Abstract: A purge container (1) has a container body (21) having an interior space (20) for accommodating a submersible pump (2), an upper lid (23) configured to cover an upper opening of the container body (21), a lower lid (24) configured to cover a lower opening of the container body (21), and a purge-gas inlet port (27) and a purge-gas outlet port (28) communicating with the interior space (20) of the container main body (21). The container body (21) is secured to an upper portion of a pump column (3) in which the submersible pump (2) is to be installed.

Abstract: A submerged arc welding method comprises setting a first welding condition under which first average welding current is supplied to a welding wire; and setting a second welding condition under which second average welding current is supplied to a welding wire, and the first welding condition and the second welding condition are periodically switched.

Abstract: An electrochemical capacitor having an electrolytic solution that is a mixed solution of lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (Li-TFSI) and propylene carbonate (PC), a mixed solution of lithium borofluoride and PC, a mixed solution of Li-TFSI, ethylene carbonate, and diethyl carbonate, a mixed solution of Li-TFSI and ethyl isopropyl sulfone, or a mixed solution of Na-TFSI and PC; a cathode in the electrolytic solution, the cathode being a layered material having multiple layers, each layer having a crystal lattice represented by Mn+1Xn, where M is a metal of Group 3 to 7, X is a carbon/nitrogen atom, n is 1, 2 or 3, X is positioned within an octahedral array of M, and having a modifier T of a hydroxyl group or a fluorine/oxygen/hydrogen atom on the surface of each layer; and an anode in the electrolytic solution and separated from the cathode, the anode being a carbon-based material.

Abstract: According to an operation of a shift lever to parking range, a cam member at a parking rod comes in between a parking pole and a support member, and the parking pole swings so that a pawl portion of the parking rod can engage with a parking gear. A concave holding portion to hold the support member is formed at a transmission case. The support member comprises a first cylindrical outer face having a first radius R1 which is supported in a concave inner face the concave holding portion to rotate in a specified range and a second cylindrical outer face (cam-contact portion) having a second radius R2 which contacts a cam member. The first radius R1 has a center which is located at the same position as that of the second radius R2. Herein, R2 is shorter than R1.

Abstract: An embodiment has a C separating circuit which separates a carriage color signal and which outputs a reference, a lead, and a delayed composite video signals, a filter that extracts a high-frequency carriage color component with a significant variation in hue from the carriage color signal, a first calculation circuit which outputs a first luminance signal, a second calculation circuit which subtracts the carriage color signal from each of the reference, the preceding lead, and the delayed composite video signals and which derives a second luminance signal having an intermediate value, and a selection circuit which outputs the second luminance signal when the high-frequency carriage color component has a value larger than the reference value and which derives the first luminance signal when the high-frequency carriage color component has a value smaller than the reference value.

Abstract: A cross-color/dot interference reduction circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a signal generation unit configured to calculate a difference in an input signal between adjacent frames and generate a difference signal, a component extraction unit configured to extract a cross-color/dot interference component from the difference signal, a combination output unit configured to combine an interference reduction signal corresponding to the cross-color/dot interference-component with the input signal and provide an output signal with a reduced cross-color/dot interference, an image scene analysis unit configured to analyze an image scene contained in the input signal, and a signal amplification/attenuation unit configured to amplify/attenuate the interference reduction signal based on an image scene analysis result from the image scene analysis unit.

Abstract: An image pickup device provided on a base board, comprises an image pickup element provided on the base board and including a photoelectrically converting section in which pixels are arranged, a peripheral surface formed around the photoelectrically converting section and a side surface crossing the peripheral surface; an optical member including a lens section to form an image of an object onto the photoelectrically converting section of the image pickup element, a leg section to support the lens section and a contact surface to be brought in contact with the image pickup element, wherein the lens section, the leg section and the contact surface are made in a single body. The optical member is mounted on the image pickup element such that the contact surface is brought in contact with the peripheral surface or with a surface member when the surface member is provided on the peripheral surface.

Abstract: According to an operation of a shift lever to parking range, a cam member at a parking rod comes in between a parking pole and a support member, and the parking pole swings so that a pawl portion of the parking rod can engage with a parking gear. A concave holding portion to hold the support member is formed at a transmission case. The support member comprises a first cylindrical outer face having a first radius R1 which is supported in a concave inner face the concave holding portion to rotate in a specified range and a second cylindrical outer face (cam-contact portion) having a second radius R2 which contacts a cam member. The first radius R1 has a center which is located at the same position as that of the second radius R2. Herein, R2 is shorter than R1.

