Abstract: The present invention provides a method for quantitatively detecting virus-derived RNA and/or DNA in an environmental sample or a fecal sample with high sensitivity, and a kit for quantitatively detecting virus-derived RNA and/or DNA in an environmental sample or a fecal sample with high sensitivity.

Abstract: A display device includes a temperature sensor which is arranged in the inside of a housing, and a control unit which calculates a temperature of a display panel based on an output value of the temperature sensor. The control unit calculates the temperature of the display panel based on a current output value of the temperature sensor and an output value of the temperature sensor received prior to the receiving of the current output value. With such a display device, the temperature of the display panel can be calculated with high accuracy even when a temperature of a device which constitutes a heat source is changed.

Abstract: On a liquid crystal panel, plural areas whose number is larger than that of temperature sensors are defined. In a memory, temperature relation information representing a relation between an output value of a temperature sensor and a temperature of each of the plural areas is stored. A controller acquires the output value of the temperature sensor and estimates, based on the temperature relation information and the acquired output value, the temperature of each of the plural areas. According to this configuration, the temperature of each of the plural areas defined on the liquid crystal panel can be obtained with a small number of temperature sensors.

Abstract: On a liquid crystal panel, plural areas whose number is larger than that of temperature sensors are defined. In a memory, temperature relation information representing a relation between an output value of a temperature sensor and a temperature of each of the plural areas is stored. A controller acquires the output value of the temperature sensor and estimates, based on the temperature relation information and the acquired output value, the temperature of each of the plural areas. According to this configuration, the temperature of each of the plural areas defined on the liquid crystal panel can be obtained with a small number of temperature sensors.

Abstract: A matrix panel display apparatus includes plural signal lines and plural scanning lines intersecting each other and, near each intersection point, a picture element including a picture element electrode, a counter electrode, a display medium disposed between the picture element electrode and the counter electrode, and a transistor for applying image signals from the signal line to the picture element electrode. The transistor is controlled in response to scanning signals received on a scanning line. An auxiliary signal generating circuit generates auxiliary signals for increasing effective voltages of the image signals and applies the auxiliary signals to the picture elements while each of the transistors is in a non-conducting state and each of the picture elements is not selected.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of video signal lines formed on the first substrate, and a plurality of thin film transistors formed proximate to a crossing point of the scanning signal lines and video signal lines. A light shielding layer is formed on the second substrate and overlapped with at least one of the thin film transistors and with at least one signal line of the scanning signal lines and the video signal lines in plane view. The light shielding layer has an aperture region which is formed proximate to the at least one thin film transistor and formed within the at least one signal line in plane view.

Abstract: An active matrix type liquid crystal display apparatus including a driver having an active element, an electrode structure mainly applying an electric field which is substantially parallel to a substrate surface to a liquid crystal layer, and at least a part of a portion of a signal wiring which opposes the liquid crystal layer transmits a video signal to the active element and is covered by a conductive material via an insulator. The conductive material is electrically connected with a common electrode as one of electrodes of the electrode structure.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of video signal lines formed on the first substrate, and a plurality of thin film transistors formed proximate to a crossing point of the scanning signal lines and video signal lines. A light shielding layer is formed on the second substrate and overlapped with at least one of the thin film transistors and with at least one signal line of the scanning signal lines and the video signal lines in plane view. The light shielding layer has an aperture region which is formed proximate to the at least one thin film transistor and formed within the at least one signal line in plane view.

Abstract: To provide an image display device that is capable of preventing a malfunction of a drive circuit, while reducing the size of an outer frame of an image display device and achieving a sufficient EMI countermeasure, the image display device is provided with a drive circuit mounted in a region outside of a display portion on one of the opposing substrates and is connected to signal lines formed in a region of the display portion, wherein a capacitor is formed in the region of the substrate where the drive circuit is mounted.

