Abstract: A distribution system distributes a viewing video to a user terminal of each of plural users who are viewers, the distribution system having a computer receiving a user operation inputted from each user terminal, the computer selecting one or more pieces of distribution data from a distribution data group including plural pieces of distribution data in response to the user operation, and the computer distributing the distribution data selected by the computer to the user terminal from which the user operation has been inputted.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display system that enables video representation of higher quality. A display includes a plurality of light sources and a light absorption layer that forms a display surface and absorbs external light applied to the display surface. An opening through which light from the light sources is emitted toward a side of the display surface is formed in the light absorption layer. The technology according to the present disclosure may be applied to, for example, a tiling display.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having instructions stored therein causes at least one processor of a game apparatus to: communicate with a distribution system configured to distribute videos to a plurality of terminal apparatuses; progress a computer game; generate, based on a progress of the computer game, video information that is used to play a video of the computer game indicating a state of a virtual space of the computer game; supply the video information to the distribution system; acquire spectator apparatus information from the distribution system, the spectator apparatus information relating to at least one spectator apparatus that is a part of the plurality of terminal apparatus, and receives a video based on the video information from the distribution system; and control display of an advertisement in the virtual space, based on the spectator apparatus information.

Abstract: A viewing angle control liquid crystal panel includes: a first polarizer having a first absorption axis; a first liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a first liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate; a second liquid crystal panel including a third substrate, a second liquid crystal layer, and a fourth substrate; and a third liquid crystal panel including a fifth substrate, a third liquid crystal layer, and a sixth substrate. The following equations are satisfied, where ?P1 is an azimuth angle of the first absorption axis and ?1, ?2, ?3, ?4, ?5, and ?6 are azimuth angles of directors of liquid crystal molecules on first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth substrate sides: 0°?|?1??2|?5° 0°?|?P1??1|?5° 0°?|?3??4|?5° 0°?|?5??6|?5°.

Abstract: A viewing angle control liquid crystal panel includes: a first polarizer having a first absorption axis; a first liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a first liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate; a second liquid crystal panel including a third substrate, a second liquid crystal layer, and a fourth substrate; and a third liquid crystal panel including a fifth substrate, a third liquid crystal layer, and a sixth substrate. The following equations are satisfied, where ?P1 is an azimuth angle of the first absorption axis and ?1, ?2, ?3, ?4, ?5, and ?6 are azimuth angles of directors of liquid crystal molecules on first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth substrate sides: 0°?|?1??2|?5° 0°?|?P1??1|?5° 0°?|?3??4|?5° 0°?|?5??6|?5°.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sprocket that mitigates the impact of tension fluctuations resulting from load torque changes, suppresses noise and vibration, ensures stable chain behavior, prevents sprocket durability loss and the generation of harmonics during rotation, along with a chain drive system. Tooth roots between adjacent teeth of the sprocket include those with a radial deviation from a root circle of a standard tooth profile, set within a predetermined numerical range corresponding to a tooth pitch. A phase variation pattern is created by changing a root radius in accordance with an angular position. The phase variation pattern has a waveform with an amplitude varied within a range of (1/7)Amax, where Amax represents a maximum amplitude. The chain drive system includes a plurality of sprockets and a chain passed over the sprockets, at least one of them being the above-described sprocket.

Abstract: A viewing angle-controlling liquid crystal panel sequentially includes a first polarizing plate; a first liquid crystal panel; a second polarizing plate; a second liquid crystal panel; and a third polarizing plate, wherein an azimuthal angle ?P1 of the absorption axis of the first polarizing plate, an azimuthal angle ?1 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate and an azimuthal angle ?2 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the second substrate in the first liquid crystal panel, an azimuthal angle ?P2 of the absorption axis of the second polarizing plate, an azimuthal angle ?3 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the third substrate and an azimuthal angle ?4 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the fourth substrate in the second liquid crystal panel, and an azimuthal angle ?P3 of the absorption axis of the third polarizing plate satisfy specific formulas.

Abstract: A viewing angle-controlling liquid crystal panel sequentially includes a first polarizing plate; a first liquid crystal panel; a second polarizing plate; a second liquid crystal panel; and a third polarizing plate, wherein an azimuthal angle ?P1 of the absorption axis of the first polarizing plate, an azimuthal angle ?1 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate and an azimuthal angle ?2 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the second substrate in the first liquid crystal panel, an azimuthal angle ?P2 of the absorption axis of the second polarizing plate, an azimuthal angle ?3 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the third substrate and an azimuthal angle ?4 of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the fourth substrate in the second liquid crystal panel, and an azimuthal angle ?P3 of the absorption axis of the third polarizing plate satisfy specific formulas.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a performance monitoring program for causing a computer to execute processing including: in collection of a plurality of pieces of performance information of a processor when a program that operates in the processor is executed, associating and accumulating an operation characteristic of the program for each of the plurality of pieces of performance information; and selecting, in a case where the number of performance monitoring counters (PMCs) included in the processor is smaller than a total number of the plurality of pieces of performance information, performance information that has the operation characteristic of the program most separated from a current value of the operation characteristic of the program from the plurality of pieces of performance information, and allocating the performance information to the PMC.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel including in the following order an active matrix substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a counter substrate. The active matrix substrate includes in the following order a first electrode and a second electrode including a first linear electrode portion extending in a first direction. The counter substrate includes a third electrode including second linear electrode portions extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a fourth electrode including an island-shaped electrode portion as a floating electrode. The island-shaped electrode portion is disposed between the second linear electrode portions in a plan view, overlaps an optical aperture of one of two pixels adjacent to each other along the second direction, and does not overlap an optical aperture of the other of the two pixels.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sprocket that mitigates the impact of tension fluctuations resulting from load torque changes, suppresses noise and vibration, ensures stable chain behavior, prevents sprocket durability loss and the generation of harmonics during rotation, along with a chain drive system. Tooth roots between adjacent teeth of the sprocket include those with a radial deviation from a root circle of a standard tooth profile, set within a predetermined numerical range corresponding to a tooth pitch. A phase variation pattern is created by changing a root radius in accordance with an angular position. The phase variation pattern has a waveform with an amplitude varied within a range of ( 1/7)Amax, where Amax represents a maximum amplitude. The chain drive system includes a plurality of sprockets and a chain passed over the sprockets, at least one of them being the above-described sprocket.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first polarizing plate, a first substrate including a thin-film transistor, a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules, a second substate, a second polarizing plate, and a backlight. The first polarizing plate, the first substate, the liquid crystal layer, the second substrate, the second polarizing plate, and the backlight are arranged in this order. The first substrate has a display area and a frame area placed on an outer edge of the display region. The liquid crystal display device has an ink layer between the frame area of the first substrate and the first polarizing plate. The liquid crystal display device has an internal reflectance ratio y of 0.2 to 0.3. The internal reflectance ratio y is expressed by Formula (1-1).