Abstract: A cross-color/dot interference reduction circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a signal generation unit configured to calculate a difference in an input signal between adjacent frames and generate a difference signal, a component extraction unit configured to extract a cross-color/dot interference component from the difference signal, a combination output unit configured to combine an interference reduction signal corresponding to the cross-color/dot interference-component with the input signal and provide an output signal with a reduced cross-color/dot interference, an image scene analysis unit configured to analyze an image scene contained in the input signal, and a signal amplification/attenuation unit configured to amplify/attenuate the interference reduction signal based on an image scene analysis result from the image scene analysis unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a picture processing device comprises a horizontal contour correction module configured to correct a horizontal contour of a picture by adding a contour correction signal to an input picture signal, a histogram acquisition module configured to acquire a luminance histogram of the picture, and a computation control module configured to acquire a control amount G for each luminance level of a horizontal contour correction processing from the luminance histogram, acquire a control amount G for each luminance level of horizontal contour correction processing from the luminance histogram, acquire a control amount G(b) for each luminance level of a non-linear processing from the luminance histogram, and acquire a control amount (G(a)) which can acquire the control amount G when the control amount G(b) is given to supply to the horizontal contour correction module and makes the horizontal contour correction module execute the horizontal contour correction processing.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a noise reducing circuit includes a frame memory configured to frame-delay a video signal, a first arithmetic unit configured to subtract the frame-delayed video signal given by the frame memory from the video signal to output a first frame difference signal, a first rectangular wave removing unit configured to remove a rectangular wave component from the first frame difference signal to generate a second frame difference signal, a first pulse discriminating unit configured to receive the second frame difference signal, remove a continuous pulse component from the second frame difference signal, and output a single pulse component, and a second arithmetic unit configured to subtract the single pulse component from the video signal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a noise reducing circuit includes a frame memory configured to frame-delay a video signal, a first arithmetic unit configured to subtract the frame-delayed video signal given by the frame memory from the video signal to output a first frame difference signal, a first rectangular wave removing unit configured to remove a rectangular wave component from the first frame difference signal to generate a second frame difference signal, a first pulse discriminating unit configured to receive the second frame difference signal, remove a continuous pulse component from the second frame difference signal, and output a single pulse component, and a second arithmetic unit configured to subtract the single pulse component from the video signal.

Abstract: An image pickup device provided on a base board, comprises an image pickup element provided on the base board and including a photoelectrically converting section in which pixels are arranged, a peripheral surface formed around the photoelectrically converting section and a side surface crossing the peripheral surface; an optical member including a lens section to form an image of an object onto the photoelectrically converting section of the image pickup element, a leg section to support the lens section and a contact surface to be brought in contact with the image pickup element, wherein the lens section, the leg section and the contact surface are made in a single body. The optical member is mounted on the image pickup element such that the contact surface is brought in contact with the peripheral surface or with a surface member when the surface member is provided on the peripheral surface.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a backlight control apparatus includes a conversion unit which, upon receipt of a video signal in the YCbCr standard, converts the video signal into a video signal in the RGB standard, a generation unit which select one signal of the maximum gradient based on pixel-by-pixel comparison of the R video signal, G video signal, and B video signal to generate a histogram in which the gradient of the selected signal is successively plotted, filter units which detect a histogram having a specific distribution from histograms generated by the generation unit, and control units which generate and output a control signal in accordance with a detection result from the filter units.

Abstract: An image pickup device provided on a base board, comprises an image pickup element provided on the base board and including a photoelectrically converting section in which pixels are arranged, a peripheral surface formed around the photoelectrically converting section and a side surface crossing the peripheral surface; an optical member including a lens section to form an image of an object onto the photoelectrically converting section of the image pickup element, a leg section to support the lens section and a contact surface to be brought in contact with the image pickup element, wherein the lens section, the leg section and the contact surface are made in a single body. The optical member is mounted on the image pickup element such that the contact surface is brought in contact with the peripheral surface or with a surface member when the surface member is provided on the peripheral surface.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a backlight control apparatus includes a setting section which sets a count value according to a cycle of a PWM pulse signal, a counter section which counts to the count value set by the setting section, a comparing/changing section which compares an actually measured count value of the counter section at a timing of a given vertical synchronous signal with a set count value set according to the cycle of the PWM pulse signal so as to change the count value according to the compared result, a determining section which generates a histogram of a given video signal so as to determine a duty ratio based on the histogram, and a PWM pulse signal generating section which generates a PWM pulse signal based on the counted result from the counter section and the duty ratio determined by the determining section.

Abstract: An embodiment has a C separating circuit which separates a carriage color signal and which outputs a reference, a lead, and a delayed composite video signals, a filter that extracts a high-frequency carriage color component with a significant variation in hue from the carriage color signal, a first calculation circuit which outputs a first luminance signal, a second calculation circuit which subtracts the carriage color signal from each of the reference, the preceding lead, and the delayed composite video signals and which derives a second luminance signal having an intermediate value, and a selection circuit which outputs the second luminance signal when the high-frequency carriage color component has a value larger than the reference value and which derives the first luminance signal when the high-frequency carriage color component has a value smaller than the reference value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a Y/C separation apparatus executes a Y/C separation based on a difference between frames of a composite video signal. The Y/C separation apparatus includes: a motion detection unit that specifies a motion amount based on an amount of a two-frame difference or one-frame difference at each of target pixels; and a determination unit that determines if an image is still based on a motion detection result of the motion detection unit. The motion detection unit detects differences for pixels adjacent to the target pixels.

Abstract: An objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus, comprises a first lens molded with a plastic and having an optically functional section, flange section provided around the periphery of the optically functional section, and a first contacting section provided on the flange section; and a second lens molded with a plastic, located opposite to the first lens and having an optically functional section, a flange section provided around the periphery of the optically functional section, and a second contacting section provided on the flange section. The first lens and the second lens are joined in such a way that the first contacting section and the second contacting section are brought in contact with each other.

Abstract: An objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus, comprises a first lens molded with a plastic and having an optically functional section, flange section provided around the periphery of the optically functional section, and a first contacting section provided on the flange section; and a second lens molded with a plastic, located opposite to the first lens and having an optically functional section, a flange section provided around the periphery of the optically functional section, and a second contacting section provided on the flange section. The first lens and the second lens are joined in such a way that the first contacting section and the second contacting section are brought in contact with each other.