Abstract: An optical element includes an effective diameter area that is centered on an optical axis and transmits an effective light beam, and a flange portion having, on a side surface around the effective diameter area, a slope that is not perpendicular to a direction of the optical axis.

Abstract: An application execution unit executes a game program. A play item acquisition processing unit generates item acquisition information by using an item ID associated with a met play requirement of a game, and a hard disk drive stores the generated item acquisition information. The play item acquisition processing unit refers to execution information stored in an execution information storing unit and generates an item acquisition table that maps an item ID to attribute information.

Abstract: An electro-optical unit includes pixels provided correspondingly to portions where a plurality of pairs of data lines and a plurality of gate lines intersect with each other. Each of the pixels has an electro-optical device and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit has a holding circuit connected with one of the plurality of pairs of data lines and one of the plurality of gate lines, and a selection circuit connected with an output of the holding circuit and the electro-optical device. The holding circuit is capable of sampling and holding a first image signal to be applied to one of the pair of the data lines, while sampling and holding a second image signal to be applied to the other of the pair of the data lines. The selection circuit is capable of outputting the first image signal and the second image signal to the electro-optical device selectively.

Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device including (a) a layer structure obtained by sequentially growing on a base substrate a first compound semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, (b) an active layer formed of a compound semiconductor, and (c) a second compound semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type; a second electrode formed on the second compound semiconductor layer; and a first electrode electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer. The layer structure formed of at least a part of the second compound semiconductor layer in a thickness direction of the second compound semiconductor layer. The first compound semiconductor layer has a thickness greater than 0.6 ?m. A high-refractive index layer formed of a compound semiconductor material having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of a compound semiconductor material of the first compound semiconductor layer is formed in the first compound semiconductor layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a power storage control methods and apparatus including, for example, a power storage control unit configured to determine a connection state of a consumption apparatus with a power supply, determine an expected amount of power usage by the consumption apparatus in a connected state, and adjusting a target value of power storage for a power storage apparatus based on a change in connection state and the expected amount of power usage by the consumption apparatus. The present disclosure may be also be embodied a consumption apparatus.

Abstract: A mounting apparatus includes a holding unit, a sensor unit, and a controller. The holding unit is configured to hold an electronic component, move toward a substrate while holding the electronic component, and mount the electronic component on the substrate. The sensor unit is configured to detect an oscillation of the holding unit. The controller is configured to judge, based on information on the oscillation detected by the sensor unit, timings at which a position of the electronic component held by the oscillating holding unit overlaps a mounting position on the substrate, and control a movement of the holding unit toward the substrate such that the electronic component is mounted on the substrate at any of the judged timings.

Abstract: Provided is a light source device including a light guide panel which has a first inner reflecting surface and a second inner reflecting surface opposing each other, a first light source which irradiates first illuminating light from a lateral direction to the light guide panel, a second light source which is arranged opposite a side on which the second inner reflecting surface is formed on the light guiding panel, and which irradiates second illuminating light to the second inner reflecting surface, and an optical member which is arranged between the light guide panel and the second light source, and which reduces intensity of incident light, wherein a plurality of scattering areas are provided on the second inner reflecting surface which scatter and emit the first illuminating light from the first inner reflecting surface to outside of the light guide panel.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging element including a transmission channel region provided in an optical black pixel region shielded from light from an outside of a semiconductor substrate by a light shielding film, for transmitting a charge existing inside the semiconductor substrate of the optical black pixel region to an outside of the optical black pixel region.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus including a ranging area selection unit configured to select an area for measuring a distance to an object to be photographed from a plurality of candidate areas preset in an area according to an angle of view of a photographing lens, the area being selected as a ranging area, an irradiation unit configured to irradiate auxiliary light onto the object to be photographed, a distance to the object to be photographed being measured in the ranging area, and a ranging unit configured to measure the distance to the object to be photographed, to which the auxiliary light has been irradiated, in the ranging area.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus has a pixel array section including: pixel circuits which are each provided with a driving transistor and an electro-optical device and are laid out to form a matrix; and a draw wire provided in each of the pixel circuits to serve as a wire connecting the driving transistor to a power-supply providing line, wherein the resistance of the draw wire is relatively large in the pixel circuit close to a source applying a power-supply voltage to the power-supply providing line.

