Abstract: There is provided a silver powder which has a small average particle diameter and a small thermal shrinkage percentage, and a method for producing the same. While a molten metal of silver heated to a temperature (1292 to 1692° C.), which is higher than the melting point (962° C.) of silver by 330 to 730° C., is allowed to drop, a high-pressure water is sprayed onto the molten metal of silver (preferably at a water pressure of 90 to 160 MPa) to rapidly cool and solidify the molten metal of silver to powderize silver to produce a silver powder which has an average particle diameter of 1 to 6 ?m and a shrinkage percentage of not greater than 8% (preferably not greater than 7%) at 500° C., the product of the average particle diameter by the shrinkage percentage at 500° C. being 1 to 11 ?m·% (preferably 1.5 to 10.5 ?m·%).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 10 includes pixel electrodes 11g that are spaced apart from each other, touch electrodes 14, each of which forms a capacitance with a finger, which is a position input body performing position input, to detect a position of input by the finger, which is the position input body, a touch line 15 that is sandwiched between adjacent pixel electrodes 11g and is connected to the touch electrodes 14, and at least two source lines 11j that extend parallel to the touch line 15. The source lines 11j transmit image signals to the pixel electrodes 11g. The source lines 11j are disposed such that one of the two pixel electrodes 11g is sandwiched between the touch line 15 and one of the two source lines 11j and another one of the two pixel electrodes 11g is sandwiched between another one of the two source lines 11j and the touch line 15.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 10 includes pixel electrodes 11g that are spaced apart from each other, touch electrodes 14, each of which forms a capacitance with a finger, which is a position input body performing position input, to detect a position of input by the finger, which is the position input body, a touch line 15 that is sandwiched between adjacent pixel electrodes 11g and is connected to the touch electrodes 14, and at least two source lines 11j that extend parallel to the touch line 15. The source lines 11j transmit image signals to the pixel electrodes 11g. The source lines 11j are disposed such that one of the two pixel electrodes 11g is sandwiched between the touch line 15 and one of the two source lines 11j and another one of the two pixel electrodes 11g is sandwiched between another one of the two source lines 11j and the touch line 15.

Abstract: A display device includes pixel electrodes, position detection electrodes, a signal supply section, main position detection lines disposed in the display area, and an auxiliary position detection line disposed outside the display area and routed around an area in which the main position detection lines are disposed. One end portions the main position detection lines are connected to the position detection electrodes and another end portions thereof are connected to the signal supply section and cross a space between the signal supply section and the display area. One end portion of the auxiliary position detection line is connected to the position detection electrode different from the position detection electrodes connected to the main position detection lines. Another end portion of the auxiliary position detection line is connected to the signal supply section. The auxiliary position detection line includes portions of conductive films included in different layers via insulating films.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of effectively compressing point cloud data output from the ranging sensor. A data compression apparatus of the present invention includes a data acquisition unit (121) which acquires point cloud data including a plurality of sets each including a direction and a distance from a ranging sensor (11), a data conversion unit (122) which converts directions and distances in the sets into color signals, an image generation unit (123) which generates a bitmap Image by mapping the color signals into a two-dimensional data structure in accordance with the directions, and an image compression unit (124) which applies a predetermined image compression technique to the bitmap image.

Abstract: A display device includes a conventional first auxiliary trunk line formed to be narrow, and a second auxiliary trunk line additionally provided and disposed at the closest position to the periphery of a substrate. Thus, a shift register can be distanced from the periphery of the substrate without increasing a frame area as a whole.

Abstract: A method for measuring a resistivity of a silicon single crystal by a four-point probe method including: a first grinding step of grinding at a surface of the silicon single crystal on which the resistivity is measured; a cleaning step of cleaning the silicon single crystal subjected to the first grinding step; a donor-annihilation heat treatment step of heat-treating the silicon single crystal subjected to the cleaning step; and a second grinding step of grinding at least the surface of the silicon single crystal subjected to the donor-annihilation heat treatment step on which the resistivity is to be measured, where the resistivity of the silicon single crystal is measured by the four-point probe method after performing the second grinding step. This provides a method for measuring a resistivity of a silicon single crystal by which stable measurement is possible over a long period of time after a donor-annihilation heat treatment.

Abstract: A semiconductor optical amplifier array device includes: a substrate; and a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers formed on the substrate, each of the semiconductor optical amplifiers including an active region, and two input-output ports optically connected to the active region and disposed on same facet of the semiconductor optical amplifier array device. The plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers include a first semiconductor optical amplifier in which length of the active region is equal to a first length, and a second semiconductor optical amplifier in which length of the active region is equal to a second length that is different from the first length.

Abstract: An array substrate includes: a signal supply unit configured to supply a signal; a plurality of position detection electrodes; a plurality of position detection wiring line; a plurality of scanning wiring lines; a plurality of pixel regions; a scanning connection wiring line having one end side connected to the signal supply unit and another end side connected to the scanning wiring lines, the scanning connection wiring line being arranged passing through some of the pixel regions included in the plurality of pixel regions; and an auxiliary position detection wiring line having at least one end side and another end side each connected to the position detection wiring lines, the auxiliary position detection wiring line being disposed in the pixel regions, of the plurality of pixel regions, not provided with the scanning wiring lines.

Abstract: A technique for compressing and transmitting data without hampering real-time performance can be offered. In a data compression transmission system for collecting data generated by a plurality of devices at a central server via a network, an intermediate server is arranged between the devices and the central server. Each of the devices includes a packet cache processing unit for converting the generated data to a hash value based on a cache. The intermediate server includes a packet cache processing unit for decoding the hash value to original data based on the cache, a buffering unit for aggregating the data and outputting the data as a long packet, and a compression encoding unit for compressing the data and generating encoded data.

