Abstract: In a display device that can use a low frequency drive method, in the case of low frequency drive, in a data correction unit (23) of a display control circuit (200), a pixel grayscale value is set such that the differential value between the potential difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode when a voltage of positive polarity is applied and the potential difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode when a voltage of negative polarity is applied becomes larger than during normal drive. With this, a correction amount (shift amount) is made larger during low frequency drive than during normal drive, whereby flickers and ghosting during low frequency drive are prevented.

Abstract: A method is provided for cycling power in a transition metal cyanometallate (TMCM) cathode battery. The method provides a battery with a TMCM cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte, where TMCM corresponds to the chemical formula of AXM1NM2M(CN)Y-d(H2O), where “A” is an alkali or alkaline earth metal, and where M1 and M2 are transition metals. The method charges the battery using a first charging current, or greater. In response to the charging current, a plating of “A” metal is formed overlying a plating surface of the anode. In response to discharging the battery, the “A” metal plating is removed from the anode plating surface. In one aspect, in an initial charging of the battery, a permanent solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer is formed overlying the anode plating surface. In subsequent charging and discharging cycles, the permanent SEI layer is maintained overlying the anode plating surface.

Abstract: A photodetection device has an optical module (4) that includes a light source (7), an excitation optical system, and a detection optical system and that two-dimensionally and relatively scans a transparent stage (5) in a first sampling direction and a second sampling direction intersecting the first sampling direction. A scan length in the first sampling direction is longer than a scan length in the second sampling direction. A data sampling unit in the detection optical system performs sampling for a distance of a second sampling interval during scanning in the second sampling direction, and performs sampling for a distance of a first sampling interval shorter than the distance of the second sampling interval during scanning in the first sampling direction. An aperture (10) of the excitation optical system sets a size in the first sampling direction of a spot shape of excitation light from the light source (7) to be smaller than a size in the second sampling direction.

Abstract: A barrier film configured to reduce degradation of an organic EL element includes a first inorganic film, a second inorganic film, and a third inorganic film which are provided in order from a base substrate, a first organic film between the first inorganic film and the second inorganic film, and a second organic film between the second inorganic film and the third inorganic film. The first organic film has a plurality of first through holes formed therein so that the first inorganic film is in contact with the second inorganic film through the first through holes. The second organic film has a plurality of second through holes formed therein so that the second inorganic film is in contact with the third inorganic film through the second through holes.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device has a first conductive-type nitride semiconductor layer, a superlattice layer provided on the first conductive-type nitride semiconductor layer, an active layer provided on the superlattice layer, and a second conductive-type nitride semiconductor layer provided on the active layer. An average carrier concentration of the superlattice layer is higher than an average carrier concentration of the active layer.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for detection and estimation of mosquito noise in an image or in a video sequence. A mosquito-noise estimate, at a pixel location, may be computed based on an image ring parameter, a statistical value of noise estimates in a first region associated with the pixel location, a maximum activity value in a second region associated with the pixel location and a noise estimate at the pixel location.

Abstract: This invention relates to compounds having structural Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which are inhibitors of the Renal Outer Medullary Potassium (ROMK) channel (Kir1.1). The compounds of Formula I are useful as diuretics and natriuretics and therefore are useful for the therapy and prophylaxis of disorders resulting from excessive salt and water retention, including cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and chronic and acute heart failure.

Abstract: A touch panel (2) includes: a glass substrate (4); X-direction electrodes and Y-direction electrodes (14) provided above the glass substrate (4); lines (15) provided above the glass substrate (4) and electrically connected with the X- and Y-direction electrodes (14); an insulating resin layer (12) covering the X- and Y-direction electrodes (14) and lines (15); and a conductive layer (23) provided above the insulating resin layer (12) to allow static electricity entering the panel from the outside to flow therethrough.

Abstract: Novel pyridine-2-carboxamide derivatives of formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are disclosed as useful for treating or preventing type 2 diabetes and similar conditions. The compounds are effective as glucokinase activating agents. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment are also included. The present invention relates to novel pyridine-2-carboxamide derivatives and salts thereof which are effective as glucokinase activating agents. Moreover, it relates to compositions containing such compounds, and methods of treatment.

Abstract: Novel compounds of the structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are agonists of G-protein coupled receptor 40 (GPR40) and may be useful in the treatment, prevention and suppression of diseases mediated by the G-protein-coupled receptor 40. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, and of conditions that are often associated with this disease, including obesity and lipid disorders, such as mixed or diabetic dyslipidemia, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertriglyceridemia.

