Author: claimsbot

1. A liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising:
a first substrate that includes a gate wiring located in a display area and configured to extend in a first direction, a source wiring located in the display area and configured to extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, an insulating film provided on the gate wiring and the source wiring, a shield electrode provided on the insulating film, opposed to the gate wiring and the source wiring, and formed in a lattice shape, a primary pixel electrode located in the display area, provided on the insulating film, positioned with an interval from the shield electrode, and configured to extend in the second direction, a peripheral wiring located in a non-display area outside the display area, and a peripheral connecting electrode provided on the insulating film and electrically connecting the shield electrode and the peripheral wiring;
a second substrate that includes a pair of primary common electrodes located in the display area, positioned across the primary pixel electrode in the first direction, and configured to extend in the second direction; and
a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate,
wherein
the peripheral connecting electrode is located in the non-display area to surround the display area, is a solid electrode in a rectangular frame shape, and is formed of a conductive material,
the shield electrode is electrically connected to all of four sides of the peripheral connecting electrode, and
the peripheral wiring is located in the non-display area, surrounds three sides of the display area, is provided in the same layer as the source wiring, is provided below the insulating film, and is electrically connected to the peripheral connecting electrode through contact holes formed in the insulating film at all of the three sides of the display area.
2. The liquid crystal display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a conductive member provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein
the first substrate further includes a voltage supply wiring located in the non-display area, connected electrically to the pair of primary common electrodes via the conductive member, and configured to supply a common voltage to the pair of primary common electrodes, and
the peripheral wiring and the voltage supply wiring are configured to share.
3. The liquid crystal display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a conductive member provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein
the first substrate further includes a voltage supply wiring located in the non-display area, connected electrically to the pair of primary common electrodes via the conductive member, and configured to supply a common voltage to the pair of primary common electrodes, and another peripheral wiring located in the non-display area and configured to set to a potential equal to the potential of the peripheral wiring, and
the other peripheral wiring and the voltage supply wiring are configured to share.
4. The liquid crystal display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the primary pixel electrode, the shield electrode, and the peripheral connecting electrode are formed of the same material.
5. The liquid crystal display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the peripheral wiring is formed of the same material as the source wiring.
6. The liquid crystal display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the shield electrode opposite to the gate wiring has a width greater than or equal to a width of the gate wiring, and
the shield electrode opposite to the source wiring has a width greater than or equal to a width of the source wiring.
7. The liquid crystal display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the peripheral wiring is arranged in a \u03a0 shape.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. A maintenance system for an automated theater, comprising:
an exhibitor support center for monitoring functional status of each of one or more exhibitor systems and responding to a failure at any of the one or more exhibitor systems; and
a secure network connection from the exhibitor support center to each of the one or more exhibitor systems to communicate the functional status.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the exhibitor support center includes a database tracking operational status, failure statistics, system configuration, conditional use privileges and exhibition schedule for each of the one or more exhibitor systems.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein the exhibitor support center adjusts maintenance and diagnostic testing schedules in response to a global report from the database.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the exhibitor support center automatically initiates delivery of parts to repair the failure.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the exhibitor support center initiates a message to a technician in response to a failure at any of the one or more exhibitor systems.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein the message is an e-mail message.
7. The system of claim 5, wherein the message includes instructions regarding repair of the failure.
8. The system of claim 5, wherein the message is a page.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more exhibitor systems includes a plurality of subsystems, each subsystem including a failure detection and management system correcting any failure and at least one redundant component.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein the failure detection and management system activates the at least one redundant component in response to a detected failure in the subsystem.
11. The system of claim 9, wherein the failure detection and management system communicates any failures to the exhibitor support center.
12. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of subsystems includes:
at least one receiver for receiving media content;
a server for storing and processing the media content from the receiver;
one or more display devices for displaying the media content from the server;
a network for communicating the media content from the server to one or more display devices; and
a modem for communicating data for administration functions of the exhibitor system to a network operation center.
