Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight system, a driving circuit board for driving the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight system, and a housing for housing the foregoing members. A metal plate is provided between the backlight system and the driving circuit board, which metal plate has a plane surface on a front and back surface which is broader than the backlight system and the driving circuit board. On at least a pair of opposed edges of the metal plate, at least one of a falling portion and a rising portion is provided along the edges of the metal plate. Further, a bezel is provided between the housing and at least one of the falling portion and rising portion, which bezel is arranged so as to integrally support the metal plate and at least the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight system.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel substituted fused aminopiperidines of structural formula (I) which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 enzyme and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 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-4 enzyme is involved.

Abstract: Each of image data sorted so as to correspond to divided areas respectively is stored in an in-area image memory. A maximum luminance extracting section extracts the maximum luminance value therefrom and records it onto the maximum luminance storage section. In accordance with the maximum luminance value that is thus stored in the maximum luminance storage section and that each of the areas has, a BL candidate value calculating section and a BL luminance difference adjusting section determine an emitted-light luminance in a target area such that a difference between the backlight luminance in the target area and the backlight luminance in its adjacent area is not more than a tolerance value.

Abstract: When an image forming apparatus, after a feeding error of a recording material occurs in a fixing device, re-forms on the recording material an image corresponding to image data which image was formed on a sheet which caused the feeding error, an image forming condition is caused to be different from an operation condition used when the feeding error has occurred. This makes it possible to prevent a JAM corresponding to the same image from recurring in the fixing device.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel, a front side viscoelastic layer, a front side hard layer, a back side viscoelastic layer, a back side hard layer, a backlight unit, a driving circuit board, and a metal plate. The front side viscoelastic layer that is viscoelastic covers a display surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The front side hard layer has a higher modulus of elasticity than the front side viscoelastic layer. The back side viscoelastic layer that is viscoelastic covers a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The back side hard layer has a higher modulus of elasticity than the back side viscoelastic layer. The back side viscoelastic layer has a thickness Tb of not less than about 20 ?m, and the front side viscoelastic layer has a thickness Ta and satisfies: Ta/Tb>1 (Tb?0).

Abstract: An instrument panel image display apparatus for displaying an instrument panel image on an instrument panel mounted on a machine includes an image display section arranged to display, in accordance with image data encoding instrument images that provide a user with information about an inside and an outside of the machine, an instrument panel image containing the instrument images, and an image data changing section arranged to change a display state of an instrument image to another display state according to a state of the machine, from among a plurality of display states determined in advance according to the state of the machine. With this structure, an instrument panel image according to the user's own preferences and the state of the machine is created without undermining safety during operation.

Abstract: A direct-viewing type display device includes: a display panel 10 having a display region 10A and a frame region 10F provided outside the display region, with a boundary extending along a first direction between the display region and the frame region, the display region having a plurality of pixels arrayed therein; and a light-transmitting cover 14 disposed on the viewer's side. The light-transmitting cover includes a lens portion 141 disposed astride the boundary for refracting a portion of light going out from the display region toward the frame region. The lens portion refracts the light so that light emitted from the plurality of pixels in the display region has a substantially equal pitch on a plane which is perpendicular to the first direction. A line of intersection 1412 between the plane which is perpendicular to the first direction and a viewer-side surface 1411 of the lens portion is a curve which is not a circular arc.

Abstract: A light-emitting element drive circuit system for driving a light-emitting element includes a current circuit section that drives the light-emitting element at a preset drive current value, and a current value setting section. The current value setting section sets the drive current value so that the drive current value is changed during a preset transition period from a first current value to a second current value that is not equal to the first current value, and changed during a preset transition period from the second current value to a third current value that is not equal to both the first current value and the second current value.

Abstract: A backlight unit 12 includes cold cathode tubes 17, a chassis 14, a stand 30, a stand mount 40, a power circuit board 61, an image processing circuit board 62 and a control circuit board 63. The chassis 14 houses the cold cathode tubes 17. The stand 30 holds the chassis 14. The stand 30 is mounted to the stand mount 40. The stand mount 40 is fixed to a surface of the chassis 14 located on a side opposite from the cold cathode tubes 17. The power circuit board 61, the image processing circuit board 62 and the control circuit board 63 are directly fixed to the stand mount 40.

Abstract: A backlight (illumination device) (2) of the present invention includes a plurality of light sources (5) and a plurality of light guides (7, 17, . . . ) that allow light entered into the light guides from the plurality of light sources (5) to be emitted from surfaces of the plurality of light guides (7, 17 . . . ). Each of the light guides (7, 17, . . . ) includes: a light emitting section (7b, 17b, . . . ) that has a light emitting surface (7a); and a light guide section (7c) that guides, to the light emitting section (7b, 17b, . . . ), light entered into the light guides from the plurality of light sources (5). Each of the light guides (7, 17, . . . ) is also arranged such that the light emitting section (17b) of the light guide (17) that is adjacent to the light guide (7) overlaps the light guide section (7c) of the light guide (7). An edge surface (7e) of the light emitting section (17b) of the light guide (17) that overlaps the light guide (7) has concaved and/or convexed shape.

