Abstract: To reduce the number of erroneous detections and power consumption and increase the speed of a response to an operation, a portable terminal (10) includes (i) a determining unit (22) configured to determine whether a sensing signal output from at least one of a first electrode (1A) and a second electrode (1B) has an absolute value of not less than a first threshold or not greater than a second threshold and (ii) a determination period control unit (23) configured to perform a process of shortening a determination cycle in a case where the determining unit has initially determined that the absolute value of the output is not less than the first threshold or in a case where the determining unit has initially determined that the absolute value of the output is not greater than the second threshold.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a display region configured to display pixels; a frame region configured to surround the display region; a substrate; an organic electroluminescent element disposed on the substrate; a sealing member configured to cover the organic electroluminescent element; a lead wire disposed on the substrate and extending from a region covered with the sealing member to an outer side of the sealing member; and one or more organic insulators disposed within the frame region instead of within the display region. The lead wire includes two opposite side portions. The one organic insulator or each organic insulator covers part of at least one of the two side portions. The sealing member covers the one or more organic insulators.

Abstract: An electrostatic capacitive touch panel having a large surface area includes (i) a driving electrode group (220) and a sensing electrode group (130) which are provided on a substrate (210), and (ii) a touch panel driving circuit (250) provided in a frame region adjacent to a touch panel region where the driving electrode group (220) and the sensing electrode group (130) are provided. The touch panel driving circuit (250) is made up of TFTs made of an oxide semiconductor having a wide band gap so that the touch panel driving circuit (250) has a small surface area. This allows the touch panel to have a narrow frame.

Abstract: An illumination device (10) is provided with the following: light sources (11); a light-guide member (12 (13)) that includes a light entry region (Is) and a light exit region (Os) which emits planar light; light entry portions (13a) that are formed in the light entry region (Is) and that oppose the light sources (11); and bright line suppression portions (20) that are formed in the areas between the light entry portions (13a) at the front side of the light entry region (Is), and that include bright line suppression prisms (21) which have a shape that changes the angle of the light emitted in a direction spreading out from the light sources (11) to a direction closer to the optical axes.

Abstract: Provided is a self-propelled vacuum cleaner comprising: a housing that has an net formed on a lower surface and an exhaust port formed at one of left and right sides at a rear part and that can be self-propelled; and a dust-catching part provided between the inlet and the exhaust port through a ventilation path, wherein the dust-catching part includes a dust box disposed at the side of the net and an electrically powered fan disposed at the side of the exhaust port, the dust box and the electrically powered fan being configured to be separable.

Abstract: An LED substrate (light source substrate) includes: a substrate; a plurality of LEDs (light sources) mounted on the substrate; a power supply wiring line on the substrate that can supply power to the plurality of LEDs by connecting the plurality of LEDs in series; and an inspection wiring line that is disposed on the substrate and connected to a portion of the power supply wiring line that connects adjacent LEDs included in the plurality of LEDs.

Abstract: A TFT substrate (100A) of a liquid crystal display panel includes: an organic interlayer insulating layer (24) covering a TFT; a first transparent electrically-conductive layer (25) provided in the first region of a surface of the organic interlayer insulating layer (24); and an inorganic dielectric layer (26) covering the first transparent electrically-conductive layer (25) and provided in a second region of the surface of the organic interlayer insulating layer (24) which is different from the first region, the inorganic dielectric layer (26) containing SiN, wherein an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the first region and the second region of the surface of the organic interlayer insulating layer (24) is not less than 3.45 nm and not more than 5.20 nm.

Abstract: Interconnects (34) include an inside interconnect section (40) and an outside interconnect section (41). The inside interconnect section (40) includes a first interconnect layer (42), a second interconnect layer (43), and a connection section (44) that connects the first interconnect layer (42) and the second interconnect layer (43). The outside interconnect section (41) includes a third interconnect layer (45). Of a plurality of interconnects (34), in one interconnect (X) of neighboring interconnects the second interconnect layer (43) and the third interconnect layer (45) are connected, and in another of the neighboring interconnects (Y), the first interconnect layer (42) and the third interconnect layer (45) are connected.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a position detecting section detecting a position of contact with a display screen of a display section and forms an image on a recording medium based on a display image displayed on the display section. The display image includes an object image indicative of an object for an image formation and a medium image indicative of the recording medium, and the image forming apparatus selectively edits the object image or the medium image based on positions of two points detected by the position detecting section.

