Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Lg Display Co., Ltd.

Jx Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation

Nec Corporation

Nippon Oil Company

Polyplastics Co., Ltd.

K.k. Sankyo Seiki Seisakusho

Tokyo Electron Limited

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Lintec Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Sankyo Seiki Seisakusho

Nippon Oil Corporation

Junji Watanabe

Masatoshi Tokita

Osamu Sato

Yuji Ishikawa

Kazuo Matsunaga

Masahiko Ogura

Suzushi Nishimura

Eiichi Yamanishi

Ken Iseda

Kazuharu Saito

Yutaka Kamamoto

Kenji Hijikata

Tadao Saito

Takehiro Toyooka

Joji Kawamura

Hideshi Oushiden

Takeshi Eguchi

Tadao Saitoh

Toshiyasu Beppu

Koichi Sakajiri

Toshiroh Doy

Hidetoshi Matsumoto

Takuya Matsumoto

Toshio Nakane

Hiroshi Matsumoto

Akira Matsuo

Yasufumi Tanimoto

Akihito Tokutsu

Yoshiaki Nawata

Hideo Takezoe

Katsuhiko Aoki

Kousuke Yamaki

Masami Gokita

Michiro Naka

Kentaro Harada

Renshi Sawada

Kenji Futaki

Hirobumi Kessoku

Katsuyoshi Hiraki

Shunpei Nakajima

Tatsuya Saito

Toshiyuki Sogo

Hidetaka Nonami

Dong-Uk Cho

Kozo Matsuyama

Tatsuya Izumi

Isao Adachi

Akiko Hayashi

Haruhiro Tsuneda

Kazuhide Kiuchi

Takehito Fukunaga

Keisuke Azuma

Myoung Hoon Song

Byoungchoo Park

Gen-Ichi Konishi

Sungmin Kang

Kento Okoshi

Yoshiyuki Sato

Masanobu Oohata

Kunio Koyabu

Hiroyasu Matsukura

Hiroshi Komase

Ki-Chul Shin

Yuki Arakawa

Kenichi Oono

Provided is a vibration presentation system that improves the convenience of a user in sensing vibrations at various body sites, or of a plurality of users in sensing vibrations. A vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by tactile sense for media content, the vibration presentation system including: a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively; and a presentation target batch selection user interface including a plurality of (M, where M is an integer of 2 or more) combinations each of which contains one selection button and designation of a predefined body site for a channel included in the plurality of channels, wherein the vibrating body generates vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals for a body site for a channel included in a combination corresponding to a selection button selected from among M selection buttons.

Vibration presentation apparatus

The present invention provides a sport status presentation system with which a user can easily grasp, by touch, the status of a sport competition in which two teams compete and the players on the two teams capture a single ball from each other while moving within a single competition area and score points by placing the ball in a goal set for each team. The sport status presentation system includes two vibrating bodies, the vibrating bodies respectively apply vibration to sites on the left side and the right side of the body of the user and are allocated to the respective teams, and the vibrating body allocated to the team in possession of the ball, among the two vibrating bodies, vibrates by a larger amount as a distance between the ball and the goal or a goal line of the team in possession of the ball decreases.

Sports status presentation system

Provided is a vibration presentation system that allows a user to perceive vibrations in bodily sensing the vibrations at various body sites without feeling unnatural. The vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by a tactile sense for media content includes a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively, wherein each of the vibration signals of the plurality of channels is for any of specific body sites, and the vibrations generated by the vibrating body are provided with a time difference such that, for the vibrations for the specic body sites to be perceived at the same time, a vibration for a body site of the specific body sites that is farther from the brain is earlier generated.

A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes forming a first alignment layer on a first substrate, forming a second alignment layer on a second substrate, disposing the first substrate and the second substrate such that the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer are spaced apart, forming a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules between the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer and forming an electrode layer on one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the electrode layer applying an electric field to the liquid crystal molecules along a direction parallel to the first and second substrates, the forming the first alignment layer including applying a copolymer solution including first moieties and second moieties, and the first moieties have affinity with the first substrate, and the second moieties have compatibility with the liquid crystal molecules and heating the first alignment layer.

Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same

A liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment includes a light source; a first substrate on which a first alignment layer is formed; a second substrate on which a second alignment layer is formed; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second alignment layers; and an electrode layer on one of the first and second substrates, the electrode layer applying an electric field to liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer along a direction parallel to the first and second substrates, wherein when the electric field is applied, the liquid crystal molecules are twistedly arranged from the second alignment layer to the first alignment layer.

Provided is a film for a transparent screen which can clearly display merchandise information, advertisement, or the like on a transparent partition or the like by projection without compromising the transmission visibility. A film for a transparent screen according to the present invention includes: a resin layer; and inorganic particles at least a portion of which is contained in an aggregated state in the resin layer, wherein primary particles of the inorganic particles have a median diameter of 0.1 to 50 nm and a maximum particle size of 10 to 500 nm, and the content of the inorganic particles is 0.015 to 1.2% by mass with respect to the resin.

