Abstract: There is provided a physical property measuring method for a TFT liquid crystal panel, includes an impedance setting step of setting the impedance between the source and drain of a TFT of the TFT liquid crystal panel to be less than or equal to a predetermined value, a voltage application step of applying a voltage that cyclically varies to a liquid crystal layer of the TFT liquid crystal panel. And the method further includes a physical property measuring step of measuring a transient current flowing through the liquid crystal layer to which the voltage that cyclically varies is applied in the voltage application step to measure physical properties of the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A backlight device includes projections disposed on the back side of a light guide plate, and engagement holes engaging with the projections formed in a housing. The projections of the light guide plate are engaged with the engagement holes in the housing to prevent displacement of the light guide plate caused by vibration and impact. One surface of each projection is flush with a light incident surface, the area of that cross-section of each projection which is parallel or substantially parallel to the light incident surface is set such that it continuously decreases as the section is farther away from the light incident surface, and as a result, occurrence of a bright line and a dark line is prevented.

Abstract: The present invention includes an offset processing section that performs offset processing for shifting a sheet to be outputted in a sheet width direction, a banner output section that prints a job attribute of a print job on a sheet, a job attribute determination section that determines the job attribute of the print job, and a control section that sets offset processing or banner output in the unit of a job attribute or in the unit of a job. When a job attribute of a preceding print job and a job attribute of a subsequent print job are different, offset processing and banner output are executed. When the job attribute of the preceding print job and the job attribute of the subsequent print job are the same, any one of offset processing and banner output is executed. Thereby, printed sheets can be easily obtained in the unit of a job attribute such as in the unit of a user.

Abstract: Input data may be coded in accordance with a coding method that allows for either coded data or messages to be transmitted with pre-determined, but unequal reliability over a communication channel. The coding method may allow the messages to be transmitted with higher reliability than the coded data. Messages may be transmitted when they are available. Otherwise, the coded data may be transmitted.

Abstract: A production process of a display device is performed such that, even if exposure displacement is caused by an error in stitching divided regions, a linear protrusion in the vicinity of a divisional boundary is prevented from becoming thin or disappearing because of double exposure. The display device having an insulating substrate on which a plurality of dots are arranged in a matrix includes a linear protrusion which is formed on the insulating substrate by performing divisional exposure on a plurality of divided regions on the insulating substrate, wherein the boundary between the adjacent divided regions provides, in the vicinity of the linear protrusion in one of the divided regions, at least a bent portion that extends into the other divided region at a predetermined distance.

Abstract: User equipment may receive configuration information indicating whether the user equipment provides feedback of channel quality indicator (CQI) information in virtual resource block mode or physical resource block mode. If the configuration information indicates that the user equipment provides feedback in virtual resource block mode, the user equipment may calculate the CQI information for virtual resource blocks. The user equipment may feed back the CQI information for the virtual resource blocks to a Node B.

Abstract: A backlight chassis that is capable of preventing an unusual noise caused by vibrations of a backlight unit or a tubular lamp houses tubular lamps arranged behind a display panel via optical sheets. The backlight chassis includes lamp holding members provided on a lamp housing surface of the backlight chassis, for holding the tubular lamps at an approximate midpoint thereof, wherein the lamp holding members and the backlight chassis are defined by a unitary molded resin member.

Abstract: Water (23) that contains micro-nano bubbles generated in a micro-nano bubble generation tank (6) is introduced and treated in a charcoal water tank (11) which is filled with a charcoal (15) and in which an air diffusing pipe (12) is placed and thereafter introduced and treated in a membrane device (21). Thus, activities of microorganisms propagating in the charcoal (15) are increased by the micro-nano bubbles, markedly increasing ability of decomposing organic matters in the water. Therefore, a clogging phenomenon due to the organic matters can be prevented by reducing organic loads on the membrane device (21). Moreover, a very small amount of alcohols or salts are added as a micro-nano bubble generation aid to the micro-nano bubble generation tank (6), improving an incidence rate of the micro-nano bubbles.

Abstract: An illumination device including a plurality of illumination areas, each of which is individually controllable, includes a plurality of light-emitting devices disposed in a matrix pattern in each of the illumination areas where emission colors are disposed in a different manner between adjacent rows and between adjacent columns. Consequently, the emission of uneven luminance or uneven color is prevented from occurring in boundary portions of each of the illumination areas.

Abstract: A pixel has a first liquid crystal domain. In the first liquid crystal domain, first and second pretilt directions of liquid crystal molecules, defined by first and second alignment films, respectively, intersect with each other at substantially right angles. Also, in the first liquid crystal domain, when a signal voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer to display the highest gray scale, liquid crystal molecules, located around the center of a plane of the liquid crystal layer and around the middle of the thickness of the liquid crystal layer, are tilted in a first direction that substantially equally divides the first and second pretilt directions into two. A driver applies a signal voltage to the liquid crystal layer of the pixel every vertical scanning period. At least while display gray scales are changing from the lowest gray scale into the highest one, the driver applies a voltage that is at least 0.

