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A double-sided organic electroluminescent display is constructed with an optical shutter. The organic electroluminescent display which includes an image displaying part comprising a plurality of pixels to display an image corresponding to a data signal and a selection signal, an optical shutter provided on the image displaying part to transmit or block light in response to a control signal, and a driver circuit to supply the data and selection signals to the plurality of pixels and the control signal to the optical shutter, respectively is excellent in visual recognition.

Systems and program product for managing/assessing heat exchanger network energy efficiency and retrofit for an industrial facility, are provided. An embodiment of a system can include a heat exchanger network analysis and design computer and heat exchange network analysis and design program product configured to cause the heat exchange network analysis and design computer to perform various operations including those for determining an optimal heat exchanger network retrofit projects sequence extending between a current heat exchanger network retrofit project satisfying a current desired waste energy recovery goal and a future heat exchanger network retrofit project satisfying the final waste energy recovery goal. The heat exchanger network retrofit projects sequence can be configured so that each subsequent project within the heat exchanger network retrofit projects sequence does not contradict any of the previous projects within the heat exchanger network retrofit projects sequence.

A display device for a vehicle includes an operating unit which a passenger can operate, and a display unit which displays various types of images based on an operation input at the operating unit. The operating unit and display unit are disposed separated from each other. The operating unit is situated between the eyes of a driver performing the operation input and the display unit, and overlays the display unit on the line-of-sight direction of the driver performing the operation input.

A circularly polarizing plate comprising a scattering-dichroic absorption compound polarizer composed of a film dispersed with micro-regions, and a quarter-wavelength plate composed of one or a plurality of phase difference plates that are laid in layers in a matrix formed of translucent resin containing iodine based light absorbing material. Such a circularly polarizing plate exhibits high transmittance and high degree of polarization and can suppress unevenness of transmittance in the case of black display.

A liquid-crystal display device has a light pipe, a light source, a reflection layer, and a liquid-crystal shutter. The light pipe includes light output means formed on an upper surface of the light pipe. The light source is disposed near to an incident side surface of the light pipe so that light incident from the light source is output from a lower surface of the light pipe through the light output means. The reflection layer is disposed on the lower surface of the light pipe so that reflected light of the output light is transmitted through the upper surface of the light pipe. The liquid-crystal shutter is disposed above the upper surface of the light pipe, the liquid-crystal shutter including liquid-crystal cells and at least one polarizing plate.

A pedestrian protection device for a motor vehicle, includes a front flap that is connected to a body of the motor vehicle by means of at least one coupling device and at least one adjusting device, by means of which adjusting device the front flap, by way of at least one actuator, can be moved into a protective position that is raised relative to the body of the motor vehicle and can be fixed in the protective position, wherein the at least one actuator is connected to the corresponding coupling device and to the front flap by means of a coupling joint, the coupling joint including a joint head and a joint socket unit that receives the joint head, the joint socket unit having a joint socket and a retaining element that at least partially surrounds the joint socket. The joint head has a joint head end region that visibly interacts with a recess in the joint socket unit.

This invention provides a composite polarizing plate comprising a polarizer, a phase difference plate, and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer. The composite polarizing plate is thin and light in weight, can ensure brightness of an image display device to which the composite polarizing plate has been applied, is less likely to cause blurred or unsharp display images, and can develop good durability. A transparent protective layer (2) is disposed on one side of a polarizer (1) formed of a polyvinyl alcohol resin film, and at least one phase difference plate (5) is stacked on the other side of the polarizer (1) through a first pressure sensitive adhesive layer (6). A second pressure sensitive adhesive layer (7) is disposed on the outer side of the phase difference plate located at a position most remote from the polarizer (1) to provide a composite polarizing plate (11). At least one layer of the first pressure sensitive adhesive layer (6), the second pressure sensitive adhesive layer (7), and pressure sensitive adhesive layers located between the first pressure sensitive adhesive layer (6) and the second pressure sensitive adhesive layer (7) contains a light diffusing agent and is formed of a light diffusive pressure sensitive adhesive layer having a storage modulus of 0.15 to 10 MPa at 23 DEG C. This composite polarizing plate (11) is used in combination with an image display element such as a liquid crystal cell (30) to provide an image display device.

