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20080213622 | Organic electroluminescence element - Provided is an organic EL element in which an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, an emissive layer, an electron transport layer, an electron injection layer, and a cathode are stacked up on top of a substrate. Into at least one of the organic layer—the hole injection layer and the hole transport layer, an organic material different from the organic material constituting the corresponding one of the organic layers is doped. The doped organic material contributes to the formation of an impurity level to trap the holes. Consequently, the mobility of the holes can be lowered. | 09-04-2008 |
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20110141010 | GAZE TARGET DETERMINATION DEVICE AND GAZE TARGET DETERMINATION METHOD - The object at which a user is gazing Is accurately determined from among objects displayed on a screen. A gaze target determination device ( | 06-16-2011 |
20110208790 | LIFESTYLE COLLECTING APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE DEVICE, AND LIFESTYLE COLLECTING METHOD - Provided is a lifestyle collecting apparatus that collects information for determining a lifestyle of a user, and includes: an object information detecting unit configured to detect object information representing an object around the user; a relevance degree calculating unit configured to calculate a relevance degree of the user to the object, using the object information; an appearance information extracting unit configured to extract appearance information from the object information, and add the relevance degree to the extracted appearance information, the appearance information representing an appearance of the object; and a lifestyle database which stores the appearance information to which the relevance degree has been added, as the information for determining the lifestyle of the user. | 08-25-2011 |
20110209066 | VIEWING TERMINAL APPARATUS, VIEWING STATISTICS-GATHERING APPARATUS, VIEWING STATISTICS-PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND VIEWING STATISTICS-PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a viewing terminal apparatus that can present an appropriate result of statistics on viewing of a content for diversified viewing modes. The viewing terminal apparatus includes: a category determining unit that determines, as a viewer category, a relationship between viewers who are viewing a content displayed on a display; a transmitting unit that transmits, to the viewing statistics-gathering apparatus, first viewing status information indicating the content that is being viewed by the viewers and the viewer category determined by the category determining unit, the content being associated with the viewer category; and a viewing statistics presenting unit that obtains viewing statistics information from the viewing statistics-gathering apparatus, and presents a result of statistics that is (i) indicated by the obtained viewing statistics information and (ii) a result of statistics on viewing of a content only by viewers who belong to a predetermined viewer category. | 08-25-2011 |
20110267374 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - The present invention provides an information displaying apparatus which is capable of presenting notification information to the user without giving the user an odd impression. The information displaying apparatus ( | 11-03-2011 |
20110298702 | USER INTERFACE DEVICE AND INPUT METHOD - Provided is a user interface device ( | 12-08-2011 |
20130002551 | INSTRUCTION INPUT DEVICE, INSTRUCTION INPUT METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An instruction input device includes: a first direction detection unit detecting the first direction in which the user is looking; a second direction detection unit detecting a second direction in which the user is performing a pointing operation; a gaze position calculation unit calculating a gaze position of the user on the screen; a reference coordinate group calculation unit calculating a reference line in space corresponding to the gaze position and connecting the user and the screen; an offset amount calculation unit calculating a distance of the second direction between the reference line and the input coordinate indicating the user's hand as an offset amount with respect to the gaze position; and a pointer display position calculation unit calculating a position in which a distance of the first screen predetermined direction between the position and the gaze position is the offset amount on the screen. | 01-03-2013 |
20130063345 | GESTURE INPUT DEVICE AND GESTURE INPUT METHOD - A gesture input device includes: a coordinate input detecting unit which sequentially detects coordinate set sequences of a user hand position; a gesture start detecting unit which detects a component indicating a first hand movement for starting a gesture, from a detected first coordinate sequence; a guide image generating unit which generates a gesture guide image for guiding the user to make a gesture including a second hand movement, when the first hand movement component is detected; an intended action component detecting unit which detects a second hand movement component as an intended action component, from a second coordinate sequence detected after the gesture guide image is displayed on the display screen; and a control signal generating unit which detects a component indicating a hand movement corresponding to the gesture from the second coordinate sequence when the intended action component is detected, and generate a control signal according to the detection result. | 03-14-2013 |
20130091515 | DEGREE OF INTEREST ESTIMATING DEVICE AND DEGREE OF INTEREST ESTIMATING METHOD - An interest degree estimating device, which estimates a degree of interest of a user in a video displayed on a screen, includes: an eye gaze detecting unit for detecting an eye gaze direction of the user; a saliency information obtaining unit for obtaining saliency information on a saliency area having salient attractiveness in the video; and a user response analyzing unit for calculating a correlation between the saliency area specified from the obtained saliency information and the detected eye gaze direction, and estimate the degree of interest of the user in the video, the degree of interest being higher as the calculated correlation is higher. | 04-11-2013 |
