Abstract: When a display panel is in contact with the pen tip of an input pen, an infrared receiver and at least two ultrasonic receivers, provided on the display panel, receive respectively an infrared signal and an ultrasonic signal simultaneously transmitted from an infrared transmitter and an ultrasonic transmitter, and computes the contact position of the pen tip on the display panel from a result, containing a time delay, of the ultrasonic receiver receiving the ultrasonic signal with reference to a time when infrared signal is received. The input pen includes a piezoelectric element sensing pen pressure when the pen tip is in contact with the display panel and a microcomputer controlling a infrared transmitter to transmit an infrared signal which changes in accordance with the pen pressure.

Abstract: A substrate accommodating tray pallet has a substrate in a horizontal state, includes openings for inserting substrate removal tools for raising the substrate, and is used for transferring substrate accommodating trays which can be vertically stacked, wherein: the substrate accommodating trays are to be mounted on an upper surface; and substrate removal tool insertion openings for inserting the substrate removal tools are positioned so as to oppose openings of the mounted substrate accommodating trays.

Abstract: An integrated MEMS package and associated packaging method are provided. The method includes: forming an electrical circuit, electrically connected to the first substrate; integrating a MEMS device on a first substrate region, electrically connected to the first substrate; providing a second substrate overlying the first substrate; and, forming a wall along the first region boundaries, between the first and second substrate. In one aspect, the electrical circuit is formed using thin-film processes; and, wherein integrating the MEMS device on the first substrate region includes forming the MEMS using thin-film processes, simultaneous with the formation of the electrical device. Alternately, the MEMS device is formed in a separate process, attached to the first substrate, and electrical interconnections are formed to the first substrate using thin-film processes.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for reporting errors in an object-oriented software architecture environment. The method comprises: an application calling an initial method; in response to the initial method call, at least one object encountering an error in response to a subsequent method call; accumulating error information; and, creating a user-defined accumulated error report. Generally, accumulating error information includes: calling an accumulated error reporting object; and, from the accumulated error report object, calling a method for adding received error information to accumulated error information. Then, creating the user-defined accumulated error report includes calling a method for creating an error report text message by: reviewing the accumulated error information; and, matching accumulated error information with user-selected error criteria.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing device that comprises an information storage section for storing device setting information of the information processing device and a program for bringing the information processing device into operation; a firmware version judgment section for comparing, upon reception of updating data that includes device setting information and version information, the version information of a program contained in the updating data and version information of the program stored in the storage section; wherein: an upgrading judgment section brings the acquirement section into operation to obtain a program corresponding to the version information of a program contained in the updating data so as to update the program stored in the storage section and the device setting information when the version information of a program contained in the updating data and the version information of the program stored in the storage section are not identical, and updates the device set

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention comprises: at least one light-emitting portion that emits light; a plurality of light-receiving portions, disposed at intervals in the passing direction of the moving object, that receive and detect light emitted from the light-emitting portion and reflected by the moving object; a holding portion that holds information indicating the passing direction of the moving object corresponding to a change in the detection outputs of the light-receiving portions occurring when the light-receiving portions receive the light reflected by the moving object; and a determination portion that determines the passing of the moving object based on the passing direction of the moving object as held by the holding portion and the detection outputs of the light-receiving portions occurring when the light-receiving portions receive the light reflected by the next moving object.

Abstract: Image data is transformed into spatial frequency components, the transformed spatial frequency components are quantized, a modification process of changing spatial frequency components in a predetermined frequency domain is performed on the quantized spatial frequency components, the spatial frequency components on which the modification process is performed are inverse-quantized, the inverse-quantized spatial frequency components are inverse-transformed into image data, and the number of gray levels in the inverse-transformed image data is reduced to two levels, four levels or other levels based on threshold values. A high-quality binary image, quaternary image, etc. are generated by solving the problem of tone gap which occurs in the vicinity of output levels of the image data and solving the texture caused in dithering and worms caused in error diffusion.

Abstract: In a fixing apparatus including a regulating member which regulates the position of an external heating belt in a rotation axis direction, the external heating belt includes a base material made of polyimide having a tensile strength of 300 MPa or more and a thickness of 50 ?m to 200 ?m, and a releasing layer. In the base material, 5 to 25 parts by weight of graphite is dispersed in 100 parts by weight of polyimide. With this, it is possible to improve the durability of the external heating belt and adequately secure the life of the external heating belt.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor light-emitting device comprises selectively etching a semiconductor layer structure (16) fabricated in a nitride materials system and including an aluminum-containing cladding region or an aluminum-containing optical guiding region (5). The etching step forms a mesa (17), and also exposes one or more portions of the aluminum-containing cladding region or the aluminum-containing optical guiding region (5). The or each exposed portion of the aluminum-containing cladding region or the aluminum-containing optical guiding region (5) is then oxidized to form a current blocking layer (18) laterally adjacent to and extending laterally from the mesa. When an electrically conductive contact layer (11) is deposited, the current blocking layer (18) will prevent the contact layer (11) from making direct contact with the buffer layer (3).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has been disclosed. The liquid crystal display device provides a display with a high reflectance (high transmittance) and a high color purity while maintaining white balance and adjusts the white balance by changing the occupied area instead of the transmission characteristics of a CF in order to prevent yellowing of the display due to a low-temperature light source.