Abstract: A recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute processing including: acquiring a first process execution time and energy consumption of a first processor core in the execution time when a process executed by the first processor core is switched from a first process to a second process; specifying one or more processes of a first process group to which the first process belongs, from among process groups each of which is a group of processes and calculating an index that indicates the energy consumption per unit time involved in execution of the first process group based on the execution time and the energy consumption acquired for the specified one or more processes; and controlling an operation of a processor core to which the process is allocated according to comparison between the index calculated for the first process group with a threshold.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first polarizing plate, a first substrate including a thin-film transistor, a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules, a second substrate, a second polarizing plate, and a backlight. The first polarizing plate, the first substrate, the liquid crystal layer, the second substrate, the second polarizing plate, and the backlight are arranged in this order. The first substrate has a display area and a frame area placed on an outer edge of the display region. The liquid crystal display device has an ink layer between the frame area of the first substrate and the first polarizing plate. The liquid crystal display device has an internal reflectance ratio y of 0.2 to 0.3. The internal reflectance ratio y is expressed by Formula (1-1).

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device that can increase light use efficiency and reduce external light reflection, and a method of producing the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device sequentially includes, from a back surface side toward a viewing surface side: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the liquid crystal display device including sub-pixels each including an optical opening allowing light to pass through, the first substrate sequentially including, from the back surface side toward the viewing surface side: a supporting substrate; a metal layer surrounding the optical openings; and a resist layer being superimposed with the metal layer and being in contact with the metal layer, an end of the resist layer being superimposed with an end of the metal layer and having a taper angle ? of 40° or more.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a power control program for causing a computer to execute processing including: monitoring an integrated value of energy consumption consumed by a memory for every predetermined period counted by an interrupt counter; and performing control to increase an operating frequency and a voltage of a memory system at timing of receiving an interrupt that occurs in a case where the interrupt counter overflows on a basis of an upper limit threshold of power consumption per predetermined period set in advance in the interrupt counter.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device that can increase light use efficiency and reduce external light reflection, and a method of producing the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device sequentially includes, from a back surface side toward a viewing surface side: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the liquid crystal display device including sub-pixels each including an optical opening allowing light to pass through, the first substrate sequentially including, from the back surface side toward the viewing surface side: a supporting substrate; a metal layer surrounding the optical openings; and a resist layer being superimposed with the metal layer and being in contact with the metal layer, an end of the resist layer being superimposed with an end of the metal layer and having a taper angle ? of 40° or more.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes: a display region for displaying an image; and a frame region surrounding the display region, the liquid crystal display device sequentially including from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side: a first polarizing plate; a first substrate provided with a switching element connected to a gate line and a source line; a liquid crystal layer; a second substrate; and a second polarizing plate, in the frame region, the first substrate sequentially including from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side a support substrate, a reflectance-reducing layer, and a metal line layer that overlaps the reflectance-reducing layer and includes at least one of a gate line layer provided with the gate line or a source line layer provided with the source line, the reflectance-reducing layer having a lower viewing surface side reflectance than the metal line layer.

Abstract: A recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute processing including: acquiring a first process execution time and energy consumption of a first processor core in the execution time when a process executed by the first processor core is switched from a first process to a second process; specifying one or more processes of a first process group to which the first process belongs, from among process groups each of which is a group of processes and calculating an index that indicates the energy consumption per unit time involved in execution of the first process group based on the execution time and the energy consumption acquired for the specified one or more processes; and controlling an operation of a processor core to which the process is allocated according to comparison between the index calculated for the first process group with a threshold.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes, in order from an observation surface side to a hack surface side, a thin film transistor substrate including a color filter layer, a pair of electrodes, and a metal wiring line, a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules that are horizontally aligned to the thin film transistor substrate and in which alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is changed due to an electric field generated by applying a voltage to the pair of electrodes, a counter substrate, and a backlight, in which the counter substrate includes a reflective layer disposed outside the pixel area and reflecting incident light from the backlight to the back surface side, the pair of electrodes are a first electrode having a planar shape and a second electrode provided with a and the color filter layer is disposed on the observation surface side of the second electrode.