Abstract: A luminescent material includes transition metal complex comprising a ligand in which an electron density of a p orbital of a highest occupied molecular orbital level is higher than 0.239 and lower than 0.711 when the electron density is calculated according to quantum chemical calculation (Gaussian09/DFT/RB3LYP/6-31G), the p orbital being in the outermost shell of an element coordinated to the metal.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, an image output unit and a control unit. The control unit includes a display image generator for generating a display image, a display panel and a control unit-side controller having a function of presenting the display image based on the image data input in a preview representation and an output processing function of implementing an output process. As the output processing function, two schemes are provided: a first output scheme wherein, when image data has been input through the input unit, the images are output after displaying the images to be output in a preview representation on a display panel, and a second output scheme wherein, when image data has been input through the input unit, the image is directly output without displaying the image to be output in a preview representation on the display panel.

Abstract: An information recording device in accordance with the present invention obtains drive information of a semiconductor laser which is included in a magnetic head by means of a drive information obtaining section and successively records the information in a drive information storing section. A magnetic head control section controls the magnetic head in accordance with a condition of the semiconductor laser on the basis of the drive information thus obtained by the drive information obtaining section.

Abstract: An edge light-type lighting device with which uneven brightness on a display surface hardly occurs or is less likely to occur even though a positioning structure for positioning a light guide plate is included is provided. A backlight unit 24 according to the present invention includes a light guide plate 20, an LED unit 32, a reflection sheet 26, a backlight chassis 22, and a positioning pin 40. The light guide plate 20 has a light entrance surface 20a on the side, a light exit surface 20b on the front, an opposite surface 20c on the back, and a cutout 38 at edges. The LED unit 32 is arranged opposite the light entrance surface 20a of the light guide plate 20. The reflection sheet 26 is arranged on the opposite surface 20c side. The backlight chassis 22 includes a bottom plate 22a and side plates 22b, 22c. The positioning pin 40 is provided on the backlight chassis 22 and for positioning the light guide plate 20 when fitted in the cutout 38. The positioning pin 40 is fitted in the cutout 38.

Abstract: To prevent a function assigned to a selection item from being performed by an erroneous operation at the time when both housings are expanded or housed.

Abstract: In an external authentication system for a multifunction printer according to the present invention, a USB device management section, according to an instruction from a USB device management section instructing section, (i) performs a virtualization process for virtually connecting an information processing device to a user information reading device which is locally connected to a multifunction printer, (ii) manages a status of the connection between the information processing device and the user information reading device; and a multifunction printer association management section associates the multifunction printer controlled by the information processing device with the user information reading device which is locally connected to the multifunction printer.

Abstract: A temporal based system for reducing the color artifacts of a field sequential color based liquid crystal display.

Abstract: Disclosed is an MVA type liquid crystal display device (LCD 100A) forming four domains in which liquid crystal molecules fall in different directions that are about 90° apart. The MVA type liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, which pixels are horizontally long pixels having longer sides extending in the row direction. Each pixel includes two first electrodes (21a and 21b) arranged side by side along the row direction. Preferably, at least one of the two first electrodes (21a and 21b) has a first corner section including a first edge that is parallel to the row direction and a second edge that is parallel to the column direction, and the first substrate further includes an electrode layer (16c) overlapping at least a portion of the first edge or the second edge of the first corner section.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel includes the steps of simultaneously forming a gate electrode of a TFT and a lower layer of a marking pad, simultaneously forming a gate insulating film of the TFT and a protective insulating film covering the lower layer, performing various film deposition processes and patterning processes while the lower layer is covered with the protective insulating film, exposing a main surface of the lower layer except for its periphery by removing at least a part of the protective insulating film, simultaneously forming a pixel electrode and an upper layer of the marking pad covering the main surface of the lower layer in a portion not covered with the protective insulating film, and providing marking by providing a through hole by irradiating the marking pad with laser beams.

Abstract: The present invention relates to Bicyclic Piperidine and piperazine Derivatives, compositions comprising a Bicyclic Piperidine and piperazine Derivative, and methods of using the Bicyclic Piperidine and piperazine Derivatives for treating or preventing obesity, diabetes, a metabolic disorder, a cardiovascular disease or a disorder related to the activity of a GPCR in a patient.