Abstract: A document reading device includes a movable member and a flexible document holder. The document holder is fixed at a first end to a free end of the movable member. The document holder is also fixed at a second end to the vicinity of a right-side end of a bottom surface of the document reading device. A portion of the document holder positioned immediately below a pivot axis of the movable member is not fixed to the bottom surface. When the movable member is pivoted to expose a portion of a document transport path, the document holder, except for the first and second ends as fixed to the bottom surface, hangs down without being folded.

Abstract: A reproducing device includes a detection circuit and an integration circuit. The detection circuit detects a push-pull signal PP. The integration circuit carries out integration processing with respect to one or greater frames of the push-pull signal, and carries out binarization processing with respect to integration results thus obtained, thereby detecting sub data. In the integration circuit, the more the frames to be used for detecting sub data is, the higher the accuracy of the detected sub data is. The reproducing device further includes a control circuit for controlling the total number of the frames to be used for generating valid sub data in the integration circuit. The control circuit controls the total number of the frames in accordance with a result of an error correction made by an error correction circuit.

Abstract: In a multi-gap semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device, the width of a black matrix (6) is made larger above the region between adjacent ITO transparent electrodes (3) and is made smaller above the region between adjacent Al reflective electrodes (4). This enables a transmissive portion to offer a display with high contrast that does not suffer from afterimage or the like by shielding light from the domain lying between the adjacent pixels, and the reflective portion to offer a brighter display by increasing the aperture ratio thereof by making the black matrix width as small as possible or forming no black matrix.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor substrate, which comprises a singlecrystalline Si substrate which includes an active layer having a channel region, a source region, and a drain region, the singlecrystalline Si substrate including at least a part of a device structure not containing a well-structure or a channel stop region; a gate insulating film formed on the singlecrystalline Si substrate; a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; a LOCOS oxide film whose thickness is more than a thickness of the gate insulating film, the LOCOS oxide film being formed on the singlecrystalline Si substrate by surrounding the active layer; and an insulating film formed over the gate electrode and the LOCOS oxide film.

Abstract: A display device higher in light use efficiency than conventional ones, a display device substrate suitably used for such a display device, and a light guide suitably used for an illuminator of such a display device are provided. The light guide has a plane of incidence on which light is incident and a plane of emergence from which light emerges, and has a first photonic crystal structure having a refractive index changing periodically along a direction substantially parallel to the plane of emergence.

Abstract: In a link system in which a plurality of MFPs and a server apparatus is connected so as to enable data communication over a network, a remote connection driver of the MFP starts an application on the server apparatus by remote control and at the time, on the basis of an operation start signal transmitted from the MFP, a device setting manager of the server apparatus identifies as a remote operation host apparatus the MFP having transmitted the operation start signal, and automatically sets the MFP as the MFP by which the application is used.

Abstract: A MVA type liquid crystal panel is slow in a response speed when a black state at a drive voltage about 1V is switched to a low brightness halftone state at the drive voltage about 2 to 3V. According to the present invention, in a liquid crystal display device for driving the MVA type liquid crystal panel, when a liquid crystal pixel at a pixel electrode is changed from a first transmittance to a second transmittance greater than the first transmittance, a drive voltage greater than a fist target drive voltage in correspondence with a second transmittance is applied to the pixel electrode in a first frame period of changing to the second transmittance, and the first target display voltage is applied from a second frame period.

Abstract: A solid-state image capturing apparatus includes: an insulation substrate including an external lead terminal; a solid-state image capturing element fixed on the insulation substrate and including a microlens; and a transparent glass member positioned above the insulation substrate for sealing the solid-state image capturing element fixed on the insulation substrate, and an electrode of the solid-state image capturing element and the external lead terminal of the insulation substrate being connected by a wire, wherein the transparent glass member is positioned in such a manner that a hollow space is formed between a microlens of the solid-state image capturing element and the transparent glass member, and wherein portions of the insulation film, the solid-state image capturing element and the wire, which are exposed in the hollow space, are all covered with a protective film.

Abstract: There is provided a method of processing image data, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of images of a scene; (b) generating a disparity map for each of at least two pairs of images from the plurality of images; (c) transforming each of the disparity maps into a common coordinate system; and (d) merging the transformed disparity maps to provide a single representation of the depth information of the scene.

Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus receives an external signal, and includes (i) a received signal level determination section for detecting a power level of the received signal and (ii) a correlation detection/determination section for detecting a correlation associated with the received signal. Moreover, the wireless communication apparatus switches between reception standby states as required, the reception standby states, including: (a) a normal operation mode in which a shift to a reception state is determined in accordance with whether or not the correlation is detected by the correlation detection/determination section; and (b) a low power consumption mode in which the shift to the reception state is determined in accordance with whether or not a received signal power level is detected by the received signal level determination section. With this, power consumption can be reduced, but a range of reception power of a signal that can be received is not narrowed.