Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a main body in which a display unit is disposed, and a backlight unit that is detachable from the main body and to which a plurality of LED modules are attached, each of which is provided with LEDs, so that the image display apparatus displays an image on the display unit with backlight light emitted by the LEDs. The plurality of LED modules are assigned with different channels as units of control of light emission luminance of the LEDs and can be replaced independently of each other.

Abstract: A novel compound which is useful as an agent for treating and/or preventing emesis, vomiting and/or constipation. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, optionally substituted lower alkyl, optionally substituted lower alkenyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted aryl etc., R3 is hydrogen, hydroxy, optionally substituted lower alkyl, optionally substituted lower alkenyl, optionally substituted lower alkynyl, optionally substituted lower alkoxy etc., R4 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R5 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, cycloalkyl lower alkyl or lower alkenyl, or a pharmaceutically acceptably salt, or a solvate thereof is provided.

Abstract: A frequency shift circuit that shifts the frequency of an input signal using a rotor corresponding to a predetermined phase rotation amount, the frequency shift circuit includes a table look-up unit that includes a plurality of tables that store complex data and outputs the complex data for each table based on address information, a complex multiplication circuit that complex-multiplies the complex data which have been output from the table look-up unit for each table, a deletion circuit that generates a rotor corresponding to a phase rotation amount which is based on a result of complex-multiplication executed, and a calculation circuit that calculates the address information for each table such that exp (2 ? j ?) is obtained as the result of complex multiplication executed based on rotation angle information ?.

Abstract: The electronic device has a displaying unit which displays information; an operating unit which accepts a contactless oberation by a user; a detecting unit which detects whether or not on object exists inside the area where the contact less operation is capable, and a lighting unit which lights when the detecting unit detected the existence of the object.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel; an LED backlight unit that emits light to the display panel; an LED driver that drives an LED of the LED backlight unit; an LED temperature detection portion that detects an LED temperature of the LED backlight unit; and a correction portion that based on a detection result from the LED temperature detection portion, corrects an image signal to be supplied to the display panel to compensate for a color temperature change of the LED backlight unit.

Abstract: There is provided a millimeter wave imaging apparatus including: a lens antenna forming a subject image based on the millimeter waves from a subject; a line sensor including a plurality of millimeter wave sensors and capturing an image for one line of a predetermined width of the whole subject; a reflector having a reflecting surface reflecting millimeter waves; a reflection angle change device changing an angle of the reflecting surface; an image generation device generating an image of the whole subject from the respective subject images for one line; a millimeter wave radiation unit radiating a reference millimeter wave; a correction value setting device setting correction values with respect to the detected values by the millimeter wave sensors based on the millimeter wave from the millimeter wave radiation unit; and a detected value correction device correcting the detected values by the millimeter wave sensors with the correction values.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display and a controller. The controller displays a plurality of menus in a hierarchy order on the display. One of the menus contains a plurality of selectable items. When one of the plurality of selectable items is selected more than a predetermined number of times, the controller displays said one of the plurality of selectable items in a menu on a higher hierarchy.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel P2X3 and/or P2X2/3 receptor antagonist. A compound represented by the formula (I); wherein Ra, Rb and Rc are, (a) Ra and Rb are taken together ?Z; and Rc is a group represented by R1c; or (b) Rb and Rc are taken together to form a bond; and Ra is a group represented by —Y—R1a; R1a and R1c are each independently hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, etc.; R2 and R3 are each independently substituted or unsubstituted aryl, etc.; R4a and R4b are each independently hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, etc.; X is —N(R5)—, etc.; R5 is hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, etc.; —Y— is —O—, etc.; ?Z is ?O, etc.; and n is an integer of 0 to 4.

Abstract: A novel compound which is useful as an agent for treating and/or preventing emesis, vomiting and/or constipation. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, optionally substituted lower alkyl, optionally substituted lower alkenyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted aryl etc., R3 is hydrogen, hydroxy, optionally substituted lower alkyl, optionally substituted lower alkenyl, optionally substituted lower alkynyl, optionally substituted lower alkoxy etc., R4 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R5 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, cycloalkyl lower alkyl or lower alkenyl, or a pharmaceutically acceptably salt, or a solvate thereof is provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides an interlayer for laminated glass which comprises at least one layer composed of an opaque ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin composition or opaque polyvinyl acetal resin composition, and also provides the laminated glass using such interlayers. The interlayer for laminated glass and the laminated glass according to the present invention can offer excellent privacy protection.

Abstract: A micro-switching element provided with a first electrode 4 containing an ionic conductor and a second electrode 5 composed of an electric conductor, wherein the first electrode 4 and the second electrode 5 are physically and electrically connected to each other through deposition of a metal ion from the ionic conductor, and wherein a photoresponsive film 9 that receives light to generate a carrier is disposed between the first electrode 4 and the second electrode 5 to fill up the space between the electrodes. Accordingly, a micro-switching element is provided of which the characteristic fluctuation is small and which hardly produces a problem of operation failure.

