Abstract:
An optical amplifier amplifies a light signal inputted to an optical amplifier fiber and outputs an amplified light signal, by exciting the fiber with an excitation light. The optical amplifier can keep its output light level constant and stable and reduce the excitation light when the light inputted to the fiber is cut off, just by detecting the optical output level at a post-stage of the fiber. The optical amplifier comprises a first control circuit, a second control circuit and a selector circuit. The first control circuit amplifies the difference between a first predetermined voltage and an o/e-converted voltage of the optical amplifier fiber output light to output an amplified voltage. The second control circuit amplifies the difference between the o/e-converted voltage of the excitation light and a selected one of the first control circuit output voltage and a second predetermined voltage to output an amplified voltage and controls the excitation light based on the second control circuit output voltage. The selector circuit detects a change in the first control circuit output voltage and depending on the change, selects the first control circuit output voltage or a second predetermined voltage.
Abstract:
An optical device includes: an optical component; a case air-sealed, and made of metal, the optical component being secured within the case; and a lens provided within the case, and positionally adjusted in consideration of a deformation of the case air-sealed, light emitted from the optical component passing through the lens or light traveling to the optical component passing through the lens.
Abstract:
A display device includes: an LED control section (4) for carrying out control in which (i) an output luminance of an LED (10) whose measured luminance is deviated from a reference luminance or (ii) output luminances of peripheral LEDs (10) which are provided around the LED (10) is or are corrected, respectively, by using control information of the plurality of LEDs, which control information contains (a) information on measured luminances of the plurality of LEDs, the information being obtained by the plurality of photosensors (11) and (b) positional information of the plurality of LEDs, the positional information being obtained by the plurality of photosensors (11), and a liquid crystal display control section (3) for controlling, based on (i) video signals which have been subjected to the video signal process and are supplied from a video signal processing section (2) and (ii) the control information supplied from the LED control section (4), (a) levels of video signals to be supplied to pixels corresponding to the LED (10), whose output luminance is corrected or (b) levels of video signals to be supplied to pixels corresponding to the peripheral LEDs, whose output luminances are corrected, the reference luminance being a luminance which is originally expected to be outputted from each of the plurality of LEDs.
Abstract:
There is provided an image display device, in which a pixel includes sub-pixels of four or more colors that include a color in addition to the three primary colors, and which can display a high-quality image in which false colors or artifacts are suppressed. The image display device includes a pixel area in which a plurality of pixels P are arranged in a matrix shape, and each of the pixels P includes m (m is an integer which is equal to or greater than 4) sub-pixels SP. When it is assumed that the colors of the m sub-pixels SP included in one pixel are C1, C2, . . . , and Cm, the m sub-pixels SP which are sequentially arrayed from an arbitrary position include all of the colors of C1, C2, . . . , and Cm in both the vertical direction and the horizontal direction in the pixel area.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a novel amide derivative. More specifically, the present invention provides a medicinal agent useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for diseases, which relies on the production of cytokines from T cells, and which comprises an amide derivative or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof or a solvate of the derivative or the pharmacologically acceptable salt as an active ingredient. Provided is an amide derivative represented by general formula (I) [wherein each symbol is as defined in the description] or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate of the derivative or the pharmacologically acceptable salt.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device comprises an active region including a core circuit forming region and a buffer forming region, and a fuse element forming region arranged on a corner of the active region and to be able to be electrically fused. It is possible to arrange the fuse element without forming the fuse in the core circuit forming region by arranging the fuse element forming region at the corner of the active region.
Abstract:
Provided is an image display device having pixels each of which includes sub-pixels of four or more colors and requires fewer dither matrices. This image display device includes a display section in which color filters of sub-pixel colors that are M colors in total including three principal colors of red, green, and blue, as well as at least one color other than the three principal colors are arranged regularly; and a gray-scale processing section (50) that performs gray-scale processing by a dither method with respect to an input image signal. The M sub-pixel colors are divided into N groups (G1 to GN) in such a manner that there is at least one group to which two or more colors belong. The gray-scale processing section (50) includes dither matrix storage ROMs (541 to 54N) that store N combinations of dither matrices corresponding to the N groups, respectively.
Abstract:
Provided is an image processing apparatus that obtains an effect of improving perceived definition even when an input image signal does not include much of a high range component. The image processing apparatus (10) includes a high-pass filter (1) that extracts a mid-high range component from the input image signal; a nonlinear processing unit (2) that performs nonlinear processing on an output signal from the high-pass filter (1); an addition unit (3); a threshold value determination unit (4) that determines an upper threshold value and lower threshold value for clipping processing based on the maximum value and minimum value of the pixel values in the input image signal in the range thereof that was subjected to processing by the high-pass filter (1); a clipping unit (5) that performs clipping processing using the upper threshold value and lower threshold value; a high-pass filter (6) for an output signal from the clipping unit (5); a non-linear processing unit (7) that performs non-linear processing on an output signal from the high-pass filter (6); and an addition unit (8) that adds an output signal from the non-linear processing unit (7) and the output signal from the clipping unit (5).
Abstract:
An image processing apparatus of the present invention comprising (a) a first signal processing circuit for applying gamma correction to an n-bit (n: a natural number) digital signal inputted as a video signal and for converting the n-bit digital signal into an m-bit (m>n, m: a natural number) digital signal, and (b) a second signal processing circuit for adding a noise signal, which is used for pseudo contour reduction, into the m-bit digital signal from the first signal processing circuit and for outputting a Q-bit (Q: a natural number) digital signal, which is obtained from rounding off a less significant (m−Q) bit (Q≦n) from the m-bit digital signal, to a display section.
Abstract:
A video image transmitting device, a video image receiving device, a video image recording device, a video image reproducing device, and a video image displaying device all having video signal processings such as a frame rate conversion (FRC) enable prevention of degradation of the video image reproduced by a video signal generated by superimposing first and second video signals on each other. The video image transmitting device (1) includes an editing device (2) for superimposing first and second video signals on each other according to video combining information, a video image encoding processing portion (3) and a video image composite information encoding processing portion (4) for encoding the output video signal from the editing device (2) and video combining information respectively, a multiplexing processing portion (5) for multiplexing the encoded data, and a transmitting portion (6) for transmitting the multiplexed data. The video image receiving device (11) includes a receiving portion (12) for receiving the multiplexed data, a multiplexed data separating processing portion (13) for separating the multiplexed data into the video data and the video image decoding processing portion (14) and a video image composite information decoding processing portion (15) for decoding the video data and the video combining information respectively, and a video image signal processing portion (16) for subjecting the decoded video signal to a predetermined video signal processing. The video image signal processing portion (16) adequately controls the video signal processing of the portion of the second video signal superimposed on the first video signal by using the video combining information, thereby prevents image degradation of and around the portion of the second video signal caused by the video signal processing, and generates a video with higher quality.