Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of wiring lines which are provided on an upper side of a semiconductor substrate and which have connection pad portions, and columnar electrodes are provided on the connection pad portions of the wiring lines. A first sealing film is provided around the columnar electrodes on the upper side of the semiconductor substrate and on the wiring lines. A second sealing film is provided on the first sealing film. The first sealing film is made of a resin in which fillers are not mixed, and the second sealing film is made of a material in which fillers are mixed in a resin.

Abstract: A projector comprises a light source unit 63, a display device, a cooling fan, a light source side optical system for guiding light from the light source unit 63 to the display device, a projection side optical system for projecting an image emitted from the display device on to a screen, and a projector control unit for controlling the light source unit 63 and the display device. In addition, this light source unit 63 has a plurality of fan-shaped segment areas on a circular transparent base material 130 which can be controlled to rotate, layers 131 of different phosphors which emit light of predetermined wavelength bands by receiving excitation light being disposed on at least two of the segment areas on the transparent base material 130, and comprises an excitation light source 72 which shines excitation light within a visible light wavelength band on to the phosphors.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light emitting panel including: a light blocking section formed above a substrate, the light blocking section including an opening; a first electrode formed above the opening of the light blocking section; a dividing wall including an opening so that at least a portion of the first electrode is exposed, the opening corresponding to a shape of the opening of the light blocking section; a second electrode formed above the first electrode; and a carrier transport layer composed of at least one layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A radio controlled timepiece includes a housing and an antenna structure encased within the housing. The antenna structure includes a bar shaped core and a coil wound around the core, for receiving radio waves to set a current time. The housing includes a short hollow cylindrical metal case and a metal back cover engaged with one end of the case for closing. The housing further includes a housing fixing structure provided only on one of two parts of the housing divided by an axis of the bar shaped core.

Abstract: There is provided a light source unit comprising an excitation light shining device for emitting excitation light, a luminescent plate having a luminescent light emitting area on a base material and adapted to emit a luminescent light of a predetermined wavelength band by excitation light from the excitation shining device, two types of light source devices for emitting light of wavelength bands different from that of the light from the luminescent plate, a light guiding optical system for guiding the light from the luminescent plate and the rays from the light sources to a predetermined plane, and a light source control device for controlling the emission from the excitation light shining device and the light sources, wherein a synthetic light or a single-color light are emitted by controlling the emissions from the excitation light shining device and the light sources by the light source control device.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display area in which a plurality of display pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, to display image information, a power supply driving section applying, to each of the display pixels in the display area, one of a first power supply voltage having a voltage value at which the display pixel is set to a non-display-operation state and a second power supply voltage having a voltage value at which the display pixel is set to a display operation state, and a control section controlling the power supply driving section to set a area-ratio of an first area in the display area in which the display pixels to which the first power supply voltage is applied are arranged to an second area in which the display pixels to which the second power supply voltage is applied are arranged.

Abstract: Disclosed is a keyboard device 100, in which a plurality of keys 3 are attached to a keyboard chassis 1 rotatably in a keying direction. In the keyboard device 100, a key pressing member 20 of the keyboard chassis 1 includes sliding portions 26 as protruding parts. Chassis attachment portions 36 of the keys 3 include opening portions 36a as recessed parts. A configuration is adopted so that, in a state where the sliding portions 26 and the opening portions 36a are engaged with other, the keys 3 can be prevented from dropping off from the keyboard chassis 1, and inclination of the keys 3 in a transverse direction can be suppressed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of color filters for four color components arranged in a matrix correspondingly to a plurality of pixels, respectively, every group of four color filters that are arranged adjacently in horizontal and vertical directions being corresponding to different four color components, wherein each of the plurality of color filters has a generally rectangular shape that has a cutout portion in each of four corners thereof.

Abstract: To provide a light source unit which can increase luminance and a projector including this light source unit. This light source unit includes a luminous wheel having a segment area on which a luminescent material layer is formed which emits light of a predetermined wavelength band by receiving light, and a segment area which is made into a transmission portion which transmits light, a primary light source which shines light of a visible wavelength band on to the luminous wheel, a secondary light source which emits light of a wavelength band which is different from light from the luminescent material layer and light from the primary light source, a collective optical system which collects light from the luminous wheel and the secondary light source to cause them to converge to the same optical path, and a light source control device which controls the emission of light from the light sources.

Abstract: A method includes specifying an image area which is contained in the subject-present image taken and in which nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value, determining whether or not a range of the specified image area in the subject-present image in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is greater than or equal to a predetermined range, generating an extraction background image used to extract a subject area in the subject-present image containing the subject, from the image area when the range of the image area in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is determined to be greater than or equal to the predetermined range, and extracting the subject area from the subject-present image based on information on a difference between each pixel in the extraction background image and a corresponding pixel in the subject-present image.

