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20080252583 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A liquid-crystal display apparatus comprising, a liquid-crystal display device driven by an AC voltage, an image divider configured to temporally divide input image data into N (N≧2) for each frame, a correction unit configured to correct a driving voltage for driving the liquid-crystal display device based on a difference between adjacent divided image data obtained by the N division, a polarity inverter configured to invert a polarity to make drive polarities of adjacent divided image data different, out of the divided image data obtained by the N division including the divided image data for which driving voltage is corrected by the correction unit, a driver configured to drive the liquid-crystal display device using the polarity-inverted divided image data, and an inversion order alteration unit which alters an inversion order for the drive polarities. | 10-16-2008 |
20090015600 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a moving unit configured to move a display position of an image displayed on a display screen; a setting unit configured to set a compressed image display area in the image; and a compression unit configured to, when a nondisplay area that is not displayed on the display screen is created in the image by the moving unit, compress the nondisplay area so that the nondisplay area fits within the compressed image display area and is displayed on the display screen. | 01-15-2009 |
20090276727 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a moving unit configured to move a display position of an image displayed on a display screen; a setting unit configured to set a compressed image display area on the display screen; and a compression unit configured to, in a case where the display position of the image is moved by the moving unit, compress a part of the image extending off the display screen and a part of the image displayed in the compressed image display area so that these parts fit within the compressed image display area, and to display a compressed image in the compressed image display area on the display screen. | 11-05-2009 |
20090309890 | DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display device that receives an input of video signal data including a plurality of pieces of frame data, corrects frame data representing a frame to be displayed based on frame data of a frame adjacent to the frame to be displayed, and outputs the resulting data as data to be displayed on a liquid crystal panel. The device comprises a memory unit adapted to store input frame data. The device determines a correction address used to determine a frame correction amount by comparing the stored frame data and frame data that is currently input; determines correction data that represents a correction amount of the frame data based on the stored frame data and the correction address; and corrects the frame data by adding and/or subtracting the correction amount represented by the correction data to or from the stored frame data. | 12-17-2009 |
20120327095 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a moving unit configured to move a display position of an image displayed on a display screen; a setting unit configured to set a compressed image display area in the image; and a compression unit configured to, when a nondisplay area that is not displayed on the display screen is created in the image by the moving unit, compress the nondisplay area so that the nondisplay area fits within the compressed image display area and is displayed on the display screen. | 12-27-2012 |
20140049565 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a moving unit configured to move a display position of an image displayed on a display screen; a setting unit configured to set a compressed image display area in the image; and a compression unit configured to, when a nondisplay area that is not displayed on the display screen is created in the image by the moving unit, compress the nondisplay area so that the nondisplay area fits within the compressed image display area and is displayed on the display screen. | 02-20-2014 |
20140168283 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, which generates low gradation luminance correction values with respect to an overlap region and a non-overlap region of a plurality of images constituting a multi-screen display, generates the low gradation luminance correction values so as to make the values gradually change from the overlap region throughout the non-overlap region. | 06-19-2014 |
20140333648 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PROJECTION IMAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A multiscreen display is formed in which changes in luminance between an image overlap area and areas outside the image overlap area are less visible across a range of low to high gradations. An offset correction value Doffset that is linearly decreased at the lowest gradation of the input image signal so that the offset correction value becomes 0 at gradations higher than the predetermined gradation Lset, is added to an input image signal. | 11-13-2014 |
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20100295177 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING STRUCTURE, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING BOARD - In an electronic component mounting structure, a semiconductor element (an electronic component) provided with an electrode pad and a board provide with an electrode pad corresponding to the electrode pad are connected via a conductive material portion. On a surface of the board, there is formed solder resist having an opening regulating an area of the electrode pad. The conductive material portion is formed to protrude from a surface of the solder resist. An elastic coefficient of the conductive material portion is lower than that of the solder resist. A solder bump and the conductive material portion are connected via a metal layer. The conductive material portion is formed to have an area larger than that of the opening of the solder resist. An edge of the conductive material portion is adhered to a portion of the surface of the solder resist. Thus, in a case of mounting an electronic component on a board by flip-chip connection, a reliability of connection can be secured. | 11-25-2010 |
20100308474 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A substrate ( | 12-09-2010 |
20120112344 | SUBSTRATE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF - Disclosed is a substrate for a semiconductor package in which leakage of radiation noise from a gap between a semiconductor element and a mounting substrate can be prevented. The substrate for the semiconductor package includes a coplanar waveguide including a signal and ground electrodes on the mounting substrate, the signal electrode flip-chip connected to the semiconductor element, the ground electrodes arranged on both sides of the signal electrode with intervals therebetween. A step part is formed in the ground electrodes in an outer circumferential part of a mounting region of the semiconductor element, the step part having a larger distance between upper surfaces of the mounting substrate and the ground electrode in the outer circumferential part of the mounting region than such distance in the mounting region, and an insulator for covering the signal electrode in the outer circumferential part of the mounting region is formed. | 05-10-2012 |
