Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki
  • Publication number: 20240142898
    Abstract: An image forming device includes one or more image carriers on which a toner image is formed; a transfer belt that transfers a toner image formed on the image carrier; a presser that presses the transfer belt against the image carrier to transfer the toner image onto the transfer belt; and a switching mechanism that switches a position of the presser according to a rotation angle of a cam. The switching mechanism switches a position of the presser to one of a first position that presses the transfer belt against the image carrier, a second position that is separated from the image carrier, and a third position that is a position separated from the image carrier and having a smaller separation distance from the image carrier than the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: YOSHIHIRO YOSHIKAWA, Hideshi IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240147826
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an EL element, includes: a first quantum dot layer forming step of forming a quantum dot layer containing first quantum dots; a first quantum dot layer coating step of exposing a first portion included in the first quantum dot layer, and coating a second portion included in the first quantum dot layer, the first quantum dot layer coating step including: a photoresist layer forming step; and a photoresist layer patterning step; a solution supplying step of applying or spraying a solution only to or on the first portion, the solution containing first molecules each having a plurality of coordinating functional groups coordinatable with the first quantum dots and; a removing step of removing the second portion of the first quantum dot layer and the patterned photoresist layer, such that the first portion of the first quantum dot layer forms a first light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukio TAKENAKA, Yuma YAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11974175
    Abstract: A handover control method of a source base station (BS). The method includes: transmitting a conditional handover request to a target BS; when a handover request confirmation message is received from the target BS, transmitting a conditional handover message to a user equipment (UE); and receiving a conditional handover complete message from the target BS in response to a Radio Source Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration complete message being sent from the UE to the target BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11973915
    Abstract: Identification information corresponding to a network resource is extracted from input document data. It is determined whether access to the network resource is appropriate based on the identification information. Based on a result of determination, the output of the document data is restricted, or at least part of the identification information is changed, and the document data is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuya Watabe
  • Patent number: 11971678
    Abstract: To provide an image forming device that can prompt a user to check whether a waste toner container is completely attached. The image forming device includes a housing, an access cover attached in an openable/closable manner to the housing, a waste toner container attachable to the housing with the access cover open, and a lock lever that locks the waste toner container and the housing. The access cover includes a protruding portion protruding toward an interior of the housing. The lock lever transitions between a locked state and a pressed state of being pressed by the waste toner container, and, when in the pressed state, moves to a preventing position at which the lock lever blocks the protruding portion and prevents the access cover from closing, and, when in the locked state, moves to a retracted position at which the lock lever does not block the protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Hori
  • Patent number: 11974454
    Abstract: A display device is provided with a first adhesive layer formed on a sealing layer in a display region and a flexible sheet formed on a resin layer on an opposite side of a TFT layer, in which a first inorganic insulating layer has a first slit, the flexible sheet has a second slit, and the first adhesive layer is formed in a state of extending from the display region to a frame region, and overlapping with the first slit and the second slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Kawamura, Keiji Aota, Motoji Shiota
  • Patent number: 11974468
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a TFT layer provided on the substrate; a light-emitting element layer provided on the TFT layer and including a plurality of light-emitting elements; and at least one thermal insulation layer, the thermal insulation layer containing: a cellulosic resin; and a metal oxide or a metal carbonyl compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 11971632
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dimming panel sequentially including: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the first substrate sequentially including an insulating substrate, a first electrode, a first insulator layer, and a second electrode, the second electrode including, in a plan view, linear electrodes parallel to each other with slit regions in between, and bridge electrodes each of which is disposed in one of the slit regions and is connecting two adjacent linear electrodes, the bridge electrodes including a first bridge electrode in a first slit region, a second bridge electrode in a second slit region adjacent to the first slit region, and a third bridge electrode in a third slit region adjacent to the second slit region, the first bridge electrode, the second bridge electrode, and the third bridge electrode being discrete from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Shigeyuki Yamada, Toshinori Sugihara, Takehisa Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11974258
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to monitor a PDCCH with a DCI format in a control resource set, and receive a PDSCH scheduled by the DCI format, wherein the DCI format includes a frequency domain resource assignment field, in a case that the number of bits of the frequency domain resource assignment field is given at least based on the number NtargetRB of resource blocks of a first bandwidth, and the frequency domain resource assignment field is applied to the first bandwidth, a value NRIV indicated by the frequency domain resource assignment field is given based on a first method, and in a case that the number of bits of the frequency domain resource assignment field is given at least based on the number NsizeRB of resource blocks of a second bandwidth, and the frequency domain resource assignment field is applied to the first bandwidth, the value NRIV is given based on a second method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Toshizo Nogami, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: 11971394
    Abstract: The electron capture detector (100) is a device for detecting a sample (?1). The electron capture detector (100) includes a detection cell (1), a sample inlet (2), and an electron emitting element (20). The detection cell (1) forms a reaction chamber (6). The sample inlet (2) introduces a first carrier gas containing the sample (?1) into the reaction chamber (6). The electron emitting element (20) emits electrons (?) into the reaction chamber (6). An ion (?2) derived from the sample component is generated as a result of the electron emitting element (20) emitting electrons (?) into the reaction chamber (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Komaru, Tadashi Iwamatsu
