Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for increasing the perceived brightness of an image. In some embodiments this increase compensates for a decrease in display light source illumination.

Abstract: Provided is an illumination apparatus which prevents variations in the distance between the light-receiving surface of a light guide plate and a light source. Also provided is a display device which incorporates the illumination apparatus. The light guide plate, which constitutes a backlight unit, receives light through a light-receiving surface with the light-receiving surface oriented toward the light being emitted. In the backlight unit, pillars extend to intersect the direction of emission from an LED and are thus brought into contact with a device-carrying board and the light guide plate, which are superposed one on the other, thereby securing the device-carrying board and the light guide plate.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to piperidinone carboxamide azaindane derivatives which are antagonists of CGRP receptors and useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the CGRP is involved, such as migraine. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which CGRP is involved.

Abstract: An ink containing an electroluminescent light emitting material is discharged onto a buffer layer. The discharge amount of the ink is larger than a maximum volume where the ink is retained by the surface tension thereof on the top surface of the buffer layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can achieve sufficient front contrast ratio and front white brightness at the same time. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a front polarizing plate, a liquid crystal cell, a back polarizing plate, and an optical element having polarization characteristics, which are arranged in the stated order, wherein the back polarizing plate has a lower contrast than the front polarizing plate, and there is substantially no air layer between the back polarizing plate and the optical element having polarization characteristics.

Abstract: A program search device is configured to extract a program using search condition attribute information of the program. The device includes a unit storing information concerning the storage condition, and a display control to control display of a list that includes both search condition information and a program list. The display control highlights a search condition as most recently stored in the storing unit.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium has a first information recording layer (20) and a second information recording layer (40) each of which includes (i) a group of pre-pits (31, 51) constituting marks (32, 52) and spaces (33, 53) and (ii) a super-resolution film (23, 43), the marks (32, 52) and the spaces (33, 53) having different lengths, an average length of a smallest mark that is smallest in length and a smallest space that is smallest in length being less than or equal to a resolution limit of a reproduction optical system for reproducing information recorded on the first information recording layer (20) and the second information recording layer (40), the group of pre-pits (31, 51) being formed so that a push-pull signal for the reproduction optical system to reproduce the information recorded by the group of pre-pits is negative in polarity. This provides an inexpensive and high-capacity multilayer optical information recording medium based on a super-resolution technology.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes: a developing section which includes a developer bearing member which bears toner to be supplied to an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; and a developer regulating section which regulates a layer thickness of the toner borne by the developer bearing member, the developer regulating section being electrically connected to the charger case, the developer regulating section being at least partially electroconductive.

Abstract: A groove is formed above a first group of interconnects of a first substrate, continuously extending along a substrate outer perimeter portion and across the first group of interconnects. An underlying metal is provided in the same layer in which a second group of interconnects are provided, below the groove in at least regions in which the groove overlaps the first group of interconnects as viewed from above.

Abstract: Power consumption is cut down by reducing backlight light source luminance in accordance with the variability of luminance of the picture displayed on a display panel. A picture luminance detector calculates information (luminance information) representing luminance of the picture at intervals of a time unit. A picture luminance storage is a memory capable of storing the past records of luminance information within a fixed period of time (some seconds to some ten seconds). A processor is configured of a variation detector and a light source luminance determiner. Variation detector performs detection of the variability of picture luminance based on the luminance information on the current picture detected by picture luminance detector and the past records of picture luminance information stored in picture luminance storage to output variation information.

Abstract: A coating liquid for an undercoat layer of an electrophotographic photoreceptor which is formed by sequentially stacking the undercoat layer and a photosensitive layer on an electrically conductive support, wherein the coating liquid comprises titanium oxide microparticles and silicon nitride microparticles as an inorganic compound, a binder resin and an organic solvent.

