Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 12294682
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a detector which detects an occurrence of an event; a display which displays notification information regarding the occurred event; and a controller which restricts operation authority over the notification information displayed on the display to a specific user when the notification information corresponds to a notification for the specific user, and makes the operation authority over the notification information di splayed on the display unrestricted when the notification information does not correspond to a notification for the specific user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Chikara Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12293132
    Abstract: A display control system includes a first display processing unit that displays a first user icon of a user at a predetermined position in a virtual space on the basis of a current position of the user in a real space, a reception processing unit that receives, from the user corresponding to the first user icon, moving operation of the first user icon displayed at the predetermined position in the virtual space, and a second display processing unit that displays a second user icon corresponding to the moving operation by the user in the virtual space, in a case where the reception processing unit receives the moving operation of the first user icon from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiko Hirukawa
  • Patent number: 12292655
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display that can reduce occurrence of quality problems and improve adhesive strength between substrates. The present invention is a liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a seal. The first substrate includes a shift register monolithically formed on an insulating substrate, a plurality of bus lines, a first end, and a display region. The shift register includes a plurality of multistage-connected unit circuits and wiring connected to the plurality of unit circuits, and is arranged in a region between the first end and the display region. At least one of the unit circuits includes a clock terminal, an output terminal, an output transistor, a second transistor, and a bootstrap capacitor. The output transistor and the bootstrap capacitor are arranged in a region between the first end and one of the wiring and the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Mori
  • Patent number: 12292654
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can achieve high-speed response in both rise time and fall time and has a high transmittance, a high contrast ratio, and excellent viewing angle characteristics. The liquid crystal display device provides color display using a field sequential driving system where each frame period includes subframe periods and includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a light source that irradiates the liquid crystal display panel with lights of multiple colors; and a controller that drives the light source to time-divisionally irradiate the liquid crystal display panel with the lights of multiple colors. The liquid crystal display panel includes, sequentially in the following order: a first substrate including pixel electrodes; a first alignment film; a liquid crystal layer; a second alignment film; and a second substrate including a common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Kouichi Watanabe, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 12292677
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a first laser light source which emits first laser light; and a diffusion element which is provided on an optical path of the first laser light and diffuses the light, wherein the diffusion element includes: a first lens array in which a plurality of first lens elements that divide the first laser light into a plurality of light fluxes are arranged; and a second lens array in which a plurality of second lens elements that emit the light fluxes incident via the plurality of first lens elements toward an image formation plane are arranged, wherein the first lens array is disposed on an incidence surface of the diffusion element, wherein the second lens array is disposed on an emission surface of the diffusion element, and wherein at least two second lens elements among the plurality of second lens elements form light source images having different sizes in different regions on the image formation plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions
    Inventor: Sota Hirahara
  • Patent number: 12292702
    Abstract: A developing device of an image forming apparatus includes a rotatable developer carrier, a layer regulating member, a storage, a developer tank, and a side part on which a first inclined surface is provided. The first inclined surface is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane such that a distance from the developer carrier increases as the first inclined surface approaches the storage from a side of the layer regulating member. A distance between the layer regulating member and the developer carrier is smaller than a shortest distance between the first inclined surface and the developer carrier. The image forming apparatus executes a loosening mode in which, after image formation is ended, the developer carrier is rotated in a direction opposite to a forward direction and then, rotated in the forward direction, when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ikuya Kajiura
  • Patent number: 12291570
    Abstract: A method of treating metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a subject in need thereof is provided. The method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of each of a peptide set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, an anti PD-1 and a chemotherapy, thereby treating the metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: BioLineRx Ltd., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Abi Vainstein-Haras, Ella Sorani, Irit Gliko-Kabir, Osnat Bohana-Kashtan, Amnon Peled