A console device of a portable type for veterinary use for acquiring a radiation image of an animal body is provided. A display controller outputs a user page for displaying a first user menu structure for acquiring the radiation image and a second user menu structure for acquiring an optical image of the animal body in a list form, the radiation image acquired by use of the first user menu structure, and the optical image acquired by use of the second user menu structure, to control a display unit to display the user page. The display controller processes the user page to display the first user menu structure in an at least partially overlapped manner with the radiation image, and to display the second user menu structure without overlap with a feature portion in the optical image where at least the animal body is recognizable.

A knitted or woven material is proposed for camouflaging objects or persons, having a coating that comprises or has at least one conductive polymer (ICP). Suitable substances for the coating are conductive polymers, for example based on polythiophene (PEDOT).

The invention provides a voice retrieval apparatus, and a voice retrieval method. A memory 160 of the is voice retrieval apparatus (100) stores recorded voice data 161. An acceptor 151 accepts an entered retrieval term. A voice retriever 152 retrieves a candidate segment where an utterance of accepted retrieval term is estimated from the recorded voices. A replayer 154 replays voices in the candidate segment retrieved by the voice retriever 152. A display controller 153 puts a marking for confirming the location of voices in the candidate segment in displaying information indicating recording voice time movement based on the replay result of voices in the candidate segment by the replayer 154.

A reversible information display medium of liquid crystal type, characterized in that it has a recording layer comprising a liquid crystalline composition exhibiting a glass state at room temperature and a dichroic dye as main components, wherein the liquid crystalline composition exhibits an isotropic liquid state or a liquid crystal domain state by the application of heat and further exhibits a homeotropic orientation state by the application of both heat and electric field; and a noncontact IC card utilizing such a reversible information display medium of liquid crystal type.

To provide a medical instrument for enabling a functional portion provided at the front end of the instrument to be attached and detached to be disposable, while enabling the angle to be adjusted freely to ensure excellent visual recognition, in a medical instrument 10A provided with a rod-shaped grasp portion 20 at its base end and a functional portion 40A used in a medical practice at its front end, a shape memory portion 30 made of a rod-shaped shape memory alloy is provided in between the grasp portion 20 and the functional portion 40A, the grasp portion 20, the functional portion 40A and the shape memory portion 30 are made mutually attachable and detachable, and the shape memory portion 30 is subjected to memory treatment in a linear state, is bent as necessary to use, and is returned to its original shape subjected to the memory treatment by heating the shape memory portion 30 to a memory recovery temperature after using.

Shutter glasses include a left-eye selection part and a right-eye selection part that respectively switch to a transmission state or a blocking state, a tilt detection part that detects a tilt condition of the shutter glasses, a tilt condition determination part that compares an output value of the tilt detection part and a predetermined threshold value, a signal acquisition part that acquires a left switch signal in synchronization with the image for left eye and a right switch signal in synchronization with the image for right eye, and a switching operation part that switches the left-eye selection part and the right-eye selection part to the transmission state or the blocking state. When the output value is equal to or more than the threshold value, the switching operation part switches both the left-eye and the right-eye selection parts in response to one of the left and the right switch signal.

The invention provides a key structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The key structure comprises a key cap made from a first material and a graphic piece made from a second material, wherein onepart of the graphic piece is filled into a groove formed by downwards extending the upper surface of the key cap, the other part of the graphic piece is exposed out of the groove for being pressed, and the graphic piece is molded by a gluing technology. In addition, the invention also provides a keyboard device using the key structure. The key structure provided by the invention has the three-dimensional graphic piece, so that the user capacity for recognizing the key structure via operation hand feeling can be enhanced, and thus the key structure has extremely high industrial utilization value.

A keyway illumination and key-loss prevention system and method provides a smart key having a master module, and a keyway having an integral slave module. The modules are in operational communication with a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device is operable with a positional detection software application that identifies relative positions of the master and slave module. The slave module generates a geofence near keyway. The master module transmits a signal defining positional information. The positional information includes the position of master module, relative to the slave module. The positional detection software processes the positional information from the emitted signal. The positional detection software triggers the communication device to actuate an alert when the positional information indicates the master module has exited the geofence of the keyway. An illumination device is operable to illuminate when the positional information indicates the master module has entered the geofence of the keyway.

Provided is a low-cost illumination device in which the illumination brightness can be partially adjusted. An illumination device (12) is provided with a plurality of light source mounting substrates (20) and a plurality of point light sources (17) mounted on the light source mounting substrates (20). The light source mounting substrates (20) are arranged in parallel rows. The arrangement comprises narrow spacing portions (20a) where the arrangement has a relatively narrow spacing and wide spacing portions (20b) where the arrangement has a relatively wide spacing.