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A multi-layer cover for an electronic device having one or more of a sensor panel, a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, and a display device can include an outer hardcoat, a structural layer, an IR transmissive ink layer, a mask layer, and a backside hardcoat. The backside hardcoat can reduce cover warpage, enable full surface lamination of the cover to the sensor panel, prevent bubbles from forming in transparent windows in the cover, enable a wider range of functional inks to be applied in various layering orders to allow certain types of light to pass through while blocking others, and hide the sensors to provide a seamless, uncluttered visual appearance.

A multi-layer cover for an electronic device having one or more of a sensor panel, a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, and a display device can include an outer hardcoat, a structural layer, an IR transmissive ink layer, a mask layer, and a backside hardcoat. The backside hardcoat can reduce cover warpage, enable full surface lamination of the cover to the sensor panel, prevent bubbles from forming in transparent windows in the cover, enable a wider range of functional inks to be applied in various layering orders to allow certain types of light to pass through while blocking others, and hide the sensors to provide a seamless, uncluttered visual appearance.

According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice driven environment to control processes and applications. A natural language model is used to parse voice initiated commands and data, and to route those voice initiated inputs to the required applications or processes. The use of an intelligent context based parser allows the system to intelligently determine what processes are required to complete a task which is initiated using natural language. A single window environment provides an interface which is comfortable to the user by preventing the occurrence of distracting windows from appearing. The single window has a plurality of facets which allow distinct viewing areas. Each facet has an independent process routing its outputs thereto. As other processes are activated, each facet can reshape itself to bring a new process into one of the viewing areas. All activated processes are executed simultaneously to provide true multitasking.

An electric connector includes an insulating housing having slots arranged crosswise in vertical columns and horizontal lines, and signal terminals received in the slots. The signal terminals are paired to be received in each and every slot. The slots are staggered in vertical columns. The slots are so arranged that the ratio of “a” / “b” may be equal to or smaller than ⅓, where “a” stands for the distance between two signal terminals in each pair, and “b” stands for the distance between adjacent pair sets of signal terminals.

According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice driven environment to control processes and applications. A natural language model is used to parse voice initiated commands and data, and to route those voice initiated inputs to the required applications or processes. The use of an intelligent context based parser allows the system to intelligently determine what processes are required to complete a task which is initiated using natural language. A single window environment provides an interface which is comfortable to the user by preventing the occurrence of distracting windows from appearing. The single window has a plurality of facets which allow distinct viewing areas. Each facet has an independent process routing its outputs thereto. As other processes are activated, each facet can reshape itself to bring a new process into one of the viewing areas. All activated processes are executed simultaneously to provide true multitasking.

A display method and apparatus for a navigation system which is capable of easily and quickly specifying a destination in the navigation system when using a “Point of Interest (POI)” method by preventing unwanted POI names or types from appearing on the navigation system. The method includes the steps of displaying a POI name list based on an instruction specified by a user, selecting an unwanted POI name in the POI name list, and removing all POIs having the unwanted POI name or having the unwanted POI type from the POI name list. If necessary, the above steps of selecting the unwanted POI name and removing the unwanted POI names from the POI name list are repeated.

In an image processing device configured to be installed in a vehicle, an image acquirer acquires camera images captured by cameras provided on the vehicle. A synthetic image generator generates synthetic images, which include downward views of the vehicle and a periphery thereof viewed from viewpoints different from one another, based on the camera images. A display image provider outputs, to the display device installed in the vehicle, information corresponding to a display image in which the synthetic images are continuously reproduced.

A display substrate includes a base substrate on which a pixel area is defined. The pixel area includes a first sub-pixel area and a second sub-pixel area. A plurality of first electrode portions is disposed at a first interval in the first sub-pixel area, and a plurality of second electrode portions is disposed at a second interval in the second sub-pixel area. The first electrode portion has a first width, and the second electrode portion has a second width. The first width of the first electrode portion is different from the second width of the second electrode portion, or the first interval between adjacent first electrode portions is different from the second interval between adjacent second electrode portions.

A display method and apparatus for a navigation system which is capable of easily and quickly specifying a destination in the navigation system when using a “Point of Interest (POI)” method by preventing unwanted POI names or types from appearing on the navigation system. The method includes the steps of displaying a POI name list based on an instruction specified by a user, selecting an unwanted POI name in the POI name list, removing all POIs having the unwanted POI name or having the unwanted POI type from the POI name list, and selecting a destination in the POI name list from which the unwanted POI name is removed for route guidance by the navigation system. If necessary, the above steps of selecting the unwanted POI name and removing the unwanted POI names from the POI name list are repeated.