Abstract: To provide a light source unit which can enhance luminance and a projector, a projector of the invention includes a light source unit comprising a luminescent wheel with luminescent light emitting portions to emit blue and green rays, a primary light source shining an excitation light to the luminescent light emitting portions, a secondary light source emitting a red ray, a light guiding optical system guiding the rays from the luminescent wheel and the ray from the secondary light source to the same optical path and a light source control means controlling the emissions from the respective light sources, wherein the light source control means turns on the secondary light source when the ray from the primary light source is shone onto a boundary between the luminescent light emitting portions to synthesize the rays from the luminescent wheel and the ray from the secondary light source to generate white ray.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus is provided with a subject movement data creation unit that detects the movement of subjects in a plurality of partitioned blocks that partition a screen area of moving images, and creates subject movement data that specifies a partitioned block where there is movement in the subject and the movement of the subject in that partitioned block; a still image acquisition unit that acquires still images; and a still image processor that causes the image of the still image blocks corresponding to the partitioned blocks specified by the subject movement data to move in accordance with the movement of the subject specified by the subject movement data, on the still image acquired by the still image acquisition unit using the subject movement data created by the subject movement data creation unit.

Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a plurality of light sources individually emitting light in a plurality of colors, a projection section using light from the light sources to generate images corresponding to respective plural color components of the light source light for each period, to sequentially project the images, a measurement section measuring a brightness of the light sources for each of the plurality of colors, an average brightness calculation section calculating, at each image projection term for the same color component, an average brightness of the brightness measured by the measurement section at the image projection term, and a light source control section adjusting the brightness of the light sources so that an average chromaticity based on the average brightness calculated by the average brightness calculation section and indicating the brightness is equal or approximate to a target chromaticity.

Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses and a relaying apparatus, the relaying apparatus performs a channel search to select a wireless channel in a good communication situation when the relaying apparatus transmits a beacon signal at a constant period, and transmits switching destination information to be used to switch the wireless channel to the selected one in a state of being stored in the beacon signal. When the communication situation of the wireless channel has deteriorated, the relaying apparatus switches the wireless channel being used by the communication section to the selected one based on the switching destination information. When the communication situation of a wireless channel of the wireless terminal apparatus has deteriorated, the wireless terminal apparatus switches the wireless channel to the selected one based on the switching destination information.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image; a generating unit configured to generate a plurality of feature maps for a plurality of features of the image, wherein each of the feature maps corresponds to one of the features of the image; an imaging situation determining unit configured to determine an imaging situation of the image; a weighting unit configured to weight the feature maps in accordance with the imaging situation; and a detector configured to detect a region of interest from the image based on feature distributions of the weighted feature maps.

Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit, a light source side optical system which includes a color wheel and a light guiding unit, a display device, a projection side optical system, a cooling fan, and a projector control unit. An interior of a projector casing is divided into an outlet side spatial compartment which is positioned on an outlet side of the cooling fan and in which the light source unit is disposed and an inlet side spatial compartment which is positioned on an inlet side of the cooling fan. The outlet side spatial compartment is covered thereabove by an upper division board, above which a heat conductive sheet which is formed of an aluminum sheet is disposed. The heat conductive sheet is electrically connected to the projector casing, so that electricity charged in the heat conductive sheet can be discharged.

Abstract: An image pick-up apparatus is provided, which is provided with a recording medium, a image processing unit, a display, and a controlling unit. The recording medium stores plural continuous image frames of one scene. The image processing unit adds and combines a predetermined number of image frames among the plural image frames stored in the recording medium to successively produce image frames H for reproduction. The display switches the image frames for reproduction at a reproducing frame rate to reproduce a moving image. The controlling unit sets the number of image frames to be added and combined by the image processing unit in accordance with a reproducing speed of the moving image, whereby the moving image is reproduced with noises reduced at various reproducing speeds.

Abstract: A light source unit including an excitation light source for emitting light in a blue wavelength band, a fluorescent wheel, a light emitting device for emitting light in a red wavelength band and a light guiding optical system for guiding light emitted from the fluorescent wheel and the light emitting device to a light guiding device. The fluorescent wheel has a fluorescent area where a green fluorescent material layer for emitting fluorescent light in a green wavelength band is disposed and a diffuse area for converting light emitted from the excitation light source into diffuse light of which directivity is weak are disposed end to end in a circumferential direction. A concentration of weight content of the green fluorescent material and a thickness thereof are such that a luminescent intensity of fluorescent light emitted from the green fluorescent material layer is enhanced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer which is arranged between first and second aligning films formed on inner sides of first and second substrates, has liquid crystal molecules twist-aligned in a direction from the first aligning film toward the second aligning film when an electric field is not applied between first and second electrodes, and generates retardation of substantially ?/2 with respect to transmitted light. First and second polarizing plates are arranged on outer sides of the first and second substrates. A transmission axis or an absorption axis of the first polarizing plate is substantially matched with a direction along which the liquid crystal molecules in the vicinity of the first aligning film are aligned when a sufficiently intensive electric field is applied.

Abstract: A display pixel including a light-emitting element and a drive element for supplying current flowing in a current path to the light-emitting element is applied with a detection voltage based on a predetermined unit voltage. Based on a value of current flowing in the current path of the drive element, a specific value corresponding to an element characteristic of the drive element is detected. A gradation voltage corresponding to a luminance gradation of display data is generated. Based on the specific value and the unit voltage, a compensated voltage is generated. By compensating the gradation voltage based on the compensated voltage, a compensated gradation voltage is generated. And the compensated gradation voltage is supplied to the display pixel.