Abstract: A semiconductor package is provided with a package body including a base part and a semiconductor device housing part housing a semiconductor device. An electric terminal electrically connected to the device is provided in the housing part and is exposed to an outer surface. A high heat transfer element is arranged from a heat generating part corresponding position corresponding to a heat generating part of the device to a position outside the corresponding position in the base part. The base part is configured by contacting a plurality of thin sheets mutually closely with each other and by bonding integrally with each other. The high heat transfer element includes particles configured by a material having a thermal conductivity higher than that of the base part and dispersed in the base part. The particles are dispersed between two mutually adjacent thin sheets among the thin sheets.

Abstract: A millimeter wave imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device including a plurality of millimeter wave sensors that are arranged in a planar manner and receive millimeter waves radiated from a subject to detect signal levels thereof; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the imaging device; a storage device that stores, with respect to the each of the millimeter wave sensors, temperature characteristics data indicating a relationship between the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and the output from the millimeter wave sensor; and an image data generation device that obtains a deviation of an output from the each of the millimeter wave sensors from reference temperature characteristics based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and the temperature characteristics data stored by the storage device, corrects the output from the each of the millimeter wave sensors based on the deviation, and thereby generates the image data.

Abstract: A lighting device including a metal substrate to prevent temperature rise of LED chip is offered. The lighting device includes the metal substrate, an anode or cathode electrode of the LED chip disposed on the metal substrate, brazing materials connecting the LED chip and the metal substrate, and a groove formed in the anode or cathode electrode. Forming the groove can prevent an occurrence of a crack in the brazing materials. Also, a lighting device includes the metal substrate, an anode and cathode electrode of the LED chip disposed on the metal substrate and brazing materials connecting the LED chip and the metal substrate. Further, a slit is formed in the metal substrate between the anode and cathode electrode. Forming the slit in the metal substrate can prevent an occurrence of a crack in the brazing materials.

Abstract: A brazing filler metal capable of improving both of oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance is obtained. This brazing filler metal (1, 1d, 51 and 51a) consists of at least a three-layer structure of an Ni—Cr brazing layer (2 and 2a) consisting of an Ni—Cr alloy layer, a Ti brazing layer (3, 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d) consisting of a Ti layer or a Ti alloy layer and an Ni brazing layer (4, 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d) consisting of an Ni layer or an N alloy layer arranged between the Ni—Cr brazing layer and the Ti brazing layer.

Abstract: A brazing method includes assembling a first member and a second member, the first member including a base plate made of a ferrous material and a diffusion suppressing layer laminated on the base plate and made of a Ni—Cr alloy including more than about 15% and less than about 40% of Cr, the second member being disposed on the first member with a brazing material of a Cu—Ni alloy including more than about 10% and less than about 20% of Ni therebetween, and maintaining the temporary assembly at a temperature of more than about 1,200° C. to fuse the brazing material and diffuse Ni atoms and Cr atoms into the fused brazing material to form the braze joint, causing the resulting brazing material to have an increased melting point due to the Ni and Cr contents of the braze joint to self-solidify the braze joint, and then cooling the resulting assembly.

Abstract: A millimeter wave imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device provided with a millimeter wave sensor that receives millimeter waves radiated from a subject; an image data generation device that generates image data of the subject based on an output from the millimeter wave sensor constituting the imaging device; a storage device that stores inspection target object data indicating, with respect to each object to be an inspection target object, a shape of the object and a size of the object relative to the subject; a detection device that compares the inspection target object data stored by the storage device and the image data generated by the image data generation device, thereby to detect an inspection target object hidden in the subject; and an output device that outputs results of detection by the detection device.

Abstract: A receiving device includes a FFT unit performing FFT on an input signal of a time domain to transform the input signal into a plurality of signals of frequency domains and outputting the plurality of signals of the frequency domains, a signal extracting unit extracting a signal with a power that is greater than a threshold value from among the plurality of signals of the frequency domains output from the first FFT unit and outputting the extracted signal, an IFFT unit performing IFFT on the extracted signal output from the signal extracting unit, a subtracting unit subtracting the extracted signal output from the IFFT unit from the input signal and outputs a subtracted signal, and a second FFT unit transforming the subtracted signal output from the subtracting unit into a signal of the frequency domain by performing the FFT on the subtracted signal output from the subtracting unit.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a first transform unit configured to perform orthogonal transform on a time-domain input signal and perform saturation when an overflow occurs to transform the input signal into a plurality of frequency-domain signals, a second transform unit configured to perform orthogonal transform on the time-domain input signal while restricting the number of bits during orthogonal transform and continue operations while not performing saturation when at least one of the operations overflows and leaving the operation overflowing to transform the input signal into a plurality of frequency-domain signals, and a bit restricting control unit configured to control the number of bits during orthogonal transform by the second transform unit based on output signals of the first transform unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides an interlayer for laminated glass which comprises at least one layer composed of an opaque ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin composition or opaque polyvinyl acetal resin composition, and also provides the laminated glass using such interlayers. The interlayer for laminated glass and the laminated glass according to the present invention can offer excellent privacy protection.