Abstract: An image processing apparatus is connected to an image reading apparatus which reads a read area set on a scanner platen in accordance with a size of a document placed on the scanner platen so as to create image data in which an image of the document is shown. The image processing apparatus includes a document detection section and an instruction section. The document detection section creates, based on the image data supplied from the image reading apparatus, document area information indicative of an area where the document is placed on the scanner platen. In a case where the area indicated by the document area information is not completely encompassed by the read area, the instruction section sets a reread area which completely encompasses the area indicated by the document area information and causes the image reading apparatus to read the reread area.

Abstract: An image pick-up device having an image pick-up condition adjuster that instructs an image pick-up condition optimizer to optimizes an image pick-up condition relative to an object included in a pick-up candidate image corresponding to pick-up candidate image object feature information and an indicator that causes a display section to display at least one item of personal information associated with the object feature information when the pick-up candidate image includes the image of the object which represents feature matching with or a similarity to the feature represented by the object feature information.

Abstract: A television (100) includes: a receiving section (202) for receiving additional information which is added to and transmitted along with a broadcast content; a processing section (222) for processing additional information so that a mobile device (120) can obtain information that is specific to unique information which the television (100) has; and a transmitting section (224) for transmitting processed additional information.

Abstract: Provided is an illuminating device capable of positioning or fixing a light guide plate in a chassis while preventing intensity distribution in a plane of light emitted from a front face of the plate from becoming nonuniform. An illuminating device (4) includes a plate-shaped light guide plate (11), a box-shaped chassis (14) with its upper face open and arranged to house the plate, a frame-shaped frame (5) extending along an outer peripheral end portion of the plate and attached to an upper side of the chassis, and a light source (21) arranged to project light onto a predetermined lateral end face (11a) of the plate, wherein the frame includes a presser member (6) disposed on its lower face (5b) and arranged to sandwich the plate between the presser member and the chassis, and wherein the plate includes an engagement member (12) arranged to engage with the presser member.

Abstract: A semiconductor device (18) includes: a gate electrode (102) formed on a substrate (101); a semiconductor layer (104) formed above the gate electrode (102) and including a source region, a drain region, and a channel region; a source electrode (106) connected to the source region above the semiconductor layer (104); and a drain electrode (107) connected to the drain region above the semiconductor layer (104). The semiconductor layer (104) has, at a portion overlapping the drain electrode (107), a protrusion that protrudes outward along an extending direction of a drain line drawn out from the drain electrode (107). At an outside of the channel region sandwiched between the drain electrode (107) and the source electrode (106), the semiconductor layer (104) has an adjustment portion where an outer boundary of the semiconductor layer (104) is positioned more inward than an outer boundary of the gate electrode (102).

Abstract: A method of growing a thin film comprises growing a thin film by conformally forming at least one layer over a substrate having structures extending from a surface of the substrate, whereby the or each layer is formed over the surface of the substrate and over the structures extending from the surface. The thickness of the conformal layer, or the sum of the thicknesses of the conformal layers, is at least half the average spacing of the structures, and; at least one of the height of the structures, the average spacing of the structures and the size of the smallest dimension of the structures is set so as to provide an enhanced growth rate for the or each conformal layer (compared to the growth rate over a planar substrate).

Abstract: A dual-function transducer for a force-sensitive multi-touch screen, including a first substrate, at least one electrode array formed on the first substrate, the at least one electrode array including first and second electrodes, and circuitry operatively coupled to the first and second electrodes. The circuitry is configured to measure first and second electrical properties of the electrode array, the first and second electrical properties corresponding to touch and strain, respectively.

Abstract: By reducing the potential drop of a storage node that occurs due to feedthrough, the capacitance of a storage capacitor is reduced and sensor sensitivity is improved. In a photosensor, the first terminal of a storage capacitor (C2) and the gate of a MOS transistor (M1), which outputs a signal in accordance with the potential of a storage node (N2), are connected to the storage node (N2). A forward biased pulse voltage is supplied to the anode of a first photodiode (DS) in a reset period, and a reverse biased voltage is supplied to the anode of the first photodiode in a storage period and a readout period. A reverse biased voltage is supplied to the anode of a second photodiode (DM) in all operation periods.

Abstract: A signal processing circuit of the present invention includes: first and second input terminals; an output terminal; a bootstrap capacitor; a first output section connected to the second input terminal and the output terminal; a second output section connected to the first input terminal, a first power source, and the output terminal; and an electric charge control section for controlling the electric charge of the bootstrap capacitor, the electric charge control section being connected to the first input terminal, the electric charge control section and the first output section being connected to each other via a relay section for either electrically connecting the electric charge control section and the first output section to each other or electrically blocking the electric charge control section and the first output section from each other, the electric charge control section including a resistor connected to a second power source.

Abstract: A transparent sheet is attached onto an inclined surface of an original guide plate of an image reading apparatus, and similarly, a transparent sheet is attached onto an inclined surface at an edge portion of a reading guide plate, thereby preventing an original from being chipped by the ground glass-like inclined surfaces and illumination light from being diffused by the ground glass-like inclined surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly reliable circuit board that includes TFTs a semiconductor layer of which is formed from an oxide semiconductor; and low-resistance aluminum wirings. The circuit board of the present invention includes an oxide semiconductor layer; source wirings; and drain wirings, wherein each of the source wirings and the drain wirings includes a portion in contact with the semiconductor layer, portions of the source wirings in contact with the semiconductor layer and respective portions of the drain wirings in contact with the semiconductor layer spacedly facing each other, and the source wirings and the drain wirings are formed by stacking a layer formed from a metal other than aluminum and a layer containing aluminum.

