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20100151277 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes two or more magnetic recording layers stacked on a nonmagnetic substrate, and a carbon-based protective layer formed on the two or more magnetic recording layers, in which an uppermost one of the two or more magnetic recording layers has hardness higher than that of a lower magnetic recording layer. | 06-17-2010 |
20110097509 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes two or more magnetic recording layers stacked on a nonmagnetic substrate, and a carbon-based protective layer formed on the two or more magnetic recording layers, in which an uppermost one of the two or more magnetic recording layers has hardness higher than that of a lower magnetic recording layer. | 04-28-2011 |
20120237795 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a magnetic recording layer formed on the substrate and containing a magnetic material, and a protective layer. The magnetic recording layer includes a recording portion having patterns regularly arranged in the longitudinal direction, and a non-recording portion having saturation magnetization lower than that in the recording portion. The non-recording portion contains the magnetic material, a deactivating species which makes the value of saturation magnetization smaller than that of saturation magnetization in the recording portion, and the component of the protective layer. | 09-20-2012 |
20120237798 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium is formed by performing gas ion irradiation by using a magnetism deactivating gas on a stack including a perpendicular magnetic recording layer, an Ru nonmagnetic underlayer containing a magnetism deactivating element selected from chromium, titanium, and silicon, and a nonmagnetic substrate. Before gas ion irradiation, the perpendicular magnetic recording layer contains platinum and at least one of iron and cobalt. Gas ion irradiation is performed using nitrogen gas alone or a gas mixture of nitrogen gas and at least one gas selected from the group consisting of helium, hydrogen, and B | 09-20-2012 |
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20110205343 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A stereoscopic video processing device includes a candidate coordinate range calculation unit configured to calculate a range of candidate coordinates of a display position of a reference point of a two-dimensional object in a screen, a parallax total value calculation unit configured to calculate a total value of parallax values of pixels of a region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, for each candidate coordinate, a display position determination unit configured to determine a candidate coordinate having a smallest total value of the parallax values as the display position of the reference point of the two-dimensional object, a maximum value specifying unit configured to specify a maximum value of the parallax values of the pixels of the region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, and a parallax setting unit configured to set the parallax of the two-dimensional object displayed in the stereoscopic video. | 08-25-2011 |
20110209096 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An input device includes a pointer movement control unit that controls movement of a pointer to select a component in a GUI represented spatially on a two dimensional screen based on a user operation, and a movement direction setting unit that sets a direction of movement of the pointer to be in a first direction or a second direction vertical to the first direction of the GUI in accordance with an orientation of the input device. | 08-25-2011 |
20110305438 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a video acquisition section which acquires videos related to a predetermined theme shot by a plurality of imaging devices, a display control section which controls a display of a moving image editing screen including a video selection screen in which the videos acquired by the video acquisition section are arranged on a time axis based on a shooting time of each of the videos, and a moving image generation section which generates a moving image from the videos based on operation performed by a user to the moving image editing screen. | 12-15-2011 |
20120249543 | Display Control Apparatus and Method, and Program - In an image display apparatus for displaying plural-viewpoint images, a position specifying unit specifies a position of a user viewing an image, an image determination unit determines an image at a viewpoint recognized by the user from the plural-viewpoint images based on the position of the user specified by the position specifying unit, and a display control unit controls the display of the image determined by the image determination unit on a display. The present disclosure, for example, is applied to a display for implementing naked-eye stereoscopic vision. | 10-04-2012 |
20130139079 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD USING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF CONTENT FILE - A plurality of GUIs are displayed on the screen of a display. A hit determination area of each GUI is defined within a graphic of the GUI. When a user touches a point of contact, four virtual points of contact are generated in the shape of a ‘V’ within the screen. A GUI desired to be selected by the user is identified according to a predetermined rule by referring to whether points of contact are located within each hit determination area, the number of points of contact, the priority level defined for each GUI, etc. | 05-30-2013 |
20140019881 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a display control apparatus including an acquisition section which acquires display information for displaying a manipulation GUI (graphical user interface), the manipulation GUI being manipulated when an editing target to be collaboratively edited by a plurality of users is edited and displaying content of the editing, and a display control section which displays a first manipulation GUI on an editing screen based on the display information, the first manipulation GUI being manipulated by a first user among the plurality of users, the editing screen being referred to by a second user different from the first user when the second user edits the editing target. | 01-16-2014 |
20140380161 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a communication unit that is capable of communicating with a communication apparatus through a communication network, and a control unit configured to perform control to place, in a virtual space, a communication-apparatus image that represents the communication apparatus and content being executed by the communication apparatus, and to display the virtual space. | 12-25-2014 |
20150035955 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A stereoscopic video processing device includes a candidate coordinate range calculation unit configured to calculate a range of candidate coordinates of a display position of a reference point of a two-dimensional object in a screen, a parallax total value calculation unit configured to calculate a total value of parallax values of pixels of a region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, for each candidate coordinate, a display position determination unit configured to determine a candidate coordinate having a smallest total value of the parallax values as the display position of the reference point of the two-dimensional object, a maximum value specifying unit configured to specify a maximum value of the parallax values of the pixels of the region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, and a parallax setting unit configured to set the parallax of the two-dimensional object displayed in the stereoscopic video. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046874 | MENU DISPLAY APPARATUS, MENU DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a menu display apparatus that displays a menu of a plurality of applications, including an acquisition unit that acquires display data of content information representing content to be displayed in the menu of the content managed by each application from each application and a display controller that controls a display of the content information in each area according to setting conditions for the area provided for each of the applications in the menu and the display information of the content information acquired from each application. Accordingly, the display of the content information to be displayed in the menu in each area is controlled according to setting conditions for the area provided for each application in the menu and display data of the content information acquired from each application. | 02-12-2015 |
