Abstract: A display device having a highly reliable electrostatic capacitive type touch panel which allows finger touch inputting and possesses excellent detection sensitivity is provided. With respect to X electrodes and Y electrodes which are formed on an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel, either one of the X electrodes and the Y electrodes is divided corresponding to a ratio between the number of X electrodes and the number of Y electrodes, and a floating electrode is formed in gaps formed along with the reduction of area of the electrode thus adjusting the area of the electrode. Due to the contraction of the area of the individual electrode, a noise level can be lowered more compared to lowering of a signal level and hence, an S/N ratio can be increased thus enhancing the detection sensitivity.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of the present invention includes a LCD panel and a resin-molded frame that houses the LCD panel, the LCD panel including first and second substrates, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates. The two-dimensional shapes of the first and second substrates are rectangles having longer and shorter sides, the longer side of the first substrate being longer than that of the second substrate. The first substrate has a non-overlapping area that does not overlap with the second substrate. Among the four corners of the first substrate, the non-overlapping area of the first substrate has two corners adjacent to each other. At least one of the two corners forms a chamfered structure having a diagonal side that intersects the longer and shorter sides of the first substrate with the diagonal side inclined to the longer and shorter sides.

Abstract: A gas turbine includes a shaft directional passage provided to a rotating member that rotates along a central axis of a rotor, which is a rotating axis of the rotating member, about the central axis, or a rotating axis of the rotating member, and in which cooling air flows along a direction of the rotating axis of the rotor, a plurality of radial directional passages provided in a circumferential direction of the rotating member, and compressing the cooling air by being provided outwardly from the center of the rotor, in which one end of each of the radial directional passages is communicated with the shaft directional passage and the other end is communicated with exterior of the rotating member.

Abstract: The present invention includes an introducing passage that is provided within a turbine stationary blade fixed within a turbine casing and that communicates an interior of the turbine casing with an exterior thereof; a nozzle that is provided in an inner circumference of the turbine stationary blade in a manner that the nozzle communicates with the introducing passage and that includes an outlet facing the opening of the rotor cavity and a swirler at the outlet; and a pressurizing passage that communicates a cooling passage with a rotor cavity. In this arrangement, the outlet of the nozzle and the connecting opening of the pressurizing passage are arranged so that distances of the outlet and of the connecting opening from the central axis line in the radial direction of the rotor are the same distance r.

Abstract: A display-and-image-pickup apparatus includes: a display-and-image-pickup panel having an image display function and an image pickup function; an image producing means for producing a predetermined processed image on the basis of a picked-up image of a proximity object obtained through the use of the display-and-image-pickup panel; an image processing means for obtaining information about the proximity object through selectively using one of two obtaining modes on the basis of at least one of the picked-up image and the processed image; and a switching means for switching processes so that, in the case where the parameter is increasing, one of the two obtaining modes is switched to the other obtaining mode when the parameter reaches a threshold value, and in the case where the parameter is decreasing, the other obtaining mode is switched to the one obtaining mode when the parameter reaches a smaller threshold value.

Abstract: LCD device including: a first LCD panel for displaying an image in a transmission mode; a second LCD panel for displaying an image in a reflection mode; and a power supply circuit for supplying a first counter voltage for displaying in the transmission mode to a first counter electrode of the first LCD panel and a second counter voltage for displaying in the reflection mode to a second counter electrode of the second LCD panel, wherein the first counter voltage and the second counter voltage are at voltage levels mutually different from one another.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with both functions of transmission-mode display and reflection-mode display is capable of providing an improved display quality in each display mode, to thereby obtain on-screen display images of high quality in either one of the display modes. The liquid crystal display device includes a scan signal line drive circuit operable to apply a scan signal to a number of scan signal lines, an image/video signal line drive circuit which applies an image signal to a number of image signal lines, and a power supply circuit for supplying necessary voltages to the scan signal line drive circuit and image signal line drive circuit. The power supply circuit includes a counter electrode voltage generation circuit for selecting a voltage optimized for a respective display mode of the transmission mode and the reflection mode to thereby apply the selected voltage to a counter electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display panel having a display function and a light-receiving/imaging function; a first image processing section configured to generate a detection signal that indicates whether a to-be-detected object has been detected based on a result of first image processing performed on an image taken by the light-receiving/imaging function; a second image processing section configured to perform second image processing on the image processed by the first image processing section, the second image processing having a heavier processing load than the first image processing; and a control section configured to control an operation of the second image processing section in accordance with the detection signal generated by the first image processing section, and, when it is determined that the processing by the second image processing section is not necessary, control the second image processing section to enter a sleep state.

Abstract: An information device (300) includes: first judgment elements (304) for judging whether an information recording device specified by circumstances information (400a) recorded on a second recording medium (100) coincides with the information recording device which has performed MOVE process; and control elements (307) for controlling display elements (305, etc.) so as to display that the first content information (HD content) can be reproduced if the coincidence is confirmed by the first judgment elements, controlling the content information generation elements (308, etc.) so as to generate first content information according to the circumstances information, and controlling the reproducing elements (310, etc.) so as to reproduce the generated first content information.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of the present invention includes a LCD panel and a resin-molded frame that houses the LCD panel, the LCD panel including first and second substrates, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates. The two-dimensional shapes of the first and second substrates are rectangles having longer and shorter sides, the longer side of the first substrate being longer than that of the second substrate. The first substrate has a non-overlapping area that does not overlap with the second substrate. Among the four corners of the first substrate, the non-overlapping area of the first substrate has two corners adjacent to each other. At least one of the two corners forms a chamfered structure having a diagonal side that intersects the longer and shorter sides of the first substrate with the diagonal side inclined to the longer and shorter sides.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a reproduction unit, a display screen, and a display control unit. The reproduction unit reproduces at least a part of image data of an image content in a shorter time than a playback time of the image content. The display control unit controls the display screen to display reproduction state information indicative of a reproduction state of the image data reproduced by the reproduction unit in an associated manner with identification information to identify the image content.