Abstract: A display driving circuit (104) comprises a table generating unit (64) which generates a table necessary for driving according to a color representation instruction, based on pallet data which is a driving condition of a display device corresponding to the color representation and according to a time-sequential color representation instruction which is instructed in advance, a table storage unit (62) which stores these tables, and a pallet data setting unit (114) which refers to these tables, obtains pallet data corresponding to each lighting cycle at a lighting timing delayed with a delay period for each channel unit number stored in a delay period data storage unit (40), assigns the obtained pallet data while sequentially switching the pallet data according to switching of the lighting cycle, and sets a driving condition of each display device of a display channel unit.

Abstract: A display driving device (50) which drives a display device of a display channel unit (20) according to a time-sequential color representation instruction from a control device (30) comprises a table generating unit (64) which generates a table necessary for driving according to the color representation instruction based on pallet data which is a driving condition of a display device corresponding to a color representation and according to the time-sequential color representation instruction which is instructed in advance, a table storage unit (62) which stores these tables, and a pallet data setting unit (76) which refers to these tables, obtains pallet data corresponding to each lighting cycle, assigns the obtained pallet data while sequentially switching the pallet data according to switching of the lighting cycle, and sets the driving condition of each display device of the display channel unit.

Abstract: The present invention achieves a light guide unit capable of, with use of minimum-sized reflection means, (i) preventing light from directly leaking out from a light guide through a surface of the light guide and thus preventing luminance unevenness, and also (ii) suppressing an increase in production costs. Specifically, reflection means (8) is provided on an upper surface of a light guide part (2a) so as to cause light entered a light guide (2) to travel toward inside of the light guide (2). The reflection means (8) extends from one intersection (P) of first intersections so as to cover a region, of the upper surface of the light guide part (2a), which faces a light incidence surface (9) right above a light source (6). Each of the first intersections is an intersection of (i) a straight line extending at an angle ? to a vertical line (M) and passing through a second intersection and (ii) the upper surface of the light guide part (2a).

Abstract: An LED (31) is attached to an active matrix substrate (11), and a light emitting surface (31L) of the LED (31) is positioned on an outer substrate surface (11T) side of the active matrix substrate (11).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is constituted of a TFT substrate and an opposing substrate which are arranged so as to be opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. In addition, in the liquid crystal layer, formed is a polymer into which a polymer component added to liquid crystal is polymerized, and which determines directions in which liquid crystal molecules tilt when voltage is applied. In the TFT substrate, formed are a sub picture element electrode directly connected to a TFT and a sub picture element electrode connected to the TFT through capacitive coupling. In each of these sub picture element electrodes, formed are slits extending in directions respectively at angles of 45 degrees, 135 degrees, 225 degrees and 315 degrees to the X axis.

Abstract: A lighting device comprising: a light emitting module including a plurality of electrically connected light emitting bars each having a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices; a chassis for containing the light emitting module and having a discharge opening; a reflection sheet arranged in the chassis; and a brightness nonuniformity reduction unit, wherein the light emitting bar includes: a band plate-shaped substrate; a wiring formed on one surface of the substrate; the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices; and first and second connectors formed in proximity to opposing shorter sides on the one surface of the substrate, wherein the reflection sheet has at least a plurality of corresponding holes through which the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices are inserted, and wherein the brightness nonuniformity reduction unit is arranged in proximity to a position of the first and second connectors of each light emitting bar.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is constituted of a TFT substrate and an opposing substrate which are arranged so as to be opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. In addition, in the liquid crystal layer, formed is a polymer into which a polymer component added to liquid crystal is polymerized, and which determines directions in which liquid crystal molecules tilt when voltage is applied. In the TFT substrate, formed are a sub picture element electrode directly connected to a TFT and a sub picture element electrode connected to the TFT through capacitive coupling. In each of these sub picture element electrodes, formed are slits extending in directions respectively at angles of 45 degrees, 135 degrees, 225 degrees and 315 degrees to the X axis.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of formula (I) which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, pain or sleep disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and to the use of the compounds and compositions in the treatment of diseases mediated by the M1 receptor.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention generally relates to use of tissue enriched miRNAs as biomarker to estimate tissue damage in a fluid sample. In a second aspect, methods are provided for monitoring a subject who is exposed or might have been exposed to an agent that has a risk of causing tissue injury. In a third aspect, methods are provided for identifying an agent as having a risk of causing tissue injury to a vertebrate subject. In a fourth aspect, kits are provided for practicing the methods of above-listed aspects. The contents of this ABSTRACT are not intended to in anyway limit the scope of the inventions claimed herein.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to pyridyl amide compounds which are antagonists of T-type calcium channels, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of disorders and diseases in which T-type calcium channels are involved. 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 T-type calcium channels are involved.