Abstract: The present invention realizes a liquid crystal display device and an image display device which prevent the generation of flickering when power is supplied again after the supplying of power is stopped. The liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner, a liquid crystal layer which is inserted between the first and second substrates, active elements, scanning signal lines for operating the active elements and pixel electrodes to which video signals are supplied upon operation of the active elements which are all mounted on one substrate, an orientation film which is inserted between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal layer, and reference electrodes which are mounted on either one or the other substrate, and the liquid crystal display device performing a display by generating the potential difference between the pixel electrodes and the reference electrode.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel for displaying a tone in correspondence with a potential difference between a drain voltage and a common voltage, a drain driver circuit for generating the drain voltage corresponding to display data and applying the drain voltage to the liquid crystal panel, and a gate driver circuit for selecting a scanning line in the liquid crystal panel to which the drain voltage is applied, a power-supply circuit executes a comparative calculation of a reference common voltage and a feedback common voltage, then applying, to the liquid crystal panel, the common voltage obtained as a result of the comparative calculation, the reference common voltage whose potential level having been adjusted, the feedback common voltage is fedback from the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and system having a liquid crystal composition being interposed between a first and second substrates, a plurality of pixel parts being constructed with a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of signal electrodes arranged in a matrix on one of said first and second substrates, a switching element being provided in each of the pixel parts, wherein the switching element is connected to a pixel electrode, the pixel electrode and a common electrode being so constructed on the one of said first and second substrates as to be operable in keeping the major axes of the liquid crystal molecules parallel to the surface of the substrates. In the pixel part, the signal electrode and the pixel electrode is formed and a shield electrode is formed between the signal electrode and the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel including row electrodes and column electrodes which cross the row electrodes. Display dots are formed at points where the column electrodes cross the row electrodes. A column electrode driver drives each of the column electrodes in accordance with display data to be displayed on the display dots. A waveform generator generates at least four different sets of waveforms. A row electrode driver drives the row electrodes by applying to the row electrodes respective voltages having respective ones of the waveforms in a selected one of the at least four different sets of waveforms, the selected one changing after each frame period. The display data is displayed on the display panel in accordance with the driving of the row electrodes by the row electrode driver and the driving of the column electrodes by the column electrode driver.

Abstract: A particle for a diagnostic agent, which comprises a polymer particle comprising (A) from 20 to 100% by weight of a structural unit derived from at least one of acrylate having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group and methacrylate having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, (B) from 0 to 10% by weight of a structural unit derived from unsaturated carboxylic acid, and (C) from 0 to 80% by weight of a structural unit derived from a vinyl monomer copolymerizable with the acrylate, methacrylate and unsaturated carboxylic acid, and a turbidmetric immunoassay using the same.

Abstract: A liquid crystal halftone display system including a tone generator which, for pixels having P tones of K tones (1≦P≦K), alternately outputs first N-bit tone display data and second N-bit tone display data in successive frames at one of a first phase and a second phase. Within a block of pixels, the tone generator alternately inverts the phase of the N-bit tone display data at successive first pixels having different ones of the P tones within the block of pixels beginning at a left side of the block of pixels, and alternately inverts the phase of the N-bit tone display data at successive pixels having a same one of the P tones within the block of pixels beginning at the left side of the block of pixels.

Abstract: To provide a image display device capable of preventing a malfunction of a drive circuit, reducing the size of an outer frame of an image display device, and achieving a sufficient EMI countermeasure. The image display device has a drive circuit mounted in a region out of a display portion on one of opposing and connected to signal lines formed in a region of the display portion, wherein a capacitor is formed in the region of the substrate where the drive circuit is mounted.

Abstract: An active matrix type liquid crystal display apparatus including a driver having an active element, an electrode structure mainly applying an electric field which is substantially parallel to a substrate surface to a liquid crystal layer, and at least a part of a portion of a signal wiring which opposes the liquid crystal layer transmits a video signal to the active element and is covered by a conductive material via an insulator. The conductive material is electrically connected with a common electrode as one of electrodes of the electrode structure.

Abstract: The present invention realizes a liquid crystal display device and an image display device which prevent the generation of flickering when power is supplied again after the supplying of power is stopped. The liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner, a liquid crystal layer which is inserted between the first and second substrates, active elements, scanning signal lines for operating the active elements and pixel electrodes to which video signals are supplied upon operation of the active elements which are all mounted on one substrate, an orientation film which is inserted between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal layer, and reference electrodes which are mounted on either one or the other substrate, and the liquid crystal display device performing a display by generating the potential difference between the pixel electrodes and the reference electrode.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel for displaying a tone in correspondence with a potential difference between a drain voltage and a common voltage, a drain driver circuit for generating the drain voltage corresponding to display data and applying the drain voltage to the liquid crystal panel, and a gate driver circuit for selecting a scanning line in the liquid crystal panel to which the drain voltage is applied, a power-supply circuit executes a comparative calculation of a reference common voltage and a feedback common voltage, then applying, to the liquid crystal panel, the common voltage obtained as a result of the comparative calculation, the reference common voltage whose potential level having been adjusted, the feedback common voltage is fedback from the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method therefor are provided where the number of processes for manufacturing TFT substrates can be decreased and a high production yield can be attained. To attain these objects, an image signal bus-line includes at least a transparent conductive film and a semiconductor layer. A pattern of the transparent conductive film extends up to a thin film transistor to form its drain electrode, and a pattern of a semiconductor layer extends up to the transistor to form its source electrode. By virtue of these arrangements, the thin film transistor substrate can be manufactured using as little as three or four photolithography processes.