Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11908217
    Abstract: A document reading device includes a document conveyer, a first reader reading, in a first reading position, a first surface of a conveyed document such that a read area is larger than the conveyed document, a second reader reading, in a second reading position, a surface (second surface) opposite to the first surface such that a read area is larger than the conveyed document, a region detector executing a process of detecting a first document region that is a region of a document in first document image data and a process of detecting a second document region that is a region of the document in second document image data, and a cropping processor cropping a document portion on the first surface as first cropped image data and cropping a document portion on the second surface as second cropped image data, based on one of the document regions successfully detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuma Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11909680
    Abstract: To provide a terminal apparatus and a communication method capable of improving reliability and frequency efficiency in a case of transmission by beamforming. Provided are a higher layer processing unit configured with demodulation reference signal (DMRS) antenna port groups for indicating two groups of antenna ports of a DMRS, a receiver configured to receive the DMRS, downlink control information (DCI), and a downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and a decoding unit configured to decode the PDSCH, wherein the PDSCH includes a transport block, and in a case that the number of the transport blocks configured in the DCI is one, the PDSCH demodulated using a DMRS of a first group and/or the PDSCH demodulated using a DMRS of a second group is used to decode one transport block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Yamada, Hiromichi Tomeba, Hideo Namba, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11910384
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to monitor a PDCCH with a DCI format on an active downlink BWP in a serving cell in a Secondary Cell Group (SCG), the DCI format being used for scheduling a PDSCH, and receive the PDSCH on the downlink BWP, and a transmitter configured to transmit a HARQ-ACK on a PUCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Toshizo Nogami, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: 11910464
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that communicates with one or multiple base station apparatuses includes: a receiver configured to receive an RRC connection reconfiguration message including a DRB configuration from a base station apparatus of the one or multiple base station apparatuses; and a processing unit configured to associate an DRB that is established with an EPS bearer identity included in information of a DRB configuration in a case that information indicating that a full configuration is applied is included in the RRC connection reconfiguration message received by the receiver, a DRB identity included in the information of the DRB configuration is not present in a part of a current configuration of the terminal apparatus, and an LTE PDCP entity is established in the DRB that is established and has the DRB identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11908873
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate including a resin substrate including a plurality of external connection terminals arranged near a display region, the active matrix substrate includes: a plurality of first lead wires each extending from one of the external connection terminals to the display region; and a plurality of second lead wires each extending from one of the external connection terminals to a separation line, the second lead wires being arranged with an arrangement pitch along the separation line, and the arrangement pitch of the second lead wires being greater than an arrangement pitch of the first lead wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinji Ichikawa, Shinsuke Saida, Shoji Okazaki, Tokuo Yoshida, Hiroki Taniyama, Kohji Ariga, Hiroharu Jinmura, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Yoshihiro Kohara, Koji Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20240057369
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: a cathode; an anode opposite the cathode; a light-emitting layer between the cathode and the anode; and an electron transport layer between the cathode and the light-emitting layer, the electron transport layer containing either a compound containing a Group IIB element, a Group IVB element, and elemental nitrogen or a compound containing the Group IVB element, a Group VIB element, and elemental boron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: YOSHIHIRO UETA
  • Patent number: 11902523
    Abstract: A video coding device may be configured to perform transform data coding according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seung-Hwan Kim, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Patent number: 11902479
    Abstract: A multi-function peripheral as an image processing device according to the present invention is wirelessly connected with a mobile terminal having a display and is capable of accepting an operation by a user via the mobile terminal. For this, a terminal side setting screen for operating the multi-function peripheral is displayed on the display of the mobile terminal. The terminal side setting screen includes buttons for an operation requiring the user to be in the vicinity of the multi-function peripheral. These buttons are brought in a mode capable of accepting the operation, when an estimated distance between the multi-function peripheral and the mobile terminal is less than or equal to a threshold value, whereas are brought in a mode incapable of accepting the operation, when the estimated distance exceeds the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kayoko Seo
  • Patent number: 11900872
    Abstract: To make a frame size of a display device having an external compensation function smaller than those of the known display devices. Each of a plurality of unit circuits configuring a gate driver includes a first output control transistor including a second conduction terminal connected to a first output terminal-connected to another unit circuit and a control terminal connected to a first internal node, a second output control transistor including a second conduction terminal connected to a second output terminal configured to output an on level signal for at least a part of a monitoring period and a control terminal connected to a second internal node, and an output circuit control transistor including a first conduction terminal connected to the first internal node and a second conduction terminal connected to the second internal node. A potential to be applied to a control terminal of the output circuit control transistor is switched between a potential of a high level and a potential of a low level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaoru Yamamoto, Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Patent number: 11903299
