Abstract: The present invention provides a sensor device and an electronic apparatus each of which does not make malfunction derived from outside ambient light such as sunlight. In the sensor device, an ADC outputs, to one of two input terminals of a comparison circuit, second data which is a digital value ADCOUT corresponding to a current Iin?I1 being the result of subtraction from a current I1 from a current Iin and which is larger than a threshold Data_th.

Abstract: A video display device and a video view system with which occurrence of crosstalk can be avoided in stereoscopic video images. The device has a liquid crystal panel on which the video image for the left eye corresponding to the video signal for the left eye and the video image for the right eye corresponding to the video signal for the right eye are displayed, and a driving unit which drives the liquid crystal panel by executing at least two times of write-scanning respectively according to the driving amount based on the respective video signal for the left or right eye, wherein in each write-scanning, the driving unit performs an overdrive operation in which the liquid crystal panel is driven according to a driving amount based on a target luminance.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a rate control section that performs rate control of output data by preferentially deleting lower-level-side coded data, as necessary, from respective pieces of coded data where respective bit-planes with levels higher than a predetermined level of a bit-plane group, in which coefficient data obtained by orthogonally transforming image data is developed in a bit depth direction, are coded; and a synthesizing section that generates the output data by synthesizing the coded data, from which the lower-level-side coded data is preferentially deleted as necessary by the rate control section, and respective bit-planes with levels lower than the predetermined level of the bit-plane group.

Abstract: There is provided a cover coupling structure including: a coupling groove that is provided to an elongated shaped tonneau cover apparatus including a tonneau cover, the coupling groove including a coupling portion coupled to one end of a sheet-form cover, and an opening portion that is open to the outer peripheral side of the tonneau cover apparatus and is in communication with the coupling portion; an anchor portion provided to the one end of the cover and coupling the one end of the cover to the coupling portion by anchoring to the coupling portion; and a resiliently deformable portion that anchors the anchor portion to the coupling portion, and is set with an external profile dimension along a direction orthogonal to a first face of the cover that is larger than the height dimension of the opening portion when the resiliently deformable portion has been resiliently deformed.

Abstract: A multi-layer printed circuit board including a first insulating layer, a first conductor layer having circuits on one surface of the first insulating layer, a second conductor layer having circuits on the opposite surface of the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer on the second conductor and first insulating layers, and a third conductor layer having circuits on the second insulating layer on the opposite side of the second conductor layer. The first and second insulating layers have first and second via holes formed in openings of the first and second insulating layers and made of conductive materials filling the openings such that circuits in the first and third conductor layers are connected to one or more circuits in the second conductor layer, and the first and second via holes have bottom ends facing the second conductor layer and top ends larger than the bottom ends.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film containing a cellulose acylate and a carbohydrate derivative satisfying that the Clog P value thereof is from 0 to 5.5 and the maximum value of the molar extinction coefficient thereof in a wavelength range of from 230 nm to 700 nm is at most 50×103, wherein the hydroxyl groups in the carbohydrate derivative are substituted with at least two types of substituents and at least one of the substituents has at least one aromatic ring, and wherein the carbohydrate derivative is contained in an amount of from 1 part by mass to 30 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the cellulose acylate therein has a low water content, capable of preventing the deterioration of polarizer when it is stuck to polarizer and aged in high-temperature and high-humidity environments, having good optical characteristics expressibility and having a low haze.

Abstract: A pair of main-view and sub-view video streams, a graphics stream, and playlist information are recorded on a BD-ROM disc. The sub-view video stream includes metadata arranged in each GOP. The metadata includes a correspondence table associating offset identifiers and offset information. The offset information defines offset control for each picture in a GOP. Offset control is processing to provide a left offset and right offset for the horizontal coordinates in a graphics plane to generate a pair of graphics planes that are respectively combined with main-view and sub-view video planes. The playlist information includes a stream selection table for each playback section. When the stream selection table associates a stream number with a packet identifier of a graphics stream, one of the offset identifiers is further allocated to the stream number.

Abstract: A fuel cell power generation system including a fuel cell, a fuel generator, an oxidizing gas supply device, an output controller, an open-close mechanism, and a controller. The controller is configured such that in a stop process, the controller controls the output controller to stop supplying the electric power to an external load; controls the oxidizing gas supply device to stop supplying an oxidizing gas and controls the open-close mechanism to close a passage upstream from an oxidizing gas channel; after the passage upstream from the oxidizing gas channel is closed, stops a raw material gas supply device and a water supply device when a predetermined period has elapsed, during which period a gas in the oxidizing gas channel is replaced by a fuel gas.

Abstract: In order to reduce the number of components in the optical pointing device, and the number of steps for assembling, bonding, etc. the components, a light guide (24) according to the present invention for use in an optical pointing device (30) is configured to include a redirecting element (12) for receiving light from a touch surface (11) and reflecting the light so as to guide the light into a horizontal direction, and an image forming section (14) for receiving the reflected light and reflecting the reflected light to an opposite direction backward to the horizontal direction, so as to form an image of the light, the light guide (24) outputting the image of the light from a light output section.

