Abstract: A signal processing device (500) that processes sharpening of an image with respect to an input signal (SR) that represents the image and outputs an output signal (SO) that represents the sharpened image includes an oversampler (200) that generates an oversampled signal (S200) by interpolating a signal in order to increase a sampling frequency with respect to in input signal (SR), and a sharpening processing unit (100) to which the oversampled signal (200) is inputted and which generates a sharpened signal (S100) which is nonlinearly monotonically increased over a wide range high band frequency components in the oversampled signal (S200), and the sharpened signal (S100) is outputted as the output signal (SO).

Abstract: An image display device is disclosed, using a field-sequential system capable of more effectively suppressing occurrence of color breakup. The image display device includes a color component ratio extracting unit that extracts a color component ratio for reproducing a target display color included in a target image as a light emission color component ratio candidate, and a light emission color component ratio selecting unit that selects a light emission color component ratio (a color component ratio when LEDs of a plurality of colors included in an LED unit emit light) in each sub-frame period from among light emission color component ratio candidates extracted by the color component ratio extracting unit. To enable mixed-color display in all sub-frame periods, each LED is controlled to be able to take any light emission state of either a lighting-on state or a lighting-off state in each sub-frame period.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (10) includes: an array substrate (1); a counter substrate (2); a liquid crystal layer (3); and spacer members (4). A plurality of pixels provided on the array substrate (1) include first pixels on which no spacer members (4) are provided and second pixels on which the respective spacer members (4) are provided. First pixel electrodes (20) provided in the respective first pixels each have: a first main part (21a); a second main part (21b); and a plurality of branch parts (22a through 22d) extending, in fixed directions. Second pixel electrodes (30) provided in the respective second pixels each have: a first main part (31a); a second main part (31b); a plurality of branch parts (32a through 32d) extending, in fixed directions; and a region on which a corresponding one of the spacer members (4) is provided and which is a solid electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a functional panel, a photo curable adhesive, a transparent electrode, and a light blocking line. The liquid crystal panel includes a display area to display an image and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The functional panel is attached to the liquid crystal panel, and includes a display overlapping area overlapping with the display area and a display non-overlapping area overlapping with the non-display area in a plan view. The photo curable adhesive is arranged between the panels and cured by light applied thereto. The transparent electrode is arranged in the display overlapping area and made of light transmissive conductive material. The light blocking line is arranged in the display non-overlapping area and made of light shielding metal material. The light blocking line partially has a light-transmission cutout that is configured to allow the light to pass therethrough.

Abstract: A backlight unit (20) includes: light sources (4A, 4B); light guide members (2A, 2B), the light source (4A) being provided to a side surface of the light guide member (2A), the light source (4B) being provided to a side surface of the light guide member (2B), the light sources (4A, 4B) being provided across the light guide members (2A, 2b) in plane view; and an optical path changing member (1) for changing an optical path of light passing through the optical path changing member, the optical path changing member (1) having a light incidence surface (SUF1) for receiving light emitted directly from the light guide member (2A or 2B), and a light exit surface (SUF2) for emitting, directly to a display panel outside of the backlight unit (20), the light thus received via the light incidence surface (SUF1).

Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) for allocating power for uplink transmission to an evolved Node B (eNB) is described. The UE includes a processor and memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. Executable instructions are stored in the memory. The UE obtains a power headroom. The UE also obtains a threshold. Also, the UE reduces power consumption if the power headroom is less than the threshold. The power headroom is based on the difference between a maximum uplink transmit power and an estimated uplink transmit power.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing liquid crystal display devices according to the present invention includes: forming a protective film on a first base substrate; forming a circuit element part on the first base substrate and/or the protective film; bonding a second base substrate to the first base substrate to form bonded substrates including both substrates, the circuit element part being therebetween; forming a first incision on a outer surface of the first base substrate on which the protective film is formed, at a location overlapping with the protective film; wet-etching the formed first incision to make the incision deeper; forming a second incision on an outer surface of the second base substrate at a location overlapping the first incision, and dividing the bonded substrates along the first incision and the second incision, thereby forming a plurality of individual bonded substrates.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus which performs communication with a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes: a receiving unit which receives a plurality of channel state information reference signals; a channel state information generating unit which generates a plurality of channel state information by referring to each of the plurality of channel state information reference signals; and a report transmitting unit which reports each of the plurality of channel state information to the base station apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to benzothiazol-one and thiazolo pyridine-one 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: Novel compounds of the structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are agonists of G-protein coupled receptor 40 (GPR40) and may be useful in the treatment, prevention and suppression of diseases mediated by the G-protein-coupled receptor 40. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, and of conditions that are often associated with this disease, including obesity and lipid disorders, such as mixed or diabetic dyslipidemia, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertriglyceridemia.

Abstract: A mortar-shaped or funnel-shaped light emitting device (50) includes: a substrate (20); at least one LED chip (25) die-bonded to the substrate (20); and a wavelength converting portion (40) covering said at least one LED chip (25); at least four planes uprising from the substrate (20); and a lens having a top surface (10a) facing the substrate (20), the four planes being positioned in four directions, respectively, in such a manner as to surround said at least one LED chip (25), and the top surface (10a) having a concave portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of reducing the probability of image sticking. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates. At least one of the substrates includes an alignment film and a polymer layer on the alignment film. The polymer layer includes monomer units derived from at least two species of polymerizable monomers. The at least two species of polymerizable monomers include at least two species of monomers selected from the group consisting of: specific polyfunctional monomers and specific monofunctional monomers.

Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a light emitting diode (LED) using three-dimensional gallium nitride (GaN) pillar structures with planar surfaces. The method forms a plurality of GaN pillar structures, each with an n-doped GaN (n-GaN) pillar and planar sidewalls perpendicular to the c-plane, formed in either an m-plane or a-plane family. A multiple quantum well (MQW) layer is formed overlying the n-GaN pillar sidewalls, and a layer of p-doped GaN (p-GaN) is formed overlying the MQW layer. The plurality of GaN pillar structures are deposited on a first substrate, with the n-doped GaN pillar sidewalls aligned parallel to a top surface of the first substrate. A first end of each GaN pillar structure is connected to a first metal layer. The second end of each GaN pillar structure is etched to expose the n-GaN pillar second end and connected to a second metal layer.

Abstract: An electrostatic charger device according to this invention includes a cleaner member, an operating rod, a guide portion, and a bending member. The cleaner member is configured to clean an electrode housed in a housing by pressing against the electrode. The operating rod has one end in a longitudinal direction to which the cleaner member is fixed. The guide portion is disposed at one end of the housing in a primary scanning direction and has a through-hole through which the operating rod extends in the longitudinal direction, the guide portion supporting the operating rod to enable the cleaner member to reciprocate between a first position and a second position. The bending member is configured to bend the operating rod in such a manner that an intermediate portion of the operating rod projects away from an image bearing member when the cleaner member is in the first position.

Abstract: A shutter device includes a main body and a seal member. The main body is an annular body fitted around an outside of one end of a cylindrical tube which includes a discharge outlet in a part of the circumferential face near the end in the axial direction, and includes a first opening having a same shape as the discharge outlet and a second opening having a first opening end and a second opening end. The seal member has a length equal to a distance from a vicinity of the first opening end on an outer circumferential face of the main body, passing across the first opening, the second opening end and the first opening on an inner circumferential face of the main body in the stated order, to a vicinity of the second opening end.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical element, comprising: a side surface where incident light undergoes diffuse reflection inside the optical element, between the outline of a top optical surface and a bottom optical surface; and an inclined surface for total reflection of diffuse reflection from the side surface, formed at least between the side surface and the bottom optical surface.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device, including the steps of: forming an AlNO buffer layer containing at least aluminum, nitrogen, and oxygen on a substrate; and forming a nitride semiconductor layer on the AlNO buffer layer, wherein, in the step of forming the AlNO buffer layer, the AlNO buffer layer is formed by a reactive sputtering method using aluminum as a target in an atmosphere to and from which nitrogen gas and oxygen gas are continuously introduced and exhausted, and the atmosphere is an atmosphere in which a ratio of a flow rate of the oxygen gas to a sum of a flow rate of the nitrogen gas and the flow rate of the oxygen gas is not more than 0.5%.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device in which one pixel is divided into the plurality of subpixels, a narrow picture-frame is realized by decreasing a wiring region without reducing a display quality. One of two sub-pixel portions includes a second transistor (TB) having a gate connected to a first scanning signal line (GL) and having a source connected to a data signal line (SL), a pixel electrode (EB) connected to a drain of the second transistor (TB), a liquid crystal capacitance (ClcB) formed by a common electrode (41) and the pixel electrode (EB), a third transistor (TC) having a gate connected to a second scanning signal line (G2L) and having a source connected to a line SEL, a capacitance electrode (EC) connected to a drain of the third transistor (TC), and a capacitance (Cl) formed by the pixel electrode (EB) and the capacitance electrode (EC). A high potential and a low potential are alternately provided to the line SEL for each one frame.

Abstract: A display device has a pixel circuit (100) including: a drive element (110) provided on a path connecting a first wiring line (Vp) to a second wiring line (Vcom), having a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal, and controlling a current flowing through the path; an electro-optic element (130) provided in series with the drive element (110) on the path, being connected to the first terminal of the drive element (110), and emitting light at a luminance according to the current flowing through the path; a first switching element (111) provided between the first terminal of the drive element (110) and a data line (Sj); a second switching element (112) provided between the control terminal and the second terminal of the drive element (110); a third switching element (113) provided between the second terminal of the drive element (110) and the first wiring line (Vp); and a capacitor (121) provided between the control terminal of the drive element (110) and a third wiring line (Ui).

Abstract: A steam generating device (1) is provided with a metal housing (2), a water supply opening (3) for supplying water into the housing (2), a steam generating heater (4) embedded in the lower part of the housing (2) and evaporating the water supplied from the water supply opening (3), a steam temperature raising heater (5) provided above the steam generating heater (4) with a predetermined distance from an inner wall of the housing (2) and raising the temperature of the steam generated by the steam generating heater (4), and a discharge opening (8) for discharging the superheated steam generated by the steam temperature raising heater (5).