Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes: a timekeeping section which counts time; a time display section which displays time; an illuminating section which performs illumination; a wireless communication section which performs wireless communication by transmitting/receiving a wireless signal intermittently; and a drive control section which performs duty drive of the illuminating section when a period in which wireless communication is conducted by the wireless communication section and a period in which the illuminating section is driven overlap with each other.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a communication section to wirelessly communicate with an external device; a first section to make the communication section establish a wireless connection with the external device; a detective section to detect whether the electronic device is in a used condition or an unused condition; a second section to shift to a power-saving mode when the unused condition is detected for a while; and a third section to cancel the power-saving mode when the used condition is detected during the power-saving mode, wherein the second section cuts off the connection if the connection is still alive when shifting to the power-saving mode; and the third section changes a connection processing for making the first section establish the connection after the power-saving mode was canceled, based on a connecting condition from a time of detecting the last used condition to a time of shifting to the power-saving mode.

Abstract: A plurality of images are alternately switched and displayed on the screen in a very short cycle while preventing crosstalk between the images. Because a backlight 12 is lit on the liquid crystal display 10 side after a shutter mechanism on the shutter glasses 20 side has responded sufficiently, there is no adverse effect caused by lack of response at the time of rising of the shutter mechanism. Also, it is possible to raise peak brightness in comparison to the method of keeping the backlight 12 lit at all times, thereby enabling an improvement in brightness when displaying a stereoscopic image. On the other hand, a drop in the temperature of a liquid crystal display panel 11 following extinguishing of the backlight 12 becomes less, and so does deterioration of crosstalk.

Abstract: There is provided a display device including a video display portion that displays video, and a video signal control portion which performs signal control on an input signal such that a plurality of video streams formed of a plurality of chronologically arranged unit videos are input and there is a case in which display periods of the plurality of video streams are different with respect to an interval of the input signal that includes the plurality of video streams, and which sequentially switches in a time division manner the video streams included in the signal controlled input signal, and outputs the video streams to the video display portion.

Abstract: There is provided a display device including an array substrate including pixels arranged in a matrix manner and gate control circuits that scan gate lines of the pixels and that are provided on the array substrate such that the gate control circuits correspond to the respective gate lines of the pixels. Each of the gate control circuits includes a first output terminal that outputs a signal to each of the gate lines, and a second output terminal that outputs a signal that is supplied to a gate control circuit in a subsequent stage. When adjacent two of the gate lines are scanned simultaneously from an upper part of a screen by the signal output from the first output terminal of each of the gate control circuits, a gate on period is provided during which outputs from the first output terminals of adjacent two of the gate control circuits are the same.

Abstract: A display system and method in which light is provided and images are generated by modulating the provided light. At least one of the timing or duty of the provided light may be controlled. By allowing for such control of the provided light an increase in system performance may be realized.

Abstract: A display system and display method in which a gradation difference between a first frame and a second frame of a video signal is detected, a determination is made as to whether the gradation difference is of a first state or a second state, and a target value of an output of a display is changed based on the result of the determination.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a reliable alkaline storage battery having a structure by which a short circuit between the electrodes can be prevented in the manufacturing procedures. To achieve this object, the present invention provides a cylindrical battery that includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate spirally wound together and sandwiching a separator. The collector plate includes a main body. One or more convex parts, each having a top extending linearly, are formed on a main surface of the main body by bending processing. A part of at least one of the convex part is cut out to form a cutout region. The collector plate is welded to the end part of the electrode assembly at the top of each convex part.

Abstract: In a manufacturing process of a solar cell comprising an amorphous silicon unit in which a p-type layer, an i-type layer, and an n-type layer are layered, in a step of forming the p-type layer, a doping concentration of a p-type dopant included in the p-type layer is increased as a distance from the i-type layer is increased, and in particular, a high-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer and a low-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer are consecutively formed while a state of plasma generation is maintained.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a video-image processing apparatus including: a video-image processing section configured to execute output control on video-image streams each including unitary video images appearing along the time axis so as to output every unitary video image pertaining to each of the video-image streams repeatedly a plurality of times by sequentially switching the video-image streams to be output on a time-division basis; a frame memory for temporarily storing an immediately preceding unitary video image as it is or after replacing the luminance gradation of the immediately preceding unitary video image with a post-replacement luminance gradation where the immediately preceding unitary video image is defined as a unitary video image which immediately leads ahead of a current unitary video image being output by the video-image processing section and is selected; and an overdrive processing section configured to carry out overdrive processing on the current unitary video image.

