Abstract: Provided is an illuminating device wherein generation of luminance deterioration and luminance nonuniformity is suppressed. An illuminating device (10) is provided with a light guide plate (3) and an LED (6) stored inside a storing space (10a), and a power supply substrate (8) arranged outside the storing space (10a). An extracting hole (1c) is formed in a region (10b) whereupon the light guide plate (3) at a bottom section (1a) of a case member (1) is placed, and a connecting terminal (7c) of an FPC (7) is extracted to the outside from the inside of the storing space (10a) through the extracting hole (1c).

Abstract: An object is to provide a method and an apparatus for recovering indium, the method and apparatus ensuring that it is unnecessary to recover indium in the form of indium hydroxide, indium can be recovered at a high concentration, indium can be recovered easily by a filter or the like without handling inferiors and also, the recovery rate of indium is greatly improved. The method includes adding a precipitation-inducing metal including a metal having higher ionization tendency than indium to an etching waste solution containing at least indium and ferric chloride, in which the concentration of ferric chloride is adjusted to 20% by weight or less to thereby precipitate indium contained in the etching waste solution on the surface of the precipitation-inducing metal, then, detaching the indium precipitated on the precipitation-inducing metal from the precipitation-inducing metal by a detaching means and separating the detached solid indium or indium alloy from the solution to recover the indium.

Abstract: An illumination unit (11) includes: a lightguide (7) having a light-emitting surface (12); and light sources (5a) and (5b) being respectively provided on a back side with respect to the light-emitting surface, the lightguide (7) including: a light-emitting section (10) whose one surface is the light-emitting surface (12); and lightguide sections (9a) and (9b) each having one end connected to the light-emitting section (10) and each having other end serving as an incident surface of light emitted from the corresponding one of the light sources (5a) and (5b), the lightguide sections (9a) and (9b) being provided on back sides with respect to a first region and a second region of the light-emitting surface (12) so as to guide the light to the second and first regions. This makes it possible to realize an illumination unit which is slim, uniform in light emission, and improved in ease of a rework process.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor laser device uses a substrate with low defect density, contains reduced strains inside a nitride semiconductor film, and thus offers a satisfactorily long useful life. On a GaN substrate (10) with a defect density as low as 106 cm?2 or less, a stripe-shaped depressed portion (16) is formed by etching. On this substrate (10), a nitride semiconductor film (11) is grown, and a laser stripe (12) is formed off the area right above the depressed portion (16). With this structure, the laser stripe (12) is free from strains, and the semiconductor laser device offers a long useful life. Moreover, the nitride semiconductor film (11) develops reduced cracks, resulting in a greatly increased yield rate.

Abstract: Disclosed is an active matrix substrate comprising a data signal line (15x), scan signal lines (16a, 16b), a transistor (12a) connected to the data signal line (15x) and the scan signal line (16a), a transistor (12b) connected to the scan signal line (16b), and pixel electrodes (17a, 17b) formed within a pixel (101) area. The pixel electrode (17a) is connected to the data signal line (15x) via the transistor (12a). The pixel electrode (17b) is connected to the pixel electrode (17a) via a capacitance (C101), and is electrically connected to the pixel electrode (17a) via the transistor (12b).

Abstract: A decorative image is displayed in a decorative image display region; in the decorative image, a decorative frame is displayed in a peripheral section of a decorative frame display region, and the decorative frame display region has a surface luminance higher than that of the decorative image display region.

Abstract: In a multifunction printer, a web browser section displays in an operation section an operation window indicated by window data obtained from a web server section and notifies the web server section of an application execution instruction entered into the operation window. Then, as soon as the web server section has received the application execution instruction, the content section executes an application corresponding to the application execution instruction and, in accordance with the application, sends a device control section a control command to control at least one of a plurality of functions. Then, the device control section performs control based on the control command as converted by a function disclosure section. This makes it possible to easily add a function regardless of model.

Abstract: An interference-based MEMS device having a lower substrate including a substrate electrode; a lower membrane spaced apart from the lower substrate by a lower gap, the lower membrane including a lower membrane electrode; an upper membrane located on a side of the lower membrane opposite the lower substrate and spaced apart from the lower membrane by an upper gap, the upper membrane including an upper membrane electrode; and control circuitry configured to provide control voltages to the electrodes of the lower substrate, the lower membrane and the upper membrane to change the dimensions of the lower gap and the upper gap to control the reflective properties of the device with respect to light incident upon the lower substrate.

Abstract: A display system includes a liquid crystal display (10) including a backlight (3), a liquid crystal display panel (1), and a viewing angle control panel (2) for controlling the viewing angle of the display panel (1), the display system causing the amount of external light reflected by the liquid crystal display (10) to be relatively larger than the amount of light leaked from the backlight (3) onto the liquid crystal display panel (1). This provides a display system having an enhanced blocking effect.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, in the case of dark display on sub-pixels, a sub-frame processing section is disclosed which sets video data for a sub-frame to a value falling within the range for dark display, and increases or decreases video data for a sub-frame so as to control luminance of the sub-pixels. In the case of bright display, the sub-frame processing section sets video data to a value falling within the range for bright display, and increase or decreases video data so as to control luminance of the sub-pixels. A modulation processing section corrects video data of each frame and then outputs corrected video data to the sub-frame processing section. Also, the modulation processing section predicts luminance that the sub-pixels reach at the end of the frame and then stores prediction results for correction and prediction in the subsequent frame.

