Abstract: An LED bulb (100) including a light source device (105) provided on a mounting plate (102) and covered by a globe (104) in a shape of a spherical shell is configured such that the light source device (105) includes: a reflecting member (108) in a truncated cone shape; and a plurality of LED chips (15) provided on a top surface of the substrate (11), at least a side face of the reflecting member (108) has a light reflecting function, and the light source device (105) is provided on the mounting plate (102) in such a way that a bottom surface of the substrate (11) faces the mounting plate (102).

Abstract: A fluorescent substrate includes a substrate, a fluorescent layer disposed on the substrate, the fluorescent layer emitting fluorescence owing to excitation light passing through an incident surface of the fluorescent layer facing the substrate and emitting the fluorescence through an exit surface of the fluorescent layer facing the incident surface, and reflective portions, which face the incident surface and side surfaces of the fluorescent layer in contact with the incident surface. The reflective portions include a first reflective portion that reflects the excitation light and the fluorescence and a second reflective portion disposed on at least part of the incident surface, the second reflective portion allowing at least light having a peak wavelength of the excitation light to pass through and reflecting at least light having a peak wavelength of the fluorescence.

Abstract: A backlight device according to the present invention is provided with: a chassis having a bottom plate 22a and a side plate; LED substrates 25 disposed on the bottom plate 22a of the chassis in a manner so that one end surface of the LED substrates and the side plate face each other; LEDs disposed on the LED substrates 25 with the obverse side as the light exit side; a wiring pattern 35 disposed on the LED substrates 25; a first connector 31 connected to the wiring pattern 35 and disposed on the end on the side provided with the one end surface among the ends of the LED substrates 25; a second connecting member that is electrically connected to the first connector 31 with the direction of connection being a direction that is along the plate surface of the bottom plate 22a, forming in a plan view an angle with the first side edge 22a1 that faces the one end surface, and facing the first side edge 22a1 from the reverse side from the first side edge 22a1 sandwiching the first connector 31; and a power supply wi

Abstract: A light emitting device which includes at least one of a laser light source (1), wiring (9), a lens for excitation (2), a luminous body (4), a laser cut filter (6), a half parabolic mirror (5P), and a base (5h), in which a part of the wiring (9) is installed at a portion in which a breakage easily occurs due to at least one deformation of the laser light source (1), the lens for excitation (2), the luminous body (4), the laser cut filter (6), the half parabolic mirror (5P), and the base (5h), or a change in an installation position thereof.

Abstract: A super-resolution optical recording medium (10) of the present invention includes: a medium information region (1) on which medium identification information is recorded; a content region (3) on which content information is recorded; and a blank region (2) provided between the medium information region (1) and the content region (3) and in which at least two tracks are provided so as to connect a train of prepits in the medium information region (1) and a train of prepits in the content region (3). No information is recorded on the blank region (2). With this arrangement, the present invention provides a super-resolution optical recording medium in which a region on which medium identification information is recorded and a region on which content information is recorded are different in track pitch and in which a reproduction error hardly occurs when reproduction shifts from the region on which the medium identification information is recorded to the region on which the content information is recorded.

Abstract: There is provided a first base station device in a communication system in which, within a wide coverage area of a first cell, at least one second cell having a coverage area narrower than the coverage area of the first cell is present, the first base station device controlling the first cell. The first base station device supplies information concerning a transmission weight to a second base station device which controls the second cell, the transmission weight being used by a terminal device which transmits a data signal to the second base station device. With this configuration, in a system in which a plurality of cells with a small zone radius are present in a cell with a large zone radius, it is possible to determine, with a small amount of calculations, transmission and reception weights that can eliminate interference received by the cell with a large zone radius from the plurality of cells with a small zone radius.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 10 according to the present invention includes a processing device 12 configured to process an image signal D to be input into a pixel P of a liquid crystal panel 40 configured to provide a display based on light applied from LEDs 54 arranged in a peripheral area R2. The process device 12 includes a receiving section 22, a correction section 24, and a calculation section 28, for example. The calculation section is configured to calculate luminance components to be provided by the respective LEDs 54 to the pixel P based on a distance between each LED 54 and the pixel P, add a total luminance that is a sum of the luminance components to be provided by the LEDs 54 to a predetermined expected luminance to calculate an added luminance, and calculate a correction coefficient HP with respect to the pixel P based on a luminance ratio between the added luminance and the reference luminance.

