Abstract: An image processing device (100) includes: a luminance distribution information preparation section (110) for preparing a luminance histogram in which each luminance range serves as a class, by counting the number of pixels belonging to each luminance range; a weight correction section (120) for generating, for each luminance range, a weighting value which is proportional to a corresponding class value; and an image processing section (140) for correcting a luminance value of each pixel so that a difference between a maximum luminance value and a minimum luminance value in the luminance range is determined by an increasing function with respect to both (i) a frequency of the luminance range and (ii) a weighting value of the luminance range.
Abstract: A light emitting device is a light emitting device using light emitting elements and includes: a substrate; a resin frame provided circularly on the substrate; a resin wall provided on the substrate so as to partition an area surrounded by the resin frame into 2 zones; light-emitting sections (a first light-emitting section: blue LEDs+red fluorescent material, a second light-emitting section: blue LEDs+yellow fluorescent material) provided in the respective zones, each of which light-emitting sections includes at least one light emitting element; and first and second anode electrodes and a cathode electrode provided so that each of the light-emitting sections receives current via a corresponding anode electrode and the cathode electrode, the light-emitting sections emitting respective pieces of light each having at least one color, which respective pieces of light have different colors from each other, the first and second anode electrodes being electrically connected to the first and second light-emitting se
Abstract: An optical scanner contains in a casing made of thermoplastic material a light source that emits an image light based on image data, and at least one optical element that is disposed in an optical path for the image light. The optical element is held through a holding member by the casing. The holding member is uprightly held at one edge portion thereof on an inside surface of the casing, and secures the optical element at the other edge portion thereof. The holding member has a shape that causes a thermal deformation in which a leaning direction of the other edge portion is opposite to a leaning direction of the one edge portion due to a thermal deformation of the inside surface of the casing when a temperature of the casing rises.
Abstract: A high-quality display is achieved by suppressing a disturbance in alignment in a liquid crystal display panel including a substrate structured so that a slit in a pixel electrode intersects with a scanning signal line or an auxiliary capacitor line. An active matrix substrate (10) includes: a pixel electrode (12) having a slit; and an auxiliary capacitor line (14). In a region of intersection between the slit (15) and the auxiliary capacitor line (14) or a scanning signal line (21), at least a drain line (13) or a data signal line (22) is provided between a layer of the pixel electrode (12) and a layer of the auxiliary capacitor line (14) or of the scanning signal line (21) in such a way as to cover the auxiliary capacitor line (12) or the scanning signal line (21).
Abstract: The present invention provides novel pyrimidine amines of formula (I) which are potent inhibitors of spleen tyrosine kinase, and are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases mediated by said enzyme, such as asthma, COPD and rheumatoid arthritis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 2010
Date of Patent:
May 27, 2014
Assignees:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Merck Canada Inc.
Inventors:
Michael D. Altman, Kenneth L. Arrington, Jason Burch, Bernard Cote, Jean-Francois Fournier, Jacques Yves Gauthier, Solomon Kattar, Sandra Lee Knowles, Jongwon Lim, Michelle R. Machacek, Alan B. Northrup, Michael H. Reutershan, Joel S. Robichaud, Adam J. Schell, Kerrie B. Spencer
Abstract: The present invention provides an ion sensor with which an ion concentration can be stably measured with high accuracy, and a display device. The present invention is an ion sensor that includes a field effect transistor. The ion sensor also includes an ion sensor antenna and a reset device. The ion sensor antenna and the reset device are connected to a gate electrode of the field effect transistor. The reset device is capable of controlling the potential of the gate electrode and the ion sensor antenna to a predetermined potential.
Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, on each source bus line, an electric charge escaping transistor is provided having the same polarity as a pixel transistor and having a gate to which a turn-off voltage signal of the pixel transistor is supplied. When an active matrix liquid crystal display device is powered off, the turn-off voltage signal is made to reach the GND level before a turn-on voltage signal of the pixel transistor reaches the GND level, so that the pixel transistor and the electric charge escaping transistor are made half-open. This lets electric charges accumulated in the pixel escape to a common electrode TCOM.
Abstract: At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including a display unit having scan signal lines divided into a plurality of groups which are successively selected. While the scan signal lines belonging to the selected group are successively scanned horizontally, signal potentials of the same polarity are successively supplied to a data signal line. The polarity of the signal potential is reversed between a preceding group and a subsequent group which are selected continuously. A plurality of dummy scan periods are inserted between the horizontal scan period corresponding to the last horizontal scan in the preceding group and the horizontal scan period corresponding to the first horizontal scan in the subsequent group.
Abstract: The invention provides data for display on the display area for a child frame when the child frame is synthesized and displayed on the parent frame in picture-in-picture playback in order to give the displayed area of the child frame in conformity with the video content in the parent frame, as well as providing a video display apparatus etc. for displaying the child frame at an appropriate displayed position using the data for display. A video display apparatus 1 includes: decoders 101 and 103 for decoding two sets of video data; a synthesizer 105 for synthesizing the decoded videos to output; an input unit 108 for commanding display/non-display of the child frame; a processing controller 109 for controlling the operations of decoders 101 and 103 in accordance with the command; and a position designator 110 which receives the command and the data for display and time information and designates the displayed position of the child frame to the synthesizer 105.
Abstract: Provided is a structure with an observation port. The structure with the observation port is provided with the observation port and an internal structure. The internal structure is located to the backside of the observation port and has a third reflection preventing film. The first reflection preventing film is a film that reduces reflected light by using light interference. Each of the second and third reflection preventing films has a surface comprising a plurality of convex portions, a distance between apexes of each adjacent two of which does not exceed the visible light wavelengths. Light obtained by combining light reflected by the surface of the first reflection preventing film, light reflected by the surface of the second reflection preventing film, and light reflected by the surface of the third reflection preventing film has a flat wavelength dispersion within the visible light range.
Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus including: a substrate; an LED chip mounted on a first surface of the substrate; a fluorescent material-containing layer containing a first fluorescent material, which fluorescent material-containing layer is provided above the first surface of the substrate so as to cover the LED chip; and a color-adjusting fluorescent layer that contains a second fluorescent material, which color-adjusting fluorescent material layer is formed in a layer provided on an outer side of the fluorescent material-containing layer in an emission direction, the color-adjusting fluorescent layer being formed in dots. Thus, the present invention provides a light-emitting apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same, each making it possible to carry out fine color adjustment so as to prevent a subtle color shift that occurs due to a factor such as a difference in concentration of a fluorescent material or the like.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 16, 2010
Date of Patent:
May 27, 2014
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventors:
Kazuo Tamaki, Tohru Ohnishi, Toshio Hata
Abstract: Compounds having the structures of Formula I, including pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds, are CETP inhibitors, and are useful for raising HDL-cholesterol, reducing LDL-cholesterol, and for treating or preventing atherosclerosis: In the compounds of Formula I, B or R2 is a phenyl group which has an ortho aryl, heterocyclic, benzoheterocyclic or benzocycloalkyl substituent, and one other position on the 5-membered ring has an aromatic, heterocyclic, cycloalkyl, benzoheterocyclic or benzocycloalkyl substituent connected directly to the ring or attached to the ring through a —CH2—.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 25, 2009
Date of Patent:
May 27, 2014
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Inventors:
Amjad Ali, Joann M. Napolitano, Qiaolin Deng, Zhijian Lu, Peter J. Sinclair, Gayle E. Hallett, Christopher F. Thompson, Nazia Quraishi, Cameron J. Smith
Abstract: A system for producing a motion vector field for a current frame, where the system includes an estimator that selects an initial motion vector from a set of candidate motion vectors and a refiner that refines the initial motion vector.
Abstract: Provided is an illumination device for obtaining planar light having satisfactory uniformity and suppressed brightness irregularities. A backlight unit (illumination device) (20) comprises a light source and a light-guiding element (23) for guiding light from the light source. The light-guiding element (23) includes prisms (23q) formed in an end area (22b) on the light source side, and prisms (23i) formed in an area (a light-emitting area (22a)) on the side opposite the light source relative to the end area (22b). The prisms (23q) vary the propagation angle of light spreading in a direction intersecting the direction of light entry, more so than the prisms (23i).
Abstract: There are provided a light-emitting device for use in a backlight unit of a display apparatus equipped with a display panel, which can be made lower in profile and is capable of applying light to the display panel with uniformity in the brightness of the display panel in a planar direction of the display panel, as well as a display apparatus equipped with the light-emitting device. A backlight unit includes a plurality of light-emitting devices each having a printed substrate, a base support, an LED chip and a lens, and a reflective member surrounding the light-emitting device. A high-reflection portion is formed in a first reflective region of the reflective member.
Abstract: A semiconductor device (100A) has an oxide semiconductor layer (11). The oxide semiconductor layer (11) has a channel region (11c), and a source region (11s) and drain region (11d) positioned on respective sides of the channel region (11c). The source region (11s) has a low-resistance source region (11sx) that has a lower resistance than the channel region (11c), and the drain region (11d) has a low-resistance drain region (11dx) that has a lower resistance than the channel region (11c). The carrier concentrations of the low-resistance source region (11sx) and the low-resistance drain region (11dx) become progressively lower from a connecting portion between a source electrode (17) and the low-resistance source region (11sx) and a connecting portion between a drain electrode (18) and the low-resistance drain region (11dx) towards the channel region (11c).
Abstract: A capacitance distribution detection circuit (2) includes a multiplexer (4), a driver (5), and a sense amplifier (6), and the multiplexer (4) switches states between a first connection state in which first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) are connected to the driver (5) and second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) are connected to the sense amplifier (6), and a second connection state in which the first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) are connected to the sense amplifier (6) and the second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) are connected to the driver (5).
Abstract: An image display apparatus having sub-pixels of four colors is provided in which the resolution when an image is two-dimensionally displayed is not affected, and deterioration in the color balance of a three-dimensionally displayed image is suppressed. In the image display apparatus, the arrangement of a sub-pixel for displaying red for a left eye and a sub-pixel for displaying green for a right eye has been replaced with the arrangement of a sub-pixel (Lg1) for displaying green for the left eye and a sub-pixel (Rr1) for displaying red for the right eye. The arrangement of a sub-pixel for displaying blue for the left eye and a sub-pixel for displaying yellow for the right eye has been replaced with the arrangement of a sub-pixel (Lx1) for displaying yellow for the left eye and a sub-pixel (Rb1) for displaying blue for the right eye. Replacement with the sub-pixel and the sub-pixel and replacement with the sub-pixel and the sub-pixel are made for every other pixel.
Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device reducing display unevenness and image sticking even though employing a PSA polymerization step in which monomers are added to a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates including an alignment film and a structure consisting of an organic insulating material; a polymer layer that is formed on the alignment film to control the alignment of liquid crystal molecules; and a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal material, the layer being placed between the pair of substrates, wherein the polymer layer is formed by polymerization of one or more kinds of radical polymerizable monomers contained in the liquid crystal layer, and at least one kind of the radical polymerizable monomers includes a structure which generates radicals through self-cleavage reaction by light irradiation and two or more radical polymerizable groups.
Abstract: The invention relates to binding compounds that specifically bind to human TSLP, as well as uses thereof, e.g., in the treatment of inflammatory disorders and allergic inflammatory response.