Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a bootstrap circuit including a capacitor which is configured to be charged when a low-side switch is an on-state, and being configured to pull up an on-drive voltage of the high-side switch by a charged voltage of the capacitor, a control circuit configured to perform switching control of the high-side switch and the low-side switch, and a predetermined-time trigger circuit configured to cause an output to be active for a predetermined time, when a break signal for instructing switching control of the high-side switch and the low-side switch to be halted is inactive. The control circuit performs switching control to turn the high-side switch off and the low-side switch on, when the output of the predetermined-time trigger circuit is active.

Abstract: The communication device can easily serve as an extended user interface such as a remote controller of a target apparatus without causing any complicated operations to a user. The communication device includes the following units. An apparatus information obtainment unit (203) obtains apparatus information from an apparatus. A position information obtainment unit (206) obtains position information of the communication device (102). An operation information obtainment unit (212) obtains operation information based on the apparatus information. A storage unit (213) stores the position information as apparatus position information indicating as a position of the apparatus, in association with the operation information. A direction sensor unit (207) detects direction of the communication device (102). A directional space calculation unit (208) calculates a directional space of the communication device (102).

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a solid-state light emitting element; and a wavelength converting member made of a transparent resin containing a fluorescent material, the transparent resin being coated on an output surface of the solid-state light emitting element. The wavelength converting member is formed to have a thickness larger in a vertical direction of the solid-state light emitting element than that in a lateral direction of the solid-state light emitting element in a cross section that is parallel to a light output direction of the solid-state light emitting element and have a zenith in the light output direction.

Abstract: An apparatus to detect faulty connection of LED (open/short conditions) which may affect the function of LED display panel is presented. The apparatus basically controls the switches through control algorithm circuit to get the information of LED driver output pins voltage and compare them with two reference voltages to determine the open/short condition of individual LED.

Abstract: An electric power tool includes a main body having a drive portion with a motor, an output portion for holding a tool, and a battery pack attachment portion, and a battery pack attached to the battery pack attachment portion by means of an attaching and detaching mechanism. The battery pack supplies electric power to the drive portion to operate the output portion. The attaching and detaching mechanism has a releasing unit for releasing the battery pack from the main body by operating plural types of release operation portions in their entirety.

Abstract: An image display system comprises red, green and blue laser light sources, a spatial light modulator that modulates the laser light of different colors in a time sharing manner and a controller that controls the operation of the laser light sources and the spatial light modulator. The green and red laser light sources are lit in this order in each frame. The green color is diminished due to the response delay of the spatial light modulator, but the green laser light produced by the green laser light source has a relatively large color phase shift from the standard green color so that the shortage of green color cancels the color phase shift of the generated green color so that the color phase shift of the displayed intermediate color can be minimized.

Abstract: A radio frequency power amplifier includes a transistor and amplifies a radio frequency signal of a first frequency; an input matching circuit connected to an input terminal of the transistor; and an output matching circuit connected to an output terminal of the transistor. A reactance control circuit includes one end connected to the output terminal of the transistor, and the other end connected to an input terminal of an output matching circuit and a bias terminal. The reactance control circuit has a reactance which resonates at a second frequency with a parasitic capacitance of the transistor at the output terminal of the transistor, and the second frequency is identical or close to the first frequency.

Abstract: A magnetic detector includes a detecting section having a surface facing a magnetic body which moves and emits a magnetic flux. The detecting section includes plural magnetic sensors for detecting the magnetic flux. The magnetic sensors are arranged in a matrix form having three or more rows and three or more columns arranged along the surface of the detecting section. The magnetic detector provides an input device precisely detecting a moving direction and a moving amount of the magnetic body.

Abstract: A Browsable SlideShow is recorded on a BD-ROM. The Browsable SlideShow includes a video stream, an audio stream and PlayList information. The video stream and the audio stream are recorded on separate areas on an optical disc. The PlayList information includes a plurality of pieces of PlayItem information, each of which has an In_time and an Out_time which specify a single piece of picture data in the video stream and a Still_time indicating a period during which the piece of picture data is still-displayed. A still period indicated by the Still_time is a length of time that is longer than or equal to a VBV-delay when reading a subsequent piece of picture data to an Elementary Buffer 5 of a playback apparatus. The VBV-delay is based on the time required for seeking between the separate areas and reading the audio stream.

Abstract: Audio signal processing apparatus includes: an amplitude change extractor 3 which obtains an amplitude change extraction signal which is a signal having an amplitude changing at a fixed quantization width when an amplitude of an input signal temporally changes; a first requantizer 2 which extends, from a first bit count to a second bit count, a bit count representing the amplitude change extraction signal obtained; a second requantizer 5 which smoothes the amplitude change extraction signal by requantizing using a second quantization width less than a first quantization width used on the input signal; a difference signal generator which obtains a difference signal which is a signal represented using the second bit count and obtained by subtracting the amplitude change extraction signal from the input signal; and an adder 6 which generates an output signal by adding a second requantized signal which is the amplitude change extraction signal smoothed by the second requantizer 5 and the difference signal obtaine

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit capable of reliably detecting oscillation stop of a vibrator-type oscillation circuit and reliably restarting the oscillation circuit when oscillation stop is detected is provided. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes one or more main oscillation circuits configured to generate a main clock signal by a vibrator, a ring oscillator configured to always operate independently of the main oscillation circuit, a main clock detection circuit configured to monitor the main clock signal on the basis of an output clock signal of the ring oscillator and to determine an operation state of the main oscillation circuit, and an switch circuit configured to switch a combination of elements making up the main oscillation circuit in response to a detection result of the main clock detection circuit.

