Abstract: A printing surface processing method includes first forming, second forming and applying. In the first forming, a substantially flat first image expressed with unevenness sense based on a touch and/or a stroke of a brush is formed on a first face of a thermal expansion sheet. In the second forming, a second image constituted of a grayscale image is formed on a second face of the sheet. The grayscale image includes a dark portion and a light portion with densities set to form a substantially uneven shape on the first face. The uneven shape corresponds to the unevenness sense of the first image and unevenness sense of fabric where the first image is supposed to be formed. In the applying, thermal energy is applied to the second image to expand the sheet to form the uneven shape on the first face.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reaction device including: a reactor to cause a reaction of a reactant; a first container to house the reactor; and a second container to house the first container, wherein a gas is injected to a space between the reactor and the first container and the first container is sealed, and an atmospheric pressure in a space between the first container and the second container is lower than a normal atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: An image capture device (1) includes: a storage unit (19) that stores a plurality of discriminators corresponding to a plurality of photographing environment types, respectively; an acquisition unit (42) that sequentially acquires images; a selection unit (41) that selects a specific discriminator from among a plurality of discriminators that corresponds to the plurality of photographing environments, respectively; and a detection unit (43) that detects an image of a subject in images sequentially acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a transistor structure including: a first thin film transistor including, a first gate electrode; a first insulating film; a first semiconductor film; and a first light blocking film, and a second thin film transistor including, a second semiconductor film; the second insulating film; a second gate electrode; and a second light blocking film, wherein the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film include a first region and a second region along a thickness direction from the first insulating film side; and degree of crystallization of silicon of one of the first region or the second region is higher than the degree of crystallization of silicon of the other of the first region or the second region.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store first images, a processor configured to change tones of first reduced images of the first images to first tones, and a display configured to display the first reduced images of the first images in a column direction or a row direction, and to display tone-changed reduced images of the first images in the row direction or the column direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a transistor structure including: a first thin film transistor including, a first gate electrode; a first insulating film which covers the first gate electrode; and a first semiconductor film formed on the first insulating film in a position corresponding to the first gate electrode; and a second thin film transistor including, a second semiconductor film formed on the first insulating film; a second insulating film which covers the second semiconductor film; and a second gate electrode formed in a position corresponding to a channel portion of the second semiconductor film on the second insulating film, wherein the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film include a first portion on the first insulating film side and a second portion on the opposite surface side, and one of the first portion or the second portion has a higher degree of crystallization of silicon compared to the other.

Abstract: When a displacement between a reference frame of a plurality of images acquired by continuous image pickup and a target frame is less than a first threshold indicating that such a frame is not likely to be affected by occlusion, smoothing is performed on an object area through a morphological operation with a normal process amount. Conversely, when a displacement between the reference frame of the plurality of images acquired by continuous image pickup and a target frame is larger than or equal to the first threshold, smoothing is performed with the process amount of morphological operation being increased with respect to the normal process amount.

Abstract: An input apparatus including: a first operation detecting section provided on a first operating section which detects acceleration and angular speed based on movement of the first operating section; a second operation detecting section provided on a second operating section which detects acceleration and angular speed based on movement of the second operating section; a judging section which judges whether or not the first and second operating sections have been held together, based on the accelerations and the angular speeds detected by the first and second operation detecting sections; a detecting section which detects a change operation based on the accelerations and the angular speeds detected by the first and second operation detecting sections, when the judging section judges that the first and second operating sections have been held together; and a changing section which changes a predetermined parameter in accordance with the change operation detected by the detecting section.

Abstract: There is provided an image composition apparatus configured to produce a composite image in which a foreground image is overlaid on a part of a background image. The apparatus designates a pair of images used as the background image and the foreground image, when one image of the pair of images is a pictorial image with a certain pictorial style, obtains pictorial style information indicative of the pictorial style of the one image of the pair of images, converts the other image of the pair of images into a pictorial image with the pictorial style indicated by the pictorial style information, produces a composite image from a combination of the pictorial image corresponding to the one image of the pair of images and the pictorial image resulting from the conversion on the other image of the pair of images, and outputs the composite image.

Abstract: A photovoltaic light-polarizing element includes a first transparent electrode, an alignment film, an electron collector, dichroic dye molecules, a second transparent electrode and an electron supplier. The first transparent electrode is formed on a first transparent substrate. The alignment film is formed on the first transparent electrode and is alignment-processed in a first direction. The electron collector is formed on the alignment film as a porous layer having pores aligned in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The second transparent electrode is formed on a second transparent substrate, the second transparent electrode facing the first transparent electrode with a predetermined gap. The electron supplier is arranged in the gap between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode. And the dichroic dye molecules are arranged in the pores of the porous layer such that the dichroic dye molecules are aligned in the second direction.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate which are bonded by a frame-shaped seal member. One of a surface of the first transparent substrate and a surface of the second transparent substrate is a protrusion formation surface, and the other is a protrusion facing surface. On the protrusion formation surface, protrusions and a first resistive film are formed. The first resistive film includes first contact regions covering tops of the protrusions. On the protrusion facing surface, a second resistive film that includes second contact regions facing the first contact regions is formed. The protrusion formation surface or the protrusion facing surface includes a void region where the resistive film is not formed. Insulating spacers regulate a given distance between the first contact regions and the second contact regions. A space between the first and second transparent substrates contains an insulating liquid.

