Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 12732332
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes circuitry configured to determine that a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with high priority (HP) overlaps with multiple HP physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs) carrying HP hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgements (HARQ-ACKs). The circuitry is also configured to concatenate the HP HARQ-ACKs of the overlapping HP PUCCHs into a joint HARQ-ACK codebook. The circuitry is additionally configured to multiplex the concatenated HP HARQ-ACKs on the HP PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Kai Ying, Kazunari Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 12730394
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: a process unit that includes a photoreceptor drum and forms a toner image on the photoreceptor drum; an intermediate transfer belt having a surface onto which the toner image on the photoreceptor drum is intermediately transferred; an intermediate transfer roller whose position can be manually switched between a first position at which the surface of the intermediate transfer belt is brought into contact with the photoreceptor drum and a second position at which the intermediate transfer belt is separated from the photoreceptor drum; an image density sensor being a sensor that detects the toner image on the intermediate transfer belt, a position of the image density sensor relative to the intermediate transfer belt varying depending on whether the intermediate transfer roller is located at the first position or at the second position; and a controller that determines whether the intermediate transfer roller is located at the first position or at the second position based on a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 12732325
    Abstract: An energy harvesting transmitting wireless terminal for wirelessly communicating with a receiving wireless terminal is provided. The wireless terminal includes at least one processor that is configured to select a first Sidelink Position Reference Signal (SL-PRS) configuration from several SL-PRS configurations and determine whether the power required for transmitting the SL-PRS using the selected SL-PRS configuration satisfies a minimum receiving power threshold of the receiving wireless terminal. When the power does not satisfy the minimum receiving power threshold, the processor selects another SL-PRS configuration and repeats the determining and selecting until the power required for transmitting the SL-PRS using the selected SL-PRS configuration satisfies the minimum receiving power threshold or until the last SL-PRS configuration is not selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenneth James Park, Zhanping Yin, Tomoki Yoshimura, Rudraksh Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 12733045
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing method for relay user equipment (UE) and user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 12733336
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes a) forming an intermediate layer containing a first resin on a charge transport layer, b) forming a light-emitting layer containing a second resin, a second photosensitive material, and a first luminescent material on the intermediate layer, c) exposing the intermediate layer and the light-emitting layer in a predetermined pattern to obtain an exposed intermediate layer and an exposed light-emitting layer, respectively, and d) developing the exposed intermediate layer and the exposed light-emitting layer with a developing solution. A solubility of a second portion of the exposed intermediate layer dissolved in the developing solution and a solubility of a first portion of the exposed light-emitting layer dissolved in the developing solution are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Adachi, Yasushi Asaoka
  • Patent number: 12732982
    Abstract: A method of performing a non-codebook based physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), first downlink control information (DCI) including a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field that indicates a source reference signal (RS) for providing transmission beam information to the UE, receiving, from the BS, second DCI including a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indication (SRI) field that indicates an SRS resource in an SRS resource set with usage set to non-codebook (SRS-nCB) resource set for providing precoding information to the UE, and performing the non-codebook based PUSCH transmission according to the transmission beam information and the precoding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Chia-Hao Yu
  • Patent number: 12732333
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may include receiving circuitry configured to receive a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information used for configuring a Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) configuration, to receive a second RRC message comprising second information used for configuring that deferring of SPS hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) is supported, to receive a third RRC message comprising third information used for configuring cell switching (based on semi-static configuration and/or dynamic indication), and to receive, based on a detection of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) carrying a downlink control information (DCI) format with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a first radio network identifier (RNTI) for an activation of the SPS PDSCH, the SPS PDSCH transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kai Ying, Zhanping Yin
  • Patent number: 12733334
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; a light-emitting layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, and containing quantum dots and a first hole transport material; and a hole transport layer positioned between the first electrode and the light emitting layer, and containing a second hole transport material solubility of which to a solvent in which the quantum dots are soluble is lower than solubility of the first hole transport material. A difference in ionization potential between the second hole transport material and the first hole transport material is smaller than a difference in ionization potential between the second hole transport material and the quantum dots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kota Adachi, Yasushi Asaoka
  • Patent number: 12724376
    Abstract: A cleaning device that includes a cleaning blade for scraping away toner remaining on a surface of an image carrier is provided. The cleaning blade also scrapes away toner that remains on a respective seal member that is in contact with the surface of the image carrier at side end portions of the cleaning blade. The seal member includes a first sealant extending along a side end surface of the cleaning blade, and a second sealant extending from one end portion of the first sealant and extending along a tip surface of the cleaning blade. The second sealant extends to a position including a first region within a charging region and outside of a development region. An end portion on the cleaning blade side of the second sealant in the first region is angled away from the surface of the image carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 12725623
