Abstract: The invention provides data for display on the display area for a child frame when the child frame is synthesized and displayed on the parent frame in picture-in-picture playback in order to give the displayed area of the child frame in conformity with the video content in the parent frame, as well as providing a video display apparatus etc. for displaying the child frame at an appropriate displayed position using the data for display. A video display apparatus 1 includes: decoders 101 and 103 for decoding two sets of video data; a synthesizer 105 for synthesizing the decoded videos to output; an input unit 108 for commanding display/non-display of the child frame; a processing controller 109 for controlling the operations of decoders 101 and 103 in accordance with the command; and a position designator 110 which receives the command and the data for display and time information and designates the displayed position of the child frame to the synthesizer 105.

Abstract: An IC card (1) includes: a plurality of circuit blocks (11 to 14); and an internal bus (21) which allows the circuit blocks to be connected to one another. Out of the circuit blocks, a CPU block (11) on an output side includes an encoding circuit (41) for outputting data to be transferred to a signal line (21a) of the data bus (22) after encoding the data in accordance with a predetermined encoding method so that variation of the data is evener, and a coprocessor block (12) on an input side includes a decoding circuit (42) for decoding the encoded data transferred via the signal line (21a). As a result, it is possible to realize (i) a semiconductor device which includes the plural circuit blocks and the internal signal line which allows the circuit blocks to be connected to one another but can decrease a possibility that data transferred among the circuit blocks may be estimated by power consumption analysis and (ii) an IC card having the semiconductor device.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer tank, a developing roller, a supply roller, a stirring member, and a doctor blade. The developing device is provided with: a cleaning member detachably provided on a contact portion of the doctor blade with the developing roller, which slides to rub a surface of the doctor blade upon contacting; a supporting section for supporting the cleaning member so as to be capable of being attached to and detached from the contact portion of the doctor blade with the developing roller; and a driving mechanism for moving the cleaning member so as to be attached to and detached from the contact portion of the doctor blade with the developing roller.

Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing metadata embedded in a color measurement target to uniquely identify the target through color measurement. A color measurement target is used for color calibration, color characterization, color adjustment and/or color correction of a color output device and includes a collection of color patches imaged by the output device, wherein metadata is embedded directly into the color patches of the color measurement target to uniquely identify the target through color measurement. The metadata-bearing patches in the target are used to communicate information through color measurement, and can contribute to the color characterization.

Abstract: A semiconductor storage device has memory function bodies (261, 262) having a function to retain electric charges, which are formed on opposite sides of a single gate electrode (217) provided on a semiconductor layer (211) with a gate insulation film (214) disposed therebetween. Each memory function body includes a charge retention film (242) having a charge storage region (250). The charge storage regions (250) exist over part of the channel region (273) and part of diffusion regions (212, 213) on both sides of the channel region. Because the memory function bodies are formed on both sides of the gate electrode, independently of the gate insulation film, 2-bit operations are possible. Because the memory function bodies are separated from each other by the gate electrode, interference during rewrite operation is effectively suppressed. Also, short-channel effect is suppressed through thinning of the gate insulation film. Miniaturization of memory elements is thus facilitated.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus involving wet fixing that causes no bleeding and coagulation of toner and eventually no disturbance of toner image as a result of application of a fixing fluid, generates no curling or wrinkles in a recording medium, and can fix toner with large adhesion on a recording medium through which the fixing fluid hardly permeates. An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming section, an intermediate transfer section, a transfer section, a fixing fluid applying section, a transport section, a fixing section, a recording medium feeding section, and a recording medium detection section. In the image forming apparatus, control of application amount of a fixing fluid to a recording medium is performed by the fixing fluid applying section based on the result obtained by the recording medium detection section for the recording medium such as thickness and material.

Abstract: A partition is provided to isolate a space from outside thereof, the space encompassing a space where an image holding member, a developing device, a charging device, a transfer device, and a fixing device. The isolated space is under reduced pressure. This allows the image forming apparatus to avoid negative effect caused by humidity change.

Abstract: A folding cellular phone includes a first housing provided with a liquid crystal display part on the surface thereof, a second housing including an operation part formed on the surface thereof and a hinge for connecting the first housing and the second housing in a pivotable manner to open/close the folding cellular phone. The liquid crystal display part is supported on the first housing by a support mechanism such that the orientation of the liquid crystal display part is changeable between portrait and landscape. The support mechanism is configured to support and guide the liquid crystal display part such that a bottom corner of the liquid crystal display part moves along the hinge when the orientation of the liquid crystal display part is changed between portrait and landscape.

Abstract: A display device is equipped with a panel having a common electrode layer to which a voltage changing at a fixed frequency is applied and a tabular member which is arranged at a fixed gap from said panel. A voltage which is changed in synchronization with the change of a voltage which is applied to the common electrode layer is applied, and an electrode layer which is arranged so as to be nearly parallel to the fore-mentioned tabular member and the fore-mentioned panel is provided.

Abstract: In a direct-current stabilized power supply device provided with an output transistor that receives an input voltage from the outside and a control circuit that controls the output transistor so that an output voltage of the direct-current stabilized power supply device is stabilized, there is provided a voltage supply circuit that steps down the input voltage and outputs the voltage thus obtained as a voltage for driving the control circuit. The voltage supply circuit is built as a charge pump circuit that steps down the input voltage and then outputs the voltage thus obtained.

