Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.

Abstract: When an input detection unit has detected that no user operation has been performed to an organic EL display apparatus for a predetermined period of time or when a processing detection unit has detected that a predetermined processing is being performed, the input detection unit or the processing detection unit outputs an instruction to a reference voltage adjusting unit to modify a reference voltage referenced by a DAC unit upon conversion to an analog output signal.

Abstract: A black level correction circuit for a video camera using a solid state image pickup device includes: means comparing an average luminance on each horizontal line in an optical black region of a reference black image with an average luminance on the corresponding horizontal line in an optical black region of an input image to thereby obtain a gain on the horizontal line in order to equalize an optical black level of the reference black image with an optical black level of the input image; means multiplying each of pixel values on each horizontal line in an effective pixel region of the reference black image by the obtained gain on the corresponding horizontal line; and means subtracting each pixel value obtained by the multiplication from a pixel value of the corresponding pixel in the effective pixel region of the input image.

Abstract: A luminance control method for an organic EL display comprises a first step of calculating a luminance accumulation value for each screen on the basis of a video input signal, and a second step of controlling the amplitude of the video input signal on the basis of the luminance accumulation value calculated in the first step and feeding to the organic EL display the video signal whose amplitude has been controlled.

Abstract: A tire burst predicting device which can predict occurrence of bursting of a tire and gives an alarm properly is provided. A break point frequency is estimated on the basis of time series data of wheel speed detected at a wheel speed sensor from frequency response of a first order model to which a transmission characteristic from a road surface disturbance to a wheel speed is approximated. A braking force gradient corresponding to the estimated break point frequency is estimated, on the basis of a map, which is prestored, representing a relationship between break point frequencies and braking force gradients. Extra high frequency components are eliminated from the estimated braking force gradient by a low pass filter to reduce estimation dispersion. Differentiators detect changing speed of the braking force gradient. An alarm is given when there is a possibility of bursting of tire when the detected changing speed reaches or exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide a conductive brush excelling in functionality and being useful as a cleaning brush in the color copier using the color toner of fine grain than before. The present invention is a conductive brush, which comprises a base fabric and a mixed fiber of a polyethylene terephthalate fiber and a nylon-66 fiber being raised on the base fabric by pile-flocking and, said polyethylene terephthalate fiber and/or said nylon-66 fiber having a volume resistivity of 100 to 106 ?·cm.

Abstract: A straight running state is accurately determined using only wheel speed data in any running state. Based upon right and left wheel speed values calculated by a wheel speed calculating mechanism (13) from detection values of right and left wheel speed sensors (11, 12), a wheel speed ratio calculating mechanism (21), a distance calculating mechanism (31), and a distance ratio calculating mechanism (32) respectively calculate a right and left wheel speed ratio, an actual running distance, a linear distance, and a distance ratio of the two distances at every preset checkpoint (CP). A wheel speed ratio change amount evaluating mechanism (24) extracts CPs at times where a change amount of the wheel speed ratio is relatively small as effective CPs, and a determining mechanism (43) determines an effective CP with the smallest distance ratio from among the effective CPs as in a straight running state.

Abstract: In image signal processing, the color saturation values of image signals are accumulated within each of a plurality of color saturation calculation regions by a color saturation accumulator circuit 13, and the image signals obtained in a color saturation calculation region in which the result of the color saturation value accumulation thus performed by the color saturation accumulator circuit 13 is low are accumulated for each of image signal types C1 to C4 by an image signal accumulator circuit 14. Based on the results of this accumulation performed for each of the image signal types C1 to C4, constants with which to counterbalance the amounts of light transmitted for the image signals C1 to C4 are determined and fed to a transmitted light amount corrector circuit 1.

Abstract: The invention provides a flat display device which comprises for pixels arranged along drive lines a voltage drop calculator 27 for calculating a voltage drop occurring in accordance with the position of each pixel, and a video signal converter 30 and a lookup table 31 for correcting the input signal to be supplied to the pixel in accordance with the magnitude of the calculated voltage drop, whereby crosstalk due to the voltage drop is prevented.

Abstract: An infrared ray receiving module receives an infrared signal (transmitted by an image display device) generated on the basis of a signal representing switching between right and left eye images. An input signal type automatic judging unit and a field frequency detecting and L/R distinguishing unit acquire data relating to shutter timing of a left eye liquid crystal and a right eye liquid crystal in liquid crystal shutter glasses from the received infrared signal. An operation field frequency determining unit generates decision data relating to shutter timing to be fed to the liquid crystal shutter glasses on the basis of predetermined conditions from the data relating to shutter timing newly obtained in succession, and holds the generated decision data. A liquid crystal driving pulse generating unit can cause the liquid crystal shutter glasses to perform a shutter operation using the held decision data when no decision data is generated because the predetermined conditions are not satisfied.

Abstract: An apparatus and method to estimate the condition amount of a vehicle tire in a vehicle equipped with vehicle wheels formed with air enclosed under pressure in an inside portion of a tire mounted to a disc wheel. A plurality of wheel speed sensors detect the vehicle speed of each vehicle wheel. An estimating unit obtains a reflected value reflecting the tire condition amount of a vehicle wheel based on the vehicle wheel speed, and estimates the tire condition based upon the reflected value. The estimating unit estimates a reflected value for a first vehicle wheel which is difficult to accurately obtain the reflected value based on the vehicle wheel speed by obtaining the reflected value for a second vehicle wheel which is easier to accurately obtain the reflected value based on the wheel speed.