Film for transparent screen and method for manufacture thereof, and transparent screen comprising same

There are provided a conductive nanowire network, a conductive board and transparent electrode utilizing it, and a method for producing the same. The conductive nanowire network of the invention has essentially unbroken, continuous conductive nanowires randomly formed into a network. In the method for producing a conductive nanowire network according to the invention, nanofibers are applied in a random network-like fashion onto a substrate covered with a conductive layer, the conductive layer regions that are not covered with the nanofibers are removed, and then the nanofibers are removed. The network structure (wire diameter and network density) are also controlled to obtain a transparent electrode exhibiting both transparency and conductivity.

Electroconductive nanowire network, and electroconductive substrate and transparent electrode using same, and method for manufacturing electroconductive nanowire network, electroconductive substrate, and transparent electrode

A substrate for a flexible display device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a self-supporting film where a particle has a grafted polymer chain and is disposed in two dimensions or three dimensions through the grafted polymer chain.

Substrate for flexible display device and flexible display device

The present invention provides a diacetylene derivative represented by the following formula (A) which exhibits liquid crystallinity by itself and has a large refractive index anisotropy or does not exhibit liquid crystallinity by itself but exhibits a large refractive index anisotropy when added to a liquid crystalline compound:R1-Sp1-(Ar1)-(Ar3)-(Phe)-C&#x2261;C&#x2014;C&#x2261;C-(Phe)-(Ar4)-(Ar2)-Sp2-R2&#x2003;&#x2003;(A)(wherein R1 and R2 are a hydrogen, halogen, cyano, isothiocyanate, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or reactive group, SP1 and SP2 are each a spacer group, Ar1 and Ar2 are each a non-substituted or substituted aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic group, Ar3 and Ar4 are each a non-substituted or substituted heterocyclic group, Phe is a non-substituted or substituted 1,4-phenylene group, and p, q and r are each 0 or 1.

Diacetylene derivative and liquid crystalline polymer having diacetylene structure

In this VSWR measurement circuit, a power measurement unit measures the power level of a reflected signal which is included in a feedback signal which has been extracted at a second CPL which has been deployed at a position connecting to an antenna end via a cable. To this end, the VSWR measurement circuit is provided with a main signal component removal circuit, wherein the main signal which has been extracted from the prestage of a digital pre-distortion circuit, and a signal in which the feedback signal that had been extracted at the second CPL has been converted to a digital signal at an A/D CONV, are provided as inputs, the main signal component included in the feedback signal is removed, and only the reflected signal is extracted so as to be output to the power measurement unit.

VSWR measurement circuit, radio communication apparatus, VSWR measurement method, and recording medium having VSWR measurement program stored thereon

Provided is a time division duplex communication apparatus capable of distinguishing interruption by a received interference wave at a reception time, interruption occurring upon completion of measurement of received power, and interruption caused by power leaked into a receiving system during transmission time. The time division duplex communication apparatus includes a variable attenuatorfor adjusting power of a reception signal, an interruption factor detection unitfor detecting an interruption signal from the reception signal, a reception timing determination unitfor determining whether the interruption signal is due to a received interference wave, and an interference wave determination unitfor controlling the variable attenuatorwhen it is determined that the interruption signal is due to the received interference wave.

Time division duplex communication apparatus and reception interference preventing method thereof

Disclosed are a liquid crystal display element exhibiting a continuous gradation memory property as well as different display properties substantially similar to those of a liquid crystal display element having nematic liquid crystals, while enabling continuous tone display, and a method for manufacturing the same.

Liquid crystal display element and method for manufacturing the same

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device to display moving and still images with superior image quality, comparable to common LCDs and to display memory images by a voltage lower than conventional electronic paper, and a method for operating the same. The liquid crystal display device comprises: a pair of electrode substrates facing each other; an orientation film of a polymer material on the pair of electrode substrates; a liquid crystal material between the pair of electrode substrates, wherein the liquid crystal display device displays an image by varying orientation of the liquid crystal material and a surfacial region of the orientation film, depending on temperature and voltage.

Liquid crystal display and operation method thereof

A novel liquid crystal comprising a first liquid compound having bent structures and a second liquid crystal compound. A liquid crystal phase formed by the first liquid crystal compound exhibits ferroelectricity or antiferroelectricity while a liquid crystal phase formed by the second liquid crystal compound exhibits neither ferroelectricity nor antiferroelectricity. A smectic liquid crystal phase formed by the first liquid crystal compound has a tilted structure while a smectic liquid crystal phase formed by the second liquid crystal compound has no tilted structure. The first liquid crystal compound is represented by the following chemical formula (m=16) and the second liquid crystal compound is represented by the following chemical formula (m=4). 

Liquid crystal and liquid crystal display

A laser oscillation elementaccording to the invention comprises a cholesteric liquid crystal layercontaining cholesteric liquid crystals, a cholesteric liquid crystal layercontaining cholesteric liquid crystals facing the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a defect layercontaining a dyewhich emits fluorescence upon optical excitation disposed between the cholesteric liquid crystal layers. A selective reflection wavelength band in the cholesteric liquid crystals overlaps with the emission band of the fluorescence emitted by the dye, the helical winding directions of the cholesteric liquid crystals contained in the cholesteric liquid crystal layersare identical, and the transition moments of the dyeare aligned parallel to the surfaces of the cholesteric liquid crystal layers. According to the laser oscillation element, a laser oscillation can be generated with high efficiency. Moreover, continuous wave lasing can be generated.

Laser oscillation elements

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