| 02nd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
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| 20090009609 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE WITH IMAGE OUTPUT CONTROL FUNCTION - A photographing device outputs image data signals to a peripheral device that reproduces the image data signals in a reproduction format predetermined according to the location where the peripheral device is actually used. The photographing device includes an output-format selector and an information receiver. The output-format selector selects an output format for the image data signals to be output to the peripheral device. The information receiver receives location information for where the peripheral device is in actual use. The output-format selector selects the output format corresponding to the reproduction format, based on reproduction-format information and the location information. The reproduction-format information represents the match between a plurality of the reproduction formats and the locations on the earth where each reproduction format is employed. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009610 | Automatically Configuring A Web-Enabled Digital Camera To Access The Internet - A method and system for automatically configuring a hand-held electronic device for accessing a site on a public network is disclosed. The method and system include establishing a connection to a website server, which is responsible for establishing and maintaining website accounts, and sending information uniquely identifying the electronic device to the website server. The server then sends user account information to the device, including an account ID and password, created based on the electronic device information. The user account information is then stored on electronic device for use the next time the electronic device accesses the website, whereby the user does not have to enter account information in order to establish the ISP connection or the website account before accessing the public network. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009611 | Thin-type image capturing module structure for a web cam - An image capturing module of a web cam device, and particularly to a thin-type web cam device, includes a circuit board having circuit lines and a through opening. A substrate plate having contacts attaches to the bottom of the circuit board. An image sensor is covered by a transparent shield. The image sensor and the shield are carried by the substrate plate and located within the through opening. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTATION MOTION-DRIVEN MULTI-SHOT IMAGE STABILIZATION - An improved system and method for capturing an image using a camera or a camera module. In the present invention, the number of image shots taken, as well as the integration time of each image shot, are controlled based upon knowledge about the existence or absence of camera motion. Whenever a motion is detected above a predetermined motion threshold, the integration phase of the current image shot ends, and the integration of the next image shot begins. The present invention therefore adapts to the actual camera motion during exposure. If there is no camera motion, a single, long exposed image shot is captured. If there is camera motion, the total exposure time is divided between multiple shots in accordance with the degree of camera motion. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009613 | Method for processing images and electronic device using the same - A method for processing images and an electronic device using the same are provided, and the method includes the following steps. A plurality of pictures are successively captured in a frame. A shake parameter of each of the pictures relative to the preceding picture is analyzed. Each of the pictures is adjusted in the frame according to each of the shake parameters to allow the shake parameters to be close to zero. After each of the pictures is adjusted, it has at least a blank area in the frame. Each of the pictures has a boundary pattern adjacent to the blank area. Similar patterns for connecting the boundary patterns are searched for from a plurality of reference pictures. Afterwards, each of the similar patterns fills the corresponding each of the blank areas. The filled pictures are compressed. The compressed pictures are stored. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009614 | DIGITAL STILL CAMERA AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A solid-state electronic image sensing device senses the image of a subject repeatedly for an exposure time over which camera shake is thought not to occur, and repeatedly outputs image data representing the image of the subject. A combining device generates one frame of a combined image obtained by combining the image of the subject represented by image data that has been output from the solid-state electronic image sensing device with the image of the subject represented by image data that was output from the solid-state electronic image sensing device by an immediately preceding image sensing operation, in such a manner that the images of the subject coincide. A combining control device controls the combining device so as to repeatedly execute processing for generating one frame of a combined image updated by combining the combined image, which is the result of combination by the combining device, with the image of the subject represented by image data that has been output from the solid-state electronic image sensing device, in such a manner that the images coincide. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009615 | Medical camera platform - The invention is a medical platform system that overcomes many of the shortcomings of current systems. The novel platform provides simultaneous image display and capture, network based wireless control, preferably by way of a web browser, and the capacity to acquire surgeon specific setting by way of removable storage devices. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009616 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An imaging apparatus which enables correction of signal deterioration responsible for transfer deterioration occurred in a horizontal charge transfer path is provided. Provided that positions of “n” transfer packet formed in a horizontal charge transfer path in correspondence to “n” vertical charge transfer paths are expressed as a coordinate “i” (i=1, 2, 3, . . . n), a solid-state imaging device is exposed under exposure conditions, and reference charges generated in photoelectric conversion elements upon the exposure are accumulated in transfer packets located at odd coordinates. The charge accumulation packets accumulating the reference charges and other empty packets are transferred horizontally, whereby a reference signal responsive to the reference charge and an untransferred signal responsive to a charge in the empty packet are output. The thus-output signals are stored in memory. Deterioration of an imaging signal S(i) responsive to the charge accumulated in the transfer packet located at the coordinate “i” in a photographing mode during exposure is compensated for in accordance with the data stored in the memory and the imaging signal S(i). | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009617 | Imaging apparatus - The object of the present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of image quality associated with a temperature rise in an image pickup device despite that an electronic viewfinder is usable. An imaging apparatus including an image pickup device for capturing a subject image to acquire it as image data and capable of viewing a subject by selecting either of a first finder mode for optical viewing of the subject image and a second finder mode for displaying the image data on a display unit to allow viewing of the image data, the imaging apparatus comprises: a temperature detection circuit for measuring the temperature of the image pickup device; a finder mode switching instruction part for switching between the first finder mode and the second finder mode; and a controller for inhibiting switching from the first finder mode to the second finder mode performed by the finder mode switching instruction part when the temperature exceeds a first threshold. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009618 | Analog front-end circuit, semiconductor device, and electronic instrument - An analog front-end circuit includes an analog processing circuit, an A/D converter, and a timing generator that generates a plurality of control signals that are supplied to an image sensor. The timing generator includes an event information memory, and a control signal output circuit that generates the control signals based on information read from the event information memory and outputs the generated control signals. The event information memory stores a pixel number and change event occurrence information at each address. The change event occurrence information specifies a control signal that undergoes a signal level change event at the pixel number. The control signal output circuit generates the control signals based on the pixel number and the change event occurrence information read from the event information memory and outputs the generated control signals. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009619 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image sensor includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units disposed in line and column directions, transfer capacitances that store a signal read out from the (n−1)th line (n being an integer of 2 or more) of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units, transfer capacitances that store a signal read out from the nth line of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units, and a system control CPU that controls the image sensor. While a level of a predetermined driving pulse generated within the image sensor changes during the period where the signal of the (n−1)th line stored in the transfer capacitance is read out from the transfer capacitances, the system control CPU control not to output the signal of the (n−1)th line from the transfer capacitances. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009620 | VIDEO CAMERA AND EVENT RECORDING METHOD - According to one embodiment, the video camera includes an operation unit which performs a variety of input operations, a video shooting unit which performs video shooting, a recording unit which records video data obtained from the video shooting unit in a hard disk, and a GPS processing unit which determines a date and time. The video camera further includes an event information processing unit which creates typical event data including a variety of events by using a birthday input from the operation unit as a starting point and registers the typical event data in a database, selects events for at least the date and time of video shooting, as event candidates, from the typical event data registered in the database, forecast the most appropriate candidate by narrowing down the event candidates, and records the most appropriate candidate in the hard disk as an event associated with the video data. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009621 | Solid-State Imaging Device, Signal Processing Method, and Camera - A solid-state imaging apparatus that performs color imaging using visible light and imaging using infrared light, the solid-state imaging apparatus including a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixel cells, in each of which a filter mainly transmits one of visible light and infrared light, wherein filters are arranged such that a first unit of arrangement where a plurality of filters that mainly transmit visible light are arranged and a second unit of arrangement where a filter that mainly transmits visible light and a filter that mainly transmits infrared light are arranged are alternately arranged in both a row direction and a column direction. Also, in the first unit of arrangement are arranged filters including three kinds of filters each transmitting one of red light, green light and blue light and in the second unit of arrangement are arranged four kinds of filters each transmitting one of red light, green light, blue light and infrared light. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009622 | IMAGE DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image data management apparatus includes a unit adapted to display different types of plural frames (such as an in-focus frame and a face frame) at the same time in a manner capable of selectively changing both of those frames by a user operation such that an in-focus frame portion and a face frame portion can be easily confirmed. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009623 | Imaging Device, Video Signal Processing Method, And Video Signal Processing Program - An imaging device ( | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009624 | Automatic white balance control system, automatic white balance module, and method thereof - The present invention discloses an automatic white balance control system, an automatic white balance module, and a method thereof. The automatic white balance (AWB) control system calculates a distance value from a coordinate related to the image to a reference point in a color space coordinate system for each image. If the median or mean of the distance values is greater than a threshold value, an automatic white balance operation will be performed. The system dynamically adjusts the threshold value to prevent a blinking caused by the automatic white balance. The white balance module selects an image block of a higher image sharpness to perform a gain adjustment to prevent a monochromatic block from misjudging a white balance gain. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009625 | Image storage and camera system in which protected image data in camera can be forcibly deleted - An image storage includes a built-in memory having large capacity for storing plural image data taken by a digital camera. A digital circuit retrieves desired one of the image data from the built-in memory. A connector electrically connects with the digital camera for data transmission. A detector detects the connection of the digital camera to the connector. A controller causes the image storage to receive the image data transmitted from the digital camera through the connector to store that data in the built-in memory in response to detection of the connection by the detector. The controller can transmit a signal to the digital camera to delete the image data that has been transmitted to and stored in the built-in memory. The signal is effective to forcibly delete the image data from the digital camera even if the image data is protected against deletion according to a digital camera setting. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IMAGE FILE HAVING OBJECT INFORMATION - Provided are a method and an apparatus for generating an image file having information about an object. The method of generating the image file having the object information includes the operations of generating image data by taking a picture of the object; receiving the object information from the object through a network; and storing the object information in an image file together with the image data. Accordingly, when a photographing apparatus capable of perform wireless communications generates image data by taking a picture of an object having a wireless communication module, object information is received from the object through wireless communications and is stored together with image data. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009627 | IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - An image photographing apparatus includes a main body including a lens unit, and a recording medium driving unit to drive a recording medium that records an image photographed through the lens unit, a recording medium cover openably attached to the main body of the image photographing apparatus to insert or to remove the recording medium to or from the recording medium driving unit, a locking unit to lock or unlock the recording medium cover, and a manual opening unit detachably attached to the main body of the image photographing apparatus to expose and allow the locking unit to be manually operated to remove the recording medium in a “no power” situation. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009628 | CAPTURING AN IMAGE WITH A CAMERA INTEGRATED IN AN ELECTRONIC DISPLAY - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for capturing photographic images with a camera integrated in an electronic display. The system includes: a display screen; a set of display elements coupled to a front side of the display screen; and an image-capturing mechanism coupled to a backside of the display screen. The display elements are configured to cycle between an active state, in which the display elements are illuminated to display a display image on the display screen, and an inactive state, in which the display elements are darkened and at least partially transparent. While the display elements are in the inactive state, the image-capturing mechanism is configured to capture a photographic image of objects in front of the display screen through the display screen and the display elements. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009629 | Electronic camera - An electronic camera of the present invention includes: an imaging unit capturing a subject to generate an original image; a derivative image generating unit reducing resolution or color of the original image to generate a derivative image for transfer; a recording unit recording the original image and the derivative image thereon such that the original image and the derivative image get associated with each other; and a transfer unit transferring the derivative image recorded on the recording unit to an external transfer destination. In this configuration, the recording unit finds the derivative image (original image) by referring to the association with the original image (or derivative image), thereby collectively managing the original image and the derivative image. This makes it possible to prevent a user from being confused at image management due to the original image and the derivative image being the same image. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009630 | DIRECT INTERFACE OF CAMERA MODULE TO GENERAL PURPOSE I/O PORT OF DIGITAL BASEBAND PROCESSOR - In a mobile wireless device, a camera module can be connected directly to a digital baseband processor that does not have a special interface, without the need for an external coprocessor. The data interface of the camera module is directly connected to pins of a general purpose input/output port on the digital baseband processor to enable the baseband processor to capture the synchronous parallel data stream from the camera module. A clock signal from the camera module can be used to trigger DMA transfers of the image data captured by the general purpose input/output port of the baseband processor. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009631 | IMAGE-TAKING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR IMAGE-TAKING APPARATUS - An image-taking apparatus is disclosed which is capable of adjusting a positional displacement of an image-taking optical system and an image-pickup element even in a state in which they are fixed. The image-taking apparatus includes the image-taking optical system including an offset lens unit movable in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis, the image-pickup element and a memory which stores adjustment data. The adjustment data is data on a movement amount of the offset lens unit to make light amounts in peripheral parts on the image-pickup element substantially homogeneous in a case where an object has a surface with approximately homogeneous luminance. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009632 | WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE ELECTRONIC IMAGE RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM - The electronic camera has an imaging device that images a subject with subject reflectance R (%) with a dynamic range wider than that at displaying or printing to acquire image data and a recording device that converts the image data acquired by the imaging device with a predetermined function and records the converted image data and the information on the function as digital values (digit). Therefore, a printed image with an automatically or manually corrected density can be obtained at the displaying or the printing. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009633 | Lens apparatus, image capture apparatus, and method for correcting image quality - An image capture apparatus on which a lens apparatus is detachably mounted, may include an image capture device, an image-signal processor, a communication unit, and a control unit. The image capture device may generate an image signal obtained by photoelectric conversion of subject light forming an image through a lens of the image capture apparatus. The image-signal processor may carry out image processing on the image signal photo-electrically converted by the image capture device. The communication unit may communicate with the lens apparatus. The control unit may carry out control to receive the correction information for lateral chromatic aberration and/or the correction information for light falloff at edges through the communication unit. The image-signal processor may correct image degradation caused by the aberration of the lens using the correction information for lateral chromatic aberration and/or the correction information for light falloff at edges, which are received through the communication unit. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009634 | Apparatus for correcting camera shake and image capturing apparatus - A digital camera | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009635 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit configured by arranging plural unit pixels including charge generating units and output transistors that output processing object signals corresponding to charges generated by the charge generating units, an imaging-condition determining unit that determines whether a large light-amount imaging condition, when an amount of light larger than that of light representing a saturation level is made incident on the charge generating units, is satisfied, and a control unit that performs control, on condition that the imaging-condition determining unit determines that the large light-amount imaging condition is satisfied, to correct an output signal based on processing object signals outputted from the unit pixels such that a harmful effect due to the large light-amount imaging condition is suppressed in the output signal. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009636 | IMAGE TAKING APPARATUS - When a release button is pressed in the image adding mode and flash-on mode, a system control section instructs a timing generation section to continuously supply a timing signal to an imaging section, thereby causing the imaging section to perform high speed continuous shooting. A flash is caused to emit light in sync with taking the last one of images taken by the continuous shooting such that the amount of the emitted light results in underexposure for one image. The continuous images taken by the imaging section are sequentially output via a preprocessing section to a blurring correction section where the taken images are superimposed upon each other to obtain an image of appropriate exposure in which blurring has been corrected. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009637 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device, a first luminance signal generating unit and a correcting unit. The imaging device includes at least three types of color detecting photoelectric converting elements and a luminance detecting photoelectric converting element. The first luminance signal generating unit generates a first luminance signal corresponding to the color detecting photoelectric converting element from a color signal obtained from each of the at least three types of color detecting photoelectric converting elements. The correcting unit corrects, based on the color signal, at least a second luminance signal corresponding to the luminance detecting photoelectric converting element which is obtained from the luminance detecting photoelectric converting element so as to generate a luminance signal which constitutes image data corresponding to each of the photoelectric converting elements. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009638 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A solid-state imaging apparatus of a dynamic range enlarged by reading out a carrier accumulated in a carrier accumulation unit at a plurality of times during a single carrier accumulation time period. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009639 | Solid-state image capturing device, manufacturing method for solid-state image capturing device, solid-state image capturing apparatus, and electronic information device - A solid-state image capturing device is provided, and in a pixel section in the center of a chip where a plurality of light receiving elements are arranged in two dimensions, an on-chip lens for focusing incident light is provided on each of the plurality of light receiving elements in a corresponding manner; and a dummy pattern made of a material for the on-chip lens is provided on a peripheral circuit section on an outer circumference side of the chip in order to improve the heat-resisting property at the time of reflow soldering. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009640 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND MONITORING DEVICE AND METHOD - Detection and notification of states where degradation of the image quality occurs due to heat are certainly performed. A temperature detection portion detects the temperature around a logarithmic transformation type image pickup device and supplies a signal indicative of the detected temperature to a notification portion A permissible-temperature setting portion sets a permissible temperature which is a temperature around the logarithmic transformation type image pickup device which allows keeping the degree of degradation of the image quality within a range permitted by an image processing device, on the basis of the illuminance of an object which was detected by an object illuminance detection portion and, then, supplies information indicative of the set permissible temperature to the notification portion. The notification portion outputs an error signal to the image processing device, if the temperature around the logarithmic transformation type image pickup device has exceeded the permissible temperature. The present invention is applicable to an image pickup apparatus having a logarithmic transformation type image pickup device. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009641 | DA CONVERTER, AD CONVERTER, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A DA converter includes a first DA conversion section for obtaining an analog output signal in accordance with a digital input signal value, and a second DA conversion section for obtaining an analog gain control output signal in accordance with a digital gain control input signal value. In the DA converter, the gain control of the analog output signal generated by the first DA conversion section is performed on the basis of the gain control output signal generated by the second DA conversion section. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009642 | Fast-settling line driver design for high resolution video IR and visible imagers - A fast-settling line driver circuit capable of high-speed operation. The line driver is particularly well-suited for operation in a high-resolution imaging system. The line driver circuit comprises a signal amplifier that is configured in a negative feedback loop and connected to a bus line through a switch network. The switch network is disposed inside the feedback loop while the line driver is transmitting a signal onto the bus line. This configuration reduces the settling time of the line driver by substantially eliminating the effect of the switch resistance on the RC time constant. The line driver also comprises offset cancellation and presettle circuits that improve the integrity of the output signal and reduce the power consumption of the system. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009643 | MOS TYPE SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING SUCH MOS TYPE SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND CAMERA - A MOS type solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel unit which includes image pickup elements arranged two-dimensionally; a readout shift register; an electronic shutter shift register; a signal processing unit which extracts a pixel signal from the selected pixel; a horizontal shift register which outputs a column selection signal; and an amplifier circuit which amplifies the extracted pixel output signal. Each of the shift registers has a function of generating a dummy pulse during a blanking period. When the blanking period occurs after the completion of scanning up to the last line, a selection signal is outputted alternately to the last line and the second-from-the-last line of the shift register. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009644 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In an imaging apparatus, a first conversion unit multiplexes input signals including control signals for driving an image sensor to generate a multiplex signal having a frequency higher than those of the input signals. A transfer unit transfers the multiplexed signal generated by the first conversion unit according to low-voltage differential signaling. A reception unit receives the multiplexed signal from the transfer unit. A second conversion unit extracts the control signals for driving the image sensor from the multiplexed signal received by the reception unit. A third conversion unit performs at least one of correction processing and development processing on a signal generated by the image sensor. A signal generation unit generates and supplies processing timing control signals to the first conversion unit and the third conversion unit. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009645 | Image Sensor, Method for Operating an Image Sensor, and Computer Program - An image sensor includes a plurality of image elements configured to provide associated image element signals which are dependent on light intensities incident on the image elements. The image sensor includes an accumulation circuit with a plurality of charge storage elements, wherein the accumulation circuit is configured to change charges on the charge storage elements during a phase in dependence on image element signals of respectively associated image elements. The accumulation circuit is further configured to change an association between charge storage elements and associated image elements in successive phases, so that in operation, a charge on one of the charge storage elements depends on image element signals of plural image elements in a plurality of phases. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009646 | Configurable timing generator - In one embodiment, a configurable timing generator outputs at least one timing signal. The configurable timing generator comprises a first timing generator configurable to output the at least one timing signal so that the at least one timing signal is adaptable to a plurality of applications. In one embodiment, a configurable parameter storage unit comprising a parameter storage area configurable so as to store a plurality of parameters at least partially defining a desired plurality of waveform hierarchy elements, where the desired plurality of waveform hierarchy elements enable the definition of a waveform. In one embodiment, a method of constructing a waveform for a configurable timing generator, the method comprising acts of constructing a first pattern waveform, where the first pattern waveform comprises a first basic pulse, and constructing a first sequence waveform, where the first sequence waveform comprises a plurality of repetitions of the first pattern waveform. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009647 | Configurable timing generator - In one embodiment, a configurable timing generator outputs at least one timing signal. The configurable timing generator comprises a first timing generator configurable to output the at least one timing signal so that the at least one timing signal is adaptable to a plurality of applications. In one embodiment, a configurable parameter storage unit comprising a parameter storage area configurable so as to store a plurality of parameters at least partially defining a desired plurality of waveform hierarchy elements, where the desired plurality of waveform hierarchy elements enable the definition of a waveform. In one embodiment, a method of constructing a waveform for a configurable timing generator, the method comprising acts of constructing a first pattern waveform, where the first pattern waveform comprises a first basic pulse, and constructing a first sequence waveform, where the first sequence waveform comprises a plurality of repetitions of the first pattern waveform. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009648 | Display device having camera - An exemplary display device includes a monitor, a camera, a comparison circuit connected to the camera, and a control circuit connected to the control circuit and the monitor. The camera is capable of capturing a plurality of instantaneously captured images. The comparison circuit is capable of generating a positive result when one of the instantaneously captured images matches a pre-stored reference image, and generating a negative result when no instantaneously captured images match the reference image. The control circuit is configured for generating a first instruction to turn on the monitor according to the positive comparison result and to turn off the monitor according to the negative comparison result. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009649 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE CONTROL METHOD - In a digital camera ( | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009650 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CAMERA MODULE THEREFOR - The present invention provides a camera module for a portable electronic device. A beam splitter has a first light input end for receiving a first light beam, a second light input end for receiving a second light beam and a light output end for outputting the first or second light beams that enter from the first and second light input ends respectively. A reflector is positioned at the upstream of the first light input end of the beam splitter to redirect the first light beam to the first light input end of the beam splitter. An image sensor is positioned at the downstream of the light output end of the beam splitter to convert the first or second light beams outputted from the light output end into a corresponding signal. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009651 | Imaging Apparatus And Automatic Focus Control Method - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging sensor for performing photoelectric conversion of incident light and a focus control portion for adjusting a focal point based on an image signal obtained by the photoelectric conversion performed by the imaging sensor. The focus control portion includes a change detecting portion for detecting a change in size of a specific subject in a moving image based on the image signal, and adjusts the focal point so that the specific subject becomes in focus with the change taken into account. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009652 | IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - An image display control apparatus includes a determination unit (step S | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009653 | AUTO FOCUS SYSTEM AND AUTO FOCUS METHOD FOR USE IN VIDEO CAMERAS - An exemplary auto focus method for use in video cameras including a focus lens includes: focusing the pickup lens and capturing a current image and a prior image; calculating two contrast estimation values of the current image and the prior image; and judging whether a difference between the contrast estimation value of the current image and that of the prior image exceeds a predetermined threshold, if yes, refocusing the pickup lens, if no, keeping focus status of the pickup lens unchanged and capturing a subsequent image. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009654 | Apparatus, method, and medium for generating image - An apparatus, method, and medium for generating an image is provided. The apparatus includes an optical module, a filter module which includes a wide-band filter area that allows transmission of optical signals within a wavelength band corresponding to a color of a predetermined color, a narrow-band filter area that allows transmission of optical signals within a wavelength band corresponding to the predetermined color, and an all-pass filter area that allows transmission of optical signals in all wavelength bands, and an image generation module which generates an image by processing optical signals that transmit through the filter module, wherein the image generation module applies different weights to optical signals according to which of the wide-band filter area, the narrow-band filter area, and the all-pass filter area the optical signals respectively transmit through. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009655 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An apparatus suitably detects a recording trigger even in a low-brightness or low-light-intensity environment, and acquires, from a recorded image, a high-quality image from which a person or the like can be easily recognized. When a recording trigger is to be detected, this apparatus disables an infrared reduction filter, so a recording trigger can be suitably detected even in an environment in which the brightness or light intensity is low. When an image is to be recorded, this apparatus records a color image by enabling the infrared reduction filter. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009656 | SMA ACTUATOR DRIVING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE INCORPORATED WITH THE SAME - In a shape memory alloy actuator driving device, a predetermined constant current is applied to a shape memory alloy member as a retrieval signal to detect a terminal voltage of the shape memory alloy member, and a detection result of the terminal voltage is compared with a target voltage value to be calculated based on a target resistance value of the shape memory alloy member and a value of the constant current to cause a driving circuit to output, to the shape memory alloy member, a drive current that makes the detection result substantially equal to the target voltage value. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009657 | DRIVE APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An anti-vibration unit has: an X-axis transducer generating elliptical vibration in drivers; a frame which is a fixing member having a holding portion for holding the X-axis transducer; an X frame having fixed thereto a slide element to which the drivers of the X-axis transducer are pressed and which moves in the X-axis direction with respect to the frame; a Y-axis transducer held by a holding portion provided in the X-frame and generating elliptical vibration in drivers; and a Y frame having fixed thereto a slide element to which the drivers of the Y-axis transducer are pressed and which moves in the Y-axis direction with respect to the X frame. The X-axis transducer and the Y-axis transducer have substantially same resonant frequency, and the slide elements differ in at least one of rigidity and density thereof, thereby providing a drive apparatus down-sized, large in driving force and high in efficiency. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009658 | Calibrating a projection system - A method of calibrating a projection system is disclosed. The method includes determining a location of at least one hotspot on a screen within the projection system, initiating a calibration sequence of the projection system and ignoring the at least one hotspot during the calibration sequence of the projection system. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009659 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image capturing apparatus and method in which the image recording time is reduced and the memory capacity required for compression is also reduced. A number-of-bytes calculation unit | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009660 | VIDEO DISPLAYING APPARATUS, VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides a technology for achieving high resolution of video signals, preferably, with a small number of frames of a video signal or a motion picture. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009661 | Captioned Still Picture Contents Producing Apparatus, Captioned Still Picture Contents Producing Program and Captioned Still Picture Contents Producing System - There is provided a captioned still picture contents producing technique capable of opening caption broadcasting contents being a closed caption and synthesizing it with a still picture obtained from a TV video to automatically produce new captioned still picture contents. In a captioned still picture contents producing system, a captioned video signal generating apparatus generates a captioned video signal, and a still picture contents producing apparatus produces captioned still picture contents from the captioned video signal. The captioned video signal generating apparatus receives the original video signal and caption signal, and generates a control signal based on whether or not the caption is a real time caption. Then, the captioned video signal generating apparatus synthesizes the caption signal and the video signal and inserts the control signal to a predetermined position to generate a captioned video signal. On the contrary, the still picture contents producing apparatus extracts the caption signal and the control signal from the captioned video signal, and captures the image in the video signal based on the control signal to generate a still picture. At the same time, the still picture contents producing apparatus generates the caption video from the caption signal. Then, the still picture contents producing apparatus synthesizes the still picture and the caption image to produce the captioned still picture contents. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009662 | Method and Apparatus for Wireless Clock Regeneration - Methods and systems for operating a wireless clock system for multimedia datastream transmission and display. Source clock frames are compared with a reference clock frames and the clock difference are transmitted to a wireless clock receiver which also receives the same reference clock frames. Source clock frames are re-constructed using the reference clock frames, clock difference information and the receiver's local clock system. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009663 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes storage means for storing an adjusted value previously set by a user for an output state of information and prediction means for predicting a prediction value for adjustment of the output state in accordance with the stored adjusted value. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009664 | Color image processing apparatus, color image processing method, program and recording medium - A color image processing apparatus performs color image display using a red display, green display, blue display and white display. The apparatus includes a white signal generation circuit generating a white signal W based on an input red signal R | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009665 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a correction interval setting unit for setting a correction interval; a correction interval dividing unit for dividing the correction interval into a black side interval and a white side interval; histogram calculating units for calculating a total number of luminance histograms of the black side interval and the white side interval, respectively; gain setting units for setting gains of a γ curve for raising the luminance and a γ curve for lowering the luminance, respectively; gamma curve generating units for generating a gamma curve for raising the luminance and a gamma curve for lowering the luminance, respectively; a gamma curve combining unit for combining the gamma curve for raising the luminance and the gamma curve for lowering the luminance; and a luminance conversion unit for performing the luminance conversion process using the combined gamma curve. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009666 | TERMINAL WITH PROJECTED DISPLAY - A mobile data and/or communication terminal is provided which includes an optical system for the generation of a projected display as well as parts for stabilizing the display when the terminal is moved. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009667 | KEY CHAIN DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device that is able to have a key chain alternately attached and detached therefrom. The display device is able to receive digital data from an external device and display the data on its screen. The display device further has an easel that is able to support the display device so that it may be viewed with ease when placed on objects, such as a desks and tabletops. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009668 | Non-Etched Flat Polarization-Selective Diffractive Optical Elements - A polarization-selective diffractive optical element includes a liquid crystal polymer film supported by a substrate. The liquid crystal polymer film includes an array of pixels, each pixel encoded with a fixed liquid crystal director such that each liquid crystal director is aligned in a common plane perpendicular to the liquid crystal polymer film and provides a predetermined pattern of out-of-plane tilts. A size of the pixels in the array and the predetermined pattern are selected such that the liquid crystal polymer film forms a phase hologram for diffracting light polarized parallel to said common plane and a zeroth order diffraction grating for light polarized perpendicular to the said common plane. The non-etched and flat phase hologram is suitable for a wide range of applications. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009669 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - An autostereoscopic display apparatus comprises a lenticular array ( | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009670 | Liquid crystal flow forming mechanism, method of forming same, and object moving mechanism using liquid crystal flow - A mechanism and a method for causing a flow of liquid crystal, which can be utilized industrially, and an object-moving mechanism, which makes use of the flow of liquid crystal, are provided. A mechanism for causing a flow of liquid crystal comprising (i) a channel “L” defined by at lease one wall surface “B,” (ii) liquid crystal “LC” which is put in the channel “L” and movable along said at least one wall surface “B”, and (iii) a means for turning the molecules “m” of the liquid crystal “LC” in a plane intersecting said at least one wall surface “B.” The mechanism makes use of the flow of the liquid crystal “LC” which is caused when the molecules “m” of the liquid crystal “LC” are turned. When the means for turning the molecules “m” of the liquid crystal “LC” turns the molecules “m” of the liquid crystal “LC” in a plane intersecting said at least one wall surface “B,” the liquid crystal “LC” flows along said at least one wall surface “B.” The flow of the liquid crystal “LC” can easily be utilized for making object-moving devices, sensors, actuators, etc. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009671 | ELECTRIC FIELD DRIVING DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electric field driving device in which a plurality of pixels, each of which is formed of two or more sub-pixels that respectively correspond to different colors from one another, are arranged in a matrix in a pixel region on a substrate. The electric field driving device includes pixel electrodes, a common electrode, an insulating layer, and a material. Each of the pixel electrodes is formed in correspondence with the sub-pixel on the substrate. The common electrode is formed above the pixel electrodes on the substrate so that at least part of the common electrode overlaps each of the pixel electrodes in plan view, and has a plurality of slits. The insulating layer is formed on the substrate between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. The material is driven by an electric field that is generated on the basis of a difference in electric potential between each of the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. The plurality of slits at least partly overlap each of the pixel electrodes in plan view. At least a portion of the slits in each of the sub-pixels are parallel to one another and include a continuous portion that extends in a straight line over the plurality of sub-pixels that are included in one pixel of the pixels and arranged adjacent to one another. An extending direction in which the continuous portion that is included in the one pixel extends and an extending direction in which the continuous portion that is included in at least one of the pixels arranged adjacent to the one pixel extends are different from each other. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009672 | Substrate of Liquid Crystal Display and Method of Manufacturing the Same - An array substrate comprises a scanning line; a data line crossing the scanning line; a pixel electrode; a common electrode; and a Thin Film Transistor comprising a gate electrode connected to the scanning line, a source electrode connected to the data line and a drain electrode connected to the pixel electrode, the drain electrode and the scanning line forming a first capacitor therebetween. The array substrate further comprises an auxiliary capacitor which is in parallel with the first capacitor. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009673 | Active Matrix Substance and Display Device Including the Same - It is possible to decrease block segmentation and flickering due to separate exposure in an active matrix substrate while avoiding decreased aperture ratio, increased parasitic capacity and complication in manufacturing process. A first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit including a first-type TFT and a second-type TFT, respectively, are disposed alternately relative to each other in both directions of row and column in an active matrix substrate. In the first-type and the second-type TFTs, a pattern misalignment of the drain electrode with respect to the gate electrode in an up-down direction will increase/decrease a gate-drain parasitic capacity Cgd in reverse ways. By disposing these two types of TFTs in uniform dispersion, the increase/decrease in the parasitic capacity Cgd caused by pattern misalignment occurring at the time of manufacture are averaged. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009674 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND THE MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - The invention discloses a liquid crystal display panel comprising a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixels and pixel storage capacitors. Each pixel storage capacitor comprises a first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor, the capacitance value thereof is decreased as the distance between the corresponding pixel and the input terminal of the scan signal increases. The invention also discloses a manufacturing method for liquid crystal display panel, comprising: forming the scan lines and the first capacitor electrodes, depositing an insulating layer on the scan lines and the first capacitor electrodes to form the first insulating layer; depositing a patterned semiconductor layer on said insulating layer to form the electron induced layer; forming the data lines and the second capacitor electrodes; and depositing sequentially the second insulating layer and a transparent conductive layer on the data lines and the second capacitor electrodes, wherein the pixel storage capacitor in the pixel close to the input terminal of the scan signal is arranged to have a larger capacitance value than the pixel storage capacitor in the pixel far from the input terminal of the scan signal. By using the liquid crystal display panel and the manufacturing method of the same of the invention, the feed-through voltage of the respective pixels can be kept unchangeable substantially, and therefore, the flicker phenomenon of the image of TFT-LCD can be reduced effectively. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009675 | Photovoltaic Cells of Si-Nanocrystals with Multi-Band Gap and Applications in a Low Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Film Transistor Panel - One aspect of the present invention relates to a photovoltaic cell. In one embodiment, the photovoltaic cell includes a first conductive layer, an N-doped semiconductor layer formed on the first conductive layer, a first silicon layer formed on the N-doped semiconductor layer, a nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si) layer formed on a first silicon layer, a second silicon layer formed on the nc-Si layer, a P-doped semiconductor layer on the second silicon layer, and a second conductive layer formed on the P-doped semiconductor layer, where one of the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer is formed of amorphous silicon, and the other of the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer formed of polycrystalline silicon. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009676 | Semiconductor Device and Driving Method Thereof - Brightness irregularities that develop in a light emitting device due to is persion among pixels in the threshold values of TFTs used for supplying electric current to light emitting devices become obstacles to improved image quality of the light emitting device. As an image signal input to a pixel from a source signal line, a desired electric potential is applied to a gate electrode of a TFT for supplying electric current to an EL device, through a TFT having its gate and drain connected to each other. A voltage equal to the TFT threshold value is produced between the source and the drain of the TFT | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009677 | Liquid crystal display device - A method of manufacturing, with high mass productivity, liquid crystal display devices having highly reliable thin film transistors with excellent electric characteristics is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, the inverted staggered thin film transistor is formed as follows: a gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode; a microcrystalline semiconductor film which functions as a channel formation region is formed over the gate insulating film; a buffer layer is formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film; a pair of source and drain regions are formed over the buffer layer; and a pair of source and drain electrodes are formed in contact with the source and drain regions so as to expose a part of the source and drain regions. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009678 | FLAT DISPLAY DEVICE WITH PROTECTIVE COVER - An exemplary flat display device includes a frame with a front panel and a plurality of buttons, a protective cover slidably mounted on the front panel to expose or shield the buttons, and a positioning member. A center window is formed in the front panel for exposing a display panel embedded in the frame. A pair of grooves is defined in the front panel adjacent opposite sides of the window respectively. A locating hole is defined in the front panel beside one of the grooves. A pair of rails is formed on a rear surface of the protective cover to be slidably received in the grooves of the frame and a notch is defined in the rear surface of protective cover as well. The positioning member is resiliently received in the locating hole and releasably snapped into the notch. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009679 | Backlight Module - A backlight module includes a frame, an optical element, a bottom plate, a holder, and a light source. The optical elements are located on the frame and a space between the sidewall of the frame and the optical elements. The bottom plate located under the optical elements. The light source is on the holder inserted into the space, The holder is inserted into the space along the direction toward the bottom surface of the bottom plate, and is removed from the space along the opposing direction. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009680 | Liquid crystal display device - The liquid crystal display device has a rear frame, a reflection sheet, a backlight, a pair of light frames, a liquid crystal panel, a bezel. The device further includes a cell guide for fixing the liquid crystal panel. In the cell guide, engagement portions are formed, and engaged with corresponding locking portions formed in the pair of light frames. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009681 | DISPLAY UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display unit has a display module and a housing case holding the display module. The housing case has a first member made of an electrically conductive material and a second member. The second member has an inner edge portion superposed with an outer edge portion of the first member and is made of an electrically nonconductive material. The second member is positioned outside the first member and is fixed to the first member. The first member has a step in its outer edge portion. The step extends over a whole area superposed with the second member. The step has an inner wall protruding and end outer wall dented as compared with a middle portion inside the outer edge portion of the first member. The second member has an inner edge portion arranged in a recess of the outer wall of the step. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009682 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display includes a frame having a coupling groove, an optical sheet adjacent the frame, and a flexible printed circuit on a side of the optical sheet, wherein the flexible printed circuit is coupled to the frame at the coupling groove. A manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display includes providing a frame having a coupling groove, providing an optical sheet adjacent the frame, and providing a flexible printed circuit on a side of the optical sheet and coupling the flexible printed circuit to the frame at the coupling groove. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009683 | Flat light source unit and liquid crystal display device with the same - A flat light source unit includes a PCB on which at least one light emitting diode is mounted, a connection cord electrically connected to a conductive pattern on the PCB to supply a drive voltage to the at least one light emitting diode, and a mold formed on the printed circuit board to encompass a part of the connection cord. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009684 | Backlight module and liquid crystal display utilizing same - An exemplary backlight module includes a back plate, a side bar received in the back plate, and an optical film assembly received in the back plate. The side bar includes a main body and an elastic member extending from the main body. The elastic member and the main body cooperatively define a receiving groove therebetween. The optical film assembly is received in the back plate, and has an edge portion elastically received in the receiving groove. A liquid crystal display employing the backlight module is also provided. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009685 | POLARIZER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY HAVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display includes a backlight unit, a liquid crystal display panel, and first and second polarizers. The first polarizer is attached to a lower portion of the liquid crystal display panel to face the backlight unit, and the second polarizer is attached to an upper portion of the liquid crystal display panel to correspond to the first polarizer. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first optical layer that partially reflects light provided from the backlight unit, and the first polarizer includes a second optical layer to prevent the light reflected by the first optical layer from being re-reflected to the liquid crystal display panel. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009686 | Surface Emitting Device and Liquid Crystal Display - To provide a surface emitting device and a liquid crystal display in which the number of divided main light-source images is increased to enhance the uniformity of luminance distribution. A surface emitting device | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009687 | Anisotropic Diffusion Sheet - The present invention provides an anistropic diffusion sheet, which comprises: an isotropic diffusion layer for isotropically diffusing the light incident from the light source portion by internal light scattering; and a plurality of reflectors which is disposed at an interval on the upper surface of the isotropic diffusion layer, so as to reflect the light isotropically diffused by the isotropic diffusion layer t the display panel, wherein the , emitted from the light source portion and then becomes incident to the isotropic diffusion layer, is isotropically diffused through the isotropic diffusion layer, the light isotropically illuminated by the isoptropic diffusion layer is the reflected by the plurality of reflector to be anisotropically diffuse, and this anisotropically diffused light becomes incident to the liquid crystal display panel. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009688 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can largely enhance a property of focusing light from a backlight. The backlight arranged on a back surface of a liquid crystal panel includes a light guide plate, a light source, a first asymmetrical prism sheet, and a second asymmetrical prism sheet. A reflection surface having an inclination of 2° or less for guiding light from the light source toward the liquid crystal display panel is formed on a back surface of the light guide plate. The first asymmetrical prism sheet and the second asymmetrical prism sheet respectively include projecting portions which extend in the arrangement direction of the light source and are arranged in parallel to each other in the direction which intersects the arrangement direction of the light source. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009689 | PLANAR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A planar light-emitting device includes a lightguide plate ( | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009690 | LIGHT EMISSION DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE LIGHT EMISSION DEVICE AS LIGHT SOURCE - A light emission device for improving high voltage stability and a display device using the same as a light source includes first and second substrates facing each other, an electron emission unit located on one side of the first substrate and including a plurality of electron emission elements, and a light emission unit located on one side of the second substrate and emitting a visible light. Each of the electron emission elements includes first electrodes spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval along a first direction of the first substrate, second electrodes arranged between the first electrodes along the first direction, and first electron emission regions electrically connected to the first electrodes and formed at a predetermined height lower than that of the first electrodes. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009691 | Ultraviolet Absorbing Glass, Glass Tube for Fluorescent Lamp Using Same, and Method for Producing Ultraviolet Absorbing Glass for Fluorescent Lamp - Disclosed is an ultraviolet absorbing glass for fluorescent lamps which is composed of a borosilicate glass containing, in mass %, 60 to 80% of SiO | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009692 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can enhance the brightness of a backlight of a liquid crystal display panel in such a manner that a luminous flux quantity of a cold cathode fluorescent lamp is increased. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a manufacturing method of such a liquid crystal display device. A cold cathode fluorescent lamp applied for a backlight mounted on a back surface of a liquid crystal display panel of a liquid crystal display device includes a light-transmitting glass tube in which a rare gas and mercury are sealed, a pair of cold cathodes which is respectively sealed and arranged in both end portions of the glass tube such that the cold cathodes face each other in an opposed manner, an electricity supply line which has one end thereof connected to the cold cathodes and another end thereof led out to the outside of the glass tube in a hermetically sealed manner, and a phosphor film which is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the glass tube, and the phosphor film is formed such that a phosphor suspension is formed by mixing phosphors into a suspension produced by strongly stirring a mixed solvent made of butyl acetate and nitrocellulose and by re-stirring the mixture, and the phosphor suspension is applied to the inner peripheral surface of the glass tube by suction. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009693 | Liquid Crystal Composition, Optical Compensation Film and Liquid Crystal Display Device - An optical compensation film capable of contributing to improvement in a viewing angle characteristic of a liquid crystal display device, especially an IPS mode liquid crystal display device is proposed. A composition comprises at least one onium salt, at least one rod-like liquid crystalline compound, and at least one additive capable of promoting a vertical alignment of molecules of the rod-like liquid crystalline compound at an air interface; and an optical compensation film comprising an optically anisotropic layer formed of the composition are disclosed. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009694 | Color Filter, Process For Manufacturing Color Filter, And Liquid Crystal Display Device - A color filter including colored pixels of at least two or more colors, in which the colored pixels contain at least pigment particles, the contrast of each colored pixel is not lower than 2000 and the difference between the contrast of the colored pixel having the lowest contrast and the contrast of the colored pixel having the highest contrast among the colored pixels of two or more colors is not more than 600; a process for manufacturing the same; and a liquid crystal display device using the color filter. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009695 | Liquid Crystal Display - A liquid crystal display includes a backlight, a polarization plate, at least two substrates, a liquid crystal layer placed between the substrates, and a color filter layer formed on at least a part of the substrates, wherein the color filter layer has green pixels that satisfy the relations 0.25≦x≦0.32 and y>0.58, wherein x and y each represent a chromaticity value in an xy color system using illuminant C, the color filter layer has a contrast of 1000 or more with respect to each of X, Y and Z values, and the backlight uses a light-emitting device having a peak wavelength in the range of from 520 to 540 nm as a light source. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009696 | POLARIZER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A polarizer includes a first, second and third support layers, a first polarizing element disposed between the first support layer and the second support layer and the second polarizing element disposed between the second support layer and the third support layer. During the process of manufacturing the polarizer, the polarizer is stretched in the direction of length until the width of the polarizer after stretching is not less than half of the width of the polarizer before stretching. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009697 | COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL EQUIPPED WITH SAME - A color filter substrate according to the present invention includes a transparent substrate; at least three colors of colored layers provided on the transparent substrate; first columnar structure bodies | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009698 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate, and a color filter arranged on at least one of the array substrate and the opposite substrate. The color filter includes at least one diffusion preventing member that extends in a direction in which a combining member overlaps a driver. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009699 | Color Filter Substrate, Method for Manufacturing the Same and Liquid Crystal Display Panel Using the Same - A color filter substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel using the same are provided. The color filter substrate includes a base material, a filter structure, and a common electrode layer. The filter structure includes a sheltering matrix and a plurality of color filter layers. The sheltering matrix disposed above the base material includes a black resin layer and a conducting material layer. The black resin layer has a plurality of openings for exposing a partial surface of the base material. The conducting material layer is disposed on the black resin layer. The color filter layers are disposed in the plurality of openings of the black resin layer. The common electrode layer is disposed on the filter structure. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009700 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate with a liquid crystal material sandwiched therebetween, a pixel having an optically transmissive portion and an optically reflective portion, a phase plate which is formed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal material in the optically transmissive portion of the pixel, and a color filter which is formed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal material in the optically transmissive portion of the pixel and between the phase plate and the liquid crystal material in the optically reflective portion of the pixel. A counter electrode is formed between the color filter and the liquid crystal material, and a pixel electrode is formed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal material. An electric field which is produced by a voltage between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode induces behavior of the liquid crystal material. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009701 | Light Diffusing Plate and Display Apparatus - The light diffusing plate includes a light-transmissive support, a diffusing layer having light-transmissive spheres, and a light-sensitive color forming material interposed between the support and the diffusing layer, the light-sensitive color forming material containing a positive-acting diazo light- and heat-sensitive material or a positive-acting silver halide light-sensitive emulsion, or a negative-acting light-sensitive color forming material in the side contacting the light-transmissive spheres and a positive-acting light-sensitive color forming material in the side of the support, the light-sensitive color forming material being developed to take on color after generally parallel light is launched from a side where the diffusing layer is provided. The display apparatus makes use of the diffusing plate. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009702 | Liquid Crystal Device and Electronic Apparatus - A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal, a first optical compensation element, and a second optical compensation element. The liquid crystal is pretilted by the alignment layers. The first optical compensation element has a positive uniaxiality and a first optical axis inclined in a direction different from the pretilted direction of the liquid crystal molecules. The second optical compensation element has a positive uniaxiality and a second optical axis aligned with the pair of substrates. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009703 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display including substrates, a liquid crystal, an orientation layer, and electrodes. The orientation layer includes a base layer having a principal surface provided with a plurality of grooves in parallel, and a coating film covering the principal surface. The coating film has a horizontally orienting ability to orient in parallel the molecular major axes of the liquid crystal molecules in the condition where no voltage is impressed on the principal surface. The grooves each extend along a predetermined direction, and are arrayed repeatedly at a given pitch along the direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009704 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate and a second substrate that are disposed to face each other, a first electrode and a second electrode that are disposed on a surface, which faces the second substrate, of the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and has liquid crystal molecules aligned in a direction parallel to the first substrate, and a pair of polarizing elements having the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal molecules are driven by an electric field that is generated by an electric potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode and has a component parallel to the first substrate, and the retardation of the liquid crystal layer is equal to or larger than 0.66λ and is equal to or smaller than 0.83λ for light having a wavelength λ of 555 nm. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009705 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: a first etching step of etching a TEOS layer from a glass substrate to partially expose a SiN layer; a second etching step, conducted separately and independently from the first etching step, of wet-etching the exposed SiN layer to partially expose the glass substrate; and a bonding step of bonding a driver portion to the exposed glass substrate. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009706 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A display device includes a plurality of signal lines having different length, and a driving circuit for supplying signals to the signal lines. Each signal line includes a connecting portion, and the driving circuit includes a plurality of output terminals electrically connected to the connecting portions of the signal lines and a plurality of resistors connected to the output terminals. The resistors have resistance depending on the length of the signal lines connected thereto. | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009707 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DEVICE - A liquid crystal display panel | 2009-01-08 |
| 20090009708 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A vertically-oriented liquid crystal display device having a configuration in which the orientation of liquid crystal molecules can be properly controlled and in which the deterioration of display, such as optical leakage, can be suppressed. | 2009-01-08 |
