Abstract: The digital still camera 1 has CCD 33 with an electronic shutter for controlling an exposure amount, and a timing generator 34 and a vertical/horizontal driver 35 for driving CCD 33. Under control of a controlling unit 42, the timing generator 34 and a vertical/horizontal driver 35 generate an electronic shutter pulse signal once every time plural periods have come each for reading charge of one line from CCD 33. Power consumption can be reduced in controlling exposure using the electronic shutter.

Abstract: A camera with a function of automatically setting shooting conditions, is provided with a memory storing plural pieces of feature information of an object corresponding to different positions, respectively, the feature information of an object representing features of the object, a judging unit for, when a shooting operation is performed with the camera at a position to obtain an image, obtaining from the memory feature information corresponding to the camera position and judging whether or not an object corresponding to the obtained feature information is found in the image obtained in the shooting operation, and a shooting-operation controller for changing shooting conditions depending on the judgment made by the judging unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus 100 including a sound obtaining section 6 to obtain a sound emitted from the main subject and a central control section 71 to specify an image region of the main subject based on the sound obtained by the sound obtaining section 6 in order to specify the image region of the main subject from an obtained image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus with a protection plate including a display panel including a first transparent substrate, an adhesion layer arranged so as to overlap with an entire screen area of the display panel, the protection plate fixed to the display panel by the adhesion layer in a state where the adhesion layer intervening between the protection plate and the first transparent substrate and a cured bonding layer which directly contacts the display panel and the protection plate and which is provided on a circumference of the adhesion layer, and at least one aperture making a region in one side on which the screen area of the display panel is arranged with respect to the bonding layer and a region in the other side opposite to the one side with respect to the bonding layer communicate with each other is provided in the bonding layer.

Abstract: A stacked body comprising a light emitting layer and a light detecting element which detects light emitted by the light emitting layer. The light detecting element has a light detecting region which overlaps a light emitting surface of the light emitting layer as viewed in the thickness direction of the light emitting layer.

Abstract: A projection apparatus projecting images of respective color components sequentially includes a light source section having a plurality of light emitting elements (where n is a natural number greater than one), and a driving control section for driving each of the light emitting elements making up the light source section, by a pulse width modulation scheme with a phase difference based on ?/n (where ? is a lighting period unit), in synchronism with a projection period unit of the image of each color component.

Abstract: An imaging device performs a process for dividing each of a plurality of image frames constituting moving image information generated by an imaging unit into a plurality of blocks; a process for tracking predetermined ones of the obtained blocks in one of two image frames before and after the image frame of interest to calculate a plurality of motion vectors of the blocks, respectively; a process for comparing one of the calculated motion vectors with each of other motion vectors, the one motion vector serving as an evaluation target, thereby calculating a global motion vector of the one image frame; and a process for excluding blocks present within a predetermined distance from one block related to one motion vector serving as the evaluation target from comparison targets the motion vectors of which are to be compared with the one motion vector, when the global motion vector calculation unit calculates the global motion vector.

Abstract: A searching apparatus includes a memory unit which stores transposed indexes representing appearing positions of all n-grams in plural pieces of document data subjected to searching and appearing frequencies, an n-gram extracting unit that extracts all n-grams extractable from a searching character string, a smallest-frequency deriving unit which refers to the appearing frequency of the n-gram represented by the transposed index, and derives an n-gram with the smallest appearing frequency among all of the extracted n-grams, a searching n-gram selecting unit that selects, from all extracted n-grams, a plurality of searching n-grams which form the searching character string and include the n-gram with the smallest appearing frequency, and a document specifying unit that specifies, based on the plurality of selected searching n-grams and the appearing position of the searching n-gram represented by the transposed index, document data including the searching character string among the plural pieces of document da

Abstract: The acquisition unit 52 acquires images. The estimation unit 53 estimates a specific position within a common region between the images acquired by the acquisition unit 52. The calculation unit 54 respectively calculates a difference value between the images within the common region, while shifting the specific position estimated by the estimation unit 53 in the predetermined direction within a predetermined range within the common region. The adjustment unit 57 adjusts the specific position based on the difference values between the images respectively calculated by the calculation unit 54. The generation unit 58 combines the images based on the specific position adjusted by the adjustment unit 57.

Abstract: A light source device includes: a first light source configured to emit a first source light in a first wavelength range; a source light generator configured to generate, from the first light, a color-varying source light having time varying color; a second light source configured to emit a second source light in a second wavelength range that is different from the first wavelength range; and a light source controller configured to control driving timing for turning on and off each of the first light source and the second light source so as to cyclically select one of the color-varying source light and the second source light to be output as an output source light.

Abstract: There is provided a projection apparatus including a light source, a micromirror element which tilts a plurality of micromirrors arranged in an array +A° or ?A° (A>0) separately from an array surface to form a light image with light components reflected by the plurality of micromirrors, an illumination optical system which uses light emitted from the light source and causes illumination light whose incidence angle is (2A+?)° (?>0) to enter the micromirror element from a direction to which a less than 45° turn is made from a narrow side direction of the array surface of the micromirror element, and a projection optical system which a light image output from the micromirror element enters and which projects the light image onto a projection object.