Abstract: A mold of the present invention includes: a base 12 made of glass or plastic; an inorganic underlayer 14 provided on a surface of the base 12; a buffer layer 16 provided on the inorganic underlayer 14, the buffer layer 16 containing aluminum; an aluminum layer 18a provided on a surface of the buffer layer 16; and a porous alumina layer 20 provided on a surface of the aluminum layer 18a. The porous alumina layer 20 has a plurality of recessed portions 22 whose two-dimensional size viewed in a direction normal to the surface is not less than 10 nm and less than 500 nm. The mold of the present invention has excellent adhesion between the aluminum layer and the base.

Abstract: In an input display apparatus comprising: a display section; a voice accepting section; and a position specification accepting section for accepting position specification on a display screen of the display section, a display attribute for display of a character corresponding to text data of a voice accepted by the voice accepting section is determined based on position specification accepted by the position specification accepting section, and the character is displayed based on the display attribute.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate is provided with first inspection wirings (70, 75) capable of inputting inspection signals to first switching wirings that are not adjacent to each other among the first switching wirings (69, 74) and to second switching wirings that are not adjacent to each other among the second switching wirings (69, 74), and second inspection wirings (72, 77) capable of inputting inspection signals to first switching wirings that are not adjacent to each other and not connected to the first inspection wirings among the first switching wirings (69, 74) and to second switching wirings that are not adjacent to each other and not connected to the first inspection wirings among the second switching wirings (69, 74).

Abstract: A photoelectrode has a conductive substrate and a semiconductor layer formed on the conductive substrate, the semiconductor layer being formed of semiconductor particles, the semiconductor layer having a plurality of layers, the plurality of layers being different in an average particle diameter of semiconductor particles from one another, a distal layer of the plurality of layers, placed at a location farther from the substrate, covering at least a part of side faces of a proximal layer of the plurality of layers, placed at a location closer to the substrate.

Abstract: The circuit board (1) of the present invention includes a plurality of transistor elements provided on a single insulating substrate (2) for respective pixels that are two-dimensionally arranged or respective pixels in a group of a predetermined number of the pixels. At least one of the plurality of transistor elements is an oxide TFT (10) having a channel layer (11) formed by an oxide semiconductor, and at least another of the plurality of transistor elements is an a-Si TFT (20) having a channel layer (21) formed by, for example, an amorphous silicon semiconductor. Each of the oxide TFT (10) and the a-Si TFT (20) is a bottom-gate transistor.

Abstract: A system utilizing a lossless coding technique for CABAC in HEVC is described. The system includes a first and second electronic device. The first electronic device encodes according to a lossless coding technique for CABAC in HEVC. The second electronic device decodes according to a lossless coding technique for CABAC in HEVC.

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compounds as inhibitors of cyclin dependent kinases, methods of preparing such compounds, compositions containing one or more such compounds, methods of preparing pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with the CDKs using such compounds or compositions.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal display device with a good display quality, and a manufacturing method of such a liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display device (10) includes a liquid crystal display panel (11) with a display surface (20) defining a recessed curved surface having curvature of 1/500- 1/50 (1/mm), and with a scattering section which is arranged parallel to the display surface (20), which defines a recessed curved surface having curvature of 1/500- 1/50 (1/mm), and in which a plurality of elongated regions (A-C) having different haze values are arranged in parallel with each other from a middle section of the curved surface toward both end sections in the curving direction. The haze values of the plurality of elongated regions (A-C) arranged in parallel with each other vary in a step-wise manner from the middle section of the curved surface toward the both end sections in the curving direction.

Abstract: A toner includes a binder resin and a colorant. The binder resin contains a polyester resin A obtained by subjecting aromatic dicarboxylic acid, rosin, and trivalent or higher-valent alcohol as starting materials to polycondensation, a content of the rosin in a sum of the starting materials being 60% by weight or more, and a polyester resin B obtained by subjecting aromatic dicarboxylic acid and polyhydric alcohol as starting materials to polycondensation, the polyester resin B having a viscosity of 103 Pa·s or more and 105 Pa·s or less at a softening temperature of the polyester resin A, the polyester resin B being contained in an amount of 50 parts by weight or more and 200 parts by weight or less relative to 100 parts by weight of the polyester resin A.

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of heterocyclic compounds as modulators of gamma secretase, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such compounds, methods of preparing pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with the central nervous system using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.