Abstract: A cam mechanism has different portions thereof arranged on a main unit, which may be a refrigerator, and on a door. When the door is closed, a hinge pin is locked at one end of a hinge groove, keeping the cam mechanism in a first locked position. As the door is opened, the hinge pin is guided by the hinge groove and a guide pin is guided by a guide groove, permitting the door to rotate and slide. Thus, the hinge pin is locked at the other end of the hinge groove, bringing the cam mechanism to a second locked position. A boss slides on a rib and thereby maintains the second locked position, permitting the door to rotate about the hinge pin. This structure helps realize a door opening/closing mechanism with enhanced operability at reduced cost.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device used for a display part of an information equipment and a driving method thereof, and has an object to provide a liquid crystal display device in which excellent viewing angle characteristics can be obtained and a driving method thereof. When a relatively high level data voltage is applied to a gate electrode of a TFT, a driving voltage is applied to a liquid crystal layer for a long time and a white display is realized. When a relatively low level data voltage is applied to the gate electrode of the TFT, the driving voltage is not applied to the liquid crystal layer, and a black display is realized. When an intermediate data voltage between the high level and the low level is applied to the gate electrode of the TFT, the TFT keeps an on state for a time determined by a time constant depending on a capacitance and a resistance. The driving voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer for the on time.

Abstract: There is provided a zoom lens unit excellent in shock resistance and space-saving. Second, third lens holders 29, 30 have shaft holes, into which shafts 27, 28 are inserted, so as to be movable in an optical axis direction. By first, second helical springs 31, 32 fitted to the shafts 27, 28, the second lens holder 29 is biased to a wall member 18 provided on a subject side, and the third lens holder 30 is biased to a wall member 19 provided on an image pickup element 12 side. As the power is turned off, the second lens holder 29 moves toward the subject side and, upon contact with the wall member 18, is stopped, while the third lens holder 30 moves toward the image pickup element 12 side and, upon contact with the wall member 19, is stopped.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate suppresses reduction in production yield and increase in production steps and simultaneously permits both sufficient securing of a storage capacity and improvement of an aperture ratio of a pixel. The active matrix substrate is an active matrix substrate and includes a thin film transistor disposed at an intersection of a scanning signal line with a data signal line on a substrate, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode connected to the scanning signal line, a source electrode connected to the data signal line, and a drain electrode connected to a drain lead-out wiring; a storage capacitor upper electrode connected to the drain lead-out wiring and a pixel electrode; and a storage capacitor wiring overlapping with the storage capacitor upper electrode through an insulating film, wherein the storage capacitor wiring has an extending portion overlapping with the drain lead-out wiring through the insulating film.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of cold cathode tubes that define linear light sources and are arranged in an aligned state in a backlight device. A direction that is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a surface S along the direction of alignment of the cold cathode tubes is set as the illumination direction. The cold cathode tubes are supported in two kinds of postures whose axes intersect with each other. A first inclined cold cathode tube and a second inclined cold cathode tube are arranged in postures that incline the axis of each relative to the direction of illumination. The overall distribution of light intensity can be expanded by the amount of the relative inclination angles of the first inclined cold cathode tube and the second inclined cold cathode tube.

Abstract: A substrate has a conductive layer containing abundantly obtainable zinc oxide that is hardly eroded. The substrate has a laminate structure in which a plurality of conductive layers including at least a first conductive layer containing zinc oxide as a main component are laminated, and a second conductive layer provided in the laminate structure so as to be positioned in a surface in contact with a substance used in a chemical treatment carried out to form the conductive layers is made of material which is less likely to be eroded by the substance than the zinc oxide.

Abstract: A chassis for an illuminating unit, and an illuminating unit, a display device and a television receiver incorporating the chassis are provided, in which optical sheets are supported in a state where their own weight and an external force are not concentrated at a certain portion thereof, preventing occurrence of wrinkles or deformed portions and falling-off of the optical sheets. A backlight chassis includes stand walls on the sides thereof on which optical sheets are to be placed, and locking pieces protruding from the stand wall on at least one of the sides, the side being a lower side in a normal state in use, and the locking pieces being arranged to lock a lower side of the optical sheets.

Abstract: It is intended to perform area specification to carry out arbitrary image processing by an easy operation without spoiling a document. An document reading apparatus includes a heater for heating the document in a document transport path in the upstream side of a document reading portion. By comparing image data read by the image reading portion without performing heating by the heater and image data read by the image reading portion after performing the heating by the heater, drawn image data drawn by a coloring material which gets denatured and decolorizes when heated is extracted. Then, a specified area surrounded by the extracted drawn image data is determined and specific image processing based on an operation input by a user is applied to image data in the specified area.

Abstract: A method for assigning physical resource blocks (PRBs) is described. A first PRB is assigned to a first device from a plurality of devices. The first device maximizes a proportional fair algorithm on the first PRB. A second PRB is assigned to a second device from the plurality of devices. The second device maximizes a proportional fair algorithm on the second PRB. A determination is made whether a higher throughput would occur if the first PRB is assigned to the second device and the second PRB is assigned to the first device. The assignment of the first PRB is exchanged with the assignment of the second PRB if a higher throughput would occur.

Abstract: A method for conserving the power supply of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communications device is described. The location of control information within one or two of a plurality of symbols is obtained. A sleep mode is entered into. The one or two symbols that include the control information are monitored. A return to the sleep mode is executed.

