Abstract: An image processor includes: a notification control unit configured, when apparatus condition information which requires an alert is received, to notify alert information corresponding to the alert using a notification unit; a storage unit configured to store first information related to alert information previously notified using the notification unit and second information related to current apparatus condition received which requires an alert; and a judgment unit configured to judge whether the first information and the second information match. The notification control unit is configured to not notify an alert information related to the current apparatus condition which requires an alert using the notification unit when an elapsed time from the notification of the previous alert information to the reception of the current apparatus condition information is equal to or less than a predetermined time period and the first information and the second information match.

Abstract: High quality images on liquid crystal panel can be obtained alleviating variations of the brightness and color among regions, in which backlight is divided when emission luminance of the backlight is controlled in each region based on image signal. A backlight device is divided into multiple regions, and has a configuration in which light emitted from a light source of each of the regions is allowed to leak to other regions. A maximum gradation detector detects a maximum gradation of a regional image signal displayed on each of the regions of the liquid crystal panel. An image gain calculator obtains a gain to be multiplied to each regional image signal by using luminance bitmap held by luminance bitmap memory. An emission luminance calculator obtains an emission luminance of light to be emitted by each light source.

Abstract: A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data to be transmitted by a mobile station, includes: determining, at the radio network controller, that the mobile station is shifted between a soft-handover state in which the mobile station establishes radio links with a plurality of cells and a non soft-handover state in which the mobile station establishes a radio link with only one cell; allocating, at the radio network controller, a first temporary identifier or a second temporary identifier as a common identifier for a common transmission rate control to the mobile station based on the determination of shifts; and controlling, at a cell which establishes a radio link with the mobile station, the transmission rate of the uplink user data of the mobile station using the first temporary identifier or the second temporary identifier.

Abstract: When an HSDPA and an Enhanced Uplink are applied, a dedicated physical channel, a high speed dedicated physical control channel, and an enhanced dedicated physical control channel are made to follow only a TPC bit of a serving cell; and when a received power of an enhanced dedicated physical data channel is large, a non-serving cell instructs a mobile station UE to reduce the transmission rate of the enhanced dedicated physical data channel so that an interference power from an adjacent cell in an uplink is controlled while communication quality in a downlink is prevented from deteriorating.

Abstract: An electric powered vehicle according to the present invention comprises a battery, an electric power converting device, an electric motor, a drive wheel, a control part, an accelerator, a brake, and a rotation sensor. The control part detects the velocity using the rotation sensor. When a first velocity threshold is Vt1, and a second velocity threshold is Vt2, and when the thresholds are Vt1<Vt2, regenerative control is permitted in the case where a running velocity increases to or above the second velocity threshold, and the regenerative control is prohibited in the case where the running velocity falls below the first velocity threshold.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a solid electrolytic capacitor that comprises: an anode mainly formed of a valve metal or an alloy thereof; an anode lead terminal a part of which is buried in a side surface of the anode; a dielectric layer formed on surfaces of the anode and mainly formed of an oxide; a conducting polymer layer formed on the dielectric layer; a cathode layer formed on the conducting polymer layer on an outer circumferential surface of the anode, the cathode layer comprising: a carbon layer; and a silver paste layer formed on the carbon layer; a thermal expansion layer provided on the side surface of the anode and on a part of the outer circumferential surface continuing from the side surface; and a rein outer package provided to cover the anode, dielectric layer, cathode layer, and thermal expansion layer, wherein a thermal expansion coefficient in a temperature range lower than a glass transition temperature of the thermal expansion layer is larger than that of each of the silver

Abstract: Movement of an imaging device is detected using a camera shake detection sensor or a motion vector obtained from an image signal, and camera shake correction is performed by shifting an extraction frame (valid photographing region) within a photographable maximum region based on the motion detection result. When movement of the imaging device is causing a face region located at the edge of the extraction frame to move towards out of the frame, it is determined that the movement is due to camera shake, and the extraction frame is moved so that the face region can stay within the frame. Meanwhile, when movement of the imaging device is causing the face region to move inward within the frame, it is determined that the movement is due to a pan or tilt operation, and position control is performed so that the deliberate movement is not inhibited.

