Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a teaching device on which portable terminal equipment is mounted, the teaching device being used to teach operation to a robot. The teaching device includes a case section including a mounting surface on which the portable terminal equipment is mounted. The case section includes a first member including a stop switch for stopping the operation of the robot and configured to restrict the portable terminal equipment's moving in a first direction extending along the mounting surface and a second member provided to be capable of moving in the first direction relatively to the first member and configured to restrict the portable terminal equipment's moving in an opposite direction of the first direction.

Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a teaching device on which portable terminal equipment is mounted, the teaching device being used to teach operation to a robot. The teaching device includes a case section including a mounting surface on which the portable terminal equipment is mounted. The case section includes a first member including a stop switch for stopping the operation of the robot and configured to restrict the portable terminal equipment's moving in a first direction extending along the mounting surface and a second member provided to be capable of moving in the first direction relatively to the first member and configured to restrict the portable terminal equipment's moving in an opposite direction of the first direction.

Abstract: A robot includes a robot arm, a drive unit that drives the robot arm, a first control unit that controls drive of the drive unit, a plurality of detection units at least one of which is an angular velocity sensor as an inertial sensor, and a wiring unit that series-connects the plurality of detection units and the first control unit.

Abstract: A robot includes a first power supply that outputs first voltage, a first circuit that operates with the first voltage, a second power supply that outputs second voltage, a second circuit that operates with the second voltage, and a first protection section that causes the first circuit to operate based on the second voltage when the first power supply stops outputting the first voltage.

Abstract: A robot includes a first power supply that outputs first voltage, a first circuit that operates with the first voltage, a second power supply that outputs second voltage, a second circuit that operates with the second voltage, and a first protection section that causes the first circuit to operate based on the second voltage when the first power supply stops outputting the first voltage.

Abstract: A robot includes a robot arm, a drive unit that drives the robot arm, a first control unit that controls drive of the drive unit, a plurality of detection units at least one of which is an angular velocity sensor as an inertial sensor, and a wiring unit that series-connects the plurality of detection units and the first control unit.

Abstract: A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display apparatus, which has a display section including a plurality of pixels each having a pixel electrode and a common electrode opposing each other and an electrophoretic element interposed therebetween which includes electrophoretic particles, includes erasing a first image displayed on the display section, during a process of rewriting the first image into a second image. The driving method includes displaying the second image on the display section, during the process of rewriting the first image into the second image, wherein the corrected image data is image data obtained by correcting image data associated with the second image so as to reduce an area displaying the one gradation and expand an area displaying the other gradation in the second image.

Abstract: An image display device for displaying an image on a display panel is provided. The image display device includes a temperature variation rate detecting unit that detects a temperature variation rate of the display panel; a driving condition setting unit that sets driving conditions so as to display the image on the display panel in accordance with an image data of the image; a driving condition changing unit that changes the set driving conditions in accordance with the detected temperature variation rate; and a display panel driving unit that displays the image on the display panel by driving the display panel with the driving conditions changed by the driving condition changing unit.

Abstract: An image display apparatus that displays an image on a display includes: a temperature measuring unit that measures temperatures of a plurality of display regions of the display; a determining unit that determines whether or not a temperature difference between one of the plurality of display regions and the other display regions is larger than a threshold value on the basis of the temperatures measured by the temperature measuring unit; a driving condition setting unit that sets a driving condition for displaying the image on the display according to image data of the image; a driving condition changing unit that, in a case when the determining unit determines that the temperature difference is larger than the threshold value, changes the set driving condition to a driving condition different from that in a case in which the temperature difference is determined to be equal to or smaller than the threshold value; and a display driving unit that drives the display under the driving condition changed by the dri

Abstract: A cholesteric liquid crystal driving device according to the present invention includes a first driving circuit for displaying one part of the image data to be displayed by a cholesteric liquid crystal on a first scanning line by driving the cholesteric liquid crystal on the first scanning line in accordance with first and second cycles; and a second driving circuit for displaying the other part of the image data to be displayed by a cholesteric liquid crystal on a second scanning line by driving the cholesteric liquid crystal on the second scanning line in accordance with a third or fourth cycle.

Abstract: The present invention is adapted to make all the pixels of electrophoretic display 17 white (step S103) when light no longer incomes on the face of electrophoretic display 17 (“Yes” at step S102) . When someone places the face of electrophoretic display 17 on a contact glass of a copy machine to copy the contents on electrophoretic display 17 as they are, all the contents currently displayed on electrophoretic display 17 is deleted. As the result, the present invention can prevent the contents on electrophoretic display 17 from being easily copied by the copy machine as they are.

