Abstract: A method for driving a display device that outputs an image based on an image source. The method comprises the steps of (i) carrying out a first gradation converting process with respect to a first gradation level of an inputted video source signal; (ii) carrying out a smoothing process with respect to the inputted video source signal that has been subjected to the first gradation converting process; and (iii) carrying out a second gradation converting process with respect to a second gradation level of the inputted video source signal that has been subjected to the smoothing process.

Abstract: When an image forming job is completed that records onto a recording sheet an image formed on a photoconductor drum and conveys the recording sheet, a simple process control is carried out that forms some filled patch images with using some toners. After the simple process control is carried out, a determination is carried out, in accordance with a charge control value of a charge roller adjusted by the simple process control (a voltage value applied on the charge roller), whether a formal process control should be carried out or not that forms many patch images with using much toners. The formal process control is additionally carried out, when the determination means so.

Abstract: A method for selecting a decoding scheme to decode information is described. A codeword that represents at least a first message of a first information type and a second message of a second information type is received. A distribution pattern of symbols associated with the codeword is determined. The distribution pattern is compared to a threshold. A decoding scheme is selected based on the comparison.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus facsimile-transmits specified pages among images constituted by multiple pages, and transmits remaining pages by Internet FAX. The information processing apparatus transmits the specified pages to a FAX number specified by a user, by facsimile transmission. Next, the information processing apparatus transmits the remaining pages to a specified mail address by Internet FAX. Thus, the images are transmitted by the two kinds of FAX transmission to realize both of reduction in communication cost and prevention of leakage of confidential information.

Abstract: A document reading device is provided that may perform preview display to enable read contents to be checked if it is determined that a blank sheet exists among read document images. This document reading device includes a document reading portion, a blank-sheet determining portion that determines blank-sheet image data among document image data read by the document reading portion, and a preview displaying portion that performs preview display for image data excluding the blank-sheet image data determined by the blank-sheet determining portion, and the preview displaying portion is capable of performing re-preview display of all the image data read by the document reading portion for the image data excluding the blank-sheet image data displayed in the preview display.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a charging roller (i) which includes a rubber member whose surface is subjected to a hardening treatment using a solvent containing at least an isocyanate compound and (ii) which can prevent leakage of an ionic conductive agent even if the charging roller is placed under conditions of high temperature and high humidity for a long time. The charging roller is made by forming a rubber layer on a metal core. The rubber layer is an epichlorohydrin based rubber base material to which an ionic conductive agent is added, the rubber layer being subjected to a surface treatment by applying a solution containing the isocyanate compound and heating it. This surface treatment is carried out under such conditions that a coefficient of dynamic friction at a contact portion between the rubber layer and a photoreceptor becomes 0.4 or less.

Abstract: It is possible to decrease block segmentation and flickering due to separate exposure in an active matrix substrate while avoiding decreased aperture ratio, increased parasitic capacity and complication in manufacturing process. A first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit including a first-type TFT and a second-type TFT, respectively, are disposed alternately relative to each other in both directions of row and column in an active matrix substrate. In the first-type and the second-type TFTs, a pattern misalignment of the drain electrode with respect to the gate electrode in an up-down direction will increase/decrease a gate-drain parasitic capacity Cgd in reverse ways. By disposing these two types of TFTs in uniform dispersion, the increase/decrease in the parasitic capacity Cgd caused by pattern misalignment occurring at the time of manufacture are averaged.

Abstract: A substrate for a display panel in which insulation breakdown of an insulating film can be prevented, a display panel having the substrate, a production process of the substrate and a production process of the display panel. The substrate includes an inspection line 123 for transferring a signal for inspection which includes a first section 1231 including a portion overlapping with and/or intersecting an input line 121 drawn from a data signal line in a display region 111 between which an insulating film 141 is sandwiched and a second section 1232 which includes a portion other than the portion overlapping with and/or intersecting the input line 121 which are formed to be electrically independent from each other and are arranged to be electrically connected by a conductor 128, wherein a difference between areas of the first section 1231 and the input line 121 is reduced.

Abstract: A lens driving device has first and second driving units for moving first and second lens holders supporting first and second sets of lens elements in an optical axis direction, respectively. The first and second driving units each have a motor, a gear fitted around an output shaft of the motor, a lead screw rotated by the gear, and a nut fitted around the lead screw. The output shafts of the first and second motors overlap each other in their axial direction. The first and second driving units move the first and second lens holders in the optical axis direction via the respective nuts moving in the optical axis direction. An image pickup plane side end face of the motor of the first driving unit is positioned more to the image pickup plane side than a position most to the subject side of the second lens holder is.

Abstract: The coordinate input pen according to the present invention is a coordinate input pen for specifying a current position of the coordinate input pen by emitting an ultrasonic wave, including: an ultrasonic wave oscillating section for oscillating the ultrasonic wave for specifying coordinates of the current position; an ultrasonic wave emitting outlet for emitting, to an outside, the ultrasonic wave oscillated by the ultrasonic wave oscillating section; and an ultrasonic wave propagation route which has a fixed length and extends from the ultrasonic wave oscillating section to the ultrasonic wave emitting outlet and is used to propagate the ultrasonic wave to the ultrasonic wave emitting outlet. As a result, it is possible to maintain the output level of the ultrasonic wave oscillated by the ultrasonic wave oscillating section constant regardless of how large a stroke pressure applied on the coordinate input pen is.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting module wherein light entering into a solar cell is not attenuated, thereby preventing power output decrease of the solar cell. In addition, this light-emitting module can be produced by a simple process. Specifically disclosed is a light-emitting module wherein at least (a) a solar cell unit (b) a first adhesive layer, (c) a light-emitting unit composed of a second light-transmitting insulating substrate (transparent PET), a second metal layer (circuit pattern) and a light-emitting element (chip LED), (d) a second adhesive layer and (e) a third light-transmitting insulating substrate are sequentially stacked. The transparent PET having a thickness about 50-500 ?m which is provided with the circuit pattern in advance is used for producing the light-emitting unit. A silver paste which can be cured by 30-minute heating at 150° C. is used as a circuit pattern material, and the circuit pattern is formed on the transparent PET by screen printing, and then thermally cured.

