Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Group Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.

Japan Display Inc.

Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.

Hironobu Abe

Yoshinobu Kimura

Makoto Ohkura

Kiyoshi Ogata

Takuo Tamura

Yoichi Takahara

Hironaru Yamaguchi

Masakazu Saitou

Toshihiko Itoga

Kazuhiko Horikoshi

Masahiro Sato

Koji Wakimoto

Junshiro Kanda

Hideaki Abe

Takeo Shiba

Takuo Kaitoh

Kazuo Takeda

Yukio Takasaki

Kentaro Yoshida

Masakazu Saito

Masahiro Eto

Masaki Orihashi

Kazuhiro Ishida

Hajime Kudoh

Ikuko Mori

Toshihiro Satoh

Hiroshi Suzuki

Toshio Nakano

Satoshi Tanaka

Setsuo Kobayashi

Hiroto Kawaguchi

Kazunari Kurokawa

Takahiro Hiramatsu

Koichi Takeuchi

Koichi Yamada

Akiya Izumi

Junya Ujiie

Hideaki Maehara

Akihito Nishiike

Shigeo Shimomura

Shinji Maeda

Michiko Takahashi

Junichi Yokosato

Yosuke Ishiwatari

Daisuke Mizuta

Yuka Takahashi

Koji Fukumoto

Masahiko Kadowaki

Takuma Matsushita

Kazuyuki Kitagawa

Tunehisa Horiuchi

Yoshinori Niwata

Hiroya Takenaka

Kazuhiro Hongo

The present invention is a piezoelectric actuator drive method, a piezoelectric actuator drive circuit, and a piezoelectric actuator drive system capable of causing a piezoelectric element to vibrate in a maximum amplitude state. The piezoelectric actuator drive circuit includes: an obtainment unit that obtains operation information pertaining to operation of the piezoelectric element in a period that is a part of one cycle of a drive cycle in which the piezoelectric element is driven; and a control unit that performs feedback control of a drive parameter for driving the piezoelectric element based on the operation information.

Piezoelectric actuator drive method, piezoelectric actuator drive circuit, and piezoelectric actuator drive system

[Object] To provide a technology capable of presenting various haptic sensations to a user. [Solving Means] A haptic presentation apparatus according to the present technology includes: a first deformable layer; a second deformable layer; and a drive unit. The first deformable layer is positioned on a front surface side. The second deformable layer is positioned inward of the first deformable layer. The drive unit is driven to control outflow and inflow of fluid between a first space and a second space, the first space retaining the fluid between the first deformable layer and the second deformable layer, the second space retaining the fluid inward of the second deformable layer.

Haptic presentation apparatus, fluid control apparatus, and fluid control method

[Object] To provide a fluid control apparatus having a diaphragm structure and small flow path resistance. [Solving Means] A fluid control apparatus according to the present technology includes a first space, two flat plate members, a drive mechanism, a second space, a first check valve, and a second check valve. The first space has an inlet and an outlet. The two flat plate members face each other via the first space, and at least one of the flat plate members is an elastic body having flexibility. The drive mechanism bends the elastic body. The second space adjoins the first space, communicates with the first space via the inlet, and has a suction port. The first check valve allows fluid to flow from the suction port to the first space via the inlet. The third space adjoins the first space, communicates with the first space via the outlet, and has a discharge port. The second check valve allows the fluid to flow from the first space to the discharge port via the outlet. At least one of the suction port and the discharge port is positioned on an extension surface of at least one of the two flat plate members.

Fluid control apparatus and electronic apparatus

[Object] To provide a technology that enables one user to appropriately recognize a tactile sensation based on a force from the other user. [Solving Means] A tactile presentation apparatus according to the present technology includes a first detection unit, a first presentation unit, and a control unit. The first detection unit detects a first detection value based on a force of a first user. The first presentation unit is provided at a position other than a position of the first detection unit and presents a tactile sensation to the first user. The control unit controls the first presentation unit to present a tactile sensation to the first user on the basis of a second detection value of another tactile presentation apparatus, the other tactile presentation apparatus including a second detection unit that detects a second detection value based on a force of a second user and a second presentation unit that presents a tactile sensation to the second user.

Tactile presentation apparatus, tactile presentation system, tactile presentation control method, and program

An in-vehicle device performing communication with a mobile terminal device includes a vehicle exterior communication unit, an in-vehicle detection unit that detects a vehicle present location, a vehicle interior communication unit that acquires detection information on an object from a detection unit, and an in-vehicle control unit that generates recognition information including position information on the object based on vehicle position information indicating the vehicle present location and the detection information on the object and makes the vehicle exterior communication unit deliver the recognition information. The vehicle exterior communication unit receives existence notification information transmitted from the mobile terminal device when the mobile terminal device receiving the recognition information judges that the in-vehicle device has not recognized existence of a first object equipped with the mobile terminal device.

