Abstract: According to at least one embodiment, an electronic device includes a storage comprising a plurality of sectors and a processor configured to encrypt data in the plurality of sectors of the storage. The processor is configured to cause to be stored in a storage area address information indicating a defective sector from which data cannot be read, when the defective sector is detected during encryption.

Abstract: A laminated film having a retardation layer A and a layer B that are formed through solvent co-casting is provided. The layer A has a thickness of 5 to 30 ?m. The layer B has a higher tensile modulus compared to the layer A. An interlayer peeling force between the layer A and the layer B is 0.05 to 5 N/cm. The laminated film overcomes the deterioration of handling property generally occurring with the reduction of film thickness in solvent casting method.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell and a polarizer arranged on at least one outer side of the liquid crystal cell, wherein the liquid crystal cell includes a pair of substrates at least one of which has an electrode and which are arranged oppositely to each other, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, and at least one substrate includes at least three color pixels of B, G and R satisfying the following formula (1-1), and the polarizer includes a polarizing element and a film satisfying the following formula (1-2) and containing an optically-anisotropic layer: ?20 nm?{Rth[cell](630)?Rth[cell](440)}?28 nm,??(1-1) 1 nm<Re(630)?Re(440)?12 nm.??(1-2).

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film containing a cellulose acylate having a total degree of substitution of from 1.5 to 2.6 and a polycondensate ester, satisfying 3.4?Rth(550)/d, 40 nm?Re(550)?60 nm and 100 nm?Rth(550)?300 nm, having a film thickness of from 20 to 45 ?m and having an internal haze of from 0.005 to 0.07% (d means the film thickness (?m)).

Abstract: An optical laminate film that comprises a layer B satisfying 1.0?Nz?3.0, 70 nm?Re(550) and 0 nm?Rth(550)?200 nm, and a layer C satisfying Re(550)?10 nm and ?200 nm?Rth(550)??50 nm, wherein the layer B and the layer C are adjacent to each other, the absolute value of the difference in SP between the main ingredient of the layer B and the main ingredient of the layer C is from 2.6 to 10.0, contribute toward improving the viewing angle characteristics of horizontal alignment mode liquid crystal display devices without causing problems of front contrast ratio reduction and display unevenness.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film containing a cellulose acylate, that has an aromatic group-containing acyl group and satisfies the formulae (I) and (II): 0.9?DSA?2.0??(I) 0.9?DS?2.0??(II) wherein DSA is a degree of substitution with the aromatic group-containing acyl group and DS is a total degree of substitution.

Abstract: There is provided a cellulose ester film comprising at least one plasticizer and satisfying the following expressions (1) to (5); |Re|?5 nm (1); 50 nm<Rth<300 nm (2); 25 ?m?d?65 ?m (3); 1×10?3?Rth/d?4×10?3 (4); 3.8 GPa<E?<5.0 GPa (5); wherein Re represents a retardation value in an in-plane direction; Rth represents a retardation value in a thickness direction; d represents a film thickness; and E? represents an elastic modulus of the film.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate laminate film, which comprises a low-substitution layer comprising a non-phosphate compound and a cellulose acylate having a total degree of acyl substitution of more than 2.0 and less than 2.7 and a high-substitution layer comprising a cellulose acylate having a total degree of acyl substitution of more than 2.7<Z2, wherein Re at a wavelength of 550 nm is the same as or larger than Re at a wavelength of 440 nm.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first polarizing film; a first retardation region; a liquid crystal cell which includes a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pair of substrates, in which liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are oriented parallel to surfaces of the pair of substrates at a time of black display; and a second polarizing film, a slow axis of the first retardation region is arranged orthogonally or parallel to a long axis of the liquid crystal molecule at a surface of the liquid crystal layer at a side of the substrate of the liquid crystal cell adjacent to the first retardation region in a state of no application of voltage, the liquid crystal cell operates in a lateral electric field mode, and the first retardation region includes a first retardation layer and a second retardation layer as defined herein.

Abstract: To reduce attenuation of vibration in provision of a tactile sensation when both of a piezoelectric element for providing a tactile sensation and a piezoelectric element for transmitting sound are provided to a panel, an electronic device 1 includes a panel 10, a first piezoelectric element 31 and a second piezoelectric element 32 that are attached to the panel 10, and a control unit 50 for controlling such that the second piezoelectric element 32 is driven to output sound and, when the panel 10 detects a contact, such that the first piezoelectric element 31 is driven, and that the control unit 50, when the panel 10 detects the contact, controls such that the second piezoelectric element 32 is driven as well as the first piezoelectric element 31.

Abstract: An optical film having a thickness of from 20-60 ?m, Re(550) of larger than 80-350 nm, an elastic modulus Em in a direction that is in parallel or perpendicular to one arbitrary edge of the film and provides a maximum elastic modulus of the film, and an elastic modulus Es in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction of Em, with satisfying Em/Es of 1.5-2.5; and satisfying: - 0.14 ? log ? ? E T ? ? 10 ? - log ? ? E T ? ? 100 ? T 10 - T 100 ? - 0.02 wherein T10 represents a temperature where E?RT becomes 1/10; T100 represents a temperature where E?RT becomes 1/100; log E?T10 represents log E? where E?RT becomes 1/10; and log E?T100 represents log E? where E?RT becomes 1/100, wherein E? represents a storage modulus of the film measured by dynamic viscoelastic measurement, and E?RT represents the storage modulus of the film at room temperature.

