Abstract: An image forming device includes a document information acquirer that acquires information related to a document, a sheet information acquirer that acquires information related to a print sheet, a storage that stores, in advance, information related to the document and the print sheet, and prediction condition information including proposal processing associated with the document and the print sheet, a processing predictor that acquires, based on the information related to the document and the information related to the print sheet acquired by using the prediction condition information, proposal processing associated with the placed document and the print sheet, and a proposal processing generator that generates information related to the proposal processing to be presented to a user based on the acquired proposal processing. When the user places a document and a print sheet, the proposal processing is acquired and presented to the user.

Abstract: A TOF sensor includes: a light-emitting element that emits light in accordance with reference pulses; a first light-receiving unit that outputs pulses in response to light incident thereon; a first digital computation unit that calculates the number of third output pulses of the first light-receiving unit in response to reflected light incident thereon; and a distance computation unit that calculates the distance from this device to the object if the number of third output pulses is greater than a first reference value.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes a step (A) of preparing an active matrix substrate, a step (B) of preparing a counter substrate, and a step (C) of producing a liquid crystal display panel using the prepared active matrix substrate and counter substrate. The step (C) includes a step (C1) of bonding the active matrix substrate with the counter substrate with a predetermined gap interposed therebetween and a step (C2) of forming a liquid crystal layer before or after the step (C1). An alignment film is an alignment film having a specific resistance of 1×1014 ?·cm or greater when a backlight is illuminated. The step (C) further includes, after the steps (C1) and (C2), a step (C3) of irradiating the active matrix substrate, the liquid crystal layer, and the counter substrate with ultraviolet light.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes in the following order from a viewing surface side a first polarizer, a first positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 80 nm or greater and 100 nm or smaller, a first substrate, a second positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a horizontally aligned liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a viewing angle compensation layer, and a second polarizer. The device further includes between the first polarizer and the first positive A plate a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 30 nm or greater and 80 nm or smaller.

Abstract: A parking lot guidance system includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether the parking lot is in a congested state based on a result of detection from a detection unit; a selection unit configured to select a predetermined number of empty spaces in the parking lot based on a determination from the determination unit; and a display unit configured to display the predetermined number of empty spaces. The selection unit selects the empty spaces from further inside in an extending direction of the vehicle passage in a first parking block which is a parking block including an empty space and being closer to a facility entrance provided at a position different from that of a parking lot entrance of the parking lot out of a plurality of parking blocks along a plurality of vehicle passages when the determination unit determines that the parking lot is in the congested state.

Abstract: A method for receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, an RRC connection reconfiguration message for adding a secondary cell group (SCG), wherein the RRC connection reconfiguration message includes data radio bearer (DRB) configuration parameters for remapping a DRB that is established on a master cell group (MCG), to the SCG; and remapping the DRB to the SCG based on the RRC connection reconfiguration message, wherein the DRB configuration parameters include a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) configuration.

Abstract: An object trapping device enables efficiently trapping a plurality of objects in a specific combination. Each of a first electrode pair (13), a second electrode pair (14), and a third electrode pair (15) in an electrode pair group (3) is applied with an individual AC voltage and traps an object by dielectrophoresis generated in accordance with the AC voltage that is applied.

Abstract: An image decoding apparatus includes a decoding unit configured to decode coded data into a decoded image and segmentation metadata, a segmentation metadata decoding unit configured to generate segmentation information, and an image processing unit configured to perform prescribed image processing on the decoded image with reference to the segmentation information.

Abstract: A display device includes a first display panel with a touch function, a second display panel without a touch function, a first data line drive circuit and a first demultiplexer circuit configured to drive data lines of the first display panel in a time-division manner in accordance with K first control signals, and a second data line drive circuit and a second demultiplexer circuit configured to drive data lines of the second display panel in a time-division manner in accordance with K second control signals. A horizontal period used to drive the first display panel is shorter than a horizontal period used to drive the second display panel, and a length of a period in which each of the first control signals is at a selection level and a length of a period in which each of the second control signals is at a selection level are approximately the same.

Abstract: A light absorbing member includes a first dichroic dye and a second dichroic dye. The first dichroic dye has an absorption peak wavelength between a first emission peak wavelength of the first light-emitting layer and a second emission peak wavelength of a second light-emitting layer. The second dichroic dye has an absorption peak wavelength between the second emission peak wavelength of the second light-emitting layer and a third emission peak wavelength of the third light-emitting layer. An angle of a molecule of the first dichroic dye in an absorption axis and an angle of a molecule of the second dichroic dye in an absorption axis with respect to a normal direction of the reflective layer are from 70 degrees to 90 degrees.