20150106750 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a display control apparatus including an acquisition section configured to acquire first display information for displaying, for an editing target edited by a plurality of editors collaboratively, a third component obtained by merging a second component into a first component by performing a merge manipulation for merging the second component into the first component from among a plurality of components included in the editing target, and a display control section configured to cause the third component to be displayed based on the first display information, and to cause the third component to be displayed, in a manner that the first component and the second component are discriminated from each other, when a cancellation manipulation is performed to cancel the merge manipulation. | 04-16-2015 |
20150128065 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an extraction part configured to extract, when an output destination is changed to a recipient candidate device, a change in a screen layout determined in accordance with an output environment of the recipient candidate device, and a notification controller configured to perform control to execute notification of the change in the screen layout extracted by the extraction part. | 05-07-2015 |
20150128291 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a user analysis unit configured to analyze a result of detection by a user detection apparatus that detects users neighboring a device and to acquire user attribute information indicating a characteristic of each detected user, and an interface control unit configured to control a mode of presenting information to be provided for the users, the mode being determined based on the user attribute information. | 05-07-2015 |
20150237598 | INFORMATION NOTIFICATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECEPTION DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECEPTION METHOD - An information notification device includes an equipment management unit that manages a plurality of pieces of equipment which are in a vicinity of a user, and a function execution unit that executes transmission of notification information to any one of the plurality of pieces of equipment by determining a notification strategy that will perform notification of notification information to a user. | 08-20-2015 |
20150350264 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a display control apparatus including an acquisition section configured to acquire display information for displaying a state of collaborative editing in which a plurality of editors collaboratively edit a same editing target, and a display control section configured to cause an editing screen to display, based on the display information, the state of the collaborative editing performed on a not displayed part not included in a display range displayed when the editing target is displayed on the editing screen referenced to by a first editor among the plurality of editors. | 12-03-2015 |
20160048271 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - [Object] To provide a method of enabling a user to select a desired playlist easily from among a plurality of playlists | 02-18-2016 |
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20110231591 | RETAINING DEVICE OF INFORMATION BROWSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A retaining device, having: a structure to retain one or a plurality of information browsing devices having a display section and a control section, wherein the structure is fixed onto a main body or an accessory of a processing apparatus to process a document to be displayed on the information browsing device, and configured in a way that at least a portion of the display section of the information browsing device plugged in a front can be seen squarely from a front of the display section. | 09-22-2011 |
20110255116 | INFORMATION VIEWING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION VIEWING APPARATUS - Disclosed is the information viewing system, which makes it possible to speedily output an image represented by data even when an operation for outputting the image onto a predetermined medium is disabled. The system includes an information viewing apparatus, a supporting device to detachably support the information viewing apparatus and the image forming apparatus onto which the supporting device is mountable. The system is so constituted that, in case that a data writing operation onto the printing medium becomes impossible at the time of commencing or in mid-course of implementing the data writing operation onto the printing medium, while the data writing operation onto the information viewing apparatus is enabled, the image forming apparatus changes the writing destination medium from the printing medium to the information viewing apparatus, in order to continuously implement the data writing operation onto the information viewing apparatus instead of the printing medium, and vice versa. | 10-20-2011 |
20120319971 | INFORMATION VIEWING APPARATUS, CONTROL PROGRAM AND CONTROLLING METHOD - Disclosed is an information viewing apparatus, which makes it possible for the user to conduct operations for inputting information and establishing various kinds of functions only by conducting consecutive simplified operations from a multi-touchable touch panel. The apparatus includes a display section provided with a multi-touchable touch panel having first and second touch panels, and a control section that controls the display section. In a state that the display section is displaying a document, when detecting a predetermined dragging action, the control section makes the display section displays an inputting screen, which allows the user to conduct an inputting operation from the second touch panel, during a time when a touching status is maintained in such a manner that the inputting screen overlaps the document. When the touching status is released, the control section controls the display section so as to make the inputting screen evacuate from the document. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324571 | INFORMATION INPUT DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - An information input display device, having an input section for inputting information and a display section for displaying the information, which enables an access to protected information after being authenticated by an authentication processing executed after starting up of the information input display device, the information input display device including: an authentication processor which executes the authentication processing based on authentication information inputted by the input section; and an input display controller which, after the starting up of the information input display device and before being authenticated by the authentication processing, accepts inputting of prescribed information different from the authentication information through a screen displayed on the display section, and allows the display section to display the prescribed information on the screen. | 12-20-2012 |
20130139045 | INFORMATION BROWSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER TO READ, STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is an information browsing apparatus provided with a display section on which display surface a touch panel to detect contact of an object is disposed. The information browsing apparatus is capable of displaying a document in a first display form where the entire display section is configured with a single region, and in a second display form where the display section is divided into a plurality of regions and provided with a data processing section. In case handwriting information is inputted straddling two or more than two regions in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, thereafter when the display from is changed to the first display form, the data display section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which is judged that the hand written information belongs to the region thereof | 05-30-2013 |