20130005085 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A substrate and a semiconductor chip are connected by means of flip-chip interconnection. Around connecting pads of the substrate and input/output terminals of the semiconductor chip, an underfill material is injected. The underfill material is a composite material of filler and resin. Also, a first main surface of the substrate, which is not covered with the underfill material, and the side surfaces of the semiconductor chip are encapsulated with a molding material. The molding material is a composite material of filler and resin. An integrated body of the substrate and the semiconductor chip, which are covered with the molding material, is thinned from above and below. | 01-03-2013 |
20130012145 | RADIO MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a radio module that includes a radio signal connection portion having a low insertion loss and high reliability. | 01-10-2013 |
20130316495 | SUBSTRATE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF - Disclosed is a substrate for a semiconductor package in which leakage of radiation noise from a gap between a semiconductor element and a mounting substrate can be prevented. The substrate for the semiconductor package includes a coplanar waveguide including a signal and ground electrodes on the mounting substrate, the signal electrode flip-chip connected to the semiconductor element, the ground electrodes arranged on both sides of the signal electrode with intervals therebetween. A step part is formed in the ground electrodes in an outer circumferential part of a mounting region of the semiconductor element, the step part having a larger distance between upper surfaces of the mounting substrate and the ground electrode in the outer circumferential part of the mounting region than such distance in the mounting region, and an insulator for covering the signal electrode in the outer circumferential part of the mounting region is formed. | 11-28-2013 |
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20110288885 | MEDICAL SERVICE SUPPORT APPARATUS - A recording unit holds a plurality of examination data including the examination date of a performed examination. A search unit extracts examination data matching a set condition, of the plurality of examination data held in the recording unit. An output unit outputs a search result by the search unit. A first narrowing unit extracts examination data in which the examination date is included within a designated first period. A reference data determination unit classifies the examination data extracted by the first narrowing unit by an examinee and determines, for every examinee, one piece of the examination data to be a reference in accordance with a predetermined rule. A second narrowing unit sets, for every examinee, a second period designated in at least one of the past direction and the future direction starting from a reference date that is the examination date of the examination data determined by the reference data determination unit and extracts examination data in which the examination date is included within the second period. | 11-24-2011 |
20130231943 | MEDICAL INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS - In a medical information input apparatus, a display control unit generates a first input screen for entering information on medical practices and a second input screen for entering information on academic research. An input reception unit receives information input entered from a user on the first input screen and the second input screen. A recording unit records the information entered through the first input screen and the second input screen. A requirement storage unit stores a requirement for generating the second screen. When a determination unit determines that the information received from the user on the first input screen by the input reception unit satisfies the requirement stored in the requirement storage unit, the display control unit generates the second input screen on condition that a predetermined button created on the first input screen have been pressed. | 09-05-2013 |
20140118517 | MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An order storage unit stores an order for a medical practice to be performed using an endoscopic system. A control unit transmits an order to the endoscopic system via a communication line and also transmits device setting information linked to at least one of a doctor and a medical practice type specified by the order. When the control unit receives a notification of a change from the endoscopic system while the medical practice specified by the order is being performed, the control unit transmits new device setting information corresponding to the change to the endoscopic system. | 05-01-2014 |
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20090216871 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - In a managing device in a communication system including both a first terminal that carries out a control procedure with the managing device and starts data communication, and a second terminal that starts data communication without carrying out the control procedure, the start of data communication by the second terminal is recognized. Then, after recognizing the start of the data communication by the second terminal, when the start of a control procedure is requested from the first terminal, the control procedure is changed. | 08-27-2009 |
20100180036 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication control system constituted by a communication terminal, a management apparatus that manages the communication terminal, and a wireless communication network in which the communication terminal and the management apparatus are communicable with each other. | 07-15-2010 |
20140378059 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus having a first communication function of periodically transmitting a predetermined signal and communicating with another apparatus and a second communication function of communicating with another apparatus by producing an electric field or magnetic field determines whether a partner apparatus exists in a communicable range of the second communication function, and controls the first communication function to stop transmission of the predetermined signal in the case where it is determined that the partner apparatus exists in the communicable range. | 12-25-2014 |
