Abstract: A base station device may include, but is not limited to: a mapping unit; and at least one reception antenna. The mapping unit is configured to assign a plurality of first subcarriers to a first communication device, and assign a part of the plurality of first subcarriers to at least one other communication device. The at least one reception antenna is configured to receive from one of the first communication device and the at least one other communication device, a plurality of frequency signals allocated to the plurality of first subcarriers. Each of the plurality of frequency signals is converted from coded transmission data of the one of the first communication device and the at least one other communication device.

Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a display device includes: a correction section for carrying out gray scale correction on gray scale data to be supplied to a display driver, by use of a correction amount corresponding to a position of each column to which the data signal is to be supplied, the each column being on a display panel, the correction section carrying out the gray scale correction by setting the correction amount to zero for at least (i) gray scale data corresponding to a lowest positive-polarity data signal potential and (ii) gray scale data corresponding to a lowest negative-polarity data signal potential of first gray scale data to be supplied to at least one column constituting a part of all columns, the gray scale data (i) and (ii) being among the gray scale data inputted into the correction section.

Abstract: Provided is a photodetecting device having a wider dynamic range with a simple configuration. A photodetecting device includes a photodiode (D1) (photodetecting element); a line RST (reset signal line); a line RS (readout signal line); a sensor row driver (5) (signal control section) that outputs, as a reset signal, a pulse signal generating a second voltage (VSS) to the line RST, and outputs a readout signal to the line RS; an accumulation node (11) connected to the line RST via the photodiode (D1), the accumulation node having a potential that varies with an amount of light received by the photodiode (D1) during a sensing period; and a transistor (M1) (sensor switching element) that reads out a signal corresponding to the variation of the potential of the accumulation node (11), and outputs the signal to the output line. The sensor row driver (5) applies a voltage at a level between a first voltage (V_SSR) and the second voltage (VSS) to the line RST, during at least a part of the sensing period.

Abstract: An LED drive circuit receives an alternating-current voltage and drives an LED. The LED drive circuit has a current extractor which extracts a current from the current supply line through which an LED drive current is supplied to the LED, and a timing adjuster which adjusts the current extraction start timing and the current extraction duration in the current extractor.

Abstract: There is provided an SSD display device with reduced power consumption. A selection circuit (400) consists of k selection blocks (410(1) to 410(k)). Each selection block consists of three thin-film transistors. The three thin-film transistors respectively have three phases of selection control signal (CT) provided to their gate terminals. A scanning period (T1) is provided and followed by an idle period (T2). In the idle period (T2), the three thin-film transistors in each selection block are brought into ON state in accordance with selection control signals (CT) at an idle period frequency (fck2). The idle period frequency (fck2) is lower than a scanning period frequency (fck1).

Abstract: A method of crystal growth is provided which can suppress development of dislocations and cracks and a warp in a substrate. The method of crystal growth of a group III nitride semiconductor has: a step of heating a silicon substrate; and a step of forming a depressed structure on the substrate surface by advance-feeding onto the heated silicon substrate a gas containing at least TMA (trimethylaluminum).

Abstract: The present invention is directed to isoindolone compounds of formula (I) which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, pain or sleep disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and to the use of the compounds and compositions in the treatment of diseases mediated by the M1 receptor.

Abstract: The present invention includes: a display/optical sensor section (300) that displays an image and captures an object image located in the vicinity of the display/optical sensor section (300); a browser processing section (11) that causes a window including a placement area to be displayed on the display/optical sensor section (300), the placement area being an area for placing an object; an API processing section (12) that converts first area information into second area information, the first area information indicating the location of the placement area in the window, the second area information indicating the location of the placement area in the display/optical sensor section (300); and a driver processing section (15) that derives a captured image, the captured image being an image of the object located in the vicinity of the display/optical sensor section (300) and captured through an area defined by the second area information.

Abstract: The light emitting device of the invention includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a carrier formed between the first electrode and the second electrode and containing germanium light emitters, wherein the germanium light emitters contain germanium oxide in which at least part of the germanium oxide has oxygen deficiency and have a wavelength peak of emission in both or either the range of 250 to 350 nm and/or the range of 350 to 500 nm when a potential difference is applied to the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device is disclosed in which a gate driver applies a gate-on pulse so that a second period is longer than a first period. Among gate-on pulses applied before the moment of polarity inversion of a data signal, the last end of the gate-on pulse nearest to the moment of the polarity inversion is earlier than the end time of the horizontal period during which the gate-on pulse is applied. The first period starts at the last end of the gate-on pulse and ends at the end time of the horizontal period during which the gate-on pulse is applied. The second period starts at the moment of the polarity inversion and ends at the moment of the application start of the gate-on pulse nearest to the moment of the polarity inversion among the gate-on pulses applied after the polarity inversion.

