Abstract: An image reading device includes a document stacking tray on which documents are stacked, a feed roller for picking up, one sheet at a time, the documents that are stacked on the document stacking tray, a curved transporting path through which the document is transported, and a CCD reading unit and a CIS reading unit for reading images from the document. The document stacking tray includes a electric tray for raising or lowering the document within a range of a height of the curved transporting path, so as to feed the document to the feed roller. With such an arrangement, it is possible to provide an image reading device and an image forming apparatus that are capable of separating and transporting a large number of documents and efficiently reading images from the documents even when the documents are thick.

Abstract: A digital demodulating apparatus comprises circuit elements constituting a tuner that performs channel select processing to an interleaved received signal, and a demodulator that demodulates the received signal; a deinterleaving section that deinterleaves the interleaved received signal; an error correcting section that corrects errors in the received signal deinterleaved by the deinterleaving section; and a circuit element controlling section that controls an operation of at least one of the circuit elements. The circuit element controlling section estimates the quantity of hypothetical errors in the received signal caused by a control of a circuit element. The circuit element controlling section judges from the estimated quantity of hypothetical errors whether the error correcting section can correct errors in the received signal caused by the control of the circuit element.

Abstract: An optical disk includes a plurality of disk sheets which are laminated, and each of which has a recording face on one of the surfaces and a flat back surface, wherein the plurality of disk sheets are laminated by adhesive layers in such a manner that between adjacent two disk sheets, a back surface of one of the disk sheets, on the opposite side of the surface where the recording face is formed, faces the disk surface of the other disk sheet. The foregoing structure realizes an optical disk of desirable recording/reproducing characteristics, which is flat and has a fixed interval between recording faces, and which permits the problems of coma aberration, spherical aberration, etc., to be suppressed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates in a spaced relationship with one another. A pair of alignment films are provided, one alignment film being formed on each substrate such that the alignment films face one another. A liquid crystal layer; including plural liquid crystals, is inserted between the pair of alignment films, wherein the alignment films impart a given pre-tilt angle to the liquid crystals. The alignment films are composed of a material containing at least two types of polymers having a prescribed initial alignment and different alignment variation rates in response to ultraviolet ray irradiation. The pre-tilt angle being adjusted, without rubbing the alignment films, through ultraviolet exposure of the alignment films.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developing tank having a developing region tank and an agitating region tank, a partition wall member, a first agitating and conveying member, a second agitating and conveying member, a first intermediate wall member, a second intermediate wall member and a sensor, and an opening portion is formed. In the developing device, a third agitating and conveying member extending in a longitudinal direction of the agitating region tank is provided between the second agitating and conveying member and the second intermediate wall member in a transverse direction of the agitating region tank.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a groove on a surface of a first substrate by scribing, and forming a nitride semiconductor layer on the surface where the groove is formed. In addition, the method includes the steps of bonding the nitride semiconductor layer and a second substrate together and separating the nitride semiconductor layer and the first substrate from each other. With this manufacturing method, a nitride semiconductor device can be obtained with high yield.

Abstract: The present invention provides production methods of a pattern thin film, a semiconductor element and a circuit substrate, capable of eliminating the number of photolithography processes needed for patterning; and a semiconductor element, a circuit substrate, and an electron device obtained by the production methods. The production method of the pattern thin film of the present invention is a production method of a pattern thin film, comprising the steps of: forming a first resist pattern film on a thin film formed on a substrate; forming a second resist pattern film; patterning the thin film using at least the second resist pattern film, wherein in the step of forming the second resist pattern film, a fluid resist material or an organic solvent is applied on a groove of a bank pattern formed using the first resist pattern film.

Abstract: Certain novel substituted imidazole 4-carboxamides are ligands of the human cholecystokinin receptor and, in particular, are selective ligands of the human cholecystokinin-1 receptor (CCK-1R). They are therefore useful for the treatment, control, or prevention of diseases and disorders responsive to the modulation of CCK-1R, such as obesity, and diabetes.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is furnished with: a liquid crystal display element having a pair of substrates, to which alignment members are provided to their respective opposing surfaces, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of substrates; an alignment mechanism for providing at least two different director configurations simultaneously on different arbitrary regions used for display in the liquid crystal layer; and a reflection film provided to at least one of the different arbitrary regions showing different director configurations; wherein the different arbitrary regions showing different director configurations are used for a reflection display section for showing reflection display and a transmission display section for showing transmission display, respectively.

Abstract: A system and method manages Quality-of-Service (QoS) in a network by allocating resources, such as available network bandwidth. The network devices transmit and receive data traffic streams, each of which includes QoS parameters, including a priority level and bandwidth allocation. The method includes choosing which existing QoS allocations are pre-empted, notifying original requesters of pre-empted allocations, and re-establishing pre-empted allocations with appropriate modifications. If a new QoS request cannot be accommodated due to the previous allocations to lower-priority requesters, the existing lower-priority allocations are released until enough allocations are released to accommodate the new request. Once the new request is allocated, the pre-empted configurations may be reallocated.

