Abstract: Disclosed is a wavelength conversion member that is provided with: a light transmissive member including a light input plane into which excitation light is inputted, and a light output plane from which wavelength converted light is outputted; and a semiconductor fine particle phosphor, which is dispersed in the light transmissive member, and which absorbs the excitation light, converts the wavelength, and emits light. The dispersion concentration of the semiconductor fine particle phosphor in the direction parallel to the light traveling direction, i.e., the direction connecting the light input plane and the light output plane, is lower than the dispersion concentration of the semiconductor fine particle phosphor in the direction orthogonal to the light traveling direction.

Abstract: A communication device includes a turbo encoding section including a plurality of component encoders, wherein the plurality of component encoders within the turbo encoding section use different constraint lengths.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a primary station comprising a transceiver for communicating with a plurality of secondary stations, the transceiver including at least two antennas, the method comprising the primary station transmitting to a secondary station for a single spatial channel at least one first set of reference symbols with a first antenna and at least one second set of reference symbols with a second antenna, the second set of reference symbols being orthogonal to the first set of reference symbols.

Abstract: Provided are a photoelectric conversion element and an interconnector-equipped photoelectric conversion element, the photoelectric conversion element including: a photoelectric conversion layer having at least one pn junction; a first electrode pad provided on a surface of the photoelectric conversion layer; a second electrode pad provided on a surface different from the surface of the photoelectric conversion layer on which the first electrode pad is provided; and a third electrode provided on a surface of the photoelectric conversion layer opposite to the surface on which the second electrode pad is provided, wherein at least one of surface shapes of the first electrode pad and the second electrode pad is a polygon in which any internal angle is an obtuse angle or a shape having no corner.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention includes a color display pixel D including pixels PA through PD arrayed in a matrix. The pixels PA through PD respectively include sub pixels SA1 through SD1and sub pixels SA2 through SD2. At least at an intermediate gray scale level, the luminance of the sub pixels SA2 through SD2 is higher than the luminance of the sub pixels SA1through SD1. The plurality of sub pixels S included in the pixels PA through PD are arrayed in a matrix. The sub pixel SA2 is adjacent to the sub pixel SB2 in the row direction, is adjacent to the sub pixel SC2 in the column direction, and is adjacent to the sub pixel SD2 in an oblique direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of driving a liquid crystal panel 40 including a first display area 42 and a second display area 44. The first display area 42 includes a middle portion of the display panel and the second display area 44 includes an outer portion around the first display area 42. The method including the following steps: (1) supplying image data to the display areas through a supply circuit 12 to display the image therein; and (2) correcting only the image data for the second display area 44 in a first correction circuit 20 when the supply circuit 12 supplies the image data. In this driving method, the image data for the second display area 44 is corrected, but the image data for the first display area 42 is not corrected. As a result, the deterioration of brightness and gradation characteristics can be suppressed while the unevenness in the liquid crystal panel 40 is reduced.

Abstract: The printing apparatus for printing at least an address on an envelope that is set to a paper tray includes an envelope size detection portion for scanning an address print side of an envelope set to the paper tray to detect a size of the envelope based on a read image of the address print side; a print position setting portion for setting a print position of an address corresponding to the read size of the envelope; and a data synthesis processing portion for synthesizing the read image of the address print side and an image of the address at a position set by the print position setting portion and previews the synthesized address print image of the envelope on a display device.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to piperidinone carboxamide indane 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 antenna unit includes a substrate (120), an antenna (110) located on one major surface of the substrate (120), a dielectric plate (130) opposed to the major surface of the substrate (120), and a dielectric layer (190) interposed between the substrate (120) and the dielectric plate (130). The dielectric plate (130) has a dielectric constant of not more than the dielectric constant of the substrate (120). The dielectric layer (190) has a dielectric constant smaller than the dielectric constant of the dielectric plate (130).

Abstract: By switching between an SFBC and a CDD according to required transmission power in an uplink, the transmission diversity of the uplink is efficiently performed. A wireless transmitter which includes transmitting antennas 21-1, 21-2 and selects any of plural kinds of transmission diversity scheme to perform the transmission diversity includes a transmission power deciding section 14 that decides transmission power based on information notified from a receiver which is a transmission destination, a transmission diversity scheme selecting section 15 that selects any one of the plural kinds of transmission diversity schemes based on the decided transmission power, and a switching section 16, an SFBC coding section 17, a CDD section 18, IFFT sections 19-1, 19-2, CP inserting sections 20-1, 20-2, and the transmitting antennas 21-1, 21-2, which perform wireless transmission to the receiver using the selected transmission diversity scheme.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of first lines extending parallel to each other, and a plurality of second lines extending parallel to each other, and crossing the plurality of first lines with an insulation film therebetween. The active matrix substrate also includes a plurality of lead-out lines connecting an end of at least one of the plurality of first lines and the plurality of second lines with a driver, and extending spaced apart from each other in a non-display region, and a plurality of redundant wirings extending along the plurality of lead-out lines with an insulation film therebetween. Each of the plurality of lead-out lines overlaps, in plan view, with an overlapping region of any of the plurality of redundant wirings. Each of the plurality of redundant wirings has a length shorter than an arbitrary one of the plurality of lead-out lines overlapping at the overlapping region.