Abstract: An illumination device 12 of the present invention is provided with: a housing member 22 that has a bottom plate 22a, a side wall 22b, and a pair of protrusions 22c; a light guide plate 26 having a pair of first end faces 26d, a pair of second end faces 26b that extend in a direction intersecting the first end faces 26d, and a pair of recesses 26e at the respective first end faces 26d, the light guide plate being disposed in the housing member 22 in a manner so that the rear surface 26c thereof faces the bottom plate 22a and the recesses 26e respectively engage the protrusions 22c; a light source unit 2 having light sources 24 and being disposed in the housing member 22 in a manner so that the light sources 24 face at least the second end surfaces 26b of the light guide plate 26; and a frame 27 having a frame-shaped covering plate 27a covering the outer edges W of the plate surface 26a of the light guide plate 26, and a pressing part 27c that protrudes downwards from the covering plate 27a in a manner so as t

Abstract: Provided is a lighting device that can reduce the number of light sources while assuring brightness at the center part of an illuminated member. This lighting device (10) is provided with a plurality of light sources (11) and a light guide plate (13) that has light from the light sources incident thereto and guides the light from the light sources. The plurality of light sources are disposed along at least one side surface (13b) of the light guide plate, and the density of disposition of the light sources in the center in the direction of disposition of the plurality of light sources is higher than the density of the disposition of the light sources at the end parts in the direction of the disposition of the plurality of light sources.

Abstract: An electronic book reader (1) includes: an enlargement region determining section (20) which (i) refers to line management information (30) so as to determine, by assuming that a specified position on content (31) is a reference, an enlargement region in a line including the position and (ii) further determines, in a subsequent line, an enlargement region within a region that can be displayed in an enlarged manner in the line display area; and a display processing section (21) which displays enlarged images of the respective determined enlargement regions in the line display area so that the enlarged image corresponding to the line including the position and the enlarged image corresponding to the subsequent line are arranged in this order.

Abstract: A disparity calculating device 100 obtains a base image from a first camera 1 and a reference image from a second camera 2. An image dividing unit 101 divides each of the base image and reference image into multiple regions in accordance with dividing conditions set by a condition setting unit 102. A correction amount determining 103 calculates image shift amount for each of the divided regions, and determines correction amount based on the images shift amount thereof. A disparity calculating unit 104 performs correction of the image on each region of divided base images and divided reference images obtained from the image dividing unit 101 based on correction amount determined by the correction amount determining unit 103 to obtain disparity based on the images after correction.

Abstract: A backlight device of the present invention is provided with: a chassis having a bottom plate (22a) and a side plate; LED substrates (25) disposed on the bottom plate (22a) of the chassis in a manner so that one end face and the side plate face each other; LEDs disposed on the LED substrates (25); patterned wiring (35) electrically connected to the LEDs and disposed on the LED substrates (25); a first connector part (31) electrically connected to the patterned wiring (35) and disposed on, of respective end portions of the LED substrates (25), an end portion that has the one end face; a second connector part (32) electrically connected to the first connector part (31) with a connecting direction that is along the plane of the bottom plate (22a), the connecting direction also being, in a plan view, a direction parallel to a first side edge (22a1) that faces the one end face, or a direction directed from the side edge (22a1) toward the end portion (25b) that has the one end face at an acute angle with respect to

Abstract: An electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries includes a current collector having principal surfaces facing each other and an active material layer which contains an active material, a binder, and a conductive material and which is placed on at least one of the principal surfaces of the current collector. The sum of the volume of the active material per unit area of the current collector and the volume of the conductive material per unit area of the current collector is 9.70×10?2 cm3/cm2 to 24.6×10?2 cm3/cm2, the volume of the active material being calculated from the average particle size D50 of the active material, the volume of the conductive material being calculated from the average particle size D50 of the conductive material. The pore volume of the active material layer per unit area of the current collector is 6.00×10?3 cm3/cm2 to 20.0×10?3 cm3/cm2.

