Abstract: An image combination device acquires a first object image, a second object image, and a background image by first object image acquiring section (1), second object image acquiring section (3), and background image acquiring section (2) and by using one of the three images as a standard image, generates two corrected images by background correction amount calculating section (4) and corrected image generating section (5), so that background portions of the two images correspond. Superimposed image generating section (9) generates an image by superimposing the standard image and one or two of the corrected images. According to this arrangement, since the backgrounds of the superimposed images correspond to each other, the first object and the second object, which have been photographed separately, can be combined without causing an impression that these objects are combined to the background artificially.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided that is capable of selecting an external device to which a CEC message is transmitted according to a user's operation to switch input as a device for operation, even when the device is not in an active state. A television apparatus 100 includes an HDMI terminal connected to an external device and is connected hierarchically in a tree structure to a plurality of external devices through the HDMI terminal. When input switching is instructed to any of the plurality of external devices according to a user's operation to switch input, the television apparatus 100 transmits a CEC message of <Set Stream Path> for switching an input route to the external device to which the instruction of input switching has been given and selects an external device to be a transmission destination of the CEC message of <Set Stream Path> as a device for operation.

Abstract: A substrate for a display panel by which a boundary position of divided exposure regions of elements formed by divisional exposure can be easily identified and process management and evaluation can be easily performed, a display panel having the substrate, a method of producing the substrate, and a method of producing the display panel. A substrate 11 for a display panel includes two or more thin film patterns formed by divisional exposure by which a region to be exposed is divided into a plurality of exposure regions and exposure is made on each of the divided exposure regions, wherein boundary positions of the divided exposure regions of the two or more thin film patterns do not coincide with each other, and a marking 3 indicating the boundary position of the divided exposure regions of at least one of the two or more thin film patterns.

Abstract: A radio transmitter of the present invention includes a scheduler for assigning a communication time or a communication frequency to each radio receiver based on quality information of a received signal transmitted by the radio receiver, a transmission circuit controller for transmitting either a frequency diversity region or a multiuser diversity region to be selected with respect to each chunk, and a transmission circuit for applying different delay times to signals of a plurality of transmission antennas based on a transmission result of the transmission circuit controller.

Abstract: A display apparatus capable of visualizing and presenting connection status and setting information of each device existing in an HDMI network and easily switching input devices is provided. This display apparatus comprises a device search control portion connected with a plurality of external devices through an HDMI cable based on the HDMI standard for defining the presence of the external devices and physical addresses in response to search demands of physical address defining a positional relation between the plurality of external devices and the display apparatus, and a device connection status presenting portion for determining the connection status of the devices from the presence of the decided external device and the physical address to display in a tree structure, whereby a user can easily recognize the connection status between the display apparatus and the external devices.

Abstract: An electronic element wafer module is provided, and the module includes: electronic element wafers, in which a plurality of electronic elements are provided on the front surface side and wiring is provided on the back surface side; and support substrates adhered by a resin adhesive layer, opposing the front surface side of the electronic element wafer, where: a groove for dicing is formed along a dicing line in between adjacent electronic elements, penetrating the electronic element wafers from the back surface; and an insulation film for insulating a semiconductor layer from the wiring on the back surface is formed on the back surface of the electronic element wafer including the through hole and is formed at least on a side wall of the groove.

Abstract: A document matching process section retrieves a similar image on a basis of the result of a first comparison process for comparing features of a matching key image of first resolution that are stored in a features storage section with features of a matching reference image and the result of a second comparison process for extracting features from a matching key image of second resolution that is stored in an image data storage section and comparing the extracted features with features of the matching reference image that are stored in the features storage section. This allows accurately retrieving a matching reference image similar to the matching key image, even when the matching key image is a zoomed image, an N-up image, or an image of low resolution.

Abstract: To provide an image processing device which, when synthesizing an image into a 3D image, realizes image synthesis free from artifacts by taking parallax of 3D image into consideration, and suppresses deterioration of image quality at block encoding. An image processing device 1 receives a left-eye image obtained from the viewpoint corresponding to the left eye and a right-eye image obtained from the viewpoint corresponding to the right eye as input, determines the transparency of an object to be synthesized into the left-eye image and right-eye image by transparency determining means 3, based on the parallax information from a parallax detecting means 2 that detects parallax information and the positional information from a positioning means 5, and further determines the synthesized position of the object by an adjusting means 32 so that it aligns with the boundaries of encoding blocks, to thereby achieve synthesis of the object into the left-eye image and right-eye image.

Abstract: A digital-to-analogue conversion arrangement is disclosed which includes first and second groups of the same number of bi-directional bufferless digital-to-analogue converters. The output of at least one converter in each group is connected to a respective capacitive load (CLOAD, CLOAD?). During a calibration phase of operation the converter inputs receive first and second different codes representing the same output level. The arrangement also includes a respective switched capacitor network connected to each converter output, a comparator for comparing the output voltages of the first and second groups, and a control circuit. The control circuit controls the capacitor networks in response to the comparator so as to make the output voltages of the first and second groups substantially equal.

