Abstract: An obstacle detection system includes ultrasonic sensors and a controller. The ultrasonic sensors include first and second ultrasonic sensors. Each of them is located at either side of a vehicle bumper so that its own beam axis has an angle deflected in a horizontal direction from a surface-normal direction of the bumper and is directed towards an intermediate portion of the bumper.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight having at least one light-emitting diode, and an LED drive circuit for driving the at least one light-emitting diode. The LED drive circuit includes a constant voltage circuit for controlling a voltage outputted from an output terminal in such a manner that a voltage inputted to a feedback terminal becomes a constant voltage, and means for driving the at least one light-emitting diode connected to the output terminal of the constant voltage circuit by a constant current. The LED drive circuit has at least one diode provided in a feedback path lying between the output terminal of the constant voltage circuit and the feedback terminal.

Abstract: An image pickup device includes: a camera; a display; a touch panel that overlaps the display, and a vertical sensor that detects a vertical direction. When a flick operation from down to up along the vertical direction is performed, a brightness of the display is changed from a first brightness to a second brightness that is brighter than the first brightness.

Abstract: A device control method used in a device control system in which an operation terminal is used to remotely operate a device with a server device mediating between the operation terminal and the device, the device control method including: acquiring, upon reception of an operation instruction for operation of the device from the operation terminal, environment information pertaining to at least one of the device and the operation terminal; performing a determination of whether or not to cause execution of processing corresponding to the operation instruction based on whether or not the environment information satisfies a predetermined condition; and causing the device to execute an execution command for execution of the processing when a result of the determination is affirmative, and not causing the device to execute the execution command when the result of the determination is negative.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements mounted in a light emitting area of the substrate, and an intermediate line for electrically connecting a plurality of light emitting elements in parallel or series selectively, the intermediate line being disposed in the light emitting area.

Abstract: A method in a communication system in the present disclosure includes: receiving a first access from the information apparatus which starts a first application for a telephone conversation function; transmitting an identifier and a confirmation destination address to the information apparatus in response to the first access; receiving an instruction to the information apparatus from the information processing apparatus; receiving a second access using the confirmation destination address from the information apparatus; transmitting the instruction to the information apparatus in response to the second access; and when it is judged that the instruction instructs the information apparatus to start the second application for providing a camera function, causing the information apparatus to continue the telephone conversation process, to start the second application without involving a user operation, receiving image information captured using the camera function from the information apparatus, and forwarding the

Abstract: An organic EL display device comprising: an anode; a cathode that is a metal film; a light-emitting layer between the anode and the cathode; and a sealing layer that covers a side of the cathode opposite a side on which the light-emitting layer is provided. An oxidation inhibiting layer and a cathode protecting layer are stacked between the cathode and the sealing layer. The oxidation inhibiting layer is closer to the light-emitting layer than the cathode protecting layer is.

Abstract: A usual setting state in accordance with a current in-house state and a device state is selected using an acquired in-house state and a device state from a plurality of setting states classified in advance in accordance with in-house states and device states. When the selected usual setting state and the acquired setting state differ from each other, a first notification that notifies a user of the difference is performed and a state of an information terminal is transitioned to a state where an input for remotely controlling a second device can be accepted.

Abstract: Operation display device includes a display, an operation part, and an arithmetic and control part. The arithmetic and control part includes: an analysis processing part analyzing an operation content of an operation object; and a display processing part determining a shape and a position of a figure for operation displayed on the display according to the operation content analyzed by the analysis processing part. The analysis processing part has a function of classifying the operation content of the operation object into a moving operation for changing the position of the figure for operation and an adjustment operation for adjusting a control amount. When a contact position to the operation part is out of a tracking range set in accordance with the position of the figure for operation, the display processing part displaces the figure for operation so that the contact position of the operation object is within the tracking range.

Abstract: In cooling device, refrigerant is circulated through heat receiving unit, heat radiation passage, heat radiation unit, return passage, and heat receiving unit, and cooling is performed by making use of a phase change between a liquid phase and a gaseous phase of refrigerant. Heat receiving unit is configured by placing in series a plurality of heat receivers each of which has inflow port and an outflow port. Check valve is provided on an inflow port side of heat receiver which is closest to return passage among the plurality of heat receivers.

