Abstract: A television signal receiver comprises: a tuner, an optional IF conditioner, an IF distortion canceller, and an IF demodulator. The tuner selects one channel from a radio frequency television signal to generate an intermediate frequency signal. The IF conditioner outputs an IF conditioned signal. The IF distortion canceller cancels a signal distortion in the IF signal or the IF conditioned signal to generate an IF distortion-cancelled signal. The IF demodulator demodulates the IF distortion-cancelled signal to output a baseband signal.

Abstract: A television includes a television with a remote control. A user interface running on the television ascertains a brand and model number of a device that is to be operated by the remote control and after responsive to such; the television transmits commands to the remote control to program the remote control, thereby enabling the remote control to control the device.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that allow light display systems, such as projectors, to be manufactured having lower power consumption, reduced speckling, and/or that are less expensive than conventional light projectors. In some embodiments, may include an incoherent light source and a coherent light source operating in concert with one another to produce a combined light beam that has similar wavelength contributions from the incoherent and coherent light sources.

Abstract: A method of displaying an image. The method includes acts of receiving pixel data and pixel timing and control signals corresponding to the image, and formatting the pixel data based on a selected communication standard and a transmitter bit rate that corresponds to a number of pixel data bits to be transmitted each transmitter clock cycle.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a television receiver includes a housing, and a supporting member accommodated in the housing, including a first supporting surface, a second supporting surface located on an opposite side of the first supporting surface, a first end portion, a second end portion located on an opposite side of the first end portion, a third end portion connecting the first and second end portions, and a fourth end portion located on an opposite side of the third end portion, and including a plurality of openings penetrating from the first supporting surface to the second supporting surface. In addition, the supporting member includes a beam provided between the openings, and the beam includes a first beam portion which is parallel to the first or third end portion, and a second beam portion which is not parallel to the first and third end portions.

Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of driving the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a backlight module, a liquid crystal panel and a controller. The backlight module has a plurality of light emitting regions capable of emitting light individually. The liquid crystal panel is disposed at a side of the backlight module. The controller is electrically coupled to the backlight module and the liquid crystal panel. When the liquid crystal panel updates a left-eye image to a right-eye image row by row along a column-direction, the controller sequentially turns on and off the light emitting regions along the column-direction, such that a whole region of the liquid crystal panel lighted by light emitting region displays the left-eye image or the right-eye image.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrically-driven liquid crystal lens which includes a light shade to be switched on/off according to whether or not voltage is applied, reducing a cell gap of a liquid crystal layer, and a stereoscopic display device using the same, the electrically-driven liquid crystal lens includes first and second substrates opposite each other and each including plural lens regions and a light shade provided at a boundary of each lens region, first electrodes formed in a given direction on the first substrate in each lens region, a second electrode formed on the second substrate and having an aperture corresponding to the light shade, first and second light shade switching electrodes formed at the light shade and extending parallel to the first electrodes, a liquid crystal layer between both the substrates, and a polarizer plate formed above the second substrate and having a first transmission axis.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pixel group including a first pixel having a first thin film transistor and a second pixel having a second thin film transistor. A gate line provides a driving signal to a gate of the first and second thin film transistors. A first storage capacitor line is arranged substantially parallel with the gate line and adjacent to one side of the first pixel. A second storage capacitor line is arranged substantially parallel with the gate line and adjacent to an opposite side of the first pixel. The liquid crystal display includes a first storage capacitor arranged in the first pixel and connected between the first thin film transistor and the first storage capacitor line. A second storage capacitor is arranged in the second pixel and is connected between the second thin film transistor and the second storage capacitor line.

Abstract: An LCD device is disclosed. The LCD device includes: a gate line and a gate electrode formed on a substrate; a common line formed in the same layer as the gate line; a gate insulation film entirely formed on the substrate with the gate line; a data line formed on the gate insulation film opposite to the common line and configured to cross with the gate line and to define a pixel region; a source electrode formed to protrude from the data line; a drain electrode separated by a first distance from the source electrode; a passivation film entirely formed on the substrate with the data line; and a pixel electrode formed on the passivation film and connected to the drain electrode. The common line includes first and second common lines separated by a second distance from each other, and a third common line formed within the second distance between the first and second common lines and used as a repair pattern during a repairing process.