Abstract: A switch device includes: a switch; an operation section disposed to face the switch; a first resilient section that is deformed by first pressing force derived from the operation section; and a second resilient section that is brought into contact with the switch by the deformation of the first resilient section, and is deformed to activate the switch by second pressing force greater than the first pressing force.

Abstract: A decoder for decoding a plurality of digital video data is described. In an embodiment, the decoder comprises a DV video decoder for decoding digital video data which is formatted according to the DV standard. The DV video decoder has a Very-Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor and a variable length decoding unit. The VLIW processor includes a preparser unit for recovering a decoding order of the digital video data so that the variable length decoding unit can process the digital video data. The variable length decoding unit decodes a variable length coding format of the digital video data which has been preparsed by the VLIW processor. Furthermore, the VLIW processor includes a decompression unit for decompressing the digital video data which has been decoded by the variable length decoding unit. In an embodiment, the VLIW processor and the variable length decoding unit are formed on the same semiconductor device.

Abstract: A display device includes: data-line pairs arranged side by side along a first direction; gate lines arranged side by side along a second direction; a display section including pixels each disposed at an intersection of a data-line pair and a gate line and connected to one or both of the data-line pair; a data-line drive circuit supplying a positive-phase data signal to one of the data-line pair and a negative-phase data signal to the other, and allowing the data-line pair to stay in a high-impedance state before writing of an image signal to the pixels; and a short circuit putting the data-line pair in a short-circuit state while the data-line pair stays in the high-impedance state, and then releasing the short-circuit state Following the release of the short-circuit state, the positive-phase data signal or/and the negative-phase data signal are written into the pixel as the mage signal.

Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet including a base sheet, and a dye receiving layer formed on the base sheet and containing a mixture of copolymer A including styrene and acrylonitrile as monomers and a copolymer B including 2-phenoxyethyl methacrylate and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate as monomers.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motion recognition technique which simplifies computing processes and which can be implemented without recourse to a large amount of computing resources, as well as a technique for controlling a control target apparatus by use of the same motion recognition technique. A motion recognition apparatus is disclosed which includes a motion recognition part configured such that upon recognizing a recognition target object moving from one determination area to one other determination area before moving back to that one determination area, the motion recognition part recognizes a predetermined swing motion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels including a plurality of displaying subpixels corresponding to various colors and a viewing angle controlling subpixel for controlling a viewing angle, and a common electrode and a retention capacitor respectively provided to the plurality of pixels. At least one of the common electrode and the retention capacitor is provided so that the plurality of displaying subpixels and the viewing angle controlling subpixel are electrically independent from each other in a region where each of the plurality of pixels is provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to implementation of efficient decoding and coding of an image. A plurality of variable length decoding units 52 performs variable length decoding on a coded stream according to each different layer. The variable length decoding corresponds to variable length coding. The selecting unit 522 selects an output from the variable length decoding unit that corresponds to the layer including the block to be decoded based on the hierarchical structure information included in the stream and indicating the layer including the block to be decoded. The predictive motion vector setting unit 523 sets the motion vector of a block on a higher layer as the predictive motion vector. The block on a higher layer includes the block to be decoded and has a block size larger than that of the block to be decoded.

Abstract: An illuminator includes: a light source section including a laser light source; an optical element through which a laser beam from the laser light source passes; a driving section oscillating the optical element; and a control section controlling, in a driving operation performed by the driving section, the driving operation to allow an oscillating amplitude value of the optical element in a startup period of the optical element to be equal to or less than the oscillating amplitude value of a steady-state operation period of the optical element that is subsequent to the startup period.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for creating and performing an audio-visual montage assembled from tagged audio files matched with tagged video or graphic or photo image files in a hand held computation device and preferably performed on an external display device such as a television or computer monitor that may also have associated audio performance systems.

Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus and a control method of an in-vehicle apparatus, which is applied to a multimedia terminal having, for example, a function of navigation equipment and a function of video playback so as to improve usability to a user in a case of accepting an operation through a touch panel and a remote commander. A touch panel menu screen suitable for an operation through a touch panel and a remote commander menu screen suitable for an operation through a remote commander are switched to be displayed so as to accept an operation by a user.