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20110288375 | ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope is provided that includes: an insertion portion; a bending portion having an independently bendable first bending region, and a second bending region that is bendable in the same direction as a bending direction of the first bending region together with the first bending region; a flexible tube portion; a first wire that, when pulled, causes only the first bending region to bend; a first guide pipe through which the first wire is inserted, and which has a distal end that is fixed to an intermediate pipe sleeve; a second wire that, when pulled, causes the second bending region to bend in conjunction with bending of the first bending region; and a second guide pipe through which the second wire is inserted, and which has one part that is fixed to a connecting pipe sleeve, and has a distal end that is positioned inside the second bending region in a condition in which the distal end protrudes forward by a first length from a distal end of the flexible tube portion in a non-fixed state. | 11-24-2011 |
20110295069 | ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope includes an elongated insertion portion inserted in a subject; a bending portion including an independently bendable first bending part and a second bending part bendable together with the first bending part in the same direction as a bending direction of the first bending part; a flexible tube portion; a first wire inserted through the insertion portion and having a distal end fixed to a distal end of the first bending part; a first guide pipe through which the first wire is inserted so as to be advanceable/retractable with respect to an insertion direction S, which has a distal end fixed between the bending portion and the flexible tube portion; a second wire inserted in the insertion portion and having a distal end fixed between the first and second bending parts, which causes the second bending part to be rigid when pulled; and a second guide pipe. | 12-01-2011 |
20150031947 | ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope includes: an insertion portion; an objective optical system; a treatment instrument raising base; and a restricting portion that restricts an angle at which the treatment instrument protrudes outside the insertion portion, wherein a straight line connecting the treatment instrument raising base and the objective optical system is substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the insertion portion, and the restricting portion is located on a line segment connecting the treatment instrument raising base and the objective optical system when the objective optical system is viewed from right in front, the restricting portion includes a restricting surface, and when the treatment instrument raising base is maximally inclined, an angle of a central axis of the treatment instrument with respect to the longitudinal axis which the insertion portion is inserted is equal to or smaller than an angle of the restricting surface with respect to the longitudinal axis. | 01-29-2015 |
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20090052912 | ABNORMALITY DETERMINING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COPYING MACHINE, AND INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD - A time point at which a predetermined period elapses since the start of use of a copying machine as a detection subject after factory shipment or repair is obtained. Pieces of set information, which are combinations of various types of information until the time point is reached are sequentially stored to construct a normal set information group. After the time point is reached, presence of abnormality in the copying machine is determined based on the normal set information group and the various types of information obtained. | 02-26-2009 |
20090147313 | Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method - An information acquiring unit acquires information indicating whether a color material used at least for image formation is saved. An image-information generating unit creates, when the information acquiring unit acquires the information for saving the color material, image information using the color material of which consumption is saved. | 06-11-2009 |
20140028953 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An objective of the present invention is to enable making a liquid crystal display device thin, and to enable regional control of window brightness with power conservation. A backlight of a liquid crystal display device comprises a plate-shaped light guiding plate ( | 01-30-2014 |
20140098349 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTION DISPLAY SYSTEM USING SAME - The projection display system has a light source unit where a first light source and a second light source respectively emitting a first and second wavelength or wavelength range of light are juxtapositionally arranged; a third light source emitting a third wavelength or wavelength range of light; an optical combiner device for combining the three wavelengths or wavelength ranges of light from the light sources; an optical device for averaging distributions of the wavelengths or wavelength ranges of light; an image display device for receiving the light transmitted through the optical device and forming image light responsive to a video signal; and a projector lens for projecting the image light onto a screen. At least two of the optical axes of the first, second, and third wavelengths or wavelength ranges of light which are incident on the optical device are not coincident with each other. | 04-10-2014 |
20140204307 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A lighting device according to the present invention includes: a curvedly shaped base chassis having a reflection layer on its inner surface; an optical sheet facing the reflection layer to output illuminating light of the lighting device; a light source group, disposed between the base chassis and the optical sheet, including first light sources and second light sources emitting light in mutually opposite directions; a light source substrate mounted with the light source group, and a light distribution adjusting member, covering the optical sheet side of the light source group, to direct light from the light source group into predetermined directions. The directions of light emission from the light source group are in parallel with the light output surface of the optical sheet. The reflection layer is curved such that a portion thereof on each of the two direction sides is concave away from the optical sheet. | 07-24-2014 |
20140268358 | VIRTUAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A virtual image display device includes: an image projection device that projects an image light; a diverging element on which the image light emitted from the image projection device is incident, spreading the image light out over a range of a predetermined angle; and a light branching element that reflects the image light emitted from the diverging element, while transmitting the incident light from the surface other than the reflecting surface. The image light from the image projection device is formed into an image on the diverging element. A virtual image of the image formed on the diverging element is generated on an extension line in the opposite direction to the emission direction of the image light reflected from the light branching element. Further, an optical axis converting element is provided to convert the optical axis of the image light emitted from the image projection device, into a predetermined direction. | 09-18-2014 |
