Abstract: A pixel circuit that makes an electro-optical element emit light includes a transistor inserted into a driving current path of the electro-optical element; a current value setting circuit that sets a current value of the driving current path; a level holding unit that stores the level of a supplied image signal; and a comparator circuit that compares the level of the stored image signal with the level of a supplied ramp level signal to control the operation of the transistor on the basis of the comparison result.

Abstract: An ink cartridge filled with an ink added with an infrared absorption material with a function of absorbing an infrared ray to distinguish the ink from another ink of a same color, the ink cartridge used in a loaded state where the ink cartridge is loaded into a printing apparatus for performing printing, the ink cartridge includes an ink supplying system including a storage portion for storing the ink, an outlet for supplying the ink to the printing apparatus in the loaded state, and a flow path for guiding the ink from the storage portion to the outlet, a light emitter, a sensor including a light receiver disposed in opposition to the light emitter with the ink supplying system intervened therebetween, the light receiver for receiving transmitted light resulting from transmission of emitted light from the light emitter through the ink supplying system, and an ink cartridge-side terminal electrically connected to the sensor, coming in contact with an apparatus-side terminal provided to the printing apparatus

Abstract: A method that enables an image forming device of efficient memory sharing between processes and a kernel in a simple multiple-process-configuration. The image forming device has a real address space including a DMA buffer area and a shared memory area, a virtual address spaces, and job page assurance (JPA) programs. The virtual address spaces of the executing processes are mapped onto the real address space. The DMA buffer area can be accessed by the kernel. The shared memory area stores a job list and a job management list. The processes in the virtual address spaces include identical JPA libraries. Each of the JPA libraries requests the kernel to allocate of one page non-compressed data memory size for the job in the DMA buffer area, and upon completion of the job output, requests the kernel to release the allocated area and alters the contents in the job management list accordingly.

Abstract: To provide a process for efficiently producing a fluorine type antifouling composition employing a short chain Rf group, which can be made in the form of an aqueous dispersion containing substantially no volatile organic solvent and has a good soil release property (SR property). A process for producing an antifouling composition, which comprises a step of subjecting monomer components (Z) comprising from 30 to 80 mass % of a monomer (a) having a polyfluoroalkyl group in which the number of carbon atoms to which fluorine atoms are bonded is from 4 to 6, and from 20 to 70 mass % of a monomer (b) having no polyfluoroalkyl group and having a hydrophilic group, to solution polymerization in a volatile organic solvent having a boiling point of at most 100° C.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a state holding circuit that inputs an output of one inverter to another inverter with each other; an input circuit that causes a state of the state holding circuit to transition based on a data signal; a first first-conductive transistor that is inserted between an input of the one inverter and an output of the another inverter and is controlled by the data signal; and a first second-conductive transistor that is connected in parallel with the first first-conductive transistor and is controlled by the data signal.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including: a plurality of pixels, each having a red light emitting element to emit red light, a green light emitting element to emit green light, and a blue light emitting element to emit blue light; and a drive device adjusting a luminance ratio among the red light, the green light, and the blue light by adjusting light emitting time of each of the red light emitting element, the green light emitting element, and the blue light emitting element.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes: a first inverter constituted by a first transistor configured to charge a charge point based on an input signal, and a second transistor configured to discharge a discharge point based on the input signal; a P-type third transistor and an N-type fourth transistor with drain-source paths provided in parallel between the charge point and the discharge point; and a second inverter configured to invert a potential of the charge point or the discharge point and supply the inverted potential to gates of the third and fourth transistors, and obtain a delay signal of the input signal from the charge point or the discharge point. The semiconductor integrated circuit device secures a sufficient delay time with a small area.

Abstract: An image display device includes a motion detector that detects a magnitude of motion between frames from image data containing an image to be displayed, a frame number adjuster that adjusts the number of frames per unit time based on a detection result from the motion detector, a sub-frame number adjuster that adjusts the number of sub-frames included in one frame based on the detection result, and a controller that controls the frame number adjuster and the sub-frame number adjuster such that: when the detected magnitude is large, the number of frames is made larger and the number of sub-frames is made smaller in comparison with the case where the detected magnitude is small; and when the detected magnitude is small, the number of frames is made smaller and the number of sub-frames is made larger in comparison with the case where the detected magnitude is large.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes a substrate that is conductive at least on a first surface; a first insulating film located on the first surface of the substrate and including a portion of a first opening, a portion of a second opening, and a portion of a third opening; a semiconductor film located on the first insulating film and receiving a current from the first surface of the substrate via the portion of a first opening; a second insulating film located on the semiconductor film and in contact with the substrate via the portion of a second opening; a capacitance electrode located on the second insulating film; a gate electrode located on the second insulating film and overlapping the semiconductor film; an intermediate insulating film located on the gate electrode and capacitance electrode; a pixel electrode located on the intermediate insulating film and receiving a current via the semiconductor film; a light-emitting layer located on the pixel electrode; a common electrode located on the l

Abstract: An ink cartridge that is filled with ink and, used with the ink cartridge loaded into a printer includes a reservoir that reserves the ink, an outlet through which the ink is supplied to the printer with the ink cartridge loaded, at least one ink supply system that includes a channel that leads the ink from the reservoir to the outlet, and a sensor that detects whether the channel is filled with the ink or gas, an ink cartridge terminal that is electrically coupled to the sensor and makes contact with a printer terminal disposed on the printer upon loading of the ink cartridge. A detection region of the channel where detection is carried out by the sensor is previously filled with gas with the ink cartridge yet to be used. Whether or not the use of the ink cartridge is proper is determined based on information from the sensor.