Abstract: A color display device determines a relationship between RGB components of an input color image signal in terms of their gradation levels, and carries out a different calculation for each input color image signal depending on which of six patterns of the relationship that the input color image signal belongs to. Further, the color display device carries out the calculation for each of the RGB components excluding a component with a smallest gradation level, using variables that vary depending on the respective gradation levels of the RGB components.

Abstract: A folding mobile phone (folding portable communications device) includes a first housing including a liquid crystal display part (display part) provided at a surface thereof, a second housing including an operating part provided at a surface thereof, and a hinge connecting the first and second housings to allow the first and second housings to be freely opened and closed in their folded form. A cam mechanism (support mechanism) supports the liquid crystal display part switchably between a vertical position and a horizontal position and to allow the liquid crystal display part to turn both clockwise and counterclockwise as viewed from the front.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate for a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device having the substrate, an object of the invention is to provide such a substrate for a display device that can be obtained by a simple production method with high reliability, and a liquid crystal display device having the same. A substrate for a display device contains: an accumulated electrode having an accumulated structure containing a lower layer formed on a substrate, and a upper layer containing ZnO and formed on the lower layer; an insulating film covering the accumulated electrode; a contact hole opening in the insulating film on the accumulated electrode; and a pixel electrode formed on the insulating film and being connected directly to the upper layer of the accumulated electrode through the contact hole.

Abstract: An electrode connection structure including a first circuit component including a resin plate, a barrier film stacked on a surface of the resin plate, a circuit section formed on the barrier film and a first electrode provided on the surface of the resin plate on which the barrier film is stacked, and a second circuit component arranged to face the first circuit component and having a second electrode facing the first electrode, wherein the first and second electrodes are electrically connected via pressure applied thereto in the directions approaching each other and a portion of the barrier film surrounding the first electrode is at least partially removed from the surface of the resin plate.

Abstract: There is provided a CPA-type liquid crystal display device in which deterioration in display quality due to application of stress to a liquid crystal panel is suppressed. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer of a vertical-alignment type provided therebetween. In each picture element region, a first electrode provided on a side of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer includes a solid portion formed of an electrically-conductive film and a non-solid portion in which no electrically-conductive film is formed. The solid portion includes a plurality of unit solid portions each of which is substantially surrounded by the non-solid portion, the plurality of unit solid portions being arranged at least along a first direction.

Abstract: In an image forming method, an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of a photoreceptor is developed into a developer image with a developer, and a printing paper transported on a transfer belt is brought into contact with the surface of the photoreceptor so as to transfer the developer image onto the printing paper. The printing paper is transported in a proper transport direction, in which a projection generated in one direction on the printing paper as a result of cutting the printing paper in a printing paper manufacturing process does not face a surface of the transfer belt at a leading edge of the printing paper being transported on the transfer belt. In this way, even in the presence of the projection generated when the printing paper is cut, the printing paper naturally strips off from the surface of the photoreceptor, thereby preventing toner contamination caused by a striping claw in contact with the leading edge of the printing paper.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel substituted bicyclic pyrimidines which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme (“DPP-IV inhibitors”) and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved, such as diabetes and particularly Type 2 diabetes. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, as well as a source electrode, a Cs intermediate electrode, and a pixel electrode formed on one of the pair of substrates. The liquid crystal display device also includes vertical alignment films formed on the pair of substrates and polymer layers formed on the vertical alignment films, wherein a contact hole, which connects the source electrode and the pixel electrode, and another contact hole, which connects the pixel electrode and the Cs intermediate electrode, are both formed at a liquid crystal domain boundary.

Abstract: A contents data creating device is configured by equipping a computer with a contents creating software. In this contents creating software, a license information file stores license information containing information describing the permitted range of input data or output data. A GUI manager module displays a choice of options indicating the range of input data or output data unpermitted with the license information, in the mode different from that of the choice of options indicating the range of input data or output data permitted. The GUI manager module performs a conversion using the range of the input data or the output data inputted from the outside, as a parameter.

Abstract: In a tuner circuit, an automatic gain control circuit generates an RF-AGC voltage for automatically controlling a gain of an RF-AGC amplifier in accordance with a level of a signal output from an IF amplifier. An emitter follower circuit includes a transistor for current amplification, and varies a drive current of the transistor in accordance with the RF-AGC voltage. Thus, when an interference signal is at a high level, the drive current of the transistor becomes large. Therefore, distortion performance of the emitter follower circuit is improved. On the other hand, in a normal state where the interference signal is at a low level, the drive current of the transistor fails to become large. Therefore, low power consumption is achieved.