Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes: a first substrate 10a made of glass; a second substrate 20a which is made of glass, is located so as to face the first substrate 10a, and has a smaller thickness than that of the first substrate 10a; a liquid crystal layer 25 provided between the first substrate 10a and the second substrate 20a; and a frame-shaped sealant 15a for bonding the first substrate 10a and the second substrate 20a to each other, and enclosing the liquid crystal layer 25 therebetween.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a pixel defined by at least three sub-pixels including a blue sub-pixel, a backlight which emits, toward the liquid crystal display panel, light that brings a color temperature to a predetermined level when the pixel displays white, and a color tone correction circuit which corrects a color tone of a color displayed by the pixel. When the pixel displays a color containing at least one predetermined color component that is other than a white component and a blue component, the color tone correction circuit performs a correction to set a luminance of the blue sub-pixel lower than an original luminance.

Abstract: This ink jet application device (10) includes an optical sensor (20) and a control unit (30) . The optical sensor (20) has a light emission unit (32) which emits a detection beam (100) so as to intersect the path of travel of liquid drops, and a light reception unit (34) which receives this detection beam (100). The optical sensor (20) performs emission and reception of the detection beam (100) in at least a first position in which a portion of the detection beam (100) is intercepted by a nozzle plate (26), and a second position which is positioned lower than the nozzle plate (26) by just a distance which corresponds to the gap between the nozzle plate (26) and an object to be processed. And, on the basis of the state of light reception by the light reception unit (34), the control unit (30) detects the presence or absence of an obstruction between the light emission unit (32) and the light reception unit (34).

Abstract: A nanobubble-containing liquid producing apparatus includes: a microbubble generating device that prepares a microbubble-containing liquid with use of a liquid introduced into a microbubble generation tank and discharges the microbubble-containing liquid into the microbubble generation tank; a micro-nanobubble generating device that prepares a micro-nanobubble-containing liquid with use of the microbubble-containing liquid introduced into a micro-nanobubble generation tank and discharges the micro-nanobubble-containing liquid into the micro-nanobubble generation tank; and a nanobubble generating device that prepares a nanobubble-containing liquid with use of the micro-nanobubble-containing liquid introduced into a nanobubble generation tank and discharges the nanobubble-containing liquid into the nanobubble generation tank. Therefore, an apparatus for producing a nanobubble-containing liquid with use of general-purpose products can be manufactured at low cost and in a short period of time.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting an edge of a transparent substrate includes a light source provided on a rear side of the edge of the transparent substrate, a first polarizer provided between the transparent substrate and the light source and arranged to convert light from the light source to linearly polarized light, a light receiving unit provided on a front side of the edge of the transparent substrate, and a second polarizer provided between the transparent substrate and the light receiving unit, and having a polarization axis that is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a polarization axis of the first polarizer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an active matrix substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate and a capacitive touch panel. The counter substrate is thinner than the active matrix substrate and the capacitive touch panel is arranged on the surface of the active matrix substrate opposite the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: An electronic book data includes a body data unit (12) and a part data unit (13). The body data unit (12) includes event data (124) having a description for designating a display region and a first identifier for designating contents displayed on the display region, and the part data unit (13) includes object information divided into a plurality of regions (133) to which the first identifier is added. The event data (124) thus includes the description for designating the display region and the first identifier for designating the contents to be displayed on the display region, and accordingly the first identifier added to the object information (133) can be referred to so as to acquire an object entity (132) displayed on the display region.

Abstract: To realize efficient transmission control of reception quality information which flexibly treats the information amount and the transmission frequency of the reception quality information. A base station apparatus 100 for controlling transmission operation of the reception quality information with respect to a mobile station apparatus includes: a scheduler unit 110 receiving simultaneous transmission permission information for instructing the mobile station apparatus to simultaneously transmit the reception quality information and the uplink data that the mobile station apparatus generates, and an uplink data transmission permission signal, and serving to perform scheduling that includes the simultaneous transmission permission information in the uplink data transmission permission signal, and transmission parts 101 to 105 that transmit, to the mobile station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including the simultaneous transmission permission information.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent panel, an organic electroluminescent display, an organic electroluminescent lighting device, each include an organic electroluminescent element that maintains stable light emission characteristics for a long period of time. The organic electroluminescent panel includes an element substrate; a sealing substrate facing the element substrate; and an organic electroluminescent element disposed on a sealing substrate side of the element substrate, wherein the organic electroluminescent panel further includes a first sealing member and a second sealing member, the first sealing member sealing a gap between the element substrate and the sealing substrate, the second sealing member covering the organic electroluminescent element, the first sealing member and the second sealing member being arranged with a space therebetween, the space is in a vacuum or reduced pressure state.

Abstract: In a discharge tube, a conductive ferrule is provided on an end portion of a glass tube. The ferrule includes a body that is to be mounted to the outer circumference of the glass tube and has a contact portion to be electrically conductively fixed to a relay connector (or a bearing device). Further included is a conductive portion that extends from the body so as to have elastic contact with an outer lead. The outer lead will not be under load due to the weight of the discharge tube, but the conductive portion solely has elastic contact therewith. Thus, stress concentration on the outer lead can be prevented.

Abstract: This invention relates to an image processing method for improving the quality of an image to be displayed on a display device and to a liquid-crystal display device using the same, and aims at providing an image processing method for providing wide viewing angle and excellent tonal-intensity viewing angle characteristic and a liquid-crystal display device using the same. Combined together are a higher-luminance pixel to be driven higher in luminance than the luminance data of an image to be displayed and a lower-luminance pixel to be driven lower in luminance than the luminance data, to determine a luminance on the higher-luminance pixel and luminance on the lower-luminance pixel as well as an area ratio of the higher-luminance and lower-luminance pixels in a manner obtaining a luminance nearly equal to a desired luminance based on the luminance data.