Abstract: A backlight unit includes a mold frame, a metal core printed circuit board (“MCPCB”) on which at least one light emitting diode (“LED”) is mounted, a reflector, a light guide plate, and an optical sheet. The mold frame includes an MCPCB fixing portion, the MCPCB is directly and removably disposed on the MCPCB fixing portion, and a lower surface of the MCPCB is exposed to the outside of the mold frame. On the MCPCB, a reflector, a light guide plate, and an optical sheet are placed in the order named. The light guide plate has a light entering surface facing the LED.

Abstract: A light source unit includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements mounted on the substrate, a first inner wiring portion formed on the substrate and connected to the plurality of light emitting elements, and a second inner wiring portion formed on the substrate insulated from the first inner wiring portion. Two such light source units may be included in a backlight unit having a plurality of light emitting elements. A receiving member accommodates the first light source unit and the second light source unit, and a length of wires arranged along inside edges of the receiving member is reduced.

Abstract: In a backlight which arranges light emitting diodes on a side surface of a light guide plate, even when the light guide plate is made thin by further reducing a thickness of the light guide plate and the light emitting diodes having a thickness larger than the thickness of the light guide plate are used, it is possible to manufacture the light guide plate with high accuracy in a short time. In a liquid crystal display device having a backlight which radiates light to a liquid crystal panel, LEDs are mounted on the light guide plate formed on the backlight as a light emitting element, a light radiation portion of the light guide plate is formed by molding by applying pressure and heat to a sheet-shaped resin, and a light incident portion of the light guide plate is formed by injection molding.

Abstract: A gaming system includes a first display configured to display the random outcome of the wagering game, and a second display disposed to overlay at least a portion of the first display. The second display includes a transmissive liquid crystal display defining a transmissive window behind which a corresponding portion of the first display is positioned. The liquid crystal display further includes a polarizing film having a plurality of patterned features generally aligned with the transmissive window. The polarizing film is at least partially removed in the area of the patterned features to enhance transmissivity of the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A protective film for polarizers, including a cellulose resin having an acyl substituent with from 2 to 4 carbon atoms and having a degree of acyl substitution of from 2.1 to 2.7, which satisfies 25?Re?100 and 50?Rth?300 and in which the cellulose resin contributes to expression of at least 40% of the Re in the film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal layer which contains a liquid crystal composition; a pair of substrates opposed to each other across the liquid crystal layer; alignment layers placed on liquid crystal layer sides of the pair of substrates, respectively; and polarization plates placed on opposite sides from the liquid crystal layer sides, respectively. The pair of substrates includes a thin-film transistor substrate including a thin-film transistor for controlling molecule alignment of the liquid crystal composition, and a color filter substrate including a color layer containing pixels of different colors. A blue pixel, which is one of the pixels of different colors, is larger in area than any of the pixels of other colors. A loss of light in a short-wavelength range is thus reduced.

Abstract: There is provided an optical sheet for use as a display device surface, which has a functional layer on at least one side of a base material and has a diffusion factor on the outer surface and/or interior of the functional layer, wherein the relationship represented by the following formula (I) is satisfied. 0.16<S×?<0.70??(I) S: Diffuse regular reflection intensity/regular reflection intensity of base material ?: The diffusion angle exhibiting ? of the diffusion intensity, obtained by extrapolating a straight line connecting the reflection intensity for diffuse regular reflection intensity at ±2 degrees and the reflection intensity for diffuse regular reflection at ±1 degree, to the diffuse regular reflection angle.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a first substrate patterned to create pixel electrodes, a second substrate placed to face the first substrate and a liquid-crystal layer sandwiched by the first and second substrates wherein: one of the first and second substrates is patterned to create color filters each provided for one of a plurality of different colors as color filters each associated with one of the pixel electrodes each included in one of pixels each provided for one of the different colors; each of the pixels each provided for one of the different colors has a pixel area which varies from color to color; and the ratio of the electrode area of any particular one of the pixel electrodes to the pixel area of the pixel that includes the particular pixel electrode varies from color to color.

