Abstract: Provided is a high-efficiency plasma display panel having short decay time and high luminance and color purity. The plasma display panel includes a green phosphor layer emitting visible light when excited with vacuum ultraviolet rays, in which the green phosphor layer is formed of a green phosphor containing 30% by weight or more and 60% by weight or less of a phosphor represented by a general formula: dZnO.(2?d)MnO.eSiO2 (1.80?d?1.90, 1.00?e?1.02) and one of a phosphor represented by a general formula: aYO3/2.(3?a)CeO3/2.bAlO3/2.cGaO3/2.fWO3 (2.80?a?2.99, 3.00?b?5.00, 0?c?2.00, 0.003?f?0.020, where 4.00?b+c?5.00) and a phosphor represented by a general formula: aYO3/2.(3?a)CeO3/2.bAlO3/2.cGaO3/2.gK2WO4 (2.80?a?2.99, 3.00?b?5.00, 0?c?2.00, 0.003?g?0.015, where 4.00?b+c?5.00).

Abstract: A current driver circuit includes a converter part having a switching element and converting an input voltage into an output voltage; a current detector which generates a detection signal indicative of the current of the switching element; an input voltage compensating circuit which generates a compensation signal corresponding to the input voltage; a comparator which compares the detection signal and the compensation signal against each other; and a switch driver circuit which generates a drive signal. The drive signal turns the switching element off in accordance with an output of the comparator, and turns the switching element on again after a lapse of a prescribed time from the switching element being turned off.

Abstract: A 3D tablet terminal (100) which is an example of a stereoscopic image display control apparatus includes: a most projecting position determination unit (104) which determines a most projecting position at which an object projects most from a display surface and a most receding position at which the object recedes most therefrom; and a display control unit (105) which causes a display device to display the object, wherein the display control unit (105) adjusts a display position of the object so that an amount of projection at the most projecting position is equal to a proper amount of projection, and processes, by a predetermined method, a portion of the object on a far side relative to the display surface when an amount of recession at the most receding position after adjusting the display position exceeds a proper amount of recession.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a display device has a casing including a back cabinet, a flat type display panel placed in the casing, backlight device (4) arranged on a rear side of the flat type display panel, and a circuit board constituting a drive circuit for displaying an image on the flat type display panel. A space portion that can house therein backlight device (4) and the circuit board is provided in back cabinet (7), and backlight device (4) and the circuit board are housed in and mounted to back cabinet (7). Further, dummy panel (30) having a shape identical with that of the flat type display panel is placed in a position where the flat type display panel is supposed to be housed for packing and transporting the display device.

Abstract: A lens barrel includes a fixed frame, a rotary frame provided inside the fixed frame, a first frame provided inside the rotary frame, an electronic component provided inside the first frame, and a flexible printed circuit board connected, at one end thereof, to the electronic component and connected, at the other end thereof, to the fixed frame. A gear part is provided at an outer circumferential surface of the rotary frame. In the first frame, a first protrusion outwardly protruding beyond the gear part in a radial direction about the optical axis is provided at a position corresponding to the flexible printed circuit board in a circumferential direction about the optical axis on a side of the gear part opposite to the object in the optical axis direction.

Abstract: A capacitor array includes a plurality of comb capacitors sharing a common comb electrode. At least one of the comb capacitors has a comb electrode as a single base part. Each of the other ones of the comb capacitors has an electrode formed by coupling a plurality of base parts. In the other ones of the comb capacitors, a space between a wire coupling the base parts and an end of each of comb teeth of the common electrode, which is interposed between the base parts, is larger than a space between a base of each of the base parts of the plurality of comb capacitors and an end of each of the comb teeth of the common electrode, which is interposed between comb teeth of the base part.

Abstract: The solid-state imaging device includes an imaging region having pixel units two-dimensionally arranged, each of the pixel units including a photodiode formed on a semiconductor substrate. The imaging region includes, as a unit of arrangement, a pixel block having four of the pixel units arranged in a two-by-two matrix. The pixel block includes a red pixel detecting a red signal, a blue pixel detecting a blue signal, a white pixel detecting a first luminance signal, and another white pixel detecting a second luminance signal. A light attenuation filter is provided above the other white pixel to reduce transmittance of light in a visible light region.

Abstract: A display device including a display unit that displays an image; an operation detection unit that detects designated positions on the display unit respectively designated by two or more fingers of an operator; an operation analysis unit that determines, when the operation detection unit detects that the designated positions are moving in parallel in a first region of the display unit, a position of a second region newly generated in the first region and a display direction of an image displayed in the second region, based on the designated positions and a direction of movement of the designated positions; and a display control unit that controls the display unit to display an image in the second region, according to the position of the second region and the display direction of the image displayed in the second region determined by the operation analysis unit.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a device body adapted to be installed on a surface of a room and first organic electroluminescence element modules including organic electroluminescence elements, the first electroluminescence element modules being held in the device body with light-emitting surfaces of the electroluminescence elements facing toward the surface of the room when the device body is installed on the surface of the room. The lighting device further includes a light-transmitting protection cover configured to cover the light-emitting surfaces of the first organic electroluminescence element modules.

