Abstract:
An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a container to store ink; a detector to detect a remaining ink amount; a liquid feeding unit to supply the ink to the container; an energy generation unit to cause the ink to be discharged; a storage unit to store correspondence information in which driving information for driving the energy generation unit is associated with each piece of time information indicating a supply time taken to supply the ink; and a setting unit to set new driving information using the correspondence information when an actual supply time is different from the supply time indicated by the time information associated with current driving information among the pieces of time information. The actual supply time indicates a time period from when the liquid feeding unit starts supplying the ink until the detector detects that the remaining ink amount is equal to or higher than a threshold.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device according to the invention has an effect that burn-in and a flicker do not occur. Dummy pixels are provided around pixels of the liquid crystal display device. A first voltage higher in order than a reference voltage and a second voltage lower in order than the first voltage are applied to a pixel electrode of a liquid crystal device included in the dummy pixel while being temporally shifted. The liquid crystal display device changes, on the basis of an electric current flowing to a second opposed electrode when the first voltage is applied and an electric current flowing to the second opposed electrode when the second voltage is applied, a ratio of effective voltages of a positive voltage and a negative voltage applied to a liquid crystal device included in the pixel that displays an image.
Abstract:
A method for changing reproduction speed of speech sound, includes the steps of: storing an input sound signal in a buffer; leaving a sound signal from the buffer as it is or extending the sound signal from the buffer in a sound section where a power of the input sound signal exceeds a threshold value; leaving the sound signal from the buffer as it is, compressing the sound signal from the buffer, or extending the sound signal from the buffer, in a no-sound section, so that the reproduction speed of speech sound is changed; wherein a speech head protection section is set prior to the sound section being set to be a storing amount of the buffer limited by a designated limited value; and compression or deletion of the sound signal is adjusted by a compression ratio or prevented if there is the sound section in the speech head protection section, so that speech head protection is performed.
Abstract:
In writing performed at a start pulse DY1, the writing is performed with a positive-polarity voltage, and, in writing performed at a start pulse DY2, the writing is performed with a negative-polarity voltage. In writing performed at start pulses DYR1 and DYR2, the writing is performed with a voltage that turns pixels into black of minimum gradation. Since a period in which the positive-polarity voltage is retained is different from a period in which the negative-polarity voltage is retained, a direct-current component which is applied to a liquid crystal capacitor is cancelled, whereby the occurrence of burn-in is prevented.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal device includes: a scanning line selecting circuit that selects a plurality of scanning lines in a predetermined order in each of a positive-polarity field and a negative-polarity field; a data line driving circuit that supplies a voltage corresponding to a gray scale of a pixel positioned on a one scanning line to the data line corresponding to the pixel as the data signal; a detection circuit that detects brightness of the pixel positioned on the one scanning line; and a control circuit that controls period lengths of the positive-polarity and negative-polarity fields based on a detection result of the detection circuit such that a difference between brightness of the pixel when the pixel maintains a voltage of the positive polarity and brightness of the pixel when the pixel maintains a voltage of the negative polarity is gradually changed in a predetermined range.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display, applying to the first electrode, a voltage higher and a voltage lower at different timings, detecting a current flowing through the second electrode, designating, as a reference value, the current flowing through the second electrode when the voltage maintained in the liquid crystal element is reset, specifying a first current which is obtained by excluding a charging current due to application of a related higher voltage from currents flowing through the second electrode after the higher voltage is applied to the first electrode, and a second current which is obtained by excluding a charging current due to application of a related lower voltage from currents flowing through the second electrode after the lower voltage is applied to the first electrode, and comparing the first current with the second current, and controlling the first current and the second current based on the comparison result.
Abstract:
A laminated inductor, in which there is extremely little tendency for cracking to occur between adjacent conductor patterns in portions of a laminate in the lamination direction even when the conductor pattern thickness is large, as well as a method of manufacturing such a laminated inductor, are provided.A laminated inductor includes: a laminate; a pair of external electrodes arranged on the outer surfaces of the laminate respectively; and a coil, arranged within the laminate and formed by electrically connecting a plurality of strip-like conductor patterns. The conductor patterns have: a pair of broad faces, intersecting the lamination direction and mutually opposing; and peripheral side faces adjacent to the pair of broad faces and extending in the lamination direction. The peripheral side faces are concavo-convex faces, in which concave portions and convex portions are arranged in alternation in the lamination direction. The laminate enters into the concave portions of the peripheral side faces.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a corrosion resistant member including: a substrate composed of a ceramic or a metal, and at least one layer of a corrosion resistant film formed on a surface of at least a region of the substrate to be exposed to plasma or a corrosive gas, in which the corrosion resistant film contains yttria as a main component and further also contains at least one of tantalum and niobium in an amount of 0.02 to 10 mol % in terms of pentoxide relative to the yttria, and a non-melted portion is not present in the corrosion resistant film.
Abstract:
A server for controlling a plurality of image forming apparatuses each provided with an autonomous navigation system that enables the image forming apparatus to travel to a destination: receives first location information indicating a current location of each image forming apparatus, and second location information indicating a current location of the information terminal; receives at least a monochrome printing time that indicates a time period in which the image forming apparatus performs monochrome printing when the image forming apparatus is not capable of performing color printing; and selects one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses as an image forming apparatus to perform printing according to the user request, based on the first location information, the second location information, and the device information.
Abstract:
A method of driving an electro-optical device having scanning lines, data lines, a switching transistor and a pixel electrode. The device also has an electro-optical layer interposed between the pixel electrode and a counter electrode. The method includes: supplying a data signal alternate between a positive and a negative voltage to the pixel electrode. The positive voltage has a potential greater than a counter electrode potential applied to the counter electrode and the negative voltage is a potential lower than the counter electrode potential; setting the counter electrode potential to reduce a flicker; supplying a first voltage that is either the positive or negative voltage to the pixel electrode in a first period; the other voltage to the pixel electrode in a second period. A ratio of the first period to the second period is variable.