Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a drive circuit inputting a drive voltage to the plurality of pixels, and a display control device controlling and driving the drive circuit and to which display data is input from an external apparatus, in which a temperature detecting sensor is included. The display control device has a display bit reduction circuit. In a high-temperature operation mode when a temperature equal to or more than a predetermined temperature is detected at the temperature detecting sensor, the display bit reduction circuit ignores bits other than the highest-order bit of the display data input from the external apparatus and sends only the data of the highest-order bit of the display data input from the external apparatus to the drive circuit.

Abstract: The present invention promotes the use of contents distribution by multicast, and enables users to stop viewing without needing special processing in a terminal, and to restart viewing in the same terminal as that at stop time or a different terminal, thus increasing users' usability and use opportunities. In a distribution system including a service server, a multicast distribution server, and a unicast distribution server, the service server, in a first access from a PC, selects the multicast distribution server as a distribution server, and selects the unicast distribution server as a distribution server after stopping.

Abstract: A system, which is connectable to a first apparatus capable of data communication using a data communication protocol via a network where each session is managed by a session management protocol, includes: a connecting section which, if ID about the first apparatus exists in a storing section when a start instruction is received from the first apparatus, registers ID about a session corresponding to the start instruction in association with the ID about the first apparatus, and establishes a path enabling data communication for the first apparatus in the network using the session management protocol; and a providing section which, upon receiving the ID about the session from a second apparatus, transmits confirmation information according to the result of confirmation about whether the ID about the first apparatus is in association with the ID about the session.

Abstract: A content presentation device which the distributor of a video content can present to a viewer the information which the distributor intends, by adding to and changing the information to present at the time of distribution so that the information may match the content of the video content to distribute, wherein a content matching information presentation server is provided to acquire metadata included in a video content broadcasted by a content provider, to search a keyword based on the metadata, and to compose and distribute the screen with the embedded link information linking to information which is closely related to the hit keyword and which is specified by the distributor of the video content.

Abstract: In a display device which mounts drive circuits and a display control circuit on a substrate which constitutes a display panel, signal lines can be arranged on the substrate which constitutes the display panel without making the signal lines intersect each other. A plurality of drive circuits and a display control circuit are mounted on a peripheral portion of one long side of a first substrate. A printed circuit board is connected to one long side of the first substrate. Each drive circuit mounts, on a surface thereof facing the first substrate, a group of power source voltage input terminals to which a power source voltage is supplied, a group of gray-scale reference voltage input terminals to which a gray-scale reference voltage is supplied, and a group of gray-scale reference voltage output terminals which sends gray-scale reference voltages.

Abstract: There is disclosed an electronic advertisement system including: an advertisement displaying device; a local area network that transmits a summary of a content to a terminal; a wide area network that has at least one local area network and gains access to a detail of the content corresponding to receiving the summary by the terminal; and a center device that stores the details of the content, monitors the access to the stored detail of the content, and changes the schedule of an advertisement displayed on the advertisement displaying device located near the local area network based on the monitored result.

Abstract: A contents management system provides a user who already downloaded valid contents with a mechanism capable of downloading the same contents in a duplication manner. A system for delivering contents checks whether contents which are about to be purchased by the user are the same as contents which are in a validity term and which are already downloaded by the user. If so, the system prepares a new contents ID, DL information and meta information for duplicated buying, and makes duplicated buying of the same contents possible.

Abstract: When one frame period of two consecutive frame periods is a frame A and a next frame period subsequent to the frame A is a frame B, a tone requested from an external system is displayed in each sub-pixel by displaying two tones during the two frame periods including the frame A and the frame B, display data of an image A displayed during a period of the frame A and display data of an image B displayed during a period of the frame B are display data generated based on the display data and a video line driving circuit supplies, as tone voltages corresponding to the display data, a first set of tone voltages to video lines during the period of the frame A and a second set of tone voltages to the video lines during the period of the frame B subsequent to the frame A.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device for displaying video data having a detection circuit for detecting a luminance distribution based on video data which is inputted, the luminance distribution being indicative of generation frequency of gradations in each of divided region which includes a plurality of gradations. The display device includes a determination circuit for determining at least one of a plurality of divided regions of higher generation frequency of gradation than that of other divided regions based on the luminance distribution, a correction circuit for correcting the video data so as to make a luminance characteristic of the at least one of the plurality of divided regions of higher generation frequency of gradation more abrupt than a luminance characteristic of the other divided regions, and a liquid crystal display panel for displaying the corrected video data. A width of the divided region is changeable.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber has a configuration in which at least three hollow tetrahedrons, each having one open face, are connected to one another so that each surface opposite to a respective open face of the hollow tetrahedrons defines a respective side face of a hollow pyramid. Preferably, the electromagnetic wave absorber is made of sheet electromagnetic wave absorption members, which have a corrugated board structure in which at least one sheet includes an electrically conductive material. The electromagnetic wave absorber is low-cost, has reduced transport volume, excellent electromagnetic wave absorption characteristics from low frequency to high frequency with a shorter absorber length, has no or small difference in characteristics due to polarization plane, is lightweight and high in structural strength, and easy to manufacture and install.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber includes a first electromagnetic wave absorbent member containing a magnetic loss material, and a second electromagnetic wave absorbent member containing a conducting material arranged in front of the first electromagnetic wave absorbent member. The second electromagnetic wave absorbent member has a shape including an aperture at a tip of a hollow cone.

