Abstract: A light emitting device according to the present invention comprises: a light emitting element including a semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a dielectric layer sandwiched between the semiconductor layer and the first electrode, and a light emitter; and a power supply circuit for applying a voltage between the semiconductor layer and the first electrode, wherein the light emitter is formed in at least one region of regions in the semiconductor layer, in the dielectric layer, between the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer, and between the first electrode and the dielectric layer, the light emitting element emits light in one of first and second cases, but does not substantially emit light in the other case, the first case using a current applied to the dielectric layer under a condition that the semiconductor layer serves as a positive electrode and the first electrode serves as a negative electrode, the second case using a current applied to the dielectric layer under a condition that the semic
Abstract: It is expected to provide a time information accepting apparatus and the like, which can accept time information by an intuitive and simple operation without a slide bar. A time information accepting apparatus, accepting time information by detecting a movement operation of a coordinate point in a predetermined coordinate system, has a determining means for determining a unit quantity of time corresponding to a moving amount of a coordinate point in the predetermined coordinate system by calculating a moving amount and/or moving speed of a coordinate point due to a first operation, a calculating means for calculating a moving amount of a coordinate point due to a second operation, and a time information determining means for determining time information based on the moving amount calculated by the calculating means and the unit quantity determined by the determining means.
Abstract: An educational system that includes a content item selector configured to select at least one content item from a database so that the reaction of the user required by the at least one content item matches according to a predetermined criteria a prediction of how the user will react to the type of user reaction required by the at least one content item; and a content item output which presents the selected at least one content item to the user.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 31, 2012
Publication date:
October 3, 2013
Applicant:
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventors:
Catherine Mary DOLBEAR, Philip Glenny EDMONDS
Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting section, a lens, and a movement control section, the movement control section changing an illumination position and a spot size of a laser beam in the light-emitting section by changing a relative position of the lens with respect to the light-emitting section.
Abstract: A mutual capacitance touch panel device includes a substrate, and an array of electrode elements formed on the substrate. Each electrode element includes a drive electrode, a sense electrode and a reference electrode, the reference electrode arranged between the drive electrode and the sense electrode. A first mutual coupling capacitance is formed between the drive electrode and the reference electrode of each electrode element, wherein the drive electrode and reference electrode are configured such that the first mutual coupling capacitance is substantially insensitive to an object touching the surface of the touch panel.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 30, 2012
Publication date:
October 3, 2013
Applicant:
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventors:
Christopher James BROWN, Michael Paul COULSON
Abstract: An electron emitting element of the present invention includes an electron acceleration layer between an electrode substrate and a thin-film electrode. The electron acceleration layer includes a binder component in which insulating fine particles and conductive fine particles are dispersed. Therefore, the electron emitting element of the present invention is capable of preventing degradation of the electron acceleration layer and can efficiently and steadily emit electrons not only in vacuum but also under the atmospheric pressure. Further, the electron emitting element of the present invention can be formed so as to have an improved mechanical strength.
Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device in which with the general color rendering index Ra and the special color rendering index R9 maintained at high numeric values, the light emission efficiency is prevented from being reduced as much as possible, and the high color rendering and the high efficiency are achieved so as to be usable for general lighting usage. The device includes at least one light emitting element 6 emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength in a near-ultraviolet to blue region, and a phosphor layer 5 containing a green phosphor excited by a primary light emitted from the light emitting element 6 and emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength in a green region, a first red phosphor excited by the primary light and emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength in a red region, and a second red phosphor exited by the primary light and emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength different from that of the first red phosphor in the red region.
Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which a decrease in primary color luminance, a decrease in chroma and an increase in power consumption are suppressed. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a color filter substrate where color filters of at least four colors are arranged for respective pixels, wherein a color temperature of white light emitted from a display surface is less than 12000 K.
Abstract: The present invention provides a thin film transistor array substrate that can eliminate short-circuiting between a source electrode and a drain electrode, while ensuring electrical connection between the drain electrode and a pixel electrode. The thin film transistor array substrate has a thin film transistor, a first interlayer insulating film, a lower layer electrode, a second interlayer insulating film, and an upper layer electrode laminated therein in this order.
Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) for selecting a Channel State Information (CSI) report is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Executable instructions are stored in the memory. The UE generates multiple CSI reports corresponding to at least one serving cell. A group of one or more CSI reports with a same association forms a CSI report set. The UE applies a first prioritization rule to select a single CSI report for each CSI report set and drops at least one first prioritization unselected CSI report if there is an intra-set transmission scheduling collision. The UE also applies a second prioritization rule to select at least one CSI report if there is an inter-set transmission scheduling collision.