  • Patent number: 11973970
    Abstract: A method of encoding video data by an electronic device is provided. A plurality of picture parameters included in a picture header of a picture in the video data is signaled into a bitstream. A present flag included in a sub-picture header of a sub-picture generated by dividing the picture is signaled into the bitstream. The electronic device determines, based on the present flag, whether a specific one of a plurality of sub-picture parameters is determined based on the sub-picture header or the picture header. The specific one of the plurality of sub-picture parameters corresponds to the specific one of the plurality of picture parameters. The sub-picture is reconstructed based on the specific one of the plurality of sub-picture parameters when the specific one of the plurality of sub-picture parameters is determined from the sub-picture header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11972594
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral includes a color number conversion determiner. The color number conversion determiner determines whether it is appropriate to perform either an index color process or a full-color process based on a color distribution degree, which is a distribution degree of pixel values of the respective sets of pixel data included in input image data, a photograph area ratio, which is a ratio of photograph area pixel data forming a photograph area to the pixel data, and a color uniformity area ratio, which is a ratio of white base area pixel data forming a white base area to the pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruhiko Matsuoka, Akihito Yoshida, Masahiko Takashima
  • Patent number: 11973912
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller capable of generating occurrence of an event to be audited, as log information; a storage that stores the log information; an outputter that reads and outputs the log information stored in the storage in response to an acquisition request for the log information by an information processing apparatus; and an adder that adds, to the log information, identification information indicating that the log information has been stored in the information processing apparatus. The controller stores the log information added with the identification information in the storage. In a case where a storage amount of the log information stored in the storage has reached an upper limit when newly storing log information generated in association with occurrence of the event, the controller deletes the log information added with the identification information from the storage, and stores the generated log information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kayoko Seo
  • Patent number: 11972061
    Abstract: To provide an input apparatus including an acquisition circuit that acquires a captured image capturing a user, a detection circuit that detects a first hand of the user from the captured image acquired by the acquisition circuit, and a display circuit that displays, when a second hand different from the first hand is detected during tracking of the first hand detected by the detection circuit, notification information corresponding to a distance between the first hand and the second hand on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Takashima, Teruhiko Matsuoka, Tomoya Ishikura
  • Patent number: 11974327
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for supporting multiple-universal subscriber identity module (multi-USIM) operations among a first base station associated with a first network and a second base station associated with a second network is disclosed. the UE includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, and at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to transmit, through transmitting circuitry of the UE, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble to the second base station associated with the second network. The PRACH preamble indicates to the second base station that the UE is not to begin a connection establishment procedure with the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenneth James Park, Kamel M. Shaheen, Atsushi Ishii
  • Patent number: 11972074
    Abstract: This display device includes: a drive processing unit inputs an input signal with respect to a plurality of drive lines; an output detection processing unit that detects an output signal that is output from a plurality of sense lines; a grouping processing unit that groups the plurality of drive lines into a plurality of groups each having a set grouped number of adjacent drive lines; and a touch operation detection processing unit that detects a touch operation made with respect to a touch panel based on a linear element sequence calculated by a matrix operation of an input sequence and an output sequence. The drive processing unit inputs the input signal having the same pattern to each of the grouped number of drive lines that have been grouped by the grouping processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki Matsui, Koichi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11973976
    Abstract: A method of encoding data includes: receiving an input data set having an arbitrary size about a height dimension and a width dimension; padding the input data set according to a padding function selected from a set of padding functions, such that a data set having a desired size about the height dimension and the width dimension is obtained; generating an output data set by performing a discrete convolution on the obtained data set; and generating a signal providing information corresponding to the output data set and the selected padding function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiran Mukesh Misra, Tianying Ji, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Patent number: 11968141
    Abstract: To provide a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication method capable of improving a frequency efficiency or throughput by suppressing an overhead associated with feedback from the terminal apparatus in a case that the base station apparatus acquires highly accurate CSI. A terminal apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a receiver configured to receive at least one NZP CSI-RS, and a transmitter configured to transmit a signal including at least one piece of CSI. The at least one piece of CSI includes at least an RI and a PMI, the receiver acquires a first value for configuring the number of vectors indicated by the PMI, and in a case that a value of the RI exceeds a prescribed value, the number of vectors is configured by a second value being a value equal to or less than the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Ryota Yamada
  • Patent number: 11968866
    Abstract: A second connection wire is electrically connected to a first connection wire via a display-side contact portion and terminal-side contact portion in a bending section. The first connection wire and the second connection wire do not overlap each other at least partly between the display-side contact portion and terminal-side contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohsuke Kanzaki, Yi Sun, Takao Saitoh, Masahiko Miwa, Masaki Yamanaka
  • Patent number: D1024301
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jinni Zhang, Akira Haranaka