  • Patent number: 12294962
    Abstract: A method for small data transmission (SDT) and related device are provided. In the method, a configured grant (CG) configuration for SDT, from a base station (BS), is received. A synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) set, from the BS, is received. A mapping ratio configuration, from the BS, is received. The mapping ratio configuration indicates a number of SSBs per CG resource, the SSBs are configured by the SSB set, and the CG resource is configured by the CG configuration for SDT. A mapping between SSB indexes of the SSBs and the CG resource is determined based on the mapping ratio configuration and an increasing order of indexes of the CG resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Heng-Li Chin
  • Patent number: 12291538
    Abstract: The disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein W1, W2, Y, Z, M, L, Cy, Cz, R1, R2, R3, R4, R2a, Ry, Rz, and the subscripts m, n, q, and r are as described herein. The compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can inhibit the G12C mutant of Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) protein and are expected to have utility as therapeutic agents, for example, for treating cancer. The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions which comprise compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The disclosure also relates to methods for use of the compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts in the therapy and prophylaxis of cancer and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Indu Bharathan, Symon Gathiaka, Yongxin Han, Xiaoshen Ma, Ryan D. Otte, David L. Sloman, Thomas H. Graham, Timothy Henderson, Elisabeth Hennessy, Anandan Palani
  • Patent number: 12294460
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback are provided. The method includes: receiving a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) configuration that indicates a specific PUCCH format of a PUCCH and whether a sidelink (SL) HARQ feedback is allowed to be transmitted on the PUCCH; generating a first HARQ feedback in response to first data received via a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); generating a second HARQ feedback in response to second data received via a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); and transmitting uplink control information (UCI) including at least a portion of the first HARQ feedback and at least a portion of the second HARQ feedback via the PUCCH in a case that the PUCCH configuration indicates that the SL HARQ feedback is allowed to be transmitted on the PUCCH and the first HARQ feedback overlaps the second HARQ feedback in a time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu-Hsin Cheng, Yung-Lan Tseng, Mei-Ju Shih, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 12294729
    Abstract: A non-transitory medium of a device that stores one or more instructions is provided. The instructions, when executed by a processing unit of the device, cause the device to: determine an affine enabled flag corresponding to one or more image frames from the bitstream; determine a maximum index corresponding to the one or more image frames from the bitstream when the affine enabled flag is true; determine that a maximum number of zero or more subblock-based merging motion vector prediction (MVP) candidates is in a number range of 1 to N and generated by subtracting the index value of the maximum index from N when the affine enabled flag is true and K is 1, N being a first integer and K being a second integer less than N; and reconstruct the one or more image frames based on the maximum number of zero or more subblock-based merging MVP candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu-Chiao Yang, Chih-Yu Teng
  • Patent number: 12295110
    Abstract: A foldable display includes: a flexible display panel including: an impact absorbing layer including a metal film; and a display layer provided on a surface of the impact absorbing layer; a first region, a second region, and a third region that are included in a region of the flexible display panel, the third region being positioned between the first region and the second region; a first support substrate that is inflexible, the first support substrate supporting the first region from toward the impact absorbing layer; a second support substrate that is inflexible, the second support substrate supporting the second region from toward the impact absorbing layer; a folding mechanism connected to the first support substrate and the second support substrate, and overlapping with the third region in plan view; and a slit provided to the metal film at least in a first position at a shortest distance, from the third region, shorter than a shortest distance from an end portion of the first region across from the thir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mayuko Sakamoto, Edward Boardman, Tokio Taguchi, Ikuo Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20250136910
    Abstract: In some embodiments, devices for use as blood-brain barrier models are disclosed. The devices may include either a hydrogel component that surrounds a channel formed between a first opening and a second opening of the hydrogel component, or a hydrogel component that forms a groove. The devices may further include pericytes disposed in the channel or the groove, and endothelial cells may be disposed in the channel or the groove. The hydrogel component may include astrocytes (e.g., printed into the hydrogel component via projection stereolithography). Also disclosed are various methods of making and using these devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Nicole L. Buist, Martha J. Fowler, Yufang He, Anna Kristen Mai, Adam T. Procopio, Madison K. Royse, Omid Veiseh, Jun Xu
