Abstract: An optical sheet that diffuses light is disposed on the front side of a backlight chassis supporting a fluorescent tube, a frame supporting a display panel that displays images is provided on the front side of the optical sheet, a bezel is provided on the front side of the frame, the bezel, the display panel, the frame and the optical sheet are coupled, and the bezel, the display panel, the frame and the optical sheet constitute a unit. A first reinforcing member is provided along one side of the optical sheet, a second reinforcing member opposed to the first reinforcing member is provided along one side of the backlight chassis, and a pivotal member is provided between the first reinforcing member and the second reinforcing member.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix pattern and each forming a pixel; a plurality of gate lines each provided between the corresponding pixel electrodes and extending in parallel with each other; a plurality of first source lines each provided between the corresponding pixel electrodes and extending in a direction crossing an extending direction of the gate lines; a plurality of TFTs provided corresponding to the respective pixel electrodes and connected to the respective pixel electrodes, the respective gate lines, and the respective first source lines; a plurality of capacitor lines each provided between the corresponding gate lines and extending in parallel with each other; and a plurality of second source lines each provided between the corresponding pixel electrodes and extending in parallel with the first source lines.

Abstract: A first ink discharging is carried out onto picture element regions on a glass substrate, picture element regions being components divided off by a black matrix in a fine region. Drying of ink forms an ink film whose layer thickness is thick at a surrounding section and thin at a midsection. Further, second ink discharging is carried out on the first ink film and by drying ink discharged in the second ink discharging, an ink layer which has a flat surface is formed.

Abstract: A TFT substrate comprises a substrate, a gate electrode and a lower electrode of a capacitor formed thereon, a first insulating layer formed thereon, a channel layer above the gate electrode and a lower layer of an upper electrode of the capacitor, a channel protection layer formed on an intermediate part of said channel layer and a capacitor protection layer formed on a connection region of the lower layer, source/drain electrodes formed on said channel layer and an upper layer of the upper electrode of the capacitor formed on the lower layer and covering the capacitor protection layer, a second insulating layer covering them, a first connection hole exposing the source electrode and a second connection hole exposing a connection region of said upper layer, which are penetrating the second insulating layer, and a pixel electrode formed thereon.

Abstract: In a multi-gap semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device, the width of a black matrix (6) is made larger above the region between adjacent ITO transparent electrodes (3) and is made smaller above the region between adjacent Al reflective electrodes (4). This enables a transmissive portion to offer a display with high contrast that does not suffer from afterimage or the like by shielding light from the domain lying between the adjacent pixels, and the reflective portion to offer a brighter display by increasing the aperture ratio thereof by making the black matrix width as small as possible or forming no black matrix.

Abstract: A light emission device capable of holding a uniform color in various environments is provided. A light source control device has a light detection device for detecting emission brightness of light sources that emit different colors and controlling emission brightness of at least one light source of the light sources based on the detection result of the light detection device. A through-hole is formed in a reflection member for reflecting light emitted from the light source, and the reflection is in a predetermined direction. The light detection device is provided across the reflection member from the light source, and the light propagation member is provided at the through-hole.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a glass substrate, a driver portion formed on the glass substrate in a protruding state, a stepped portion formed along a surface of the driver portion and a surface of the glass substrate, an insulating reentrant-angle compensating film formed on a surface of the stepped portion, for compensating for at least a part of a reentrant-angle shape of the stepped portion, and a wiring layer formed along a surface of the reentrant-angle compensating film and connected to the driver portion.

Abstract: A line concentrator and external devices wherein data transmitted from external devices within a system and wherein the processing of the received data can be efficiently executed without increasing load on the network is provided. A print system includes a printer hub, a shared printer and a shared MFP. The printer hub includes a switching hub for receiving data from another network and a repeater hub located in the downstream of the switching hum. The switching hub transmits the received data only to designated ones among the connected devices, and transmits the received data to the repeater hub. The repeater hub transmits the data, which is supplied from the switching hub, to all of the image forming apparatuses (shared printer and shared MFP) included in the print system.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for adjusting image code values for enhanced image display.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes at least one paper feeding section, a plurality of image forming sections, a plurality of paper output sections, a main transport path, and a plurality of paper output paths. The paper feeding section stores a recording medium therein. Any one of the image forming sections selectively forms an image on a recording medium fed from the paper feeding section and being transported on the main transport path. Each of the paper output sections receives a recording medium bearing an image formed in any one of the image forming sections. The main transport path leads from the paper feeding section and runs through the image forming sections. The paper output paths branch from an end of the main transport path into the respective paper output sections.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining layers in a multi-layer bitstream of data encoded predictively and scalably by encoding data in one layer of the bitstream in with reference to data in at least one other layer of the bitstream.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for image complexity estimation and selective complexity-based image processing.