Abstract: A recording parameter setting device includes a trial recording parameter setting section (23) and a reproduced signal quality judging section (26). The trial recording parameter setting section (23) inquires, in accordance with the recording information, a storage section (3) containing recording parameters used for controlling heat of recording marks, and sets a trial recording parameter, wherein (a) the recording parameters are used for controlling heat of at least rear edges, (b) the recording parameters are classified in accordance with recording mark lengths, and (c) recording parameters of a predetermined recording mark length or longer are classified into a same group. The reproduced signal quality judging section (26) judges whether or not a reproduced signal obtained by reproduction of the trial recording carried out in accordance with the trial recording parameter satisfies a predetermined reproduced signal quality.

Abstract: A display system has a display device, a display control device, and a laser emitting device. The display device has a display part that displays information on a display screen and a laser detection part having a plurality of optical sensors arranged in the vicinity of the display screen of the display part to detect a laser beam that has reached the display screen. The laser emitting device has an instruction input part that inputs an instruction with respect to the displayed information and a laser output part that outputs the laser beam including output information corresponding to the inputted instruction.

Abstract: A memory element having a large memory window and a high reliability is provided at low cost by performing high speed write and erase operations at a relatively low voltage and suppressing rewrite degradation. A memory element includes a semiconductor layer arranged on an insulating substrate, a first diffusion layer region and a second diffusion layer region having a conductivity type of P-type, a charge accumulating film for covering a channel region between the first diffusion layer region and the second diffusion layer region and being injected with charges from the channel region, and a gate electrode positioned on a side opposite to the channel region with the charge accumulating film in between.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical recording disc which can record data constituted by a recording mark train including recording marks and blank regions neighboring recording marks therein and reproduce the data therefrom in a desired manner even in the case where the lengths of a recording mark and a blank region between neighboring recording marks are shorter than the resolution limit and whose storage capacity can be markedly increased. An optical recording disc is constituted so that data are recorded therein and data are reproduced therefrom with the irradiation with a laser beam and includes a laminated body formed by laminating a decomposition reaction layer 5 containing platinum oxide as a primary component and a light absorbing layer 7 so as to sandwich a second dielectric layer 6.

Abstract: An ink jet device (100) includes: an ink jet head (1) having a nozzle opening for ejecting ink; a capping element (2) removably fitted on the ink jet head (1) so as to cover a surface defining the nozzle opening; a filter chamber (5) for passing ink fed thereto from an ink tank (9) to the ink jet head (1) through a filter; a first negative pressure generator (7) connected to the capping element (2) for providing a negative pressure inside the capping element (2) in a position fitted on the ink jet head (1) to discharge air present inside the capping element (2); and a second negative pressure generator (8) connected to an exhaust port (55) for providing a negative pressure inside the filter chamber (5) to discharge air present inside the filter chamber (5) from the exhaust port (55). The second negative pressure generator (8) provides the negative pressure inside the filter chamber (5) while the first negative pressure generator (7) is providing the negative pressure inside the capping element (2).

Abstract: A method and system for optimizing channel quality indicator (CQI) transmissions by mobile devices in a cellular network allows transmission of CQIs at a slower rate and with fewer bits during voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) sessions than during non-real-time (NRT) data transmissions. A VoIP transmission typically includes “talkspurt” periods, during which VoIP packets are transmitted, and silence periods, which start with a silence indication (SID) packet and continue with periodic SID packets until a VoIP packet is received. When the base station is transmitting NRT data, the mobile device transmits CQIs to the base station at a first rate, with each CQI having a first fixed number of bits. When the base station is transmitting VoIP to the mobile device, then during a talkspurt period, the mobile device may transmit CQIs to the base station at a second rate slower than the first rate, and each CQI may have a second fixed number of bits less than the first fixed number of bits.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a display device of the present invention includes capacitors provided between a gate and a source of a driver TFT. During a select period, a voltage is fed to the gate terminal of the driver TFT, and a voltage is fed to the source terminal of the driver TFT. Thereafter, during a threshold correction period, the gate voltage of the driver TFT is retained to make the source voltage of the driver TFT equal to Vda?Vth (<Vcom). Subsequently, the gate voltage of the driver TFT is changed to control a current flowing between the drain and the source of the driver TFT.

Abstract: A color filter substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a color layer, a photo spacer and a counter electrode disposed on the substrate, and an alignment control protrusion is disposed on the counter electrode for controlling alignment of liquid crystal. A manufacturing method for the color filter substrate includes the step of forming an opening by laser irradiation in a region of the counter electrode corresponding to an absent portion occurring in the alignment control protrusion. The manufacturing method is also applicable to an active matrix substrate for a liquid crystal display device. The manufacturing method can effectively correct a defect if one occurs in the alignment control protrusion.

Abstract: A fluorescent tube in which no luminance gradient in the longitudinal direction occurs even when a one-side high-voltage driving method is used, a method of driving the fluorescent tube, an illuminating device for display device, and a display device having the illuminating device are provided. The fluorescent tube for one-side high-voltage driving is arranged behind a display panel via optical sheets. An internal diameter of the fluorescent tube is arranged to become larger gradually toward an electrode part at a high-voltage driving side, which prevents the occurrence of the luminance gradient in the longitudinal direction when a one-side high-voltage driving method is used.

Abstract: The invention is a method and system for reliably detecting the start and/or end of silence periods during voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) sessions in a wireless communications network. A VoIP session typically includes “talkspurt” periods, during which VoIP packets are transmitted, and silence periods, during which silence indication (SID) packets are transmitted. Both the base station (eNodeB or eNb) and the mobile device (user equipment or UE) may inspect the packets to identify them as VoIP or SID packets. Alternatively, only the eNB inspects the packets. The eNB then flags the first SID packet after a VoIP packet as the start of a silence period, and flags the first VoIP packet after a SID packet as the end of a silence period. The eNB then modifies the header of the medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) prior to transmission to the UE. The UE then detects the modified MAC headers to identify the start and/or end of silence periods.