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In a liquid crystal display device and a video display device using the same, for suppressing light unevenness at the end of a display region, the video display device is provided with a liquid crystal display device and a housing configured to support the liquid crystal display device, wherein the liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a first frame and a liquid crystal support member which interpose the liquid crystal panel therebetween, a light guide plate which is disposed at the liquid crystal support member on a side opposite to a side where the liquid crystal panel is disposed, and a light source which is disposed at a side surface of the light guide plate, and wherein a cushion member is disposed between the liquid crystal support member and the light guide plate.

An object of the invention is to provide an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive that is for use in pressure-sensitive adhesive attached optical films and so on, includes an acrylic copolymer and is less likely to cause display unevenness in the peripheral portion of a display screen. An optical pressure-sensitive adhesive, comprising: an acrylic copolymer containing alkyl (meth)acrylate (a1) and N-(2-hydroxyethyl)(meth)acrylamide (a2) as a monomer unit.

An OES measuring unit outputs a spectroscopically measured value for each step at the end of or immediately after each step. A CD estimating unit obtains an estimated CD value for each step using a CD estimation model and a spectroscopically measured value received from an estimation model storage unit. In the next step, a process control unit uses an estimated CD value for the previous step received from the CD estimating unit, in addition to a process condition setting value for the next step received from a recipe storage unit and a process control model for the next step received from a control model storage unit, for automatic control of the control subject

A light emitting device includes: a first semiconductor light emitting element having a solid-state blue light emitting element that emits blue light with a light emission peak in a wavelength range from 420 nm to less than 480 nm, and a first red phosphor layer that covers the solid-state blue light emitting element and includes a first red phosphor that emits red light with a light emission peak in a wavelength range from 600 nm to less than 680 nm; and a second semiconductor light emitting element having a solid-state green light emitting element that emits green light with a light emission peak in a wavelength range from 500 nm to less than 550 nm, and a second red phosphor layer that covers the solid-state green light emitting element and includes a second red phosphor that emits red light with a light emission peak in a wavelength range from 600 nm to less than 680 nm.

A Co alloy target comprising 1 to 10 atomic % of Zr and 1 to 10 atomic % of Nb and/or Ta, the balance being unavoidable impurities and Co, is produced by rapidly solidifying a melt of the Co alloy to produce an alloy powder, classifying the alloy powder to maximum particle size of 500 μm or less, and pressure-sintering the classified alloy powder.

In the double-wire feeding arc welding method of the present invention, the first (leading) welding wire (11) and the second (backward) welding wire (12) that are insulated from each other are fed from the welding nozzle (6) at the front end of the welding torch, and the molten metal Welding the low-viscosity iron and steel materials, the welding current (Iw) is energized in the above-mentioned leading welding wire, and the arc (3) is generated to form a molten pool (21). The above-mentioned molten pool (21) under the pressure of the electric arc (3) is excavated to the raised position. Therefore, when welding iron and steel materials with low molten metal viscosity, a good bead shape without unevenness, undercut, and underfill can be obtained.

In order to control light emission of light emitting diodes, current dividing circuits are used to supply currents of a substantially fixed level to all lines. Light emitting diodes are arranged in groups of a predetermined number of LEDs in series, and sets of the light emitting diodes connected to the first line and sets of the light emitting diodes connected to the second line are laid out on the same straight line so as to form a single row. Substrates with these formed thereon are arranged adjacent to each other in the direction of the rows, so that sets of the light emitting diodes connected to the first line and sets of the light emitting diodes connected to the second line are arranged alternately. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a backlight device with a plurality of LED arrays arranged thereon, which can uniformly illuminate the entire screen with light from the LED arrays.

A light source apparatus includes: a plurality of light sources provided, respectively, in a plurality of first divided regions; a first suppressing member that suppresses, for each of the plurality of first divided regions, spreading of light emitted from a light source provided in the first divided region; a conversion member that converts the color of the light emitted from the light sources and emits light of the converted color; and a diffusing member that is provided on a side closer to the emission surface than the conversion member so as to diffuse the light emitted from the conversion member, wherein the diffusing member is apart from the conversion member by a predetermined distance.

A luminous device comprises an array of LEDs aligned in a plural number “m” of lines which extend in a main scan direction, and are apposed in a sub scan direction orthogonal to the main scan direction. The array is grouped into a number of blocks to be driven block by block, each block consisting of a number “q” of LEDs connected in serial to one another, wherein q=m. Where the numbers “q” and “m” are five and two respectively, two or three of the five LEDs of the same block are located in one of the two lines (L1), whereas other LEDs of that block are located in the other line (L2), such that the LEDs of the different blocks are located substantially in the same column in the sub scan direction, to distribute the LEDs of the same block in the main scan direction. Thereby, unevenness in integral illuminance in the sub scan direction is reduced even if there are illuminance variations between the blocks.

A micro lens array sheet includes a sheet type base and a plurality of micro lenses arranged on the base. The surface of each micro lens includes a convex part and a peripheral edge part. The convex part has a spherical or elliptical surface. The peripheral edge part is formed between the convex part and the base and curved in a concave shape. Since the surface of the peripheral edge part is curved in a concave shape, the flat part can be narrower than a conventional micro lens array sheet. Therefore, luminance unevenness attributable to the flat part can be suppressed.

A pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film of the present invention comprises: an optical film comprising a transparent base film and a discotic liquid crystal layer on one side of the transparent base film; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that is provided on the discotic liquid crystal layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is made from a pressure-sensitive adhesive containing an acrylic polymer comprising an alkyl(meth)acrylate (a1) and a ring structure-containing (meth)acrylate (a2) as monomer units and having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000,000 to 3,000,000, and a crosslinking agent. The pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film has durability and can be prevented from causing display unevenness in a peripheral portion of a display screen.