Abstract: A protective plate integrated display apparatus includes a display panel, a protective plate to protect the observation side surface of the panel, a resin layer charged into a gap between the panel and plate to join them, and a plate-like support member having an opening corresponding to a screen area of the panel. The panel is disposed on one surface side of the support member so that the screen area faces the opening and a peripheral portion of the observation side surface is continuously fixed to the support member over the whole periphery through a frame-like adhesive layer continuously surrounding the whole periphery of the opening. The plate is arranged on the other surface side of the support member with its peripheral portion being fixed to the support member. The resin layer is charged into the opening of the support member and a region surrounded by the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A light source controller is configured to control timings of driving the first and second light sources and the light-source light generator, so that the light-source light of two or more colors generated by the light-source light generator and the light-source light emitted from the second light source are cyclically generated, by setting a light-emitting period of at least one light-source light color having a higher luminous efficiency out of the two or more colors generated by the light-source light generator, shorter than those of the other light-source light colors, and setting a drive power of the first light source during generation of the light-source light color whose light-emitting period is set short, greater than a drive power of the first light source during generation of the other light-source light colors.

Abstract: To provide a light source unit which prevents a reduction of light emitting efficiency in a luminescent material layer and a projector, a projector includes a light source unit, a display device and a projector control device, the light source unit includes an excitation light shining device, a luminescent wheel on which a luminescent material layer is laid circumferentially which receives the excitation light to emit luminescent light of a predetermined wavelength band, two types of light source devices for emitting light rays of wavelength bands which are different from the predetermined wavelength band, and a light source control device for controlling individually the emission of light by the excitation light shining device and the two types of light source devices and for controlling the rotating speed of the luminescent wheel in accordance with a period of time when the excitation light shining device is turned on.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates arranged to face each other with a predetermined gap, and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes pixel electrodes and thin-film transistors connected with the pixel electrodes. The transistors are turned on based on a scanning signal from scanning lines to electrically connect the pixel electrodes to signal lines. The second substrate has an opposed electrode, which forms pixels in areas facing the pixel electrodes. The device also has a touch input contact point provided on either the pixel electrodes or the opposed electrode to correspond to a previously selected pixel. The contact point protrudes at a height smaller than the gap between the first and second substrates and is brought into conduction by flexural deformation caused by a pressing force of a touch onto the first or second substrates.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multiband planar antenna including: an insulating film, a first antenna section and a second antenna section facing to the first antenna section across a feeding point on a film, wherein the first antenna section includes: a first antenna element including a side having a length in an extending direction corresponds to a first resonance frequency; a shorter second antenna element at a predetermined distance from and in parallel with the first antenna element; and a first coupling section to couple the first and second antenna elements, wherein a length in the extending direction of a first clearance corresponds to a resonance frequency higher than the first resonance frequency, and wherein the second antenna section includes: third and fourth antenna elements; a second coupling section; and a second clearance similar to the above.

Abstract: A light source apparatus include a light guide plate, a plurality of optical sheets and a frame, wherein one of the optical sheets is a prism sheet having a plurality of prisms on one surface and one or more integrally formed dark part suppressing projecting pieces engaging the frame. A pair of dark part suppressing sides adjoin the dark part suppressing projecting piece and form a first angle equal to or smaller than a dark part suppressing angle. Second angles making a pair of angles formed with a straight line and each of dark part suppressing sides are equal to or smaller than half of the dark part suppressing angle. The straight line passes through a region formed between the pair of dark part suppressing sides, passes through an intersection point of the pair of dark part suppressing sides and is parallel or perpendicular to ridge lines of the prisms.

Abstract: A light source device includes a first light source configured to emit light within a first wavelength band, a light-source light production section configured to sequentially produce light-source light of a plurality of colors at predetermined frequency by using light emitted by the first light source, a second light source configured to emit light within a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band, and a light source control section configured to control drive timing for each of the first and second light sources such that a light emission period for light-source light using light emitted by the second light source is positioned between light emission periods for the light-source light of the plurality of colors produced by the light-source light production section and that the light-source light using light emitted by the second light source has a frequency higher than that of the light-source light production section.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus has an intermediate image generating section to generate a second structure component and a second texture component by magnifying each of a first structure component and a first texture component separated from an original image by an intermediate magnification ratio. The second structure component and the second texture component are synthesized to generate an intermediately magnified image. A final image generating section generates a finally magnified image by synthesizing a finally magnified structure component generated by magnifying a third structure component separated from the intermediately magnified image by a final magnification ratio, and a finally magnified texture component generated by magnifying the first texture component by the final magnification ratio.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element includes a thin-film transistor in which one of source and drain electrodes is connected to a pixel electrode, and an auxiliary capacitance electrode that forms an auxiliary capacitance together with the pixel electrode and at least partially overlaps with the thin-film transistor. The thin-film transistor includes a semiconductor layer, an anti-etching layer that is arranged in contact with the semiconductor layer and made of an insulative material, and a gate electrode that is arranged to interpose the semiconductor layer between the gate electrode itself and the anti-etching layer. A region in the auxiliary capacitance electrode that overlaps with the gate electrode has a length in a direction parallel to a channel length direction of the thin-film transistor that is shorter than a length of the gate electrode in this direction and longer than a length of the anti-etching layer in this direction.