Abstract: A shake correcting device can correct a shake occurring on a target device. The shake correcting device includes an angular velocity detector, a DC component detector, a controller, a panning detector, and a storage unit. When the panning detector changes from a state in which the panning is detected to a state in which the panning is not detected, the controller controls the DC component detector to output the value of a DC component of angular velocity of the target device stored in the storage unit when the panning detector does not detect panning, and then controls the DC component detector to output a DC component based on angular velocity of the target device detected by the angular velocity detector.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first activation signal generator, a second activation signal generator, a third activation signal generator, a first controller including a first input terminal to which the first and second activation signals are input, and a second input terminal to which the first and third activation signals are input, a second controller that is activated by the first controller. The first controller activates the second controller when any activation signal is input. The second controller detects the first and/or second activation signal after completing its activation and executes a specific operation according to the detection result. The length of the first activation signal is set to not less than the time required for the second controller to become able to detect the first activation signal after the first activation signal starts to be output.

Abstract: An electronic device can communicate with an external device according to a predetermined method. The electronic device includes a power switch operable to receive an operation for switching on and off the electronic device, a detector operable to detect a connection between the electronic device and the external device according to the predetermined method, and a requestor operable to request the external device to supply power. When the detector detects the connection between the electronic device and the external device with the power switch being ON, the requestor does not request the external device to supply the power in an establishing process for establishing the communication with the external device. When the detector detects the connection between the electronic device and the external device and the power switch is switched from ON into OFF, the requestor requests the external device to supply the power in the establishing process.

Abstract: An image editing apparatus includes: a processor that: (i) generates an editing information indicating a content of editing applied to at least one of frames included in a video stream, and performs an editing process in which the editing is applied to the at least one frame; (ii) specifies a subject frame to be edited from among the frames, based on the editing information; and (iii) generates a thumbnail for the subject frame to which the editing has been applied, and outputs the generated thumbnail.

Abstract: A DC receptacle has, in a housing, a pair of connection sockets with which a pair of connection terminals of a plug used in a DC electrical equipment is adapted to be detachably electrically connected. The DC receptacle includes a circuit opening/closing unit configured to open or close a power line; and a connection verification unit for verifying the connection of the plug to the receptacle. The circuit opening/closing unit opens or closes the power line depending on the connection state between the plug and the receptacle detected by the connection verification unit.

Abstract: A communication device including an image capturing device having a RF-ID unit for performing proximity wireless communication with a RF-ID reader/writer connected via an infrared communication path to a TV. The image capturing device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication; a data receiving unit receiving an input signal from the RF-ID reader/writer; a nonvolatile second memory storing at least UID and an execution program; and a data transmission unit transmitting the UID and the execution program to the RF-ID reader/writer via the antenna according to the input signal. The UID is used to identify the communication device, and the execution program is executed by the TV with reference to the UID. The transmitted UID and execution program are transferred to the TV via the RF-ID reader/writer.

Abstract: A congestion estimating apparatus includes an area dividing unit that divides a moving image into partial areas. A movement information determining unit determines whether there is movement, and a person information determining unit determines whether there is a person, in each partial area. A staying determining unit determines a state for each partial area. The staying determining unit determines the state as a movement area in which there is a movement of person when there is movement and there is a person; and determines the state as a noise area when there is movement and there is no person; and determines the state as a staying area in which there is a person who is staying when there is no movement and there is a person; and determines the state as a background area in which there is no person when there is no movement and there no person.

Abstract: A connection cable includes a cable-side connector, a cable body, a cover member, and a locking member. The cover member is configured to define a gap between the cable-side connector and the cover member such that a bulb-side connector is fitted to the gap when the cable-side connector is connected to the bulb-side connector. The locking member includes a slide portion arranged to slide along an outer circumferential surface of the cover member. The slide portion is provided with a protrusion extending through the cover member and engaging with a locking hole formed in the bulb-side connector. The slide portion is configured such that, when the slide portion is caused to slide, the protrusion is moved away from the cable-side connector and disengaged from the locking hole.

Abstract: In the present disclosure, before disassembly of liquid crystal module (1) having liquid crystal panel (2) and a back light, irradiation is performed with X-rays (13) from the front surface side of liquid crystal panel (2) of liquid crystal module (1). By this irradiation with X-rays (13), generated fluorescent X-rays (14) are detected to analyze an element contained in liquid crystal panel (2), while X-rays (17) backscattered or transmitted to the rear surface side of liquid crystal module (1) are detected to determine a type and a state of the back light. Then, based on the determined type and state of the back light, liquid crystal module (1) is disassembled.

Abstract: An imaging device comprises a combination imaging mode. In combination imaging mode, recording-use image data is produced by capturing and combining a plurality of sets of image data. The imaging device further comprises a controller. The controller selects at least one set of image data from the plurality of sets of image data when it is determined in the combination imaging mode that the plurality of sets of image data are image data that do not satisfy a specific condition. The controller also produces the recording-use image data based on the one or more sets of image data.

Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e?j(?/2)” so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).