Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a power unit supplied with power; an emission unit to be lit with power supplied from the power unit, with a light quantity of the emission unit being controlled in accordance with a control signal; and a power control part lighting the emission unit after the control signal is supplied. Since the emission unit may be lit after the control signal is supplied, the emission unit may be lit with a light quantity in accordance with the control signal from an initial stage, and hence a user may be prevented from feeling uncomfortable.

Abstract: A display device is disclosed which is capable of suppressing characteristic changes due to a long period of conduction, thereby achieving high-quality video display, and also to provide a drive method therefor. In at least one embodiment, while sequentially activating n first scanning signal line groups G1(1) to G1(n), a predetermined voltage, which is the same as a voltage for turning off a thin-film transistor included in each pixel formation portion in that the polarity thereof is negative and is at a higher level than that voltage, is applied simultaneously to n second scanning signal line groups G2(1) to G2(n). Thereafter, while sequentially activating the n second scanning signal line groups G2(1) to G2(n), the predetermined voltage is applied simultaneously to the n first scanning signal line groups G1(1) to G1(n). By repeating this, charges accumulated in the vicinity of the thin-film transistors are eliminated, thereby suppressing changes in off characteristics thereof.

Abstract: A method for tracking a reference picture on an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding a portion of the bitstream to produce a decoded reference picture. The method further includes tracking the decoded reference picture in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) with reduced overhead referencing based on a designated picture. The method additionally includes decoding a picture based on the decoded reference picture.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to cyclohexene benzotriazole derivatives which are potentiators of metabotropic glutamate receptors, particularly the mGluR2 receptor, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction and diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved. 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 metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved.

Abstract: A lenticular lens sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a transparent toner layer forming section and a lens forming section. The transparent toner layer forming section includes a photoreceptor drum, a charging section and a exposure section that form an electrostatic latent image on the photoreceptor drum, a developing section that forms a transparent toner image, a transfer section that transfers the transparent toner image to one side of a transparent substrate, and a fixing section that heats the transparent toner image transferred to one side of the transparent substrate to fix the transparent toner image, thereby forming a transparent toner layer on one side of the transparent substrate. The lens forming section pressurizes under heating the transparent toner layer formed on one side of the transparent substrate to shape the layer into a concavo-convex shape, thereby forming a lens layer having a concavo-convex shape on one side of the transparent substrate.

Abstract: An illuminating device (210) according to an embodiment of the invention included in an image reading apparatus (100) and an image forming apparatus (D) includes light source portions (211a1), (211b1), (211a2) and (211b2), light-guiding members (213a) and (213b) for illuminating an illumination target (G) from an elongated light emitting face (M) that extends in a longitudinal direction (Y), by guiding light from the light source portions, and holding members (216a) and (216b) for holding the light-guiding members. The holding members include holding portions (2161a) and (2161b) for removably holding the light-guiding members, and tilted portions (2162a) and (2162b) that reflect light emitted from the light emitting face (M), the tilted portions extending from a front end on the light emitting face (M) side of the holding portions, obliquely widening with increasing distance from the light-guiding members.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a display panel and a display apparatus which can reduce the picture-frame area while sufficiently preventing the delay of signals by allowing a required amount of current to flow. The display panel of the present invention is a display panel which includes a circuit substrate, and an opposed substrate facing the circuit substrate, and which is featured in that the circuit section is arranged in the picture-frame area of the display panel, in that the circuit section includes trunk wiring, and branch wiring connected to the gate electrode or the source electrode of a transistor in the circuit section, and in that all or a part of the trunk wiring is provided on the opposed substrate, and the branch wiring is provided on the circuit substrate so as to be electrically connected to the trunk wiring via a conductor.

Abstract: To perform volume control matching the actual auditory sensation level of a human so as to improve the control accuracy. As shown in FIG. 1, an audio gain adjustment device 10 includes: an audio signal input section 12 that acquires an audio signal to be adjusted; a long-term gain reflection section 14 that reflects the adjustment of long-term gain in the acquired audio signal; a frequency division section 20 that divides the audio signal from the long-term gain reflection section 14 into three frequency bands; a short-term gain reflection section 30 that reflects the adjustment of short-term gain in each frequency band; a synthesis section 40 that synthesizes audio signals output from the short-term gain reflection section 30; and an audio signal output section 42 that outputs the synthesized audio signal.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a pair of substrates; a plurality of electrodes formed in a matrix on one of the pair of substrates, wherein each of the plurality of electrodes includes a plurality of stripe-like portions that define a plurality of spaces therebetween; polymer material and liquid crystal between the pair of substrates; and polymer alignment films which are formed on each of the substrates and are affected by light irradiation and cause alignment of the liquid crystal in predetermined directions. The plurality of stripe-like portions extend in at least two different directions which are not parallel to each other.

