Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11895275
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display capable of accepting designation of a destination of an e-mail, a transmitter/receiver capable of transmitting and receiving the e-mail, a job executor that executes a job via the e-mail, and a controller that acquires destination information of the e-mail to be sent as the job from received information of the received e-mail, and displays the acquired destination information on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Nishimachi
  • Patent number: 11892790
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an AC circuit having a heater and a triac for load control connected in series with the heater in order to control the heater. In addition, an image forming apparatus includes an overcurrent operation circuit connected in parallel with the AC circuit and through which a current flows in a state where DC power is suppliable to the AC circuit, and a polyswitch connected in series with the AC circuit and the overcurrent operation circuit, in which the polyswitch shuts off the current when an overcurrent flows in the overcurrent operation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ming Tang
  • Publication number: 20240037360
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a communicator that receives a print command of image data from a user terminal via a network; an image former that forms an image on the basis of the image data; and one or more controllers that control the communicator and the image former, wherein when a time-out period set in advance has elapsed without receiving a transmission completion notification of a print command from the user terminal after receiving the print command from the user terminal, the one or more controllers determine whether image data related to the print command is complete or not in accordance with a determination procedure set in advance, and when the one or more controllers determine that the image data is complete, the one or more controllers cause the image former to form an image based on the image data, while when the one or more controllers determine that the image data is not complete, the one or more controllers withhold execution of the print command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuya Kitayama
  • Patent number: 11888764
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a coding unit configured to divide a transport block into one or more code blocks and generate coded bit(s) by coding the one or more code blocks; and a transmitter configured to transmit the coded bit(s) by using a channel, wherein multiplex bit(s) are given based on at least coupling of the coded bit(s) generated by coding of the one or more code blocks, the coding unit maps the multiplex bit(s) to a matrix in a first-axis prioritized manner and reads the multiplex bit(s) from the matrix in the first-axis prioritized manner or in a second-axis prioritized manner, and whether the first axis or the second axis is prioritized in a case that the multiplex bit(s) are read from the matrix is given based on at least whether a signal waveform applied to a prescribed channel is an OFDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Liqing Liu, Wataru Ouchi, Takashi Hayashi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 11889123
    Abstract: Method, device, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium to determine whether video block is a fractional boundary video block (See paragraph [0032] and FIG. 7.) and to partition the fractional boundary video block into inferred partitions using a subset of available partition modes (See paragraph [0033] and FIG. 8.) are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiran Mukesh Misra, Weijia Zhu, Christopher Andrew Segall, Frank Bossen
  • Patent number: 11889074
    Abstract: A method of coding of video data is disclosed. According to the method, a predicted luma quantization parameter is derived and a luma quantization parameter is generated. The predicted luma quantization parameter is derived by using a tree type specifying whether a single tree or a dual tree is used to partition a coding tree. The luma quantization parameter is generated by using the predicted luma quantization parameter. The predicted luma quantization parameter is set equal to a luma quantization parameter of a coding unit containing a luma coding block covering a neighbouring location by using a current quantization group and a neighbouring block availability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Frank Bossen, Kiran Mukesh Misra, Christopher Andrew Segall, Weijia Zhu
  • Patent number: 11887541
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of light-emission control lines; a plurality of pixel circuits each including a light-emitting element; a scanning line drive circuit that drives the scanning lines based on a first clock signal; a data line drive circuit that drives the data lines; a light-emission control line drive circuit that drives the light-emission control lines based on a second clock signal; and a display control circuit that outputs at least the first and second clock signals. The display control circuit classifies a frame period into a scanning period and a pause period, and during the pause period, the display control circuit stops the first clock signal and makes a frequency of the second clock signal lower than that during the scanning period. This further reduces the power consumption of the display device that performs low-frequency driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Seiichi Uchida
  • Patent number: 11886762
    Abstract: A printing control system comprising: a plurality of image forming apparatuses set as parent units; and a plurality of image forming apparatuses set as child units, all of which are connected together through a network, wherein a child of the child units unit obtains a job list response from any one of the parent units either storing a print data item to be identified with a job name of a print data item included in a job list information item requested by a job list request, or not storing the print data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 11889446
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by user equipment, comprising: receiving a timing advance command in a slot n; and determining, according to the slot n in which the timing advance command is received and/or other information related to an uplink transmission timing adjustment, time to apply the uplink transmission timing adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chao Luo, Renmao Liu, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11884868
    Abstract: Provided are a latent heat storage material having a melting point within a prescribed temperature range; a latent heat. The latent heat storage material includes a compound (A) represented by a formula (A), an inorganic salt (B) represented by a formula (B) and composed of a cation of an alkali metal and an anion of the same element as the anion of the quaternary alkyl salt, and water. The compound (A) is a material that forms a clathrate hydrate together with the water, the composition ratio of the compound (A) and water is a composition ratio that gives a congruent melting point of the clathrate hydrate, and the molar ratio of the inorganic salt (B) to the compound (A) is 0.1 or more and 10 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakazu Kamura, Hwisim Hwang, Kyohei Sezukuri, Yuka Utsumi
  • Patent number: 11887510