Abstract: A LCD device has a LC layer sandwiched between a TFT substrate and a counter substrate, first and second polarizing films, a first ?/2 film between the first polarizing film and the counter substrate, and a second ?/2 film between the second polarizing film and the TFT substrate. Angle ?1 between the direction of the optical axis of the LC layer and the polarized direction of the light entering the LC layer satisfies the relationship: 0 degree<?1<45 degrees. The resultant LCD device has lower leakage light and coloring.

Abstract: A new type of liquid crystal display (LCD) device with improved high transmittance and wide-view-angle characteristics while without gray-level inversion at an inclined viewing angle is provided. The LCD device includes a first substrate with common electrodes, a second substrate with at least one pixel unit, a liquid crystal (LC) layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first polarizer, and a second polarizer. The pixel unit has a pixel electrode, which is formed by at least one dense electrode area and at least one sparse electrode area. The LC molecules of the LC layer form a continuous-domain alignment after being driven by a voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device of a horizontal electric field type is disclosed. The LCD device is fabricated by a three-mask process, and has gate pad, common pad and data pad electrodes, each including a upper electrode formed of a transparent conductive material. With a lift-off process, these upper electrodes are formed within contact holes.

Abstract: An array substrate of a fringe field switching (FFS) mode liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The gate electrodes and the common electrode of the FFS mode LCD panel are formed on the array substrate by the same photolithographic process, and the common electrode, the gate lines and the gate electrodes are disposed on the same layer.

Abstract: An array substrate of a fringe field switching (FFS) mode liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The gate electrodes and the common electrode of the FFS mode LCD panel are formed on the array substrate by the same photolithographic process, and the common electrode, the gate lines and the gate electrodes are disposed on the same layer. The passivation layer of the FFS mode LCD panel is formed on the pixel electrodes. The passivation layer has a plurality of first openings, and each of the first openings at least partially exposes the pixel electrodes.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a switching element, a first electrode, a second electrode electrically connected with the switching element and facing the first electrode. In the second electrode, a plurality of slits in a V shape is formed along a first direction. The first and second substrates include first and second alignment films, respectively. The slit in the V shape includes a central portion, a first end connected with one end of the first central portion, a second end connected with the other end of the first central portion, a second central portion, a third end connected with one end of the second central portion, and a fourth end connected with the other end of the second central portion. The first end and the third end are connected each other.

Abstract: An active device array substrate includes a substrate, first scan lines, second scan lines, data lines, and pixels. The first and the second scan lines are alternately arranged along a first direction. The data lines are arranged in parallel along a second direction. The pixels are arranged to form first pixel rows and second pixel rows alternately arranged in the first direction. The first pixel row includes first and second pixels electrically connected to the first scan lines, the second scan lines, and the data line, respectively. The second pixel row includes third and fourth pixels electrically connected to the first scan lines, the second scan lines, and the data line, respectively. The pixels between two adjacent data lines are arranged in two columns. Among the pixels in the same column, the pixels in odd rows and in even rows are electrically connected to different data lines, respectively.

Abstract: A display panel includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first display substrate includes a first base substrate having a plurality of display cells, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes. The data lines, the gate lines and the pixel electrodes are respectively separated in each of the display cells. The second display substrate includes a second base substrate, a light blocking pattern corresponding to the data lines and the gate lines, a common electrode facing the pixel electrodes, and a common line overlapping with the blocking pattern. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second display substrate.

