Synaptics Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Nec Platforms, Ltd.

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research

Makoto Takeuchi

Hirokazu Hatayama

Daisuke Ito

Takayuki Noto

Nobukazu Tanaka

Masaaki Shiomura

Takashi Miyamoto

Shigeru Ota

Tomohiro Hirakawa

Kazuo Kobayashi

Yasunori Chiba

Tsutomu Kusakari

Yuichi Ozaki

Yoshifumi Jigami

Hitoshi Sakuraba

Takehiko Koga

Naoyuki Taniguchi

Aruto Yoshida

Yoriko Takeuchi, Legal Representative

Hitoshi Nito

Mari Minowa

Suguru Oguri

Yoshifumi c/o Tsukuba Center Jigami

Yasunori c/o Tsukuba Center Chiba

Kazuo c/o Bio Process R&D Lab Kobayashi

A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received from a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing region. The output vertical sync signal comprises encoding the display information in the output vertical sync signal.

Devices and methods for controlling proximity sensing in input-display device

A display driver includes a memory, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: in a first mode, update a display panel based at least in part on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; and in a second mode, update the display panel based at least in part on first image data stored in the memory in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal. The control circuit configured to: switch from the first mode to the second mode in response to a first command; and, in the second mode, adjust the display vertical sync signal based at least in part on an external vertical sync signal.

Mode switching in display device for driving a display panel

In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to an input device that includes a proximity sensing panel including sensor electrodes, and a proximity sensing circuit. The proximity sensing circuit configured to receive an indication of a transition from a first image refresh rate to a second image refresh rate, wherein the first image refresh rate is greater than a beacon signal rate and the second image refresh rate is equal to or lower than the beacon signal rate. The proximity sensing panel is also configured to align transmitting a beacon signal on the proximity sensing panel to a non-refresh period corresponding to the second refresh rate.

Mitigation of display artifacts from beacon signals

In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to an input device that includes a proximity sensing panel including sensor electrodes, and a proximity sensing circuit. The proximity sensing circuit is configured to determine that an image refresh rate to an equal or lower frequency than a beacon signal rate. The input-display device is configured to align transmitting a beacon signal on proximity sensing panel to during non-refresh period of a display or perform an additional image refresh frame on the display panel immediately before a next Vsync signal and a corresponding non-refresh period.

A display driver includes a GRAM, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: update, in a first mode, display elements of a display panel based on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; update, in a second mode, the display elements based on image data stored in the GRAM in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal; and update, in a third mode, the display elements in synchronization with an external vertical sync signal. The control circuit is configured to: switch the display drive to a second mode in response to a first command; adjust, in the second mode, the display vertical sync signal based on an external vertical sync signal; and switch the display driver to the third mode after achieving synchronization of the display vertical sync signal with the external vertical sync signal.

An electronic apparatus including a housing, an electronic component unit main body, an engagement lever, and an engaged member, in which the engagement lever includes a lever main body, an engagement groove, and a restricting member, the lever main body is displaceable between a first state in which the one end portion is inclined to protrude rearward with respect to the other end portion in an insertion direction of the electronic component unit main body with respect to the accommodating part and the engagement groove abuts against the engaged member from the rear in the insertion direction, and a second state in which the lever main body is vertical from the one end portion to the other end portion and the engagement groove engages with the engaged member, and the restricting member is able to restrict the lever main body to being in the second state.

Electronic apparatus, and electronic component unit

Provided are a moisture retention device, a maintenance device, and a liquid jetting apparatus with which it is possible to avoid contact between moisture retention liquid stored in a cap and a nozzle surface. The moisture retention device includes the cap for moisture retention of the nozzle surface of a liquid jetting head, the cap includes a liquid retention portion (D) in which moisture retention liquid is retained, the liquid retention portion is a housing of which an upper surface (C) is open, and a wall (B) of the housing is provided with an overflow starting point () having a structure that penetrates the wall.