13. The system of claim 9, wherein the exhibitor support center attempts to reconfigure the exhibitor system if the failure detection and management system is unable to correct the failure.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the exhibitor support center initiates a message to an exhibitor support center engineer if the exhibitor support center is unable to reconfigure the exhibitor system.
15. The system of claim 1, wherein the exhibitor support center further directs scheduled maintenance at each of the one or more exhibitor systems.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the exhibitor support center automatically initiates delivery of parts for the scheduled maintenance.
17. The system of claim 15, wherein the exhibitor support center initiates a message to a technician regarding the scheduled maintenance.
18. The system of claim 17, wherein the message is an e-mail message.
19. The system of claim 17, wherein the message includes instructions regarding the scheduled maintenance.
20. The system of claim 17, wherein the message is a page.
21. The system of claim 1, wherein the exhibitor support center further directs scheduled extended diagnostic testing at each of the one or more exhibitor systems.
22. The system of claim 21, wherein the exhibitor support center initiates a repair procedure if any problems are indicated by the extended diagnostic testing.
23. A method of maintenance for an automated theater, comprising:
communicating functional status over a secure network connection to an exhibitor support center from each of one or more exhibitor systems;
monitoring functional status of each of one or more exhibitor systems at the exhibitor support center; and
responding to a failure at any of the one or more exhibitor systems.
24. The method of claim 23, wherein monitoring functional status includes tracking operational status, failure statistics, system configuration, conditional use privileges and exhibition schedule for each of the one or more exhibitor systems in a database at the exhibitor support center.
25. The method of claim 24, wherein the exhibitor support center adjusts maintenance and diagnostic testing schedules in response to a global report from the database.
26. The method of claim 23, wherein responding to a failure includes automatically initiating delivery of parts to repair the failure.
27. The method of claim 23, wherein responding to a failure includes initiating a message to a technician in response to a failure at any of the one or more exhibitor systems.
28. The method of claim 27, wherein the message is an e-mail message.
29. The method of claim 27, wherein the message includes instructions regarding repair of the failure.
30. The method of claim 27, wherein the message is a page.
31. The method of claim 23, wherein each of the one or more exhibitor systems includes a plurality of subsystems, each subsystem including a failure detection and management system and at least one redundant component.
32. The method of claim 31, wherein the failure detection and management system activates the at least one redundant component in response to a detected failure in the subsystem.
33. The method of claim 31, wherein the failure detection and management system communicates any failures to the exhibitor support center.
34. The method of claim 31, wherein the plurality of subsystems includes:
at least one receiver for receiving media content;
a server for storing and processing the media content from the receiver;
one or more display devices for displaying the media content from the server;
a network for communicating the media content from the server to one or more display devices; and
a modem for communicating data for administration functions of the exhibitor system to a network operation center.
35. The method of claim 9, wherein the exhibitor support center attempts to reconfigure the exhibitor system if the failure detection and management system is unable to correct the failure.
36. The method of claim 35, wherein the exhibitor support center initiates a message to an exhibitor support center engineer if the exhibitor support center is unable to reconfigure the exhibitor system.
37. The method of claim 23, further comprising directing scheduled maintenance at each of the one or more exhibitor systems from the exhibitor support center.
38. The method of claim 37, wherein the exhibitor support center automatically initiates delivery of parts for the scheduled maintenance.
39. The method of claim 37, wherein the exhibitor support center initiates a message to a technician regarding the scheduled maintenance.
40. The method of claim 39, wherein the message is an e-mail message.
41. The method of claim 39, wherein the message includes instructions regarding the scheduled maintenance.
42. The method of claim 39, wherein the message is a page.
43. The method of claim 23, further comprising directing scheduled extended diagnostic testing at each of the one or more exhibitor systems from the exhibitor support center.
44. The method of claim 43, wherein the exhibitor support center initiates a repair procedure if any problems are indicated by the extended diagnostic testing.