20130275867 | DOCUMENT VIEWING APPARATUS AND TANGIBLE COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a document viewing apparatus including: a display unit to display a page designation object for receiving designation of a document or designation of any page in one document; an operating unit to receive a page designating operation for the page designation object; and a control unit; wherein in case that there are a plurality of documents to be displayed, the control unit instructs the display unit to display the page designation objects corresponding to the plurality of documents to be displayed, respectively, and when the operating unit receives the page designating operation for any one of the page designation objects which are currently displayed, the control unit instructs the display unit to display a page designated by the page designating operation, the displayed page being contained in a document corresponding to the page designation object for which the page designating operation is received. | 10-17-2013 |
20140281866 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING CONTROL PROGRAM OF DISPLAY APPARATUS - An electronic paper terminal as a display apparatus selects one drawing mode (for example, eraser mode) as a drawing mode when a handwriting image by a handwriting input function is drawn by a user. When a page image on a display panel enters a state in which a drawing effect by the one drawing mode cannot be obtained, the one drawing mode is changed to another drawing mode (for example, pencil mode) with a different drawing effect from that of the one drawing mode. | 09-18-2014 |
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20120032873 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - Disclosed is a management apparatus, which makes it possible to use an information viewing apparatus without considering the residual amount of the buttery, provided therein. The apparatus includes: a plurality of slots to support a plurality of information viewing apparatuses, each of which is activated by an electric power fed from a buttery provided therein and is to be inserted into each of the slots in a detachable manner; and a controlling section to control the plurality of information viewing apparatuses, respectively inserted into the slots. When a predetermined information viewing apparatus is inserted into one of the plurality of slots, the controlling section moves data stored in the predetermined information viewing apparatus to another information viewing apparatus, which is currently inserted into another one of the plurality of slots, depending on a residual amount of the buttery provided in the predetermined information viewing apparatus. | 02-09-2012 |
20120096347 | Proofreading Device, Method for Proofreading Document, and Computer Readable Recording Medium Storing Proofreading Control Program - Provided is a proofreading device capable of accepting proofreader's marks, which includes: a user attribute identification section configured to identify an attribute of a user; a storage section configured to store proofreader's mark sets and attributes of users in association with each other and to store intermediate mark set to be used to place the proofreader's marks having the same meaning among the proofreader's sets in correspondence to each other; a proofreader's-mark-set selection section configured to a proofreader's mark set corresponding to the attribute of the user; a proofreader's mark conversion section configured to convert the proofreader's marks, added to a document by a first proofreader, into intermediate marks, to convert the intermediate marks into the proofreader's marks of the proofreader's mark set selected on the basis of the attribute of a second user, and to cause a display section to display the converted proofreader's marks together with the document. | 04-19-2012 |
20140362011 | HANDWRITING INPUT APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a handwriting input apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and a control method. The handwriting input apparatus includes a touch panel configured to detect pressure acting thereon through a sheet of paper; a holding section for pressing the sheet to hold the sheet onto the touch panel; and a page feed determining section configured to determine whether a page feed action has been performed or not by detecting a state change of the holding section. The handwriting input apparatus further includes a control section configured to, in response to the page feed determining section determining that the page feed action has been performed, conduct at least one of storing information of handwriting input which has been received through the touch panel until the page feed action as handwriting data and transferring the information of the handwriting input as handwriting data to an external device. | 12-11-2014 |
20140368453 | HANDWRITING INPUT APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a handwriting input apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program, and a control method. A handwriting input apparatus includes: a touch panel and a control section configured to allow a user to choose a modification mode from a first mode and a second mode, where the modification mode is used when a first pattern is inputted through the touch panel to be applied to handwriting information. The first mode is a mode to delete the first pattern and a certain part of the handwriting information corresponding to the first pattern. The second mode is a mode to add the first pattern onto the handwriting information. The control section is configured to, in response to the touch panel receiving an input of the first pattern to be applied to handwriting information, modify the handwriting information according to the modification mode. | 12-18-2014 |
20150019960 | Document Editing Apparatus, Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium and Document Editing Method - Disclosed is a document editing apparatus in which in case that the undo and redo instruction unit receives the instruction to perform the undo operation, the editing unit performs the undo operation by tracing back only the history data of the editing operation performed in the range displayed on the display unit when the instruction to perform the undo operation is received, among the history data stored in the storage unit, and in case that the undo and redo instruction unit receives the instruction to perform the redo operation, the editing unit performs the redo operation by tracing back only the history data of the editing operation performed in the range displayed on the display unit when the instruction to perform the redo operation is received, among the history data stored in the storage unit. | 01-15-2015 |
20150116248 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT VALUE CORRECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An input device includes: an input detector that detects a portion of a detection surface pressed by a position specifying object via a sheet placed on the detection surface; a correction information acquisitor that acquires correction information to correct a difference between a shape of a contact portion of the position specifying object in contact with the sheet and a shape of a portion pressed by the contact portion detected by the input detector; and a corrector that corrects a value detected by the input detector on the basis of the correction information acquired by the correction information acquisitor. | 04-30-2015 |
20150160745 | FILM FOR PEN INPUT DEVICE, AND PEN INPUT DEVICE - A film of a pen input device is provided, and a point determined by a combination of a static friction coefficient value x and a kinetic friction coefficient value y falls within a region including a line segment and the neighborhood of the line segment in a coordinate system showing the static friction coefficient on the X-axis and the kinetic friction coefficient on the Y-axis, the line segment being expressed as | 06-11-2015 |