Abstract: A display device includes a display screen including (i) a normal display area for normal display, and (ii) a DV display area for a DV display area. Pixel columns corresponding to the DV display area are provided in a fixed order in accordance with directions in which images are respectively displayed. Further, a barrier section is provided only for the DV display area so as to shield light, coming from the pixel columns corresponding to the DV display area, such that the images cannot be observed in a direction other than the display directions of the pixel columns. This makes it possible to provide a display device including a display screen provided with (i) a display area suitable for the normal display, and (ii) a display area allowing for the DV display.

Abstract: In an evacuation route obtaining system according to the present invention, a mobile terminal apparatus and a plurality of display apparatuses are connected to each other via a wireless network. The plurality of display apparatuses are connected to corresponding storage apparatuses respectively.

Abstract: The conventional technique has a problem that when a calculated global motion vector is incorrect, a search range is difference from the original one and the possibility of incorrect calculation of the motion vector becomes high and problem that the incorrect calculation of the motion vector may cause lowering of efficiency of the dynamic image encoding. A motion vector calculation device divides a global macro block into middle blocks and detects middle motion vectors for calculation of a global motion vector. Middle motion vectors considered to have abnormal values are excluded from the detected middle motion vectors. According to the remaining middle motion vectors, an accurate global motion vector is calculated.

Abstract: In a backlight device, a diffuser plate and a plurality of optical sheets are disposed above a base tray that includes a plurality of cold-cathode tubes therein. The diffuser plate is sandwiched in between a base member, which holds the bottom surface thereof, and a facing portion of an inner frame disposed on the top surface side thereof. A holding protrusion is arranged on the facing portion so as to abut on an exposed portion located on the periphery of the diffuser plate. According to this construction, even when the backlight device is used in an upright orientation, the diffuser plate can be prevented from leaning forward, and thereby pressure applied on the optical sheets can be prevented.

Abstract: In a lighting unit, fluorescent lights and LEDs of different spectroscopic characteristics are alternately arranged in a direction X on an irradiation plane. Light sources of equal light intensity are arranged in a certain pitch for the fluorescent lights such that a uniform light amount is achieved around end portions in the direction X. The LEDs include LEDs aligned on a bottom surface of a chassis and LEDs arranged on an inner sidewall surface of the chassis. As a result, a lighting unit having a uniform amount of light across an entire irradiation plane is achieved.

Abstract: While an output signal of a flip-flop is inactive in a shift register, NAND circuits of clock pulse extracting sections prevent the performing of conduction switching operation in accordance with periodic level change of clock signals between a logical derivation path for High output and a logical derivation path for Low output, by input of the output signal.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate (12) includes a substrate, a TFT (24) formed on the substrate, a storage capacitor element (20) formed on the substrate, an interlayer insulating film covering the storage capacitor element (20), and a pixel electrode (21) formed on the interlayer insulating film. The storage capacitor element (20) includes a storage capacitor line (27), an insulating film formed on the storage capacitor line (27), and two or more storage capacitor electrodes (25a, 25b, 25c) opposed to the storage capacitor line (27) with the insulating film interposed therebetween. The two or more storage capacitor electrodes (25a, 25b, 25c) are electrically connected via associated contact holes (26a, 26b, 26c) formed in the interlayer insulating film to the pixel electrode (21) and electrically continuous with a drain electrode of the TFT (24).

Abstract: An illumination device for use in a display device or display-device illumination device, includes a plurality of tubular lamps that can be driven in parallel, a first holding member having the same number of holders as the number of the tubular lamps, the holders of the first holding member being arranged to hold first ends of the tubular lamps, a second holding member having the same number of holders as the number of the tubular lamps, the holders of the second holding member being arranged to hold second ends of the tubular lamps, a power supply arranged to supply electric power to the tubular lamps through the first holding member and the second holding member, and a chassis for use in a display-device illumination device. The first holding member and the second holding member are fixed to the chassis for use in a display-device illumination device so as to have freedom of movement in the direction of the main axes of the tubular lamps.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel for performing color display, and a backlight unit that includes RGB-LEDs and white LEDs. The RGB-LEDs and the white LEDs are different from each other in color difference between a white point and each primary color point in the respective images displayed on the liquid crystal display panel when the RGB-LEDs and the white LEDs are individually turned on. Further, the light source includes a backlight control section arranged to select one type of the light-emitting elements to emit light, so that the color difference in an image display on the liquid crystal display panel is smaller when the image has a higher lightness.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to 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 neurotransmission dysfunction and diseases in which the glycine transporter GlyT1 is involved.