1. A lure having the appearance of a sea creature and comprising:
a non-buoyant member; and
at least one buoyant member connected or connectable to the non-buoyant member so as to float above the non-buoyant member below a water surface.
2. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant member has at least one buoyant characteristic.
3. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant member is of greater buoyancy than the non-buoyant member.
4. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant characteristic is that the buoyant member is formed from a material that is less dense than the non-buoyant member.
5. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant member and non-buoyant member are formed from different materials.
6. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant member and non-buoyant member are formed from the same material.
7. A lure according to claim 6, wherein the buoyant member is less dense than the non-buoyant member.
8. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant member and non-buoyant member are formed from or materials of different densities.
9. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant member is at least partially formed from one or more of a soft plastics material, foam, a hard plastics material and rubber.
10. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant member is formed from a soft plastic.
11. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the non-buoyant member is formed from a hard plastic.
12. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant member has an appearance of a limb of a sea creature.
13. A lure according to claim 1, further comprising a fishhook attached or attachable to the lure.
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17. A lure according to claim 1, further comprising a weight.
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19. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the non-buoyant member is sufficiently heavy so that it will sit on or just above a seabed in use.
20. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant member can be disconnected from the non-buoyant member.
21. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the non-buoyant member and the or each buoyant member are connected or connectable through a respective flexible connector, and preferably wherein the respective flexible connector is a pair of interconnecting loops, one of the pair of loops being provided on the respective buoyant member and the other of the pair of loops being provided on the non-buoyant member.
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23. A lure according to claim 1, which is shaped so as to have the appearance of a crab.
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30. A lure according to claim 1, wherein the buoyant members are formed from a material having a density that enables water moving about the lure to cause visible movement in the respective member.
31. A buoyant member having the appearance of at least a portion of a sea creature, for connection to a non-buoyant member having the appearance of another portion of the sea creature so that, in use, the buoyant member floats above the non-buoyant member below a water surface, the buoyant member comprising:
a buoyant body; and
an anchoring member for anchoring to a sea creature lured by the buoyant member.
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The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method, comprising:
performing, by one or more computing devices:
receiving a stereo image pair comprising a left image and a right image;
responsive to receiving the stereo image pair, obtaining a disparity map for the stereo image pair based on differences between the left image and the right image;
for each of a plurality of depth ranges indicated by the disparity map, generating a merged image that includes image data from the left image and image data from the right image at the respective depth range; and
generating a new stereo image pair comprising a new left image and a new right image from one or more of the plurality of merged images.
2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising applying a stylization technique to at least one of the one or more merged images prior to said generating a new stereo image pair.
3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein said applying a stylization technique to at least one of the one or more merged images comprises, for each of the at least one of the one or more merged images:
extracting a slice image from the respective merged image at a particular depth as indicated by the disparity map; and
applying the stylization technique to the slice image to generate a stylized slice image.
4. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein said applying a stylization technique to at least one of the one or more merged images comprises, for each of the at least one of the one or more merged images:
applying the stylization technique to the respective merged image to generate a stylized merged image; and
extracting a stylized slice image from the stylized merged image at a particular depth.
5. The method as recited in claim 2, further comprising applying a different stylization technique to at least one other of the one or more merged images prior to said generating a new stereo image pair.
6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said generating a new stereo image pair comprising a new left image and a new right image from one or more of the plurality of merged images comprises:
extracting a slice image from each of the one or more merged images at a particular depth as indicated by the disparity map;
extracting a leftmost portion from each of the one or more slice images and stacking the one or more leftmost portions to generate the new left image; and
extracting a rightmost portion from each of the one or more slice images and stacking the one or more rightmost portions to generate the new right image.
7. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:
extracting a slice image from each of the one or more merged images at a particular depth as indicated by the disparity map;
extracting a portion from each of the one or more slice images and stacking the one or more portions to generate an intermediate image between the left image and the right image.