Abstract: A substrate for a GIP type liquid crystal display device comprising MPS wires for inspecting lines after a cell array process is disclosed herein. The substrate comprises a mother substrate comprising a plurality of panel regions defined therein, each of the panel regions including an active area having a thin film transistor array formed therein, a dummy area and a non-display area, a plurality of TCPs disposed in the non-display area of the mother substrate; a GIP gate driver and signal lines to apply various signals to the GIP gate drivers, the GIP gate driver and signal lines being disposed in the dummy area; and a plurality of MPS wires extending from the non-display area of a first panel region to a non-display area opposite to a data pad of an adjacent panel region to inspect for defects of gate lines, data lines, common line, voltage line and the signal lines.

Abstract: Color cholesteric liquid crystal display devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The color cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a gap interposed therebetween. A patterned enclosed structure, formed by adhering a first patterned enclosed structure on the first substrate and a second patterned enclosed structure on the second substrate, is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, dividing a plurality of color sub-pixel channels. A plurality of the color cholesteric liquid crystals are respectively filled into each of the color sub-pixel channel, wherein the first patterned enclosed structure is tightly adhered to the second patterned enclosed structure so as to prevent mixing of the color cholesteric liquid crystals between adjacent color sub-pixel channels.

Abstract: A liquid crystal lens electrically driven and stereoscopy display device using the same are disclosed, by which a thickness of a liquid crystal layer provided to the liquid crystal lens electrically driven is reduced in a manner of applying fresnel lens within a pitch anisotropically.

Abstract: A lithographic apparatus and method in which a system is used to emit a patterned beam. The patterned beam is projected onto a target portion of the surface of a substrate supported on a substrate support. The target portion has predetermined spatial characteristics relative to the substrate table that are appropriate for a desired exposure pattern on the surface of the substrate. The temperature of the substrate is measured, and the dimensional response of the substrate to the measured temperature is calculated. The spatial characteristics of the target portion relative to the substrate table are adjusted to compensate for the calculated dimensional response.

Abstract: A plurality of targets including a second population superimposed on a first population are formed. In the first target the second population has an asymmetry with respect to the first population. In the second target the second population has a different asymmetry with respect to the first population. Reflected radiation is detected from both the targets and used to determine different characteristics of the underlying populations.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus comprises: a loading stage for supporting a substrate; a mask plate parallel to the loading stage and above the loading stage, the mask plate including a light transmitting region and a light absorbing region on its lower surface, a light reflecting region being provided in the light absorbing region; a lens device provided between the mask plate and the loading stage; a first illumination light source, light from which vertically striking on the upper surface of the mask plate from above, passing through the mask plate and striking on the loading stage via the lens device; a light reflecting device provided in the lens device; and a second illumination light source, light from which being reflected onto the lower surface of the mask plate by the light reflecting device located in the lens device, the light being reflected by the light reflecting region on the lower surface of the mask plate and striking on the loading stage via the lens device.

Abstract: A system for equalizing pulse to pulse energy of a light beam includes a group of optical devices including an optical device configured to exhibit nonlinear properties, e.g., higher order or third order nonlinear properties. Transmission properties of an unequalized light beam passing through the group of optical devices change such that an output intensity of a resulting light beam output from the optical devices is equalized. One example configuration includes at least first and second prisms having nonlinear properties, i.e., higher order or third order, and configured as a beam steering system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positioning device for positioning a table, including a base, a motor that drives the table in the driving area on the base, a position sensor that detects the position of the table, and a control unit that controls the motor. The control unit includes a first output unit that outputs electric current for controlling the position of the table based on the output of the position sensor; a second output unit that outputs electric current for imparting a thrust force, which is directed toward the center of the driving area, to the table; and a switch unit that switches from a state in which the motor is controlled depending on the output of the first output unit to a state in which the motor is controlled depending on the output of the second output unit, based on a stopping signal for stopping the table.

Abstract: The present invention provides an exposure apparatus which transfers a pattern of a reticle onto a substrate, the apparatus including a convey unit configured to convey the substrate while chucking and holding a lower surface of the substrate, and a control unit configured to control a conveyance condition of the convey unit so that a conveyance acceleration is lower when the convey unit conveys the substrate in a vertical direction with downward acceleration than when the convey unit conveys the substrate in the vertical direction with upward acceleration.