Abstract: A base station apparatus efficiently controls transmission of an uplink signal to a mobile station apparatus. A transmission power setting unit sets transmission power for a physical uplink shared channel using one of a plurality of calculated path losses.

Abstract: Methods for increasing the yield and N-glycosylation site occupancy of paucimannose or complex N-glycans of recombinant glycoproteins produced in a recombinant host cell lacking dolichyl-P-Man:Man5GlcNAc2-PP-dolichyl alpha-1,3 mannosyltransferase (Alg3p) activity are disclosed. In particular, recombinant host cells are provided that comprise a disruption of the expression of an OS-9 family gene in the host cell. These recombinant host cells may then be used for producing recombinant glycoproteins. In further embodiments, the recombinant host cells further overexpress at least one heterologous single-subunit oligosaccharyltransferase, which in particular embodiments is capable of functionally suppressing the lethal phenotype of a mutation of at least one essential protein of the yeast oligosaccharyltransferase (OTase) complex.

Abstract: A backlight device 12 includes: a chassis having a bottom plate and side plates that stand towards the front of the bottom plate from the edges of the bottom plate, the face on one side of the bottom plate being a light-output part; an LED substrate disposed on the front surface of the bottom plate; LEDs 24 arranged on a plate face oriented toward the light-output part of the LED substrate and arranged so that the light-output part is on the light-emitting side thereof; a plurality of diffusion lenses 27 for covering the light-emitting side of the plurality of LEDs and diffusing the light from the LEDs 24; a first reflecting sheet 29 provided with light source insertion holes through which the LEDs 24 are inserted at positions corresponding to the LEDs 24, the first reflecting sheet being laid over the front surface of the bottom plate and over the LED substrate; and a second reflecting sheet 30 arranged so as to protrude in the direction in which the side plates rise, the ends of the second reflecting sheet

Abstract: A Transfer device (10) includes an intermediate transfer belt (41), a plurality of intermediate transfer roller (34A-34D) and a transfer member moving mechanism (20). The transfer member moving mechanism moves the intermediate transfer rollers (34A-34D) between pressing positions causing the intermediate transfer belt (41) to be pressed against respective photoreceptor drums (31A-31D) and separate positions causing the intermediate transfer belt (41) to be separate from the respective photoreceptor drums (31A-31D). The transfer member moving mechanism (20) causes a second pressing position of the intermediate transfer roller for monochrome (34A) in monochromatic image forming to be different from a first pressing position of the intermediate transfer roller for monochrome (34A) in full-color image forming so that an amount of pressing of the intermediate transfer belt (41) by the intermediate transfer roller for monochrome (34A) becomes greater in monochromatic image forming than in full-color image forming.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 1 is provided with a liquid crystal display panel 10, which displays an image, and a case 2, which is disposed on the side of the liquid crystal display panel 10 opposite to the display surface side, and covers the side of the liquid crystal display panel 10 opposite to the display surface side. The case 2 includes a plurality of holes 3 that penetrate from the outside to the inside of the case 2, and edges of the holes 3 include projections 3a that protrude from the inner surface of the case 2 towards the inside thereof.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a light source mounted on one surface of a substrate, a light guide plate on which light from the light source is made incident through a side face thereof, and a liquid crystal panel which receives light emitted from one surface of the light guide plate through a back face thereof to display an image on a front thereof. A connector which is disposed on one surface of the substrate to supply a power to the light source, a front cabinet which covers a front peripheral edge part of the liquid crystal panel and the substrate, and a cover which covers the light guide plate and the substrate from the back side. The cover includes an opening formed in a portion facing the connector, and the front cabinet includes a partition part which partitions between the light source and the opening.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device (display device) 1 equipped with a backlight device (backlight unit) 3 and a liquid crystal panel (display unit) 2. In the liquid crystal display device 1, the backlight device 3 is provided with a light guide plate 6 that, while guiding the light from a light emitting diode (light source) 4 in a predetermined direction, emits light to the liquid crystal panel 2 side. In the backlight device 3, by means of altering the light output rate of each section of the light emitting surface 6b of the light guide plate 6, the luminance distribution of the illumination light to the liquid crystal panel 2 is adjusted in accordance with the luminance distribution of the liquid crystal panel 2 alone in a manner such that the luminance distribution of light outputted from the liquid crystal panel 2 becomes substantially even.

Abstract: A light source device includes a circuit board having a LED mounted on a surface, a lens attached to the surface so as to diffuse light emitted from the LED, a reflecting sheet having a through hole in the inside of which the lens is disposed and reflecting light emitted from the LED at an opposite side of the surface, and a restricting member which is disposed at one of an edge of the through hole in the reflecting sheet and the lens, and restricts a deviation of the reflecting sheet in a direction departing from the surface.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a glass substrate having a first main surface, a glass substrate spaced apart from a first substrate and having a second main surface facing said first main surface, and a highly-sensitive sensor and a low-sensitive sensor arranged between the glass substrate and the glass substrate.