Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 11963257Abstract: Provided in the present invention are user equipment and a method thereof, and a base station and a method thereof. The method in user equipment comprises: receiving a switching MAC CE from a base station; and activating and/or deactivating an RLC entity and/or a logical channel associated with a bearer that supports the PDCP duplication based on the switching MAC CE.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fangying Xiao, Renmao Liu
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Patent number: 11963240Abstract: A user device for implementing error handling is provided. The user device comprises a control unit that establishes, in a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session establishment procedure using a Local Area Data Network (LADN) Data Network Name (DNN), a PDU session for the LADN; and a transceiver unit that prohibits transmission of a PDU session modification request message for the PDU session, in a PDU session modification procedure, based on reception of a specific cause value, wherein the LADN DNN is provided by the user device in the PDU session establishment procedure.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Yudai Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Takakura, Masafumi Aramoto
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Patent number: 11963264Abstract: A BSS to which a destination wireless communication apparatus of a physical layer frame belongs is identified, and accuracy of preamble detection is improved by changing a reception operation. A wireless communication apparatus includes a reception unit that detects a frame including information for identifying a BSS, and a control unit that switches between a first operation in a case where the frame is a frame which is associated with a BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs and a second operation in a case where the frame is a frame which is not associated with the BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs. Carrier sensing is not performed in the first operation, and the carrier sensing is performed in the second operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11961473Abstract: A display device includes a pixel, wherein the pixel has a driving transistor, a monitoring transistor connected to the driving transistor, and a resistor provided in the pixel, and having one end connected between the driving transistor and the monitoring transistor, and the display device is capable of detecting a temperature of the pixel in accordance with a value of current that flows through the resistor and the monitoring transistor.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Seiichi Uchida
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Patent number: 11962732Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquirer that can acquire destination information from an external device, a job executor that executes a transmission job using the acquired destination information, and a controller. The controller controls display of the destination information in accordance with a screen mode of the transmission job, that has accepted a request to acquire the destination information.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoya Arifuku
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Patent number: 11959006Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel that includes a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition; and a light source that emits light on the liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal composition containing at least one of a first liquid crystal compound containing a phenyl group and a conjugated bond group that forms a conjugated system continuous with the phenyl group and a second liquid crystal compound containing an alkenyl group not forming a conjugated system, the light source emitting green light having a half width of less than 50 nm.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Haseba, Tomonori Yoshida
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Patent number: 11960781Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a job executer that executes a job related to image processing, based on a setting history, a setter that sets prohibition on use of the setting history, a display that displays the setting histories including a setting history on which the prohibition is set, and a controller that controls execution of a job, based on the displayed setting histories, and, in executing the job based on the setting history, the controller determines whether to restrict execution of the job, based on a result of determination on whether the setting history is the setting history on which the prohibition is set.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Morishita
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Patent number: 11962769Abstract: An image decoding apparatus includes: a first filter unit configured to apply a first filter to an image (a luminance image and a chrominance image); a second filter unit configured to apply a second filter to an output image of the first filter; a filter set derivation unit configured to decode a filter coefficient from coded data; and a third filter unit configured to apply a third filter to an output image of the second filter by using the filter coefficient. In a case that the third filter unit performs filter processing for the luminance image by using a luminance output image of the second filter, the third filter unit performs processing of clipping an amount of change of a pixel value through the filter processing within a prescribed range of value.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai
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Publication number: 20240121347Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that is switchable between a normal mode and a silent mode; a mode setter that accepts a setting; a job-reservation registration acceptor that accepts reservation registration of the jobs; and a controller, wherein, when the job-reservation registration acceptor accepts a reservation of a job in the normal mode, the controller determines whether or not a job last accepted by the job-reservation registration acceptor is a job in the silent mode, and when the job last accepted is a job in the silent mode, the controller causes the image former to pause the job being executed by the image former, changes all jobs accepted by the job-reservation registration acceptor to jobs in the normal mode, and accepts registration of a job in the normal mode as a final job.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoki HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 11953841Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to this disclosure includes: a charging roller that charges a surface of a photoconductor drum; a development unit that forms a toner image on the surface of the photoconductor drum; an image density sensor that detects density of the formed toner image; a charge power supply that applies a bias voltage to the charging roller; a development power supply that applies a bias voltage to the development unit; and a controller. The controller causes the charge and development power supplies to output respective predetermined bias voltages for predetermined time, and is capable of executing a contact and separation determination mode in which a contact and separation state of the charging roller is determined based on whether or not an image is detected by the image density sensor after output of the respective bias voltages.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masayuki Otsuka
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Image-forming apparatus, print management system, and method for controlling image-forming apparatus