Abstract: Relay connectors are arranged to supply power from power boards arranged on the back side of a chassis having a substantially plate-shaped configuration to discharge tubes arranged on the front side of the chassis. Each relay connector includes a holder having an insulation property and to be mounted to the chassis, and further includes a relay terminal mounted to the holder and capable of electrical connection to the discharge tube and the power board. The relay terminal is immune to direct contact with the chassis. This enables the use of a metallic chassis.

Abstract: An image processing device and method, and an image display device and method which realizes a high-definition displayed video by reducing motion blur caused by a holding-type display system and reducing motion blurs of the displayed video caused by the time integration effect of an image sensor while suppressing deterioration of an image. The image display device includes a motion vector detection section (101) which detects a motion vector in each predetermined region between the frames of an inputted image signal, and an edge emphasis part (2) which emphasizes the high-frequency component of the inputted image signal and an interpolated image signal generated by an FRC part (100) according to the motion amount of the inputted image signal detected by the motion vector detection section (101). This compensates the high-frequency component attenuated by the time integration effect of the image sensor to reduce the apparent motion blurs to improve the sharpness of the displayed image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a radio communication device, a transmitter and a receiver capable of handling a plurality of signal waves. A radio communication device has a millimeter-wave transmitter (15) and a millimeter-wave receiver (29). Millimeter-wave transmitter (15) includes a multiplexing circuit (1), a millimeter-wave up-converter (4) and an antenna (3), and the millimeter-receiver includes an antenna (31), a millimeter-wave down-converter (32) and an output processing circuit (45). The signal waves dedicated to the user are modulated by a modulation circuit (121 to 124) so as to be allocated between the ground broadcast waves and satellite broadcast waves. The frequencies are multiplexed in an intermediate frequency band, after that, the multiplexed frequencies are converted into a millimeter-wave band and the resultant is transmitted. On the reception side, the multiplexed waves are down-converted, separated to signal waves and demodulated.

Abstract: The reference current source circuit (10) is provided with a current source circuit (1), a trimming fuse (3), a switching circuit (2) which connects/disconnects the current source circuit (1) and/from the trimming fuse (3), a NAND circuit (4) which controls the operation of the switching circuit (2), and a pull-down resistor (R1) which connects one input terminal of the NAND circuit (4) to a GND terminal. The NAND circuit (4) controls the operation of the switching circuit (2) upon receipt of control signals (S1 and S2) and also in accordance with a signal of the one input terminal of the NAND circuit (4) so as to connect the current source circuit (1) to the trimming fuse (3). This arrangement makes it possible to measure characteristics of a semiconductor integrated circuit after fuse trimming. In addition, it is possible to maintain the state after fuse trimming without the supply of a signal from outside.

Abstract: An image collating apparatus includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device stores data representing a sensing image, data representing a template image, and a program. The processor detects exclusion areas in the sensing image to be excluded from the image collation operation based on classification of image patterns. The processor determines whether or not the sensing image and the template image are derived from the identical object by performing template-matching operations to evaluate similarity between the template image and partial images of the sensing image in different levels with increasing the size of area covered by the partial image to be matched with the template image level by level. At least in one level the processor performs the template-matching operation with respect to the partial image where the exclusion areas are excluded.

Abstract: An optical integrated unit includes a semiconductor laser (11), a polarized light beam splitter (14), a light receiving element (12), and a polarized light diffraction element (15) for diffracting an optical beam (20) and returning light. The polarized light diffraction element (15) is so provided as to receive the light beam (20) having passed through a polarized light beam splitter surface (14a), and as to diffract the returning light such that an optical path of the returning light is changed to lead to the light receiving element (12). This makes it possible to provide (i) an optical integrated unit in which the beam diameter of light incidenting on a diffraction element is large and in which an optical path length from the diffraction element to a light receiving element is long, and (ii) an optical pickup device including such an optical integrated unit.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor storage device is provided with a memory cell selecting circuit which selects a selected memory cell from a memory cell array; and a write voltage applying circuit, which applies a row write voltage and a column write voltage to a selected word line and a selected bit line, respectively, and applies a row write blocking voltage and a column write blocking voltage to an unselected word line and an unselected bit line, respectively, and applies a write voltage sufficient for writing only on both ends of the selected memory cell. The write voltage applying circuit applies a write compensating voltage, which has a polarity opposite to that of the voltage applied on the both ends of the unselected memory cells other than the selected memory cell, on both ends of the unselected memory cells, while the write voltage is applied to the selected memory cell.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided which is capable of forming higher-quality images by detecting a toner concentration with higher accuracy to attain appropriate toner supply and image density. A value obtained by adding a correction value based on a temperature, humidity, a print coverage, or the like to a developer concentration adjustment value is set as a control voltage value Vc which is to be inputted to a toner concentration sensor, and an output value of the toner concentration sensor is detected for each of process speeds. A difference between the output value detected and a value at reference process speed is calculated and based on the difference, a correction value is further calculated. Such another calculation of the correction value with use of the output value detected allows for highly accurate correction.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of Formula I: I (where A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4, D1, D2, J, K, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, R4, R5a, R5b, R5c, m and n are defined herein) useful as antagonists of CGRP receptors and useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the CGRP is involved, such as headache, 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 is involved.