Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Joled Inc.

Panasonic Coproration

Takaaki Ukeda

Akihito Miyamoto

Toshiki Yabu

Mizuki Segawa

Takashi Uehara

Masatoshi Arai

Yuko Okumoto

Takayuki Yamada

Takashi Nakabayashi

Kyoji Yamashita

Norishige Nanai

Michikazu Matsumoto

Isao Miyanaga

Kouhei Koresawa

Yoshiaki Honda

Tohru Saitoh

Yoshiaki Kato

Sadayoshi Hotta

Kazunori Komori

Gosuke Sakamoto

Masaru Moriwaki

Shigeo Gotoh

Chiaki Kudo

Akio Miyajima

Tatsuya Yamada

Yuka Hasegawa

Tadashi Murakami

Takashi Nishiyama

Yoshihiro Matsumura

Sadayuki Sumi

Kengo Abe

Takeshi Ohno

Yasuko Yamamoto

Tatsuo Masuda

Kenichi Sasai

Ryosuke Nagumo

A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit configured to obtain speech data indicating speech uttered by a subject; a calculation unit configured to extract a plurality of vowels from the speech data obtained by the obtainment unit, and calculate, for each of the plurality of vowels, a feature value based on a frequency and an amplitude of at least one formant obtained from a spectrum of the vowel; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a cognitive function of the subject from the feature value calculated by the calculation unit; and an output unit configured to output an evaluation result of the evaluation unit.

Cognitive function evaluation device, cognitive function evaluation system, and cognitive function evaluation method

A display control method is provided for a vehicle having a front pillar. An image of a region about the vehicle is obtained from a camera. The region includes a driver's blind spot caused by the front pillar of the vehicle. From the obtained image, an image of the driver's blind spot is extracted in a shape of a curved display provided along a curved interior surface of the front pillar. The curved display is caused to display the extracted image.

Display control method and display control device for vehicle

A luminaire includes a radio wave sensor and a luminaire body. The luminaire body includes a first plate to be attached to a building surface and a second plate facing each other forming an internal space. The luminaire body holds the radio wave sensor between the first plate and the second plate. The radio wave sensor includes an antenna for transmitting and receiving the radio waves. The luminaire body includes an opening and a limiter. The opening is formed in the second plate to allow radio waves transmitted from the antenna to exit to an outside of the luminaire body. The limiter is provided between the antenna and the opening to limit a radiation area of the radio waves transmitted from the antenna.

Luminaire

An image display system includes a display provided on an interior surface of a vehicle body structure, including a front pillar, and a camera that captures an image of an extended region including an image of a blind spot region outside the vehicle body structure. When the door is in a closed state, the image display system causes the display to display the image of the blind spot region. The image of the blind spot region is generated based on the image of the extended region captured by the camera, by extracting, from the image of the extended region, the image of the blind spot region in a shape of the display. An interior surface of the front pillar includes a curved shape. The display is provided in the interior surface of the front pillar along the curved shape of the interior surface of the front pillar.

Image display system and display used in image display system

A radio wave sensor includes a transmitting antenna configured to radiate radio waves, a receiving antenna configured to receive incoming radio waves, and a housing that is composed of dielectric material and faces the transmitting and receiving antennas. The housing has a first part that faces the transmitting antenna, a second part that faces the receiving antenna, and a third part between the first and second parts. In a facing direction in which a bottom board of the housing faces the transmitting and receiving antennas, respective thickness of the first and second parts is thicker than thickness of the third part.

Radio wave sensor and luminaire

A display apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes at least one flexible display panel including a first picture element that emits a red light, a second picture element that emits a green light, a third picture element that emits a blue light, and a fourth picture element. Each of the first picture element, the second picture element, and the third picture element includes an organic electroluminescent element as a light source and is driven by an active matrix method. The fourth picture element includes an organic electroluminescent element as a light source and is driven by a passive method.

Display apparatus comprising flexible display panel

The image display system includes a display that is provided on an interior surface of a vehicle body structure and that includes a first display region facing the doorway, and a camera adapted to capture an image of a blind spot region outside the vehicle body structure. When the door is in a closed state, the image display system is adapted to cause the display to display the image of the blind spot region, and when the door is in an open state, the image display system is adapted to cause the display to display an illumination image of a fixed pattern.

An operation switch includes: a capacitance sensor that generates three or more detection signals in response to approach or contact of an object to respective three or more electrodes; a determination circuit that determines whether or not the object is a living body based on one or more detection signals selected from the three or more detection signals, the one or more detection signals excluding a detection signal having a maximum intensity among the three or more detection signals; and a controller that, when the object is determined to be a living body, generates an operation signal for operating a predetermined device.

