Abstract: A semiconductor integrated device is provided which consists of a plurality of circuit blocks. Each circuit block is connected to a power supply terminal and a ground terminal. Signal interface sections connect signal circuits among the circuit blocks. A plurality of first diodes are serially connected to one another in a first direction between the ground terminal of a first one of the circuit blocks and the ground terminal of another of the circuit blocks. A plurality of second diodes are serially connected to one another in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction between the ground terminal of the first circuit block and the ground terminal of the another circuit block.

Abstract: The color filter of the present invention comprises ink films colored by ink drops 140 inside openings 111 enclosed by banks 112 demarcated and formed on a substrate 110. The banks 112 have a laminar structure comprising a metal film 120 and a photosensitive organic thin film 130 from the substrate 110 side. The inks should contain a solvent having a high boiling point. The bank layer may also be configured so that the peripheral edges of the bottom surface thereof are positioned inside from the peripheral edges of the light blocking layers, so that the light blocking layers have exposed surfaces on the upper surface thereof where the bank layer is not superimposed. Thus color filters can be provided which exhibit outstanding contrast without coloring irregularities.

Abstract: A power-generation detection circuit for detecting a power-generation state by an AC voltage supplied from a power-generation device including a capacitor, and switching element, a resistor, and an inverter circuit which controls the charging of the capacitor by a power-generation device. The switching element is switched by the AC voltage from the power-generation device. The voltage of the capacitor is detected by the inverter circuit thereby performing power-generation detection.

Abstract: A printer including a cover state detector and a paper detector. The cover state detector detects whether a cover is opened with respect to a casing of a printer, whereas the paper detector detects whether paper is present within the casing. When the cover is opened, a detection result of the cover state detector is transmitted to a print controller prior to the time when a detection result of the paper detector is transmitted to the print controller.

Abstract: A surface emitting semiconductor laser of the present invention comprises a resonator formed on a semiconductor substrate having Miller indices (100). The resonator includes a pillar portion, and a current constriction layer is formed in this pillar portion. In the plane including the current constriction layer, the periphery of the pillar portion includes arc-shaped portions approximating parts of an inner edge of the current constriction layer. The arc-shaped portions are formed in the <010> direction, <001> direction, <0-10> direction, and <00-1> direction from the center of the inner edge of the current constriction layer, and are formed substantially in concentric circles with the part of the inner edge shape.

Abstract: When a communications terminal has stopped operating because it is off-line, data received from a host is efficiently stored to a receive buffer so that receive buffer full states cannot easily occur. A data interpreter interprets the receive buffer content in the input order. An action buffer stores interpreted commands. A command execution controller executes commands in the action buffer in first-in first-out order. The data interpreter continues interpreting the received data even when operation of the command execution controller is stopped, and kills without storing to the action buffer any real-time commands detected by the data interpreter.

Abstract: The invention reduces capacitor coupling between data read bit lines and data write bit lines to thereby prevent error detection of data. A first pair of bit lines BM and {overscore (BM)} that read data from a specified one of memory cells in a memory cell column and a second pair of bit lines BS and {overscore (BS)} that write data in another specified one of the memory cells in the memory cell column are formed in different layers through an interlayer dielectric film. As viewed in a plan view, the space between the first pair of bit lines BM and {overscore (BM)} is wider than the second pair of bit lines BS and {overscore (BS)}, and the second pair of bit lines BS and {overscore (BS)} are disposed between the first pair of bit lines BM and {overscore (BM)}. A first wiring layer that is set a ground potential is disposed in the same layer as the first pair of bit lines BM and {overscore (BM)} and between the first pair of bit lines BM and {overscore (BM)}.

Abstract: A TN liquid crystal 140 is used as a liquid crystal panel, and a polarizer 130 is provided above the TN liquid crystal 140 while a polarizer 135, a light scattering layer 150 and a polarized light splitter 160 are provided in this order under the TN liquid crystal 140. Furthermore, under the polarized light splitter 160, there is provided a light guide 190 for introducing light of a light source 191 from under the polarized light splitter 160 and a reflecting plate 200. The polarized light splitter 160 is a reflecting polarizer which can accomplish the effective utilization of light so that extremely bright reflective and transmissive displays are obtainable. Additionally, since a light diffusing layer 150 is provided, even if the distance from the TN liquid crystal 140 to the reflecting plate 200 is prolonged, in the reflective display, no double image nor display bleeding occurs.

Abstract: The electro-optical apparatus of the invention has a pair of substrates and an electro-optical material held between these substrates. The TFT array substrate may be formed into a concave shape in non-aperture areas containing the data line, the scanning line, the capacitor line and the TFT. Further, the areas opposite to the connecting lines in the sealed area may be formed into a concave shape. In the electro-optical apparatus having such a configuration, it is possible to reduce steps resulting from the presence of various wiring lines and elements in the image display area and the sealed area, by the use of a relatively simple configuration.

Abstract: To provide a liquid material ejecting method and a liquid material ejecting apparatus, etc., in which uniform electro-optic characteristics, etc. are obtained in the planar direction. In the liquid material ejecting method and the liquid material ejecting apparatus, etc., a plurality of liquid materials are successively ejected toward a substrate from corresponding nozzle rows while relatively scanning a droplet ejection head or the substrate, and respective positions of ejection start and/or end points for the plurality of liquid materials are set different from each other. End portions of areas of the substrate, in which the plurality of liquid materials are applied, are thereby not or less overlapped with each other. Accordingly, with the liquid material ejecting method, variations in amount of the applied liquid materials in the planar direction can be reduced.

