Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11949824
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a display, an authenticator, an image former, a detector, and one or more controllers. The authenticator authenticates a user's login to the image forming apparatus. The image former forms an image based on a job for which an execution instruction has been inputted by the user. The detector performs virus detection at execution of the job. The one or more controllers control display of notification information that notifies a detection of a virus. The one or more controllers control the display of the notification information depending on the user's login status on the image forming apparatus at the time of the detection of a virus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Kodama
  • Patent number: 11947313
    Abstract: The peak top molecular weight of the tetrahydrofuran-soluble component of the toner, as measured by gel permeation chromatography, is 4,000 or more and 6,500 or less. The tetrahydrofuran-insoluble component of the toner is 10% by weight or more and 30% by weight or less. When the endothermic peak temperature T1 in the heating process and the exothermic peak temperature T2 during the cooling process originating from the ester wax is measured using a differential scanning calorimeter, the value T1-T2 is 15° C. or more and 30° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Wada, Yoritaka Tsubaki
  • Patent number: 11949765
    Abstract: A device may be configured to generate data packets including a packet header and a payload. The packet header may include a value that signals whether the payload encapsulates input data according to a single short packet encapsulation, a single long packet encapsulation, a segmented encapsulation, or a concatenated encapsulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11950462
    Abstract: A first conductive layer in the same layer as that of a first electrode is coupled to a third conductive layer and a second electrode in the same layer as that of a third metal layer through a slit formed in a flattening film of a non-display area. Second conductive layers in the same layer as that of a second metal layer are provided to overlap with the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Kohji Ariga, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara, Akira Inoue, Hiroharu Jinmura, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Patent number: 11950228
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes, a first reception unit configured to receive a first synchronization signal with a first subcarrier spacing, a second reception unit configured to receive a second synchronization signal with the first subcarrier spacing, a detection unit configured to detect an identity from the first synchronization signal and/or the second synchronization signal, and a third reception unit configured to receive a first reference signal, based on the identity, with a second subcarrier spacing different from the first subcarrier spacing, wherein, the first reference signal is arranged in a time resource and a frequency resource predetermined for the second subcarrier spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Tatsushi Aiba, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11949649
    Abstract: A device management apparatus includes a communicator transmitting and receiving various types of data to and from the device; a management ID issuer issuing a unique management ID to the device; a storage that stores device specifying information of the device, the device specifying information including the management ID and predetermined device identification information; a display displaying, in a list of devices to be managed, the device to which the management ID is issued; and a controller controlling the communicator, the management ID issuer, the storage, and the display, where when the communicator has received a connection request from a device via the network, the controller judges whether the device has a management ID, and if the device has no management ID, the controller controls the management ID issuer to issue a unique management ID to the device and controls the communicator to transmit the unique management ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanori Hamamoto
  • Patent number: 11945673
    Abstract: A document feeder includes a document placing tray on which a document is placed; a document discharging tray on which a document discharged from a document discharging port in a discharging direction is stacked; and a light source that radiates light to the document discharging tray. The document discharging tray is disposed below the document placing tray. The document discharging tray has a protruding portion protruding upward from the surrounding area. The light source is disposed within a region having a width that is the same as a document having a maximum size in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohichi Fukutome, Kenji Kuroda, Hironori Ogasawara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Toshiki Fukunishi
  • Patent number: 11947293
    Abstract: A fusing device includes: an endless rotatable fusing belt; a nip forming member that is disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the fusing belt; a pressure roller that is in pressure contact with the nip forming member from an outer side of the fusing belt and forms a fusing nip area between the pressure roller and the fusing belt; and a heat source that is disposed inside the fusing belt and heats the fusing belt. The fusing device further includes a heat-conductive member that is disposed on a lateral side of an outer circumference of the fusing belt. The heat-conductive member extends over a width area in a rotation axis direction of the fusing belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuki Takatsuka
  • Patent number: 11949901
    Abstract: A method of deriving intra prediction data based on a planar prediction mode includes the following operations: obtaining multiple first reconstructed row samples and a second reconstructed row sample in an adjacent above row to a current block, the first reconstructed row samples extending from first to last columns of the current block, the second reconstructed row sample corresponding to an adjacent right column to the current block; obtaining multiple first reconstructed column samples and a second reconstructed column sample in an adjacent left column to the current block, the first reconstructed column samples extending from first to last rows of the current block, the second reconstructed column sample corresponding to an adjacent below row to the current block; and deriving the intra prediction data corresponding to the current block based on a width and a height of the current block and the obtained reconstructed row and column samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Kiran Mukesh Misra, Jie Zhao, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Patent number: 11947760
    Abstract: A display device with a position input function includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode, position detection electrodes, a position detection line, a pixel connection line, and a shield electrode. The common electrode is overlapped with the pixel electrode on an upper layer side or a lower layer side. The position detection electrodes are formed by dividing the common electrode by a partition opening and form a capacitance with a position input body and detect an input position. The position detection line is arranged on an upper layer side or a lower layer side with the common electrode and connected to the position detection electrode. The pixel connection line extends in parallel with the partition opening and is connected to the pixel electrode. The shield electrode extends overlapping with the partition opening and is on a same layer as the position detection line and connected to the position detection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11949836