Abstract: A control method according to the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on a display a display screen representing a floor plan including one or more rooms; and using at least one memory that associates first information indicating a type of each of one or more device icons representing one or more target devices with second information indicating an attribute of each of the one or more rooms, display each of the one or more device icons in a region on the display screen corresponding to a room that corresponds to each of the one or more device icons in accordance with the type of each of the one or more device icons.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a TFT substrate includes a GAL layer including gate signal lines, an SDL layer including data signal lines, and a CMT layer including common signal lines and a common signal bus line. The common signal bus line is connected to, among a plurality of common potential supply terminals arranged on one side of the TFT substrate, one of common potential supply terminals that are positioned at both ends, and is connected to a common potential supply terminal on an inner side with respect to the common potential supply terminals at both the ends so as to overlap and cross with at least one of the data signal lines.

Abstract: Color correction of an image is implemented with a small circuit scale. A color correction section performs a color correction process on a pixel group-by-pixel group basis, and each pixel group is comprised of a plurality of adjoining pixels. A representative point generation section generates, e.g., a green (G) image signal of a representative point located as an imaginary point in the pixel group. A subtraction section subtracts the G-image signal of the representative point from an image signal of a G-pixel in the pixel group. A representative point color correction section performs the color correction process on the G-image signal of the representative point. An addition section adds the color-corrected G-image signal of the representative point to the output of the subtraction section.

Abstract: An image display device includes a light source which emits light, a display element which receives the light, from the light source for generating display light, a light guiding plate which causes the display light to propagate therein, an incident element which allows the display light from the display element to be incident into the light guiding plate, and a dynamic output diffraction element provided in the light guiding plate for outputting the display light to the outside of the light guiding plate. The dynamic output diffraction element includes dynamic diffraction segment elements configured such that a diffraction function of diffracting light is invalidated or validated by voltage application. The image display device further includes a control unit which controls the dynamic output diffraction element such that one dynamic diffraction segment element whose diffraction function is validated is selected each at a time from among the dynamic diffraction segment elements.

Abstract: The nitride semiconductor light-emitting element of the invention has a stacked structure of a buffer layer, an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer, on one surface side of a single crystal substrate of a sapphire substrate. A nitride semiconductor multilayer structure as the buffer layer includes: a plurality of island-like nuclei formed of AlN and formed on the one surface of the single crystal substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer formed of an AlN layer and formed on the one surface side of the single crystal substrate so as to fill gaps between adjacent nuclei and to cover all the nuclei; and a second nitride semiconductor layer formed of an AlN layer and formed on the first nitride semiconductor layer. The nitride semiconductor multilayer structure is characterized in that the density of the nuclei is less than 6×109 nuclei cm?2.

Abstract: A moving picture coding method for coding a current block derives a first candidate having a first motion vector predictor derived from a first motion vector that has been used to code a first block. It is determined whether a total number of one or more candidates having the first candidate is less than a maximum candidate number, and a second candidate having a second motion vector predictor is derived when the total number of the one or more candidates having the first candidate is less than the maximum candidate number. The second motion vector predictor is a zero vector. A candidate for coding the current block is selected out of the plurality of candidates having the first candidate and the second candidate.

Abstract: A steam generator comprises: a water storage chamber which stores water; at least one heating portion which heats water in the water storage chamber to generate steam; a water supply device which supplies water into the water storage chamber; and a plurality of fins provided in the water storage chamber, wherein the water storage chamber has a steam spout port from which the steam generated by the heating portion spouts, wherein the plurality of fins extend along a steam-generating direction under the steam spout port, being separated with each other and crossing the heating portion. The heating portion may be provided each of above and under a water surface which emerges in the water storage chamber during heating.

Abstract: A detection camera includes an imaging optical unit and a light receiving unit that acquire image data, a first detection processing unit that detects a specified substance, a second detection processing unit that acquires distance information from the imaging optical unit to the specified substance, and a display control unit that outputs display data in which information regarding the specified substance is combined with the image data in a case where the distance information is in a detection target distance range.

Abstract: A dedicated power source for LED lamps capable of reliably detecting attachment of an LED lamp is provided. A dedicated power source has a DC power source portion, and includes a lighting circuit which receives power supplied from the DC power source portion and light-controls an LED lamp including an LED element and a detection resistor connected in parallel to the LED element and an attachment detecting portion for detecting attachment of the LED lamp based on a voltage level changing in accordance with attachment/detachment of the detection resistor by attachment/detachment of the LED lamp.