Abstract: A toner replenishing apparatus that allows easy removal of a toner replenishing container and make contributions to downsizing of an image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus having the toner replenishing apparatus are provided. A toner replenishing apparatus has a displacement mechanism for displacing a toner replenishing container from a position with the toner replenishing container held by a container holding member. The displacement mechanism includes a hook portion formed in a retaining member and an engagement portion formed in the toner replenishing container. The displacement mechanism effects displacement of the toner replenishing container in conjunction with a release of the toner replenishing container from a retaining action of the retaining member.

Abstract: There is provided a structure mounting and supporting device that can facilitate mounting a structure on a roof. The device allows a plurality of fixing members to be fixed to sheathing, which underlies a roofing material, perpendicularly, while allowing a supporting member fixing and supporting the structure and the fixing members to be fixed together at their respective side portions. More specifically, the supporting member to be carried by the plurality of fixing members has one end initially connected to one fixing member. The supporting member thus has the other end pivotably to provide a degree of freedom to a position at which the other fixing member and the supporting member are secured together, in mounting and fixing the fixing member and the supporting member together. The structure mounting and supporting device is thus applicable to a roof having a plurality of pieces of sheathing inclined at different angles.

Abstract: In a display device that includes a display space provided on a display surface side and a liquid sealed inside the display space so as to be operable and is constituted so as to be able to change a display color on the display surface side according to an application of an electric field to the liquid, the liquid is an ionic liquid containing an ambient temperature molten salt combining a cation and an anion. Further, an amount of water blended in the liquid is 0 to 10 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ionic liquid. This makes it possible both to reduce a voltage to be applied to the liquid so as to allow driving at a low voltage and to improve an operation performance.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a grayscale mask includes preparing a silicon wafer; depositing a layer of Si3N4 directly on the silicon wafer; implanting H+ ions into the silicon wafer to form a defect layer; depositing a first layer of SiOxNy directly on the Si3N4 layer; depositing a layer of SRO directly on the first layer of SiOxNy; patterning and etching the SRO layer to form a microlens array in the SRO layer; depositing a second layer of SiOxNy on the SRO microlens array; CMP to planarize the second layer of SiOxNy; bonding and cleaving the planarized SiOxNyto a quartz plate to form a graymask reticle; etching to remove silicon from the bonded structure; etching to remove SiOxNy and Si3N4 from the bonded structure; and cleaning and drying the graymask reticle.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus authorizing the use thereof by carrying out user authentication prevents fraudulent use of the processor and/or a data leak due to a user's forgetting invalidation of authentication or other reason. When a user is authenticated, whether the user is authorized to use a DMFP is determined by comparing the user's input information with the information of an access-authorized person stored in the DMFP. When both information matches, a range of functions available for the user are specified, and the user is authenticated. Subsequently, for example, operation of copy setting is carried out in making setting on the DMFP. When the setting operation is over, whether authentication on the user is invalidated is determined to execute processes of copy setting, etc. In response to a trigger of invalidation of authentication on the user, the processes of copy setting, etc., are started.

Abstract: An control unit of the amplification type solid-state image pickup device, during a first period T2, controls the gate voltage of the transfer transistor to a first gate voltage V1 to make electrons as signal charge transferred from the phototransistor to the charge detection part. Also, the control unit, in a second period T3 subsequent to the first period T2, sets the gate of the transfer transistor to a high impedance and moreover, in a period TPU within the second period T3, controls the gate voltage of the transfer transistor to a second gate voltage V2 which allows power of transferring the signal charge to the charge detection part to be enhanced than the first gate voltage V1.

Abstract: A fusing unit for an image forming apparatus includes a fusing roller and a pressing roller, each having an elastic layer on their outer peripheral surfaces. A pressing structure presses the fusing roller against the pressing roller. When a sheet of paper with an unfixed toner image passes through a nip portion where the fusing roller and pressing roller are in press-contact with each other, the toner image is fused and fixed to the paper. The fusing unit further includes a pressure release lever for regulating the pressing action of the pressing structure when the rollers are put in press-contact with each other.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for stabilizing image densities of a high-density image by devising shapes of test patches is provided. A test pattern image is created by adhering toner to a plurality of test patches having respectively different line area rates of 100% or less. An amount of adhering toner for a line area rate of 100% is calculated by detecting the amount of the toner adhering to the test pattern image. Then, process conditions are controlled so that the calculated amount of the adhering toner reaches a predetermined value. By doing so, the amount of the adhering toner of the high-density image is accurately controlled.