  • Publication number: 20250139739
    Abstract: Processing circuitry (e.g., GPU) obtains a first MSAA intermediate buffer from a rendering of a first image, the first MSAA intermediate buffer includes a plurality of subsamples for each pixel of the first image. The processing circuitry determines, for a first pixel of the first image, a first surrounding subsample pattern based on first subsamples in a surrounding region of the first pixel. Further, the processing circuitry obtains, based on the first surrounding subsample pattern, a first blending weight vector for a first location among a plurality of locations that define output pixel locations within the first pixel for upscaling the first pixel to a plurality of output pixels in an upscaled image of higher resolution than the first image. The first blending weight vector includes first blending weights respectively for first candidate subsamples associated with the first pixel. The processing circuitry generates the upscaled image accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Sharp Growth (Canada) Limited
    Inventor: Bo LI
  • Patent number: 12287548
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of first colored particles contained in a space between a first substrate and a second substrate; a light-emitting portion having a first light-emitting element provided on the first substrate, and a first-light-emitting-element driving circuit provided on the first substrate and configured to drive the first light-emitting element; a first transparent portion disposed in a direction along a main surface of the first substrate with respect to the light-emitting portion; a first electrode provided in the light-emitting portion; and a second electrode provided in the first transparent portion and being nckudestransparent. The display device is capable of switching between a light-transmitting state of the first transparent portion in which the first electrode attracts the plurality of first colored particles, and a light-blocking state of the first transparent portion in which the second electrode attracts the plurality of first colored particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kimiaki Nakamura, Masakazu Shibasaki, Yasuhiro Haseba, Koji Murata
  • Patent number: 12288517
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of scanning signal lines; a plurality of data signal lines; and a plurality of subpixel circuits disposed at least at some of intersection points of the plurality of scanning signal lines and the plurality of data signal lines, each one of the plurality of subpixel circuits including a control circuit including a transistor and a light-emitting element, wherein an average density of subpixel circuits provided in a display region is greater than an average density of the subpixel circuits provided in a sparse pixel region, and the sparse pixel region includes a no-pixel region not including the subpixel circuits in one entire line in an extending direction of the scanning signal lines or the data signal lines-provided in the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohzoh Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12289739
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12287547
    Abstract: Each pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes a first, second, third, and fourth domains arranged in two rows and two columns, and reference alignment directions of the respective domains are first, second, third, and fourth directions. The first direction and the second direction form an angle of approximately 180°, and the first domain and the second domain are adjacent to each other in an oblique direction. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of first slits formed in a region corresponding to the first domain and extending approximately parallel to the first direction, and a plurality of second slits formed in a region corresponding to the second domain and extending approximately parallel to the second direction, and has no slits in a region corresponding to the third domain and no slits in a region corresponding to the fourth domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuaki Hirata
  • Patent number: 12289257
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a first search space set, to receive a second RRC parameter related to a CORESET wherein the CORESET is associated with the first search space set, monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set in the CORESET, wherein the CORESET comprises one or more sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a first time duration, the number of consecutive OFDM symbols for each set is determined based on the second RRC parameter, the first time duration is determined based on a RRC parameter included in the first parameter. The first RRC parameter include a third RRC parameter indicating a first symbol for each of the one or more than one sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a slot, the first duration is determined as one slot, the CORESET comprises one or more sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12289847
    Abstract: A housing unit of a display device includes a first shaft rotatably connecting an end portion of a first housing to a hinge member, a second shaft rotatably connecting an end portion of a second housing to the hinge member, and a third shaft rotatably connecting a first end portion of first and second cover holder members to the hinge member, and a second end portion of the first and second cover holder members is slidably connected to the first and second housings, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Togashi