Abstract: A method is provided for forming a silicon oxide (SiOx) thin-film with embedded nanocrystalline silicon (Si). The method deposits SiOx, where x is in the range of 1 to 2, overlying a substrate, using a high-density (HD) plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process. As a result, the SiOx thin-film is embedded with nanocrystalline Si. The HD PECVD process may use an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) source, a substrate temperature of less than about 400° C., and an oxygen source gas with a silicon precursor. In one aspect, a hydrogen source gas and an inert gas are used, where the ratio of oxygen source gas to inert gas is in the range of about 0.02 to 5. The SiOx thin-film with embedded nanocrystalline Si typically has a refractive index in the range of about 1.6 to 2.2, with an extinction coefficient in the range of 0 to 0.5.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device arranged for minimizing the duration of time required for conducting a batch verify action and thus speeding up a buffer write action is provided. The device which conducts a write action to memory cells in an address area, a batch verify action for collectively conducting verify action for a plurality of addresses, and repeats the batch verify action and the write action, comprises a detecting means for detecting whether or not each address contains an unwritten memory cell, and conducts a verify action at least at a part of the batch verify action excluding at least a part of addresses judged not to contain unwritten memory cells by the verify action at one or more cycles before.

Abstract: In a solid-state image pickup apparatus 100 of the invention, a transparent member 4 that covers a light receiving section of a solid-state image sensing device 2 is located within an opening 10 of a wiring board 1. The solid-state image sensing device 2 is adhered to the backside of the wiring board 1 via a conductive member 5 and also sealed to the backside of the wiring board 1 with an encapsulation resin 6 formed around the solid-state image sensing device 2. Furthermore, a through-hole 11 passing through the wiring board 1 in a thickness direction is formed on outside of the opening 10 of the wiring board 1, and the through-hole 11 is filled with the encapsulation resin 6. This configuration provides the solid-state image pickup apparatus 100 in which the encapsulation resin 6 can be easily injected to the surrounding area of the solid-state image sensing device 2.

Abstract: When each value of luminance signals of three primary colors in the primary video signal is less than the output lower limit value, in short, when the gradation level is negative, the negative gradation level of the present primary color is, in accordance with its magnitude, in other words, in accordance with the absolute value of the negative gradation level, replaced with positive gradation levels of other two primary colors. Therefore, in accordance with A VIDEO SIGNAL CONVERTER of this invention, even when the primary video signal includes a signal value having a negative gradation level, in short, even when one or more of each signal value of RGB is below the output lower limit value, a color according to the combination of those gradation levels (a combination of each level of primary colors (RGB)) can be reproduced (displayed) by a display means.

Abstract: An electronic seal apparatus causes an image displaying/reading apparatus to display an electronic document. The electronic seal apparatus includes (i) a storage section for storing first identification information to be used for identifying a first digit of a user of the image displaying/reading apparatus and a first seal image of the user in association with each other, (ii) a digit identifying section for determining based on the first identification information whether or not a digit indicated on a subject image that is read by the image displaying/reading apparatus while the electronic document is displayed by the image displaying/reading apparatus is the first digit, and (iii) a sealing section for sealing onto the electronic document, in a case where the digit indicated on the subject image is determined to be the first digit, a seal image associated with the first identification information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs a single-side image formation in a way that, when delay of image formation is needed to secure time for post-process, a stacked sheet discharge control section controls a sheet carrying mechanism so that: a first sheet (for a second imaging job) to be discharged after passing a first sheet-discharging roller via a first sheet-carrying path is directed to another carrying path without being discharged, and is stood by therein; and the first sheet and a second sheet (for the second imaging job) which is carried to the first sheet-discharging roller via the first sheet-carrying path subsequently after the first sheet, are concurrently discharged overlappedly. For imaging jobs in succession, this eliminates needs for delaying image formation for the second imaging job, and for securing time for post-process for the first imaging job. Even the delay is inevitable, this reduces the delay time greatly.

Abstract: An island of a crystalline semiconductor according to the present invention has an upper surface and a sloped side surface, which are joined together with a curved surface. Crystal grains in a body portion of the island, including the upper surface, and crystal grains in an edge portion of the island, including the sloped side surface, both have average grain sizes that are greater than 0.2 ?m.

Abstract: A color filter substrate and a display device are each capable of reducing color separation of a straight line displayed with a mixed color and particularly color separation of a straight white line displayed with a mixed color on a black background. The color filter substrate is a color filter substrate including colored layers of at least four colors, arrayed inside a pixel region, wherein at least one pair of colored layers that are not next to each other when the colored layers of all the colors are arrayed in order of hue is adjacently arranged to each other inside the pixel region.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a portable information terminal device capable of exclusively storing information which is useful to identify an illegal user. If a matching degree between characteristic information extracted from a photographed image by a characteristic extraction part 402A and registered characteristic information is determined to be smaller than an authentication threshold value by a matching degree determination part, 402C, an error history information management part 404 causes an error history information storage part 414 to store error history information obtained at that time.

Abstract: When a user operates a processing apparatus through a touch panel, a fingerprint processing unit reads fingerprint information of the user's finger. Each time when the fingerprint processing unit reads fingerprint information, a CPU judges whether the read fingerprint information is identical to a fingerprint information of authenticated user. If being identical, the processing apparatus executes a process in accordance with an operation accepted through the touch panel. These two fingerprint information are identical each other if the operating user through the operation accepting panel is the authenticated user. It means that the processing apparatus judges whether the operating user is the authenticated user, each time when the user operates. If the user is the authenticated user, the process in accordance with the operation by this user is then executed.