Abstract: A banknote handling system includes an unlocking system. The unlocking system includes a camera, a first mechanical arm to which one or a plurality of keys are affixed, and a controller that determines a position of a keyhole based on an image from the camera, and controls the first arm to insert one of the one or the plurality of keys into the keyhole and turn the inserted key for unlocking. In many examples, the unlocking system is configured to unlock a banknote cashbox.

Abstract: Disclosed is a black-matrix substrate including a substrate, a light-shielding film located over the substrate and having a plurality of openings, and a plurality of color filters arranged in the plurality of openings. The light-shielding film includes a base film over the substrate, a metal film over the base film, and a low-reflectance film located between the base film and the metal film and has an optical reflectance lower than that of the metal film. The base film may include at least one of a resin and an inorganic compound.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a polarization conversion element includes a first light guide including a first main surface and a side surface, a transmissive first polarization grating opposed to the side surface, and a reflective second polarization grating opposed to the first main surface. The first polarization grating is configured to diffract first circularly polarized light of unpolarized incident light and to diffract second circularly polarized light which rotates in a direction opposite to the first circularly polarized light in a direction different from the first circularly polarized light. The second polarization grating is configured to reflect the first circularly polarized light on the reflective surface.

Abstract: A LCD device having a large pixel holding capacitance includes opposedly facing first and second substrates, and liquid crystal between them. The first substrate includes a video signal line, a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor having a first electrode connected to the video signal line and a second electrode connected to the pixel electrode, a first silicon nitride film formed above the second electrode, an organic insulation film above the first silicon nitride film, a capacitance electrode above the organic insulation film, and a second silicon nitride film above the capacitance electrode and below the pixel electrode. A contact hole etched in both the first and second silicon nitride films connects the second electrode and the pixel electrode to each other. A holding capacitance is formed by the pixel electrode, the second silicon nitride film and the capacitance electrode.

Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device includes: a power supply configured to supply power to a heater configured to heat an aerosol source; a step-up system configured to function by a stepped-up voltage supplied from the power supply; a step-down system configured to function by a stepped-down voltage supplied from the power supply; and a direct-coupling system configured to function by a voltage supplied from the power supply.

Abstract: A gas sensor driving method for a gas sensor that (i) includes: a first electrode including a first principal surface; a second electrode including a second principal surface; a metal-oxide layer interposed between the first principal surface and the second principal surface that face each other; and an insulating film covering the first electrode, the metal-oxide layer, and the second electrode, and exposing at least a part of a third principal surface of the second electrode, the third principal surface being disposed on an opposite side of the second principal surface, and (ii) detects hydrogen in accordance with a change in a resistance value of the metal-oxide layer. The gas sensor driving method includes repeatedly applying a positive voltage and a negative voltage across the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A plurality of system control devices respectively include network interfaces for communicating with each other via a network. One of the plurality of system control devices functions as a master system control device, and the remaining system control devices function as slave system control devices. The master system control device transmits a control command to the slave system control devices by means of the network interface. The slave system control devices receive the control command by means of the network interfaces and supply an operation command to abatement devices in accordance with the control command. When unable to communicate with the master system control device, the slave system control devices either function as master system control devices or enter stand-alone operation mode.

Abstract: An area of a region arranged on one side of a display region in a direction in which scanning lines extend is reduced. A display apparatus has a scanning line driving circuit and a plurality of scanning lines. The scanning line driving circuit is provided in a region arranged along a side portion on the positive side in the X-axis direction in a display region of a substrate. The scanning line driving circuit includes a plurality of transfer circuits connected to the plurality of scanning lines, respectively. Among the plurality of transfer circuits, the shape of one transfer circuit is different from the shape of another transfer circuit arranged on the negative side of the one transfer circuit in the Y-axis direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display panel and a polarizing plate. The display panel comprises a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a light-shielding layer arranged in the display area and the non-display area. The polarizing plate is provided on a surface of the display panel, and including an end portion located in the non-display area. In this display device, the light-shielding layer opposite to the end portion of the polarizing plate is at least partially removed.

