Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Tohru Nishikawa

Tomoaki Uno

Masahiro Mitsuda

Kiyoshi Toizumi

Takashi Hara

Genji Tohmon

Satoshi Ogawa

Yoshiaki Akazawa

Hiroshi Onda

Masahiko Kubo

Toshihisa Ishida

Yasuhiro Kobayashi

Tadayuki Sawai

Hideaki Kurimoto

Tomoya Usui

Tomoko Toizumi

Shota Kaneko

Kouji Kida

Masao Suzuki

Akio Matsumoto

Norimichi Otomura

This display device includes: an operation detector that detects an operation; a display that displays a screen including a first area capable of being scroll-displayed, and a second area; and a display controller that performs a control that displays, in the first area, display elements including a specific display element. The display controller scroll-displays the display elements displayed in the first area when the operation detector detects a scroll operation, and accommodatively displays the specific display element in the second area if, as a result of the scroll-display, the specific display element is scrolled in the direction of the second area and displayed.

Display device, display method, and program

An interface performs a flick operation with a button selected from buttons of representative characters for each of the syllabic lines of the Japanese syllabary that are array-displayed on a touch panel so as to specify any one of Japanese characters assigned to the representative character in advance. The interface includes a storage unit that stores association information in which up, down, left, and right directions are set to each of the characters assigned to the representative characters in association with each button and a guide image display processing unit that displays a guide image guiding arrangement directions set to the characters assigned to the representative characters prior to selection of a button of the representative character in an outside of an array display region of the representative character.

Interface, character input guide method, and program

In the present invention, a user selects a transfer process with respect to transfer target data being displayed in a first display area (window), which is the transfer source. At this point, a display processor of the information processing device, for example, changes the display mode so that the first display area is hidden except for the transfer target data. When the user specifies a second display area (window) as the transfer destination, a data processor executes the transfer process of the data to the second display area.

Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium storing program

A document feeding deviceof an image forming apparatusincludes a housingthat houses a document conveyance mechanism, and a document set tray. An upper coverof the housingis openable and closable with respect to a fixed cover, and the document set trayis swingably supported. A closed position of the upper coverwith respect to the fixed coveris set to a position overlapping with a movement trajectory M of the document set trayduring a swinging operation, and it is possible to open the upper coverin connection with the swinging operation of the document set tray

Document feeding device and image forming apparatus

Provided is a multifunctional apparatus including an external recording medium slot at a position higher than a touch area that receives touch operation by a user, and the touch area is provided in an operation panel provided on a near side of a main body of the multifunctional apparatus and near an upper edge of the main body.

Multifunctional apparatus having external recording medium slot

A waste toner transport unit includes a waste toner transport path through which waste toner removed from a circumferential surface of an image carrier is transported, a transport member that transports the waste toner along the waste toner transport path, and a movement restrictor that restricts the movement of the waste toner in a process of waste toner transportation. The waste toner transport path includes an area in which an inner bottom surface is inclined and the area constitutes the movement restrictor. The transport member is disposed such that a rotation shaft extends along the inclined inner bottom surface.

Waste toner transport unit and image forming apparatus

Provided is a toner not undergoing the effect of change of temperature and humidity, with high charging stability and having good fixing property and releasability. This is an electrophotographic toner containing at least a binder resin, a colorant, a charge controller and a wax in which the binder resin comprises a polyester resin having an aromatic alcohol ingredient, the charge controller comprises an organic bentonite and the wax comprises a non-polar paraffin wax.

Electrophotographic toner

An optical communications Module for use in an optical transfer system for bidirectionally transferring a light signal through an optical fiber, the optical communications module having a light signal transmission capability, wherein the optical communications module includes: a semiconductor laser; an optical fiber coupled to a front facet of the semiconductor laser; a light splitting element for splitting light which is emitted from the front facet of the semiconductor laser and propagated within the optical fiber; and, an output-monitoring photodiode for receiving a portion of the light which has been split by the light splitting element as monitoring light, and generating a photocurrent based on the monitoring light, the photocurrent being used for controlling optical output of the semiconductor laser.

Optical communications module and method for mounting optical communications module

The optical transmitter/receiver apparatus of the invention includes: an optical fiber for transmitting/receiving an optical signal therethrough; and a first base including mutually spaced optical signal transmitting and receiving regions and a fiber end supporting region located between the optical signal transmitting and receiving regions. A semiconductor laser device for emitting the optical signal to be transmitted is secured to the optical signal transmitting region of the first base. A fiber end supporting portion for supporting one end of the optical fiber, to which the optical signal emitted from the semiconductor laser device is incident, is formed in the fiber end supporting region of the first base. A second base for supporting the body of the optical fiber is secured to the optical signal receiving region of the first base. A reflective filter for transmitting the optical signal to be transmitted, emitted from the semiconductor laser device, and for reflecting the optical signal to be received, incident through the other end of the optical fiber, is supported by being inserted into the second base and the body of the optical fiber. A light-receiving device for receiving the optical signal to be received, reflected by the reflective filter, is secured to the second base.

Optical transmitter/receiver apparatus, method for fabricating the same and optical semiconductor module

A bidirectional optical semiconductor apparatus of the present invention includes: a substrate embedding an optical waveguide, through which output light and input light are propagated; a semiconductor light-emitting device for emitting the output light toward one end of the optical waveguide; an optical branching filter, provided in the optical waveguide, for transmitting at least part of the output light and guiding at least part of the input light to the outside of the optical waveguide; a semiconductor light-receiving device, provided over the substrate, for receiving the input light guided by the optical branching filter to the outside of the optical waveguide; and a light-blocking member, formed on the surface of the semiconductor light-receiving device, for blocking the light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting device.

Bidirectional optical semiconductor apparatus

A semiconductor light-receiving device comprises a substrate, an optical fiber, a semiconductor light-receiving element, an optical member, and holders. A groove for a buried optical fiber is formed in the main surface of the substrate to extend from one end of the substrate to the other end thereof. The optical fiber is buried in the optical fiber groove and covered with a resin material. The semiconductor light-receiving element has a light-receiving portion at a surface thereof in opposing relation to the main surface of the substrate and is disposed on the main surface of the substrate via bumps such that the light-receiving portion is opposed to the optical fiber. The optical member is disposed in the substrate in an intersecting relationship with the optical fiber to reflect or diffract signal light propagated through the optical fiber and irradiate the light-receiving portion of the semiconductor light-receiving element with the reflected or diffracted signal light. The holders are provided in the substrate to suppress a temperature-dependent variation in the width of the optical fiber groove.

Semiconductor light-receiving device, method of manufacturing the same, bidirectional optical semiconductor device, and optical transmission system

EA bidirectional optical semiconductor apparatus of the present invention includes: a substrate embedding an optical waveguide, through which output light and input light are propagated; a semiconductor light-emitting device for emitting the output light toward one end of the optical waveguide; an optical branching filter, provided in the optical waveguide, for transmitting at least part of the output light and guiding at least part of the input light to the outside of the optical waveguide; a semiconductor light-receiving device, provided over the substrate, for receiving the input light guided by the optical branching filter to the outside of the optical waveguide; and a light-blocking member, formed on the surface of the semiconductor light-receiving device, for blocking the light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting device.

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Osaka, Japan

Tohru Nishikawa