Abstract: A system includes: a user-operated terminal operated by a user holding a mobile communication terminal; and an information notification apparatus capable of communicating with the mobile communication terminal, wherein the user-operated terminal includes: spot identification information acquisition means for acquiring spot identification information; and spot registration requesting means for requesting registration of a spot by transmitting the spot identification information and user identification information identifying the user operating the user-operated terminal to the information notification apparatus, and the information notification apparatus includes: spot registration means for registering location information about the spot corresponding to the spot identification information for the user corresponding to the user identification information transmitted from the user-operated terminal; terminal location detection means for detecting the current location of the mobile communication terminal; and n

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device in which input data is written to a RAM as current frame data and read from the RAM as preceding frame data. Then, the current frame data and the preceding frame data are added up in a correction circuit and the result is subjected to an overdriving processing. After this, the processed (over-driven) data is assumed as current frame corrected data, which is then written to the RAM. The written corrected data is read from the RAM and subjected to a double-speed driving processing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (1), wherein R1, R2, R3, n, and X are as defined in the specification, and a process for producing the same. This compound is useful as an intermediate for the synthesis of compounds useful as pharmaceuticals or agricultural chemicals.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device for displaying video data having a detection circuit for detecting a luminance distribution based on video data which is inputted, the luminance distribution being indicative of generation frequency of gradations in each of divided region which includes a plurality of gradations. The display device includes a determination circuit for determining at least one of a plurality of divided regions of higher generation frequency of gradation than that of other divided regions based on the luminance distribution, a correction circuit for correcting the video data so as to make a luminance characteristic of the at least one of the plurality of divided regions of higher generation frequency of gradation more abrupt than a luminance characteristic of the other divided regions, and a liquid crystal display panel for displaying the corrected video data. A width of the divided region is changeable.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device of high brightness which can eliminate brightness irregularities on a display surface while preventing the degradation of display quality attributed to an undesired electric field generated at the time of performing inverter driving of the cold cathode fluorescent lamps of a backlight. In a liquid crystal display device, a plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps of a backlight unit is arranged along a short axis of the display device. The cold cathode fluorescent lamp has a high-voltage electrode thereof connected to an inverter circuit and a ground electrode thereof connected to a ground. Further, the plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps arranged along the short axis have electrodes thereof arranged alternately between the high-voltage electrode and the ground electrode.

Abstract: To shorten the distance from a point light source to an effective light emitting area and reduce the size of a back light.

Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a connection control method performs a connection control of communication terminals through a network. A call is received from a calling one of communication terminals. The reception of the call is notified to a setting unit which sets the connection control data. The connection control of the communication terminals is performed in response to an instruction from the setting unit. A control is performed to provide a content data for the calling communication terminal before completion of the connection control.

Abstract: A connection control method is achieved by receiving from a first terminal, a call request for a communication with a second terminal to notify the call request from a connection control server to an application server; and executing at least a program to receive the call request from the connection control server, to request a connection state data of the second terminal to a storage server in response to the received call request. A connection control instruction for the first and second terminals is issued to the connection control server when there is no connection state data of the second terminal in the storage server or the second terminal in a free state. A connection control between the first and second terminals is performed by the connection control server in response to the connection control instruction; and the connection state data of each of the first and second terminals is stored in the storage server when the connection state between the first and second terminals is changed.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that have excellent insecticidal activity and are usable as agricultural and horticultural insecticides. Compounds represented by formula (I) or agriculturally and horticulturally acceptable acid addition salts thereof have excellent insecticidal activity and are usable as agricultural and horticultural insecticides.