    Abstract: A TEG near the perimeter of a frame region is away from a TFT, which is disposed in a display region and is actually used for screen display. Hence, the characteristics of the TEG can change in a manner different from that in the characteristics of the TFT within the display region. Accordingly, provided is a display device that includes a TEG pattern disposed between the display region and a trench, and includes a dummy pixel circuit disposed between the display region and a barrier wall. The TEG pattern is outside the display region and is adjacent to at least the dummy pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takao Saitoh, Masahiko Miwa, Masaki Yamanaka, Yi Sun, Yohsuke Kanzaki, Seiji Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11903239
    Abstract: A display device includes the following: a base substrate; a light-emitting element on the base substrate with a TFT layer interposed therebetween, the light-emitting element forming a display region; a sealing film covering the light-emitting element and having a stack of, in sequence, first and second inorganic insulating films; a frame region surrounding the display region; a cut disposed in the frame region so as to partly cut the display region; a cut-peripheral wall disposed in the frame region between the display region and the cut, and extending along the boundary of the display region; an evaporated film between the cut-peripheral wall and the first inorganic insulating film; and an organic buffer layer disposed on a surface of the cut-peripheral wall and interposed between the first and second inorganic insulating films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Ohta
  • Patent number: 11902486
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage and a controller. The storage stores history information pertaining to job execution, and when the history information is read from the storage and the history information includes restricted information, the controller restricts display of the restricted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukari Ebi
  • Patent number: 11899397
    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: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Wada, Yoritaka Tsubaki
  • Patent number: 11902824
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive an RRC reconfiguration message including a DRB configuration and a processing unit, wherein the processing unit establishes an SDAP entity based on conditions that a DRB identity included in the DRB configuration is not part of a configuration of the terminal apparatus, an SDAP configuration is included in the DRB configuration, and an SDAP entity corresponding to a PDU session information element included in the SDAP configuration does not exist, and indicates establishment of a user-plane resource for a PDU session to an upper layer based on an additional condition that the SDAP entity corresponding to the PDU session information element does not exist before the RRC reconfiguration message is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11902546
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to a method of decoding network abstraction layer (NAL) unit information. The method of decoding NAL unit information comprises: receiving a NAL unit header syntax structure having two bytes; and decoding a first 1-bit syntax element, a second 1-bit syntax element and a 6-bit syntax element in the NAL unit header syntax structure, wherein a value of the first 1-bit syntax element is equal to zero, a value of the second 1-bit syntax element is equal to zero, and the 6-bit syntax element specifies an identifier of a layer to which a VCL NAL unit belongs or an identifier of a layer to which a non-VCL NAL unit applies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11903070
    Abstract: A wireless access node of a radio access network (RAN) that communicates over a radio interface with a wireless terminal. The wireless access node comprises transmitter circuitry and receiver circuitry. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit at least one message to the wireless terminal. The at least one message is configured to activate a first signaling data path and a second signaling data path. The first signaling data path and the second signaling data path are established between the wireless access node and the wireless terminal. Signaling data on the first signaling data path is relayed by a wireless relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishii
  • Patent number: 11903287
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: pixel electrodes provided for individual subpixels of at least three colors; a common electrode provided facing each of the pixel electrodes; and light-emitting layers of each color provided between the common electrode and, respectively, each of the pixel electrodes, wherein one of each of the pixel electrodes and the common electrode is a cathode electrode and the other is an anode electrode and among the light-emitting layers of the at least three colors, a light-emitting layer of a color having a largest electron affinity extends in a state of being layered between the cathode electrode and each light-emitting layer of the other colors as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasushi Asaoka, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Shigeru Aomori
  • Patent number: 11895721
    Abstract: A base station apparatus for communicating with a terminal apparatus transmits a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration request message including a Data Radio Bearer (DRB) configuration to the terminal apparatus. The DRB configuration includes a DRB identity and a Packet Data Convergence Protocol Layer (PDCP) entity configuration corresponding to the DRB identity. PDCP entity configuration information includes one of a PDCP entity configuration for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and a PDCP entity configuration for New Radio (NR). A PDCP entity is established in accordance with the PDCP entity configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11895310
    Abstract: A device may be configured to signal range extension profile information for coded video according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Sachin G. Deshpande, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Patent number: 11895891
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of subpixels. The plurality of subpixels include a first subpixel including a first light-emitting layer, and a first subpixel circuit, a second subpixel including a second light-emitting layer, and a second subpixel circuit, a third subpixel including a third light-emitting layer, and a third subpixel circuit, and a fourth subpixel including a fourth light-emitting layer, and a fourth subpixel circuit. An area of an opening exposing a first electrode in the first subpixel is larger than an area of the opening exposing the first electrode in each of the second subpixel, the third subpixel, and the fourth subpixel. A plurality of light emission control lines include a first light emission control line connected to the first subpixel circuit and the third subpixel circuit, and a second emission control line connected to the second subpixel circuit and the fourth subpixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohzoh Nakamura