Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a plurality of positive edge-triggered master-slave flip-flop circuits sharing a clock signal. At least one of the positive edge-triggered master-slave flip-flop circuits includes; an input stage that provides a first output signal generated from an input signal in response to the clock signal and an inverted clock signal, a first inverting circuit that generates the inverted clock signal by delaying the clock signal, a transmission gate that receives a second output signal and generates a final output signal, and a second inverting circuit that receives the first output signal and generates the second output signal from the first output signal. The clock signal is applied to an NMOS transistor of the transmission gate and a PMOS transistor of the input stage, and the inverted clock signal is applied to a PMOS transistor of the transmission gate and an NMOS transistor of the input stage.

Abstract: The advancing of a game is made possible using the travel in the real world of a vehicle such as an automobile, as well as advancement of the game without entirely wasting travel of the vehicle. A game system (50) includes a probe device (21) that collects and transmits travel data of a vehicle and a game device (1), in which the game device (1) is provided with an travel data acquisition unit (31) that acquires travel data from the prove device (21), a distance calculation unit (33) that calculates a travel distance in virtual space based on the travel data thus acquired, and a display control unit (34) that displays a sight-seeing area unique image to a user when travelling on a route in virtual space according to the travel distance thus calculated, and as a results of this travel, reaching a set sight-seeing area.

Abstract: The present invention provides a TFT substrate and method for manufacturing the same. The method comprises the steps of: providing a substrate; forming a TFT structure above the substrate; further forming a color resist layer above the substrate, and forming a first opening area in the color resist layer at a location corresponding to the TFT structure; forming a first black matrix in the first opening area such that the TFT structure is covered by the first black matrix; and forming a pixel electrode above the color resist layer and the first black matrix, and the pixel electrode being electrically coupled to the TFT structure through the first black matrix. By applying the method described above, the present invention is sufficient to shield the light and reduce the light transmittance effect when the panel comprising the TFT substrate is bent, such that the contrast of the panel can be improved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel, a driving method and a fabrication method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel includes first and second substrates and a PDLC layer therebetween. The PDLC layer is formed by a positive liquid crystal and a polymer matrix, and the positive liquid crystal is initialized to be perpendicular to the substrates. The liquid crystal display panel further includes: a first transparent electrode unit, disposed on the first substrate and connected with a switch element; a second transparent electrode unit, disposed on the second substrate and connected with a first voltage; a third transparent electrode unit, disposed on the first and second substrates. The third transparent electrode unit includes a plurality of third transparent electrodes, each of which has a preset height and connected with a second voltage with a polarity opposite to that of the first voltage.

Abstract: To provide a joining structure that joins at least two or more building members together, in which jig insertion holes into which a joining jig is inserted are provided in the building members, respectively, the joining jig is inserted into the jig insertion holes and an adhesive that fixes the joining jig and the building members together is filled in the jig insertion holes, the joining jig to be inserted into the jig insertion holes includes a cylindrical main body, an intermediate shaft portion, and threaded end portions, and the threaded end portions are provided by rolled threads.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes one main combustion chamber for the combustion of a first combustion mixture, one pre-combustion chamber for each respective main combustion chamber for the combustion of a second combustion mixture, a first fuel gas mixer for providing the first combustion mixture, a second fuel gas mixer for providing the second combustion mixture, an air feed line and a synthesis gas feed line, a first mixture line connected to the first fuel gas mixer and the main combustion chamber, and a second mixture line connected to the second fuel gas mixer and the pre-combustion chamber. The first fuel gas mixer is connected to the synthesis gas feed line for the admixing of synthesis gas, and an open or closed loop control device is provided for open or closed loop controlling mixing ratios of fuel, air and synthesis gas in the first combustion mixture and/or second combustion mixture.

Abstract: A determination apparatus includes a first transportation guide, disposed on one side of a conveyance path through which a medium travels when being transported, on which a first transportation surface is formed facing the conveyance path. A sensor, on which a reading surface that reads a state of the medium, is provided closer to a side of the first transportation guide than the conveyance path. A second transportation guide, disposed on another side of the conveyance path facing the first transportation guide across the path, on which a second transportation surface is formed facing the path, on which a space through which the medium is transported, is formed between the first and second transportation guides, and on which a bend part is formed, at a portion facing the reading surface, bent in a direction separating from the reading surface more than a portion not facing the reading surface.

Abstract: Provided is a thin film transistor array panel. The thin film transistor array panel includes: an insulation substrate including a display area with a plurality of pixels and a peripheral area around the display area; a gate line and a data line positioned in the display area of the insulation substrate; a first driving signal transfer line and a second driving signal transfer line positioned in the peripheral area of the insulation substrate; a first insulating layer positioned on the gate line and the data line; and a first photosensitive film positioned on the first driving signal transfer line and the second driving signal transfer line, in which the first photosensitive film is disposed only in the peripheral area.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a pixel unit formed on the semiconductor substrate; and a peripheral circuit unit formed on the semiconductor substrate, at a periphery of the pixel unit, in which the pixel unit includes: a photoelectric conversion film which converts incident light into charges; and a floating diffusion which holds the charges, the peripheral circuit unit includes a transistor including a gate electrode and two source and drain diffusion regions, and the two source and drain diffusion regions have a higher impurity concentration than an impurity concentration of the floating diffusion.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communication field and provide an array antenna. The array antenna includes: an antenna body, which is a multi-beam antenna, a single-beam antenna without grating lobes, or a single-beam antenna with grating lobes and transmits or receives a beam set by centering on the antenna body, where the beam set includes at least one beam; a planar reflection board, configured to reflect the beam set transmitted or received by the antenna body; and an adjusting unit, connected to the antenna body and/or the planar reflection board, and configured to adjust a relative position between the planar reflection board and the beam set of the antenna body so that the beam set of the antenna body can be transmitted or received in any direction after being reflected by the planar reflection board.