Abstract: An ink jet head has a plurality of first ink chambers (3) front end portions of which open at an end surface (A) of the substrate and rear end portions of which are blocked, and a plurality of second ink chambers (4) front end portions of which open at an end surface (B) on the opposite side to the end surface (A) and rear end portions of which are blocked. Furthermore, this ink jet head has electrodes formed upon inner walls of the first ink chambers (3) and the second ink chambers (4), a first common ink chamber (6) formed between the rear end portions of the second ink chambers (4) and the end surface (A) and communicated with the first ink chambers (3), and a second common ink chamber (7) formed between the rear end portions of the first ink chambers (3) and the end surface (B) and communicated with the second ink chambers (4). And this ink jet head has a nozzle plate covering the first ink chambers (3) and the second ink chambers (4), and having nozzle holes formed to correspond to those ink chambers.

Abstract: A method for inspecting a color filter includes a first step of disposing the color filter so that the color filter is opposed to a light source, a second step of outputting, from the light source, monochromatic light of a color corresponding to one of the colors of color layers of the color filter and entering the light into the plurality of color layers, and a third step of inspecting for display unevenness in each of the color layers with light transmitted through the color layers.

Abstract: An image display device controls a screen luminance to an appropriate value in response to switching of a display mode, thereby displaying each of television broadcast program images and graphic user interface images (including an electronic program guide, and a variety of setting menus) in an easy-to-see and power-saving manner. The image display device switches between a mode of displaying the television image and a mode of displaying the graphic user interface image. In response to the mode switching instruction, the device controls variably luminance intensity of a backlight source, thereby providing a screen luminance appropriate for each mode.

Abstract: A waster water treatment apparatus has micro-nano bubbles generation tanks, mixing tanks, a submerged membrane tank, a contact oxidation tank, and an activated charcoal adsorption device. In the micro-nano bubbles generation tanks, micro-nano bubbles are added to the waste water. In the mixing tanks, the waste water containing micro-nano bubbles is mixed with sludge containing microorganisms. In the contact oxidation tank, the waste water containing organofluoric compounds is microbially treated by the micro-nano bubbles added to the waste water. The micro-nano bubbles activate microorganisms in the waste water. Thereby organofluoric compounds are microbially decomposed with effect.

Abstract: A stored resource overlay system and method are presented. The method comprises: at a MFP, accepting a document, either in tangible form to be copied, or as an electronically formatted scan job; accessing a resource file stored in permanent storage; converting the resource file into an image; merging the image with the document; and, creating a merged document in an electronic format. The saved resource file may represent an image type such as a logo, background, signature, border, graphic, picture, or overlay for example. After accepting the document, it is converted to a rasterized data first image. Likewise, the image, converted from resource file in permanent storage, is supplied as a rasterized data second image. Then, merging the image with the document includes: adding the first image to the second image; and, generating a rasterized data third image. The resource file in permanent storage may be saved in a PDL format for example.

Abstract: A density counting unit of an image forming apparatus for forming a monochromatic image or a color image represented by a plurality of color components on a photosensitive member includes: first totaling means for totaling pixel values of monochromatic component of each pixel of an image when a monochromatic image is formed; second totaling means for totaling pixel values of monochromatic component of each pixel of an image when a monochromatic image is formed, and totaling pixel values of predetermined color component when a color image is formed; and third totaling means for totaling pixel values of color components other than the predetermined color component when a color image is formed. When a monochromatic image is formed, the first totaling means and the second totaling means total the pixel values of the odd number lines and the even number lines, respectively.

Abstract: In a micronanobubble reaction vessel 3 of wastewater treatment equipment, wastewater containing organic matter is treated with micronanobubbles. Thereafter, the wastewater is introduced into an aeration tank 7. Part of organic matter in the wastewater is oxidized in the micronanobubble reaction vessel 3 by micronanobubble treatment prior to treatment with activity of microorganisms enhanced in the aeration tank 7. After organic matter load is thus reduced, the treatment water is introduced into the aeration tank 7, in which microorganisms exist in high concentration due to submerged membranes 17, so that the organic matter in wastewater can be effectively treated. This makes it possible to accomplish miniaturization of the aeration tank 7, reduction in scale of the whole equipment and therefore reduction in initial cost.

Abstract: An image retrieval information storing apparatus capable of extracting a featured frame adaptively in the process of retrieval includes a coding information reading unit reading prescribed coding information which will be information representing frame feature among coded image data, a frame feature value generating unit connected to the coding information reading unit and generating a frame feature value which is a numerical representation of the frame feature based on the coding information, and a frame feature value storing unit connected to the frame feature value generating unit and storing the frame feature value in correspondence with each frame of the image data.

Abstract: A display device is designed to conduct a display operation using a number n of primary colors (where n is a natural number that is equal to or greater than four). The display device includes a video signal converting section that receives an m-primary-color signal representing a number m of primary colors (where is m is also a natural number that is smaller than n) and that converts the m-primary-color signal into an n-primary-color signal representing the n primary colors. The n primary colors include a color that is complementary to a particular one of the m primary colors. The video signal converting section generates the n-primary-color signal such that if a color component representing the particular primary color of the m-primary-color signal has a negative level, the complementary primary color has an increased luminance and the other non-complementary primary colors have decreased luminances compared to a situation where the color component representing the particular primary color is zero.