Abstract: A light emitting apparatus comprises a light emitting section for emitting light, a color of the light being changed with a value of a driving current, and a driving section for driving the light emitting section so that the light emitting section emits light having a desired color and a desired intensity, by generating the driving current based on a signal designating the desired color and a signal designating the desired intensity and by applying the driving current to the light emitting section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section; a manual setting mode for enabling a user to provide instruction of timing for executing a process control of the image forming section; a cumulative operation information management section for calculating and storing cumulative operation information after the execution of the previous process control; a threshold value setting section for setting, to a threshold value, the cumulative operation information at the point when the instruction is provided in the manual setting mode; and a process control management section for executing a process control and resetting the cumulative operation information at timing when the cumulative operation information reaches the threshold value.

Abstract: A ?? modulation digital-analogue converter of the present invention includes: a look-up table in which a correspondence relationship between each of a plurality of possible input values of an input signal externally supplied, and each of compensation values individually associated with the possible input values, are stored; and a nonlinear compensation circuit (6) for compensating the input signal externally supplied, based on a compensation value associated with the input signal among the compensation values, and supplying a ?? modulation section (1) the input signal thus compensated. A sine wave is used as the input signal.

Abstract: Included are an illumination lamp (2) for illuminating a color filter edge (23) at a predetermined angle of incidence, a sensor (3) for taking at least two images by imaging light reflected at a predetermined angle different from the angle of incidence, an image processing section (9) for calculating a difference in luminance within a color filter in accordance with the images thus taken, and a defect determination section (13) for determining the existence of unevenness in the color filter from the difference in luminance. Provided thereby are a color filter inspection method and a color filter inspection apparatus, each for early discovering unevenness through macroscopic observation of the whole color filter by illuminating the color filter edge and by taking reflected light that is not specular reflected light, the unevenness occurring in a drying step, the color filter edge containing a boundary between a pixel and a black matrix.

Abstract: On a glass substrate, gate bus lines, data bus lines, and TFTs are formed. Then, on the substrate, an insulating film, covering the gate bus lines, data bus lines and TFTs, is formed, and a positive type photoresist film is further formed thereon. Next, through exposure and development processes, the resist film is divided for each picture element and subjected to ultraviolet ray irradiation to harden only a surface layer thereof. Then, the resist film is subjected to heat treatment to form thereon wrinkle-form surface ruggedness of a uniform pattern, which is determined depending on the size of the resist film. Subsequently, reflection electrodes are formed on the resist film. The reflection electrodes are formed to overlap the gate bus line, data bus line and TFTs, and the regions between the adjacent reflection electrodes serve as light transmission regions.

Abstract: A focus state display apparatus comprising focus area extraction means for extracting the image signals of a predetermined area from photographed image signals, edge enhancement processing means for enhancing the edge of the extracted image signals, time integration value calculation means for calculating an integration value of the edge-enhanced image signals in a certain period of time, focus state determination means for determining the focus state of the photographed image signals on the basis of the calculated integration value, and focus state display means for displaying the determined focus state. A user is capable of readily determining the focus state of a camera and confirming and adjusting the focus thereof with accuracy even in a display apparatus of a camera-equipped portable terminal device, where the size and resolution thereof are limited.

Abstract: Systems and methods for limiting total colorant in a color rendering system are disclosed. Implementation of the present invention provides for transformation of a specified colorant in which the sum of the colorant components exceeds a total area coverage (TAC) limit to create a second or resultant colorant in which the sum of the colorant components is within the limit. Using a bijective transformation, colorant sampling and other manipulations can be performed using a nominal hypercube space and the results can be compressed from the nominal space back to the actual colorant-limited space, simplifying manipulation of the colorant-limited polytope space. The unlimited colorant hypercube may be divided into simplexes. For each simplex, intersection points may be found between the TAC limit and the edges of the simplex. A barycentric interpolation technique may then be used to map the unlimited simplex onto a corresponding simplex within the colorant-limited polytope.

Abstract: An input signal INDATA inputted to a sender-side interface portion is encoded by an encoder, and a transmission signal generated by the encoding is transmitted to a receiver-side interface portion through two signal transmission lines. The input signal INDATA is encoded in such a manner that the logic level of the transmission signal transmitted through at least one of the two signal transmission lines is changed in any two consecutive elementary periods. The receiver-side interface portion is provided with a clock receiver, and a clock signal is generated based on the change of the transmission signals supplied from the two signal transmission lines.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having a light diffuser, a desired luminance distribution is realized and displaying with a high contrast ratio across a broad angle range is performed. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel for modulating light emitted from a light source, and a light diffuser being disposed at a viewer's side of the liquid crystal display panel. The light diffuser is a prism sheet including a plurality of prisms, each prism having: a first prism section including a first slope slanted at a first angle with respect to the display surface normal direction; and a second prism section including a second slope slanted with respect to the display surface normal direction at a second angle different from the first angle and being disposed at the viewer's side of the first prism section.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing toner particles capable of decreasing the manufacturing costs by simplifying the manufacturing apparatus and by decreasing the number of the steps, as well as to provide toner particles, a two-component developer, a developing apparatus and an image forming apparatus are provided. A high-pressure homogenizer is constituted by a tank, a feed pump, a high-pressure pump, a heat exchanger, a nozzle, a first depressurizing module, a cooling unit, a second depressurizing module and a take-out port arranged in this order. A flow path constituted in the first depressurizing module has a straight portion tilted with respect to a direction in which the aqueous slurry passes and a portion for relaxing the flow of the aqueous slurry.