Abstract: A light projection unit is provided that can reduce the production of a portion where the light density is excessively increased on a fluorescent member. This light projection unit includes: a light collection member that includes a light entrance surface and a light emission surface which has an area smaller than that of the light entrance surface; a fluorescent member that includes an application surface to which the laser light emitted from the light collection member is applied and that mainly emits fluorescent light from the application surface; and a light projection member that projects the fluorescent light. The light emission surface of the light collection member is arranged a predetermined distance from the application surface of the fluorescent member.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 10 includes an LED 17, a liquid crystal panel 11, a gate flexible boards 28 connected to an end portion of the liquid crystal panel 11, a light guide plate 16 arranged so as to overlap the liquid crystal panel 11, an optical member 15 arranged between the liquid crystal panel 11 and the light guide plate 16, a holding member HM including a frame 13 and a chassis 14 that hold the liquid crystal panel 11, the optical member 15, and the light guide plate 16, a light blocking portion 23A including a gate flexible board insertion recess 29, and a light restriction portion 30 provided to the optical member 15 and arranged in the gate flexible board insertion recess 29. The light blocking portion 23A blocks light on the outer side thereof from directly entering the end portion of the liquid crystal panel 11. The light restriction portion 30 restricts the light from directly entering the end portion of the liquid crystal panel 11 through the gate flexible board insertion recess 29.

Abstract: Disclosed is a communication system including a plurality of communication terminals having their own position information and performing communication between the communication terminals, wherein one communication terminal determines a specific direction, and specifies a target communication terminal which is to be a communication target with its own terminal, based on the determined direction and position information from the other communication terminals.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes two power cords (70, 80), a plurality of processing sections, a relay (91) and a control section (87). The relay (91) is switched between a conducting state where the two power cords (70, 80) can provide a bilateral supply of power between each other and a cut-off state where they cannot. The control section (87) stores an order of priority for the plurality of processing sections, switches the relay (91) from the cut-off state to the conducting state when a supply of power through either one power cord of the two power cords (70, 80) is cut off, and, by selecting a processing section sequentially according to the order of priority, causes load instruments included in the processing section currently selected to be driven while causing load instruments other than specified load instruments among load instruments included in processing sections currently not selected to stop.

Abstract: A pixel circuit includes: a light emitting element; an n-channel drive transistor T1 that has a source connected with an anode of the light emitting element, a gate connected with a pixel node, and controls a light emission current flowing in the light emitting element in accordance with a light emission control voltage between the gate and the source; a transfer transistor T2 which is interposed between a data signal line and the pixel node, and has a gate connected with a scan signal line; a control transistor T3 which is interposed between the source and a drain of the drive transistor T1, has a gate connected with the scan signal line, and comes into an ON state simultaneously with the transfer transistor T2; and a capacitance element which is interposed between the gate and the source of the drive transistor T1, and holds the light emission control voltage.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, an input operating device, and a display device. The input operating device includes an input operating portion formed on an upper face side of the input operating device. The input operating device is arranged on a front face side of a top face of the housing. The input operating device is configured so that a use position can be changed along the top face of the housing. The display device includes a display portion formed on a front face side. The input operating device can cause the display portion to pivot to a position in which the display portion can be easily viewed.

Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus includes a geometrical arrangement detecting section (111) detecting groups of edge pixels arranged in a shape of a line segment in an image captured by an image-capturing apparatus; and a display processing section (112) causes a contour line representative of a contour of a rectangular captured object to be displayed on the captured image displayed on a display section so that the contour line is superimposed on the groups of edge pixels detected by the geometrical arrangement detecting section (111).

Abstract: A set of adjustment pattern images includes first adjustment pattern images and second adjustment pattern images to be formed on a first side and a second side of a recording sheet, respectively, by an image forming apparatus. The set of adjustment pattern images is employed to adjust an image forming position by the image forming apparatus such that an image forming position of the first adjustment pattern images is aligned with an image forming position of the second adjustment pattern images. The set of adjustment pattern images includes at least two first adjustment pattern images that are spaced from each other and at least two second adjustment pattern images that are spaced from each other, and the first adjustment pattern images on the first side and the second adjustment pattern images on the second side are arranged alternately with each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, which hardly causes alignment defects in the case of forming a horizontal alignment film by employing a photo-alignment treatment. The method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a step of forming a horizontal alignment film by carrying out a photo-alignment treatment of irradiating a photo-alignment film material applied to at least one substrate of a pair of substrates with light, wherein the photo-alignment treatment is a treatment for irradiating the same region with light two or more times from a slanting direction with respect to a surface of the at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, and at least two of lights applied two or more times in the photo-alignment treatment are polarized lights applied from directions mutually different at 90° or greater.