20150160854 | INPUT APPARATUS, INPUT DETERMINATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An input apparatus includes: a held state detection unit configured to detect a held state of an own apparatus; an input detection unit including a detection surface configured to detect an input performed by contact with an input member; a determination unit configured to perform determination related to the input detected by the input detection unit; and a determination reference setting unit configured to set, according to the held state detected by the held state detection unit, a determination reference used by the determination unit for the determination. | 06-11-2015 |
20150199124 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a display unit; an input unit; and a control unit, wherein the control unit displays a new second input page on the display unit when an input for paging in a first direction is performed while a first or last page of a first input page in which a handwriting input is performed is displayed, the second input page is not left and the first input page is set as a first or last input page when an input for paging in a second direction is performed while no handwriting input is performed in the second input page displayed, and the second input page in which a handwriting input is performed is left when the input for paging in the second direction is performed while the handwriting input is performed in the second input page displayed. | 07-16-2015 |
20160048321 | DOCUMENT VIEWING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREON - A document viewing device, including: a display unit; a display control unit that displays a document on the display unit by using a layout selected from a plurality of layouts; an additional writing input unit that receives an additional writing on the displayed document; and an additional writing information storing unit that stores additional writing information indicating contents of the received additional writing so as to relate the additional writing information to the layout which was used for displaying the document when the additional writing was received, wherein the display control unit further displays the contents of the additional writing, which are indicated by the additional writing information indicating the contents of the additional writing received on a part of the document, which is displayed on the display unit, and related to a layout which is same as the layout which is currently used for displaying the document. | 02-18-2016 |
20160062491 | HANDWRITING INPUT DEVICE, METHOD FOR OBTAINING HANDWRITING INFORMATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A handwriting input device includes: a touch panel which can detect a touch given through a sheet of paper; and a control section. The control section obtains position information of a touch point on the touch panel at first time intervals, and determines a location of a sheet on the touch panel to obtain sheet location information, at second time intervals. The control section outputs the position information of the touch points and the corresponding sheet location information. The control section optionally calculates displacement amounts of the sheet on the basis of a change of the sheet location information, and outputs the position information of the touch points and the corresponding displacement amounts of the sheet. The control section optionally corrects the position information of the touch points on the basis of the displacement amounts of the sheet. | 03-03-2016 |
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20120296531 | Shift Control System for Industrial Vehicle - A shift control system for an industrial vehicle includes: a vehicle speed detection device that detects a vehicle speed; a transmission device that shifts up and shifts down a speed stage of a transmission; a shift control device that permits shift up when a vehicle speed becomes equal to or greater than a shift up permission vehicle speed; a height position detection device that detects a height position of a working machine device; a forward/backward switch device that switches the industrial vehicle between forward travel and backward travel; and a shift up control switch selection device that switches between normal control, in which shift up is performed by the transmission device when the vehicle speed becomes equal to or greater than the shift up permission vehicle speed, and delay control, in which shift up timing is delayed with respect to the normal control. | 11-22-2012 |
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20140311140 | Cooling Fan Control Device - A cooling fan control unit, in response to an operation performed at the rotation direction selector switch to select a reverse rotation setting while the cooling fan is rotating forward, lowers a relief pressure setting at the variable relief valve to a predetermined lower limit value over a predetermined length of time, and once the discharge pressure at the hydraulic pump detected by the pressure sensor is lowered to a predetermined switch-over pressure, executes control so as to switch the direction of flow of pressure oil to the hydraulic motor to the reverse direction by switching the direction switching valve and raises the relief pressure setting at the variable relief valve to a reverse rotation pressure setting, at which the hydraulic motor rotates in the reverse direction, over a predetermined length of time. | 10-23-2014 |
20140379243 | Engine Control Device for Work Vehicle - An engine control device for work vehicle includes: a target rotation speed setting unit that sets a target rotation speed of an engine corresponding to an operation amount of an accelerator pedal; a rotation speed control unit that controls a rotation speed of the engine according to the target rotation speed; a travel driving unit that transmits rotation of the engine to wheels via a torque converter; a speed ratio detection unit that detects a speed ratio between an input shaft and an output shaft of the torque converter; and a target rotation speed correction unit that corrects the target rotation speed set by the target rotation speed setting unit so as to increase the target rotation speed based on the speed ratio when the operation amount of the accelerator pedal is smaller than a predetermined value and the speed ratio detected by the speed ratio detection unit is smaller than a predetermined value within a range which is equal to or greater than 0 and less than 1. | 12-25-2014 |
20150098783 | Work Vehicle - A work vehicle including a front work device, contains: a variable displacement hydraulic pump that is driven by an engine and supplies pressure oil to an actuator that drives the front work device; an exhaust gas purification device that purifies nitrogen oxide in exhaust gas discharged from the engine using a reducing agent solution stored in a reducing agent tank; a remaining amount detection device that detects a remaining amount of the reducing agent solution in the reducing agent tank; and a control unit that decreases output torque of the engine and also decreases a rotational speed of the engine in a rated point according to decrease of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098784 | Work Vehicle - A work vehicle includes: a hydraulic pump driven by an engine; a rotational speed detection unit that detects an actual rotational speed of the engine; an exhaust gas purification device that purifies nitrogen oxide in exhaust gas discharged from the engine using a reducing agent solution stored in a reducing agent tank; a torque control unit that decreases output torque of the engine according to decrease of a detected remaining amount of the reducing agent solution; and a storage device that stores a threshold value not less than an engine rotational speed at which the hydraulic pump starts discharge, wherein when the actual rotational speed of the engine is not more than the threshold value, the torque control unit does not decrease the output torque of the engine regardless of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device. | 04-09-2015 |