Abstract: A sensor module comprises a non-contact sensor array having a plurality of sensors, a control unit configured to receive a detection signal output from the non-contact sensor array and to generate coordinate information based on the detection signal, a drive unit configured to receive the coordinate information from the control unit and to output a drive signal based on the coordinate information, and a light shielding panel overlapping the non-contact sensor array, the light shielding panel configured to be driven based on the drive signal, wherein the light shielding panel is switchable between blocking and transmitting light traveling in a direction parallel to a main surface of the non-contact sensor array.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an organic semiconductor device includes a supporting substrate, a plurality of organic EL light emitting elements, a first barrier layer, a flattening layer, and a second barrier layer. The flattening layer exists sporadically and makes gentle in inclination steep elevation change present in the surface of the first barrier layer. The first barrier layer and the second barrier layer are made of moisture penetration preventive material.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal display device includes: a first panel configured to display an image; a backlight configured to irradiate the first panel with light; and a second panel configured to limit an emission area of the light. The second panel includes a plurality of first electrodes whose potentials are individually controllable and a second electrode provided at a position opposite to the first electrodes with liquid crystal between the first and second electrodes. The first electrodes are arranged in a first direction along the second panel. The first electrodes are provided with such a potential that liquid crystal in a first state and liquid crystal in a second state alternately occur in the first direction. The first state is a state of blocking light. The second state is a state of transmitting light and changing refractive index distribution of light incident from the backlight side.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system, a method and a computer-readable medium for data accessing. The method includes receiving a request, receiving a status parameter of an endpoint corresponding to the request, receiving a number of times of receiving the request in a period of time, and determining a delay time length for transmitting the request according to the status parameter of the endpoint or the number of times of receiving the request in the period of time. The present disclosure can achieve more efficient resource allocation and can prevent server outage.

Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a base material including a display region having a plurality of pixels and a frame region; a lower electrode provided in each of the plurality of pixels; an organic material layer arranged on the lower electrode; an upper electrode arranged on the organic material layer and covering the display region; a conductor portion provided in the frame region and connected to the upper electrode; and a rib provided on the conductor portion, wherein the upper electrode is arranged on the conductor portion via the rib, a first contact portion where the upper electrode and the conductor portion contact each other is located in the frame region, the rib has a side surface located at an opposite side of the first contact portion from the display region, and an end portion of the upper electrode faces the side surface.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a first lower electrode, a rib including a first pixel aperture, a partition including a lower portion on the rib and an upper portion protruding from a side surface of the lower portion, a first upper electrode, and a first organic layer between the first lower electrode and the first upper electrode. The lower portion includes a bottom layer and a stem layer on the bottom layer. The bottom layer is formed of a material which has a smaller etching rate to a mixed acid containing phosphoric acid, nitric acid, and acetic acid than the stem layer and which is conductive.

Abstract: A thin film transistor including: an active layer formed of an oxide semiconductor including at least indium and gallium; a gate electrode; a first gate insulating layer disposed between the active layer and the gate electrode on the gate electrode side; and a second gate insulating layer, which is a hydrogen block layer, disposed between the active layer and the gate electrode on the active layer side.

Abstract: In a film-forming technology using charged particles, a disturbance in film thickness distribution caused by leakage magnetic field is suppressed. A film-forming method embodies a technological idea of switching generation and stop of a magnetic field during a film-forming operation so as to stop the generation of the magnetic field during a period when plasma is generated and generate the magnetic field during a period when plasma is not generated.

Abstract: To mitigate a bending stress in the flexible wiring substrate in a structure, a display panel, to which the flexible wiring substrate connects, is curved along a first direction, and the flexible wiring is bent back to the rear of the display panel. The flexible wiring substrate connects with the display panel at a first region and at a second region; the flexible wiring substrate connects with the wiring substrate at a third region and at a fourth region. The flexible wiring substrate has a narrowest width in the first direction at an intermediate region between the display panel and the wiring substrate. A first wiring group in the flexible wiring substrate connects the first region with the third region or the fourth region, a second wiring group in the flexible wiring substrate connects the second region with another one of the third region or the fourth region.

Abstract: A branched propylene-based polymer having the following properties (1) to (5): property (1): MFR of 10 g/10 min to 100 g/10 min; property (2): Mw/Mn is 2.5 or more and less than 3.5; Mz/Mw is 3.0 to 4.7; and Mz is 50.0×104 to 94.0×104; property (3): in an integral molecular weight distribution curve obtained by GPC, a percentage of a component having a molecular weight of 100×104 or more, is 1.5 mass to 4.0 mass %; property (4): in a molecular weight distribution curve obtained by 3D-GPC, a branching index g?(100×104) at an absolute molecular weight Mabs of 100×104 is more than 0.70 and 0.85 or less; and property (5): a ratio [?*(0.01)?*(100)] between a complex viscosity ?*(0.01) and a complex viscosity ?*(100) in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement, is 4.0 to 20, and ?*(0.01)/?*(100) and the MFR satisfy specific relations.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal optical element including a first substrate including a first transparent substrate, a first alignment film, and a first liquid crystal layer which includes first cholesteric liquid crystals, and which reflects part of light incident through the first transparent substrate toward the first transparent substrate, a second substrate including a second transparent substrate, a second alignment film, and a second liquid crystal layer which includes second cholesteric liquid crystals, and which reflects part of light transmitted through the first liquid crystal layer toward the first transparent substrate, and a transparent adhesive layer which adheres the first substrate and the second substrate.