Abstract: The present invention includes a write-in start position control section (36) that performs a process of shifting, by a given shifting amount, a start position of a write-in operation to the frame memory (31), when the write-in operation is started, the given shifting amount being predetermined so as not to exceed a capacity reserved in advance in the frame memory.

Abstract: The interface circuit is provided with: a differential output circuit in which the output of a potential level of a differential signal stabilizes after a prescribed period from a start signal; and a counter circuit that performs control in such a manner that a data processing operation of a data processing unit is not performed on a signal based on the differential signal during the prescribed period. Thus, a liquid crystal display device that is capable of preventing a distorted video from being displayed in an initial drive period can be achieved.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for receiving time-division duplexing (TDD) uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configurations is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE receives a primary TDD UL/DL configuration for a serving cell and reconfiguration information. The UE determines a downlink (DL)-reference TDD UL/DL configuration based on the primary TDD UL/DL configuration and the reconfiguration information. The UE determines an uplink (UL)-reference TDD UL/DL configuration based on the primary TDD UL/DL configuration and the reconfiguration information. The UE performs Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) operations based on the DL-reference TDD UL/DL configuration. The UE performs Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) operations based on the UL-reference TDD UL/DL configuration.

Abstract: A walking assistance device includes: a base body; a driving unit that moves the base body; a distance detection unit that detects a distance from the base body to a user; a safety distance range setting unit that set, as a safety distance range, a distance range from the base body to the user during safe walk of the user; a walking state determination unit that determines whether or not the distance detected by the distance detection unit is out of the safety distance range; and a control unit that controls the driving unit when the walking state determination unit determines that the distance is out of the safety distance range. The walking assistance device detects that the distance is narrower than a predetermined distance, wherein the driving unit is controlled when the approach determination unit detects that the distance is narrower than the predetermined distance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, which hardly causes display unevenness in joining parts in which mutually neighboring exposure regions are overlapped upon carrying out a photo-alignment treatment for forming a horizontal alignment film.

Abstract: In an organic EL display device (electroluminescence device) including an organic EL element (electroluminescence element), the organic EL element is covered with a desiccant layer. Between a TFT substrate (substrate) and an opposite substrate, a frame-shaped moisture high-permeable layer and a frame-shaped sealing member are disposed in a state successively surrounding the desiccant layer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus 176 capable of easy log-in to a desired cloud service includes a print engine communicable with a cloud server 170 for printing a print job received from cloud server 170, a reader/writer 174 capable of proximity communication with a portable terminal 172, and a log-in executing device receiving log-in information to cloud server 170 from portable terminal 172 through reader/writer 174, for executing the log-in process to cloud server 170 using the log-in information.

Abstract: An arrangement is provided that uses the differential approach to effectively remove noise contained in a signal in a line even in a touch panel that includes some lines that are separated from each other at a larger distance. The touch panel (2) includes: a touch panel substrate (22), a plurality of Y-direction electrodes (23) provided on the touch panel substrate (22); a plurality of lines (24, 34) electrically connected with the Y-direction electrodes (23); and a floating electrode (61) located within a predetermined distance from at least one of the lines (24, 34) and another line adjacent the at least one line such that noise produced in the at least one line can be propagated to reach the other line.

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain iminothiadiazine dioxide compounds, including compounds Formula (I): (I) and include stereoisomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of said compounds stereoisomers, wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R9, ring A, ring B, m, n, p, -L1-, L2-, and L3- is selected independently and as defined herein. The novel iminothiadiazine dioxide compounds of the invention have surprisingly been found to exhibit properties which are expected to render them advantageous as BACE inhibitors and/or for the treatment and prevention of various pathologies related to ?-amyloid (A?) production. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other active agents), and methods for their preparation and use in treating pathologies associated with amyloid beta (A?) protein, including Alzheimers disease, are also disclosed.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: a first inorganic insulating film (first insulating layer) provided on a gate insulating film (insulating film); an organic insulating film (second insulating layer) provided on the first inorganic insulating film and having a thermal expansion coefficient different from that of the first inorganic insulating film; and a second inorganic insulating film (third insulating layer) provided in such a manner as to cover the organic insulating film and partially contacting the first inorganic insulating film. A notch is provided above the gate insulating film and in a portion of the second inorganic insulating film where the organic insulating film is not present.