Abstract: An information record apparatus includes: a down-convert device for down-converting a first content information having a first reproduction quality recorded in a first record medium into a second content information having a second reproduction quality which is lower quality than the first reproduction quality; a first record device for recording the second content information into a second record medium; a first delete device for deleting the first content information recorded in the first record medium, if the second content information is recorded in the second record medium; and a scramble device for generating scramble information by scrambling the first content information, on the basis of a predetermined scramble key.

Abstract: An information record apparatus includes: a down-convert device for down-converting a first content information having a first reproduction quality (HD) into a second content information having a second reproduction quality (SD) which is lower quality than the first reproduction quality; a scramble device for generating scramble information by scrambling the first content information, on the basis of a predetermined scramble key; and a first record device for recording the second content information and the scramble information into a first record medium.

Abstract: When new software is stored in a server device (400), the software is stored in a preset free area (441B), and time information on time and date when the software is stored in association with information on the update file name in the free area (441B) to provide a new free area (441B). When a terminal unit (300) starts up, information on updating date fetched from the server device (400) when the software has been stored in advance, as well as information on update file names concerning software to be updated next is provided in information on update demand using If-Modified-Since of the HTTP to make the information transmitted to the server device (400). The server device (400) transmits the software to be stored in an update data area (441A) in the information on update file names having the time information more recent than the information on update data as software to be updated to the terminal unit (300).

Abstract: A gas turbine blade ring is cooled by steam whose temperature, pressure and flow rate are controlled so that a clearance between a moving blade tip and blade ring is maintained appropriately. Steam from a steam turbine bottoming cycle (10) flows into a blade ring cooling passage (8) of a gas turbine (1) via piping (12) for cooling the blade ring. The steam, having cooled the blade ring, is supplied into a transition piece cooling passage (9) of a combustor (3) for cooling the transition piece, and is then recovered into the steam turbine bottoming cycle (10) via piping (14). While the steam cools the blade ring, the temperature, pressure and flow rate of the steam are controlled so that thermal elongation of the blade ring is adjusted and the clearance at the moving blade tip is controlled so as to approach a target value. Thus, the clearance is maintained as small as possible in operation and the gas turbine performance is enhanced.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can enlarge an effective display region without lowering a light quantity and can reduce a thickness and a weight thereof. A thin-film spacers having resiliency is arranged in the inside of a metal frame for holding a liquid crystal display panel. The spacer includes protrusions and a liquid crystal display panel is fixed by utilizing the resiliency of the protrusions. Further, by using resin material having high reflectance as a material of the spacer, it is possible to suppress the leaking of light from a light guide plate so that the lowering of luminance of the liquid crystal display device can be obviated.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with both functions of transmission-mode display and reflection-mode display is disclosed, which device is capable of improving the display quality in each display mode to thereby obtain on-screen display images of high quality in either one of the display modes. The liquid crystal display device includes a scan signal line drive circuit operable to apply a scan signal to a number of scan signal lines, an image/video signal line drive circuit which applies an image signal to a number of image signal lines, and a power supply circuit for supplying necessary voltages to the scan signal line drive circuit and image signal line drive circuit. The power supply circuit includes a counter voltage generation circuit for selecting a voltage optimized for a respective display mode of the transmission mode and the reflection mode to thereby apply the selected voltage to a counter electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can enlarge an effective display region without lowering a light quantity and can reduce a thickness and a weight thereof. A thin-film spacers having resiliency is arranged in the inside of a metal frame for holding a liquid crystal display panel. The spacer includes protrusions and a liquid crystal display panel is fixed by utilizing the resiliency of the protrusions. Further, by using resin material having high reflectance as a material of the spacer, it is possible to suppress the leaking of light from a light guide plate so that the lowering of luminance of the liquid crystal display device can be obviated.

Abstract: Gas turbine blade ring is cooled by steam of which temperature, pressure and flow rate are controlled so that clearance between moving blade tip and blade ring is maintained appropriately. Steam from steam turbine bottoming cycle (10) flows into blade ring cooling passage (8) of gas turbine (1) via piping (12) for cooling blade ring. The steam having cooled the blade ring is supplied into transition piece cooling passage (9) of combustor (3) for cooling transition piece and is then recovered into the steam turbine bottoming cycle (10) via piping (14). While the steam cools the blade ring, temperature, pressure and flow rate of the steam are controlled so that thermal elongation of the blade ring is adjusted and the clearance at the moving blade tip is controlled so as to approach target value. Thus, the clearance is maintained as small as possible in operation and gas turbine performance is enhanced.

Abstract: A monochromator for radiant X-rays is composed of a first crystal which has a first surface of incidence having a concave letter V-shaped groove and cooling means for flowing a cooling material behind the first surface of incidence along the letter V-shaped groove, and a second crystal which has a second surface of incidence having a letter V-shaped convex. A parallel pencil of X-rays which impinges on the first surface of incidence elongates to a half-ellipse on the first surface of incidence and reflects in parallel therefrom to the second surface of incidence. Then, a pencil of emissive X-rays having the same size as the initial parallel pencil of X-rays exits the second surface of incidence to become useful light. The monochromator for radiant X-rays which has a high cooling efficiency, is easy to adjust, provides a pencil of emissive X-rays stably and highly accurately. The monochromator is easy to use and economical, and allows easy maintenance.