Abstract: The fastening structure of a belt anchor comprises: the belt anchor provided at one end of a buckle of a seat belt; a floor panel; an anchor bracket joined to the floor panel; and a tank bracket to which a fuel tank is fastened and which is joined to the floor panel, wherein the belt anchor is fastened together with the floor panel, the anchor bracket, and the tank bracket.

Abstract: The fastening structure of a belt anchor comprises: the belt anchor provided at one end of a buckle of a seat belt; a floor panel; an anchor bracket joined to the floor panel; and a tank bracket to which a fuel tank is fastened and which is joined to the floor panel, wherein the belt anchor is fastened together with the floor panel, the anchor bracket, and the tank bracket.

Abstract: Provided are a light emitting device and an electronic apparatus capable of reducing the number of manufacturing steps and improving space efficiency. A light emitting device includes multiple light emitting element arrays each of which includes multiple light emitting elements, and a main substrate that includes a drive circuit. The multiple light emitting element arrays are provided on the same main substrate.

Abstract: Provided are a light emitting element array, a light emitting device, an electronic device, and a photonic crystal structure which are improved in stray light suppression, high luminance, and low power consumption. A light emitting element array includes a plurality of a light emitting element including a light emitting surface, in which a plurality of a light emitting unit is formed including at least one of the light emitting element and capable of controlling light emission from the light emitting surface of the light emitting element, and the plurality of the light emitting unit is provided with an optical adjustment layer at least partially including a periodic structure portion in which a refractive index periodically changes.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that can appropriately display route icons. A map display system includes a display section obtaining part that obtains display sections each being a section of a route to be displayed on a map; a connecting point obtaining part that obtains a connecting point, the connecting point being a point where different routes are connected together on the display sections; and a map display part that displays at least one route icon for each split section, the route icon being an image associated with a route, and the split section being obtained by splitting each of the display sections by the connecting point.

Abstract: A map image and a character string indicating information relating to a spot included on the map image are displayed on a liquid crystal display, in a case where determination is made that a plurality of character strings displayed on the map image overlaps one another with displacement of a display range of the map image, at least one character string is set to non-display to restrain the character strings from overlapping one another, and thereafter, in a case where a state in which the character strings do not overlap one another is returned, and a predetermined time has elapsed or the map image has been rotationally moved at a predetermined angle or more after the character string is set to non-display, the character string is displayed again.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that can appropriately display route icons. A map display system includes a display section obtaining part that obtains display sections each being a section of a route to be displayed on a map; a connecting point obtaining part that obtains a connecting point, the connecting point being a point where different routes are connected together on the display sections; and a map display part that displays at least one route icon for each split section, the route icon being an image associated with a route, and the split section being obtained by splitting each of the display sections by the connecting point.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for reducing the possibility that a user loses track of how a road, etc., grasped by him/her have been changed on a map. A navigation system includes: a map display part that displays a map on a display in any of a plurality of display modes, the map including a current location; a moving image display part that displays, when the display mode changes, a moving image in which the map is rotated and the display mode before being changed gradually changes to a changed display mode, on the display; and a speed-of-change control part that increases a speed of change in the display mode after start of the change in the display mode.

Abstract: Map display systems and programs arrange each of a plurality of characters representing a route on a display so that an angle formed by a direction of a character and a direction of the route is equal to or less than a predetermined angle. The characters representing the route are arranged along a reference section that is a section of the route displayed on a map and that has a curvature radius equal to or more than a threshold radius.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for reducing the frequency of a user feeling annoyed. A map display system includes: a map display part that displays a map on a display; an icon display control part that selects a type of icons to be displayed from among a plurality of types based on a number of the icons displayed on the map, and displays ground objects by the icons of the selected type on the map; and an icon selection control part that allows or prohibits a change in the type of icons selected by the icon display control part, and prohibits, when scrolling of the map is performed, a change in the type of icons before and after the scrolling.