Abstract: A flexible organic electroluminescent device is disclosed which includes: a flexible substrate; a buffer layer entirely formed on the flexible substrate; a thin film transistor formed on the buffer layer and configured to include an active layer; a planarization film formed to cover the thin film transistor; an organic light emitting diode formed on the planarization film and configured to include a first electrode, an organic emission layer and a second electrode; and at least one silicon nitride layer formed above the active layer of the thin film transistor but under the planarization film and patterned into a plurality of island patterns.

Abstract: A doorbell-triggering method first controls the doorbell trigger to switch to a hardware shutdown status when detecting the doorbell trigger is idle; controls the doorbell trigger to switch to an operating booting status to connect to a relay host when receiving a doorbell signal from a button unit of the doorbell trigger under the hardware shutdown status; sends a visiting message to a remote electronic device via the relay host; receives a return image/text message from the relay host and displaying the return image/text message on a display unit of the doorbell trigger. The present disclosed example can substantially reduce the power consumption and the requirement of network bandwidth via automatically switching to the hardware shutdown status when idle and using the image/text message having smaller data size to respond the visitor.

Abstract: A faucet with pipe-in-pipe structure may include a control valve and a valve shell, and a rotating base, a sliding valve piece, and a fixing valve piece are sequentially formed inside the valve shell. The rotating base has a valve rod outwardly sticking out of the valve shell to connect to a handle. The valve rod operated by a handle can rotate the rotating base with the sliding valve piece, so that relative positions between the sliding valve piece and the fixing valve piece are controlled to operate the on/off operation of the faucet, the mixing ratios of hot water and cold water, and the amount of water flow. A valve base connected to a lower end of the valve shell is configured to prevent the fixing valve piece, the sliding valve piece and the rotating base from falling out of the valve shell.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first server that performs processes in accordance with first operations included in a system of operations for the first server, a second server that performs processes in accordance with second operations included in a system of operations for the second server different from the system of operations for the first server, and a terminal apparatus that requires the first and second servers to perform the processes. The terminal apparatus includes a first requiring portion that requires the first server to perform a process in accordance with at least one of the first operations designated by a user and a converter that converts the at least one first operation into a command set and stores the command set in a storage, the command set including at least one command, which is a part of the process and is performed by the first and second servers.

Abstract: A decurler includes an endless decurling belt that is disposed so as to face an image surface of a recording medium to which an image has been thermally fixed, a decurling roller that contacts the decurling belt so as to form a decurling region between the decurling roller and the decurling belt, and a support member that is made of a thermally conductive synthetic resin having a thermal conductivity of 1 (W/mK) or higher and that directly or indirectly contacts the decurling belt.

Abstract: A luminance controller of an OLED device and the OLED device including the luminance controller include a peaking processor for calculating a minimum gray level value by filtering low gray level data from primary RGB data and determining a compensation gain value corresponding to the minimum gray level value; a boosting processor for calculating a maximum gray level value by filtering high gray level data from the primary RGB data, calculating a gain value corresponding to the maximum gray level value, and calculating a coloring ratio coefficient using the minimum gray level value and the maximum gray level value; and a secondary RGB generator for generating secondary RGB data by applying the compensation gain value, the coloring ratio coefficient, and the gain value to the primary RGB data.

Abstract: A display device including a panel having a display area and first, second, third and fourth non-display areas formed at an outer portion of the display area, said first non-display area facing the second non-display area, and the third non-display area facing the fourth non-display area; a data driver disposed in the first non-display area, and configured to drive a plurality of data lines provided in a first direction in the display area; a gate driver disposed in the second non-display area and configured to drive a plurality of gate lines provided in a second direction vertical to the first direction in the display area; a timing controller configured to drive the data driver and the gate driver; and a plurality of link lines in the display area and extending from the gate driver and provided in parallel to the data lines respectively connected to the gate lines.

Abstract: A system for loading and storing CNG onboard of a ship and for unloading it therefrom comprises CNG loading facilities for loading CNG on board of the ship, CNG storage facilities for storing the loaded CNG on board of the ship at nominal storage pressure and temperature, and CNG unloading facilities for unloading CNG to a delivery point. The delivery point requires the unloaded CNG to be at delivery pressure and temperature generally different from the storage pressure and temperature. Thus, the CNG unloading facilities comprise a CNG heater for heating the to-be-unloaded CNG prior to unloading, and a lamination valve for allowing the to-be-unloaded CNG to expand from its storage pressure to the delivery pressure. A compressor may also be provided to compress CNG that would not otherwise be spontaneously delivered.

Abstract: ‘KORapfhecki’ is a new and distinct variety of Rosa hybrida which is characterized by the combination of an upright and bushy growth habit, medium-sized double flowers which are orange in color and also attractive foliage with excellent disease resistance. The new variety propagates successfully by grafting and by stem cuttings and has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.