In-vehicle device, mobile terminal device, recognition support system, recognition support method, and recognition support program

It is an object to obtain a high-resolution image generation apparatus that can generate a high-quality image by sorting out good portions from faulty portions in optical flow. The present invention includes: a hard disk that stores multi-viewpoint image information and parameter information of a base image and a plurality of reference images; an optical flow computation unit that extracts a plurality of pairs of the base image and a reference image, the plurality of pairs each including a different reference image, and computes optical flow for each pair; a depth information computation unit that computes depth information which indicates depth of each pixel of the base image for each pair, based on optical flow and the parameter information; and an optical flow sorting unit that determines whether or not each piece of pixel-based correspondence information included in the optical flow of each pair is to be used for improving a resolution of the base image, based on two pieces of the depth information.

High-resolution image generation apparatus, high-resolution image generation method, and high-resolution image generation program

A liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal panel LCP and a touch panel TP provided on the front surface of the liquid crystal panel is characterized in that wires connected to the liquid crystal panel and wires connected to the touch panel are included in one flexible printed circuit FPC, which is first connected (FOG) to the liquid crystal panel (specifically, a TFT substrate (TFTS)) and then connected (FOG) to the touch panel.

Image display device

An RTP packet generating unitpacketizes data into packets, and adds identification information to the header of each of the packets, the identification information identifying each of the packets. An RTP packet encrypting unitdivides data included in each of the generated packets into blocks, and encrypts the data included in each of the packets on a block-by-block basis using an encryption key which an encryption key sharing unitshares with a receiving client in such a manner that, when encrypting a first block of the data, the packet encrypting unit encrypts it using the identification information for identifying each of the packets, which is contained, as an initial vector, in the header of each of the packets, and, when encrypting each subsequent block of the data, encrypts it according to an encryption method which uses an immediately-previously-encrypted block.

Data distribution apparatus and data communications system

The present invention provides a process for producing a polycrystal silicon film which comprises a step of forming a polycrystal silicon film by light irradiation of a silicon film set on a substrate, and a step of selecting substrate samples having an average grain size in a plane of the sample of 500 nm or more. According to the present invention, stable production of a high-performance poly-silicon TFT liquid crystal display becomes possible.

Process for producing polysilicon film

An amorphous silicon film is laser irradiated a plural number of times to make the film composed of a plurality of crystal grains while suppressing the formation of protrusions at the boundaries of the adjoining grains to realize a polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor having at least partly therein the clusters of grains, or the aggregates of at least two crystal grains, with preferred orientation in the plane (111), and having high electron mobility of 200 cm/Vs or above.

Thin film transistor and method of manufacturing the same

Thin film transistor and display using the same

The present invention provides a process for producing a polycrystal silicon film which comprises a step of forming a polycrystal silicon film by light irraditation of a silicon film set on a substrate, and a step of selecting substrate samples having an average grain size in a plane of the sample of 500 nm or more. According to the present invention, stable production of a high-performance poly-silicon TFT liquid crystal display becomes possible.

Process for producing polycrystalline silicon film by crystallizing on amorphous silicon film by light irradiation

An amorphous silicon film is laser irradiated a plural number of times to make the film composed of a plurality of crystal grains while suppressing the formation of protrusions at the boundaries of the adjoining grains to realize a polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor having at least partly therein the clusters of grains, or the aggregates of at least two crystal grains, with preferred orientation in the plane (111), and having high electron mobility of 200 cm /Vs or above.

Irradiation of manufacturing a thin film transistor by laser irradiation

Disclosed is a polysilicon film adapted for use in a liquid crystal display, and method of manufacturing such film. In manufacturing the film, a native oxide layer formed on a surface of an amorphous silicon film is completely removed by a hydrofluoric acid solution, followed by immersing in an H O solution to newly form an extremely thin oxide layer, prior to a crystallizing processing performed by a laser beam irradiation. The crystallizing processing forms a polysilicon film formed of crystal grains Preferentially oriented on the (111) plane in a direction parallel to the substrate surface, an average crystal grain size being not larger than 300 nm, the standard deviation of the grain sizes being not larger than 30% of the average grain size, and the standard deviation of the roughness being not larger than 10% of the average grain size.

Liquid crystal display element and method of manufacturing the same

Transistor with thin film active region having clusters of different crystal orientation

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Tokyo, Japan

Hironobu Abe