Abstract: A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display apparatus, which has a display section including a plurality of pixels each having a pixel electrode and a common electrode opposing each other and an electrophoretic element interposed therebetween which includes electrophoretic particles, includes erasing a first image displayed on the display section, during a process of rewriting the first image into a second image, by supplying the common electrode with a common voltage, supplying the pixel electrode of a pixel among the plurality of pixels which is displaying one gradation out of a first gradation and a second gradation different from the first gradation with a voltage corresponding to the other gradation different from the one gradation, supplying the pixel electrode of a pixel among the plurality of pixels which is displaying the other gradation with a voltage of the same level as the common voltage.

Abstract: There is provided a battery-driven electronic book reader for switchingly displaying each page of contents separated in predetermined pages on a cholesteric liquid crystal panel, wherein a remaining available battery level is detected (step S102), the number of pages to be switchedly displayed on the cholesteric liquid crystal panel is calculated based on the detected remaining available battery level (step S104), and the calculated number of pages is displayed on the cholesteric liquid crystal panel (step 105).

Abstract: A display driving device for driving a display device having a plurality of display pixels in which a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of data electrodes are provided so as to overlap and correspond to each other and each of which has an electro-optical layer to which driving voltages corresponding to a data voltage and a scanning voltage are applied when the scanning voltage is applied to the scanning electrodes and the data voltage is applied to the data electrodes is disclosed.

Abstract: A display driver for driving a display element includes an electro-optical layer to which a drive voltage is applied, the drive voltage being a voltage corresponding to a scanning voltage and a data voltage, the scanning voltage being a voltage applied to a scanning electrode, the data voltage being a voltage applied to a data electrode.

Abstract: An image display device for displaying an image on a display panel is provided. The image display device includes a temperature variation rate detecting unit that detects a temperature variation rate of the display panel; a driving condition setting unit that sets driving conditions so as to display the image on the display panel in accordance with an image data of the image; a driving condition changing unit that changes the set driving conditions in accordance with the detected temperature variation rate; and a display panel driving unit that displays the image on the display panel by driving the display panel with the driving conditions changed by the driving condition changing unit.

Abstract: An image display apparatus that displays an image on a display includes: a temperature measuring unit that measures temperatures of a plurality of display regions of the display; a determining unit that determines whether or not a temperature difference between one of the plurality of display regions and the other display regions is larger than a threshold value on the basis of the temperatures measured by the temperature measuring unit; a driving condition setting unit that sets a driving condition for displaying the image on the display according to image data of the image; a driving condition changing unit that, in a case when the determining unit determines that the temperature difference is larger than the threshold value, changes the set driving condition to a driving condition different from that in a case in which the temperature difference is determined to be equal to or smaller than the threshold value; and a display driving unit that drives the display under the driving condition changed by the dri

Abstract: A cholesteric liquid crystal driving device according to the present invention includes a first driving circuit for displaying one part of the image data to be displayed by a cholesteric liquid crystal on a first scanning line by driving the cholesteric liquid crystal on the first scanning line in accordance with first and second cycles; and a second driving circuit for displaying the other part of the image data to be displayed by a cholesteric liquid crystal on a second scanning line by driving the cholesteric liquid crystal on the second scanning line in accordance with a third or fourth cycle.

Abstract: A scanning electrode driver for supplying a drive signal to a plurality of scanning electrodes in a display device having a plurality of display pixels, the plurality of display pixels respectively including memory liquid crystal layers that are applied with drive voltages corresponding to data voltages and scanning voltages when the scanning voltages are applied to the scanning electrodes and the data voltages are applied to the data electrodes, the memory liquid crystal layers being provided corresponding to intersections between the plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of data electrodes, and the drive signal being divided into a plurality of phases including at least four phases, the four phases being a reparation phase, a selection phase, an evolution phase, and a non-selection phase, the four phases applying different effective powers to the memory liquid crystal layers, the scanning electrode driver includes a plurality of switch sections, each of the plurality of switch sections having at

Abstract: The present invention is adapted to make all the pixels of electrophoretic display 17 white (step S103) when light no longer incomes on the face of electrophoretic display 17 (“Yes” at step S102) . When someone places the face of electrophoretic display 17 on a contact glass of a copy machine to copy the contents on electrophoretic display 17 as they are, all the contents currently displayed on electrophoretic display 17 is deleted. As the result, the present invention can prevent the contents on electrophoretic display 17 from being easily copied by the copy machine as they are.