Abstract: A mutual capacitance touch panel device includes a substrate and an array of electrode elements formed on the substrate, each electrode element including a drive electrode and a pair of dual-function electrodes. In addition, the pair of dual-function electrodes of each electrode element are arranged substantially symmetrically around the drive electrode of the respective electrode element such that a first dual-function electrode of the pair is adjacent to the drive electrode and the second dual function electrode of the pair is separated from the drive electrode by the first dual-function electrode.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 30, 2012
Publication date:
October 3, 2013
Applicant:
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventors:
Christopher James BROWN, Michael Paul COULSON
Abstract: Color reproduction is improved by reducing color noise without changing color signal processing of a device in such a manner to match a new color filter arrangement. The film thickness of a green (G) color layer in a Bayer color arrangement is made thin to be the green (G) color layer having a steeply inclined spectral characteristic with a high range of transmissivity extended towards the short wavelength, and a yellow (Y1) color layer with a thin film thickness is newly stacked on the thinned green (G1) color layer. Thereby the y-axis value of the spectral characteristic of green (G) of the green (G) color layer becomes greater than or equal to 0.45 and less than or equal to 0.60 on a CIE chromaticity diagram.
Abstract: A external connecting terminal (35) includes a first interconnect layer (36A) formed of a same film as a first conductive pattern for touch position detection under an interlayer insulating film (23), and a second interconnect layer (36B) formed of a same film as a second conductive pattern for touch position detection on the interlayer insulating film (23). the first and the second interconnect layers are electrically connected to a lead line (31) at a portion overlapping the lead line (31), and electrically connected together at a portion outside the lead line (31).
Abstract: A mobile station device set to communicate with a base station device over a plurality of subframes using a plurality of cells is provided. When ACK/NACK for reception of data transmitted from the base station device is to be transmitted to the base station device using a PUCCH and the PUCCH is set to select one resource from a plurality of PUCCH candidate resources to transmit with prescribed transmit power using the selected resource, the mobile station device determines a parameter value related to prescribed transmit power in accordance with the number of cells used for data communication in the plurality of subframes.
Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes picture element regions each defined by a first electrode provided on a first substrate and a second electrode provided on a second substrate so as to oppose the first electrode via a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. In each of the picture element regions, the first electrode includes a solid portion and a nonsolid portion. The liquid crystal display device further includes a pair of polarizing plates disposed with polarization axes thereof crossing each other substantially perpendicularly. The polarization axis of one of the pair of polarizing plates is substantially parallel to a direction in which the solid portion extends. When a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, in each of the picture element regions, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are in a radially-inclined orientation state.
Abstract: A color image forming apparatus including a test pattern formation portion that forms test patterns of a plurality of colors in an image formation area in which images of the plurality of colors are formed on an image carrier and in an image non-formation area outside the image formation area on the image carrier, a detection portion that detects a shift of each of the test patterns of the plurality of colors formed in the image formation area and a shift of each of the test patterns of the plurality of colors formed in the image non-formation area, a computing portion that obtains, for each color, an offset value indicating an offset between the shift of the test pattern in the image non-formation area and the shift of the test pattern in the image formation area, and a storage portion that stores the offset value for each color.
Abstract: An active-matrix device is provided which includes a plurality of array element circuits arranged in rows and columns; a plurality of source addressing lines each shared between the array element circuits in corresponding same columns; a plurality of gate addressing lines each shared between the array element circuits in corresponding same rows; a plurality of sensor row select lines each shared between the array element circuits in corresponding same rows, wherein each of the plurality of array element circuits includes: an array element which is controlled by application of a drive voltage by a drive element; writing circuitry for writing the drive voltage to the drive element, the writing circuitry being coupled to a corresponding source addressing line and gate addressing line among the plurality of source addressing lines and gate addressing lines; and sense circuitry for sensing an impedance presented at the drive element, the sense circuitry being coupled to a corresponding sensor row select line; and
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 5, 2011
Date of Patent:
October 1, 2013
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventors:
Benjamin J. Hadwen, Jason R. Hector, Adrian Marc Simon Jacobs, Patrick Zebedee
Abstract: In a diffractive element, its grating pattern is so configured that a diffraction angle of a diffracted light beam of a light source that is subject to the first-order diffraction in a diffraction area is matched with an angle of a light beam passing through the diffractive area emitted from a light source and a light source position is matched with a light originating point of the light source that emits a light beam to be transmitted, and the center of light intensity distribution is matched with that of the light source passing through the diffractive element by inclining an optical axis of the light source. A position of the diffractive element is adjusted based on an electric current value generated when a reflected return path light beam of the light source is diffracted by the diffractive element and enters the light source.