    Abstract: An image transmission device includes a communicator that transmits image data to an e-mail address set by a user via a network, an operation acceptor that accepts user's settings, a storage that stores, for each predetermined case, a target domain applicable to the case, and a controller that controls the communicator, the operation acceptor, and the storage. When the user sets an e-mail address to which image data are to be transmitted, the controller determines whether a domain portion of the e-mail address matches a target domain of the case, and when the domain portion matches the target domain, the controller accepts settings of the e-mail address, and when the domain portion of the e-mail address does not match the target domain of the case, the controller does not accept settings of the e-mail address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Onogi
  • Patent number: 11949914
    Abstract: An image decoding apparatus including a header decoder configured to decode, from coded data, a flag indicating whether dependent quantization is enabled and a flag prohibiting transform skip residual quantization, and a TU decoder configured to decode a transform coefficient in a TU block in an RRC mode in which a LAST position is coded, the LAST position corresponding to a decoding start position for the transform coefficient, or a TSRC mode in which the LAST position is not coded. The TU decoder performs dependent quantization in the RRC mode in a case that the transform coefficient for transform skip is decoded in the TSRC mode, and does not perform dependent quantization in the RRC mode in a case that the transform coefficient for transform skip is decoded in the RRC mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomonori Hashimoto, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
  • Patent number: 11949838
    Abstract: The number of operational errors where a user unintentionally logs in as another user in quick login is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kanji Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11950311
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a first message for requesting resume from an inactive state to a connected state; a receiver configured to receive a second message that includes priority information for cell selection (first information) and indicates a transition to an idle state (release of connection); and a controller configured to store the first information, in which the controller determines, based on whether or not a transition from an inactive state to an idle state is triggered by reception of the second message, in a case of storing the first information, whether to store or discard the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11950211
    Abstract: A mobile station device includes an information acquisition unit that is configured to and/or programmed to acquire information, which specifies a system bandwidth and a carrier frequency of a second downlink carrier component different from a first downlink carrier component, transmitted using RRC signaling via a physical downlink shared channel within the first downlink carrier component and a communication unit that is configured to communicate with the base station device by aggregate use of both the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component, where the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component have different carrier frequencies and each of the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component has its own downlink system bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 11950312
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus in communication with a base station apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from the base station apparatus, a message related to Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration, and a processing unit. The processing unit determines, based on information included in the message related to the RRC connection reconfiguration, a DRB to which a DAPS is to be applied and a DRB to which the DAPS is not to be applied, and associates, with a target primary cell, an RLC entity and a DTCH logical channel for the DRB to which the DAPS is not to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20240103323
    Abstract: A display device includes: a light-emitting element including a first electrode and a second electrode overlapping each other in a plan view, and a light-emitting layer placed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a third electrode capable of forming an electrical field between the second electrode and the third electrode; and an optical adjustment element overlapping the light-emitting layer in a plan view and having light transmittance that changes in accordance with a potential difference between the second electrode and the third electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: TAZUKO KITAZAWA, YOSHIHIRO UETA, EIJI SATOH
  • Publication number: 20240107636
    Abstract: A heating cooking apparatus includes a heating cooking chamber, a housing, a lid portion, a first circulation portion, a first blow-out port, and a guide portion. The heating cooking chamber further includes an opening. The housing accommodates the heating cooking chamber. The lid portion opens and closes the opening. The first circulation portion causes first air to circulate between an upper wall of the heating cooking chamber and an upper wall of the housing. When the lid portion opens the opening, the guide portion guides the first air blown out from the first blow-out port toward the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: YU SHINOHARA, MASAHIRO NISHIJIMA
  • Patent number: 11943169
    Abstract: To efficiently transmit CSI. A receiver configured to receive a physical downlink control channel for conveying downlink control information including a first information field and a transmitter configured to report channel state information (CSI) are included, wherein the first information field indicates first information, the first information indicates one of multiple states, each of the multiple states is associated with a configuration related to one or multiple CSI reports and a configuration related to one or multiple CSI resources, and the one of the multiple states is configured to be associated with a first serving cell and a bandwidth part (BWP) of the first serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11942040
    Abstract: In a display device having a non-rectangular display unit, occurrence of a difference in luminance between a region with a high load and a region with a low load is suppressed. A region inside the display unit is segmented into a high-load region with a high load on horizontal scanning lines (an initialization control line and a write control line) and a low-load region with a low load on horizontal scanning lines. An initialization control line and a write control line that are disposed in the high-load region are driven by a discharge driver and a scan driver, respectively. An initialization control line and a write control line that are disposed in the low-load region both are driven by, for example, the discharge driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Yokoyama, Nobuyuki Taya, Junichi Yamada