Patent number: 11956395Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes a detachable consumable; a printer that prints an image using the consumable; and a controller that determines whether control information that is set for the consumable and that is for control of the printer exists. The controller extracts, when it is determined that the control information corresponding to the consumable does not exist, image information from an image of a predetermined test pattern printed by the printer, and acquires the control information generated based on the extracted image information.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Usui, Tomoki Minamikawa -
Patent number: 11957001Abstract: A bank has an opening including a first opening and a second opening. The second opening extends from the first opening in such a direction that the second opening overlaps the first electrode. The second opening at least partially overlaps the first electrode. The first electrode has an end close to the first opening and overlapping the second opening. The second opening has a maximum width smaller than a maximum width of the first opening. The widths are measured perpendicular to the direction in which the second opening extends from the first opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Youhei Nakanishi, Shota Okamoto
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Patent number: 11955558Abstract: One conductor region of a crystalline silicon semiconductor layer in a first transistor is electrically connected to one conductor region of an oxide semiconductor layer in a second transistor through a first contact hole and a second contact hole communicating with each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Hachiya, Hiroaki Furukawa, Yuhichi Saitoh, Tomohisa Aoki
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Patent number: 11957015Abstract: A lead wiring line is provided in a frame region to extend therein while intersecting with a frame-shaped dam wall, is formed of a same material and in a same layer as each of a plurality of display wiring lines in which a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a third metal layer are layered in sequence, is electrically connected to the plurality of display wiring lines on a display region side, and is electrically connected to a terminal on a terminal portion side. The third metal layer is provided to cover a side surface of the first metal layer, and a side surface and an upper face of the second metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Takeshi Yaneda
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Patent number: 11957037Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device comprises: performing first light irradiation; subsequent to the performing first application, that involves irradiating with light using a first photomask, from above the substrate, the position where the first solution is applied, and forming a first exposure region exposed by the first light irradiation in which the first ligand melts and the first solvent vaporizes, and a first non-exposure region at a position different from a position exposed by the first light irradiation, performing first cooling, subsequent to the performing first light irradiation, that involves lowering a temperature of the first quantum dot to a temperature equal to or lower than a melting point of the first ligand and solidifying the first ligand; and performing first removal, subsequent to the performing first cooling, that involves washing an upper layer relative to the substrate to remove the first solution in the first non-exposure region.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masumi Kubo
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Patent number: 11956776Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit which receives, from a base station apparatus, a physical downlink control channel including downlink control information in a search space specific to the terminal apparatus; and a control unit which determines the number of bits of a time domain resource allocation field in the downlink control information. The time domain resource allocation field is a time domain resource allocation field for a physical downlink shared channel. A default table indicates a time domain resource allocation configuration for the physical downlink shared channel. When a parameter is not received, the number of bits of the time domain resource allocation field is determined based on the number of the in the default table.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidekazu Tsuboi
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Patent number: 11953378Abstract: A control device includes: a warm-up determiner which determines, when color calibration of a display device is to be performed, whether a warm-up of a colorimeter is necessary, based on a predetermined condition; a display controller which causes, when the warm-up determiner determines that the warm-up of the colorimeter is necessary, a predetermined image, which indicates an attachment position of the colorimeter onto the display device, to be displayed on the display device; and a warm-up controller which starts, when the colorimeter is determined as being attached at the attachment position, the warm-up of the colorimeter by using the display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yohko Seike
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Patent number: 11953854Abstract: A powder collection container accommodates a powder discharged from a discharge port of a powder discharge device including a powder discharger provided with a shutter member that opens and closes the discharge port. The powder collection container includes a moving member that is movable between a first position where the moving member abuts against the shutter member to open the discharge port of the powder discharge device, and a second position where the moving member does not abut against the shutter member and the discharge port of the powder discharge device is not opened.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Satoshi Kimura
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Patent number: 11957014Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of control lines; a plurality of power supply lines; a plurality of data signal lines; an oxide semiconductor layer; a first metal layer; a gate insulation film; a first inorganic insulation film; a second metal layer; a second inorganic insulation film; and a third metal layer. The oxide semiconductor layer, in a plan view, contains therein semiconductor lines formed as isolated regions between a plurality of drivers and a display area. The semiconductor lines cross the plurality of control lines and the plurality of power supply lines, are in contact with the plurality of control lines via an opening in a gate insulation film, are in contact with the plurality of power supply lines via an opening in the first inorganic insulation film, and have a plurality of narrowed portions, such that thicker and thinner regions exist along the same line.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Kohji Ariga, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara, Hiroharu Jinmura, Akira Inoue
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Patent number: 11957017Abstract: A display device includes, in a display area: scan control lines and data signal lines intersecting with each other; subpixels each including a subpixel circuit provided at an intersection of the scan control lines and the data signal lines; and light-emitting elements, one for each of the subpixels. The subpixel circuit includes a drive transistor, a write transistor, and a capacitor that retains a data signal. The write transistor includes a conduction terminal connected to an associated one of the data signal lines, another conduction terminal connected to a first gate terminal of the drive transistor, and a control terminal connected to an associated one of the scan control lines. Each of the light-emitting elements includes a first element electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second element electrode, the first element electrode being connected to a conduction terminal of the drive transistor.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takayuki Nishiyama