Abstract: The invention provides certain 2-pyridyl carboxamide-containing compounds of the Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein A and B are as defined herein. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of using the compounds for treating diseases or conditions mediated by Spleen Tyrosine Kinase (Syk) kinase.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel having a display area and non-display area; a flexible substrate in the non-display area and connected to a control circuit substrate; a plurality of drivers in the non-display area; a plurality of connection wiring lines in the non-display area for connecting the flexible substrate to the plurality of drivers; a first driver; a second driver that is arranged further away from the flexible substrate than the first driver; a non-overlapping connection wiring line that connects the second driver to the flexible substrate and that does not overlap the first driver; and an overlapping connection wiring line that connects the second driver to the flexible substrate and that has a least a portion thereof overlapping the first driver.

Abstract: A method of producing a nitride semiconductor crystal uses a metal organic chemical vapor deposition process and offers good controllability with respect to a p-type nitride semiconductor crystal. To that end, an organic metal compound of a group III element, a hydride of nitrogen, and an organic compound having any of the partial structures C—C—O, C—C?O, C?C—O, C?C?O, C?C—O, and C—O—C are used as source materials, and by a metal organic chemical vapor deposition process, C and O atoms are simultaneously introduced into the crystal to obtain p-type conductivity.

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: The present invention is intended to provide a storage container that includes a shelf member holding a heat storage material arranged optimally. In a storage container that preserves an object at predetermined temperature, the storage container includes a storage room in which the object is preserved, and a shelf member disposed within the storage room, the shelf member including a flat portion on which the object is placed, and a heat storage material arranged to the flat portion in a way distributed depending on a temperature distribution near the flat portion within the storage room during steady operation. The heat storage material is arranged to be localized to a region of the flat portion at a relatively low-temperature side depending on the temperature distribution within the storage room.

Abstract: A touch panel device (1) detecting a finger operation and a pen operation, the touch panel device includes: a touching object determining section (23) for determining whether or not a touch operation is the finger operation or the pen operation, depending on (a) whether or not a value outputted from a sensor is within a range indicated by a finger threshold value and (b) whether or not the value outputted from the sensor is within a range indicated by a pen threshold value, the touching object determining section (23) making no determination as to whether or not the touch operation in an Lp area is the pen operation but making a determination only as to whether or not the touch operation in the Lp area is the finger operation, depending on whether or not the value outputted from the sensor is in the range indicated by the finger threshold value.

Abstract: An input device having a row electrode and a column electrode made by patterning a meshed metallic layer by forming a dividing section on a metallic line constituting the meshed metallic layer can suppress variability in areas of individual dividing sections formed on the metallic lines, whereby uneven shading due to the patterned, meshed conductive layer is suppressed from appearing on a touch operation surface. In the input device having the row electrode and the column electrode made by patterning the meshed metallic layer by forming the dividing section on the metallic line constituting the meshed metallic layer, a mesh side section intersecting with an ideal contour Sp2 of the column electrode (meshed electrode) corresponding to one side of a mesh in the metallic line Mw2 is divided by a dividing section Rs that does not overlap with an intersection Mcp of the metallic lines to form an actual contour of the column electrode.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes an intrinsic layer that is disposed on a semiconductor of a first conductivity type and contains hydrogenated amorphous silicon; and a first-conductivity-type layer containing hydrogenated amorphous silicon of the first conductivity type, a second-conductivity-type layer containing hydrogenated amorphous silicon of a second conductivity type, and an insulating layer, each of which covers a part of the intrinsic layer. A first electrode is disposed on the first-conductivity-type layer with the second-conductivity-type layer therebetween. At least a part of the first electrode is located above a region where the first-conductivity-type layer contacts the intrinsic layer, and at least a part of the second electrode is located above a region where the second-conductivity-type layer contacts the intrinsic layer.

Abstract: A backlight device includes an LED; a light guide plate that has a light-exiting surface provided at one plate surface, an opposite surface provided at a plate surface on the opposite side to the light-exiting surface, and a light-receiving side face provided at one side face, that is arranged such that the light-receiving side face faces the LED and that guides light from the LED; a chassis having a plate surface arranged so as to face the opposite surface and housing at least the LED and the light guide plate; and an optical sheet that is arranged so as to face the light-exiting surface, that provides light that has exited the light guide plate with an optical function and that has a bent portion that extends further toward the outside than an edge of the light-exiting surface and is bent toward the opposite surface side and as a result covers at least part of a side face of the light guide plate.

Abstract: Provided is a flat-panel display for improving a structure of a shape of a through-hole of a backlight cover that is a resin-made member, which is passed through when making a PWB contact a metal plate member, so that a gasket can be mechanically fixed. This flat-panel display includes: a metal plate member (30) arranged on a rear side of a display panel; a non-conductive plate member (20) arranged so as to face a rear side of the metal plate member (30) and including a through-hole (42); a circuit board (50) arranged so as to face a rear side of the non-conductive plate member (20) ; and a gasket (90) arranged in the through-hole (42) and holding conduction of the metal plate member (30) and the circuit board (50), in which the non-conductive plate member (20) includes a gasket fixation portion (44) formed around the through-hole (42) in a convex shape.