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20110288579 | MANIPULATOR - Provided is a manipulator including a first forceps piece and a second forceps piece, which are connected by a pivotal axle and have a gripping part opened or closed on a leading end side thereof. The manipulator includes a manipulation member that is connected to a base end side of the pair of forceps pieces, and moves forward or backward in an axial direction to open or close the gripping part, a first buffer part that has a first spring constant, and undergoes elastic deformation to change a grasping force generated at the gripping part on the basis of the first spring constant and a pulling amount of the manipulation member, and a stopper that regulates the elastic deformation of the first buffer part. | 11-24-2011 |
20120136370 | MEDICAL MANIPULATOR - A medical treatment device includes: a treatment portion including a first forceps piece and a second forceps piece that are coupled to each other so as to be relatively rotatable about a forceps rotation shaft; an operation member at least a part of which has flexibility and a front end of which is connected to a base end of the treatment portion; and a sheath portion which has flexibility and through which the operation member is inserted so as to be movable forward and backward in a longitudinal direction, wherein in the operation member, a range with a predetermined length from a front end is a hard portion with rigidity higher than that of an other portion. | 05-31-2012 |
20120239011 | MEDICAL TREATMENT TOOL AND MANIPULATOR - This medical treatment tool includes: an end effector which has a first forceps piece and a second forceps piece; an operating member that the pair of forceps pieces to rotate and opens/closes; and a link member whose distal end portion is coupled to the forceps piece, and whose proximal end portion is coupled to the operating member; wherein the drive axis of the proximal end portion is parallel with the axis of the operating member; the distance between the distal end portion and the drive axis of the proximal end portion is shorter than the length of the link member; and the length of projection on the drive axis is shorter than the length of projection on the drive axis of a line segment which connects the distal end portion and the center of rotation. | 09-20-2012 |
20130066333 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND MEDICAL MANIPULATOR - A surgical instrument for performing treatment to a treatment target portion includes a cylindrical elongated member; a treatment part, and a connection part. The connection part includes a first turning axis part provided to the elongated member, a second turning axis part provided to the treatment part, a first rolling guide part that is provided to the elongated member and includes a circular-arc-shaped part coaxial with the first turning axis part, a second rolling guide part that is provided to the treatment part and includes a rolling guide part including a circular-arc-shaped part coaxial with the second turning axis part, the rolling guide part rollingly contacting the first rolling guide part, and an engaging part that brings the treatment part and the elongated member into an engaging state. The connection part is detachable between the first turning axis part and the second turning axis part. | 03-14-2013 |
20140236178 | MEDICAL TREATMENT TOOL AND MANIPULATOR INCLUDING THE SAME - A medical treatment tool includes a treatment section which has a pair of treatment tool pieces that is rotatably supported with respect to a substrate, a manipulating member which rotates the pair of treatment tool pieces, and opens and closes the pair of treatment tool pieces, a link member which has a first end and has a second end, a coupling member which couples the link member and the manipulating member at the second end; a movement indicating part which moves interlocking with a movement of the coupling member in an advance and retraction direction of the manipulating member and is provided so that an amount of movement with respect to the substrate is visually recognized from an outside of the substrate; and a reference index part which is provided at the substrate and refers to a amount of relative movement of the movement indicating part to the substrate. | 08-21-2014 |
20140249545 | MEDICAL TREATMENT TOOL AND MANIPULATOR INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a medical treatment tool, the distance between a first advance and retraction axis, and a tip end is shorter than the length of the first link member, and the length when a line segment connecting the base end and the center of a forceps rotation shaft is projected on the first advance and retraction axis is shorter than the length is projected on the first advance and retraction axis. The distance between a second advance and retraction axis, and a tip end is shorter than the length of the second link member, and the length when a line segment connecting the base end and the center of a forceps rotation shaft is projected on the second advance and retraction axis is shorter than the length projected on the second advance and retraction axis. | 09-04-2014 |
20150142014 | SURGICAL TOOL AND MEDICAL MANIPULATOR - In a surgical tool, the treatment tool piece operating joint includes a first operating rotation member which is coupled to the moving member and is rotated around a predetermined rotation center; a second operating rotation member which is coupled to the first operating rotation member so as to relatively rotate around a rotation center coaxial with the second bending rotary shaft in a rotation direction opposite to a rotation direction of the first operating rotation member or around a rotation center that is a position closer to the first bending rotary shaft than the second bending rotary shaft in a rotation direction opposite to a rotation direction of the first operating rotation member; and a link which converts a rotational force of the second operating rotation member into the operation of the treatment tool piece. | 05-21-2015 |
20160000503 | MEDICAL DEVICE AND MEDICAL SYSTEM - A medical device includes an insertion portion, and a driving mechanism coupled to the insertion portion, wherein the insertion portion includes a treatment portion configured to perform a treatment on a target portion, a joint portion capable of supporting the treatment portion and changing a direction of the treatment portion, a storage portion provided in the joint portion and capable of internally accommodating the treatment portion, and a driving force transmission portion connected to the joint portion and configured to transmit a driving force for changing the direction of the treatment portion to the joint portion, wherein the driving mechanism includes a driving force generation portion configured to generate the driving force, and wherein the treatment portion enters and exits the storage portion by the driving force transmitted from the driving force generation portion to the joint portion through the driving force transmission portion. | 01-07-2016 |
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20120133747 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a depth-information extraction section; a luminance extraction section; a contrast extraction section; a gain generation section; a correlation estimation section; and a movement analyzing section. | 05-31-2012 |
20120134574 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a depth-information extraction section; a luminance extraction section; a contrast extraction section; a gain generation section; and a correlation estimation section. | 05-31-2012 |
20130127837 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - By adjusting parameters of single-eye 3D information on the basis of the visual-sense characteristic of a human being, it is possible to present a 3D image more hardly causing the human being to have a feeling of discomfort and a feeling of displeasure. An input-value-adjustment-quantity determination section determines an adjustment quantity of an input value on the basis of an evaluation function to serve as an adjustment quantity corresponding to a determined depth adjustment quantity. An adjustment-gain computation block computes a gain value of each of spatial-frequency components of an input 3D image on the basis of the adjustment quantity of the input value. An image adjustment block adjusts the spatial-frequency components in accordance with the gain values computed for the spatial-frequency components respectively. The present application can be applied to typically an image processing apparatus for adjusting depths of the input 3D image. | 05-23-2013 |