Abstract: A lithographic apparatus includes a heat transfer assembly configured to temperature control at least a portion of the lithographic apparatus. The heat transfer assembly includes a printed circuit board, and a plurality of heat transfer elements. The printed circuit board and the plurality of heat transfer elements are configured to be attached to the portion of the lithographic apparatus. The plurality of heat transfer elements are separate from and are electrically coupled to the printed circuit board.

Abstract: An exposure method comprises a calculation step of calculating a correction amount of a correction unit which corrects a change in imaging characteristics of a projection optical system based on at least one of parameters including a numerical aperture and effective light source of an illumination optical system, a numerical aperture of the projection optical system, and a size and pitch of a pattern, and an amount of change in environment condition in the projection optical system; and a correction step of making the correction unit operate in accordance with the correction amount calculated in the calculation step.

Abstract: A storage medium includes a program which causes a computer to execute a method of calculating a light intensity distribution on a pupil plane of an illumination optical system. The method includes: determining an impulse response function of a projection optical system by performing Fourier transform on a pupil function of the projection optical system; setting a length to a second zero point of the impulse response function as a response length, extracting, from elements forming a target pattern, only elements inside am area within radius which is response length, and determining a function indicating the extracted pattern as an image function; and obtaining the light intensity distribution based on the pupil function, the determined impulse response function, and the determined image function.

Abstract: A method for analyzing a blood sample is provided that includes the steps of: providing a blood sample having one or more of each first and second constituents; admixing a colorant with the sample, which colorant is operative to cause the first constituents and second constituents to fluoresce and absorb light; illuminating at least a portion of the sample; e) imaging a portion of the sample; determining a fluorescence value for each the first constituents and second constituents; determining an optical density value for each of the first constituents and second constituents; and identifying the first constituents and the second constituents using the determined fluorescence and optical density values.

Abstract: In a method and a corresponding apparatus for performing chaotic optical time domain reflectometer, the chaotic laser signal, generated by the chaotic laser transmitter, is split into probe signal I and reference signal II by a fiber coupler. Through an optical circulator, the probe signal I is launched into the test fiber and the echo light is converted into electrical signal by a photodetector and digitalized by an A/D converter. The reference signal II is converted into electrical signal by a photodetector and digitalized by another A/D converter. Two digital signals received from two A/D converters are correlated in a signal processing device to locate the exact position of faults in fibers. The result output is then displayed on a display device. This invention was developed to overcome the tradeoff problem between resolution and dynamic range of the pulse-based OTDR.

Abstract: A device for measuring eccentricity of a lens includes a support portion, an eccentricity detector, a driving device, a vacuum absorption device, a clamping device, and a rotatable pole. The support portion includes a plurality of gear teeth and a first through hole. The eccentricity detector is positioned above the lens. The driving device includes a driving mechanism and a motor. The motor rotates the driving mechanism. The vacuum absorption device includes an air pipe and a vacuum generation element. The vacuum generation element is for removing air from the air pipe. The clamping device includes a first clamping element and a second clamping element. The first clamping element cooperates with the second clamping element to locate and fix the lens. The rotatable pole includes a second through hole. The rotatable pole is for supporting the support portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method which enable detecting a microscopic defect sensitively by efficiently collecting and detecting scattering light from a defect in a wider region without enlarging the apparatus. In the apparatus for inspecting a defect on a surface of a sample, including illumination means which irradiates a surface of a sample with laser, reflected light detection means which detects reflected light from the sample, and signal processing means which processes a detected signal and detecting a defect on the sample, the reflected light detection means is configured to include a scattering light detection unit which collects scattering light components of the reflected light from the sample by excluding specularly reflected light components by using an aspheric flannel lens and detecting the scattering light components.