Abstract: A capacitive touch sensor includes a sensor substrate and an array of electrode elements formed over the sensor substrate. Each electrode element of the array includes at least one of a first electrode group comprising at least two drive electrodes and at least one sense electrode, or a second electrode group comprising at least two sense electrodes and at least one drive electrode. The respective electrodes of the first or second electrode group are arranged to form multiple capacitances over different coupling distances. A controller is operatively coupled to the array of electrode elements, the controller configured to determine a distance of an object relative to the surface of the touch sensor based on variations in the multiple capacitances.

Abstract: A vapor deposition particle emitting device (30) includes a hollow rotor (40) provided with a first and a second nozzle sections (50 and 60), a rolling mechanism, and heat exchangers (52 and 62), and when the rolling mechanism causes the rotor (40) to rotate, the heat exchangers (52 and 62) switch between cooling and heating in accordance with placement of the nozzle section so that that one of the nozzle sections which faces outward has a temperature lower than a temperature at which vapor deposition material turns into gas and the other nozzle section has a temperature equal to or higher than the temperature at which the vapor deposition material turns into the gas.

Abstract: A TFT 1 is formed on a glass substrate 11, and a flattening resin film 17 covering the TFT 1 is formed. Furthermore, a moisture-proof protective film 18 covering the entire surface of the flattening resin film 17 is formed. For the protective film 18, a SiO2 film, a SiN film, a SiON film, or a stacked film thereof is used. The edge surfaces of the flattening resin film 17 are disposed on the inner side of or under a seal 4, and are formed in a tapered shape. By this, the entry of moisture into the flattening resin film 17 is prevented, preventing display degradation. This effect becomes noticeable in a display device including an oxide semiconductor TFT.

Abstract: The methods and compositions provided herein relate generally to IL-10 specific antibodies and uses thereof. More specifically, compositions of humanized IL-10 specific antibodies and methods to use such antibodies in modulating the biological activity of IL-10, particularly in autoimmune disorders and pathogen-mediated immunopathology.

Abstract: An MFP is provided with a scanner unit for optically reading a document image; a printer unit for printing image data; a CPU for controlling operation of the MFP according to an operating condition related to reading processing by the scanner unit and/or print processing by the printer unit; a CPU utilization monitoring portion for monitoring utilization of the CPU at the time of performing the reading processing and/or the print processing; and an operating condition restriction portion for restricting, when CPU utilization that is monitored by the CPU utilization monitoring portion is a predetermined value or more, the operating condition related to the reading processing and/or the print processing according to the CPU utilization.

Abstract: A display operation device includes: a display-integrated operation panel; a first UI component display device displaying a read start key; a read activating device responsive to a user operation of the read start key, for starting a document reading process; a second UI component display device, responsive to activation of the document reading process, for displaying a read stop key in place of the read start key; and a reading process stopping device, responsive to a user operation of the read stop key, for stopping execution of the reading process. When reading ends, an additional read key is displayed in place of the read stop key. The background color of read stop key is selected to be much different from the background color of read start key, and the background color of additional read key is selected to be analogous to the background color of read start key.

Abstract: In its several embodiments, this invention discloses a pharmaceutical formulation comprising at least one antineoplastic agent or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and at least one dissolution enhancing agent sufficient to substantially dissolve said at least one antineoplastic agent in at least one aqueous diluent, wherein said dissolution enhancing agent is urea, L-histidine, L-threonine, L-asparagine, L-serine, L-glutamine or mixtures thereof; a lyophilized powder comprising said pharmaceutical formulation, and articles of manufacture thereof.