20130239033 | LIFESTYLE COLLECTING APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE DEVICE, AND LIFESTYLE COLLECTING METHOD - Provided is a lifestyle collecting apparatus that collects information for determining a lifestyle of a user, and includes: an object information detecting unit configured to detect object information representing an object around the user; a relevance degree calculating unit configured to calculate a relevance degree of the user to the object, using the object information; an appearance information extracting unit configured to extract appearance information from the object information, and add the relevance degree to the extracted appearance information, the appearance information representing an appearance of the object; and a lifestyle database which stores the appearance information to which the relevance degree has been added, as the information for determining the lifestyle of the user. | 09-12-2013 |
20140053105 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - Included are: a plural-push information management unit; a screen attention degree determination unit; a selection operation history collection unit; a selection probability calculation unit calculating a user's selection probability for each category; and a display style determination unit causing pieces of push information in a category having a higher probability to be displayed in a more easily selectable display style. The categories include a relevance category including pieces of push information regarding content displayed on the screen. The selection probability calculation unit calculates a selection probability of the relevance category having a first attention degree as a screen attention degree to be higher than that having the second attention degree lower than the first attention degree; and calculates a selection probability having a first number as the number of selection times to be higher than that having a second number smaller than the first number. | 02-20-2014 |
20140055674 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure performs processing using (a) a main content item to be displayed by a display unit and (b) display elements arranged in a chain from which the main content item is selected. The display control device includes the following units. An importance calculation unit obtains additional information to be notified to a user and calculates an importance of the additional information. A relevance calculation unit calculates a relevance between the additional information and the main content item. A position determination unit determines a position to which the additional information is to be inserted in the display elements, based on the calculated importance and the calculated relevance. The position determination unit determines the position to receive more attention from the user as the importance and the relevance of the additional information are higher. | 02-27-2014 |
20140098301 | REMOTE CONTROL COMMAND SETTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING REMOTE CONTROL COMMAND - Provided is a remote control command setting device capable of regulating some operations while being easy to handle for children. The device reconfigures a correspondence between an operation for an operation area having multiple operation buttons arranged therein and a control command for an electric device. The device includes an operation history holding unit ( | 04-10-2014 |
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20150345874 | METHOD FOR FORMING CRYSTAL NUCLEUS IN LATENT HEAT STORAGE MATERIAL AND HEAT STORAGE DEVICE - A method for forming a crystal nucleus in a latent heat storage material contains a solvent and a dissolved substance. The solvent contains water as the main ingredient. The latent heat storage material retains latent heat in a supercooled state. The method includes: (a) separating out an anhydride of the dissolved substance by heating or cooling part of the latent heat storage material in the supercooled state; and (b) supplying a droplet comprising water to the anhydride, to terminate the supercooled state of the latent heat storage material, and make the latent heat storage material dissipate heat. | 12-03-2015 |
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20090039953 | ASYNCHRONOUS ABSORPTION CIRCUIT WITH TRANSFER PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZING FUNCTION - A selector is provided so that any one of a plurality of asynchronous absorption paths can be selected when it is assumed that operating frequencies of preceding and succeeding clock domains vary depending on the application. By an operation of a selector control circuit based on, for example, information about a ratio of preceding and succeeding clock frequencies that is set in a frequency-ratio register, an asynchronous absorption path that is optimal to a frequency-dependent process required for asynchronous absorption, such as pulse expansion or the like, is selected. | 02-12-2009 |
20110252413 | BUS CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR PATCHING INITIAL BOOT PROGRAM - A bus controller includes: a boot mode verification circuit which judges whether or not replacement of part of the initial boot program is needed; a patch code transfer sequencer which controls transfer of a patch code including a replacement program from a predetermined address of an external memory, when the boot mode verification circuit judges that the replacement is needed; a patch code buffer which stores the patch code transferred under control of the patch code transfer sequencer; and an access control circuit which detects an address of the part of the initial boot program judged as needing the replacement in the ROM, based on information included in the patch code, and performs the replacement by issuing access to the patch code buffer as replacement access for access to the address of the part of the initial boot program, when the processor issues the access to the address of the part of the initial boot program. | 10-13-2011 |
20140068128 | STREAM PROCESSOR - A stream processor that accesses a memory includes: stream processing sections each configured to extract a time stamp in an associated one of input streams, obtain priority information on access to the memory based on a difference between the time stamp and a reference time, output an access request to the memory and the priority information, and, when receiving access permission, access the memory; and an access controller configured to grant access permission to the stream processing sections repeatedly based on the access request and the priority information in such a manner that the access controller grants access permission to one of the stream processing sections having a highest priority and then, after termination of processing of the stream processing section to which the access permission has been granted, grants access permission to one of the stream processing sections having a next highest priority. | 03-06-2014 |