Abstract: An apparatus for optical inspection comprises a platform extending in a first direction, a transmitting unit for transporting at least one carrier in the first direction from an input port to an output port thereof, each of the at least one carrier to support one of at least one object to be inspected, a first detector disposed above the platform and extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction for inspecting the at least one object on the at least one carrier, the first detector including a first scanner extending in the second direction between the input port and the output port, and a first roller set between the first scanner and the input port to apply force onto a surface of each of the at least one object.

Abstract: A surface scanning device for inspecting a product surface includes an illumination module and an image acquisition device. The illumination module is designed to illuminate the product surface with illumination of substantially uniform illuminance. The illumination module is also designed to configure a configurable range of angles of incidence of the illumination on the product surface. The image acquisition device images the illuminated area.

Abstract: A miniature flow-through cuvette for spectrophotometric measurement of a liquid sample includes a cuvette body of a transparent material including a first outer surface and an opposing second outer surface, and a flow channel disposed through the cuvette body. The flow channel includes first and second interface segments generally vertically oriented, each having an open exit; a measurement segment interconnecting the first and second interface segments; a first inclined planar inner surface disposed in a turning segment between the first interface segment and the measurement segment, facing the first outer surface; and a second inclined planar inner surface disposed in a turning segment between the second interface segment and the measurement segment, facing the second outer surface. The first and second inclined inner surfaces terminate the measurement segment at opposing ends thereof. Further provided is a spectrophotometer including the miniature flow-through cuvette.

Abstract: In order to simply produce a microstructured body in which metal particles are arranged so as to be fixed to depressions of a metal substrate having at a surface a structure of protrusions and the depressions, a process for producing the microstructured body includes the steps of: (A) preparing a metal substrate 11 with a surface having a structure of protrusions and depressions; (B) forming a metal film 21 on the surface of the metal substrate 11, where the metal film 21 contains as the main component a metal different from the constituent metal of the metal substrate 11; and (C) annealing the metal film so that the constituent metal of the metal film is coagulated into particles.

Abstract: A method for detecting single molecule includes providing a carrier. The carrier includes a substrate and a metal layer. The substrate has a surface and defines a number of blind holes caved in the substrate from the surface thereof. The metal layer covers the surface of the substrate and inner surfaces of the number of blind holes. Single molecule samples are disposed on the metal layer. The single molecule samples are detected by a Raman Spectroscopy system.

Abstract: A method for sensing a target object using optical mode excitations in microresonators, comprises: preparing at least one cluster including at least two microresonators; obtaining some first spectra of the cluster; adsorbing the target object on a surface of the cluster; obtaining some second spectra of the cluster; and sensing the target object by comparing a lineshape of the first spectra with a lineshape of the second spectra.

Abstract: An optical emission analyzer is provided with a circuit-closing switch (56) for changing the state of an arc-generating circuit 5 between the closed state and the open state and a reverse-blocking diode (55) for preventing a spark current from flowing into the circuit-closing switch (56). The circuit-closing switch (56) is turned on before the beginning of a spark discharge between a discharge electrode (31) and a sample (32) to initiate excitation of a coil (53). Consequently, the excitation current of the coil (53) can be increased to a target value within the duration of the spark discharge without using a low-inductance coil or increasing the switching frequency of a switching element (52).

Abstract: An apparatus for placement on or in a body of water for hyperspectral imaging of material in the water comprises an artificial light source and a hyperspectral imager. These are arranged so that in use light exits the apparatus beneath the surface of the water and is reflected by said material before re-entering the apparatus beneath the surface of the water and entering the hyperspectral imager. The hyperspectral imager is adapted to produce hyperspectral image data having at least two spatial dimensions.

Abstract: A Multiple-Field-Of-View (MFOV) lidar is used to characterize the size and concentration of low concentration of bioaerosol particles. The concept relies on the measurement of the forward scattered light by using the background aerosols at various distances at the back of the sub-visible cloud. It also relies on the subtraction of the background aerosol forward scattering contribution and on the partial attenuation of the first order backscattering. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that the MFOV lidar can measure with a good precision the effective diameter of low concentration bioaerosol clouds.