Abstract: A backlight includes: a light guide plate including a front surface and a back surface, the light guide plate including an end face that connects one edge of the front surface and one edge of the back surface, at least part of the end face being inclined at an angle other than a right angle relative to the front surface; and a light source that emits light, the light source being set in an arrangement enabling emission of the light parallel to the front surface towards the at least part of the end face of the light guide plate, wherein the light is incident on and refracted at the at least part of the end face, propagates inside a material of the light guide plate, is reflected off the back surface, and is surface-emitted from the front surface.

Abstract: The purpose is to reduce a color shift around an ultraviolet LED in a backlight using the ultraviolet LED and a QD sheet, viewed in a plane. The structure is: A display device having a display panel and a backlight, the backlight including a light source in which ultraviolet LEDs are arranged in a plane and in a matrix with a first interval, and a QD sheet covering the light source; the QD sheet being dispersed with red quantum dots, green quantum dots, and blue quantum dots, emitting light in response to ultraviolet light, the QD sheet having a first region and a second region arranged in a ring shape to surround the ultraviolet LED in a plan view, more of the red quantum dots, the green quantum dots, or the blue quantum dots being dispersed in the second region than in the first region.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to cause an information display unit to blink with a predetermined blinking pattern. The information display unit is arranged on a vehicle such that a user of the vehicle is able to see the information display unit from outside of the vehicle. The processor is configured to transmit to a terminal of the user blinking pattern information which causes at least part of a display screen of the terminal of the user to blink in the same pattern as the predetermined blinking pattern.

Abstract: A display device includes: point light sources emitting light of different colors; light guides each of which includes an end face facing a corresponding one of the point light sources, a first surface connected to the end face, and a second surface diagonally facing the end face and the first surface, the light being incident on the end face and undergoing internal reflection, between the first and second surfaces, and linear pattern emission from the first surface; and a display panel including a side surface that faces the first surface and on which the light is incident, front and back surfaces, and a converter that changes a traveling direction of the light, for each pixel of the image, propagating away from the side surface internally between the front and back surfaces, to a direction toward the display surface.

Abstract: A display system mounted on a vehicle that travels in a driving mode selected from among a plurality of driving modes having different degrees of autonomy of driving tasks, the display system includes: a display unit configured to display information to a driver; and a control unit configured to execute at least one of setting a refresh interval of predetermined information displayed on the display unit to be longer than that before a driving mode change and setting visibility of the predetermined information to be lower than that before the driving mode change, when a degree of autonomy decreases due to the driving mode change.

Abstract: A processing condition selection method includes a step (S21) and a step (S22). In the step (S21), a thickness pattern TM that represents a distribution of thicknesses measured at respective measurement points on a target is compared to pre-stored reference patterns (RP) to specify a reference pattern (RP) having a high correlation with the thickness pattern (TM) from among the reference patterns (RP) based on a prescriptive rule. In the step (S22), a reference processing condition associated with the specified reference pattern (RP) is acquired as a processing condition for the target from among reference processing conditions associated with the respective reference patterns (RP). The reference patterns (RP) each represent a distribution of physical quantities of a corresponding one of reference targets.

Abstract: A display device includes: a steering non-holding recognition unit configured to recognize a steering non-holding state in which a driver of the vehicle does not hold steady a steering wheel of the vehicle based on detection result of a steering sensor of the vehicle; and a display control unit configured to display the vehicle surroundings image on the display unit based on detection result of an external sensor of the vehicle. The display control unit reduces visibility of the vehicle surroundings image in the display unit when the steering non-holding state continues for a predetermined first period or longer, compared to visibility of the vehicle surroundings image when the steering non-holding state does not continue for the first period or longer, during execution of autonomous driving control in which the driver is required to visually confirm a surrounding environment.

Abstract: A display device includes an image generation unit configured to generate a status image presented to a driver of the vehicle, the status image representing to a current status of the vehicle and surroundings of the vehicle; a map information acquisition unit configured to acquire the map information and recognize an acquisition status of the map information; a display mode setting unit configured to set a display mode; and a display control unit configured to display the status image on a display unit in the display mode. The acquisition status includes a first case, a second case, and a third case in which the map information is temporarily unavailable. The display mode setting unit sets the display mode so that the display mode of the first case, the second case and the third case are different from each other.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes one or more processors configured to: on a travel route of an autonomous driving taxi configured to travel toward a desired drop-off position of a user of the autonomous driving taxi, set a predetermined travel route range from a point behind the desired drop-off position to the desired drop-off position, as a permissible midway drop-off range in which midway drop-off from the autonomous driving taxi is permitted; receive a setting about a midway drop-off position in the permissible midway drop-off range, the setting being made by the user in the autonomous driving taxi configured to travel toward the desired drop-off position; and stop the autonomous driving taxi at the midway drop-off position set by the user such that the user drops off the autonomous driving taxi midway.

Abstract: An information processing device includes one or more processors configured to: set, as a travel destination of a vehicle, a point where an occupant of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle to transfer from the vehicle to a regularly operated transportation facility; acquire delay information indicating occurrence of a delay of the regularly operated transportation facility or occurrence of an event that causes a delay in travel of the vehicle to the travel destination; and change the travel destination of the vehicle based on the delay information.

Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus and a substrate treating method. The substrate treating apparatus includes a treating unit and a controller. The treating unit includes a substrate holder, a rotation driving unit, a treatment liquid supplying unit, a liquid collecting unit, and a guard driving unit. The substrate holder holds a substrate in a horizontal posture. The rotation driving unit rotates the substrate holder. The liquid collecting unit includes a first guard, a second guard, and a liquid inlet. The first guard and the second guard are arranged so as to surround the substrate holder laterally. The liquid inlet is defined by the guards. The liquid inlet is open toward the substrate held by the substrate holder. The guard driving unit moves the second guard in a vertical direction. The controller controls the guard driving unit in accordance with the shape of the substrate held by the substrate holder, thereby changing a height position of an upper end of the liquid inlet.

Abstract: A backlight includes a light source in which blue LEDs are planarly arranged in a matrix with a first interval, and a color conversion sheet disposed covering the light source. First red quantum dots that receive blue light and emit red light, and first green quantum dots that receive blue light and emit green light are dispersed in the color conversion sheet. An RG quantum dot layer, in which second red quantum dots that receive blue light and emit red light and second green quantum dots that receive blue light and emit green light are dispersed, is disposed around each of the blue LEDs in planar view.

Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a liquid film forming step of forming a liquid film, a liquid film heat retaining step of keeping the liquid film warm, a gas phase layer forming step of forming a gas phase layer which holds the processing liquid on a center portion of the liquid film, an opening forming step of forming an opening in the center portion of the liquid film by excluding the processing liquid held by the gas phase layer, a substrate rotating step of rotating the substrate around a rotation axis, and an opening expanding step of expanding the opening, while a state in which the gas phase layer is formed on an inner circumferential edge of the liquid film is maintained, by moving the irradiation region toward a circumferential edge portion of the substrate while the liquid film heat retaining step and the substrate rotating step are performed.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a movement route receiving unit, an operation-related information acquiring unit, and a display control unit. The movement route receiving unit configured to receive, from an outside, a movement route of a passenger of a vehicle that includes transfer from the vehicle to a scheduled transportation system. The operation-related information acquiring unit configured to acquire operation-related information of the scheduled transportation system to which the passenger is expected to transfer. The display control unit configured to display the operation-related information on a display screen disposed in a cabin of the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention has been made to reduce a yellow shift around blue LEDs in a backlight including the blue LEDs and a color conversion sheet. Provided is a backlight including a light source including blue LEDs arranged in a matrix, on a plane, at first intervals, and a color conversion sheet arranged to cover the light source, in which red quantum dots that emit red light in response to blue light and green quantum dots that emit green light in response to blue light are dispersed in the color conversion sheet, short-wavelength LEDs that emit light of a shorter wavelength than that of blue light are arranged near the blue LEDs, and blue quantum dots that emit blue light in response to the short-wavelength light are arranged in the color conversion sheet, at positions overlapping the short-wavelength LEDs in plan view.

Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a liquid film forming step of forming a liquid film, a liquid film heat retaining step of keeping the liquid film warm, a gas phase layer forming step of forming a gas phase layer which holds the processing liquid on a center portion of the liquid film, an opening forming step of forming an opening in the center portion of the liquid film by excluding the processing liquid held by the gas phase layer, a substrate rotating step of rotating the substrate around a rotation axis, and an opening expanding step of expanding the opening, while a state in which the gas phase layer is formed on an inner circumferential edge of the liquid film is maintained, by moving the irradiation region toward a circumferential edge portion of the substrate while the liquid film heat retaining step and the substrate rotating step are performed.

Abstract: In a vehicle enabling automated driving, if the value of at least one jam related parameter changing in accordance with a jam degree of surroundings of the vehicle is a value showing a jam degree lower than a reference value corresponding to a reference jam degree, the vehicle is driven in a first driving mode, and if the value of the jam related parameter is a value showing a jam degree higher than the reference value, the vehicle is driven in a second driving mode with a lower degree of contribution of the driver to driving than the first driving mode. A notification device used in the vehicle has a notification control part showing on a display device of the vehicle a display relating to the value of the jam related parameter and the reference value.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a display device of high definition and high contrast by applying an accurate local dimming. The structure of the invention is as follows. A display device including: a display panel and a back light, in which the back light includes a light source and an optical sheet group, the light source includes a light source substrate and LEDs disposed on the light source substrate, the light source is divided into segments in a plan view, at least one of the LEDs is disposed in a segment, the light source substrate and the LEDs are covered by a transparent resin, and a groove like gap is formed in the transparent resin along a border between the segments.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus, a substrate processing system, and a data processing method are provided. A substrate processing apparatus (100) includes a thickness gauge (8), a controller (102), and storage (103). The thickness gauge (8) measures the thickness of an object (TG) included in a substrate (W). The controller (102) enters input data in a trained model (LM), thereby causing the trained model (LM) to output processing conditions. The storage (103) stores reference data (RE) acquired based on pieces of training data (LD) used to construct the trained model (LM). The controller (102) acquires pre-processing measurement data indicating the thickness of the object (TG) before the substrate processing is performed, and creates input data based on target data indicating a target value for the thickness of the object (TG) and the pre-processing measurement data. The controller (102) compares the input data and the reference data (RE) to determine whether or not to perform the substrate processing.

Abstract: A substrate processing method includes supplying a chemical solution to a surface of a substrate (step S11), supplying a rinse liquid to the surface of the substrate after step S11 (step S12), bringing a heated dry processing liquid to the surface of the substrate after step S12 (step S14), and drying the substrate by removing the dry processing liquid from the surface of the substrate (step S15). The dry processing liquid has a lower surface tension than the rinse liquid. The boiling point of the dry processing liquid is higher than the boiling point of the rinse liquid. The dry processing liquid that comes in contact with the surface of the substrate in step S14 has a temperature that is a predetermined contact temperature higher than or equal to the boiling point of the rinse liquid and lower than the boiling point of the dry processing liquid.