Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080234133 | Plant activator - An object of the present invention is to determine novel means of activating plants; more particularly, means of controlling plant growth, such as means of promoting growth, means of controlling dormancy, means of imparting tolerance against stress for plants (dryness, high or low temperatures, osmotic pressure, etc.), and means of preventing aging. The present inventors have found that the above object can be achieved by providing plant activators containing, as an active ingredient, C | 09-25-2008 |
20090208525 | Antiaging method for skin using pleurotus abalonus - The present invention provides an antioxidant and a whitening agent having high safety, and a external preparation for skin using the same. The antioxidant and whitening agent comprise, as an effective component, one or more extracts from Basidiomycetes selected from the group consisting of | 08-20-2009 |
20100202027 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - A method is provided for processing image data read from a book document placed on a platen of an image reading apparatus. The method includes determining a background pixel of the image data based on a luminance difference or a color difference between neighboring pixel arrays, identifying a shadow region based on a luminance change between the neighboring background pixel arrays, discriminatively detecting a shadow of a binding portion and a shadow of a front edge in a document region with reference to a changing direction of shadow luminance, and performing a luminance correction on the shadow region according to characteristics of the shadows. | 08-12-2010 |
20100253709 | CORRECTION VALUE ACQUISITION METHOD, CORRECTION METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A first step drives a plurality of electron-emitting devices with a drive signal corresponding to a first gradation level and measures the luminance dispersion. A second step selects one or more electron-emitting devices as target devices, drives them with a drive signal corresponding to each gradation level, and measures their luminance for each gradation level. A third step drives the target devices with a drive signal having a voltage amplitude of a drive signal corresponding to each gradation level multiplied by a constant, and measures their luminance for each gradation level. Then, a correction value for each gradation level of each electron-emitting device is calculated using a luminance ratio of the luminance measured in the second step to the luminance measured in the third step, and the luminance dispersion measured in the first step. | 10-07-2010 |
20110025887 | CORRECTION METHOD - A correction value for luminance correction is determined by: measuring a luminance value of each of display elements by displaying a first image including luminance unevenness caused by characteristic differences among the display elements and characteristic differences among modulation circuits, and calculating a first luminance value serving as a representative luminance value of the display elements for each of the modulation circuits; measuring the luminance value of each of the display elements by displaying a second image in which the luminance unevenness caused by characteristic differences among the modulation circuits is smaller than that of the first image, and calculating a second luminance value serving as a representative luminance value of the display elements for each of the modulation circuits; and calculating a correction value corresponding to each modulation circuit using a value obtained by dividing the first luminance value by the second luminance value. | 02-03-2011 |
20110152101 | Plant Activator - An object of the present invention is to determine novel means of activating plants; more particularly, means of controlling plant growth, such as means of promoting growth, means of controlling dormancy, means of imparting tolerance against stress for plants (dryness, high or low temperatures, osmotic pressure, etc.), and means of preventing aging. The present inventors have found that the above object can be achieved by providing plant activators containing, as an active ingredient, C | 06-23-2011 |
20110164003 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes: a display panel having at least a first region and a second region arranged in a scanning direction; a scanning circuit provided in common to the first region and the second region; a first modulation circuit provided for the first region; and a second modulation circuit provided for the second region, wherein a modulated signal applied by the first modulation circuit and a modulated signal applied by the second modulation circuit are pulse signals having a varying pulse height part and a fixed pulse height part, and the first modulation circuit and the second modulation circuit apply the modulated signals at timings ensuring that the fixed pulse height part of the modulated signal applied by the first modulation circuit does not temporally overlap the fixed pulse height part of the modulated signal applied by the second modulation circuit. | 07-07-2011 |
20120044275 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image display apparatus has a correction unit that performs a correction process on image signals so as to suppress luminance fluctuation caused by capacitive coupling between adjacent column wirings. The correction unit includes: a correction value generation unit that determines a correction value for a pixel to be corrected on the basis of a combination of a signal value of the pixel to be corrected and signal values of adjacent pixels which are on a column wiring next to a column wiring on which the pixel to be corrected is, and on the basis of a position of the pixel to be corrected in a column direction; and a correction operation unit that corrects a signal of the pixel to be corrected using the correction value generated by the correction value generation unit. | 02-23-2012 |
20120120457 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - A method is provided for processing image data read from a book document placed on a platen of an image reading apparatus. The method includes determining a background pixel of the image data based on a luminance difference or a color difference between neighboring pixel arrays, identifying a shadow region based on a luminance change between the neighboring background pixel arrays, discriminatively detecting a shadow of a binding portion and a shadow of a front edge in a document region with reference to a changing direction of shadow luminance, and performing a luminance correction on the shadow region according to characteristics of the shadows. | 05-17-2012 |
20120188291 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A single pixel is formed from a plurality of pixel circuits including a first pixel circuit that applies an electric signal for driving a first electro-optic device to the first electro-optic device and a second pixel circuit that applies an electric signal for driving a second electro-optic device having a shorter persistence time than the first electro-optic device to the second electro-optic device. The first and second pixel circuits output the respective electric signals such that a center of gravity of a waveform of the electric signal applied to the second electro-optic device is temporally delayed relative to a center of gravity of a waveform of the electric signal applied to the first electro-optic device. | 07-26-2012 |