Abstract: A solar cell comprises a p-type layer, an i-type layer, and an n-type layer, the p-type layer comprises a high-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer and a low-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer which have different absorption coefficients with respect to light of a wavelength of 600 nm along a thickness direction, and a buffer layer is provided between the low-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer and the i-type layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a display unit configured to display images each corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of shutter mechanisms that carry out opening and closing operation at timings different from each other, in such a manner as to switch the images in a time-division manner; and a shutter controller configured to set a respective one of the shutter mechanisms to an opened state in a display period of the image corresponding to the respective one of the shutter mechanisms, and variably control at least one of start time and length of an opened-state period of the shutter mechanism.

Abstract: There is provided a display device that includes a display portion and a drive compensation portion. The display portion line-sequentially displays, in an image display region, a first image based on a first image signal and a second image based on a second image signal, by sequentially switching the first image and the second image at a predetermined interval. The drive compensation portion performs predetermined drive compensation on the first image signal and the second image signal input to the display portion, in accordance with a position of the image display region, a luminance of the first image and a luminance of the second image. The predetermined drive compensation is performed such that an average luminance of the first image or the second image becomes substantially uniform in the image display region during a predetermined period that is shorter than the predetermined interval.

Abstract: There is provided an image display apparatus including a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for alternately displaying a right eye image and a left eye image, a display panel, input with the signal converted by the signal control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image and the left eye image, a surface light source for radiating the display panel from a rear surface, and a surface light source control unit for causing the surface light source to emit light according to switching of the right eye image and the left eye image.

Abstract: An image display apparatus of present invention includes a signal control unit for receiving an input of an image signal, and converting to a signal for displaying each of a right eye image and a left eye image at least two times continuously; and a display panel, input with the signal converted by the signal control unit, for alternately displaying the right eye image continuing two or more times, and the left eye image continuing two or more times.

Abstract: An attachment section 215A is approximately vertically cut and raised in a tongue-shape on a lateral section 212 of a lower casing 210 provided by press working of a steel plate in a manner that an outer side of the lateral section 212 becomes an upper side of the attachment section 215A on which a circuit board 400 is mounted. A support section 215B is cut and raised on a bottom section 211 of the lower casing 210 so that the lower side of the bottom section 211 becomes opposite to an end surface 213 of the lower casing 210 and a tip end contacts approximately in parallel to a lateral side (in projecting direction) of the attachment section 215A. Attaching force applied when the circuit board 400 is attached to a threaded hole 216 of the attachment section 215A by the screw 410 is received by the support section 215B, so that the axial direction of the screw 410 and the axial direction of the threaded hole 216 are substantially aligned, thereby allowing proper attachment of the circuit board 400.

Abstract: A time correction control apparatus which calculates a time difference between hour/minute/second indicated in hour/minute/second information included in a received GPS signal, and which corrects counted year/month/date and hour/minute/second by using both the received year/month/date information and hour/minute/second information when the calculated time difference is greater than the predetermined time difference, and corrects the counted hour/minute/second by using the received hour/minute/second information when the calculated time difference is smaller than the predetermined time difference.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (I), a salt, or a solvate thereof: wherein, R1 and R2 are the same as or different from each other and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkenyl group, a non-aromatic heterocyclic group, an aromatic hydrocarbon cyclic group, an aromatic heterocyclic group, an acyl group or an alkylsulfonyl group all of which may be substituted and wherein one, or both, of R1 or R2 is an aromatic, or non-aromatic, heterocyclic group which may be substituted; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon cyclic group, an aromatic heterocyclic group, a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom all of which may be substituted if possible; and R4 is a pyridyl group which may be substituted.

Abstract: A timepiece comprises a reception subunit, a timekeeping unit that holds internal time data indicative of the current time, storage, and a CPU. The CPU determines whether the internal time data acquired from the timekeeping unit matches correction time data stored in storage, selects a GPS satellite represented by satellite identification data stored in the storage when the determination is affirmative, acquires GPS time data included in navigation data which in turn is included in a GPS signal obtained from the selected GPS satellite, corrects the internal time data based on the GPS time data, and stores the correction time data in correspondence to the satellite identification data representing that GPS satellite.