20150130914 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided an image processing device including an analysis unit configured to analyze contrast according to a spatial frequency of an input image, a parallax transition information acquisition unit configured to acquire a relation of a crosstalk aggravation amount and a parallax transition corresponding to the contrast according to the spatial frequency of the input image with reference to a database in which the relation of the crosstalk aggravation amount and the parallax transition is stored in association with contrast according to spatial frequencies of various images, and a parallax computation unit configured to compute parallax corresponding to a predetermined threshold value set for the crosstalk aggravation amount in the acquired relation of the crosstalk aggravation amount and the parallax transition. | 05-14-2015 |
20150201185 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes a depth-adjustment-amount determination section configured to determine a depth adjustment amount of an input image, an evaluation function storage section configured to store an evaluation function, the evaluation function representing a relationship of a subjective depth amount of the image to a color-saturation component thereof, the subjective depth amount being a depth amount subjectively felt by a user, an input-value-adjustment-amount determination section configured to determine an input-value adjustment amount based on the evaluation function, the input-value adjustment amount representing a retina's response to the color-saturation component corresponding to the determined depth adjustment amount, an adjustment gain calculation section configured to calculate each spatial-frequency-component adjustment gain based on the determined input-value adjustment amount, and a gain superimposition section configured to superimpose each of the calculated spatial-frequency-component adjustment gains on the color-saturation component of the input image. | 07-16-2015 |
20150222871 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided an image processing method including acquiring an original image and a parallax map indicating distribution of parallaxes in the original image, dividing the acquired original image into a plurality of regions based on objects in the original image, and adjusting at least a parallax of one region relative to another region different from the one region, among the regions, based on information associated with the one region or the another region, in a range where a dynamic range of the parallax in the parallax map is maintained. | 08-06-2015 |
20150229901 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is an image processing method including acquiring an original image and position information indicating a position of a viewer in a depth direction with respect to a display unit, acquiring crosstalk information indicating a crosstalk characteristic of the display unit, causing a processor to generate an index map that includes control information indicating a correspondence between respective pixels and a respective viewpoints based on the position information on the basis of the acquired position information and crosstalk information in a manner that, among first viewpoint images different from each other based on the original image corresponding to the respective viewpoints set in advance, one of the first viewpoint images is observed while crosstalk is negated at a position indicated by the position information, and outputting second viewpoint images corresponding to respective pieces of the control information in the index map based on the original image and the index map. | 08-13-2015 |
20150229904 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided an image processing method including acquiring a degree of attention of a viewer to a stereoscopic input image, acquiring a relation between the degree of attention and a disparity value for stereovision from each pixel of the input image, and weighting a disparity value of a pixel having the high degree of attention on the basis of the relation between the degree of attention and the disparity value, and increasing the disparity value of the pixel having the high degree of attention. | 08-13-2015 |
20150245007 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided an image processing method including acquiring an original image and a disparity map, the disparity map indicating distribution of disparity values associated with respective pixels in the original image, causing a processor to decide a dynamic range of disparity on the basis of the acquired original image and the acquired disparity map, and converting the disparity map in a manner that each disparity in the disparity map is distributed within the decided dynamic range of the disparity. | 08-27-2015 |
20150245008 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided an image processing method including analyzing contrast according to a spatial frequency of an input image for each RGB pixel, referencing a database in which a relationship between a crosstalk degradation amount and a disparity transition for each RGB pixel is stored in association with contrast according to spatial frequencies of various images, and acquiring a relationship between a crosstalk degradation amount and a disparity transition for each RGB pixel, the relationship corresponding to the contrast according to the spatial frequency of the input image, integrating the relationship between the crosstalk degradation amount and the disparity transition, the relationship having been acquired for each RGB pixel, and calculating disparity corresponding to a predetermined threshold set to the crosstalk degradation amount in the integrated relationship between the crosstalk degradation amount and the disparity transition. | 08-27-2015 |
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20100144488 | Transmission apparatus and vehicle having the same - A transmission apparatus including an automatic transmission that is mounted in a vehicle and is capable of engaging a first engagement element and a second engagement element among a plurality of engagement elements when shift-operated to a reverse position, and engaging the first engagement element when shift-operated to a neutral position. | 06-10-2010 |
20110247443 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - A hydraulic control apparatus for an automatic transmission has a circulating oil supply passage that supplies circulating oil to a starting apparatus, a circulating oil discharge passage that discharges circulating oil from the starting apparatus, and a speed change mechanism oil supply passage that supplies oil to a speed change mechanism. The oil discharged from an oil pump is supplied to the starting apparatus and the speed change mechanism. A first flow rate changing device that can change the flow rate of the circulating oil is arranged in the circulating oil discharge passage. A first flow rate instructing portion output a command to the flow rate changing device to change the flow rate when the amount of oil discharged from the oil pump is low, and reduces the flow rate to the starting apparatus, which enables the hydraulic pressure necessary for shifting to be obtained in the speed change mechanism. | 10-13-2011 |
20150260278 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - A hydraulic control device for an automatic transmission, the hydraulic control device includes: a throttle valve, a primary regulator valve and a failure circuit that includes a first solenoid valve that is switched when the throttle valve is subjected to a failure in which the throttle valve is unable to output the throttle pressure, and that leads a predetermined hydraulic pressure based on switching of the first solenoid valve to the control oil chamber of the primary regulator valve. | 09-17-2015 |
