Abstract: In an example embodiment of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented system for providing endoscopic simulations includes a 3D organ model and a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on a screen. The GUI includes a device model simulating a medical device displayed in the GUI and configured to be manipulated by a first user input to the GUI. The GUI also includes an internal view of the 3D organ model, wherein the internal view is controlled by the manipulation of the device model and simulates a view captured by the simulated medical device. The GUI also includes an external view of the 3D organ model, wherein the external view is controlled by a second user input to the GUI.

Abstract: The present invention provides a television including first to fourth keyword candidate acquiring sections for acquiring a plurality of keyword candidates according to algorisms different from each other; a keyword determining section for causing a display section to display thereon a keyword list including the plurality of keyword candidates thus obtained by the keyword candidate acquiring means, and for determining that a search keyword is to be a keyword candidate selected from the keyword list by an input instruction; and a search scope determining section for causing the display section to display a search scope list of a plurality of search scopes different from each other, and for determining that a search scope to be used for search process with the search keyword is to be a search scope selected from the search scope list by an input instruction.

Abstract: The display device (1) which displays a video on a display section (7) includes a video processing circuit (2) and a backlight control circuit (3) for aperiodically changing at least any of a brightness and a contrast of the video, which is displayed on the display section (7), within a predetermined range during a predetermined time period.

Abstract: Provided is a touch panel substrate to be used in a touch panel, the touch panel substrate having improved display qualities. A touch panel substrate of one embodiment of the present invention is provided with a first detection electrode having a plurality of first lattice electrodes that are aligned in the lateral direction. Each of the first lattice electrodes includes conductor lines formed in a lattice shape parallel to the outer shape of each of the first lattice electrodes, and in each of the first lattice electrodes, the diagonal line between the two opposing corners adjacent to first relay wiring is tilted with respect to the lateral direction.

Abstract: A communication terminal includes: a display, an input device for accepting a first operation instruction; a communication device for connection with a server and another terminal; and a control unit for receiving first contents from the server via the communication device according to the first operation instruction, determining whether connection with another terminal is established or not, transmitting the first contents to another terminal via the communication device when a determination is made that connection with another terminal is established, and causing the display to show the first contents.

Abstract: To provide a mobile information terminal that makes it possible to facilitate a touch operation on an image displayed in the upper area within a vertically long display screen provided on the front surface of a housing. The mobile information terminal is configured to include: a touch panel 20 that detects a touch operation on a vertically long display screen 21 provided on the front surface 13 of a thin housing 10; a slide sensor 4 that is provided on the left lateral surface 11 or right lateral surface 12 of the thin housing 10 and detects a sliding operation in the longer direction of the display screen 21; and drawing area control means adapted to, within the display screen 21, form a main drawing area 23b and a sub drawing area 23a, which are both touch operable, arranging the main drawing area 23b and the sub drawing area 23a in the longer direction, and on the basis of the sliding operation, interchange the order of the arrangement.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is, in a display device to be seen by a plurality of users, to improve visual properties for a user who carries out a task such as an input, without sacrificing visual properties in the screen as a whole. A display control device illuminates a backlight to reach a first luminosity of a predetermined first display condition in a display region of a display panel. When a contact location is detected, the display control device identifies a control region for which the contact location in the display region is a reference. Then, the display control device switches from illuminating the backlight at the first display condition to illuminating the backlight at a second luminance of a second display condition in which the perceived brightness is lower than that of the first display condition, whereas the backlight is illuminated at the first luminance of the first display condition in areas other than the control region.

Abstract: A display (200) includes: a wireless communication control section (215) which receives an image signal transmitted from an STB (100); and a reservation time monitoring section (204) which, in response to an instruction from a user to change a state of the display (200) to a standby state, determines, in accordance with a time remaining before a reserved viewing is started, whether or not to stop supplying electric power to the wireless communication control section (215).

Abstract: The present invention includes (i) a tuner (21b) for preferentially receiving broadcast waves (2b) for carrying television programs (3b) list-displayed near a television program (3a) carried by a broadcast wave (2a) rather than a broadcast wave for carrying television programs which are list-displayed away from the television program (3a) and (ii) an information obtaining section (11) for obtaining thumbnails (5a) representing the television programs (3b) from the broadcast waves (2b) received by the tuner (21b).

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device is provide that can reduce contact resistance of an ohmic electrode and a nitride semiconductor layer. In a GaN HFET, recesses (106, 109) are formed in a nitride semiconductor multilayer body (20) composed of an undoped GaN layer (1) and an undoped AlGaN layer (2) formed on an Si substrate (10), and a source electrode (11) and a drain electrode (12) are formed in the recesses (106, 109). In a region deeper than an interface (S1, S2) between the GaN layer (1) and the source electrode (11) and drain electrode (12), which are formed from a TiAl material, a first chlorine concentration peak (P11) is formed in vicinity of the interface, and a second chlorine concentration peak (P22) having a chlorine concentration of 1.3×1017 cm?3 or lower is formed at a position deeper than the first chlorine concentration peak (P11).

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a functional unit, an electric circuit board, a pivotable support member, an outer cover, and wiring. The functional unit is disposed inside the electronic apparatus. The electric circuit board is configured to control the functional unit. The pivotable support member is shaped rectangular having a vertical length that is shorter than a horizontal length thereof and is pivotally movable about a pivoting axis defined to extend along one horizontally extending side of the pivotable support member between a closed position in which the pivotable support member covers the functional unit and an open position in which the functional unit is exposed. The outer cover is disposed more outwardly than the pivotable support member. The wiring passes through a pivoting axis side of the pivotable support member to connect the functional unit to the electric circuit board.

