Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display panel and a polarizing plate. The display panel comprises a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a light-shielding layer arranged in the display area and the non-display area. The polarizing plate is provided on a surface of the display panel, and including an end portion located in the non-display area. In this display device, the light-shielding layer opposite to the end portion of the polarizing plate is at least partially removed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate and a counter substrate that are disposed opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer in between. The TFT substrate has, an organic passivation film formed covering the TFT, and a pixel electrode and a common electrode formed on the organic passivation film, the organic passivation film having a through-hole to connect the pixel electrode and the TFT. A columnar spacer is formed on the counter substrate to define a distance between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate. A planarization film made of resin is formed in the through-hole. A recess is formed in the through-hole by a surface of the planarization film and a sidewall of the through-hole. A tip end of the columnar spacer exists in the recess.

Abstract: A translation device comprises: a memory that stores first dictionary information including a replacement target term in a first language and a translated word in a second language for the replacement target term in association with each other, and second dictionary information including an alternative term instead of the replacement target term; a controller that replaces the replacement target term included in an input sentence with the alternative term to generate a replaced sentence; and a communication interface that outputs the replaced sentence to an external device and acquires a translation result of the replaced sentence in the second language from the external device. The controller detects a specific character string in the translation result of the replaced sentence acquired from the communication interface, and replaces the detected character string with a translated word associated with the replacement target term in the first dictionary information, to generate a translated sentence.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a facing area, a liquid crystal layer, and a first spacer. The facing area includes a first area for displaying an image, a second area, and a frame-shaped frame area. The second substrate includes a light-shielding layer. The second area is an area having higher transparency than transparency of the first area. The liquid crystal layer is located in the second area, the frame area, and the first area. The first spacer is located in the second area and is provided on the first substrate or the second substrate.

Abstract: In order to avoid generation of black unevenness caused by the water intrusion into a liquid crystal display device, there is to provide a liquid crystal display device including a display area and a terminal portion, in which a TFT substrate with an organic passivation film formed and an opposite substrate are adhered to each other by a seal portion and a liquid crystal is enclosed there, wherein in the seal portion of the TFT substrate, a groove-shaped through-hole is formed in the organic passivation film to surround the display area, a water absorption layer formed of the same material in the same process as that of the organic passivation film is formed within the groove-shaped through-hole, and the water absorption layer is not covered with the inorganic insulating film.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, A display device includes a first substrate includes an inorganic insulating film, a first wiring formed above the inorganic insulating film, an organic insulating film located above the inorganic insulating film and the first wiring, and a driver electrically connected to the first wiring, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, and a sealant fixing the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the sealant comprises a first seal portion formed along a first edge of the first substrate and a second seal portion which crosses the first seal portion, and the first seal portion has a first width, and the second seal portion has a second width, the first width being greater than the second width.

Abstract: An acoustic reproduction method includes: obtaining information indicating sounds that reach a listener in a sound reproduction space and direction information indicating a direction in which the head of the listener is oriented; judging whether a first direction in which a first sound reaches the listener and a second direction in which a second sound reaches the listener are in plane symmetry with respect to a predetermined plane that passes through both ears of the listener and is perpendicular to the direction in which the head of the listener is oriented, the first and the second sounds being included in the sounds indicated in the information obtained; performing processing on sound information indicating the second sound when the first and the second directions are judged to be in plane symmetry, the processing being change processing of changing the second direction; and outputting the sound information subjected to the change processing.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining a stream including (i) first position and orientation information indicating a position and an orientation of a sound source and (ii) a sound signal indicating a sound that the sound source outputs; obtaining second position and orientation information indicating a position and an orientation of a head of a user; and making a correction to reduce a rate of change at which a speed of the position or the orientation indicated in the second position and orientation information obtained changes relative to the position or the orientation of the sound source indicated in the first position and orientation information, to obtain the second position and orientation information to be used for three-dimensional sound processing to be performed using the first position and orientation information and the second position and orientation information on the sound signal.

Abstract: An acoustic feature estimation method is an acoustic feature estimation method for estimating an acoustic feature of a space and includes acquiring data on the space, estimating situations in the space in accordance with the acquired data, correcting a provisional value of the acoustic feature in accordance with the estimated circumstances, and outputting the corrected provisional value.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining spatial information indicating a shape of a virtual space including an obstacle and a sound source object that emits a predetermined sound; obtaining position information indicating a position and an orientation of a user in the virtual space; and generating an acoustic virtual environment by determining, based on the position and the orientation of the user and a position of the obstacle in the virtual space, a position of a virtual reflection surface off which the predetermined sound is reflected in the virtual space.