Abstract: A liquid developer includes: a carrier liquid and toner particles dispersed in the carrier liquid, including a binder resin which contains a thermoplastic resin having repeating units derived from a monomer having a styrene skeleton and repeating units derived from a monomer having an acrylic ester structure, and a thermoplastic elastomer resin that is a block copolymer, the block copolymer having a first block portion including repeating units derived from a monomer having a styrene skeleton, a second block portion including repeating units derived from an alkene having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and a third block portion including repeating units derived from a monomer having a styrene skeleton and these block portions being bonded in this order.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a printing media recycling apparatus includes a printing-medium feeding section, a scanner section configured to read an image of printing medium and generate image data, the decoloring section configured to decolor an image formed of a decolorable recording material on the printing medium, a decoloring-processing-execution determining section configured to determine whether the execution of decoloring processing is appropriate for the printing medium or the execution of the decoloring processing is unnecessary based on the image data generated in the scanner section, a decoloring determining section configured to determine a decolored state of the printing medium after the execution of the decoloring processing by the decoloring section, and a diverting-section-switching control section configured to switch a diverting section to lead the printing medium to a predetermined discharge tray.

Abstract: A backlight device, used in a liquid crystal display device, comprising: a substrate including first and second areas; a plurality of first light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged in the first area at a density equal to or higher than a predetermined density; a plurality of second LEDs arranged in the second area at a density lower than the predetermined density; and a control unit configured to control current supplied to the first LEDs with respect to the temperature of the first area, and current supplied to the second LEDs with respect to the temperature of the second area so as to make the rate of change in effective value of the current supplied to the first LEDs different from the rate of change in effective value of the current supplied to the second LEDs when temperatures of the first and second areas are higher than a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a control signal system for avoiding failure to check an indefinite signal propagation prevention circuit, for facilitating a check included in an automated tool, and for facilitating a power shutdown control inside a chip. In the semiconductor integrated circuit device, power shutdown priorities are provided by independent power domains (Area A to Area I). A method for preventing a power domain having a lower priority from being turned OFF when a circuit having a high priority is turned ON is also provided.

Abstract: Provided is construction of a steering apparatus for an automobile that is capable of simplifying tuning for stabilizing forward displacement in the forward direction of a steering wheel during a secondary collision, and preventing damage to the component members of the section that supports a bracket 12b on the column side with respect to the bracket 11 on the vehicle side. In construction where the bracket on the vehicle side 11 and the bracket 12b on the column side are connected at only one location in the center section in the width direction of the both brackets by a locking capsule, the top edges of a pair of protruding sections 63 that protrude to both the left and right sides of the bracket 12b on the column side closely face the bottom edge of a bent section 56 of the bracket 11 on the vehicle side.

Abstract: A differential signal transmission cable has a pair of conductors arranged to be distant from each other and parallel to each other, an insulator covering the pair of conductors, and a shield conductor wound around the insulator. The insulator has an outer periphery shape of a transversal cross section in that a plurality of curved lines with different curvature radiuses are combined. The shield conductor has an inner periphery shape of a transversal cross section in that the plurality of curved lines are combined in accordance with the outer periphery shape of the insulator.

Abstract: A semiconductor device evaluation apparatus includes a current measurement portion that measures a current value at multiple times included in a period from the beginning of application of a voltage to a semiconductor device to a steady state of the current value flowing through the semiconductor device; a period division portion that divides the period into a first period and a second period later than the first period and finds a curve approximately representing a temporal change in a current value measured at time included in the second period so that a difference between a current value measured at the time included in the first period and a current value found by extrapolating the curve at the same time becomes greater than a specified threshold value; and a current estimation portion that estimates a current value flowing through the semiconductor device at the start time.

Abstract: A PLG-ECU for external charging is provided separately from an HV-ECU for vehicle running, and configured to be capable of controlling external charging relays to be turned on/off. A sub DC/DC converter converting the output voltage of a charger into an auxiliary system voltage at the time of external charging is provided separately from a main DC/DC converter of large capacity used at the time of vehicle running. At the time of external charging, PLG-ECU can execute external charging without starting a vehicle running system while sub DC/DC converter can generate an auxiliary system voltage. Since external charging can be executed while system main relays each are kept turned off, a high voltage is not applied to components at the succeeding stage. Consequently, a main battery can be externally charged without exerting any influence on the durability and the life of each component of the vehicle running system.

Abstract: A portable terminal is provided with: a display device; a sensor configured to detect the orientation or position of the portable terminal; a data storage unit configured to store data; and a display control unit configured to display on the display device an icon or object that corresponds to the data stored in the data storage unit. The display control unit acquires information regarding the orientation or position of the portable terminal from the sensor and determines a display mode of the icon or object in accordance with a change in the orientation or position of the portable terminal.

Abstract: A heat dissipating structure for heating element includes a heating element having a heat generating element for generating heat by being driven, and a first plate member and a second plate member bonded to one surface of the heating element so as to be stacked together. The first plate member has a cutout portion opened to penetrate therethrough and is bonded to the heating element so as to block the cutout portion, the second plate member has a protruding portion fitted to the cutout portion of the first plate member, the protruding portion being structured to penetrate through the cutout portion to be bonded to the heating element, and a modulus of longitudinal elasticity of a material constituting the first plate member is larger than a modulus of longitudinal elasticity of a material constituting the second plate member.

Abstract: Touchscreen testing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a piece of conductor (e.g., metal) is positioned as proximal to a touchscreen device and the touchscreen device is tested by simulating a touch of a user. This technique may be utilized to perform a variety of different testing of a touchscreen device, such as to test latency and probabilistic latency. Additional techniques are also described including contact geometry testing techniques.