Moisture retention device, maintenance device, and liquid jetting apparatus

There are provided a liquid jetting apparatus and a method of coping with the floating of a medium that enable the originally required moving distance of a liquid jet head to be set in a case where the contact between the liquid jet head and a medium caused by the floating of the medium is to be avoided. The liquid jetting apparatus includes a first medium floating detection unit () that detects the floating of a medium, a first head raising/lowering unit () that moves a first liquid jet head, a first movement parameter setting unit () that sets a first movement parameter, a first head raising/lowering control unit () that controls the first head raising/lowering unit, a second head raising/lowering unit () that moves a second liquid jet head, a second movement parameter setting unit () that sets a second movement parameter separately from the first movement parameter, and a second head raising/lowering control unit () that controls the second head raising/lowering unit.

Liquid jetting apparatus and method of coping with floating of medium

There are provided a liquid jetting apparatus and a method of coping with the floating of a medium where power at the time of coping with the floating of a medium can be suppressed. After the floating of a medium () is detected, a first movement parameter that represents the speed or acceleration of a first liquid jet head (C) during movement is set, a second movement parameter that represents the magnitude of speed of a second liquid jet head (M), which is smaller than the magnitude of the speed of the first liquid jet head, or a second movement parameter that represents a magnitude of acceleration of the second liquid jet head, which is smaller than the magnitude of the acceleration of the first liquid jet head, is set, an operation of the first liquid jet head is started at a first timing, and an operation of the second liquid jet head is started at the same timing as the first timing or at a second timing when the first liquid jet head does not yet reach a first retreat position.

There are provided a liquid jetting apparatus in which the deterioration of production efficiency is suppressed in a case in which the floating of a medium occurs, and a method of coping with the floating of a medium. A medium is fed; liquid is jetted to the medium, which is transported by a medium transport unit including a medium support surface on which the medium is supported and transporting the fed medium in a medium transport direction, by a liquid jet head; drying processing is performed on the medium, to which the liquid jetted from the liquid jet head adheres, at a position on the downstream side of the liquid jet head in the medium transport direction; and in a case in which the floating of the medium is detected at a position on the upstream side of the liquid jet head in the medium transport direction, the medium continues to be fed, the liquid jet head is moved to a retreat position from a liquid jet position, and the intensity of drying processing is suppressed in comparison with that in a liquid-drying processing-performing state in which drying processing is performed on the medium.

Provided are a droplet-discharging head, a droplet-discharging device, and a method for positioning head modules of the droplet-discharging head in which the job of adjusting head module installation positions can be easily performed. In an ink jet head () configured by linking multiple head modules () together, each head modules () is mounted on a base frame () supported by a head module support unit provided on the base frame (). The mounting positions of the head modules () in an X-direction mounted on the base frame () are individually adjusted by X-directional mounting position adjustment unit. The amounts of displacement of the head modules () here are detected by displacement detection unit.

Droplet-discharging head, image-forming device, and method for positioning head modules of droplet-discharging head

A fender protector structure of a vehicle which includes a body structure including a body panel and a fender panel. The body structure defines a wheel well. A fender protector is connected to the body structure for covering an outer periphery of the wheel well, and a reinforcing structure for the fender protector extends from the body panel to the fender panel, wherein the reinforcing structure includes fixing the fender protector to the body panel.

Fender protector structure

A process for producing a lysosomal enzyme having a mannose-6-phosphate-containing acidic sugar chain, wherein the process comprising: culturing in a medium yeast cells obtained by introducing a lysosomal enzyme gene into a sugar chain biosynthetic enzyme gene mutant strain of yeast, collecting a lysosomal enzyme having a phosphate-containing sugar chain from the culture, and then treating the enzyme with &#x3b1;-mannosidase; and pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of human lysosomal enzyme deficiencies produced by the process. The genetic engineering technique using the yeast according to the present invention allows large-amount and high-purity production of a glycoprotein having a phosphate-containing acidic sugar chain which can serve as a labeling marker for transporting into lysosomes in cells of mammals such as human. The glycoprotein having a phosphate-containing acidic sugar chain according to the invention may be utilized as a drug effective in treatment of human lysosomal enzyme deficiencies, etc.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Takeuchi