8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the disparity map indicates a disparity for each pixel in the stereo image pair, wherein each disparity indicates an offset from a corresponding pixel in the left image or the right image, and wherein each disparity corresponds to a particular depth in the stereo image pair.
9. A system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory comprising program instructions, wherein the program instructions are executable by the at least one of the one or more processors to:
receive a stereo image pair comprising a left image and a right image;
responsive to receiving the stereo image pair, obtain a disparity map for the stereo image pair based on differences between the left image and the right image;
for each of a plurality of depth ranges indicated by the disparity map, generate a merged image that includes image data from the left image and image data from the right image at the respective depth range; and
generate a new stereo image pair comprising a new left image and a new right image from one or more of the plurality of merged images.
10. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the program instructions are further executable by the at least one of the one or more processors to apply a stylization technique to at least one of the one or more merged images prior to said generating a new stereo image pair.
11. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein, to apply a stylization technique to at least one of the one or more merged images, the program instructions are executable by the at least one of the one or more processors to, for each of the at least one of the one or more merged images:
extract a slice image from the respective merged image at a particular depth as indicated by the disparity map; and
apply the stylization technique to the slice image to generate a stylized slice image.
12. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein, to apply a stylization technique to at least one of the one or more merged images, the program instructions are executable by the at least one of the one or more processors to, for each of the at least one of the one or more merged images:
apply the stylization technique to the respective merged image to generate a stylized merged image; and
extract a stylized slice image from the stylized merged image at a particular depth.
13. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the program instructions are executable by the at least one of the one or more processors to apply a different stylization technique to at least one other of the one or more merged images prior to said generating a new stereo image pair.
14. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein, to generate a new stereo image pair comprising a new left image and a new right image from one or more of the plurality of merged images, the program instructions are executable by the at least one of the one or more processors to:
extract a slice image from each of the one or more merged images at a particular depth as indicated by the disparity map;
extract a leftmost portion from each of the one or more slice images and stack the one or more leftmost portions to generate the new left image; and
extract a rightmost portion from each of the one or more slice images and stack the one or more rightmost portions to generate the new right image.
15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions, wherein the program instructions are computer-executable to implement:
receiving a stereo image pair comprising a left image and a right image;
responsive to receiving the stereo image pair, obtaining a disparity map for the stereo image pair based on differences between the left image and the right image;
for each of a plurality of depth ranges indicated by the disparity map, generating a merged image that includes image data from the left image and image data from the right image at the respective depth range; and
generating a new stereo image pair comprising a new left image and a new right image from one or more of the plurality of merged images.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 15, wherein the program instructions are further computer-executable to implement applying a stylization technique to at least one of the one or more merged images prior to said generating a new stereo image pair.
17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 16, wherein, in said applying a stylization technique to at least one of the one or more merged images, the program instructions are computer-executable to implement, for each of the at least one of the one or more merged images:
extracting a slice image from the respective merged image at a particular depth as indicated by the disparity map; and
applying the stylization technique to the slice image to generate a stylized slice image.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 16, wherein, in said applying a stylization technique to at least one of the one or more merged images, the program instructions are computer-executable to implement, for each of the at least one of the one or more merged images:
applying the stylization technique to the respective merged image to generate a stylized merged image; and
extracting a stylized slice image from the stylized merged image at a particular depth.
19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 16, wherein the program instructions are further computer-executable to implement applying a different stylization technique to at least one other of the one or more merged images prior to said generating a new stereo image pair.
20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 15, wherein, in said generating a new stereo image pair comprising a new left image and a new right image from one or more of the plurality of merged images, the program instructions are computer-executable to implement:
extracting a slice image from each of the one or more merged images at a particular depth as indicated by the disparity map;
extracting a leftmost portion from each of the one or more slice images and stacking the one or more leftmost portions to generate the new left image; and
extracting a rightmost portion from each of the one or more slice images and stacking the one or more rightmost portions to generate the new right image.