Abstract: A shift register includes cascade-connected stages, each of which includes a data latch and an output stage. In at least one embodiment, the latch has a single data input which, in use, receives a date signal from a preceding or succeeding stage. The output stage includes a first switch, which passes a clock signal to the stage output when the output stage is activated by the latch. The output stage also comprises a second switch, which passes the lower supply voltage to the stage output when the output stage is inactive.

Abstract: An active matrix electrowetting on dielectric (AM-EWOD) device includes a plurality of array elements configured to manipulate one or more droplets of fluid on an array, each of the array elements including a corresponding array element circuit. Each array element circuit includes a top substrate electrode and a drive electrode between which the one or more droplets may be positioned, with an insulator layer being interposed between the one or more droplets and the drive electrode; and write circuitry configured to write data to the array element. At least some of the array element circuits include measure circuitry configured to detect a pinhole defect in the insulator layer.

Abstract: An image processing device that reduces influence by a compressibility error of image data generated by a previous frame on output image data is disclosed. The image processing device generates a compressibility error prediction value, based on an input image data, generates substitute image data of the input image data, based on an emergence tendency of the compressibility error, selects the input image data or the substitute image data to set a result as current image data, generates next state image data, compresses the next state image data to generate compressed state image data, stores the compressed state image data in a frame memory, generates the state image data by reading the compressed state image data from the frame memory and decompressing the same, and generates output image data, based on the current image data and the state image data.

Abstract: A backlight device 24 according to the present invention includes: LED substrates 30; LED light sources 28 placed on the surfaces of the LED substrates 30; a light guide plate 20 having light-receiving surfaces 20a on the side faces, the plate being placed such that the LED light sources 28 and the light-receiving surfaces 20a face each other; a chassis 22 having a bottom plate and a plurality of side walls 22b, 22c, 22d, and 22d standing upright from the bottom plate, the chassis being open on a top side opposite to the bottom plate and storing at least the LED light sources 28 and the light guide plate 20; and spacer members 34 for regulating the gaps between the side walls and the light guide plate 20, the spacer members being made of an elastic material. The LED substrates 30 are placed along the surfaces of the side walls, and the spacer members 34 are placed in the corners between the adjacent side walls 22b, 22c, 22d, and 22d.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a lighting device in which a problem is hardly caused by a hole formed in a chassis of the lighting device. A backlight unit (a lighting device) 1 according to the present invention includes an LED (a light source) 17, a flat cable (a flat conductor) 22 connected to the LED 17, a chassis 14 including a hole 14e, a cable protector (a flat conductor protector) 23 including a protection portion 24 and an insertion hole 24a extending through the protection portion 24. The chassis 14 houses the LED 17. The flat cable 22 is inserted through the insertion hole 24a. The flat conductor protector 23 is arranged such that the protection portion 24 is positioned between an edge of the hole 14e of the chassis 14 and a portion of the flat cable 22 that is positioned in the insertion hole 24a.

Abstract: The present invention provides an etching liquid for a multilayer thin film containing a copper layer and a titanium layer, and a method of using it for etching a multilayer thin film containing a copper layer and a titanium layer, that is, an etching liquid for a multilayer thin film containing a copper layer and a titanium layer, which comprises (A) hydrogen peroxide, (B) nitric acid, (C) a fluoride ion source, (D) an azole, (E) a quaternary ammonium hydroxide and (F) a hydrogen peroxide stabilizer and has a pH of from 1.5 to 2.5, and a etching method of using it.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate, on which a reference potential trunk line that supplies a reference potential to a plurality of sub-pixels and a switching element of each of the plurality of sub-pixels, are disposed; and a second substrate, on which a display signal line that supplies a display signal, is disposed. A liquid crystal capacitance of each of the plurality of sub-pixels is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Pixels composed of the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to a plurality of luminance regions are arranged in a matrix. In case that a prescribed half-tone is displayed in between pixels that are adjacent in the row direction, the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to the same luminance region are arranged adjacently in the row direction.

Abstract: A receiver apparatus includes a first frequency response estimator configured to calculate a first frequency response estimation value using a reference signal, a duration extractor configured to determine an estimation duration by extracting at least one duration from among a plurality of duration candidates into which a predetermined maximum delay time is divided, and a second frequency response estimator configured to calculate a second frequency response estimation value as a frequency response estimation value for demodulation using the first frequency response and the estimation duration. The receiver apparatus thus performs high-precision channel estimation even if a variety of PDPs occur with time.

Abstract: When reproducing AV data transmitted from a source device by multicast wireless transmission, a sink device can check the wireless connection status of other sink device which reproduces AV data from the same source device. The sink device (2a) includes: an AV reception portion which receives AV data through multicast wireless transmission from the source device (1); a reproduction portion which extracts and reproduces AV data transmitted to the sink device (2a) from the received AV data; and a device information receiving portion that wirelessly receives a portion or whole of the sink device information managed in the source device (1). The sink device information correlates identification information for identifying a plurality of sink devices (2a, 2b, . . . ) containing the sink device (2a) with state information indicative of wireless connection status of the sink devices (2a, 2b, . . . ).