Abstract: A server device for use in a thin-client system includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an application program executed on the server device based on an input event from the client terminal has requested sensor information in a present environment of a device, an obtaining unit configured to, when the determination unit has determined the application program has requested sensor information, obtain sensor information in a present environment of the client terminal instead of obtaining sensor information in an present environment of the server device, and a transmission unit configured to cause the application program to run based on the sensor information on the client terminal obtained at the obtaining unit and transmits screen data created by the execution to the client terminal.

Abstract: An array substrate for displays, includes a first conductive film pattern, a first insulating layer, a second conductive film pattern, a second insulating layer, a contact hole, and a transparent conductive film. The first conductive film pattern is pattern-formed on a transparent substrate. The first insulating layer is formed on the first conductive film pattern. The second conductive film pattern is pattern-formed upper the first insulating layer and overlapping the first conductive film pattern. The second insulating layer is formed upper the first insulating layer and the second conductive film pattern. The contact hole is made from the first insulating layer to the second insulating layer. The transparent conductive film electrically connects the first conductive film pattern and the second conductive film pattern in the contact hole. The contact hole is made in a region where an edge of the second conductive film pattern overlaps the first conductive film pattern.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a pixel electrode to apply a voltage to a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and an opposed electrode, a thin film transistor connected to the pixel electrode, a scanning line to supply a gate signal to the thin film transistor, a first coordinate detection line disposed parallel to the scanning line, a first coordinate detection electrode formed closer to the liquid crystal layer than the scanning line and the first coordinate detection line, and a first insulating film formed as a layer between the first coordinate detection line and the first coordinate detection electrode. The first insulating film is provided with a contact hole to electrically connect the first coordinate detection line and the first coordinate detection electrode.

Abstract: A video with a high satisfaction level of user is generated from multi-aspect images. For each frame of the output video, a provisional video creator creates a provisional video with provisional images reconstructed using default values from LFIs as the frames. Then this is output to an output device. A designation acquirer acquires information designating coordinates of the target object on the provisional video. A list creator acquires the depth value of the target object using a depth map created from the LFI of the current frame, and records this in a designation list after obtaining the reconstruction distance from the depth value. A corrector corrects the designation list. A main video creator creates a main video with reconstructed images focused at a focal length designated by the post-correction designation list as frames, and outputs this to an output device.

Abstract: A light source system includes a luminescent wheel, a driving unit for rotating the luminescent wheel, a light source for shining excitation light on to a luminescent material layer of the luminescent wheel, a light shining control unit for controlling an illumination timing of the light source, a light shining time integrating unit for integrating individual excitation light shining times to a plurality of predetermined divided areas of the luminescent wheel, an integrated light shining time storage unit for storing the individual light shining times to the predetermined divided areas, and a light shining range control unit for equalizing times over which excitation light is shone on to the plurality of predetermined divided areas of the luminescent wheel based on the individual excitation light shining times to the predetermined divided areas.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including a capturing section which captures images, a detection section which detects an image capturing direction of the capturing section, a setting section which sets a plurality of image capturing directions of images for use in a composite necessary to generate a wide-angle image based on a reference image which is a first image captured by the capturing section, a judgment section which judges whether or not the image capturing direction detected by the detection section coincides with any one of the plurality of image capturing directions set by the setting section, and an imaging control section which controls to capture an image for use in the composite by the capturing section in the image capturing direction detected by the detection section, when the judgment section judges that mutual directions coincide.

Abstract: A calculator is provided. The calculator includes: a display unit having a touch panel; a recognition unit configured to: (i) recognize a numerical expression which is handwritten on the touch panel; (ii) convert the handwritten numerical expression in a text format; and (iii) display the text-converted numerical expression on the display unit; and an erasing unit configured to: if a part of the text-converted numerical expression is erroneously recognized and the erroneously-recognized part is specified, (i) erase the erroneously-recognized part and a part of the handwritten numerical expression corresponding to the erroneously recognized part. If information is handwritten again in the erased part of the handwritten numerical expression, the recognition unit recognizes the handwritten information again, and then the erroneously-recognized part of the text-converted numerical expression is corrected.

Abstract: A client apparatus, which requests a service to a server apparatus and receives a result corresponding to the request, comprises: a receiving section for receiving screen data corresponding to the result and a position of a status bar area in the screen data from the server; a display section for performing a display based on the screen data; and a control section for detecting a change of display contents of the screen data based on the position of the status bar area and the screen data, causing the display section to perform the display except for the status bar area based on the screen data when it is not detected that the display content of the status bar area is changed, and causing the display section to display the status bar area when it is detected that the display content of the status bar area is changed.

Abstract: A fluorescent wheel comprising a base with a reflective surface and a flat bottom surface, and a fluorescent layer disposed on the reflective surface of the base such that the reflective surface of the base directs, outward from the wheel, fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent layer due to its excitation by exciting light. The reflective surface of the base has an array of minute reflective structures formed thereon so as to reflect, outward from the reflective surface, fluorescence emitted substantially parallel to the flat bottom surface of the base from the fluorescent layer.