Abstract: A plurality of display elements each includes two signal lines: S1 and S2. An electrode 4, which is one of the electrodes constituting an element capacitor Cp, is connected to the signal line S1 via a switching element TFT1, while the other electrode 5 is connected to the signal line S2 via a switching element S2. The gate electrodes of the switching elements TFT1 and TFT2 are connected to a single common scanning line G. With this structure the drive voltage applied to the element capacitor can be increased even when a TFT has a limited withstand pressure.

Abstract: A conventional contents-watching device, etc. calculate users' tastes of contents only on the basis of watching frequencies, so that variety programs that the users are less interested in but that are broadcasted every week are apt to get a higher degree of users' tastes than a soccer game of the Japanese national team that the users are highly interested in but that is broadcasted only several times per year. In order to solve the problem set forth above, the present invention proposes a contents-watching device that calculates a taste value by normalizing a watching index indicative of the number of contents-watching times or the like for every contents-attribute with an emergent index indicative of the number of contents-watching chances, acquires an contents-attribute connected with contents to be a subject for watching recommendation, and has a function to calculate watching recommendation information by using the taste value of the contents-attribute.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) that supports multiple antenna transmission via multiple power amplifiers may operate in a reduced power amplifier (PA) mode. When operating in the reduced PA mode, a subset of the UE's power amplifiers are used to transmit uplink signals. A UE may send a preference signal to an e-Node B to request that the UE operate in the reduced PA mode.

Abstract: Provided is an illuminating device which is capable of suppressing occurrence of irregular color in illuminating light. The illuminating device is provided with a light source substrate (4) and light-emitting devices (7a) which are provided on the front surface of the light source substrate (4) and emit light wherein blue light and fluorescent light are color-mixed with each other. On the front surface of the light source substrate (4), light-emitting devices (7b) which emit blue light are further provided. The light-emitting devices (7a) and the light-emitting devices (7b) are arranged so that the colors emitted respectively therefrom are color-mixed with each other.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a plurality of light source blocks defined by a first partition wall and a second partition wall, the light source blocks being provided with LEDs. The illumination device is capable of adjusting a luminance of each of the plurality of light source blocks. A projection section to diffuse the light is provided on a vertex of the first partition wall. As a result, it is possible to prevent a luminance irregularity and a color irregularity from occurring between illumination areas when adjusting the respective luminance in each of the plurality of illumination areas.

Abstract: An A/D conversion apparatus according to the present invention for comparing a reference signal with an analog signal, and when the reference signal matches with the analog signal, outputting a corresponding digital value, is provided, and the A/D conversion apparatus includes a gray code counter for generating the digital value from a reference clock or a reverse clock of the reference clock, and uses a gray code, in which a most significant bit to a second least significant bit of the digital value is a count value of the gray code counter and a least significant bit of the digital value is generated from the reference clock or the reverse clock thereof and defined as a least significant bit of the gray code counter.

Abstract: Downlink data may be transmitted from cooperating base stations to a user equipment (UE). Different numbers of transmit antennas may be selected for use at different cooperating base stations. Coherent weighting may be performed at each of the transmission points. The UE may estimate channels from individual cooperating base stations and combine the individual channels to form an improved combined channel by selecting the transmit antennas and weights to be used at each transmission point.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula I: I (where variables R1A, R1B, R2, R3, R4, A, and Z are as defined herein) useful as antagonists of CGRP receptors, and useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which CGRP receptors are involved, such as headache, and in particular migraine and cluster headache. 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 CGRP receptors are involved.

Abstract: The present invention provides a backlight device that can ensure the margin for design of the placement of a circuit board by simplifying the configuration of a lighting circuit of a lamp and reducing the size of the circuit board on which circuit components are mounted, and a display device using the backlight device. The backlight device includes a lamp (20) and a lighting circuit (21) that generates a lighting drive voltage to light and drive the lamp (20). The lighting circuit (21) includes the following: a direct-current power supply circuit (33) that generates a direct-current voltage from an input voltage; an inverter drive circuit (43) that converts the direct-current voltage output from the direct-current power supply circuit (33) into a high frequency voltage; and a booster portion (T2) that boosts the high frequency voltage output from the inverter drive circuit (43) to a lighting drive voltage of the lamp (20).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, an electrode and an alignment layer formed on each of the substrates, and a liquid crystal filled between the pair of substrates. The alignment layer of one of the pair of substrates is treated so that the alignment layer is divided into a plurality of stripe regions including a first stripe region and a second stripe region adjacent to the first stripe region, the first and second stripe regions extending parallel to each other and forming a first boundary therebetween. A direction of alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the first stripe region is opposite to a direction of alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the second stripe region, and directions of alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the first and second stripe regions are parallel to the first boundary. A shading layer is provided to cover the first boundary.