Abstract: To provide an antifouling composition which is an fluorine-type antifouling composition using a short chain perfluoroalkyl group and which can be made in the form of an aqueous dispersion containing substantially no volatile organic solvent and has excellent soil release properties. An antifouling composition comprising a fluorocopolymer which comprises from 30 to 70 mass % of polymerized units (a?) having a C1-6 perfluoroalkyl group, from 20 to 69 mass % of polymerized units (b?) having an alkylene oxide chain and from 1 to 10 mass % of polymerized units (c?) having an amino group, and which has anionic groups at its main chain terminals.

Abstract: To provide an antifouling composition which is a fluorine-type antifouling composition using a short chain perfluoroalkyl group and which is excellent in antifouling properties and water/oil repellency and presents good durability against washing. An antifouling composition comprising a fluorocopolymer which comprises from 30 to 65 mass % of polymerized units (a) having a C1-6 perfluoroalkyl group, from 1 to 67 mass % of polymerized units (b1) having —(C2H4O)— and from 3 to 34 mass % of polymerized units (b2) having —(C4H8O)—, wherein the content of —(C2H4O)— is from 20 to 65 mass %, and the content of —(C4H8O)— is from 2 to 13 mass %.

Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence (EL) device including at least an emission layer between an anode and a cathode that are opposed to each other, including an anode buffer layer that is composed of an electrically conductive material and is provided between the anode and the emission layer, a cathode buffer layer that is composed of an electrically conductive material and is provided between the cathode and the emission layer, and a drive unit that applies a forward bias voltage and a reverse bias voltage that have opposite polarities to the anode and the cathode with setting application time periods of the forward bias voltage and the reverse bias voltage according to a luminance ratio of an image to be displayed.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes: an emissive layer between an anode and a cathode facing each other; an anode buffer layer formed of a conductive material, installed between the anode and the emissive layer; a cathode buffer layer formed of the conductive material, installed between the cathode and the emissive layer; and a driving device which alternately applies a forward-biased voltage and a reverse-biased voltage which have different voltage values and polarities, to the anode and the cathode.

Abstract: This disclosure concerns a semiconductor integrated circuit that includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of well regions formed on one surface of the semiconductor substrate and electrically isolated from each other, a plurality of MOS transistors formed in the well regions and a substrate bias generator that applies substrate biases to the individual well regions based on actually measured process-derived variance of the MOS transistors in threshold voltage to bring the threshold voltages of the respective MOS transistors into conformity with a normal threshold voltage.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor device including a power supply circuit which receives an external power supply voltage supplied, and outputs an internal power supply voltage not higher than the external power supply voltage; a system module which receives the internal power supply voltage, and performs a predetermined operation; and a performance monitor circuit which measures a processing speed of said system module when the internal power supply voltage is applied, and, on the basis of the processing speed, outputs a first control signal which requests to set the external power supply voltage at a first level, and a second control signal which requests said power supply circuit to set the internal power supply voltage at a second level. The power supply circuit outputs the internal power supply voltage having the second level on the basis of the second control signal applied thereto.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention can provide a fingerprint sensor for searching for a detection condition in a short period of time in order to read information of ridges and valleys of a fingerprint as changes in capacitance.

Abstract: A transfer base substrate comprises: a substrate; a plurality of transfer thin film circuits formed on the substrate via removing layer; a test circuit formed on the substrate for checking circuit operation; and a wiring coupling each of transfer thin film circuits with a test circuit.

Abstract: A CPU perform the steps of: (a) causing a compression/decompression processor to decompress the compressed data of one of three bands in the data area except for the first block in the band, and storing decompressed bitmap data in the data area; (b) rasterizing each of the intermediate data blocks in the band and synthesizing the rasterized data and the decompressed bitmap data in the band; and (c) causing the compression/decompression processor to compress the synthesized bitmap data and storing the compressed data in the data area. The CPU performs the steps (a) to (c) in different respective tasks in parallel, and performs the steps (a) to (c) along the order of (a), (b), (c) for each of the intermediate code blocks in each of the bands while using the 1st to the 3rd bitmap data area in turn for each of the steps (a) to (c).

Abstract: In order to integrally manage computers and peripheral devices at a user site, when a device monitoring server (203a) receives a trouble message from a device, it sends a message indicating this to a device center server (210) via a router (204). If the received message is a trouble message, the device center server (210) controls an event adapter to convert the received message into a format that a center server can process, and transfers the converted message to the center server (110). Upon receiving the message, the center server (110) displays occurrence of a trouble in an event list using an event monitor (110a). The user can simultaneously monitor the versatile computers and peripheral devices by observing the event monitor.