Abstract: A sound reproduction method includes: obtaining spatial information for reproducing a virtual space which includes a structure and a sound source; identifying a listening position in the virtual space; generating one or more virtual sound sources for reproducing diffraction of sound emitted from the sound source, the one or more virtual sound sources being disposed in a neighborhood of one or more virtual sound source directions; and determining the one or more virtual sound sources based on a length of a propagation path of the sound from the sound source to a listener, the propagation path bypassing the structure. The determining includes determining at least one of (i) a sound pressure level of sound from the one or more virtual sound source directions, (ii) a total number of the one or more virtual sound sources, or (iii) a frequency characteristic of sound from the one or more virtual sound sources.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a detection device, the detection device comprising a substrate, a plurality of sensor elements arranged on a first principal surface of the substrate, and an insulating film provided above the substrate so as to cover the sensor elements, and the method comprising: causing the first principal surfaces of a pair of the substrates on each of which the sensor elements, the insulating film, and a first projection projecting from a surface of the insulating film are formed to face each other, and bonding together the pair of the substrates; and polishing a second principal surface of each of the pair of the substrates on a side opposite to the first principal surface in a state where the pair of the substrates are bonded together.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate including an organic film, a first recess and a second recess formed in the organic film, and a first projection having the organic film, a second substrate, and a sealing member located in a second area around a first area, and bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, wherein the first substrate includes a mounting portion, the first recess and the second recess extend in the second area, a first leading end portion of the first recess is separated from a second leading end portion of the second recess, and the first projection, the first recess and the second recess overlap the sealing member.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining sound information that includes (i) a first audio signal and (ii) space information that is information for reproducing a virtual space and includes first data relating to a first structure disposed in the virtual space, the virtual space including the first structure and a sound source; generating second data based on the first data, each of the first data and the second data being associated with a position in the virtual space, the second data being data having a smaller amount of data than the first data; calculating a propagation distance of sound from the sound source, the sound being reflected at the position associated with the second data and arriving at a position of a listener; and generating a second audio signal subjected to stereoacoustic processing, using the first audio signal and the propagation distance.

Abstract: In order to avoid generation of black unevenness caused by the water intrusion into a liquid crystal display device, there is to provide a liquid crystal display device including a display area and a terminal portion, in which a TFT substrate with an organic passivation film formed and an opposite substrate are adhered to each other by a seal portion and a liquid crystal is enclosed there, wherein in the seal portion of the TFT substrate, a groove-shaped through-hole is formed in the organic passivation film to surround the display area, a water absorption layer formed of the same material in the same process as that of the organic passivation film is formed within the groove-shaped through-hole, and the water absorption layer is not covered with the inorganic insulating film.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining a stream including (i) first position and orientation information indicating a position and an orientation of a sound source and (ii) a sound signal indicating a sound that the sound source outputs; obtaining second position and orientation information indicating a position and an orientation of a head of a user; and setting a spatial resolution for three-dimensional audio processing to be performed on the sound signal, according to a positional relationship between the head of the user and the sound source and using the first position and orientation information and the second position and orientation information.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of heat-generating elements configured to apply different heating energies to a print medium in which a plurality of color development layers which develop colors different from each other upon receipt of the different heating energies are laminated. In addition, a printing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a heat-generating characteristic of each of the plurality of heat-generating elements; and a deriving unit configured to derive a correction value for correcting print data based on a color development heating characteristic of each of the plurality of color development layers and the heat-generating characteristic of each heat-generating element, the print data causing each heat-generating element to generate the heating energy based on image data corresponding to a pixel.

Abstract: Display device is provided and includes scanning line; semiconductor layer; pixel electrode; first insulating film having first contact hole; organic insulating film having second contact hole; and second insulating film having third contact hole, wherein semiconductor layer has first linear portion that is orthogonal to scanning line, pixel electrode is electrically connected to first linear portion via first, second and third contact holes, first linear portion overlaps first, second and third contact holes that are aligned along first linear portion, and center of second contact hole is located between center of first contact hole and center of third contact hole.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a print head including heating elements for applying a thermal energy to an imaging material, an operation unit configured to operate the plurality of heating elements of the print head by using a first pulse for preheating the color developing layers and a second pulse for developing the colors of the color developing layers, and a generation unit configured to, in a case where a spatial frequency of the image to be recorded based on image data for forming an image on the imaging material is lower than a predetermined frequency, generate the first pulse so that a temperature to be applied to the imaging material by the first pulse is lower than a temperature to be applied to the imaging material in a case where the spatial frequency of the image data is equal to or higher than the predetermined frequency.

Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate, a first region in which a plurality of scan lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of signal lines extending in a second direction, and a plurality of pixels are provided on the array substrate and that has a first side, a second side, a third side, a fourth side, and a plurality of curved line parts, a second region positioned between an end part of the array substrate and the first region, a signal-line coupling circuit disposed in the second region and coupled to the signal lines, a shield layer disposed in the second region and covering at least part of the signal-line coupling circuit near at least one of the curved line parts, and a gate driver circuit disposed in the second region outside the signal-line coupling circuit and coupled to the scan lines.