Abstract: A sub-resolutional grayscale reticle and associated fabrication method have been presented. The method provides a transparent substrate, and forms a plurality of coincident partial-light transmissive layers overlying the transparent substrate. A pattern is formed, sub-resolutional at a first wavelength, in at least one of the transmissive layers. If there are n transmissive layers, the reticle transmits at least (n+1) intensities of light. In one aspect, each of the plurality of transmissive layers has the same extinction coefficient and the same thickness. In other aspects, the transmissive layers may have different thickness. Then, even if the extinction coefficients are the same, the attenuation of light through each layer is different. The transmission characteristics of the reticle can be further varied if the transmissive layers have different extinction coefficients. Likewise, the transmission characteristics through the sub-resolutional patterns can be varied.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for detection of image regions of various content types using a masking condition and an entropy measure.

Abstract: A feed roller assembly includes a shaft, a plurality of rollers, and a plurality of covers. The rollers are fixed to the shaft at intervals along it. The covers are positioned at both ends of the rollers and surround the shaft, without being fixed to it. Paper dust falls from the outer cylindrical surfaces of the rollers and accumulates on the covers, without coming into direct contact with the cylindrical surface of the shaft. Because the covers are not fixed to the cylindrical surface of the shaft, they rotate at a lower speed than the shaft.

Abstract: Substantially cylindrical supporting units are formed at both sides of a lens. The supporting units are to adjust the separation distance between the lens and the surface of a substrate depending on the height dimension of a light emitting diode mounted on the substrate from the substrate face when the lens body is fixed to the substrate. A cylindrical convex part is formed at a part of the tip face of the supporting unit in a concentric fashion relative to the supporting unit, and a cylindrical positioning unit is formed at a part of the tip face of the convex part in a concentric fashion. The positioning unit functions as a member for positioning when the substrate and the lens body are fixed to each other.

Abstract: An ink ejector includes a head movement control section (22), an ink ejection area recognition section (3), an ink ejection timing control section (23), and an ink droplet number calculating section (5). With this arrangement, it is possible to cause nozzles included in a nozzle array to eject ink at different timings and gradually increase an amount of ink to be ejected. This allows a film thickness of an ink ejection area after landing of ink droplets to be uniform. As a result, it is possible to form a good-quality film. Further, since a head (7) includes a nozzle array having a plurality of nozzles (10), it is possible to shorten the amount of time required to restore a defective pixel. Thus, it is possible to provide an ink ejector and an ink ejection control method in which a good-quality film having a uniform thickness can be formed, and the amount of time required to restore a defective pixel can be shortened.

Abstract: A DPF controller (21) generates, as image information, a layout identifier (MEN) that specifies the layout of an image to be displayed on a liquid crystal display device (11), and an element image identifier (SEN) that specifies the display mode of element images that are being subjected to layout. When an SEN is newly determined and the newly determined SEN is equal to a previously determined SEN, the newly determined SEN is not output to a drawing controller (22).

Abstract: A lighting device (8), which is provided with a cold cathode fluorescent tube (light source) (9) and a chassis (8a) that houses the cold cathode fluorescent tube (9), includes an inverter circuit (16) that includes a transformer (16a) to be connected to the cold cathode fluorescent tube (9) and drives the cold cathode fluorescent tube (9). The inverter circuit (16) drives the cold cathode fluorescent tube (9) using a frequency higher than a predetermined fundamental frequency during a predetermined period within a period in which the cold cathode fluorescent tube (9) is lit.

Abstract: A pixel of a liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes first and second linear alignment control structures 10a, 20a. The first and second linear alignment control structures each include a first component extending along a first axis L1 and a second component extending along a second axis L2 that is different from the first axis. Each of the first and second axes generally bisects angles between the polarization axes of the pair of polarizing plates. At least one group of the first and second linear alignment control structures are ribs 20a. A first component 20a1 of the rib includes three or more first linear portions arranged along the first axis. The first linear portions are arranged such that adjacent two form an angle of ?1 where 50°??1<180° and that the direction which bisects ?1 is generally perpendicular to the first axis. A second component 20a2 of the rib includes three or more second linear portions arranged along the second axis.

Abstract: A lighting device of the present invention includes a light source 17, a power source 170 configured to supply driving power to the light source 17, and a relay member 150 configured to electrically connect the light source 17 and the power source 170. The light source 17 includes an outer lead 42 for receiving the driving power. The relay member 150 includes a relay body 152 having a void 158 in which the outer lead 42 is placed and the relay body 152 is formed of conductive rubber. The outer lead 42 is placed in the void 158 of the relay body 152 with elastic contact thereof and an inner surface of the void 158.

Abstract: A display device 10 of the present invention includes a display panel 10, a fluorescent lamp 17, a brightness controller 40 and a temperature sensor TS. The display panel 10 has a grayscale display function. The fluorescent lamp 17 emits light toward the display panel 10. The brightness controller 40 controls display brightness by adjusting the grayscale of the display panel 10 and the light emission of the fluorescent lamp 17. The temperature sensor TS measures a temperature of the display device 10. The brightness controller 40 selects a way of the brightness control from the display panel 10 grayscale adjustment, the fluorescent lamp 17 emission adjustment and a combination of both based on the temperature of the display device 10 measured by the temperature sensor TS.