Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Makoto Yamamoto

Yukinobu Ishigaki

Naotaka Miyaji

Kaoru Totsuka

Atsushi Kutami

Akinori Yamatani

Ryuhei Furue

Yuuki Miyazaki

Hirokazu Kuwabara

Seiji Hamada

Yuji Suzaki

Ikuo Sasaki

An organic electroluminescence device of one or more embodiments includes a first electrode, a hole transport region disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer disposed on the hole transport region, an electron transport region disposed on the emission layer and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport region, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode each independently includes at least one selected among Ag, Mg, Cu, Al, Pt, Pd, Au, Ni, Nd, Ir, Cr, Li, Ca, LiF/Ca, LiF/Al, Mo, Ti, In, Sn, Zn, compounds thereof, mixtures thereof, and oxides thereof, and the emission layer includes a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1, thereby showing long life and high efficiency:

Organic electroluminescence device and polycyclic compound for organic electroluminescence device

An organic electroluminescence device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a plurality of organic layers between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one organic layer of the plurality of organic layers includes a polycyclic compound containing two aromatic 6-membered rings which are linked by a single bond, and a plurality of benzimidazole groups which are substituted at the two aromatic 6-membered rings, wherein each of the two aromatic 6-membered rings includes a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom as an atom for forming a ring.

The present invention provides an information collection apparatus, an information collection method, and a program capable of collecting information from information resources on a network effectively as well as a search engine that searches the information resources collected. An information collection apparatus of the present invention that collects information from information resources on a network includes an extraction unit that acquires data from an information resource via the network to extract a link-destination address included in the data, a calculation unit that calculates, by comparing each link-destination address with a collection rule describing a set of addresses qualified for a collection target, a score for each link-destination address that reflects a distance from the set to a link-destination information resource indicated by the link-destination address, and a judgment unit that judges whether the link-destination information resource is to be included in the collection target or not in accordance with the score calculated for the link-destination information resource.

Information collection apparatus, search engine, information collection method, and program

To provide a method for cleaning a reversible thermosensitive recording medium containing cleaning a reversible thermosensitive recording medium with a cleaning solution which contains at least one of an anionic surfactant and a nonionic surfactant, wherein the reversible thermosensitive recording medium contains an electron-donating coloring compound and an electron-accepting compound and reversibly changes any one of transparency and color tone depending on temperature.

Method for cleaning reversible thermosensitive recording medium, and image processing method

A variable directivity microphone device comprises a microphone unit assembly provided and arranged with at least three microphone units, wherein the three microphone units are mutually separated by predetermined distances, and front faces of a first and second microphone units of the three microphone units are provided and arranged facing the front surface of the microphone unit assembly while the front face of a third microphone unit is provided and arranged in a direction opposite to those of the first and second microphone units, a first and second variable resistors respectively having a terminal at one end, an intermediate terminal, and a terminal at the other end, wherein respective sliders are mutually linked or ganged and movable between a first, second, and third positions corresponding to the terminals, where the first variable resistor has the terminals at both ends thereof respectively connected to the output sides of the second and third microphone units and the intermediate terminal thereof connected to ground, an adder for adding and mixing the output of the first microphone unit and a signal obtained from the slider of the first variable resistor, and a frequency characteristic compensating circuit having an operational amplifier, for compensating for the frequency characteristic of the output signal of said adder. The second variable resistor has the terminals at both ends thereof respectively connected between the output side and input side of the operational amplifier, and the slider thereof connected to the output side of the operational amplifier. The frequency characteristic compensating circuit further comprises a frequency characteristic circuit connected in parallel with the second variable resistor, and the microphone device varied of its directivity from non-directivity, to primary unidirectivity, and then to secondary unidirectivity, as the sliders of the first and second variable resistors vary from the above first, to second, and then to third positions.

Variable-directivity microphone device

Three microphone units of first order sound pressure gradient unidirectional type are disposed in a casing having front and rear portions at both sides in such a manner that the center axes of the microphone units are aligned on the same axis. Two among the three microphone units are arranged to face the front portion of the casing, and remaining one microphone unit is arranged to face the rear portion of the casing. The output signals of the three microphone units are combined at a variable ratio so that the directivity of the microphone system can widely vary from nondirectivity via first order sound pressure gradient unidirectivity to second order sound pressure gradient unidirectivity. The output signals of two microphone units used for obtaining second order sound pressure gradient unidirectivity may be respectively applied to high pass filters before being combined, and the combined signal is fed to an equalizer. If an equalizer having modified frequency characteristic is employed, such high pass filters may be omitted.

Variable directional microphone system

A variable-directivity microphone device comprises a microphone unit having a plurality of microphones, a circuit which resultingly adds the low-frequency range components of the output signal of one of the microphones of the microphone unit and mixes with the output signal of the other microphone so that only the high-frequency range components cancel each other, and an equalizer which corrects the characteristic of the mixed signal. The above effective mixing is performed under varying mixing states.

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Yokohama, Japan

Makoto Yamamoto