Abstract: A prediction set determining section (13) selects a prediction set from a prediction set group including a plurality of prediction sets having different combinations of prediction modes corresponding to different prediction directions. Further, a prediction mode determining section (11) selects a prediction mode from the prediction set thus selected. An entropy encoding section (4) encodes the prediction set thus selected, the prediction mode thus selected, and residual data between an input image and a predicted image formed on the basis of the prediction set and the prediction mode. This allows an image encoding device to carry out predictions from more various angles, thereby improving prediction efficiency.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel manufacturing apparatus for successively bonding a pair of film substrates, each having a plurality of display regions defined at least along a longitudinal direction, along the longitudinal direction through a sealant formed in every display region of one of the film substrates includes: a first processing unit arranged to form a bonded body by bonding the film substrates so that the respective display regions are superimposed on each other; and a second processing unit including a molding roll configured to hold the bonded body formed in the first processing unit onto a peripheral wall thereof, and arranged to mold the bonded body into a curved shape along the peripheral wall of the molding roll by curing the sealant while holding the bonded body on the peripheral wall of the molding roll.

Abstract: The present invention relates to homogenous fluorescence-based assays for measuring mitochondrial membrane potential in vertebrate cells. The assays use an inner filter such as Brilliant Black BN to quench non-specific fluorescence. The assays are particularly suited for ultra high-throughput screening for activators of mitochondrial uncoupling proteins, chemical uncouplers, compounds with mitochondrial toxicity, and compounds which stimulate mitochondrial biogenesis.

Abstract: An image forming system that realizes a point system more appropriately corresponding to a degree of effects on environment is provided. The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus for giving a deduction point depending on use of resources and an addition point that is given to an energy-saving operation for the apparatus by the user, and a point management server for performing authentication processing of a user and also accumulating deduction points and addition points calculated by the image forming apparatus and managing for each user, in which an addition point calculated depending on the lapse of time passed since a user used the image forming apparatus last time and a point giving rate per unit time assigned to the user is added to the point, the point is managed for each user, and the point of a predetermined period is reported to each user.

Abstract: A super-resolution optical recording medium (10) of the present invention includes: a medium information region (1) on which medium identification information is recorded; a content region (3) on which content information is recorded; and a blank region (2) provided between the medium information region (1) and the content region (3) and in which at least two tracks are provided so as to connect a train of prepits in the medium information region (1) and a train of prepits in the content region (3). No information is recorded on the blank region (2). With this arrangement, the present invention provides a super-resolution optical recording medium in which a region on which medium identification information is recorded and a region on which content information is recorded are different in track pitch and in which a reproduction error hardly occurs when reproduction shifts from the region on which the medium identification information is recorded to the region on which the content information is recorded.

Abstract: A lighting device 12 for a display device of the present invention includes linear light sources 17 arranged in parallel, connectors 21 for feeding power to the linear light sources 17 and a chassis 14 for housing the linear light sources 17. The chassis 14 has fixing holes 30 for fixing the connectors 21. Each of the fixing holes 30 is formed in a longitudinal shape with its longitudinal direction along the parallel direction of the linear light sources 17. Each of the connectors 21 has a stopper 25 to be fitted in the chassis 14. When the stopper 25 is fitted in the fixing hole 30, the connector 21 is positioned and fitted in the fixing hole 30. The connectors 21 are fixable in a plurality of locations along the longitudinal direction of the fixing hole 30.

Abstract: The present invention provides a production method of a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device that permits suppression of a leakage current. A production method of a semiconductor device includes a structure in which a semiconductor layer, an insulating film, and a gate electrode are stacked on a main surface of a substrate in this order, the method comprises an impurity-adding step of: adding impurities to at least a portion of the semiconductor layer, the portion facing the gate electrode, so that a portion of the semiconductor layer, the portion being an edge region and facing the gate electrode, has an impurity concentration greater than an impurity concentration of a portion of the semiconductor layer, the portion being a non-edge region and facing the gate electrode.

Abstract: In an arrangement area of lamps (16) in the backlight chassis (14), a main longitudinal direction of the lamps (16) lies in a first direction and the lamps (16) are arranged at uneven intervals (P), and the area has a high-density area (center area (Rc)) in which the lamps (16) are arranged with high density and a low-density area (upper area (Rt) and lower area (Rb)) in which the lamps (16) are arranged with low density. The backlight chassis (14) has a heat releasing member arranged on its backside in the high-density area.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate 40 according to the present invention includes a conductive film 44 and a wiring 80 for supplying a signal to the conductive film 44, characterized in that the wiring 80 includes a first conductive layer 61 and a second conductive layer 62 having a relatively large line width in comparison with the first conductive layer 61 and laminated so as to cover the first conductive layer 61, and the conductive film 44 is arranged in a matrix pattern, and at least a portion of the conductive film 44 is disposed overlapping the wiring 80.