Abstract: Control commands are sent from communication stations (A, B) to devices (D to F), such as a VTR, connected to a communication station (C) via radio networks (NW) provided between the communication stations (A, B) and the communication station (C), thereby controlling the devices (D to F). As a result, video signals outputted from the devices (D to F) via analog wirings (W) are sent from the communication station (C) to the communication stations (A, B) so that videos based on the video signals are displayed in display devices (A11, B11) via the communication stations (A, B). In the communication station (C), identifiers for specifying controllers (A1, B1) which have sent the control commands to the communication stations (A, B) and identifiers for specifying the devices (D to F) controlled are made to respectively correspond to each other, and are stored so that a controller which can be allowed to control is specified.

Abstract: Provided is a washing machine that makes it possible to effectively exert a sterilizing effect onto all the inner wall face from a lower portion to an upper portion of a washing tank, to shorten a driving time required for washing the washing tank and also to reduce an amount of water to be used for the washing process.

Abstract: An optical pickup device using a laser beam comprising: a light-emitting element; a collimating lens; an objective lens; and a light-receiving element, wherein the laser beam emitted from the light-emitting element is converged on a recording surface of an optical disc to be disposed through a path related to the collimating lens and the objective lens, and the converged laser beam is entered to the light-receiving element reversely passing through the path after being reflected on the recording surface of the optical disc, the optical pickup device comprising: a front monitor light-receiving element for receiving a part of the laser beam emitted from the light-emitting element and detecting the amount of the laser beam; and an optical guiding member for guiding a part of the laser beam to the front monitor light-receiving element.

Abstract: A dual mode mobile terminal has a dual mode in which said mobile terminal can be connected to any of two different wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as systems 1 and 2). The mobile terminal can be connected to optimum wireless communications system by considering conditions at which the mobile terminal is (moving speed, communication data rate) even if it is in the state of communicating using any of systems 1 and 2. The mobile terminal (3) which can be connected to any of the system 1 having a wide service area and medium and low communication data rate and the system 2 having a local service area and high communication data rate determines whether or not it is in the service area of the systems 1 and 2.

Abstract: By using an existing, relatively inexpensive manufacturing device, micropatterns (e.g. guiding grooves, prepits) having such track pitch and pit pitch that are smaller than the diameter of a light spot are formed more finely. There are provided at least two layers, i.e. (i) a resin substrate and (ii) a depressed part inducing layer made of dielectric material or metal oxide. A light beam is radiated and focused onto the depressed part inducing layer so as to form pit parts and/or guiding grooves on irradiated parts of the resin substrate. The depressed part inducing layer is then removed, so as to expose the pit parts and/or guiding grooves.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes one or a plurality of photoelectric converting sections for photoelectric converting incident light into a signal charge on a semiconductor substrate, and a vertical charge-transferring section for charge-transferring the signal charge photoelectric converted at the photoelectric converting section, in which the vertical charge-transferring section is located under the photoelectric converting section on the side of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, in a semiconductor laser in which a first conductivity type lower cladding layer, an active layer that includes a quantum well layer, and a second conductivity type upper cladding layer are formed in this order on a semiconductor substrate, a dopant concentration of the lower cladding layer is not more than 4.0×1017/cm3, and a resonator length is not less than 1500 ?m.

Abstract: An optical structure is disposed on a surface of a device substrate, and a lens system for introducing external light into a solid-state image pickup device is placed in the center of the optical structure. The outer shape of the optical structure seen from the light incident side of the lens system is rectangular, and its plane shape forms a rectangular frame section. An intermediate structure is disposed between the device substrate and the optical structure. The intermediate structure has a fitting section for fitting the optical structure in a part of side faces of the frame section.

Abstract: In the present invention, an administration server stores therein: a user ID and an academic conference book-classification which are associated with each other; and a book ID and a library book-classification which are associated with each other. Further, a copy device includes: a user ID acquiring section for acquiring the user ID; a book ID acquiring section for acquiring the book ID; a first acquiring section for acquiring from the administration server the academic conference book-classification associated with the user ID; a second acquiring section for acquiring, from the administration server, a library book-classification associated with the book ID; and a copy control section for controlling a copying operation to be performed with respect to a book, based on the academic conference book-classification, and the library book-classification.

Abstract: A developing device comprises a stirring roller 7 having stirring blades 7a for stirring a developer, a developing roller 3 for transferring the developer to an electrostatic latent image, a control member 4 for controlling the amount of developer transferred from the developing roller 3 to the electrostatic latent image, a reflux plate 6 by which the excess developer resulting from control by the control member 4 is flowed back to the stirring roller 7, one end portion of the reflux plate 6 being disposed in the vicinity of the outer periphery of the stirring roller 7, part of the developer stirred by the stirring roller 7 flying toward the reflux plate 6, wherein said one end portion of the reflux plate 6 is disposed at a position remote from the stirring roller 7 over a distance greater then the maximum fly distance of the developer provided by rotation of the stirring roller 7.

Abstract: In a sheet detecting sensor, light emitted from a linear light emitting element is blocked by a sheet from entering a light receiving element which is located immediately below the sheet. Only light receiving elements which are not immediately below the sheet, receive light from the linear light emitting element. Light passing through a point in a vicinity of an edge portion of the sheet enters only a light receiving element which is located immediately below that point, but not the other light receiving elements. In addition, even when the position of a sheet varies vertically, the same light receiving element receives light passing through the same point in a vicinity of the edge portion of the sheet. Therefore, even when the position of a sheet varies vertically, the edge position of the sheet can be accurately detected.