Abstract: A dual mode capacitive touch panel includes a sensor substrate, an electrode layer comprising an array of sensor electrodes arranged over the sensor substrate, the array of sensor electrodes including a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of sense electrodes, each sensor electrode corresponding to a location on the sensor substrate, and a shield layer arranged over and spaced apart from the electrode layer. The shield layer includes a predetermined resistance that permits transmission of an electric field at a first frequency and prevents transmission of an electric field at a second frequency, wherein a spacing between the shield layer and the electrode layer is deformable as a result of a force applied to the shield layer due to a user touch, wherein the deformation alters a capacitance between the shield layer and a sensor electrode of the array.

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: Antagonists of human proprotein convertase subtilisin-kexin type 9 (“PCSK9”) are disclosed. The disclosed antagonists are effective in the inhibition of PCSK9 function and, accordingly, present desirable antagonists for use in the treatment of conditions associated with PCSK9 activity. The present invention also discloses nucleic acid encoding said antagonists, vectors, host cells, and compositions comprising the antagonists. Methods of making PCSK9-specific antagonists as well as methods of using the antagonists for inhibiting or antagonizing PCSK9 function are also disclosed and form important additional aspects of the present disclosure.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel comprising a scan signal line (16x), a data signal line (15x), and a transistor (12a) that is connected to the scan signal line (16x) and the data signal line (15x), wherein a pixel (101) is provided with pixel electrodes (17a, 17b). The pixel electrode (17a) is connected to the data signal line (15x) through the transistor (12a). The liquid crystal panel also includes a capacitance electrode (37a) which is electrically connected to the pixel electrode (17a). The capacitance electrode (37a) and the pixel electrode (17a) overlap with each other through an insulating film interposed therebetween; the capacitance electrode (37a) and the pixel electrode (17b) overlap with each other through an insulating film interposed therebetween; and the areas of the overlapping portions are equal to each other.

Abstract: A conductive buffer material (11) is one surface of a display panel (29) sandwiched between a first member (BZ1) and a second member (CS), and is interposed between a first panel surface facing the metallic first member (BZ1) and the first member (BZ1). The conductive buffer material (11) includes an inclusion material (15) and a conductive envelope material (14) that wraps the inclusion material (15), and the conductive buffer material (11) includes a main portion in which part of the envelope material (14) is brought closer to the first panel surface and the first member (BZ1) by the inclusion material (15) having a given thickness or more.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cooking appliance provided with: a water tank (30) disposed inside a main case (10); a steam-generation device (40) that generates steam by heating water supplied from the water tank (30); a heating chamber (20) to which steam from the steam-generation device (40) is supplied; an exhaust duct (72), provided inside the main case (10), for expelling exhaust from inside the heating chamber (20) to outside the main case (10); an exhaust temperature sensor (74) that measures the temperature of the exhaust air inside the exhaust duct (72); and a steam-generation decision unit that, upon cooking in which steam is supplied from the steam-generation unit (40) into the heating chamber (20), uses information on a physical quantity (the exhaust temperature measured by the exhaust temperature sensor (74)), which indirectly indicates whether there is water in the steam-generation device (40), to decide whether or not to halt steam generation, including the case in which the water tank (30) is out of water.

Abstract: A display panel (50a) includes a TFT substrate (20a) in which a plurality of TFTs (5a) are provided, a counter substrate (30a) provided to face the TFT substrate (20a), and a display medium layer (40) provided between the TFT substrate (20a) and the counter substrate (30a), a plurality of pixels being provided so that each of the plurality of pixels is associated with a corresponding one of the TFTs (5a), wherein an oxide semiconductor layer (13) is provided in each of the TFTs (5a) as a channel, and an ultraviolet light absorbing layer (22) having a light transmitting property is provided in each of the pixels (P) so as to overlap the oxide semiconductor layer (13).

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel provided with a laminate spacer including a plurality of primary color filters which can avoid deterioration of the display quality and improve the production efficiency. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention comprises: an array substrate provided with a first electrode; a color filter substrate provided with a second electrode; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, wherein the color filter substrate further includes: four or more differently colored transparent layers, the colors of which include red, green, blue, and at least one of yellow and white; and a laminate spacer formed by the second electrode and at least two layers among the four or more differently colored transparent layers, and the laminate spacer is surrounded by the yellow or white transparent layer when viewed in a plan view.

Abstract: A display operation device has a display-integrated operation panel with a display screen, on which a monochrome copy start key and a color copy start key are displayed. When black-toner-out or color-toner-out occurs, on the monochrome copy start key and the color copy start key, another UI component such as black-toner-out key and color-toner-out key is displayed. Such a UI component is displayed at the display position of the monochrome copy start key and the color copy start key, being superposed on these keys.