Abstract: To provide a portable terminal device that, in the case where a part of an image displayed on a display screen is enlarged, make content of the enlarged image easily visually recognizable. The portable terminal device includes: an operation part 7 including a plurality of operation keys 71 that are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix form; image enlarging means 91 that, in a state where a plurality of enlargement target areas 93 are preliminarily set as partial areas of a TV image, generates an enlarged TV image by, on the basis of an operation of any of the operation keys 71, enlarging an image within an enlargement target area 93 preliminarily related to the operation key 71; display image generating means 92 that generates a display image including the TV image in a normal browsing mode, or in an enlargement browsing mode, generates a display image including the enlarged TV image; and display means 5 that displays the display image.

Abstract: A multi-primary-color liquid crystal display device that can get a display operation done more smoothly and with higher definition than a conventional one is provided. A multi-primary-color liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is adapted to conduct a display operation in at least four primary colors. The device has a plurality of pixels that form at least two different types of subsets. The device can perform rendering processing in which at least one of the pixels that form a first one of the at least two different types of subsets lends a luminance to a second type of subset. Each pixel includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel that could have mutually different luminances. The second type of subset borrows a luminance from one of the first and second subpixels of the at least one pixel that has the higher luminance.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus is provided whereby in the reproduction of broadcasting information, the broadcasting information can be recorded so that the combination and so on of contents included in the broadcasting information can be recognized without the need for reproducing the broadcasting information itself. An information recording apparatus for recording broadcasting information constituted of a packet which has a predetermined amount of information and includes different types of contents, each type including one or more contents, the apparatus including a controller 8.

Abstract: A cellular phone includes a first case and a second case, which are connected in a foldable manner through a hinge. When the cellular phone is in a folded state, a second display unit displays an image with the side (upper side) closer to the hinge as the upper side. Accordingly, the user can hold the second case of the cellular phone in his/her hand regardless of whether the cellular phone is in a folded state or in an open state. The user can easily switch between a folded state and an open state with respect to the first case and the second case.

Abstract: A substrate accommodating apparatus (10) is constituted by stacking a plurality of accommodation bodies (20) on an upper surface of a rigid plate (15). Each accommodation body (20) is provided with a buffer (21) having elasticity and some conductivity and a load receptacle (22) having a frame-shaped body, while an upper surface of the buffer (21) is provided with a substrate protect layer (23) made of cellulose. The substrate accommodating apparatus (10) is arranged to enclose a substrate (S) therein by stacking the accommodation bodies (20) where the substrates are placed, and when the accommodation bodies (20) are stacked, each load receptacle (22) places the load of the respective accommodation body (20) on a periphery of the adjacent lower accommodation body (20) so that any load is not placed on the central portion of the lower accommodation body (20) where the substrate (S) is placed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to cyclopropyl piperidine compounds that inhibit the glycine transporter GlyT1 and which are useful in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glycinergic or glutamatergic neuro-transmission dysfunction and diseases in which the glycine transporter GlyT1 is involved.

Abstract: A Stirling engine, wherein the inner yoke of a linear motor is installed on the outer peripheral surface of a cylinder. To keep a proper pressure balance between a compression space on one end side of a displacer and a back pressure space on the outer peripheral side of the cylinder, a first flow passage is formed in the piston starting at the compression space side end face toward the outer peripheral surface and a second flow passage allowing the first flow passage to communicate with the back pressure space is formed in the cylinder. The second flow passage is composed of a through hole that penetrates the wall of the cylinder in a radial direction and a communication passage formed between the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder and the inner peripheral surface of the inner yoke to allow the through hole to communicate with the back pressure space.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductor device in which electrodes formed on a semiconductor chip and electrodes formed on a wiring board are electrically connected via projecting elastic electrodes, and further relates to a mounting method of reducing a pressure applied to electrodes formed on a substrate or underlying wirings when a semiconductor chip and a wiring board are bonded.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms a color image in which a plurality of color component images are superimposed; and a formation controlling unit that allows the image forming unit to form images for adjustment of formation positions of the respective color component images. The formation controlling unit allows the image forming unit to form, for each color, a plurality of adjustment images having different tilts with respect to a main scanning direction. A shift of a detected position of each adjustment image from a reference position in which each adjustment image should be formed is calculated, a tilt and an intercept of a regression line that uses the reference positions and the calculated shifts as variables are calculated, and a shift in the main scanning direction and a shift in a sub-scanning direction are determined based on the calculated tilt and intercept.

Abstract: A toner supply device including: a toner bottle filled with toner; and a toner supply assembly mounting mechanism having the toner bottle mounted thereon and feeding toner discharged from the toner bottle to a developing unit and supplying toner to the developing unit in accordance with the amount of toner consumed in the developing unit for the process of printing, further comprises: a toner bottle releasing mechanism which, when the amount of toner left in the toner bottle has been reduced to a predetermined level or lower, causes the toner bottle to move in the direction opposite to the direction in which the toner bottle is set into the toner supply assembly mounting mechanism and separate from the toner feed device.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I) are antagonists of VLA-4, and as such are useful in the inhibition or prevention of cell adhesion and cell-adhesion mediated pathologies. These compounds may be formulated into pharmaceutical compositions and are suitable for use in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis.