Abstract: A nitride semiconductor laser device with a reduction in internal crystal defects and an alleviation in stress, and a semiconductor optical apparatus comprising this nitride semiconductor laser device. First, a growth suppressing film against GaN crystal growth is formed on the surface of an n-type GaN substrate equipped with alternate stripes of dislocation concentrated regions showing a high density of crystal defects and low-dislocation regions so as to coat the dislocation concentrate regions. Next, the n-type GaN substrate coated with the growth suppressing film is overlaid with a nitride semiconductor layer by the epitaxial growth of GaN crystals. Further, the growth suppressing film is removed to adjust the lateral distance between a laser waveguide region and the closest dislocation concentrated region to 40 ?m or more.

Abstract: In an optical discharge apparatus used in an electrographic image forming apparatus, by forming, on a light guiding member, a diffusing reflecting face for reflecting light from an LED lamp towards a photosensitive drum, and by supplementing the amount of light by altering the height of the diffusing reflecting face to the light emitting face and the width of the diffusing reflecting face in accordance with their distance from the light source, the light intensity distribution of the irradiating light that is irradiated onto the photosensitive drum is made uniform. An optical discharge apparatus may include a light guiding member arranged facing a photoreceptor; and a light source, a diffusing reflecting face for reflecting the light from the light source toward the photoreceptor is formed on the light guiding member, and a reflecting member is arranged on an upper face in the vicinity of an end portion of the light guiding member.

Abstract: A sheet feeder feeds sheets fed from a document tray one by one. The sheet feeder includes a document tray (22) configured to accommodate therein a stack of sheets; a pickup roller (R1) configured to contact the stack of sheets and feed the sheets toward a feed path; and a feed roller (R2) and a reverse roller (R2a) which are located downstream of the pickup roller (R1), the reverse roller (R2a) including an inner sponge member (SP) having an outer periphery formed with a coating layer (Ct) having a surface smoothed to such an extent as to have a gloss.

Abstract: First and second polarization plates are disposed on both sides of a liquid crystal panel in which thicknesses of a liquid crystal layer are set up depending on colors of color filters. Then, a first retardation film is disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the first polarization film, and a second retardation film is disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the second polarization film. Assuming that a maximum value of a refractive index in an in-plane direction out of principal indices of refraction is Nx, that a refractive index in an orthogonal direction to the direction of the refractive index which has the value of Nx is Ny, and that a thickness is d, the first and second retardation films are set to satisfy a difference in values of (Nx?Ny)×d equal to or less than 10 nm.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a pair of substrates arranged opposite to each other, electrodes respectively formed on opposite surfaces of the pair of substrates, and an alignment regulating structural member, formed on at least one of the pair of substrates, and which includes at least one of a linear projection arranged on the electrode and a slit portion formed by removing a part of an electrode material of the electrode.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a remaining amount of toner detecting apparatus capable of highly accurately detecting the remaining amount of toner with a simple configuration, a toner cartridge in which the remaining amount of toner is highly accurately detected with a simple configuration, and an image forming apparatus which enables the operator to easily recognize time to resupply toner and is capable of forming an image of high image quality. A holding member (22) is flexible, one end (22a) in the longitudinal direction is connected to a stirring member (11), and the other end (22b) in the longitudinal direction holds a detection auxiliary member (21) disposed in a housing (8). Consequently, the holding member (22) and the detection auxiliary member (21) rotate as the stirring member (11) rotates.

Abstract: The image synthesis apparatus 10 includes an anti-aliasing processing circuit 11 for generating a foreground image having a reduced aliasing by blending the color information and blending the alpha information for each dot of the input foreground image, and an image synthesizing circuit 15 for synthesizing the color information of the foreground image having the reduced aliasing and the color information of the background image, using the alpha information of the foreground image having the reduced aliasing.

Abstract: Summarization of video content including football.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes: a radio frequency receiving section for receiving main broadcast data and sub broadcast data; an electric field strength measuring section for measuring an electric field strength corresponding to a receiving condition of the radio frequency receiving section; a reception quality determining section for determining reception quality based on a comparison between the electric field strength measured by the electric field strength measuring section and a predetermined threshold of required quality; a decoder, a display section, and a speaker for reproducing the main broadcast data or sub broadcast data; and a switching section for reproducing main broadcast data corresponding to a designated channel acquired by a designated channel acquiring section, when the reception quality determining section determines the reception quality to be good, and sub broadcast data corresponding to a designated channel acquired by the designated channel acquiring section, when the reception quality d

Abstract: There is provided a data signal line drive circuit which, when displaying a video signal composed of multiple display frames, drives in at least one of the display frames so as to produce a less-than-grayscale-level display frame where a data signal fed to the data signal lines contains a signal less than a grayscale level represented by the video signal. Thus, a data-hold-type display, a driver device for the display, a display method for the display are provided which is capable of preventing display quality degradation due to afterimages observable in moving image displays without reducing screen brightness.

Abstract: An image signal processing device is provided, which has therein a memory to store a first correction parameter to convert a specific region of display image of a display panel, a first coefficient generating section to generate a first coefficient for each pixel in a display panel based on the first correction parameter, a first correction value generating section to generate a first correction value for each pixel based on an input image signal, a first multiplier to multiply the first coefficient by the first correction value for each pixel and output a first multiplied value, and a first adder to add or subtract for each pixel the first multiplied value to or from the input image signal.

Abstract: The LCD of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer provided therebetween. In each picture element region, a first electrode provided on the first substrate on the side of the liquid crystal layer has a solid portion formed of a conductive film and a non-solid portion with no conductive film provided. The liquid crystal layer has an orientation regulated by an inclined electric field produced above the non-solid portion of the first electrode when a voltage is applied. A portion of the liquid crystal layer above the solid portion includes a first region having a first thickness d1 and a second region having a second thickness d2 smaller than the first thickness d1 and located near the non-solid portion.

Abstract: A functional device includes a pair of electrodes 1 and 4 and a macromolecular structure including a hole-conducting layer 5 and an electron-conducting layer 2. The macromolecular structure includes a first hyperbranched macromolecule and a second hyperbranched macromolecule, at least one of the first hyperbranched macromolecule and the second hyperbranched macromolecule has a hole conductivity or an electron conductivity, one of the hole-conducting layer and the electron-conducting layer includes one of the first hyperbranched macromolecule and the second hyperbranched macromolecule, and the macromolecular structure has a self-assembled structure formed by a non-covalent interaction via the first hyperbranched macromolecule or the second hyperbranched macromolecule in at least one of the hole-conducting layer, the electron-conducting layer and the interface between the hole-conducting layer and the electron-conducting layer.

Abstract: An illuminating device comprises a pair of light sources and a rod-like photoconductor. The rod-like photoconductor includes a pair of planes of incidence entered by the light from the light sources, a reflection surface having a plurality of prisms and an exit plane located opposite to the reflection surface. The width between the reflection surface and the exit plane at the planes of incidence of the rod-like photoconductor is smaller than the width of the light sources in the same direction. As a result, the brightness distribution of the light exiting from the rod-like photoconductor becomes uniform. The illuminating device is combined with a plate-like photoconductor to make up a planar illuminating device. Also, the illuminating device is combined with a liquid crystal panel to make up a liquid crystal display apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention is a substrate for a display device comprising an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed therebetween, said active matrix substrate including a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer and said opposed substrate including a common electrode opposing to the pixel electrode on the side of the display medium layer, wherein said substrate for a display device includes an electrode slit formed in one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and at least one of the electrical connecting portions of said electrode slit is provided outside of a light-blocking region.

Abstract: A display device improves brightness while minimizing an increase in the number of source drivers. When a value obtained by dividing the length of a display screen in a row direction by the number of pixels in the row direction is a length corresponding to one pixel in the row direction, one period of color arrangement in the row direction is a length corresponding to two pixels. One such period of color arrangement include two groups of subpixels that include first subpixel of the light's three primary colors of red (R), green (G) and blue (B), that are arranged in a row and that have the same subpixel configuration; and at least one additional subpixel. Scanning lines extending in the row direction and signal lines extending in the column direction are connected to the first subpixels and the at least one additional subpixel.

Abstract: In IAS analysis, assuming that no structural body and the like are placed in a conversion surface outside, an electromagnetic field distribution u0 in a conversion surface inside, on a conversion surface, and close to the conversion surface outside is found. In EAS analysis, on the assumption that there exists a structural body and the like in the conversion surface outside, an entire electromagnetic field distribution u is found. At this time, for the closed surface inside, an electric field distribution where a differential electromagnetic field distribution e between electromagnetic field distribution u0 and electromagnetic field distribution u on the closed surface is a wave source, is found, and for the closed surface outside, an electromagnetic field distribution obtained by synthesizing electromagnetic field distribution u0 and electromagnetic field distribution e on the closed surface is a wave source is found.

Abstract: A solid-state image capturing device having a plurality of light receiving sections for performing photoelectrical conversion on and capturing image light from a subject is provided. In the light receiving sections, a low concentration opposite conductivity layer is provided either on a single conductivity substrate or a single conductivity layer, a high concentration opposite conductivity layer having a higher impurity concentration than the low concentration opposite conductivity layer is provided on the low concentration opposite conductivity layer, and a photodiode is constituted by a PN junction of the single conductivity substrate or the single conductivity layer and the low concentration opposite conductivity layer.

Abstract: A light-emitting device (10) is arranged such that (x) R1 monotonically decreasing as ?1 increases, at least in a range of ?1<?/3, where an intersection of a light axis Z and an emission surface of a light-emitting element (1) is a reference point; ?1 is an angle between the light axis Z and a straight line that passes through the reference point and an arbitrary point on a light-incoming surface (2a), and R1 is a distance between the reference point and the arbitrary point on the light-incoming surface (2a); (y) R2 monotonically increasing as ?2 increases, at least in a range of ?2<?/3, where ?2 is an angle between the light axis Z and a straight line that passes through the reference point and an arbitrary point on a light-outgoing surface (2b), and R2 is a distance between the reference point and the arbitrary point on the light-outgoing surface (2b); and (z) A2 scatters light without generating uneven brightness on a liquid crystal display panel and has higher scattering ability that is obtained by

Abstract: An image processing apparatus 30 is used with an IC card 32 capable of outputting first location information specifying a location where a user belongs to, and includes a card reader 50 obtaining the first location information from the IC card 32, a GPS 54 obtaining second location information related to a location where the image processing apparatus 30 is installed, and location information comparing modules 52 and 56 connected to the first and second location information obtaining apparatuses and permitting or restricting use of the image processing apparatus 30 depending on whether the region specified by the first location information overlaps with the location indicated by the second location information.