Abstract: A display device includes: a reduction section (15) for displaying, in a case where (i) a part of a content contained in a page is visually recognizable by magnifying and displaying the page at a magnification ratio (8) and (ii) a user conducts a turn-over operation (1), an entire page to be displayed in accordance with the turn-over operation (1); and a magnification section (16) for magnifying a given part of the page at the magnification ratio (8).

Abstract: An electronic device for sending a message is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device determines whether a picture is allowed to be decoded on a sub-picture level. If the picture is allowed to be decoded on a sub-picture level, the electronic device generates at least one of a buffer size parameter and a buffer scale parameter. The electronic device sends at least one of the buffer size parameter and the buffer scale parameter.

Abstract: A method for sending a power headroom report (PHR) by a User Equipment (UE) is described. The method includes obtaining a value of a power headroom for each activated serving cell with configured uplink corresponding to a second radio connection. The method also includes generating an extended power headroom MAC control element based on the obtained values and information related to power management corresponding to a first radio connection. The method further includes transmitting the extended power headroom MAC control element.

Abstract: A television (10) in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes a display size calculating unit (135) and a video processing circuit (107) in order to adjust a display size of a main image and a display size of a sub-image so that the main image and the sub-image are displayed in different regions on an LCD (110). The display size calculating unit (135) adjusts, based on aspect ratios of the main image and the sub-image, a location at which the main image is displayed on the LCD (110) and a location at which the sub-image is displayed on the LCD (110).

Abstract: A method for video coding is described. Signaling of a maximum number of sub-layers for inter-layer prediction is obtained. A sub-layer non-reference picture is also obtained. It is determined whether a value of a temporal identifier of the sub-layer non-reference picture is greater than the maximum number of sub-layers for inter-layer prediction minus 1. The sub-layer non-reference picture is marked as “unused for reference” if the value of the temporal identifier of the sub-layer non-reference picture is greater than the maximum number of sub-layers for inter-layer prediction minus 1. In some cases a sub-layer non-reference picture is also obtained. It is determined whether a value of a temporal identifier of the sub-layer non-reference picture is greater than the maximum number of sub-layers for inter-layer prediction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with USB sockets on front and back sides, and includes a determining unit for determining whether or not a USB device inserted to a front side USB socket 184 is a function enhancement device, and a control unit making, when it is determined by the determining unit that a function enhancement device is inserted to the front side USB socket 184, the USB device unusable and making, when it is determined that a USB device other than the function enhancement device is inserted, the USB device usable. Thus, it is possible to prevent a USB wireless LAN adapter or the like from being used constantly connected to the front side USB socket and thereby to reduce possibility of USB wireless LAN adapter of being damaged or removed.

Abstract: A color conversion substrate includes a main plate having a first main surface and including a transparent substrate, and a fluorescent material layer including a light scattering layer formed at the first main surface for scattering incident light and emitting the light outside, and having a hole formed, and a fluorescent material body formed in said hole, exhibiting luminescence emission when light of an incident wavelength region is incident. The inner surface of the light scattering layer defining the hole reflects the light from the fluorescent material body output from the fluorescent material body towards the main plate.

Abstract: A casing, a heating chamber that is provided in the casing and that has an opening on a front face thereof, an exhaust tube for guiding exhaust from inside of the heating chamber to front face side of the casing, a cooling fan that is provided in the casing, and an exhaust duct having an exhaust inlet to which the other end of the exhaust tube is connected are provided. Position along height direction of a cooling air inlet into which cooling air flows from under the exhaust duct is lower than position along the height direction of the discharge ports of the exhaust duct, and the position along the height direction of the cooling air inlet of the exhaust duct is lower than position along the height direction of the exhaust inlet of the exhaust duct. A heating cooker is provided that prevents the exhaust from the inside of the heating chamber from flowing into a main body thereof even if a fan for supplying air that is to be mixed with the exhaust breaks down.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of pyrazolopyrolidines of structural formula I: and W is or P, wherein in P is an amine protecting group. These compounds are useful in the synthesis of dipeptidyl peptidase-IV inhibitors for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. Also provided are useful intermediates obtained from the process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the construction and utilization of a new mammalian expression vector that contains a unique multiple cloning site (MCS), designated pUHAB. The pUHAB vector comprises a high copy replication origin (ColE1), a drug resistance gene (TK-Hygromycin), and a human cytomegalovirus promoter operably associated with a unique intron (hCMV/intron). Further, pUHAB comprises a selectable marker conferring resistance to kanamycin in bacterial cells, and a phage f1(+) region. pUHAB can be used to transiently or stably express cloned genes when transfected into mammalian cells. The invention also encompasses kits and host cells and cell lines comprising pUHAB, and methods of producing a recombinant protein using pUHAB.