Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
-
Image processing apparatus, log information management system, and log information management method
Patent number: 11973912Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller capable of generating occurrence of an event to be audited, as log information; a storage that stores the log information; an outputter that reads and outputs the log information stored in the storage in response to an acquisition request for the log information by an information processing apparatus; and an adder that adds, to the log information, identification information indicating that the log information has been stored in the information processing apparatus. The controller stores the log information added with the identification information in the storage. In a case where a storage amount of the log information stored in the storage has reached an upper limit when newly storing log information generated in association with occurrence of the event, the controller deletes the log information added with the identification information from the storage, and stores the generated log information.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kayoko Seo -
Patent number: 11974175Abstract: A handover control method of a source base station (BS). The method includes: transmitting a conditional handover request to a target BS; when a handover request confirmation message is received from the target BS, transmitting a conditional handover message to a user equipment (UE); and receiving a conditional handover complete message from the target BS in response to a Radio Source Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration complete message being sent from the UE to the target BS.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
-
Patent number: 11971678Abstract: To provide an image forming device that can prompt a user to check whether a waste toner container is completely attached. The image forming device includes a housing, an access cover attached in an openable/closable manner to the housing, a waste toner container attachable to the housing with the access cover open, and a lock lever that locks the waste toner container and the housing. The access cover includes a protruding portion protruding toward an interior of the housing. The lock lever transitions between a locked state and a pressed state of being pressed by the waste toner container, and, when in the pressed state, moves to a preventing position at which the lock lever blocks the protruding portion and prevents the access cover from closing, and, when in the locked state, moves to a retracted position at which the lock lever does not block the protruding portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi Hori
-
Patent number: 11973970Abstract: A method of encoding video data by an electronic device is provided. A plurality of picture parameters included in a picture header of a picture in the video data is signaled into a bitstream. A present flag included in a sub-picture header of a sub-picture generated by dividing the picture is signaled into the bitstream. The electronic device determines, based on the present flag, whether a specific one of a plurality of sub-picture parameters is determined based on the sub-picture header or the picture header. The specific one of the plurality of sub-picture parameters corresponds to the specific one of the plurality of picture parameters. The sub-picture is reconstructed based on the specific one of the plurality of sub-picture parameters when the specific one of the plurality of sub-picture parameters is determined from the sub-picture header.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
-
Patent number: 11974468Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a TFT layer provided on the substrate; a light-emitting element layer provided on the TFT layer and including a plurality of light-emitting elements; and at least one thermal insulation layer, the thermal insulation layer containing: a cellulosic resin; and a metal oxide or a metal carbonyl compound.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masanobu Mizusaki
-
Patent number: 11974327Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for supporting multiple-universal subscriber identity module (multi-USIM) operations among a first base station associated with a first network and a second base station associated with a second network is disclosed. the UE includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, and at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to transmit, through transmitting circuitry of the UE, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble to the second base station associated with the second network. The PRACH preamble indicates to the second base station that the UE is not to begin a connection establishment procedure with the second network.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenneth James Park, Kamel M. Shaheen, Atsushi Ishii
-
Patent number: 11973976Abstract: A method of encoding data includes: receiving an input data set having an arbitrary size about a height dimension and a width dimension; padding the input data set according to a padding function selected from a set of padding functions, such that a data set having a desired size about the height dimension and the width dimension is obtained; generating an output data set by performing a discrete convolution on the obtained data set; and generating a signal providing information corresponding to the output data set and the selected padding function.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiran Mukesh Misra, Tianying Ji, Christopher Andrew Segall
-
Patent number: 11968141Abstract: To provide a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication method capable of improving a frequency efficiency or throughput by suppressing an overhead associated with feedback from the terminal apparatus in a case that the base station apparatus acquires highly accurate CSI. A terminal apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a receiver configured to receive at least one NZP CSI-RS, and a transmitter configured to transmit a signal including at least one piece of CSI. The at least one piece of CSI includes at least an RI and a PMI, the receiver acquires a first value for configuring the number of vectors indicated by the PMI, and in a case that a value of the RI exceeds a prescribed value, the number of vectors is configured by a second value being a value equal to or less than the first value.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Ryota Yamada
-
Patent number: 11968866Abstract: A second connection wire is electrically connected to a first connection wire via a display-side contact portion and terminal-side contact portion in a bending section. The first connection wire and the second connection wire do not overlap each other at least partly between the display-side contact portion and terminal-side contact portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Kanzaki, Yi Sun, Takao Saitoh, Masahiko Miwa, Masaki Yamanaka
-
Patent number: 11968861Abstract: An organic EL display (1) has a bend (B) where a slit (81) is bored in a base coat film (23), gate insulating film (27), first interlayer insulating film (31) and second interlayer insulating film (35). The bend is provided with a filler layer (83) filling the slit and covering both edges of the slit. The filler layer has a protrusion (85) overlapping each edge in the width direction of the slit. A routed wire (7) routed from the display region (D) and then routed over the filler layer to reach a terminal section (T) extends over the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Shinsuke Saida, Ryosuke Gunji, Hiroki Taniyama, Tohru Okabe, Akira Inoue, Hiroharu Jinmura, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura
-
Patent number: 11965673Abstract: An air purifier (100) includes a detection unit (130) and a control unit (110). The detection unit (130) periodically detects environment information. The environment information indicates information relating to an environment around the air purifier (100). The control unit (110) determines whether or not the environment information satisfies a specific condition a plurality of times during the specific time period (Ts) corresponding to an event within a prescribed period (Ta). In a case where the control unit (110) determines that the environment information satisfies the specific condition a plurality of times, the control unit switches a mode from a learning mode to an implementation mode. In the implementation mode, in a case where the environment information meets a trigger during the specific time period, the control unit (110) performs event operational control.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiro Okazaki, Daisuke Moriuchi
-
Patent number: 11968396Abstract: An image decoding device (31) includes a transform coefficient decoding unit (311) configured to decode a transform coefficient for a transform tree included in a coding unit. In the transform tree, the transform coefficient decoding unit splits a transform unit corresponding to luminance and then decodes the transform coefficient related to the luminance, and does not split the transform unit corresponding to chrominance and decodes the transform coefficient related to the chrominance.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono, Yukinobu Yasugi, Tomonori Hashimoto
-
Patent number: 11968391Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for performing motion vector prediction. According to an aspect of an invention, a motion vector and a corresponding reference picture identifier for the motion vector are received; a reference picture corresponding to a second motion vector is determined based on the reference picture corresponding to the received motion vector and a current picture; a scaling value is determined based on the determined reference picture, the reference picture corresponding to the received motion vector, and the current picture; and the second motion vector is generated from the received motion vector by scaling with the scaling value.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Frank Bossen, Christopher Andrew Segall
-
Patent number: 11963402Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting element layer including a plurality of light-emitting elements. The light-emitting element layer includes, for each of the plurality of light-emitting elements, a first electrode and a plurality of openings exposing the first electrode, and includes an edge cover covering an end portion of the first electrode, a plurality of light-emitting layers covering each of the plurality of openings, and a second electrode that is common to the plurality of light-emitting elements and covers the plurality of light-emitting layers. The second electrode includes a metal nanowire. Furthermore, the light-emitting element layer includes an auxiliary wiring line provided in a lattice pattern in a position overlapping the edge cover, and the auxiliary wiring line and the metal nanowire are electrically connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Kanehiro, Youhei Nakanishi, Takeshi Ishida
-
Patent number: 11962734Abstract: In an image processing system, when a user logs in to an image processing apparatus to use a scanning service, the image processing apparatus transmits login information to a relay server, and the relay server transmits scan setup data and destination address data to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus prescans a document to identify a document format, and automatically sets scan setup data (properties), based on the identified format and according to the sent scan setup data, so as to execute scanning.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohichi Murakami, Yasuhiro Nakai, Yasutomo Hayano, Emiko Matsuo, Masao Saeda
-
Patent number: 11963116Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. Higher layer circuitry is configured to receive information on a sidelink bandwidth part and a resource pool for sidelink within the sidelink bandwidth part. Transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit one or more blocks. Each block includes a primary sidelink synchronization signal (PSSS), a secondary sidelink synchronization signal(SSSS), a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) associated with the PSBCH within the resource pool. A sequence of the PSSS is generated by using a synchronization source identity (ID) or a part of the synchronization source ID. A sequence of the SSSS is generated by using the synchronization source ID or a part of the synchronization source ID. The PSBCH includes a parameter related to an index of the block and the parameter is associated with a slot index.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, John Michael Kowalski, Tatsushi Aiba
-
Patent number: 11963384Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, in a non-display region inside a display region, an oxide semiconductor layer is provided in an island shape, a first opening is provided in a first inorganic insulating film so as to expose the oxide semiconductor layer in the non-display region, a common functional layer is provided so as to extend from the display region to the non-display region, and a second opening is provided so as to expose the oxide semiconductor layer in the common functional layer, a peripheral end of the second opening being surrounded by a peripheral end of the first opening in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Sonoda, Takashi Ochi, Jumpei Takahashi
-
Patent number: 11958710Abstract: A sheet detection device includes, as detection pieces, a first detection piece integrally provided on a rotary shaft and a second detection piece attached to the first detection piece via a biasing member. The second detection piece is capable of rotation in conjunction with the first detection piece under a biasing force of the biasing member. When the second detection piece is brought into contact with a ceiling at an upper part of the rotary shaft, the second detection piece stops further rotation while the first detection piece is capable of rotation together with the rotary shaft against the biasing force.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Shibayama
-
Patent number: 11963416Abstract: A first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit are connected to a first data signal line. A third pixel circuit and a fourth pixel circuit are connected to a second data signal line. The first data signal line is connected to a first connection wire provided to a frame region. The second data signal line is connected to a second connection wire provided to the frame region. A sum of resistance values of the first data signal line and the first connection wire is smaller than a sum of resistance values of the second data signal line and the second connection wire.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuhiko Suzuki, Tomoo Furukawa
-
Patent number: D1024301Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jinni Zhang, Akira Haranaka