Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Tetsuya Inoue

Masao Okumura

Fumiaki Kawawaki

Yoshimitsu Inamori

Toshio Matsumoto

Toshiro Oba

Michiaki Kuno

Kenji Fujita

Takayuki Natsume

Hiroshi Nittaya

Hisao Kunita

Hiroshi Takada

Shuji Kaya

Takahiro Oka

To provide a liquid crystal display device capable of improving display characteristics. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a structure in which the first substrate including a reflective layer, a liquid crystal layer, the second substrate, and a polarizer are stacked in this order from a back face to a display face, wherein the liquid crystal display device includes a retardation layer, in a region on a liquid crystal layer side of the reflective layer of the first substrate, or in a region where the reflective layer is not arranged of the first substrate, or in the second substrate, and the retardation layer provides two or more regions having different retardations in a display surface plane.

Liquid crystal display device

The invention provides an information processing apparatus which is equipped with PSRAM (pseudo static random access memory) having a self-refresh mode and which is capable of holding storage contents of the PSRAM even when a CPU system clock generator comes to an abnormal halt. The information processing apparatus has a self-refresh setter which produces an output signal of a high or low specific level when the system clock generator is oscillating, and which, when the system clock generator stops oscillation, inverts the level of the output signal after a certain time elapse since the stop of oscillation. The information processing apparatus further has logic circuits for holding a chip-enable signal at a level representing that the PSRAM is not accessed, and holding a refresh signal at a level representing that the PSRAM is refreshed, respectively, after a certain time elapse since the system clock generator stops oscillation, based on an output of the self-refresh setter.

Information processing apparatus capable of holding storage contents of

A positioning and displaying apparatus includes a unit for positioning a current place, a unit for retrieving an area name containing the current place located by the positioning unit, and a unit for displaying characters indicating the area name retrieved by the retrieving unit.

Positioning and displaying system

In an electronic translator apparatus, synonymous phrases (title data) and sentences in plural languages are stored in correspondence to each other. These phrases or sentences are read out and translated. This electronic translator apparatus stores the title data as a basic phrase and the explanatory data relating to the title data, thereby allowing a wide range of translation. The title data can be translated into plural languages which are displayed simultaneously. The title data and corresponding sentences are separately stored, thereby increasing the number of sentences that can be translated. The display method is varied depending on the necessity. If the sentence to be translated is long, part of the original sentence during displaying is ommitted and the translated sentence is displayed in whole. When translating into English, an article may be added or a plural form may be expressed so as to translate properly. When translating into Korean, accurate translation corresponding to the presence or absence of PACHIM may be realized.

Electronic translator apparatus for translating words or phrases and

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Yao, Japan

Tetsuya Inoue