20140285541 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE - A light irradiation device to display an image by light irradiation prevents easy perception of distortion occurring in the displayed image due to vibration of the device or movement of viewpoint. A random number is generated, and the refresh rate of the displayed image is distributed at random in correspondence with the random number. The light emission intensity is changed in correspondence with the refresh rate. When the number of lines is changed, the input video signal is subjected to scaling and a display is produced. The refresh rate is changed in correspondence with the frequency of the vibration detected with the vibration monitor. | 09-25-2014 |
20140320826 | OPTICAL UNIT AND PROJECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICE - In an optical unit of a projective display device which projects light source light reflected by a DMD, one prism of TIR prisms has a first boundary surface which is arranged in parallel to an emission surface of the light source light of other prism at a predetermined distance and on which the light source light from other prism is incident and a second boundary surface which is provided to face the DMD and emits the light source light illuminating the DMD and on which reflected light from the DMD is incident. When a swinging angle of minute mirrors of the DMD is set as ±θ, a refractive index of the prisms is set as n, an angle formed by the first boundary surface and the second boundary surface is set as β, and an emission angle of the light source light with respect to the DMD in the second boundary surface is set as α, the swinging angle θ, the refractive index n, the angle β, and the angle α satisfy a predetermined relation. | 10-30-2014 |
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20140358253 | NUMBER-OF-MACHINES CONTROL DEVICE FOR HEAT SOURCE SYSTEM, METHOD THEREFOR, AND HEAT SOURCE SYSTEM - A control device and method for preventing the start and stop of heat source machines from being frequently repeated. Whether or not basic conditions for decreasing the number of machines are satisfied when the number of currently operating machines is increased by one is determined if a current operational status satisfies basic conditions for increasing the number of machines, and one heat source machine is started if it is determined that the basic conditions for decreasing the number of machines are not satisfied. Additionally, whether or not the basic conditions for increasing the number of machines are satisfied when the number of currently operating machines is decreased by one are satisfied if a current operational status satisfies the basic conditions for decreasing the number of machines, and one heat source machine is stopped if it is determined that the basic conditions for increasing the number of machines are not satisfied. | 12-04-2014 |
20140360714 | HEAT SOURCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING FLOW RATE OF HEATING MEDIUM THEREOF - It is possible to realize flow rate control regardless of the scale on a load side or a piping system and to achieve energy saving. In a host control device ( | 12-11-2014 |
20150039134 | HEAT SOURCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NUMBER OF MACHINES TO BE STARTED AT TIME OF POWER RECOVERY IN HEAT SOURCE SYSTEM - To swiftly start, at the time of power recovery after a power failure, heat source machines, the number of which is equal to the number of machines before the power failure, without including an uninterruptible power supply in an apparatus for controlling the number of machines that is adapted to control the number of heat source machines. There is provided a heat source system, in which a host control device ( | 02-05-2015 |
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20090268280 | Microscope - A microscope apparatus can generate information of a super-resolved image at high speed. For that purpose, the microscope apparatus of the present invention is equipped with an image-forming optical system for forming an intermediate image of light emitted from a specimen, a relay optical system for forming an image of the intermediate image, an illuminating optical system that jointly owns an optical path of the image-forming optical system and illuminates the specimen through the optical path of the image-forming optical system, and a spatial modulator disposed on a formation plane of the intermediate image. In this microscope apparatus, the specimen is subjected to structured illumination by an image of the spatial modulator. Light from the specimen which is modulated by the structured illumination is automatically remodulated in the spatial modulator. | 10-29-2009 |
20100141750 | Image Forming Method and Microscope Device - More images than spatial modulation components of a lighting light are acquired, and a least square method is applied to the imaged plurality of images to obtain signal components. Accordingly, a ultra-resolution microscope which uses a spatially-modified lighting light to illuminate a sample, arithmetic-processes acquired images to thereby demodulate a given spatial modulation, and obtains a high-resolution sample image, wherein a high-resolution image reduced in noise components can be obtained. | 06-10-2010 |
20120008194 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM, MICROSCOPE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND STEREOSCOPIC MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - Provided is an imaging optical system that can prevent enlargement of the entire optical system of a microscope apparatus while holding a wide distance between optical axes to allow enlargement to a low-power range. | 01-12-2012 |
20130314776 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM, MICROSCOPE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND STEREOSCOPIC MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - A variable power optical system used in a parallel stereoscopic microscope apparatus includes a plurality of optical paths in which optical axes are arranged substantially parallel, a plurality of lens groups that change the magnification of a diameter of a luminous flux entering substantially parallel to each of the optical paths to eject the luminous flux as substantially parallel luminous fluxes, and at least two lens groups move along the optical axis in each optical path according to the change in the magnification. At least two lens groups of at least one optical path among the plurality of optical paths move in a direction including a component perpendicular to the optical axis according to the change in the magnification at at least part of a section where the magnification is changed from a high-power end state to a low-power end. | 11-28-2013 |