Abstract: A digital broadcasting system is obtained having simple facilities and circuit structure and capable of efficiently transmitting and receiving synchronized pictures and displaying them without applying a synchronizing process thereto. According to the digital broadcasting system, picture signals respectively for the light eye and the left eye obtained from two synchronously operated cameras (13a, 13b) are converted to a noninterlace frame signal (picture data) by a frame memory unit (20) of the transmitting end. The picture data is compressed and modulated, and then transmitted to a communication satellite (8) over a transmission line of one channel. A transmission signal supplied from the communication satellite (8) is demodulated and decoded, and then converted to picture signals for the right and left eyes by a frame memory unit (21) of the receiving end, and the converted signals are displayed on a stereoscopic display monitor (12) in a stereoscopic manner.

Abstract: A hold-type display apparatus is more likely to suffer the deterioration in the visibility of moving images due to the blur effect, compared to an impulse-type display apparatus. A single frame period is divided into a first period and a second period. Pixel data to be written to a pixel are written in a concentrated manner in the first period during a frame period. At this time, a write value for the pixel is set to twice a value of the image data in order not to lower the brightness of the images as a whole. However, only if the doubled value exceeds a range that can be displayed, the remaining pixel data are written in the second period. Thus, the change in display brightness approximates the impulse-type display apparatus, so that the visibility of moving images is improved.

Abstract: In a fuel pump having a high pump efficiency, an annular portion is formed on an outer periphery of an impeller to let one- and opposite-side blade grooves be independent of each other. Then, various improvements are made such as tilting front and rear wall surfaces of the blade grooves in a predetermined direction, forming one- and opposite-side blade grooves in a zigzag fashion, forming a guide surface in a communicating passage of a pump housing, and forming communicating holes in an impeller.

Abstract: A tire air pressure detection device of the present invention includes a warning anticipation timing calculating portion for anticipating a warning timing at which tire air pressure decrease detecting portion will detect the tire air pressure decrease based on rotational status value compensated for by a rotational status value compensating portion. A tire air pressure decrease detecting portion detects a decrease in tire air pressure when a clocked determination time reaches the warning anticipation timing anticipated by the warning anticipation timing calculating portion.

Abstract: A turbine pump includes a casing having an inlet, an outlet and front and rear arc-shaped pump passages and an impeller. The impeller has plural impeller partitions respectively disposed between every two of the blades thereby forming impeller grooves at front and rear sides of the partitions and an outer ring at the peripheral edge of the blades. Each impeller groove, each of pump passage and the outer ring form a space for circulating fuel. The outside diameter of the impeller is smaller than the pump passages so that the impeller does not contact the pump passages.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing circuit for performing contrast highlighting and smoothing of an image-related apparatus such as a color camera or a monitor. The image processing circuit according to the present invention comprises first means for calculating an average luminance in a portion surrounding a target pixel, and second means for controlling input-output characteristics on the basis of the average luminance calculated by the first means, to control the luminance of the target pixel.

Abstract: In a color separator circuit, edge detection filters detect an edge encountered in the horizontal direction. When the image signals corresponding to the thus detected edge are processed, selector circuits 12a to 12c select outputs from small-tap-number color separation filters 8a to 8c and 10a to 10c, respectively. When the image signals corresponding to the remaining portion other than the edge are processed, the selector circuits 12a to 12c select outputs from large-tap-number color separation filters 9a to 9c and 11a to 11c, respectively. A ratio calculator circuit 16 calculates, from the luminance signals fed from adder circuits 13a to 13c, the value by which a multiplier circuit 18 performs multiplication. The multiplier circuit 18 multiplies, by this value calculated by the ratio calculator circuit 16, the color separation signals added together by an adder circuit 17 so that, of all the color separation signals of which there are two kinds, those of one kind are vertically interpolated.

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus and a method of estimating tire air pressure with high accuracy from vehicle operation at low at high speeds regardless of various elements to be mounted to the vehicle. Estimation of tire air pressure based on a resonance frequency extracted based on a wheel speed signal outputted from a wheel speed sensor corresponding to the respective tire and estimation of tire air pressure based on a dynamic load radius derived based on the wheel speed signal, are used to selectively switch in accordance with a magnitude of a variance value of the resonance frequency at a plurality of time points.

Abstract: A turbine fuel pump for smoothly flowing fuel in a fuel inlet passage, preventing a pressure loss at a start end of a pump flow passage to prevent generation of a local negative pressure, thereby increasing pump efficiency. The turbine fuel pump includes an impeller with blades and blade grooves, and a pump housing having first and second housings for rotatably storing the impeller. The first housing has a C-shaped side groove, a fuel inlet passage which bends at a start end of the side groove toward the center of the first housing, and an opening on an outer side surface. The second housing has a C-shaped side groove, and a fuel outlet opening communicating with a terminal end of the side groove.