In high-efficiency power source applications, AC power is converted to DC power, which is isolated from the source and regulated. A level of performance is achieved that exceeds the power quality requirements of MIL-STD-704 over the extended frequency range, typically from about 360 Hz to 800 Hz. While high-efficiency and low-weight of the invention, among other benefits, are advantageous primarily in airborne systems, its use can be extended to terrestrial applications as well. The isolation, regulation and the main power processing are achieved by low-weight, high-frequency conversion stages arranged in 2 channels that produce the line harmonic content typical of the 12-pulse rectification. Control of the conversion stages provides effective rejection of line transients, while output ripple voltage is typically an order of magnitude lower than in conventional transformer rectifier units.

In the present invention, provided is a power conversion apparatus in which at least one energy storage element and at least one switching element are included, a plurality of series circuits of a transformer winding and an arm in which one or a plurality of at least two-terminal unit converters which depend on ON / OFF of the switching element and supply a zero voltage or a voltage depending on a voltage of the energy storage element are connected in series are connected in parallel, and a multi-phase power source or a multi-phase load is connected to another winding of the transformer, and the parallel-connection point is set as a DC terminal, and which includes means for controlling a current flowing through each of the arms to have a phase and amplitude different from each other.

An in-vehicle display apparatus in a vehicle includes a region recognition circuit and an image output circuit. The region recognition circuit recognizes a target plane region in scenery ahead of the vehicle; the target plane region corresponds to a continuous region having (i) a flatness equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value and (ii) an area size equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value. The image output circuit displays a driving information picture as a virtual image using a liquid crystal panel such that a driver of the vehicle views the virtual image in the target plane region within a displayable region through a windshield of the vehicle.

A circuit for rejecting single-event transients (SETs) from logic signals is provided. The circuit includes a delay circuit, an inverter circuit, and an output-holding circuit. The delay circuit receives an input signal and delays the input signal to produce a time-delayed version of the input signal. The input signal and the time-delayed version of the input signal are fed into the inverter circuit that propagates a corresponding output signal only when the input signal and the time-delayed version of the input signal have the same logic level. If the input signal or the time-delayed version of the input signal transitions such that both input signals presented to the inverter circuit have opposite logic levels, the output-holding circuit maintains the output signal in its previous state.

In an afterglow fluorescent lamp having a structure wherein at least a phosphorescent phosphor layer is set on the internal surface of a glass container, pinholes are prevented from appearing in the layer. The layer is formed, using a phosphorescent phosphor powder, wherein a metal oxide powder whose primary particles have a particle-size distribution with an upper limit particle size smaller than a lower limit particle size of a particle-size distribution that primary particles of a matrix material of the phosphorescent phosphor powder have is mixed, in a ratio by weight that is not less than 10 wt % but not greater than 40 wt %, with the matrix material of the phosphorescent phosphor powder. Therein, the particles of the metal oxide fill the gaps among the particles of the phosphorescent phosphor, and thereby the adhesive strength between the particles of the phosphorescent phosphor is heightened.

A planar light source device capable of preventing the occurrence of a luminescent line in the vicinity of a light incident end face without interrupting an incident light incoming from a primary light source and entering at a light incident end face, and being not likely to cause a decrease in incident light quantity, that is, without lowering entire luminance and producing dark lines to be caused when light to be originally guided is shaded. A platy light guide (3) that guides light emitted from a primary light source (1) and has a light incident end face (31) for receiving light from the primary light source (1) and a light emitting face (33) for outputting the guided light which is formed with a light absorption zone (36) extending along the light incident end face (31) and having a width of 50 to 1000 μm, and a side edge closer to the light incident end face (31) of the light absorption zone (36) is up to 300 μm away from the light incident end face (31). The light incident end face (31) is so constructed that light emitted from the primary light source (1) is incident as far as the boundary with the light emitting face (33).

A liquid crystal layer is formed by coating a liquid crystal material having a reciprocal (Z−1) of an Ohnesorge number in a range of 4≦Z−1≦14 by an ink-jet printing method. The reciprocal (Z−1) of the Ohnesorge number is a dimensionless number defined as Z−1=([σρL]1 / 2) / μ.

Turning on and off of the light source illuminating an object to be imaged is judged based on brightness changes in small and large areas set up in the frame and an electric charge storage time for each pixel is set up to be equal to the turning-on-and-off period of the light source or an integral multiple thereof. The charge storage time is changed over responsive to the turning-on-and-off period of the light source or the integral multiple thereof to set up a stored light amount for each pixel stepwise and difference in the stored light amount between steps is interpolated by continuous gain control of read-out signals of pixels.

Provided is a wide viewing angle ocular fundus blood flow imaging device in which the measurement field of view is enlarged and which includes a projection system that turns a laser beam into a rectangular spot on the ocular fundus, an observation system that images the rectangular spot on an image sensor placed on the corresponding image plane, an observation optical system for carrying out positioning of the laser spot, and a mechanism for monitoring the movement of an ocular fundus blood vessel image.