Abstract: A driving support device includes an image-capturer that captures side rear images of a vehicle, a distance measurer that measures a distance between the vehicle and another vehicle, and a vehicle detector that detects the another vehicle in the captured images. A superimposed image generator calculates a distance of units of the vehicle length based on information concerning the vehicle length stored in a vehicle length information storage and the distance to the another vehicle detected by the distance measurer, and generates a superimposed image based on the calculated distance. A display image generator synthesizes the generated superimposed image on a side peripheral image including the captured side rear images, and displays the image on a display installed in a position at which the field of front vision of the driver is not obstructed.

Abstract: It is possible to provide a radio communication system, a radio base station device, and a radio terminal device capable of reducing the power consumption in a radio terminal device without thinning pilot signals used for measuring upstream line quality. In the radio base station device (100) used in a radio communication system using different frequency bands for the upstream line and the downstream line, an upstream line pilot generation unit (115) forms a CQI measuring pilot signal and an upstream line RF unit (105) transmits the communication quality measuring pilot signal by using the upstream line use frequency band in the upstream line pilot transmission section. Thus, the upstream communication quality measuring pilot signal used by the radio base station device (100) to measure the line quality is transmitted by using the upstream line frequency band and accordingly, it is possible to reduce the power consumption in the radio terminal device.

Abstract: There are provided semiconductor substrate, ground layer formed on semiconductor substrate and having an upper surface corresponding to pixel region, the upper surface being lower than an upper surface corresponding to peripheral circuit region, a plurality of color filters disposed two-dimensionally on the upper surface corresponding to pixel region in ground layer, and partition wall provided between color filters. In a section which is orthogonal to the upper surface corresponding to pixel region in ground layer, an occupied area of partition wall provided in outer portion disposed in contact with peripheral circuit region is smaller than that of partition wall provided in central portion of pixel region.

Abstract: There is provided a monitor and control apparatus capable of enlarging a volume of a body, while ensuring a space for routing signal lines between a rear face of the body and a bottom surface of a mounting hole. The body 5 has a rear face including: a first face having terminal sections protruded; and a second face protruded backwardly relative to the first face by a stepped portion. An internal space of the body on the second face side is enlarged backwardly more than that on the first face side. The stepped portion is formed in the middle of the rear face of the body in the horizontal direction, which defines a right-half portion as the first face, and a left-half portion as the second face.

Abstract: A playback device that creates a virtual package by combining a structural element recorded on a BD-ROM with an additional content recorded on a removable medium. The middleware in the playback device is provided with a file I/O module 34 that controls data input/output of the removable medium, in accordance with a request from an application program. When a BD-J application requests writing the structural element of the virtual package and the additional content to be written is an AV stream, the file I/O module 34 writes the structural element into one or more allocation units composed of a plurality of continuous empty logical blocks in the removable medium. When the additional content to be written is not an AV stream, it writes the additional content into a normal data area that is composed of a plurality of separately scattered empty blocks in the removable medium.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit operable to capture a subject image to generate image data, a controller operable to calculate a target exposure value based on the image data and control exposure based on a first shooting parameter set by a user to obtain the target exposure value, and a display unit operable to provide a display. The controller calculates a first suitable range which is a range of the first shooting parameter for obtaining the target exposure value, and calculates a second shooting parameter based on the target exposure value and the first shooting parameter set by the user. The display unit displays exposure guide information including the first shooting parameter set by the user, information representing the first suitable range, and the calculated second shooting parameter.

Abstract: A reduced water mist generating device (1) is provided with a water acquiring section (3) that acquires water for generating reduced water, a reduced water generating unit (U) that generates the reduced water from the acquired water, a reduced water atomizing section (6) that atomizes the generated reduced water, and a spraying section (7) that sprays the atomized water. With such a configuration, the reduced water can be generated from water, drifted in the form of a mist in a space, and caused to arrive at an object.

Abstract: Inconsistency between a left-view video image and a right-view video image possibly occurs in a playback device having a function of switching between a monoscopic playback mode for monoscopically playing back video images and a stereoscopic playback mode for stereoscopically playing back video images. The present invention aims to prevent such inconsistency when switching from the monoscopic playback mode to the stereoscopic playback mode. Specifically, the present invention prevents the inconsistency by invalidating a rendering request which is Graphics#drawImage, copying a content stored in the left-view graphics plane to a right-view graphics plane, switching a graphics plane setting after the copying, and then removing prohibition of a rendering request which is StereoGraphics#drawImage.