Abstract: A two-dimensional photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser includes an active layer; and a photonic-crystal layer including a two-dimensional photonic-crystal light-amplification portion that is a first two-dimensional photonic-crystal region provided in a plate-shaped base body disposed on one side of the active layer, and includes an amplification-portion photonic band gap which is a photonic band gap formed between two photonic bands having a band edge at a predetermined point in a reciprocal lattice space, and a two-dimensional photonic-crystal light-reflection portion that is a second two-dimensional photonic-crystal region provided around the two-dimensional photonic-crystal light-amplification portion, and includes a reflection-portion photonic band gap which is a photonic band gap formed between two photonic bands having a band edge at the predetermined point of the reciprocal lattice space, wherein energy ranges of the amplification-portion photonic band gap and the reflection-portion photonic band ga

Abstract: A display device including a position input function includes a pixel, a pixel line extending so as to pass transversely across a display area, a signal supply unit connected to the pixel line, a first position detecting electrode placed in a first area A1 beside the signal supply unit, a second position detecting electrode placed in a second area on a side opposite to the signal supply unit, a first position detecting line placed so as to overlap the pixel line in the first area and connected to the signal supply unit and the first touch electrode, and a second position detecting line placed so as to overlap the pixel line in such a manner as to lie astride the first area and the second area and connected to the signal supply unit and the second position detecting electrode.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet includes a chemical conversion coating with a thickness of 3.0 ?m or less, the chemical conversion coating being placed on a surface of a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet including a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coating film containing Al: more than 1.0 mass % and 15 mass % or less, a balance being Zn and inevitable impurities. The chemical conversion coating contains AlH2P3O10.2H2O and a compound containing one or more elements selected from Mg, Ca, and Sr such that a sum of contents of AlH2P3O10.2H2O and the compound is 3.0 mass % to 50 mass %.

Abstract: An array substrate includes switching components, pixel electrodes connected to the switching components, a common electrode disposed to overlap the pixel electrodes via an insulator, first lines connected to the switching components, second lines connected to the switching components and extending while crossing the first lines, first protection circuits connected to the first lines, respectively, second protection circuits connected to the second lines, respectively, a first common line connected to the first lines via the first protection circuits, and a second common line connected to the second lines via the second protection circuits. The second common line is connected to the first common line directly or indirectly and not being connected to the common electrode.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a signal supply unit, a plurality of wirings disposed in a wiring region in which an intermediate region is interposed between the wiring region and the signal supply units, and having different distances from the signal supply unit, and a plurality of coupling wirings disposed in the intermediate region, and coupled to the signal supply unit and the plurality of wirings, in which the plurality of coupling wirings includes a first coupling wiring coupled to a wiring having a short distance from the signal supply unit, and a second coupling wiring coupled to a wiring having a long distance from the signal supply unit among the plurality of wirings, and the first coupling wiring is folded back to the signal supply unit side in the middle of running from the signal supply unit to the wiring region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first liquid crystal display panel of a field sequential type, a second liquid crystal display panel of a color filter type disposed on a back face side of the first liquid crystal display panel, and a backlight configured to emit white light on a back face side of the second liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: A function defined in source code of an application is further partitioned into a plurality of logics without depending on function definition performed by a developer. An application partitioning apparatus (1) for partitioning an application distributively processed by a plurality of information processing apparatuses into a plurality of logics includes an acquisition unit (121) which acquires source code of the application, a first partitioning unit (122) which identifies a plurality of functions defined in the source code and partitioning the source code into the plurality of functions, a determination unit (123) which determines whether each of the partitioned functions can be further partitioned according to rules set in advance, and a second partitioning unit (124) which, when it is determined that each of the partitioned function can be partitioned, partitions the function into a plurality of functions including one or a plurality of rows.

Abstract: A technique for efficiently determining the optimal deployment for the application distribution processing can be offered. A distributed processing support apparatus configured to support distributed processing of an application on a plurality of information. processing devices includes a source code acquisition unit configured to acquire a source code of the application; a source code partition unit configured to partition the source code into a plurality of logics; a candidate extraction unit configured to extract, based on a processing order of the logics of the application, information relating to the operational environments of the information processing devices, deployment pattern candidates of the logics which are to be deployed in a distributed manner to any of the information processing devices; and an optimal pattern determination unit configured to determine an optimal deployment pattern from the extracted deployment pattern candidates.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a gate metal layer, a source metal layer, an interlayer insulating layer, a first transparent conductive layer and second transparent conductive layer formed on or above the interlayer insulating layer, and a lower metal layer formed below the gate metal layer. The lower metal layer includes a plurality of CS bus lines each extending in a column direction and not overlapping a plurality of source bus lines. Each of the plurality of pixels has a drain extension section extending from a drain electrode, a first transparent electrode, a second transparent electrode connected to the drain extension section, and an auxiliary capacitor electrode that includes the lower metal layer and/or the gate metal layer, is electrically connected to at least any one of the plurality of CS bus lines, and overlaps the drain extension section when viewed in a normal direction of the substrate.

Abstract: A display device with a position input function includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode, position detection electrodes, a position detection line, a pixel connection line, and a shield electrode. The common electrode is overlapped with the pixel electrode on an upper layer side or a lower layer side. The position detection electrodes are formed by dividing the common electrode by a partition opening and form a capacitance with a position input body and detect an input position. The position detection line is arranged on an upper layer side or a lower layer side with the common electrode and connected to the position detection electrode. The pixel connection line extends in parallel with the partition opening and is connected to the pixel electrode. The shield electrode extends overlapping with the partition opening and is on a same layer as the position detection line and connected to the position detection line.