Abstract: A map image and a character string indicating information relating to a spot included on the map image are displayed on a liquid crystal display, in a case where determination is made that a plurality of character strings displayed on the map image overlaps one another with displacement of a display range of the map image, at least one character string is set to non-display to restrain the character strings from overlapping one another, and thereafter, in a case where a state in which the character strings do not overlap one another is returned, and a predetermined time has elapsed or the map image has been rotationally moved at a predetermined angle or more after the character string is set to non-display, the character string is displayed again.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for reducing the frequency of a user feeling annoyed. A map display system includes: a map display part that displays a map on a display; an icon display control part that selects a type of icons to be displayed from among a plurality of types based on a number of the icons displayed on the map, and displays ground objects by the icons of the selected type on the map; and an icon selection control part that allows or prohibits a change in the type of icons selected by the icon display control part, and prohibits, when scrolling of the map is performed, a change in the type of icons before and after the scrolling.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for reducing the possibility that a user loses track of how a road, etc., grasped by him/her have been changed on a map. A navigation system includes: a map display part that displays a map on a display in any of a plurality of display modes, the map including a current location; a moving image display part that displays, when the display mode changes, a moving image in which the map is rotated and the display mode before being changed gradually changes to a changed display mode, on the display; and a speed-of-change control part that increases a speed of change in the display mode after start of the change in the display mode.

Abstract: A welding method wherein the root gap aperture displacement is measured before welding begins, and a welding material having a Mn/S ratio and a Mn/Si ratio compatible with the measured root gap aperture displacement is selected from gas-shielded arc welding materials. Gas-shielded arc welding is then performed using the selected welding material.

Abstract: A welding method wherein the root gap aperture displacement is measured before welding begins, and a welding material having a Mn/S ratio and a Mn/Si ratio compatible with the measured root gap aperture displacement is selected from gas-shielded arc welding materials. Gas-shielded arc welding is then performed using the selected welding material.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including first and second substrates arranged opposite to each other to form a gap, with first and second alignment films provided on the first and second substrates, respectively. A cured material is provided on at least one of the first and second alignment films, and a liquid crystal layer of liquid crystal molecules is provided in the gap. The display includes a pixel electrode with a plurality of elongated members arranged with spaces therebetween, wherein the plurality of elongated members are electrically connected to each other, and a common electrode configured to apply a voltage to the liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the pixel electrode. The plurality of elongated members include first, second, third and fourth elongated members extending, respectively, in first, second, third and fourth directions in plan view. The cured material regulates alignment directions of the liquid crystal molecules.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a pair of substrates with liquid crystal sealed between them. A polymer layer regulates directions in which the liquid crystal molecules tilt. A plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of drain bus lines are provided on one of the substrates. Color filters and a pixel electrode are provided on the substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode. A common electrode is provided on the other substrate. A first and a second thin film transistor are connected to the first sub-pixel electrode. The first thin film transistors is connected to a first gate bus line, and the second thin film transistor is connected to a second bus line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including first and second substrates arranged opposite to each other to form a gap, with first and second alignment films provided on the first and second substrates, respectively. A cured material is provided on at least one of the first and second alignment films, and a liquid crystal layer of liquid crystal molecules is provided in the gap. The display includes a pixel electrode with a plurality of elongated members arranged with spaces therebetween, wherein the plurality of elongated members are electrically connected to each other, and a common electrode configured to apply a voltage to the liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the pixel electrode. The plurality of elongated members include first, second, third and fourth elongated members extending, respectively, in first, second, third and fourth directions in plan view. The cured material regulates alignment directions of the liquid crystal molecules.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a pair of substrates arranged opposite to each other to form a gap; spaced vertical alignment films formed on the substrate in the gap; a cured material formed on at least one of the alignment films in the gap; and a liquid crystal layer of liquid crystal molecules. The display also includes a pixel electrode formed on one of the substrates in a pixel region and having either a plurality of elongated members arranged with spaces therebetween and connected by a connecting member or a plurality of elongated openings arranged in patterns. Finally, the cured material is at least formed on the vertical alignment films so that an alignment direction of at least the liquid crystal molecules adjacent the alignment films is regulated.

Abstract: This invention relates to an image processing method for improving the quality of an image to be displayed on a display device and to a liquid-crystal display device using the same, and aims at providing an image processing method for providing wide viewing angle and excellent tonal-intensity viewing angle characteristic and a liquid-crystal display device using the same. Combined together are a higher-luminance pixel to be driven higher in luminance than the luminance data of an image to be displayed and a lower-luminance pixel to be driven lower in luminance than the luminance data, to determine a luminance on the higher-luminance pixel and luminance on the lower-luminance pixel as well as an area ratio of the higher-luminance and lower-luminance pixels in a manner obtaining a luminance nearly equal to a desired luminance based on the luminance data.