Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit generates a radio signal including a first segment including transmission data and a second segment not including the transmission data, and transmits the radio signal via a plurality of propagation paths.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute: allowing a player to acquire a privilege within an upper-limit number of times per prescribed period, for each of a plurality of missions that the player can accomplish; giving, when the player accomplishes one of the plurality of missions and a number of times that the player has acquired the privilege within the prescribed period through the accomplished mission is less than the upper-limit number of times, the privilege to the player; and generating a list by extracting a plurality of first missions, among the plurality of missions, with which the number of times that the player has acquired the privilege within the prescribed period is less than the upper-limit number of times.

Abstract: A communication apparatus repeatedly transmits a first signal a first number of times. The communication apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit generates a transmission signal including a second signal that is obtained by concatenating the first signal repeated a second number of times, and has a cyclic prefix at a head or a tail, and transmits the transmission signal to a communication partner.

Abstract: A display apparatus (100) includes a shelf tag attachment member (102) being fixed to a front end surface of a product shelf S, and a shelf tag (101) having a display surface (103). The shelf tag (101) is attached to the shelf tag attachment member (102) via a rotation axis A, and is rotatable in a predetermined direction in which the display surface (103) is turned upward. A lower end of the shelf tag (101) is located below a lower surface LS of the product shelf S and a lower end of the shelf tag attachment member (102) in a vertical direction.

Abstract: Provided is a film forming apparatus capable of stably supplying a large amount of ceramic raw material powder for a long time and forming a homogeneous and dense film. A film forming apparatus 1 for forming a film on a base material K includes an aerosol transport path 10 for ejecting an aerosol obtained by dispersing a ceramic raw material powder in a gas, from an ejection end 10a toward the base material K, in which a flow path cross-section at an ejection end 10a of the aerosol transport path 10 has a substantially circular shape with an area of 10 mm2 or more.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute: storing, in a storage unit, a character for which an acquisition condition is satisfied as a possessed character among a plurality of characters including a first character and a second character, each of the plurality of characters including the acquisition condition for acquiring the character, a special ability available in a prescribed game, and a release condition for releasing the special ability; releasing the special ability of the first character when the release condition of the first character is satisfied; releasing the special ability of the second character when the release condition of the second character is satisfied, the acquisition condition of the second character being different from the acquisition condition of the first character, and the release condition of the second character being different from the release condition of the first character; and setting, when the special ability of at least one

Abstract: A layered structure having high adhesive properties, and high hardness or excellent transparency, is prepared on a base material such as a resin. A layered structure including: an organic-inorganic hybrid member containing a primary inorganic particle and an organic polymer covalently bound to each other, wherein the primary inorganic particle forms a network containing the polymer; and a particle aggregate layer containing a secondary particle which is deposited on the organic-inorganic hybrid member and is composed of an inorganic material or a metallic material; wherein in the organic-inorganic hybrid member, the primary inorganic particle and the secondary particle have different crystal particle sizes.

Abstract: A heat-radiating substrate with a high insulation-withstand voltage and an excellent heat-radiating property is provided. The heat-radiating substrate includes: a metal base material; a metal thin layer formed over the metal base material and having a hardness higher than a hardness of the metal base material; and a ceramic layer over the metal thin layer. Alternatively, the heat-radiating substrate includes, instead of the metal thin layer, a hardened layer serving as a surface layer of the metal base material and having a hardness higher than the hardness of the metal base material. The metal thin layer and the hardened layer are able to enhance compressive stress or prevent release of the compressive stress generated in the ceramic layer by a mechanical impact applied to the ceramic layer.

Abstract: A layered structure having high adhesive properties, and high hardness or excellent transparency, is prepared on a base material such as a resin. A layered structure including: an organic-inorganic hybrid member containing a primary inorganic particle and an organic polymer covalently bound to each other, wherein the primary inorganic particle forms a network containing the polymer; and a particle aggregate layer containing a secondary particle which is deposited on the organic-inorganic hybrid member and is composed of an inorganic material or a metallic material; wherein in the organic-inorganic hybrid member, the primary inorganic particle and the secondary particle have different crystal particle sizes.