The optical film with pressure sensitive adhesive comprises an optical film and a front-side pressure sensitive adhesive sheet. The front-side pressure sensitive adhesive sheet is a laminated pressure sensitive adhesive sheet and includes a first pressure sensitive adhesive layer disposed in contact with the optical film, and a second pressure sensitive adhesive layer disposed at the furthest from the optical film. The first pressure sensitive adhesive layer has a storage elastic modulus of 9×10³ Pa or less at 150° C., and a ratio G′₂₀/G′₁₅₀ of 20 or more, where G′₂₀ is a storage elastic modulus at 20° C. and G′₁₅₀ is a storage elastic modulus at 150° C. The second pressure sensitive adhesive layer has a storage elastic modulus of 4×10⁵ Pa or less at 20° C., and a storage elastic modulus of 1×10⁴ Pa or more at 150° C.

There are provided a display device which consumes little power and which is suitable for displaying multiple contents, and an automotive vehicle having the same. The display device according to the present invention includes a display panel having a first display section and a second display section, and driving circuitry for driving the display panel. The driving circuitry includes a first scanning line driving circuit for supplying a scanning signal to scanning line of the first display section, a first signal line driving circuit for supplying a data signal to signal lines of the first display section, a second scanning line driving circuit for supplying a scanning signal to scanning lines of the second display section, and a second signal line driving circuit for supplying a data signal for signal lines of the second display section. The driving circuitry is capable of driving the first display section and the second display section with different vertical scanning frequencies.

A display unevenness correction apparatus for use in the manufacture of an LCD display including an LCD panel having display pixels arranged in rows and columns, the apparatus including: a luminance meter which measures a luminance of the LCD panel while the LCD panel is being illuminated to obtain a luminance; a block luminance calculation unit which segments the luminance map into first blocks and calculate, for each of the first blocks, a block luminance of the first block using luminances included in the first block, the block luminance representing the luminances included in the first block; an interpolation unit which calculates a target luminance for each of the display pixels, using a corresponding one of the block luminances; and a correction gain calculation unit which calculates a correction coefficient for each display pixel using the target luminance.

Provided is a method for forming a near-field light generating element, which is capable of sufficiently suppressing the unevenness of a waveguide surface and the distortion within the waveguide. The forming method comprises the steps of: forming a first etching stopper layer on a lower waveguide layer; forming a second etching stopper layer; forming, on the second etching stopper layer, a plasmon antenna material layer; performing etching with the second etching stopper layer used as a stopper, to form a first side surface of plasmon antenna; forming a side-surface protecting mask so as to cover the first side surface; and performing etching with the first and second etching stopper layers used as stoppers, to form the second side surface. By providing the first and second etching stopper layer, over-etching can be prevented even when each etching process takes enough etch time, which allows easy management of etching endpoints.

In multipass printing, a mask pattern which increases the degree of dot dispersion in each pass is used for a combination of inks for increasing glossiness when printing an image. Contrary, a mask pattern which decreases the degree of dot dispersion in each pass is used for a combination of inks for decreasing glossiness. Thus, an entire image can be made uniformly glossy by suppressing gloss unevenness within the image.

An electrooptical apparatus includes a light emission element array in which a plurality of light emission elements are arranged, and a barrier rib which surrounds the light emission element array.

Provided is a device including a backlight unit including a LED-mounted board having LEDs as a backlight source, a light guide plate to which the LEDs are disposed to face, and which has a light receiving surface to which light from the LEDs incidents and an emission surface from which the incident light is output, and a frame which holds the light guide plate. The frame 14 has a protrusion for positioning which engages the LED-mounted board.

The present invention provides an ink jet recording method and an ink jet recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium by using an ink containing a coloring agent and a liquid composition containing a component for coagulating and/or thickening the ink. The method is characterized in that the ink and the liquid composition are ejected onto the recording medium such that they are not in contact with each other on the recording medium immediately after the ejection and come into contact when a certain period of time has lapsed since the application.

A method for manufacturing a color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The method includes dispersing a dispersing agent in a solvent to obtain a dispersing-agent-dispersed liquid by agitating a mixture of the dispersing agent, a thermoplastic resin and the solvent, performing a fine dispersion treatment to obtain a pigment dispersed material by adding a pigment to the dispersing-agent-dispersed liquid and by adding inorganic beads to the dispersing-agent-dispersed liquid in multiple stages, and mixing the pigment dispersed material with a curable resin.

An image forming apparatus comprises: a recording head that record dots corresponding to pixels of image data by discharging ink droplets from plural nozzles and discharge, in correspondence to the dots, colorless or light-colored aggregating liquid that causes color material in the ink to aggregate; storage means that stores an image data conversion rule for converting the image data per pixel in accordance with the percentage of the amount of the aggregating liquid with respect to the amount of the discharge ink droplets that record the dots, with the image data conversion rule being determined so that differences in one or both of color and concentration when discharging different amounts of the aggregating liquid onto the dots recorded on the basis of the image data after conversion in accordance with the image data conversion rule become smaller with respect to differences in one or both of color and concentration when discharging different amounts of the aggregating liquid onto the dots recorded on the basis of the image data prior to conversion; setting means that sets the percentage of the amount of the aggregating liquid with respect to the amount of the ink droplets discharged in correspondence to the pixels of the image data; converting means that converts the image data on the basis of the image data conversion rule corresponding to the percentage of the amount of the aggregating liquid set by the setting means; and control means that controls the recording head to record dots in accordance with the image data converted by the converting means and controls the recording head to discharge, in correspondence to the dots, the aggregating liquid of which amount corresponds to the amount of the aggregating liquid of the percentage set by the setting means.