Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11663430
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes a communication unit, a controller, an operation unit, and an image forming device. The communication unit is configured to receive, as a printing job, a printing setting and printing data. The printing setting includes a size corresponding to one of a longitudinal-feed envelope and a lateral-feed envelope, but does not designate which of the longitudinal-feed and lateral-feed envelopes undergoes printing. The raster image generator is configured to generate a raster image corresponding to the longitudinal-feed envelope and a raster image corresponding to the lateral-feed envelope in accordance with the printing data. The operation unit is configured to display a screen that receives a selection between the longitudinal-feed and lateral-feed envelopes to receive the selection made by a user. The image forming device is configured to perform printing with the raster image corresponding to the longitudinal-feed or lateral-feed envelope selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohsuke Kametani
  • Patent number: 11662967
    Abstract: A printing system includes an image forming apparatus and an information processing device. The image forming apparatus stores custom data indicating a setting value of a printing condition that can be achieved by the own apparatus. The information processing device includes a CPU. The CPU causes the information processing device to acquire custom data stored in the image forming apparatus, and a standard printing condition for a printer driver is set according to the custom data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Ogata
  • Patent number: 11665297
    Abstract: An automatic document feeder includes a document loading detector, a document feeder, a document guide, a guide width measurer, a document width acquirer, a guide shift determiner, a document skew detector, a skew determiner, a warning display information generator, and a display. When a detected skew of a document is determined to be unallowable, the document feeder stops a feeding of the document. The warning display information generator generates a warning content about a feed trouble that stopped the feeding of the document, and the generated warning content about the feed trouble is displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideyuki Hiro
  • Patent number: 11655536
    Abstract: A film forming mask includes a plurality of first openings that are formed on the film-forming mask to form a thin film pattern on a substrate. A second opening includes a plurality of second openings that corresponds and is aligned along a side of at least one of the plurality of first openings. An opening area of the second opening is smaller than an opening area of each of the plurality of first openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Miyamoto, Tohru Sonoda
  • Patent number: 11656503
    Abstract: The sealing material composition of the present disclosure includes a lactone-based compound having at least two functional groups A represented by the Chemical Formula (1) and a curing agent that is thermally reactive with the lactone-based compound and contains a compound having at least two of one or more kinds of functional groups B selected from the group consisting of a mercaptan group, a hydroxyl group, and a secondary amine group where, a is an integer of 0 or 1, and * is an atomic bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 11653820
    Abstract: An in-body image capturing device (camera unit) with high reliability is suggested. A camera unit (11) includes an image capturing unit that includes a lens (26) and a first illumination unit (27a) and is capable of being introduced into a body. The first illumination unit (27a) and the image capturing unit are housed in a casing (22) that is integrally molded with an integral light-transmitting body (22x) and an integral light shielding body (22y).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Aoki, Toshihisa Gotoh, Kei Urakawa, Kishoh Takamatsu, Tomohiro Konishi, Tsuguhisa Inoue
  • Patent number: 11659110
    Abstract: This image forming device is capable of providing a plurality of usage services, and requires an operation setting for selecting a usage service at the time of use. The image forming device includes a touch panel that accepts a user operation while presenting an operation screen, and a controller that controls the operation screen of the touch panel. At least some of the usage services provided by the image forming device require operation of a reception device (document reader, media reader, QR code reader, or NFC card reader) provided in the image forming device, or connected to the image forming device. When a reception device is operated before an operation setting for usage service selection is performed on the touch panel, the controller switches to an operation screen that shows a preferential display of a usage service which is applicable to the reception device that has been operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano, Emiko Matsuo, Masao Saeda
  • Patent number: 11656808
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a presentation determination processor that presents selection information for causing a user to select an image-forming apparatus for executing printing and a distance determination processor that measures, when a first image-forming apparatus is selected in the selection information, a distance of the first image-forming apparatus from an installation position and determines whether the measured distance is equal to or larger than a predetermined distance. When determining that the distance is equal to or larger than the predetermined distance, the presentation determination processor performs a presenting process of presenting confirmation information for confirming whether the image-forming apparatus for executing printing is to be switched from the first image-forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11659749
    Abstract: In a display region, each first power-source line and each second power-source line intersecting with the first power-source line are electrically connected together via a contact hole in a second inorganic insulating film. In addition, each source line and each second power-source line intersect with each other via the second inorganic insulating film and a first organic insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinji Ichikawa, Kohji Ariga, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Kohara, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura
  • Patent number: 11657983
    Abstract: A solar battery cell, comprises a substrate; a first electrode provided on the substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer provided on the first electrode; a second electrode provided on the photoelectric conversion layer; and a barrier layer so provided as to cover a side portion of the photoelectric conversion layer, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer has an electron transport layer, a light absorption layer provided on the electron transport layer, and a hole transport layer provided on the light absorption layer, the light absorption layer includes a compound having a perovskite crystal structure, and the barrier layer is a dense inorganic material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro Miyanishi, Hiroshi Sugimura