Abstract: A heat-radiating substrate with a high insulation-withstand voltage and an excellent heat-radiating property is provided. The heat-radiating substrate includes: a metal base material; a metal thin layer formed over the metal base material and having a hardness higher than a hardness of the metal base material; and a ceramic layer over the metal thin layer. Alternatively, the heat-radiating substrate includes, instead of the metal thin layer, a hardened layer serving as a surface layer of the metal base material and having a hardness higher than the hardness of the metal base material. The metal thin layer and the hardened layer are able to enhance compressive stress or prevent release of the compressive stress generated in the ceramic layer by a mechanical impact applied to the ceramic layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including gate lines having a first line width, source lines having a second line width, a common electrode, a sensor electrode formed on the common electrode and having a third line width immediately above the gate lines and a fourth line width less than the second line width immediately above the source lines, and pixel electrodes, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a sealing material. The array substrate includes signal lines, scanning lines, pixel electrodes, and elongated protrusions. The counter substrate includes counter protuberances and a planarization film. Each of the elongated protrusions of the array substrate extends in such a way as to cover a corresponding one of the signal lines and in a rib-like manner along the corresponding signal line. Each of the counter protuberances of the counter substrate is formed integrally with the planarization film and is formed to extend along a direction intersecting a corresponding one of the elongated protrusions. An outer edge of the planarization film is located nearer to a central portion of the liquid crystal display device than an inner edge of the sealing material.

Abstract: An infrared-transmitting film which is excellent in mechanical strength and environmental resistance. The infrared-transmitting film comprises a buffer layer formed on a surface of an infrared optical substrate and having a Vickers hardness greater than that of the substrate and an environmental resistance improving layer provided in contact with the buffer layer and having a Vickers hardness greater than that of the buffer layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a sealing material. The array substrate includes signal lines, scanning lines, pixel electrodes, and elongated protrusions. The counter substrate includes counter protuberances and a planarization film. Each of the elongated protrusions of the array substrate extends in such a way as to cover a corresponding one of the signal lines and in a rib-like manner along the corresponding signal line. Each of the counter protuberances of the counter substrate is formed integrally with the planarization film and is formed to extend along a direction intersecting a corresponding one of the elongated protrusions. An outer edge of the planarization film is located nearer to a central portion of the liquid crystal display device than an inner edge of the sealing material.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a driving module configured to apply a DC bias to a voltage corresponding to a gradation which is displayed on a pixel and to supply a resultant voltage to a pixel electrode, the driving module being configured to apply a higher DC bias in a white display state in which a potential difference is produced between a pixel electrode and a common electrode than in a black display state in which no potential difference is produced between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.

Abstract: A first substrate includes a first switching element arranged in a first color pixel and a second switching element arranged in a second color pixel of which color is different from the color of the first color pixel in an active area. A driving unit superimposes DC bias voltages on voltages corresponding to gradations to be displayed in the first color pixel and the second color pixel, and to supply the superimposed voltages to the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, respectively. A first halftone gradation voltage obtained by superimposing a first DC bias voltage on a voltage corresponding to a halftone gradation is supplied to the first pixel electrode. A second halftone gradation voltage obtained by superimposing a second DC bias voltage different from the first DC bias voltage on a voltage corresponding to the halftone gradation is supplied to the second pixel electrode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including gate lines having a first line width, source lines having a second line width, a common electrode, a sensor electrode formed on the common electrode and having a third line width immediately above the gate lines and a fourth line width less than the second line width immediately above the source lines, and pixel electrodes, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A pattern printing apparatus comprising an ink output section including a nozzle that drops ink and a heating section that heats a preheating target region; a driving section that moves the substrate relative to the ink output section; and a control section that controls the driving section. The control section causes the substrate to move relative to the ink output section such that the preheating target region is positioned in a progression path of the drawing target region and causes a pattern formed by the ink to be drawn, and when switching an extension direction of the pattern being drawn, the control section causes the preheating target region to move to an end portion of the pattern drawn before the switching and causing the preheating target region to be heated.

Abstract: An infrared-transmitting film which is excellent in mechanical strength and environmental resistance. The infrared-transmitting film comprises a buffer layer formed on a surface of an infrared optical substrate and having a Vickers hardness greater than that of the substrate and an environmental resistance improving layer provided in contact with the buffer layer and having a Vickers hardness greater than that of the buffer layer.

Abstract: A first substrate includes a first switching element arranged in a first color pixel and a second switching element arranged in a second color pixel of which color is different from the color of the first color pixel in an active area. A driving unit superimposes DC bias voltages on voltages corresponding to gradations to be displayed in the first color pixel and the second color pixel, and to supply the superimposed voltages to the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, respectively. A first halftone gradation voltage obtained by superimposing a first DC bias voltage on a voltage corresponding to a halftone gradation is supplied to the first pixel electrode. A second halftone gradation voltage obtained by superimposing a second DC bias voltage different from the first DC bias voltage on a voltage corresponding to the halftone gradation is supplied to the second pixel electrode.