Operation switch, dressing table and mirror using capacitance sensor

A control switch for controlling a level of an operation of an apparatus among operating levels including first, second, and third operating levels includes: sensors each of which, in operation, senses an object, the sensors including first, second, and third sensors arranged along one direction, the first, second, and third sensors being assigned first, second, and third level values, respectively; an acquisition circuit that, in operation, acquires a moving velocity of the object along the direction with the first, second, and third sensors; a change circuit that, in operation, changes at least two of the first, second, and third level values according to the moving velocity; and a control circuit that, in operation, causes the apparatus to operate at an operating level corresponding to the level value assigned to one of the first, second, and third sensors which has sensed the object.

Control switch including sensors, acquisition circuit, change circuit, and control circuit

A thin film transistor according to the present disclosure including: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulating layer covering the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer above the gate insulating layer; and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are above the gate insulating layer, and electrically connected to the semiconductor layer, in which the gate insulating layer includes a first area and a second area, the first area being above the gate electrode, the second area being different from an area above the gate electrode, and made of a same substance as the first area, and the first area has a higher density than a density of the second area.

Thin film transistor, organic EL light emitting device, and method of fabricating thin film transistor

A thin-film transistor includes a substrate, a gate electrode over the substrate, an insulating layer over the gate electrode, and a semiconductor layer over the insulating layer. The semiconductor layer includes a channel region, a source region, and a drain region. A source electrode is over the source region, and a drain electrode is over the drain region. The source electrode and the drain electrode each comprise Ni and a metal other than Ni. The channel region, the source region, and the drain region comprise at least one of a polycrystalline silicon that is formed by crystallizing an amorphous silicon layer by thermally diffusing the Ni in the source electrode and the drain electrode into the semiconductor layer and a microcrystalline silicon that is formed by crystallizing an amorphous silicon layer by thermally diffusing the Ni in the source electrode and the drain electrode into the semiconductor layer.

Thin-film transistor, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic apparatus using thin-film transistor

In a method for producing a display panel, a base substrate having an upper surface on which an electrode is located is prepared. A first layer having a first opening overlapping with the electrode in plan-view is formed on the base substrate. A second layer having a second opening overlapping with the first opening in plan-view is formed on the first layer. The second opening has a smaller area than the first opening in plan-view. A wiring layer is formed in the first opening and the second opening, in contact with the electrode. The second layer includes a portion located on an upper surface of the first layer and a portion located in the first opening. The portion of the second layer located in the first opening covers an internal side surface of the first layer located around the first opening.

Method for producing display panel, and display panel

A method of manufacturing a display panel includes a sub-step of forming a photosensitive material layer for formation of a second layer on a first layer, a sub-step of disposing, over the photosensitive material layer, a photomask having a different degree of transparency in a first region and a second region thereof, the first region overlapping the photosensitive material layer, in plan view, at a location for formation of a second aperture, and the second region being a remainder of the photomask other than the first region, and a sub-step of exposing the photosensitive material layer via the photomask. In plan view, the area of the first region in the photomask is larger than the area of a first aperture in the first layer.

Method of fabricating display panel

A display panel device includes: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulator above the gate electrode; a first source electrode and a first drain electrode above the gate insulator; a second source electrode and a second drain electrode above the first source electrode and the first drain electrode respectively; a first partition wall part having an opening in which the second source electrode and the second drain electrode are exposed; a semiconductor layer in the opening; an insulation layer above the semiconductor layer; a lower electrode above the insulation layer; and a contact hole in the insulation layer, for connecting the lower electrode and the second drain electrode or the second source electrode, wherein a film structure of each of the second source electrode and the second drain electrode is sparser than a film structure of each of the first source electrode and the first drain electrode.

Display panel device and method of manufacturing display panel device

A thin film transistor element is formed in each of adjacent first and second apertures defined by partition walls. In plan view of a bottom portion of the first aperture, a center of a total of areas of a source electrode portion and a drain electrode portion is offset from a center of area of the bottom portion in a direction opposite a direction of the second aperture, and in plan view of a bottom portion of the second aperture, a center of a total of areas of a source electrode portion and a drain electrode portion is offset from a center of area of the bottom portion in a direction opposite a direction of the first aperture.

Thin-film transistor device and method for manufacturing same, organic electroluminescent display element, and organic electroluminescent display device

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Takaaki Ukeda