Abstract: A panel device 10, which is capable of increasing vibration amplitude of a panel without increasing power consumption of a piezoelectric element, includes a panel 11 rectangular in shape and piezoelectric elements 12, 13 also rectangular in shape disposed on the panel 11 for vibrating the panel 11, such that each of the piezoelectric elements 12, 13 is disposed having one side at a slant relative to one side of the panel 11.

Abstract: A touch panel apparatus includes a touch panel (11), a piezoelectric element (12) disposed on the touch panel (11) and capable of expansion and contraction, and a plurality of support members (14a-14f) disposed on a fixing portion (13) and configured to support and allow for flexure vibration of the touch panel (11), such that the support members (14a-14f) are disposed in greater number in a direction orthogonal to an expansion and contraction direction of the piezoelectric element (12) than in the expansion and contraction direction so that a bending direction of the touch panel (11) due to a press matches a flexure direction of the touch panel (11) due to the expansion and contraction of the piezoelectric element (12).

Abstract: Dual chips exchange a signal indicating a pressing load detected for providing the tactile sensation such that application process based on the pressing load is performed. A tactile sensation providing apparatus according to the present invention includes a touch sensor, a load detection unit configured to detect the pressing load on the touch sensor for providing the tactile sensation, a tactile sensation providing unit configured to vibrate a touch face of the touch sensor, a tactile sensation provision control unit configured to control drive of the tactile sensation providing unit, and a main control unit configured to control an application. The tactile sensation provision control unit transmits the pressing load to the main control unit. The main control unit, based on an output of the touch sensor and the pressing load received from the tactile sensation provision control unit, performs the application process.

Abstract: A tactile sensation is provided without exchanging a signal indicating a pressing load between a dual chip. A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor, a load detection unit for detecting a pressing load on the sensor, a tactile sensation providing unit for vibrating a face of the sensor, a tactile sensation provision control unit for controlling drive of the providing unit, and a main control unit for controlling an operation of the provision control unit based on an output of the sensor. The main control unit determines whether a predetermined area of the touch face is touched based on the output of the sensor and, when the area is touched, transmits a tactile sensation control instruction to the provision control unit. The provision control unit, upon receiving the instruction from the main control unit, controls drive of the providing unit based on the instruction and the pressing load.

Abstract: Dual chips exchange a signal indicating a pressing load detected for providing the tactile sensation such that application processing based on the load is performed. A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor, a load detection unit for detecting the load on the sensor for providing the tactile sensation, a tactile sensation providing unit for vibrating a touch face of the sensor, a tactile sensation provision control unit for controlling drive of the providing unit, and a main control unit for controlling performing an operation corresponding to the load. The main control unit transmits, to the provision control unit, a load detection instruction in activation of the application and a load stop instruction in closing the application. The provision control unit starts detecting the load upon receiving the detection instruction and stops detecting the load upon receiving the stop instruction.

Abstract: By dual chips exchanging a signal indicating a pressing load detected for providing the tactile sensation, application process based thereon is performed. A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor, a load detection unit for detecting the pressing load on the sensor for providing the sensation, a tactile sensation providing unit for vibrating a surface the sensor, a provision control unit for controlling drive of the providing unit, and a main control unit for controlling an application. The main control unit determines whether a predetermined area of the surface is touched based on an output of the sensor and, when touched, transmits an instruction to the provision control unit. The provision control unit, upon receiving the instruction from the main control unit, detects the pressing load and transmits the detected load to the main control unit. The main control unit, based on the load, performs the application process.

Abstract: A protective film for polarizers, including a cellulose resin having an acyl substituent with from 2 to 4 carbon atoms and having a degree of acyl substitution of from 2.1 to 2.7, which satisfies 25?Re?100 and 50?Rth?300 and in which the cellulose resin contributes to expression of at least 40% of the Re in the film.

Abstract: An optical film contains a cellulose acylate film, and at least two layers of an optically anisotropic layer A and an optically anisotropic layer B, wherein the cellulose acylate film satisfies the specific formulae, Re(548) of the optically anisotropic layer A is from 80 to 190 nm and the slow axis of the optically anisotropic layer A is at 45°±10° with respect to the film conveying direction, and the optically anisotropic layer B satisfies the specific formulae.

Abstract: A tactile sensation providing apparatus determines a touched object and stores touch information based on the object in a memory unit 16. When an object in current touch information does not match an object in previous touch information stored in the memory unit 16, the tactile sensation providing unit 12 provides a first tactile sensation. When these objects match each other, the tactile sensation providing unit 12, based on the current touch information and the previous touch information, provides the first tactile sensation or a second tactile sensation, which is different from the first tactile sensation and provided with lower power than that for providing the first tactile sensation.