Abstract: To provide a process for coding the moving picture with higher speed and enhanced efficiency. The present invention provides a moving picture coding method for coding a moving picture of processing object through a predetermined process including a motion estimating process, determining whether or not the predetermined process (e.g., DCT process and quantization process) for a block of processing object can be omitted on the basis of the information regarding a difference between the block and a reference block of a frame to be referenced in coding (i.e., a frame to be referenced in making the motion vector detection), and a quantization parameter for use in a quantization process of the moving picture, performing the predetermined process if it is determined that the predetermined process can not be omitted, and omitting the predetermined process if it is determined that the predetermined process can be omitted and making a set defined value the result of the predetermined process for the block.

Abstract: A data transfer control device includes a DMAC1 that writes a packet transferred from a BUS1 (IEEE 1394 or USB), to a SRAM, a DMAC2 that reads the written isochronous data from the SRAM and writes it to a SDRAM, and a DMAC3 that reads the written isochronous data and transfers it to a BUS2 side. During transmission, isochronous data is read from the SDRAM and written to SRAM, and an isochronous packet including the written isochronous data is transferred to the BUS1 side. The SRAM includes an isochronous data area and an asynchronous data area. The SRAM is provided insides the data transfer control device and the SDRAM is provided on outside the data transfer control device.

Abstract: The manufacturing method of the invention performs over-etching to remove an upper portion of a conductive layer in a logic circuit area of a semiconductor device, simultaneously with etching out a stopper layer. The method subsequently patterns the conductive layer to form gate electrodes in the logic circuit area. The height of the gate electrodes is lowered, because of the removed upper portion of the conductive layer. In a subsequent process of polishing an insulating layer, even when the polishing rate of the insulating layer is not constant but varied and the insulating layer in the logic circuit area is polished relatively faster than the insulating layer in a memory area, this arrangement of the invention effectively prevents exposure of the gate electrodes in the logic circuit area, prior to exposure of stopper layers in the memory area.

Abstract: A file storage type non-volatile semiconductor memory device suitable for simultaneously reading data from memory cells or programming data to memory cells, the number of bits of the data being greater than the number of I/O terminals, has a plurality of sector regions obtained by dividing a memory cell array region in a column direction. Each of the sector regions includes four main control gate lines extending in a row direction, a plurality of control gate driver sections which drive the main control gate lines, and a plurality of sub control gate lines extending in the column direction. Each of the sub control gate lines is connected in common with first and second control gates which are adjacent to each other in the row direction and belonged to different two of the memory cells which are adjacent to each other in the row direction. The sub control gate lines are sequentially connected to one of the four main control gate lines in the row direction.

Abstract: The invention provides a data management device which is well suited to grasp featuring parts from among a huge amount of data, which are capable of enhancing the reliability of extraction and which can immediately comply with a user's request. In particular, feature data for calculating the temporal transition of similarities concerning the contents of document data can be extracted from the document data of a document data registration database, the change point of the similarities can be specified on the basis of the extracted feature data, and document data are retrieved from within the document data registration database on the basis of the specified change point. In the retrieval, the document data which belong to the specified change point or the vicinity thereof can be retrieved.

Abstract: An ink jet head 22 of linear form which consists of a plurality of nozzles 27 arranged as a nozzle row 28 is provided in an ink jet device for manufacture of a color filter. Filter element material 13 from the nozzles 27 which differ from the motherboard 12 is discharged four superimposed times by the plurality of nozzles 27, and is formed to a predetermined film thickness upon a single filter element 3. It is possible to prevent the occurrence of undesirable deviations in film thickness between different ones of the filter elements 3, so that it is possible to flatten and make even the optical transparency characteristic of the resulting color filter 1.

Abstract: An image adjuster of a projector (100) has a projection surface onto which a projection image of the projector (100) is projected, a reference tone image generator for generating a plurality of reference tone images on the projection surface as an adjustment reference, an image signal input means (41) for inputting an image signal including a tone signal corresponding to the plurality of reference tone images for simultaneously displaying a plurality of tone images on the projector (100) to be adjusted, an image importing device for simultaneously importing the plurality of reference tone images and the plurality of tone images projected by the projector (100) as an image data; an image processor (42) for conducting image-processing based on the imported image data; and a correction data generator (43) for generating image-display correction data of the projector (100) based on the result of the image-processing.

Abstract: A display drive apparatus for driving liquid crystals by applying a voltage to the liquid crystals based on gray-scale data representative of a display. The display drive apparatus includes a polarity control circuit, an input selection circuit, a non-linear operation region identifying circuit and an offset current generation circuit. The polarity control circuit generates a polarity control signal based on a polarity signal. The input selection circuit selects a predetermined reference voltage for driving the liquid crystals from a plurality of reference voltages provided from an input voltage generation circuit or a plurality of reference voltages generated within the input selection circuit based on an input signal representative of gray-scale data and the polarity control signal.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for comparing two input voltages. The apparatus being a comparator circuit comprising a pair of series connected polycrystalline transistors, two capacitors and a switch, the switch being connected between the point of series connection of the transistors and a node to which one side of each capacitor and the gates of the transistors are connected in common, with the other side of each capacitor being operably connected to a respective input.