Abstract: A switching regulator includes a switching element, a rectifier element, an output capacitor having one electrode connected to an output terminal, a control circuit which supplies a pulse width modulation signal in accordance with a voltage of the output terminal to a control terminal of the switching element, a load determination circuit which outputs a determination signal in accordance with a load, based on a voltage of the control terminal of the switching element, and a variable inductance circuit including a plurality of coils and having an inductance value which is switchable based on the determination signal.

Abstract: An information processing device makes a communication connection with an external device. The information processing device establishes a service connection with the external device upon determining an input of a determination key from the external device in the determination-key-input-reception time.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a sheet feeding cassette, which is detachable with respect to a sheet feeding cassette mounting portion provided on an image forming device body. The sheet feeding cassette includes a storage portion that stores a paper sheet, a first regulator provided on a bottom portion of the storage portion that regulates the position of a paper sheet, and a movable placement plate that upwardly pushes a paper sheet stored in the storage portion. The movable placement plate includes a second regulator that regulates the position of a paper sheet having a different size to the size of a paper sheet that can be regulated by the first regulator.

Abstract: In a display device including a display panel, a plurality of scanning line drive circuits formed on the display panel, each driving scanning lines individually, and a display control circuit, the scanning line drive circuit outputs a state signal, and the display control circuit determines whether a state is normal based on the state signal, performs control, in a normal state, for making the plurality of scanning line drive circuits operate in turn, and performs control, in an abnormal state, for stopping an operation of an abnormal scanning line drive circuit and for making a normal scanning line drive circuit operate in turn. A last-stage output signal of the scanning line drive circuit is used as the state signal. With this, a display device capable of lengthening time until an abnormality occurs and keeping display quality even when the abnormality occurs is provided.

Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate; light-emitting elements on the base substrate with a TFT layers intervening between the light-emitting elements and the base substrate, to form a display area; a sealing film including a sequentially formed stack of a first inorganic film and a second inorganic film and provided so as to cover the light-emitting elements; and an insular non-display area in the display area, wherein the non-display area includes a frame-shaped inner circular wall protruding in a thickness direction of the base substrate and extending along a boundary between the non-display area and the display area, and the inner circular wall includes on a surface thereof an organic buffer layer interposed between the first inorganic film and the second inorganic film.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first duct for guiding the air blown out from blowers for cooling a liquid crystal panel mounted on an illumination optical system to the liquid crystal panel, a second duct for guiding the air passing through the liquid crystal panel in the opposite direction of the air blown out from the blowers, a heat sink for removing heat from the air passing through the second duct and a blower holding unit for holding the blowers are provided in a dust-proof case, and the top surface of the blower holding unit, the blower holding unit forms a third duct for guiding the air from which heat has been removed by the heat sink to the air inlet of the blowers that is a space formed along the top surface of the dust-proof case.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for making polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which polysaccharides, typically from bacteria, are conjugated to a carrier protein by reductive amination under conditions which improve conjugation reaction consistency, increase consumption of protein during conjugation reaction, generate conjugates of higher molecular weight, and/or reduce the levels of free cyanide in the conjugate reaction product. The polysaccharide-protein conjugates obtained using these methods are useful for inclusion in multivalent vaccines.

Abstract: A light-emitting device is configured to emit light in improved accordance with the Rec. 2020 specification. The light emitting device includes a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate between an outer surface of the light emitting device and the substrate; a second electrode disposed between the first electrode and the outer surface; a first emissive layer in electrical contact with the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first emissive layer includes quantum dots that emit light when electrically excited, and wherein the first emissive layer is associated with a first peak wavelength, ?1; and a second emissive layer disposed between the first emissive layer and a viewing side of the light emitting device, wherein the second emissive layer is a photoluminescent layer that includes quantum dots that emit light when optically excited, and the second emissive layer is associated with a second peak wavelength, ?2, different from the first peak wavelength.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, provided is an information notification system in which a multifunction peripheral including an audio device is associated with external audio devices so that the user of the multifunction peripheral is notified of a message. The information notification system is featured by including a message determiner which determines the contents of the message, a user position detector which detects a position of the user, an output device specifying section which specifies, based on a result of determination by the message determiner and a result of detection by the user position detector, the audio device which outputs the message, and a controller which performs control so that the message is notified from the specified audio device. As the audio device for outputting the message is specified according to the contents of the message, the message is notified from the specified audio device.