Abstract:
An optical apparatus of the invention has a fusion splice portion where respective ends of two optical fibers each having a core, a cladding, and a UV coat portion provided on the outside of the cladding are fusion spliced, and a re-coat portion which re-coats a portion where the UV coat portion is removed in the vicinity of the fusion splice portion is formed using a material capable of absorbing light radiated from the fusion splice portion. As a result light which is radiated from the fusion splice portion can be reliably prevented from coupling into another optical fiber adjacent to an outside of the re-coat portion.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing plasma display panels using a substrate holder for deposition on a substrate of the plasma display panel. The substrate holder is configured with plural frames, and the substrate of the plasma display panel is held by its periphery with at least one of these frames. A frame holding the substrate has a protrusion extending to a non-deposition face of the substrate held in such a way as to surround the substrate. Since the protrusion acts as a blocking sheet, attachment of a deposition material passing through an opening on the substrate holder and reaching onto the non-deposition face of the substrate is suppressed.
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 liquid crystal display device having a plurality of row electrodes to which a scanning voltage is applied; a plurality of column electrodes provided so as to cross the plurality of row electrodes, to which a display data voltage is applied; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the plurality of row electrodes and the plurality of column electrodes, which provides a display function at intersections between the plurality of row electrodes and the plurality of column electrodes in response to a RMS value of a voltage applied between the plurality of row electrodes and the plurality of column electrodes, includes: a section for outputting a display data signal representing the display data voltage having three or more voltage levels; a compensation circuit for outputting a compensation data signal based on a RMS value difference between the display data voltage and a respective resultant display data voltage applied to the plurality of column electrodes; and a driving circuit for applying a compensation voltage to at least one of the plurality of column electrodes based on the compensation data signal.
Abstract:
A method for driving a simple matrix type display device includes the steps of: applying a data voltage corresponding to values obtained by an orthogonal transform of input data to the data electrodes; applying a scanning voltage to the scanning electrodes, the scanning voltage corresponding to an orthogonal function used for the orthogonal transform; and reproducing the input data by an orthogonal inverse transform of the data voltage on the display panel, wherein the step of applying the scanning voltage includes the steps of: applying a scanning selection pulse signal having at least two levels to the scanning electrodes as a scanning voltage; and fixing the scanning selection pulse signal to an unselected level during a first period, a second period, or both of the first and second periods, the first period being defined as a period from the beginning of the data output until a predetermined time later in a data voltage output period, and the second period being defined as a period from a predetermined short time before the completion of the data output until the completion of the data output in the data voltage output period.
Abstract:
A color correction circuit is best adjusted to consistently obtain a stable, color printing by compensating for a change in the characteristic of a printer under the influence of ambient temperature and humidity.Before the printing of pictorial data, e.g., an image, (reference data produced by a reference data generator), is entered into a printer engine by which it is printed out on a sheet of a paper. This printed data is read in by a color sensor, which in turn produces an output detection signal. A feedback control circuit produces a control signal necessary for a color correction according to the output signal of the color sensor and then sends it to the color correction circuit. The color correction circuit is adjusted and corrects the colors of the pictorial data to be printed. The corrected data is printed out. Repeating this process for each color printing can prevent a variation in the printed colors due to the effect of ambient temperature.
Abstract:
In an image display device having a frame rate converting (FRC) portion, it is possible to prevent image degradation of a combined image display portion such as an OSD and PinP attributed to the FRC process. The image display device includes: an FRC portion 10 for converting the number of frames of an input image signal by interpolating an image signal subjected to a motion compensation process between the frames of the input image signal; an OSD processing portion 14 for superposing an OSD signal on the input image signal, and a controlling portion 15. The FRC portion 10 has a motion vector detecting portion 11e for detecting a motion vector between the frames of the input image signal, an interpolation vector evaluating portion 11f for allocating interpolation vector between frames based on the motion vector information, and an interpolation frame generating portion 12d for generating an interpolation frame from the interpolation vector. When the OSD signal is superposed on the input image signal, the controlling portion 15 disables the motion compensation process of the FRC portion 10 by making the motion vector detected by the motion vector detecting portion 11e 0 vector.
Abstract:
This multi-primary-color display device (100) includes a multi-primary-color display panel (10) and a signal converter (20). The display device assigns a plurality of subpixels that form each pixel to a plurality of virtual pixels and is able to conduct a display operation using each of the plurality of virtual pixels as a minimum color display unit. The signal converter (20) includes: a low-frequency multi-primary-color signal generating section (21) which generates a low-frequency multi-primary-color signal; a high-frequency luminance signal generating section (22) which generates a high-frequency luminance signal; and a rendering processing section (23) which performs rendering processing on the plurality of virtual pixels based on the low-frequency multi-primary-color signal and the high-frequency luminance signal. The signal converter (20) further includes a magnitude of correction calculating section (24) which calculates, based on an input image signal, the magnitude of correction to be made on the high-frequency luminance signal during the rendering processing.
Abstract:
Upper and lower wire guides in a wire-cut electric discharge machine are moved until a wire electrode contacts with a workpiece, and after the contact, the upper and lower wire guides are moved backward to a position A which is away from the contact point at a fixed distance. Then, the upper wire guide is moved until the wire electrode contacts with the workpiece and the upper wire guide is returned to the position A. Subsequently, the lower wire guide is moved until the wire electrode contacts with the workpiece and the lower wide guide is returned to the position A. A coordinate value on the position where the wire electrode contacts with the workpiece is calculated by using position detection values which are obtained in the above respective steps, and board thickness is calculated from the coordinate value.
Abstract:
An image display device has pixels each of which includes sub-pixels of four or more colors, and displays a high-definition image that has been subjected to sub-pixel-level filtering processing. The image display device includes a display panel in which color filters of sub-pixel colors 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 an image processor that performs filtering processing with respect to an input image signal. The image processor includes: a principal color conversion section that generates sub-pixel signals corresponding to the sub-pixel colors, respectively, from the input image signals Rin, Bin, and Gin of the three principal colors; and a sub-pixel enhancement section that gives, to the sub-pixel signals, position information in accordance with an order of arrangement of the color filters of the sub-pixel colors in the display panel, and performs the filtering processing sub-pixel by sub-pixel.