    Abstract: A rollable electronic apparatus being windable, includes: a flexible electronic device; a flexible cable; a circuit substrate; and a support body having a tubular body, wherein the flexible electronic device includes a terminal portion, the flexible cable connects the terminal portion and the circuit substrate, a drive circuit is mounted on the circuit substrate, the flexible electronic device and the flexible cable are wound on an outer circumferential surface of the support body by rotating the support body, the support body has, in a cross-sectional view, two curved portions and a planar portion connecting the two curved portions, and the circuit substrate is stored in the planar portion in a state in which the flexible cable is wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Suga, Yuki Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11889729
    Abstract: A display device includes a short ring TFT, wherein the short ring TFT includes a semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, a first gate insulating film provided between the semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode, and a second gate insulating film provided between the semiconductor layer and the second gate electrode, one of a pair of adjacent lead-out wiring lines is electrically connected to a source region of the semiconductor layer, the other of the pair of adjacent lead-out wiring lines is electrically connected to a drain region of the semiconductor layer, one of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode is electrically connected to the source region or the drain region, and the other of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode is electrically connected to a threshold value control wiring line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Patent number: 11889728
    Abstract: A display device includes: a resin substrate; a TFT layer; and a light-emitting element. A bending portion is provided with a first resin film formed of the same material and in the same layer as those of a first flattening film, and the first resin film fills a slit. An upper face of the first resin film is provided with a plurality of first connection wiring lines formed of a third metal film, and the plurality of first connection wiring lines extend in parallel to each other in a direction intersecting the extending direction of the bending portion. The plurality of first connection wiring lines are electrically connected to a plurality of first lead-out wiring lines, respectively in a display region side of the slit, and electrically connected to a plurality of second lead-out wiring lines, respectively in a terminal portion side of the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 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
  • Patent number: 11889324
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is provided. The UE includes higher layer circuitry configured to receive first information to configure a sidelink bandwidth part (BWP) and second information to configure one or more resource pools for sidelink transmission and/or reception. The UE further includes transmission circuitry configured to transmit a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The first information includes a configuration of numerologies for the PSCCH and PSSCH and the second information includes a configuration of one or more resource pools for the PSCCH and PSSCH within the sidelink BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Tatsushi Aiba, Jia Sheng
  • Patent number: 11884869
    Abstract: Provided are a latent heat storage material that changes the phase within a prescribed temperature range, and a cold storage tool, a logistic packaging container, and a food cold storage tool each using the latent heat storage material, and a cooling method. The latent heat storage material includes a tetrabutylammonium ion and a bromide ion constituting tetrabutylammonium bromide, a potassium ion and a nitrate ion constituting potassium nitrate, and water. The molar ratio of potassium nitrate to tetrabutylammonium bromide is 0.3 or more and 1.3 or less, and the molar ratio of water to tetrabutylammonium bromide is 22 or more and 32 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakazu Kamura, Kyohei Sezukuri, Yuka Utsumi
  • Patent number: 11883999
    Abstract: A synthetic polymer film (35), (36) having a surface which has a plurality of raised portions (35p), (36p), wherein a two-dimensional size of the plurality of raised portions is in a range of more than 20 nm and less than 500 nm when viewed in a normal direction of the synthetic polymer film, the surface having a microbicidal effect, and the synthetic polymer film includes a fluorine element in such a profile that a fluorine content is not constant in a thickness direction but is higher in a portion closer to the plurality of raised portions than in a portion farther from the plurality of raised portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakahara, Hidekazu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11889070
    Abstract: A filtered image with enhanced image quality is output. Provided is a loop filter including: a filtering processing unit configured to apply a filter to an unfiltered image; and an ALF unit configured to receive input of a DL image to which a filter is applied by a first filtering processing unit out of the filtering processing unit. The ALF unit further receives input of the unfiltered image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Norio Itoh, Takeshi Chujoh, Yasuaki Tokumo, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11889118
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling types of pictures for coded video. In particular, this disclosure describes techniques for enabling and signaling a so-called gradual random access picture. According to an aspect of an invention, a second syntax element is decoded by using a value of a first syntax element wherein the first syntax element indicates a picture is a random access picture having a recovery point picture and the second syntax element specifies a first picture order count value of the recovery point picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11887518
    Abstract: A display device includes a first liquid crystal panel, a second liquid crystal panel disposed on a back face side of the first liquid crystal panel, a position compensation unit that compensates for a display position of an image on the second liquid crystal panel based on position compensation information indicating a relative positional relationship between the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel, and an area expansion unit that expands a displayable area of the image before the display position is compensated for or a displayable area of the image after the display position is compensated for by the position compensation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11889035
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. When the service ends, the forgotten item notification screen is displayed on the display. In the forgotten item notification screen, a forgotten item reminder unit is provided for reminding a user who left behind a reminder target item, including the property of the user used in connection with the service. An individual reminder section is provided in a forgotten item reminder unit, to give an individual reminder to prevent the occurrence of leaving behind of each reminder target item, for a first-type item for which retrieval cannot be detected and a second-type item for which retrieval can be detected but which has not been retrieved, from among the reminder target items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano