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20120086894 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT - A liquid crystal display element comprises a first and a second substrates, a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer, and a first and a second polarizers arranged to cross approximately their absorption axes and an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules when no voltage is applied at almost 45 degrees. At least one of the electrodes comprises a polyline extending to an extending direction as a whole and having no straight line in parallel to the extending direction along an electrode edge, and the polyline is formed along an edge of at least one of the first and the second electrodes where the alignment directions when a voltage is applied and when no voltage is applied are opposite to each other if the polyline is a straight line along the extending direction. | 04-12-2012 |
20130242369 | ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY - There is provided an electrochromic display that includes a display substrate, which includes a display electrode on a first substrate and an insulating film on or above the display electrode; a counter substrate having a counter electrode on a second substrate, the counter substrate facing the display substrate; and a color-developing layer containing an electrochromic material disposed in a region surrounded by a sealing member between the display substrate and the counter substrate. The insulating film is disposed on or above the display electrode except for a display region of the display electrode in the region surrounded by the sealing member. | 09-19-2013 |
20150117041 | OPTICAL APPARATUS AND AUTOMOBILE LIGHTING - An optical apparatus includes first and second substrates disposed to oppose each other, the first substrate having a first electrode provided on a surface of the first substrate nearer to the second substrate, and the second substrate having a second electrode provided on a surface of the second substrate nearer to the first substrate, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the first and the second substrates, and containing electro-deposition material including silver, wherein when potential of the first electrode is used as reference, a first voltage of positive polarity is applied in a first period to the second electrode, and a second voltage of positive polarity lower than the first voltage is applied in a second period after the first period to the second electrode. | 04-30-2015 |
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20130022123 | VIDEO CODING APPARATUS, VIDEO CODING METHOD AND VIDEO CODING PROGRAM, AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND VIDEO DECODING PROGRAM - A motion vector detector detects a motion vector from a first reference image for a coding target block. A multiple reference image composition unit creates a composite reference block that a first reference block extracted from the first reference image using the motion vector has been composited with a predetermined region of at least one of other reference images. Setting the composite reference block as a prediction block, an entropy encoder encodes a prediction difference block that the prediction block has been subtracted from the coding target block. | 01-24-2013 |
20130064299 | MOVING PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE ENCODING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - A provisional region dividing unit divides a block to be encoded into a plurality of provisional regions on a predetermined provisional boundary. A motion vector detecting unit detects a motion vector with respect to each provisional region. An actual region dividing•motion compensating unit generates a synthesized prediction block by generating a plurality of prediction blocks corresponding to the block to be encoded from a reference image by using the motion vector of each provisional region, deciding an actual boundary based on activities of the plurality of prediction blocks, and joining regions acquired by dividing the each prediction block on the actual boundary among the respective prediction blocks. A variable length encoding unit encodes a prediction difference block acquired by subtracting a synthesized prediction block from the block to be encoded, and the motion vector of each provisional region. | 03-14-2013 |
20150139329 | MOVING PICTURE CODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - A motion vector predictor candidate generation unit derives a plurality of motion vector predictor candidates by prediction from first coded prediction blocks neighboring a prediction block subject to coding within the same picture as the prediction block subject to coding, or from a second coded prediction block located at the same position as or in the neighborhood of the prediction block subject to coding in a picture different from that of the prediction block subject to coding, and adds the derived motion vector predictor candidates in a motion vector predictor candidate. The motion vector predictor candidate generation unit determines, for the purpose of obtaining a predetermined number of motion vector predictor candidates, which of first coded prediction blocks provides the motion vector from which to derive the motion vector predictor candidate, organizing the blocks in the order of priority. | 05-21-2015 |
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20120249598 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display control apparatus can quickly switch a state displaying an image without enlargement and a state displaying an image in enlargement display in the least amount of operation effort. When the display control apparatus receives an instruction to start an enlargement mode in a state displaying an image by single display in which an entirety of one image is displayed in the display area of a display unit, the display control apparatus performs control to display a part of the enlarged image in a display area. When the display control apparatus receives an instruction to start the enlargement mode in a state displaying an image by multi display where a plurality of images are displayed in the display area, the display control apparatus displays a part of the image more enlarged than a case of the single display in the display area without going through the single display. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249848 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - An image pickup apparatus is arranged to perform live view to display enlarged image by deciding a Tv value, an Av value, and an ISO value based on a program diagram for deciding an exposure amount from brightness of an object, when a change instruction of an AF adjustment value used for a live view is provided, while when an operation to start the live view is provided and the change instruction of the AF adjustment value used for the live view is not provided, the apparatus performs live view by deciding the Tv value, Av value, and ISO value based on the program diagram if a photographing mode is not a manual mode, but performs the live view by using the Tv value, Av value, and ISO value set by the user, if the photographing mode is the manual mode. | 10-04-2012 |
20130002896 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image capturing apparatus capable of shooting a still image and recording a moving image, which controls to start still image shooting in response to a shooting instruction if it is set that moving image recording is not started in response to the shooting instruction, and controls to start moving image recording if it is set that the moving image recording is started in response to the shooting instruction. | 01-03-2013 |
20130021274 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An electronic apparatus comprises an operation unit; a plurality of touch detection units each configured to detect a touch input to the operation unit; a sensitivity adjustment unit configured to perform adjustment so that a sensitivity of a touch detection unit of the plurality of touch detection units, which is arranged on a far side with respect to a specific end portion of the electronic apparatus, becomes higher than a sensitivity of a touch detection unit of the plurality of touch detection units, which is arranged on a near side with respect to the specific end portion; and a determination unit configured to determine an operated portion of the operation unit based on output values from the plurality of touch detection units, which have been adjusted by the sensitivity adjustment unit. | 01-24-2013 |