Abstract: A system for detecting newton ring mura on a display includes sensing an image of the display with an image capture device and determining a border boundary of an illuminated portion of the display. The image is spatially filtered as defined by the border boundary using a filter that reduces sensor noise and a grid pattern of the display. The spatially filtered image is processed to determine if a region proximate a pixel location is a potential newton ring mura defect and characterizing the potential newton ring mura defects to remove at least one of the potential newton ring mura defects.

Abstract: A direct-viewing type display device 100a includes: a display panel 10 having a display region 31 and a frame region 30 formed outside the display region; and a light guide element 21A having an incident face 21a, an outgoing face 21b, and a plurality of light guide paths formed between the incident face and the outgoing face. The incident face of the light guide element is disposed so as to overlap a portion 32 of a peripheral display region adjoining the frame region of the display panel along the first axis, and be parallel to the surface of the display panel. The outgoing face 21b of the light guide element has a distance from the incident face 21a that increases away from the portion 32 of the peripheral display region and toward the frame region 30 along the first axis, and extends to a position overlapping the frame region 30.

Abstract: A multiprimary liquid crystal display device in which deteriorations in display quality caused by the coloration of a gray representation when viewed from an oblique direction are suppressed, and a signal conversion circuit for use in such a multiprimary liquid crystal display device are provided. A signal conversion circuit according to the present invention is for use in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device, the multiprimary liquid crystal display device having a pixel defined by a plurality of subpixels including a red subpixel, a green subpixel, a blue subpixel, and a yellow subpixel, and performing multicolor display by using four or more primary colors to be displayed by the plurality of subpixels, the signal conversion circuit converting an input video signal to a multiprimary signal corresponding to four or more primary colors. When a video signal for the pixel to display a gray color having a normalized luminance of no less than 0.2 and no more than 0.

Abstract: A rotary-type toner supply device includes a toner container and a scraping member. The toner container has a peripheral wall section which is shaped so as to surround a side face of an imaginary column K1 along the side face and has a toner discharge port formed therein, and contains toner in space surrounded by the peripheral wall. The scraping member is contained in the space so as to freely rotate around a central axis S of the imaginary column K1, and has first and second curved parts, each of the first and second curved parts extending along a portion of a half cycle or more of a spiral on the side face of the imaginary column K1.

Abstract: It is an object to prevent the image quality deterioration of a moving image likely to include a plurality of the same consecutive images such as a movie video and an animation video due to the motion-compensated frame rate conversion (FRC) processing. An image displaying device is provided with an FRC portion (10) for converting the number of frames in an input image signal by interpolating an image signal to which a motion compensation processing has been given between the frames in the input image signal, a genre determining portion (14) for determining whether the input image signal is a predetermined genre, and a controlling portion (15).

Abstract: Provided is a display device in which a frame can be made narrower while preventing connection faults. The present invention is a display device, provided with a display device substrate having an external connection terminal and a lower-layer wiring running below the external connection terminal, an external connection component, and a conductive member that electrically connects the display device substrate and the external connection component.

Abstract: A shift register is formed by connecting unit circuits 11 in multi-stage. One electrode of a capacitor Cap2 in the unit circuit 11 is connected to the gate terminal (node N1) of a transistor T2, and the other connected to a node N2. A compensation circuit composed of transistors T3 to T5 provides a clock signal CKB to the node N2 when the node N1 potential is at low level, and applies a low-level potential to the node N2 when the node N1 potential is at high level. Accordingly, even when the gate potential of the transistor T2 changes with a change in a clock signal CK, a signal that cancels out the change is provided through the capacitor Cap2, stabilizing the gate potential of the transistor T2. Thus, a change in the control terminal potential of an output transistor associated with a change in a clock signal is prevented.

Abstract: A display method of an embodiment (i) determines a suitable length of an off period of an LED in accordance with a gray scale transition time, i.e., a time during which a transmittance of a liquid crystal is being changed, and (ii) turns off a light source for the determined length of the off period in a first half part of a one frame period. This makes it difficult for a halfway change in a gray scale transition to be reflected in a brightness of a pixel. Also, by performing a gray scale transition emphasis process to a display signal when the gray scale transition is caused, it is possible to increase the brightness of the pixel in the midst of the gray scale transition and to reduce a response time of the pixel. As such, it is possible to further improve a quality of moving image display.

Abstract: A TFT 20 includes a gate electrode 21, a gate insulating film 22, a semiconductor layer 23, a source electrode 24, a drain electrode 25, etc. The semiconductor layer 23 is comprised of a metal oxide semiconductor (IGZO), and has a source portion 23a that contacts the source electrode 24, a drain electrode 23b that contacts the drain electrode 25, and a channel portion 23c that is located between the source and drain portions 23a, 23b. A reduced region 30 is formed at least in the channel portion 23c of the semiconductor layer 23, and the reduced region 30 has a higher content of a simple substance of a metal such as In than the remaining portion of the semiconductor layer 23.