Abstract: A touch panel system in which power consumption is reduced and detection sensitivity is enhanced, a controller for the touch panel system, and a method of operating the system. Touch panel system includes status detecting portion having status signal generating portions generating a status signal indicative of a close status of an indicator, a position calculating portion processing the status signal, thereby calculating a position of the indicator on a detecting surface, and a region setting portion for updating an effective region set in the detecting surface P based on the position of the indicator which is calculated by the position calculating portion. A first operation causes the status signal generating portions SL and DL to selectively generate a status signal and a second operation causes the position calculating portion to selectively process the status signals generated by the status signal generating portions SL and DL.

Abstract: The present liquid crystal panel includes an array substrate including a pixel electrode, a transistor, and first and second data signal lines; and a counter, the array substrate includes first and second sides which are adjacent to each other, a first terminal having shorter distance from the first side than distance from the second side in a plan view, and a second terminal having shorter distance from the second side than distance from the first side in a plan view are formed in the array substrate, the first data signal line is electrically connected to the first terminal, the second data signal line and the second terminal are electrically connected via a relay wiring formed in a layer different from the first and second data signal lines. According to the above configuration, the number of terminals for data signal lines can be increased without changing the size of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: The invention relates to kisspeptide-pentasaccharide conjugates having the general formula (I) wherein Z1 is Tyr or D-Tyr; Z3 is Trp, Hyp, Phe or Lys(R2); Z5 is Thr, Aib or Ala; Z7 is Gly or azaGly; Z8 is Leu; or Z7 and Z8 together represent; Z10 is Phe or Trp; n is 0 or 1; or R2, when present, represents a pentasaccharide derivative having the formula (II) wherein R is methyl or SO3X; X is a positively charged counterion; with the proviso that when R2 is present, R1 is H or (C1-6) alkylcarbonyl; R3 is H or (C1-3)alkyl; and L represents a pharmacologically inactive linker moiety having 10-50 atoms; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same as well as to the use of said kisspeptide-pentasaccharide conjugates in the treatment of female infertility.

Abstract: An information processing terminal transmits, to an authentication server, information obtained by imaging a code pattern of multifunction device information, and authentication information inputted by a user. The authentication server performs user authentication based on the received authentication information and specifies a multifunction device based on the received information of the code pattern. If the user has been authenticated, the authentication server transmits print data corresponding to the user to the multifunction device and prescribes the execution of print processing to the multifunction device. The multifunction device executes print process based on the obtained print data.

Abstract: In a case of a first function of carrying out a cooperative processing in accordance with an instruction from a user of a multifunction peripheral (10), the user is set as an execution user. In a case of a second function of carrying out a cooperative processing in accordance with an instruction from an application, a user instructed by the application is set as an execution user. Further, in a case where an execution user of a cooperative processing carried out using the first function and an execution user of a cooperative processing carried out using the second function are identical, use history information of the execution user is managed as use history information of a single user. This makes it possible to appropriately manage use history information of a cooperative processing.

Abstract: A nonaqueous secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains: a cyclic nitrogen-containing compound represented by the general formula (1): wherein X represents an optionally branched divalent group derived from a chain saturated hydrocarbon and having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, ?C?CH2, ?C?O, ?C?S?O, ?O or ?S, and A1 and A2 may be the same or different and each represent an optionally substituted methylene group, ?C?O or ?SO2; and an amine derivative represented by the general formula (2): wherein R5 to R7 may be the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom, or an optionally substituted lower alkyl group, lower alkenyl group, lower alkoxy group, lower alkylcarbonyloxy group, lower alkylcarbonyl group, lower cycloalkyl group or aryl group.

Abstract: An ion generating unit includes: a box-like housing with its one face open, an ion generating part provided with electrode parts and generating positive and negative ions; an ion sensor; a lid covering the housing in a removable manner while the ion generating unit is accommodated in the housing; a cover covering the housing in such a manner that cannot be easily removed while the ion sensor is accommodated in the housing; a connector provided at one end of the housing for mechanically and electrically connecting the ion generating unit; and a screw part provided at the other end of the housing for securing the ion generating unit to the casing.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having a configuration in which one pixel is divided into a plurality of sub-pixels to improve the view angle characteristic, the number of IC chips for driving a panel is reduced more than that in the conventional technique. A gate driver is provided with a first shift register (20A) corresponding to first gate bus lines (GLAi) (i=1 to n), a second shift register (20B) corresponding to second gate bus lines (GLBi), and AND operation circuits (ANDi) each outputting a signal indicating AND between an output signal (QAi) from the first shift register (20A) and an output signal (QBi) from the second shift register (20B). To the first gate bus line (GLAi), the output signal (QAi) from the first shift register (20A) is applied as it is as a scanning signal (GAi). To the second gate bus line (GLBi), an output signal from the AND operation circuit (ANDi) is applied as a scanning signal (GBi).

Abstract: A cross-flow fan includes a plurality of fan blades circumferentially spaced from each other. The fan blade has an inner edge portion on the radially inner side, and an outer edge portion on the radially outer side. A blade surface extends between the inner edge portion and the outer edge portion. The blade surface includes a pressure surface on the rotation direction side of the fan and a suction surface on the opposite side. In cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis of the fan, the fan blade has a concave portions formed at the pressure surface and the suction surface. A plurality of concave portions are formed at pressure surface. Side fan provides excellent blowing capacity. Also disclosed are a molding die for use in production of the cross-flow fan, and a fluid feeder provided with the cross-flow fan.