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20150330501 | Oil Supply Device - In a sleeve, two input ports are formed as ports that receive a discharge pressure of an electromagnetic pump, and a drain port connected to a drain oil passage is formed on the same circumference as that on which the input port is formed, so as to have a smaller opening area than the input port and an output port connected to an oil passage. The axial length of the second land is set so that the input port can be closed by the second land when a signal pressure is equal to or higher than a set pressure, and that the input port and the drain port can be closed by the second land when the signal pressure is lower than the set pressure. | 11-19-2015 |
20150354639 | Hydraulic Control Device - A hydraulic control device that includes a solenoid valve that includes an input port, an output port that communicates with the hydraulic engagement element via an oil passage, and a feedback port that communicates with the output port via the oil passage, the solenoid valve regulating a pressure of working oil input from the input port to output the regulated pressure from the output port to the oil passage, a part of the output working oil being input to the feedback port; and a hydraulic damper that damps pulsation of the hydraulic pressure output from the output port to the oil passage, wherein: the oil passage is provided with an orifice mechanism that reduces a flow rate of the working oil; and the hydraulic damper communicates with the oil passage on a side of the output port and the feedback port with respect to the orifice mechanism. | 12-10-2015 |
20160003309 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL DEVICE AND HYDRAULIC CONTROL METHOD - A hydraulic control device that includes a pressure regulating valve capable of regulating a source pressure to generate a control pressure higher than the oil pressure in the circulation oil chamber and supplying the control pressure to the engagement port, wherein when disengaging the lockup clutch, the hydraulic oil is circulated in the circulation oil chamber via the circulation input port and the circulation output port, and part of the hydraulic oil circulated in the circulation oil chamber is supplied to the engagement port, and when engaging the lockup clutch, the supply of the hydraulic oil circulated in the circulation oil chamber to the engagement port is cut off, and the control pressure is supplied to the engagement port. | 01-07-2016 |
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20110132717 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL APPARATUS OF AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - A circulation pressure is supplied to a starting device ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110219904 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL APPARATUS OF AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - A hydraulic control apparatus of an automatic transmission including a switching portion which, at the same time as a reverse range pressure oil passage and a discharge delay oil passage which delays an oil pressure output are connected, causes the reverse range pressure oil passage and discharge delay oil passage, by switching between the two, in order to communicate with a hydraulic servo. The switching portion causes the hydraulic servo and discharge delay oil passage to communicate when a manual valve is switched to an N range, and causes the hydraulic servo and reverse range pressure oil passage to communicate when the manual valve (MV) is switched to a D range or an R range. Because of this arrangement, it is difficult for oil, when discharged from the hydraulic servo, to drain at an R-N switching time, and it is easy for oil to drain in the D range or the like. | 09-15-2011 |
20110220823 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL APPARATUS OF AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - A hydraulic control apparatus of an automatic transmission which can supply a hydraulic oil pressure to one or more hydraulic servos of frictional engagement elements at a failure time when a de-energized condition is attained. The apparatus includes a normally closed type first solenoid valve for generating the hydraulic oil pressure, and a normally open type second solenoid valve for outputting a first signal pressure for adjusting and controlling an oil pressure to a line pressure; a signal output device for outputting the line pressure or a modulator pressure. The line pressure is reduced to a certain pressure, as a second signal pressure at a normal time, and causes the second signal pressure not to be output at the failure time; and an oil pressure switching device switchable between a normal time position in which the hydraulic oil pressure from the first solenoid valve can be supplied to the hydraulic servo, and a failure time position in which the input line pressure is supplied to the hydraulic servo, is switched to the normal time position by the first signal pressure and second signal pressure, which are input opposed to each other, being input, and switched to the failure time position by the first signal pressure being input and the second signal pressure not being input. | 09-15-2011 |
20110239803 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - An automatic transmission hydraulic control system with a first friction engagement element engaged at a first forward gear and establishment of a reverse gear, and a second friction engagement element engaged at least at a second different forward gear including a range pressure output unit outputting a reverse range pressure when a reverse range is selected, a first switching valve having a reverse range pressure input port receiving reverse range pressure, a control pressure input port receiving a control pressure from a linear solenoid valve, and first, second and third output ports. The third output port connected to a hydraulic servo of the second friction engagement element, and switched to a first state in which the reverse range pressure input port and the second output port, the control pressure input port and the third output port are communicated with each other and a second state in which the reverse range pressure input port and the first output port, the control pressure input port and the second output port are communicated with each other. The system also includes a second switching valve having a first input port connected to the first output port, a second input port connected to the second output port, and a fourth output port connected to a hydraulic servo of the first friction engagement element, and switched to a third state in which the second input port and the fourth output port are communicated with each other and a fourth state in which the first input port and the fourth output port are communicated with each other; a first on/off solenoid valve outputting a signal pressure for switching the first switching valve; and a second on/off solenoid valve outputting a signal pressure for switching the second switching valve. | 10-06-2011 |
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20120057115 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An IPS liquid crystal display device intended to prevent generation of second image sticking after generation of initial DC image sticking. | 03-08-2012 |
20120314177 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having an organic passivation film, and a counter substrate, with liquid crystals inside of the liquid crystal display device. A columnar spacer is formed on the counter substrate, which defines a distance between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate, and a concavo-convex pedestal is formed in a pixel region of the TFT substrate, the concavo-convex pedestal being provided in facing relation to the columnar spacer. The concavo-convex pedestal is formed with a convex portion and a concave portion at a bottom of the concavo-convex pedestal, with a top end of the columnar spacer being in contact with two or more convex portions formed on the bottom of the concavo-convex pedestal, and an area at the bottom of the concavo-convex pedestal being larger than the area at the top end of the columnar spacer. | 12-13-2012 |