Abstract: A mobile terminal (200) comprises an application execution unit (240) configured to execute an application program; an access control rule management unit (270) configured to retain an access control rule defining whether the application program has an access authorization to a confidential resource in the mobile terminal and a determining unit; an access control rule query unit (220) configured to acquire, from an external device, the access control rule by designating at least one of an identifier of a user identity module installed in the mobile terminal and an identifier of the mobile terminal, and to retain the acquired access control rule in the access control management unit; a query requirement determination unit (260) configured to determine whether to update the access control rule when the application program makes an access to the confidential resource, and to update the access control rule; an authorization management unit (230) configured to determine whether the application program has the acce

Abstract: A sealing member of a piezoelectric resonator device is configured to hermetically seal a driving electrode formed on a piezoelectric resonator plate. In the sealing member, a through hole is formed so that an electrode pattern formed on both major surfaces of the substrate is brought into conduction; and a conductive member fills in the through hole. The through hole has a smaller diameter at a portion thereof inside the substrate than at both end portions thereof at the major surfaces of the sealing member. Both end faces of the conductive member have a concave shape with respect to the major surfaces of the substrate of the sealing member.

Abstract: The illumination apparatus includes a color separator configured to separate a white light beam, emitted from a white light source, into a plurality of color component light beams, a plurality of imagers each configured to modulate a corresponding one of the plurality of color component light beams separated by the color separator and a polarization modulator provided on a light incident side of one imager included in the plurality of imagers. The polarization modulator modulates a polarization direction of a modulation-object light beam which is part of a color component light beam guided to the one imager.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a printing apparatus having a plurality of operation modes that comprises: a storage unit configured to store power consumption values per unit time for each operation mode and a standard power consumption value indicating an energy-saving standard power consumption during a determined period of use; an operation mode management unit configured to measure an operation time of the printing apparatus for each operation mode; a calculator configured to calculate an estimated total power consumption value during the determined period of use from measured operation time in each operation mode and from the power consumption values stored in the storage unit; and a display unit configured to display both of the standard power consumption value obtained from the storage unit and the calculated estimated total power consumption value.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that can be miniaturized while maintaining the function for breaking current when excessive short-circuit current flows to a capacitor element. The solid electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body, a dielectric layer formed on the anode body, a conductive polymer layer formed on the dielectric layer, and a cathode layer formed on the conductive polymer layer. The conductive polymer layer contains thermally expandable graphite.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor includes an anode 2 made of a valve metal or an alloy thereof, a dielectric layer 3 provided on the surface of the anode 2, a conductive polymer layer 5 provided on the dielectric layer 3, and a cathode layer 6 provided on the conductive polymer layer 5. A fullerene layer 4 made of an insulating fullerene is provided between the dielectric layer 3 and the conductive polymer layer 5.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a fixing device that comprises: an endless fixing belt; a first rotating body arranged at an inner side of the fixing belt; and a heater arranged to face an inner surface of the fixing belt and configured to heat the fixing belt and to suspend the fixing belt in a tensioned state together with the first rotating body, the heater comprising: a heat generating unit arranged at an end portion of the heater on a downstream side in a direction of travel of the fixing belt and configured to heat the fixing belt; and a support including metal and configured to support the heat generating unit.

Abstract: In the conventional mobile communication system using an “Enhanced Uplink, the present invention improves a radio quality by preventing a decrease in a transmission rate of uplink user data, the decrease unintended by the radio base station Node B and caused by a false detection of a “Down” command in an RGCH.” A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes: transmitting, from a radio base station to a mobile station, a relative transmission rate control channel for instructing to decrease the transmission rate of the uplink user data, only when the uplink user data transmitted from the mobile station has been successfully received.

Abstract: Solid electrolytic capacitors are provided with decreased equivalent series resistance (ESR). The solid electrolytic capacitors include: an anode containing a valve metal or an alloy that is mainly made of a valve metal; a dielectric layer formed on a surface of the anode; an electrolyte layer formed on the dielectric layer; a carbon layer formed on the electrolyte layer; and a silver paste layer formed on the carbon layer, wherein the silver paste layer contains a nonionic surfactant.

Abstract: A projection-type image display apparatus including: a light source unit; an optical modulator including an incident surface and an output surface both being perpendicular to an optical axis of a light beam emitted from the light source, and configured to modulate a light beam emitted from the light source; a first polarizer provided to a surface of the optical modulator; and a second polarizer provided to another surface of the optical modulator. In the projection-type image display apparatus, the polarization direction of a light beam allowed to pass through the first polarizer and the polarization direction of a light beam allowed to pass through the second polarizer are substantially orthogonal to each other, and the light source unit emits a cross shaped light beam.