Abstract: A file information generation section generates a draw command for causing a computer to carry out a process for switching, in accordance with an instruction from a user, between a first display state in which, in a case where the user specifies a part of an original text, the original text and translation information corresponding to the part of the original text, which part is specified by the user, are displayed; and a second display state in which the original text and the translation information corresponding to the original text are displayed at all times. This allows a browsing user to generate an image file in which a display mode of a translated word can be easily switched.

Abstract: Provided is a stereoscopic display device capable of achieving good stereoscopic images with a low level of crosstalk in a wide area. A stereoscopic display device includes: a display panel; a switching liquid crystal panel arranged to overlap the display panel; a control section that controls the display panel and the switching liquid crystal panel; and a position sensor that obtains position information about a viewer and supplies the same to the control section. The display panel includes first pixel lines and second pixel lines that are arranged alternately in a vertical direction. The control section switches between a plurality of display modes including a tracking three-dimensional display mode.

Abstract: A mobile station communicates with a base station controlling over a cell containing a plurality of sectors. The mobile station also receives, from a base station, data of synchronization channels which includes sector specific codes respectively corresponding to sector identification numbers for identifying the sectors. In addition, the mobile station performs synchronization detection with reference to the data of synchronization channels, where the data of the synchronization channels mapped to a plurality of predetermined symbols at intervals of a half period of a frame and a plurality of predetermined subcarriers are specific to respective sectors in the same cell and common among adjacent cells.

Abstract: A first resin layer is provided with a step part formed in conformity with a shape of at least part of an electrically conductive pattern, and the first resin layer and a second resin layer closely adhere to each other in the step part.

Abstract: A display device is provided with an LED (17); a rectangular liquid crystal panel (11) that uses light from the LED (17) for display; a bezel (30); and a frame (60). The bezel (30) forms a rectangular frame following along the outer peripheral edges of the liquid crystal panel (11), and is configured such that a length thereof in a first direction is variable, or lengths thereof in a first direction and a second direction are variable. The frame (60) forms a rectangular frame following along the outer peripheral edges of the liquid crystal panel (11), and together with the bezel (30) clamps the outer peripheral edges of the liquid crystal panel (11).

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a drive method thereof, capable of promptly making an afterimage, which is visually recognized at refresh time, visually unrecognizable and reducing power consumption during and after a shift to a target refresh rate. At pause drive time until a target refresh rate is reached, a refresh is performed in divided periods of a first refresh period for performing a refresh at least twice, and a second refresh period for performing a refresh while increasing the number of frames in a non-refresh period from a refresh rate at the end of the first refresh period until the refresh rate becomes the target refresh rate, and the second refresh period is finished when the refresh rate in the second refresh period reaches the target refresh rate, and the pause drive is continued at the target refresh rate.

Abstract: A television receiver segments a part of an image depending on image information received from a communication device and pixel information representing the number of pixels in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction of the image. The television receiver judges a size between the number of pixels in the longitudinal direction and that in the lateral direction in the pixel information, and when it is judged that the number of pixels in the longitudinal direction is larger than that in the lateral direction, displays two screens in which the segmented image and another image are juxtaposed on a display unit.

Abstract: A detection output circuit provided in a source driver compares a voltage detected by a resistor and a voltage of a driving signal using comparators drives a transistor, a capacitor and an operational amplifier using a ramp signal so that they are maintained at voltages corresponding to a current flowing through a data line, and performs feedback control so that the potential of the data line is a desired potential. With this simple configuration, a data line circuit can be achieved that is capable of eliminating variation in driving transistor characteristics and the like, while performing current protection at high speed.

Abstract: A light source includes: a light guide plate having one principal surface on which light scattering elements are provided; at least one first light source unit which causes light from a first end face of the light guide plate to enter the light guide plate; and at least one second light source unit which causes light from a second end face of the light guide plate to enter the light guide plate. When viewed along a mutually opposing direction in which the first end face and the second end face oppose each other, the first light source unit and the second light source unit are arranged with the light emitting areas shifted from each other, and the light scattering patterns formed by the light scattering elements includes a plurality of types of patterns arranged in accordance with the positions of the light emitting areas of the first light source unit and the second light source unit.

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: A light scanning device includes: a first semiconductor laser 44a that emits a light beam L1; a polygonal mirror 42 that deflects the light beam L1; a reflective mirror 64a that reflects the light beam L1 deflected by the polygonal mirror 42 and causes the light beam L1 to enter a photosensitive drum 13; and a BD sensor 72 that detects the light beam L1 deflected by the polygonal mirror 42. The light scanning device scans the photosensitive drum 13 with the light beam L1 and set scanning timing of the photosensitive drum 13 using the light beam L1 based on detection timing of the light beam L1 using the BD sensor 72. The BD sensor 72 is arranged in the position farther from the polygonal mirror 42 than the last reflective mirror 64a that reflects the light beam L1 immediately before entering the photosensitive drum 13 and arranged inside a scanning angle range ? of the light beam L1 corresponding to an effective scan area of the photosensitive drum 13.