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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128178 | SOUND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, SOUND REPRODUCING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Sound reproduction is controlled so as to be heard in the optimal state for the hearing function specific to elderly people. A frequency characteristic setting portion for setting the frequency characteristics of an inputted sound signal, and a sound volume setting port... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127408 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE In an MVA liquid crystal display device of the present invention, each pixel includes at least one electrode (21), the first electrode (21) has a first corner portion with a first edge parallel to a row direction and a second edge parallel to a column dire... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127398 | BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME A backlight system includes: a light-emitting section (1) having a plurality of light sources that emit beams of light at different dominant wavelengths from one another; and an imaging optical system (3) including a plurality of microlenses (3a<... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127396 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE An active matrix substrate is provided with a lead wire led from a switching element to a surrounding region; a pad portion formed in the lead wire and positioned in surrounding region; an insulation film including a planarization film positioned uppermost, and a passiv... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127395 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device realizing reduction in cost and suppression of power consumption and suppressing generation of a lamp image. A lighting device 12 of the present invention includes a plurality of point light so... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127153 | Display Device And Display Device Driving Method An active matrix display device is disclosed in which, during each kth period, each data signal line is supplied with a signal whose electric potential polarity is constant, and a picture element to which a signal finishes being written within the kth period is caused t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127109 | PORTABLE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PORTABLE DISPLAY DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Provided is a portable display device sufficiently small to be held with one hand that enters a state for accepting a gesture when a fixed coordinate position near a central portion between a left display unit (14a) and a right display unit (14b<... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126711 | PLANAR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE A sensor circuit or a display apparatus from which a highly accurate sensor output can be obtained includes a photodiode, a capacitor that is connected to the photodiode via an accumulation node and accumulates charges according to an electric current in the photodiode;... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125435 | SOLAR CELL MODULE AND SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM The present invention provides a solar cell module which has high design freedom and can be easily manufactured at low cost. A solar cell module (10) includes (i) a light guide plate (1), (ii) a fluorescence-dispersed film (2) in each of which a flu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108018 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR SUBSTRATE A method for manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate includes a step of forming a gate electrode (11a) and a first interconnect on a substrate (10), a step of forming a gate insulating film (12a) having a contact hole at a posit... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106490 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM An antenna for transmission of signals in respective element frequency bands is controlled to reduce power consumption and transmit a good quality signal. A mobile station apparatus performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus using a plurality of eleme... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106388 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD In a communication system in which cooperative communication is performed, adaptive control is performed efficiently relating mainly to precoding processing. There are included, in an anchor base station 1201, steps of: generating a first channel state measuremen... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105764 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT, LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING REFLECTION SHEET FOR LIGHT SOURCE UNIT It is an object of the present invention to provide a light source unit enabling cost reduction. A light source unit of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs 16, an LED board 17 having a surface on which the plurality of LEDs 16 is arra... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105739 | LENS UNIT, LIGHT EMITTING-MODULE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER In a lens unit (11), a support pin (12) is continuous with around, for example, a surface vertex (21T) on the lens surface (21S) of the lens (21). As with the lens (21), the support pin (12) is formed of a transparent mat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105737 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER The present invention aims at providing a lighting device configured to suppress uneven brightness, and a display device or a television receiver which includes the lighting device. The lighting device of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs 16, an ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105735 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER Each pixel includes two pixel electrodes connected to each other via a capacitor, and in respect to a pixel (101) that belongs to the column of pixels and to the row of pixels, a transistor (12a) connected to one of the two scanning signal lines ( 05/03/2012 | |
| 20120105515 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE In an LCD device, picture quality luminance is controlled through the combination of pulse-width modulation (PWM) system and current value control system, reducing the electrical power consumption associated with turning on an LED. In the LED backlight, the light emitti... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105514 | Liquid Crystal Driving Circuit And Liquid Crystal Display Device A liquid crystal driving circuit is disclosed which carries out time-division driving with respect to each pixel constituting a liquid crystal display panel by causing a bright and dark frame period and a positive and negative frame period to be different from each othe... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105510 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND POTENTIAL SETTING METHOD FOR THE SAME A liquid crystal display device includes source bus lines, gate bus lines intersecting with the source bus lines, pixels arranged in a matrix to correspond to intersections between the gate bus lines and the source bus lines, each of the pixels including a TFT, a pixel ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105508 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME, AND DRIVING METHOD A backlight device according to the present invention includes a lamination of two light guide layers, namely, a first light guide layer (1) and a second light guide layer (3). The first light guide layer (1) includes a plurality of first light guid... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105468 | Display Device And Display Device Driving Method A display device and a driving method of a display device are each capable of sufficiently removing an image ghost caused in a background during a low gray scale display. In an embodiment, each of the display device and the driving method includes at least one correctio... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105418 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device with excellent display performance which has a high pixel aperture design and can avoid alignment disorder of liquid crystal molecules and improve image roughness. The liquid crystal display device of the pr... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105396 | Scanning Signal Line Drive Circuit And Display Device Having The Same A gate driver is provided with an odd-numbered stage shift register, an even-numbered stage shift register, and main lines including clock signal main lines. In at least one example embodiment, each stage of one of the shift registers receives the first clock and the se... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105395 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE A stage of the shift register has (i) a set-reset type flip-flop which receives an initialization signal and (ii) a signal generating circuit which receives a simultaneous selection signal and which generates an output signal by use of an output of the flip-flop. In at ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081651 | DISPLAY PANEL In a picture-frame region (F) of a liquid crystal display panel (1), a wall member (41) is provided, which is formed adjacent to a sealing material (40) and sandwiches the sealing material (40). Steps (42a), (43a) ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081634 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER An object of the present invention is to stably fix a light source board without using any screw. A backlight unit 12 according to the present invention includes an LED board 18 including an LED 17 as a light source, a chassis 14 that stores ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081632 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device that can attain a reduction in thickness. A lighting device according to the present invention includes a hot-cathode tube 50, a circuit board 80, and a second cabinet Cb. The circuit bo... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081630 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT, LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BOARD FOR LIGHT SOURCE UNIT It is an object of the present invention to provide a light source unit enabling cost reduction. A light source unit of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs 16, and an elongated LED board 17 having a plurality of arranging portions 18 ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081626 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE The present invention provides a liquid-crystal display device in which a pixel defect does not occur even when an electrode becomes disconnected. The liquid-crystal display device according to the present invention comprises a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substra... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081619 | LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER An LED module (MJ) wherein among apertures (21A to 21C) and pins (11A to 11C) to engage each other, the apertures (21A to 21C) are formed in a mounting board (20) and the pins (11A to 11C) are formed on a le... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081618 | LIGHT EMITTING MODULE, ILLUMINATING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVING DEVICE Leg portions (12) are formed so as to project from a back surface (11B) of a lens (11). Further, distal ends (12t) of the leg portions (12) come into close contact with a mounting surface (21U) of a mounting substrate ( 04/05/2012 | |
| 20120081614 | LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER An LED module (MJ) includes an LED (22), a mounting substrate (21) for mounting the LED (22), a lens (24) in which light from the LED (22) is output from a lens surface (24S), and a built-in reflective sheet (11) interpos... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081351 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device that can be provided as a final product such as a television receiver simply by assembling a display panel and a backlight and can prevent or suppress scratches due to swing or the like of an optical m... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081346 | SHIFT REGISTER, DISPLAY-DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAYING PANEL, AND DISPLAYING DEVICE Provided is a shift register of a display-driving circuit which carries out simultaneous selection of a plurality of signal lines by using a simultaneous selection signal. A stage of the shift register includes (i) a set-reset type flip-flop and (ii) a signal generating... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081345 | Pixel Circuit And Display Device A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of sufficiently decreasing power consumption in permanent display of still images while keeping high quality display in transparent mode, in high resolution display panels. In each pixel circuit, a pixel elect... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081344 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE An electronic device of the present invention includes a shift register SR provided integrally with a substrate, a first line 11 connected with a connection terminal 101 electrically connectable with an outside device provided independently of the shift re... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081198 | Waveform Shaping Device, Equalizer, Receiving System, Method Of Controlling Waveform Shaping Device, Control Program, And Computer-Readable Medium In Which Control Program Is Recorded A waveform shaping device shapes a waveform of an externally input signal and outputs the input signal with the shaped waveform as an output signal to an equalizer for compensating a distortion of a signal, and includes a nonlinear process section for generating a nonli... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120080789 | SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF THE SAME (as amended) Provided is a semiconductor chip having a narrowed pitch between terminals, the chip being capable of suppressing occurrence of poor connection between the chip and a substrate on which the chip is mounted. In an LSI chip including an input bump group, which is composed... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120070098 | Signal Processing Device, Control Method For Signal Processing Device, Control Program, And Computer-Readable Storage Medium Having The Control Program Recorded Therein A signal processing device first decomposes an input signal into a plurality of frequency components in different frequency ranges, then causes a higher harmonic wave generating section to generate a higher harmonic for each of a part or all of frequency components obta... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069815 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD A mobile communication system and method are disclosed for designating the resources to be used for mapping the control signal of HARQ performed by a base station apparatus. The base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus communicate using a plurality of compo... | 03/22/2012 |