A heating cooker includes: a top plate on which a cooking container to be heated is placed; an outer case as a main body having an upper surface on which the top plate is placed; a heater heating the cooking container; and a light emitting device disposed in the outer case, for displaying the heating state. The top plate includes: a glass substrate having a transparent light-transmitting low-expansion crystallized glass made mainly of Li2O—AL2O3—SiO2 and having β-quartz solid solution, having a crystal size smaller than the wavelength of visible light; a design layer having a black-based color disposed on an undersurface of the glass substrate; a diffusion region disposed partially on an undersurface of the design layer, for diffusedly emitting light from the light emitting device; and a light-blocking layer disposed on the undersurface of the design layer other than the diffusion region, for blocking light from below.

A low-noise filter for a wireless receiver is disclosed. The low-noise filter comprises an amplifier and a filter comprising a frequency dependent negative resistance implemented using a general impedance converter to realize a bi-quad filter. The low-noise filter is implemented such that noise generated by the filter when an in-band signal is processed is prevented from appearing at the output of the amplifier stage.

A device for holding sintered cams during their binding on a tube by expansion of the tube, including, for each cam, two blocks intended for enclosing the cam in housings complementary to the cam contour. The dimensions of the housings are chosen so that the play between the housings and the largest cam within a predetermined tolerance range is as close to zero as possible by excess, the two blocks being provided to bear against each other whatever the dimensions of the cam within the tolerance range.

An error diffusion processing circuit includes an error diffusion processing unit and a noise signal unit. The error diffusion processing unit generates a first output image signal of a first pixel by carrying out an error diffusion process, based on an inputted first input image signal of the first pixel. The number of gray tones of the first output image signal is smaller than that of the input image signal. The noise signal unit which generates a noise signal and outputs the noise signal to the error diffusion processing unit. The noise signal is inputted into a feedback loop of the error diffusion process.

An external boot device includes a storage unit (23 and 25) that stores a loader and an extended BIOS to read the loader, an extended BIOS reading processor (201) that reads the extended BIOS onto a RAM (12) of a terminal (1) in response to a read request from system BIOS of the terminal (1), a DMAC (24) that in a bus master scheme transfers the loader to a startup memory region (120) of the RAM (12) in the terminal (1) in response to a transfer request from the extended BIOS read onto the RAM (12) in the terminal (1), and a DMA transfer commander (202). Even if malware hides in BIOS in the terminal (1), a highly secure environment that prevents the malware from appearing in a use environment of the terminal (1) is set.

According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice driven environment to control processes and applications. A natural language model is used to parse voice initiated commands and data, and to route those voice initiated inputs to the required applications or processes. The use of an intelligent context based parser allows the system to intelligently determine what processes are required to complete a task which is initiated using natural language. A single window environment provides an interface which is comfortable to the user by preventing the occurrence of distracting windows from appearing. The single window has a plurality of facets which allow distinct viewing areas. Each facet has an independent process routing its outputs thereto. As other processes are activated, each facet can reshape itself to bring a new process into one of the viewing areas. All activated processes are executed simultaneously to provide true multitasking.

A low-noise filter for a wireless receiver is disclosed. The low-noise filter comprises an amplifier and a filter comprising a frequency dependent negative resistance implemented using a general impedance converter to realize a bi-quad filter. The low-noise filter is implemented such that noise generated by the filter when an in-band signal is processed is prevented from appearing at the output of the amplifier stage.

There is provided a circuit for driving an electro-optical device including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scanning lines extending perpendicular to the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixel units that are electrically connected to the data lines and the scanning lines, respectively, and that are arranged in an image display region. The circuit for driving an electro-optical device includes a shift register that sequentially outputs transmission signals from each stage thereof; a plurality of branch wiring lines which are provided corresponding to the respective stages, and each of which has an input terminal to which the transmission signals are input and m output terminals, where m is a natural number equal to or greater than 2, which are branched from the input terminal and through which the input transmission signals are output; a plurality of enable signal supply lines that respectively supply m types of enable signals having different output timings and a predetermined pulse width smaller than that of the transmission signal; an enable circuit that outputs signals whose pulse widths are shaped to the predetermined pulse width, based on the enable signals; and a sampling circuit that samples image signals, based on the shaped signals, and then outputs them to the plurality of data lines, respectively. The enable circuit includes a plurality of unit circuits. The unit circuits electrically connect the m branched output terminals to the enable signal supply lines for supplying the different types of enable signals, respectively. Each group is composed of m unit circuits, and the unit circuits belonging to the group have the same layout.