Abstract: A performance of a display device having an input device is improved. A display device includes: an electro-optical layer; a first driving electrode and a second driving electrode which drives the electro-optical layer; a driver chip which outputs a video signal; a switch circuit which is arranged outside the driver chip, which selects a potential to be supplied to the second driving electrode, and which includes a first switch element and a second switch element; a shift register circuit connected to the switch circuit; and a detection circuit which detects that an object is close or in contact. Each of the first switch element and the second switch element is selectively turned ON or OFF by the shift register circuit. The detection circuit is electrically connected to the first switch element and the second switch element.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for provisioning an edge device where for a smart device located in proximity to the edge device, including obtaining, by the smart device, a photo of a physical identifier of the edge device; determining a location from the smart device; transmitting information indicating the physical identifier and the location to a data server; receiving a set of configuration information; and providing the set of configuration information to the edge device, wherein the edge device is configured based on the set of configuration information independent of communication with the data server.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed to changing models and analytics algorithms on an edge node from a core server, which can be useful in situations such as optimized factories when the edge node is physically close to data sources such as within a factory plant. The core server or cloud runs analytics algorithms and models concurrently with data received from edge nodes, and replaces the edge node with more accurate analytics algorithms and models as applicable.

Abstract: The display device includes a detection circuit, a touch detection region including a plurality of detection electrodes, a peripheral region around the touch detection region, a plurality of wirings passing the peripheral region from the detection electrodes so as to be connected to the detection circuit, and at least one auxiliary wiring extending parallel to the wirings so as to be connected to the detection circuit.

Abstract: A performance of a display device having an input device is improved. A display device includes: an electro-optical layer; a first driving electrode and a second driving electrode which drives the electro-optical layer; a driver chip which outputs a video signal; a switch circuit which is arranged outside the driver chip, which selects a potential to be supplied to the second driving electrode, and which includes a first switch element and a second switch element; a shift register circuit connected to the switch circuit; and a detection circuit which detects that an object is close or in contact. Each of the first switch element and the second switch element is selectively turned ON or OFF by the shift register circuit. The detection circuit is electrically connected to the first switch element and the second switch element.

Abstract: There are provided a heat exchanger having a flat tube and a fin bonded together, without causing melting of a coating material covering the fin, and a method of manufacturing thereof. A heat exchanger includes: a flat tube having a flat cross-sectional shape and covered with an anticorrosive layer; and a fin bonded to the flat tube with a bonding agent on a first surface of the anticorrosive layer interposed therebetween, and covered with a coating material, the first surface of the anticorrosive layer having been roughened, and the bonding agent being fixed to the roughened first surface.

Abstract: Provided is a surveying instrument including a measuring unit including a tilt sensor configured to acquire tilt angle data of the instrument, and an environment sensor to acquire environment data correlating with a leveling time and leveling accuracy, a leveling unit including a leveling drive unit and configured to level the instrument, an arithmetic control unit configured to control the measuring unit and the leveling unit, and a storage unit configured to store the environment data, leveling result data of the leveling unit, and information on leveling operation conditions. The storage unit has surveying instrument-specific information.

Abstract: Provided is a surveying instrument with a gesture interface. A surveying instrument includes a survey unit capable of surveying a target, an imaging unit capable of acquiring an image, an arithmetic control unit configured to control the survey unit and the imaging unit, and a storage unit, wherein the storage unit has input identification information in which an operator's predetermined action as a input gesture is associated with operations to the surveying instrument, and the arithmetic control unit includes an image recognition unit configured to recognize an input gesture from the image, and an image identification unit configured to identify an operation to the surveying instrument corresponding to the input gesture recognized by the image recognition unit as content meant by the input gesture.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes first electrodes and a detection electrode. The first electrodes constitute sensor drive electrodes by being supplied with sensor drive signals separately and sequentially or sensor drive electrodes by simultaneously supplying the sensor drive signals to the first electrodes adjacent to each other. A width of the sensor drive electrode including the first electrode on the edge is smaller than a width of the other sensor drive electrode not including the first electrode on the edge.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is capable of allowing an operation by a finger of which a fingerprint has not been registered, and of improving operability while holding security. A collating unit collates fingerprint information about a finger that touched a touch panel read by a reader unit with registered fingerprint information. A control unit permits an operation to the touch panel by the finger when the fingerprint information read is coincident with the registered fingerprint information, and does not permit the operation when the fingerprint information read is not coincident with the registered fingerprint information. The control unit permits an operation to the touch panel by a finger of which fingerprint information is not coincident with the registered fingerprint information when at least one piece of fingerprint information among a plurality of pieces of fingerprint information that the reader unit reads simultaneously is coincident with the registered fingerprint information.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a chromatographic medium having sufficiently improved storage stability. The present invention relates to a chromatographic medium having a detection part in which a detection substance composed of a protein is fixed, wherein the detection part includes a tri- or higher polysaccharide and a basic amino acid.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a plurality of scan lines and signal lines on one of a pair of substrates arranged to be opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, the scan lines and signal lines extending in different directions; and an orientation film, pixel electrode, insulating layer and common electrode, the orientation film being rubbed in a rubbing direction having a given inclination with respect to a pixel arrangement direction. The pixel electrode is partitioned by the scan lines and signal lines and has subpixels made up of first and second regions. The first region has a plurality of slit-shaped openings having a given inclination in a first direction with respect to the rubbing direction. The second region has a plurality of slit-shaped openings having a given inclination in a second direction with respect to the rubbing direction.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanging portion including first and second flat tubes stacked in parallel with each other and spaced from each other to allow fluid to pass between the first and second flat tubes, and a second heat exchanging portion including third and fourth flat tubes stacked in parallel with each other, spaced from each other to allow fluid to pass between the third and fourth flat tubes, and oriented crosswise to a direction in which the first and second flat tubes are oriented. The second heat exchanging portion is arranged downstream of the first heat exchanging portion with respect to flow of the fluid.

Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger, including: a first heat exchange unit, which includes a first flat tube; a second heat exchange unit, which is arranged so as to be opposed to the first heat exchange unit, and includes a second flat tube; and a tank, which connects the first heat exchange unit and the second heat exchange unit to each other. The tank has an upper wall and a lower wall defining an upper end and lower end of a tank space formed in the tank, respectively. One end of the first flat tube and one end of the second flat tube are connected to the tank space. When a height from the lower wall to the upper wall is defined as X, and a height from the lower wall to the one end of the first flat tube is defined as Y1, a relation between X and Y1 satisfies Y1<(½)X.

Abstract: A fixture which fixes a solar cell module to a rail member for supporting the solar cell module is provided with: a side section that abuts a side surface of the solar cell module intersecting a light-receiving surface of the solar cell module; an upper section that extends from the upper end of the side section so as to face the light-receiving surface of the solar cell module; a lower section that extends from the lower end of the side section so as to face the lower surface, of the solar cell module, on the opposite side to the light-receiving surface of the solar cell module; and a fixing section that is fixed to a side section of the rail member. The fixing section extends downward from a position on the lower section that is away from a connecting part between the side section and the lower section.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes first electrodes and a detection electrode. The first electrodes constitute sensor drive electrodes by being supplied with sensor drive signals separately and sequentially or sensor drive electrodes by simultaneously supplying the sensor drive signals to the first electrodes adjacent to each other. A width of the sensor drive electrode including the first electrode on the edge is smaller than a width of the other sensor drive electrode not including the first electrode on the edge.

Abstract: A spindle motor according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a hub; a yoke; a rotor magnet; and a stator. The hub is formed in a cup shape having a hub cylindrical part extending in an axial direction and a disk part extending radially inward from an end of the hub cylindrical part. The yoke being arranged on radially inward of the hub is formed in an annular shape having a yoke cylindrical part facing the hub cylindrical part and a yoke flange part facing the disk part and extending radially inward from the one end of the hub cylindrical part. The disk part includes an adhesive part with the yoke flange part being fixed via an adhesive and a peripheral groove being formed on radially outward of the adhesive part. The adhesive is not present on radially outward of the peripheral groove, and the hub cylindrical part and the yoke cylindrical part do not contact each other.

Abstract: A spot search device includes a device communication unit, a search unit, a generator unit, and a spot search unit. The device communication unit communicates with a server device on a network. The search unit searches over information on the network with the use of the device communication unit. The generator unit generates a genre regarding information on a spot included in a search history of the search unit. The spot search unit searches, over the information on the network, for information on one or more spots around a route of a vehicle, according to the genre generated by the generator unit, with the use of the search unit. The device communication unit transmits the information on the one or more spots around the route, together with information on the route, to an onboard navigation device installed on the vehicle.

Abstract: A projection display device and a light source control method thereof capable of improving visibility of specific information without increasing a manufacturing cost and a power consumption amount are provided. An HUD includes a plurality of light sources that emit light beams with different colors, a projection unit that projects light according to image information among the light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources onto a combiner, and a light source control unit that sequentially emits lights from the plurality of respective light sources according to a predetermined light emission amount pattern. The light source control unit performs control for causing at least one of the light sources other than a specific light source among the plurality of light sources to emit light with a smaller light emission amount than a light emission amount of the specific light.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a panel unit and a driving unit driving the panel unit. The driving unit includes as operation modes a first mode in which a detection operation of a first external object is performed in units of a divided region obtained by dividing an entire surface of a touch region of the panel unit and a second mode in which a detection operation of a second external object is performed on the entire surface of the touch region of the panel unit. The first mode is a mode detecting, in units of the divided region of the panel unit, a contact position of the first external object with each divided region, and the second mode is a mode detecting, on the entire surface of the panel unit, whether or not the second external object approaches the entire surface.