Abstract: The present invention provides a touch panel controller for controlling even a large touch panel with little EMI. The touch panel controller of the present invention includes a plurality of driving circuits (DC1 through DCm) for driving respective drive lines (DL1 through DLm) of a capacitive touch panel unit 2 by supplying driving signals (Ds) to the respective drive lines (DL1 through DLm), and a rise/fall time of each of the driving signals (Ds) is variable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I that are useful as hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS5B polymerase inhibitors, the synthesis of such compounds, and the use of such compounds for inhibiting HCV NS5B polymerase activity, for treating or preventing HCV infections and for inhibiting HCV viral replication and/or viral production in a cell-based system.

Abstract: The vapor deposition device includes a plurality of vapor deposition masks whose lengths in Y axis and X axis directions are shorter than those of a film formation target substrate. Vapor deposition masks adjacent to each other in the Y axis direction is positionally displaced in the X axis direction. In an overlapping area in which mask opening group areas adjacent to each other in the Y axis direction overlap with each other in the X axis direction, opening lengths in the Y axis direction become shorter toward the outer side of each of the mask opening group areas in the plan view.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula G1 (structurally represented): where “RG3” “Rd1” to “Rd4”, “n”, “m”, “p”, “W”, “X”, “Y”, and “Z” are defined herein which compounds are antagonists of A2A receptor. Disclosed herein also are uses of the compounds described herein as antagonists of the A2a receptor in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological disorders and diseases in which A2A receptors are involved. Disclosed herein also are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and uses of these pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: A external connecting terminal (35) includes a first interconnect layer (36A) formed of a same film as a first conductive pattern for touch position detection under an interlayer insulating film (23), and a second interconnect layer (36B) formed of a same film as a second conductive pattern for touch position detection on the interlayer insulating film (23). the first and the second interconnect layers are electrically connected to a lead line (31) at a portion overlapping the lead line (31), and electrically connected together at a portion outside the lead line (31).

Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus, in which a rectangular frame covering a peripheral part of a display unit is divided into four frame members, and when the end portions of the adjacent frame members are connected by connectors at the four corners of a rectangle, the frame members and the connector may be coupled with high positioning accuracy of the frame members and the connector. The connector includes two positioning parts which abut against the respective frame members and to be connected to position the frame members in a respective longitudinal direction thereof, and the frame members and includes a part to be positioned which abuts against the positioning part of the connector, and coupling means and are formed to couple the frame members and with the connector.

Abstract: A display device of at least one embodiment of the present invention is a display device of an active matrix type, and includes a display driver supplied with image data included in serial data by serial transmission. The serial data is provided with a first flag for specifying a polarity of voltage of a common electrode. The display driver extracts the first flag from the serial data in accordance with a timing of a serial clock, and performs display in accordance with the image data, while generating the voltage of the common electrode which voltage has the polarity specified by the first flag extracted. This realizes a display device capable of generating a timing signal for AC common voltage, while having a small circuit.

Abstract: During a period of parallel-like radio communication with two or more first base stations, the first base station designates a second base station correlated with one of the two or more first base stations, and temporarily suspends the radio communication in accordance with a first communications standard to issue, to a mobile station, a request of measurement for the designated second base station. The first base station receives a result of the measurement for the designated second base station. The first base station notifies the mobile station of a handover from the first communications standard to a second communications standard, and also notifies the mobile station of a request for starting a coordination mode in which the two or more second base stations including the designated second base station establish communication with the mobile station in coordination with each other.

Abstract: The objective is to provide a stereoscopic display device that is capable of preventing a malfunction of the touch panel while maintaining 3D capability. The device includes: a display panel (12); a switch liquid crystal panel (14); a touch panel (20); a driving circuit (16); and an RC circuit (18). The switch liquid crystal panel (14) is located on the front side of the display panel (12) and is capable of forming a parallax barrier (38). The touch panel (20) is located on the front side of the switch liquid crystal panel (14). The driving circuit (16) drives the switch liquid crystal panel (14) to form the parallax barrier (38). The RC circuit (18) is located between the switch liquid crystal panel (14) and the driving circuit (16). The driving circuit (16) drives the switch liquid crystal panel (14) using a voltage with an effective value of 3 volts or more.

Abstract: A touch panel controller (3) includes: a drive section (4); a differential amplifier (5); variable integral capacitors (Cint1, Cint2); and a capacitance control section (6) that controls the variable integral capacitors (Cint1, Cint2) so as to correct line dependency of capacitors (C31 to C34, C41 to S44).