasing circuit complexity, each stage of the shift register includes: a first output transistor; a first capacitor; an input gate; a first switching element; a second switching element; a third switching element; a fourth switching element; and a fifth switching element. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087334 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - Transmission power of a plurality of uplink carrier components used for radio communication by a mobile station device and a base station device is efficiently controlled. The mobile station device communicates by radio with the base station device using a plurality of component carriers. The mobile station device receives, from the base station device, downlink control information that includes information indicating radio resource assignment to a downlink shared channel disposed in any of downlink component carriers of a downlink control channel, and a TPC command to an uplink control channel in an uplink component carrier in which ACK/NACK to the downlink shared channel is transmitted. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087151 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a display device wherein a light emitting element can have a longer service life, while suppressing luminance unevenness without causing an increase in cost or size. The display device comprises a light guide plate ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087150 | BACKLIGHT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A side light type backlight includes a light source including a plurality of LEDs, and a light guide plate. One of the end surfaces of the light guide plate is a light incidence surface at which a plurality of R-LEDs, a plurality of G-LEDs and a plurality of B-LEDs are arranged. LEDs satisfy the relationship of: a distribution range of light emitted from G-LEDs | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087107 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A red color filter ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087012 | Optical Film, Method For Producing Same, And Method For Controlling Optical Characteristics Of Same - Disclosed are: an optical film which has a moth eye structure; a method for producing the optical film; and a method for controlling the optical characteristics of the optical film. An embodiment discloses an optical film having a moth eye structure that includes a plurality of projections, wherein the plurality of projections include a plurality of slanted projections that are inclined to a film surface and the plurality of slanted projections are inclined in a generally same direction when the film surface is viewed in plan. Also disclosed is a method for producing an optical film having a moth eye structure, including applying a physical force to the moth eye structure. Further specifically disclosed is a method for controlling the optical characteristics of an optical film having a moth eye structure that includes a plurality of projections, the method including applying a physical force to the moth eye structure. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086969 | MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL - A multifunction peripheral includes: a second storage section which stores state image data for causing a display section to display an image indicative of a state of the multifunction peripheral; and a device control section which generates a URL indicative of a location of the state image data. A web browser section obtains the state image data indicated by the URL from the second storage section in accordance with operation screen data including the URL generated by the device control section, so as to cause an operation screen including a state image represented by the state image data to be displayed in the display section. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086901 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of columnar spacers configured to maintain a constant gap between substrates on a color filter substrate of the liquid crystal display device. At a tip end of each of the columnar spacers contacting an array substrate, a height adjusting portion which is easily deformed as compared to a portion of the columnar spacer other than the tip end portion when the pair of substrates are bonded together is provided. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086888 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present invention provides a lighting device configured to produce light with a substantially averaged overall color. The lighting device | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086886 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A lighting device configured to produce light in a substantially uniform overall color includes a plurality of light source boards and a plurality of point light sources. The point light sources are mounted on the light source boards. An average color of the point light sources is in an equivalent color range. The equivalent color range is defined by a square with two sides that are opposed sides each having an X-axis coordinate length of 0.015 and two sides that are opposed sides each having a Y-axis coordinate length of 0.015 in the CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086885 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An object of the present invention is to suppress deformation of a reflection member. A backlight unit | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086884 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present invention provides an art of properly fixing a light source board without using any screw. A backlight unit | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086882 | BACKLIGHT CHASSIS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME - Provided is a backlight chassis which has a reduced weight, while ensuring sufficient rigidity and heat dissipation. The backlight chassis having a light source unit mounted thereon is configured with the combination of a resin member and a highly rigid and highly heat conductive member which has a rigidity and heat conductivity higher than those of the resin member. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086876 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present invention provides a display device that can be provided as a final product such as a television receiver simply by assembling a display panel and a backlight and is excellent in workability in assembling the display panel to the backlight while securing a wide effective display region. The display device according to the present invention includes an LED | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086875 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device realizing reduction in cost and suppression of power consumption and suppressing generation of a lamp image. A lighting device | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086874 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device realizing improvement in brightness of an intended area such as a center area of an irradiation surface. A lighting device | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086872 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present invention provides a display device that can be provided as a final product such as a television receiver simply by assembling a display panel and a backlight and is excellent in workability in assembling the panel to the backlight while securing a wide effective display region. A display device | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086871 | LIGHT EMITTING MODULE, ILLUMINATING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The backlight unit ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086862 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD, VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A video display system of the present invention includes (i) a projector that generates a display image in accordance with a digital video signal and (ii) a screen on which an image generated by the projector is projected and displayed. Provided behind the screen is an infrared-emitting unit that emits infrared light through a video display surface during a period of time in which a picture is being displayed on the screen. This allows invisible light to be emitted through a video display section such as a screen together with a displayed image, thereby degrading the image quality of a re-shot picture and rendering use of re-shot image content impossible. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086743 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - The liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention has a plurality of pixels including a red pixel, a green pixel and a blue pixel. In at least one example embodiment, each of the plurality of pixels has a plurality of subpixels including a first subpixel and a second subpixel. When the grayscale levels of input signals corresponding to the red, green and blue pixels are equal to one another at a given level, the ratio of the difference in luminance between the first and second subpixels of one of the red, green and blue pixels to the maximum luminance of that one of the red, green and blue pixels is greater than the ratio of the difference in luminance between the first and second subpixels of each one of the other two pixels to the maximum luminance of the respective one of the other two pixels. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086741 | Image Display Device - The present image display device starts lighting up LEDs provided in a backlight unit ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086740 | Liquid Crystal Display Device And Light Source Control Method - In at least one example embodiment, the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel for displaying an image by virtue of having liquid crystals whose orientation changes in response to application of a voltage; a backlight unit with a built-in PWM light modulation type LED for emitting light to be supplied to the liquid crystal display panel; and a control unit for controlling the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit. In cases where the response speed of liquid crystal molecules is relatively high, the LED is driven at a relatively low drive frequency, whereas in cases where the response speed of the liquid crystal molecules is relatively low, the LED is driven at a relatively high drive frequency. According to the present invention, problems with image quality that tend to occur depending on the degree of tilting of the liquid crystal molecules (ghost outlines) are prevented. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086703 | Display Driving Circuit, Display Device And Display Driving Method - A display driving circuit for driving a liquid crystal display panel includes a shift register including a plurality of shift register circuits provided in such a way as to correspond to a plurality of gate lines, respectively, the display driving circuit having latch circuits provided in such a way as to correspond one-by-one to the shift register circuits, a polarity signal being inputted to the latch circuits. When a internal signal generated by a shift register circuit becomes active, a latch circuit loads and retains the polarity signal, and an output from the latch circuit is supplied to a CS bus line. The internal signal becomes active before a first vertical scanning period of a display picture. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086700 | Display Device And Method For Driving Same - There is provided a display device in which even if the amplitude of the voltage of a source wiring line is relatively small, the amplitudes of the voltages of subpixels can be increased and the voltage difference between the subpixels can be furthermore increased. In at least one example embodiment, voltages of equal magnitudes are provided to pixel electrodes in a first subpixel portion and a second subpixel portion from a source wiring line. Thereafter, by changing an applied voltage to an auxiliary capacitance wiring line, voltages of different magnitudes are provided to the pixel electrodes in the first subpixel portion and the second subpixel portion. By this, a voltage difference is generated between the pixel electrode in the first subpixel portion and the pixel electrode in the second subpixel portion. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086689 | Display Driving Circuit, Display Device And Display Driving Method - An embodiment of the present invention switches, in a display driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device which carries out CC driving, between a two-line reversal driving mode in which a polarity of a data signal supplied to a source line is reversed every two horizontal scanning periods and a one-line reversal driving mode in which a polarity of a data signal supplied to a source line is reversed every one horizontal scanning period. In at least one example embodiment, a polarity signal reverses its polarity every two horizontal scanning periods in the two-line reversal driving mode, and reverses its polarity every one horizontal scanning period in the one-line reversal driving mode. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086688 | Display Apparatus And Display Apparatus Driving Method - During the first frame, a first common electric potential is used, all picture elements of an identical line have an identical write polarity, there is another line of picture elements having a write polarity different from the identical write polarity, a data signal having a first electric potential lower than the first common electric potential is supplied to a line for a negative write polarity, a picture element electrode electric potential is changed to a second electric potential greater than a second common electric potential and lower than the first common electric potential by changing a storage capacitor electric potential from Low to High after a selection period ends, a data signal having a third electric potential greater than the first common electric potential is supplied to a line for a positive write polarity, and the storage capacitor electric potential is still kept Low after the selection period ends. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086687 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Pixel electrodes ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086686 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD - A display driving circuit that carries out CC driving is configured such that retaining circuits are provided in such a way as to correspond one-by-one to their respective stages of a shift register, that a polarity signal CMI is inputted to each of the latch circuits, that when an internal signal Mn generated by a shift register at the nth stage becomes active, a latch circuit corresponding to the nth stage loads and retains the polarity signal CMI, that an output signal SRBOn from the shift register at the nth stage is supplied as a scanning signal to a gate line connected to pixels corresponding to the (n+1)th stage, and that an output from latch circuit corresponding to the nth stage is supplied as CSOUTn to a CS bus line forming capacitors with pixel electrodes of pixels corresponding to the nth stage. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086684 | Liquid Crystal Display Device And Light Source Control Method - Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including: a VA-IPS mode liquid crystal display panel; a backlight unit incorporating a PWM dimming type light source; and a control unit that controls the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit, in which the control unit obtains response speed data of orientation change of liquid crystal molecules, and changes a duty factor of a PWM dimming signal according to the response speed data. In a case where the response speed of the liquid crystal molecules is relatively high, LEDs are driven with a relatively small duty factor. In a case where the response speed of the liquid crystal molecules is relatively low, the LEDs are driven with a relatively large duty factor, and black insertion is not performed. The liquid crystal display device prevents an image quality malfunction (multiple outlines). | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086628 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal display panel; a backlight unit incorporating a PWM dimming type light source; and a control unit that controls the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit. The control unit obtains response speed data of orientation change of liquid crystal molecules, and changes a duty factor of a PWM dimming signal according to the response speed data. In a case where the response speed of the liquid crystal molecules is relatively high, LEDs are driven with a relatively small duty factor. In a case where the response speed of the liquid crystal molecules is relatively low, the LEDs are driven with a relatively large duty factor, and black insertion is not performed. The liquid crystal display device prevents an image quality malfunction that is apt to occur depending on the degrees of inclination of the liquid crystal molecules. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086342 | Discharge Tube Lighting Device And Abnormal Discharge Detecting Method In The Same - A high-voltage transformer drive circuit and a high-voltage transformer drive discharge tubes. In at least one example embodiment, a tube current synthesis/high pass filter circuit synthesizes tube currents in the discharge tubes, and extracts a pulse component resulting from arc discharge from the synthesis tube current. A pulse hold circuit holds the extracted pulse component for a predetermined time. A comparator compares an output from the pulse hold circuit with a threshold value, and outputs a signal indicating the presence or absence of the arc discharge. Upon detection of the arc discharge, a logic circuit stops the operation of the high-voltage transformer drive circuit. Thus, arc discharge is detected with high accuracy at low cost. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086330 | FORMATION METHOD OF AN ORGANIC LAYER, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF AN ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE - A formation method of an organic layer ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086081 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a thin-film diode ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086019 | SUBSTRATE FOR DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a substrate for display panel that includes, in a pixel, a PIN diode | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120082337 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - When original image data obtained by reading an original document is to be joined with watermark data associated with a watermark for copy control which appears as a result of making a copy, whether the original document includes a chromatic color or not is determined on the basis of the original image data. When the original document includes a chromatic color, the original image data is joined with chromatic watermark data. When the original document includes an achromatic color, the original image data is joined with achromatic watermark data. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082287 | SHIFT REGISTER - A shift register of the present invention is a shift register supported by an insulative substrate, wherein: the shift register includes a plurality of stages each sequentially outputting output signals from an output terminal; each of the plurality of stages includes a first transistor (MA) for pulling up a potential of the output terminal, a plurality of second transistors (ME and MF) whose source region or drain region is electrically connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor (MA), and at least one third transistor (MCd) receiving a clock signal supplied to a gate electrode thereof; and the at least one third transistor (MCd) includes a multi-channel transistor (MCd) having an active layer including at least two channel regions, a source region and a drain region. This improves characteristics of a shift register forming a monolithic gate driver. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082254 | Wireless Communication Apparatus, Mobile Terminal and Wireless Communication Method - Wireless communication with a communicating apparatus that is a limited band terminal capable of receiving only part of frequencies. A frequency channel allocating section allocates frequency channels, a terminal reception quality information processing section calculates an optimal modulation rate and required transmit power for each subcarrier, a subcarrier power control section controls a level of transmit power for each subcarrier, and a determining section checks a reception bandwidth of a communicating apparatus, while determining whether the communicating apparatus is a full band terminal capable of receiving all the frequency channels in the system band or a limited band terminal capable of receiving only part of frequencies. When the communicating apparatus is the limited band terminal, the transmit power of all or part of subcarriers is decreased in a frequency channel that is adjacent to a reception band allocated to the communicating apparatus and that is allocated to another communicating apparatus. | 04-05-2012 |