Abstract: A cooking device comprises: a body casing (1); a heating chamber (2) disposed within the body casing (1) and provided with a gas discharge opening; a gas discharge path having one end connected to the gas discharge opening of the heating chamber; a cooling fan disposed within the body casing (1) and cooling an electric component; and a cooling path formed within the body casing (1) and leading from an outside-air suction opening (100) through the cooling fan and an electric component chamber to a cool-air introducing opening (31a) in a gas discharge duct (30). At least a part of cooling air from the cooling fan flows along the cooling path, passes through a space near heaters (14, 14) within the body casing (1), enters the gas discharge duct (30) from the cool-air introducing opening (31a), and is discharged from a gas-discharge external opening (28).

Abstract: Disclosed are an illumination device to be located immediately below an object to be illuminated, wherein a plurality of point-like light sources are arranged, and a display device provided with the illumination device. Even in a structure wherein the light emitted from point-like light sources is diffused and planarly emitted, in order to provide an illumination device which can uniformly and planarly emit the light without reducing the light intensity at the overlapped portion of the light emitted from the point-like light sources, point-like light sources (LED light sources) each diffusing the light to be emitted in a square-shaped light emission distribution, and an illumination device (LED backlight device) wherein the point-like light sources are arranged in a planar manner so that the square-shaped light emission distributions of the light diffused by the point-like light sources are overlapped in parallel.

Abstract: Consecutive subcarriers are reserved, and the reserved consecutive subcarriers are properly allocated to a terminal. The invention is a scheduling method that allocates, within an available band, a block composed of one or more subcarriers and used for signal transmission by a communication terminal being a destination of communication, and the method includes the steps of selecting (S208), with a higher priority, communication terminals having different number of the subcarriers composing the block as simultaneously communicating terminals that perform signal transmission simultaneously, and allocating (S214) the block for use by the simultaneously communicating terminals within the available band.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to ether benzotriazole derivatives which are potentiators of metabotropic glutamate receptors, particularly the mGluR2 receptor, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction and diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved. 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 metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved.

Abstract: The present invention provides an analog gradation-driving active matrix substrate suppressing reduction in the response time of the current-driven light-emitting element; a display device; and an organic EL display device. The active matrix substrate of the present invention is an analog gradation-driving active matrix substrate, comprising: pixels each including a current-driven light-emitting element and a drive transistor, the current-driven light-emitting element has a pixel electrode electrically coupled with the drive transistor, the drive transistor supplies a current to the current-driven light-emitting element through the pixel electrode, wherein an adjusting transistor for adjusting a voltage of the pixel electrode is electrically connected to a path for the electric current supplied from the drive transistor to the current-driven light-emitting element.

Abstract: Compounds of structural formula (I) are inhibitors of prolylcarboxypeptidase (PrCP). The compounds of the present invention are useful for the prevention and treatment of conditions related to enzymatic activity of PrCP such as abnormal metabolism, including obesity; diabetes; metabolic syndrome; obesity related disorders; and diabetes related disorders.

Abstract: In forming an etching mask for forming a repetitive concave-convex pattern on a surface of a substrate of a semiconductor base material by exposure development of a resist film, the present invention prevents a development pattern from being deformed due to excessive exposure on a part where exposure regions are adjacent to each other in the resist film by repetitive exposure. In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor base material, when forming an etching mask for forming a concave-convex portion on a surface of the semiconductor base material, by a photolithography process of the resist film, a transfer mask is used, as a transfer mask 100, which is obtained by previously correcting the size of a dotted light shielding section 104 which is an exposure pattern near a region on which exposure shots overlap.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2-alkoxy pyrimidine compounds which are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of central nervous system disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.

Abstract: The semiconductor conductor device includes a gate electrode 106, an oxide semiconductor film 110, a source electrode 114a and a drain electrode 114b, and a channel region formed in the oxide semiconductor film. The channel region is formed between a first side surface 214a of the source electrode and a second side surface 214b of the drain electrode opposite to the first side surface 214a. The oxide semiconductor film has a side surface which overlaps with the gate electrode, which has a first high resistance region positioned between a first region 206a that is the nearest to one end 314a of the first side surface 214a and a second region 206b that is the nearest to one end 314b of the second side surface 214b. The first high resistance region has a corrugated side surface or the like.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a driving method of a liquid crystal display device is disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display panel that can minimize the occurrence of short circuits (leaks) between the pair of substrates even if a certain amount of pressing force is applied to the substrates. A liquid crystal display panel of the present invention is provided with a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, such that one of the pair of substrates is provided with a support substrate, a laminated spacer formed by laminating three or more resin layers including transparent colored layers, and an electrode that covers the laminated spacer; the other of the pair of substrates is provided with a support substrate and electrodes; and the degree of deformation of the topmost resin layer of the three or more resin layers is at most 5% of the degree of deformation of the entire laminated spacer, when a certain amount of pressing force is applied to the support substrate supporting the laminated spacer.