20130057820 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device using a cylindrical spacer to define the gap between a TFT substrate and a counter substrate, the TFT substrate does not include an organic passivation film, in which the cylindrical spacer is formed on an inorganic passivation film. An overcoat film is formed to cover a black matrix and color filters in the counter substrate. A concavo-convex mount is formed in the overcoat film. The top of the cylindrical spacer is brought into contact with the concavo-convex mount. The oriented film is not attached to the top of the cylindrical spacer and the convex portion of the concavo-convex mount. Thus, even if horizontal displacement occurs in the TFT substrate or the counter substrate, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of bright spots due to the scraping of the oriented film caused by the friction between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate. | 03-07-2013 |
20140247416 | DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING A RECESSED PORTION THAT IS FORMED WITH AT LEAST ONE CONVEX PORTION AT A BOTTOM OF THE RECESSED PORTION AND WHEREIN THE RECESSED PORTION FACES A COLUMNAR SPACER - A display device includes a first substrate having organic and alignment films, a second substrate adhered to the first substrate by a sealant which surrounds a pixel region, a columnar spacer formed on the second substrate defining a distance between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a recessed portion formed in the organic film of the pixel region, the recessed portion facing to the columnar spacer. The recessed portion has a convex portion at a bottom of the recessed portion, and a height of a top of the convex portion from the first substrate is lower than a height of an upper surface of the organic film from the first substrate. A thickness of an alignment film on the convex portion is smaller than a thickness of the bottom of the recessed portion, and a top of the columnar spacer is in contact with the convex portion. | 09-04-2014 |
20150055071 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and liquid crystals therebetween, the first substrate having a flat portion, an alignment film, and a concavo-convex pedestal formed in a pixel region, wherein the concavo-convex pedestal having at least two convex portions and recessed portions, and the at least two convex portions of the concavo-convex pedestal are at a position lower than a position of the flat portion. A thickness of the alignment film on the convex portions is less than a thickness of the alignment film on the recessed portions, and a second substrate has a columnar spacer which contacts the at least two convex portions of the concavo-convex pedestal. | 02-26-2015 |
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20140307209 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A high-definition and high-contrast liquid crystal display device having a high aperture ratio without light leakage around a columnar spacer is provided. The liquid crystal display device of a horizontal electric field type includes a TFT substrate with a pixel electrode and a common electrode, a color filter substrate with a color filter, a columnar spacer interposed between the substrates, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the substrates. A liquid crystal alignment film formed between the substrates is a photo-alignment film. The columnar spacer, formed on the color filter substrate or the TFT substrate, has a wall-like shape and an inclined surface extending in a direction parallel to or perpendicular to a direction in which the liquid crystal is initially aligned. | 10-16-2014 |
20140347585 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which even in the case of using a photo-alignment technique, excellent afterimage characteristics can be stably obtained. | 11-27-2014 |
20150015840 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT REGULATION FORCE DECISION METHOD - A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate and a counter substrate on each of which an alignment film is formed and a liquid crystal interposed and held between the alignment films of the TFT and counter substrate, wherein the alignment film is made of a material capable of applying liquid crystal alignment regulation force by polarized light irradiation, a convex structure is formed on the TFT substrate or the counter substrate, and the alignment film is applied the liquid crystal alignment regulation force to a surface of a region ranging from the periphery of the convex structure to the vicinity of an inclined part of the convex structure and is not applied the liquid crystal alignment regulation force to a surface of the inclined part of the convex structure. | 01-15-2015 |
20150055070 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A TFT substrate and a counter substrate are bonded via a seal material. Alignment films are applied to entire surfaces of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate so as to realize even thickness of the alignment film. This allows a display region to be formed up to the area around the seal material. The alignment film is photo-alignment processed. An organic film formed of the material which is not photo-aligned is interposed between the alignment film and the seal material. High bonding strength between the organic film and the seal material improves reliability of a seal portion as well as reduces a frame region. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062515 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The invention provides a liquid crystal display device which is highly reliable even with a slim frame area. Ina liquid crystal display device having a display area and a frame area, the frame area includes, in an area close to the display area, a flat portion where an organic insulation film, a transparent conductive film, and an alignment film are stacked in this order and, in an area away from the display area, a groove structure formed in the organic insulation film, the groove structure being continuous surrounding the display area. The organic insulation film is less wettable than the transparent conductive film by the alignment film ink. | 03-05-2015 |
20150116623 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device, a common electrode is formed on an organic passivation film, an interlayer insulating film is formed on the common electrode, a pixel electrode with a slit is formed on the interlayer insulating film, and a through hole is formed in the organic passivation film and the interlayer insulating film, so that the pixel electrode is connected to a source electrode of a TFT through the through hole. Further, the taper angle around the upper base of the through hole is smaller than the taper angle around the lower base. Thus, the alignment film material can easily flow into the through hole when the diameter of the through hole is reduced to connect the pixel and source electrodes, preventing display defects such as uneven brightness due to the absence of the alignment film or due to the alignment film irregularity around the through hole. | 04-30-2015 |
20150138476 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - To take measures against the phenomenon of difficulty for the orientation film material to flow into the through-hole when the diameter of through-holes which connects the pixel electrode and the source electrode becomes small. | 05-21-2015 |
20160085119 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MATERIAL FOR ALIGNMENT FILM - A liquid crystal display device including an alignment film which has been optically aligned is configured that the liquid crystal has negative dielectric anisotropy, an absolute value of which is equal to or smaller than 5. The alignment film is subjected to an optical alignment process to exhibit the optical alignment property, and includes a first film located at a side in contact with the liquid crystal, and a second film below the first film, which is not optically aligned to have no alignment property. The alignment film is formed by applying a mixture of a first material for forming the first film and a second material for forming the second film to the substrate. The first material for the alignment film accounts for 10 wt. % or more and less than 40 wt. % of a total weight of the first and the second materials. | 03-24-2016 |