  • Patent number: 11659635
    Abstract: A heating cooking apparatus includes a microwave supply unit, an image capturing unit, a communication unit, and a controller. The microwave supply unit supplies microwaves to an object to be heated and heats the object to be heated. The image capturing unit captures an image of the object to be heated. The communication unit transmits an image capturing result generated by the image capturing unit to a server. The controller controls the microwave supply unit such that an intensity of microwaves is reduced to be less than an intensity of microwaves before the communication unit transmits the image capturing result while the communication unit transmits the image capturing result to the server. After the communication unit transmits the image capturing result, the controller controls the microwave supply unit such that at least one of an intensity of microwaves or a supply time period of the microwaves is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsumi Ishifuro
  • Patent number: 11659195
    Abstract: A system for broadcasting that includes a watermark payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sachin G. Deshpande, Kiran Misra
  • Patent number: 11659226
    Abstract: A content display system includes a first acquisition processor that acquires first content registered on a management terminal; a first display processor that causes the display device to display the first content acquired by the first acquisition processor; a second acquisition processor that acquires second content based on an operation on a portable terminal by a user when the first content is displayed on the display device; and a second display processor that causes the display device to display the second content acquired by the second acquisition processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaname Matsui, Masafumi Okigami
  • Patent number: 11659746
    Abstract: A first wiring line and a second wiring line are extended to an upper face of a resin substrate exposed from a slit formed in at least one layer of an inorganic insulating film, a first flattening film is provided within the slit which exposes the upper face of the resin substrate between the portions to which the first wiring line and the second wiring line are extended, and the first wiring line and the second wiring line are electrically connected to each other via a third wiring line provided between an end face of the first flattening film and the upper face of the resin substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takao Saitoh, Seiji Kaneko, Yohsuke Kanzaki, Masahiko Miwa, Masaki Yamanaka, Yi Sun
  • Patent number: 11659208
    Abstract: A device may be configured to signal level information according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sachin G. Deshpande, Jonatan Samuelsson
  • Patent number: 11659103
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus to combine a plurality of processes to execute a job related to image formation, the image formation apparatus including: a communicator that sends and receives data to and from an external application via a network, an image data acquirer that acquires image data, an image former that forms an image based on the image data, a storage that stores temporary intermediate data involved in the image formation, a display that displays a message for a user, and a controller that controls the communicator, the image data acquirer, the image former, the storage, and the display; wherein upon performing a process of the plurality of processes, the controller determines whether a next process is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kondoh
  • Patent number: 11659120
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that executes a job, based on a setting value, and is operative to store a history of the job, as a job history includes: a storage that stores the setting value of the executed job, as setting history information; a displayer that displays a selection screen for selecting the setting history information stored in the storage; and a controller that reads the setting value included in the selected history information. The controller determines whether to display setting history information of a newly executed job, based on a comparison result between the setting value pertaining to the newly executed job and the setting value included in the setting history information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsutomu Itai
  • Patent number: 11656506
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate section having a first substrate and pixel electrodes (102). Each pixel electrode (102) includes a bridging portion (102c) provided between a first pixel electrode portion (102a) and a second pixel electrode portion (102b) and linking together the first pixel electrode portion (102a) and the second pixel electrode portion (102b). A first recess (102d) is provided at one side along the width direction of the pixel electrode (102), the first recess (102d) extending from one side along the width direction of the pixel electrode (102) toward the bridging portion (102c) and being located between the first pixel electrode portion (102a) and the second pixel electrode portion (102b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Hirata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 11653016
    Abstract: A prediction image generation method using two prediction images to generate a prediction image by a device is provided. First and second prediction image are generated. Bidirectional prediction gradient change prediction processing is performed by using a first shift value and difference values of the first and second prediction images respectively in horizontal and vertical directions to generate a first, second, third and fourth gradient images. Motion information is derived by using the first and second prediction images, the first, second, third and fourth gradient images, a second shift value, and a third shift value. Motion compensation correction value is derived by using the motion information and the first, second, third and the fourth gradient images. The prediction image is generated by using the first and second prediction images and the motion compensation correction value. The first, second and third shift values are respectively equal to 6, 4 and 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Takeshi Chujoh, Tomonori Hashimoto, Tomoko Aono, Tomohiro Ikai
  • Patent number: 11651779
    Abstract: A voice processing system includes a voice receiver that receives voice spoken by users, a voice recognition unit that recognizes the voice received by the voice receiver, a voice determination unit that determines a state of transmission and reception of the voice between a first base and a second base based on a recognition result of the first voice received from the first base and a recognition result of the second voice received from the second base, and an information presenting unit that presents specific information for resolving an abnormal state of transmission and reception when it is determined by the voice determination unit that the state of transmission and reception is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriko Hata, Fumiaki Sugimori, Tatsuya Nishio