Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 12294962Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Heng-Li Chin
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Patent number: 12294460Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu-Hsin Cheng, Yung-Lan Tseng, Mei-Ju Shih, Hung-Chen Chen
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Patent number: 12292655Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahiro Mori
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Patent number: 12295110Abstract: 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 thirType: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mayuko Sakamoto, Edward Boardman, Tokio Taguchi, Ikuo Ninomiya
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Patent number: 12293132Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keiko Hirukawa
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Patent number: 12294729Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 1, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu-Chiao Yang, Chih-Yu Teng
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Patent number: 12294682Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Chikara Matsuda
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Patent number: 12292702Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ikuya Kajiura
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Patent number: 12288517Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohzoh Nakamura
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Patent number: 12288769Abstract: A micro-LED mounting substrate includes a wiring line substrate provided with at least a plurality of substrate-side connecting portions on one plate surface, a plurality of micro-LEDs disposed side by side in the one plate surface of the wiring line substrate and each including at least a light-emitting face and an LED-side connecting portion provided on a surface opposite to the light-emitting face and connected to the substrate-side connecting portion, a first positioning portion provided on at least a portion of the plurality of micro-LEDs, and facing an installation surface of the substrate-side connecting portion of the wiring line substrate, and a second positioning portion provided on the installation surface of the substrate-side connecting portion of the wiring line substrate and capable of positioning the micro-LEDs including the first positioning portion by being recess-projection-fitted to the first positioning portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyuki Harumoto, Yoshito Hashimoto
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Patent number: 12289257Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi
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Patent number: 12289169Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine a subslot structure for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetition for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) transmissions. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the PUCCH repetition for the URLLC transmissions based on the subslot structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Zhanping Yin
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Patent number: 12289446Abstract: A device may be configured to perform filtering based on information included in a neural network post-filter characteristics message. In one example, the neural network post-filter characteristics message includes a syntax element specifying the bit depth of luma sample values output by the post-processing filter and a syntax element specifying the bit depth of chroma sample values output by the post-processing filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Patent number: 12285939Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an operation acceptor; a transporter transporting paper along a transport path; an image former forming an image on the paper on the basis of image data; a paper detector detecting a transport status of the paper on the basis of detection results of paper detection sensors provided at various locations on the transport path; a display; a storage storing a predetermined image showing an assumed jam status of the paper and predetermined guidance for clearing the jam status of the paper when a jam occurs while the paper is transported; and a controller. When the jam occurs while the paper is transported, the controller displays, in a user-selectable manner, a predetermined image showing the paper jam status according to the detection result of the paper detector. When the operation acceptor accepts a selection operation, the controller displays the guidance for clearing the paper jam status.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Michiaki Nishimura
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Patent number: 12289652Abstract: A wireless node that communicates over a radio interface with a wireless access node of a radio access network (RAN), the wireless node comprising: processor circuitry configured to establish, with the radio access node, dual connectivity (DC) comprising a first connection and a second connection, the first connection being relayed by an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node; receiver circuitry configured to receive from the IAB node a notification message indicating a radio link failure (RLF) on the first connection, and; transmitter circuitry configured to transmit, based on the notification message, a failure information message to the wireless access node using the second connection, wherein; the failure information message comprises information representing the RLF.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Atsushi Ishii
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Patent number: 12289471Abstract: An image decoding apparatus including a header decoder configured to decode, from coded data, a flag indicating whether dependent quantization is enabled and a flag prohibiting transform skip residual quantization, and a TU decoder configured to decode a transform coefficient in a TU block in an RRC mode in which a LAST position is coded, the LAST position corresponding to a decoding start position for the transform coefficient, or a TSRC mode in which the LAST position is not coded. The TU decoder performs dependent quantization in the RRC mode in a case that the transform coefficient for transform skip is decoded in the TSRC mode, and does not perform dependent quantization in the RRC mode in a case that the transform coefficient for transform skip is decoded in the RRC mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomonori Hashimoto, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
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Patent number: 12289468Abstract: The amount of memory required for CCLM prediction is reduced. The CCLM prediction parameter derivation unit (310442) derives a scale shift value corresponding to a luma difference value, and derives a CCLM prediction parameter, by shifting, by using the scale shift value, a value obtained by multiplying a value of a table referred to with a value obtained by performing right shift of the luma difference value by the scale shift value as an index and a chroma difference value. In addition, in a case of deriving a prediction image, a bit width is reduced by adaptively deriving a shift amount of a linear prediction parameter from the chroma difference value.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
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Patent number: 12288055Abstract: An electronic blackboard device that stores software of a plurality of functionalities includes: a touch panel that receives a user operation, a CPU that executes a piece of software of a functionality corresponding to the user operation, a usage history acquirer that acquires usage histories of the plurality of functionalities based on the execution of the piece of the software; an update information acquirer that acquires update information indicating update targets; a determiner that determines a functionality to be preferentially updated among the update targets based on the usage histories; and a display that provides an update notification to prompt update of the functionality thus determined.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Miyano
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Patent number: 12289944Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: an electron transport layer; a hole transport layer; and a light-emitting layer between the electron transport layer and the hole transport layer, the light-emitting layer including: quantum dots; and ligands coordinated to the quantum dots, wherein the ligands in the light-emitting layer have a lower concentration on an electron transport layer side of the light-emitting layer than on a hole transport layer side of the light-emitting layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke Honda, Yoshihiro Ueta
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Patent number: 12289674Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) comprises control circuitry and transmission and reception circuitry. The transmission and reception circuitry is configured to receive, from an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), a first configuration update command message including a rejected Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) including a Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information for which a maximum number of UEs has been reached, a cause value indicating that the S-NSSAI is not available due to the maximum number of UEs being reached, and a back-off timer value for the S-NSSAI. The control circuitry is configured to start a timer with the back-off timer value for the S-NSSAI. The transmission and reception circuitry is further configured not to attempt to use the S-NSSAI while the back-off timer is running.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuo Sugawara