    Abstract: A voice processing system includes: a computation processing unit that computes a first transmission time when a first speech voice of a first user is input to a first wireless microphone speaker device carried by the first user and received by a voice processing device, and a second transmission time when the first speech voice of the first user is input to a wired microphone speaker device and received by the voice processing device; and an adjustment processing unit that adjusts a delay time of at least either of the first wireless microphone speaker device and the wired microphone speaker device, based on the first transmission time and the second transmission time to be computed by the computation processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuya Nishio
  • Patent number: 12726886
    Abstract: A communication system includes a management server, a plurality of master stations, and a plurality of slave stations, where a first slave station transmitting a search signal identifying a first master station which corresponds to the first slave station, each of the plurality of master stations, when having received the search signal, transmitting a report to the management server, the report including identification information of the master station, identification information of the first slave station, and signal information related to the search signal, and the management server determining the first master station, from among the plurality of master stations, which corresponds to the first slave station, based on a plurality of the reports respectively received from the plurality of master stations, and associating the first slave station and the first master station with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuya Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12726610
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling reference picture list entry information for coded video. In one example, a method of signaling reference picture list entry information (ref_pic_list_struct( )) for video data comprises signaling a syntax element (abs_delta_poc_st) specifying a value for a variable specifying an absolute delta picture order count for a short term reference picture, wherein the signaled value plus one specifies the value for variable in a case that a corresponding short term reference picture is a first occurring short term reference picture in a reference picture list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 12725119
    Abstract: A management server includes an acquisition processing circuit that acquires an individual delivery processing time when each of a plurality of storage shelves are arranged at each of a plurality of arrangement positions, a prediction processing circuit that acquires delivery prediction information of the storage shelf, an evaluation processing circuit that evaluates combination delivery processing times corresponding to a plurality of arrangement position combinations, based on the individual delivery processing time and the delivery prediction information, and a determination processing circuit that determines one arrangement position combination, from among the plurality of arrangement position combinations, based on the combination delivery processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Thinh Nguyenquang, Akihiro Yamakawa, Eiji Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 12725437
    Abstract: Provided is a technology or the like including an acquirer that acquires an input image, a character recognizer that performs character recognition processing for recognizing a character included in the input image based on a first setting, an image processer that executes image processing on the input image based on a result of the character recognition processing, an outputter that outputs an output file using at least one of a result of the image processing and the result of the character recognition processing, and a controller that restricts, when a second setting is set, a use of the result of the character recognition processing in the outputter regardless of the first setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoya Arifuku
  • Patent number: 12726661
    Abstract: A method of decoding video data includes: receiving a picture parameter set; parsing a first syntax element specifying whether a rectangular slice mode is in use for each picture referring to the picture parameter set; conditionally parsing a second syntax element in a case that the rectangular slice mode is in use; conditionally parsing a third syntax element in a case that the rectangular slice mode is in use and that each subpicture consists of a set of one or more rectangular slices; conditionally parsing a fourth syntax element based on a value of the third syntax element being greater than a threshold value; and conditionally parsing one of index delta value syntax elements associated with an index value in a case that the index delta value syntax elements are present and the index value is less than the value of the third syntax element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 12722919
    Abstract: A paper feeding apparatus includes: a pickup roller that pulls out, on a one-by-one basis, sheets stacked on a paper feeding cassette; a paper feeding roller that sends, to a conveyance path, a sheet pulled out by the pickup roller; a separation roller that abuts on the paper feeding roller and prevents double feeding of the sheets; a roller arrangement space in which the pickup roller, the paper feeding roller, and the separation roller are arranged; a work space that communicates with the roller arrangement space and is for taking out the pickup roller, the paper feeding roller, or the separation roller; a guide portion that closes the work space so that the sheet can pass through the work space and guides the sheets stacked on the paper feeding cassette to the conveyance path; and a roller cover that is arranged in the guide portion and exposes the work space. The roller cover is arranged slidably in an insertion and removal direction of the paper feeding cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Shibayama
  • Patent number: 12724381
    Abstract: A developing device includes: a developing device body including a vent opening that releases internal pressure, and a filter member including a filter that closes the vent opening, the filter member detachably attached to the developing device body; wherein the filter member is subjected to an attaching operation and a detaching operation, relative to the developing device body, in a state where an inner surface of the filter is in a predetermined first posture with the inner surface facing upward; and wherein the filter member is held on the developing device body in a state where the inner surface of the filter is in a predetermined second posture different from the first posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki Kurimoto, Satoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 12720950
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: a first electrode; a first charge transport layer; a silicide layer containing silicide; a light-emitting layer; and a second electrode, all of which are provided in this order. The first charge transport layer and the light-emitting layer are adjacent to each other via the silicide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Ueta
  • Patent number: 12717268
    Abstract: An image forming device according to the disclosure includes a document feeding device provided with a cylindrical member including a through hole attached thereto, an image reading device including an insertion hole extending in a vertical direction, allowing insertion of the cylindrical member, and a cable wired along a bottom surface of the image reading device from inside the document feeding device through the through hole. A lower end portion of the insertion hole is provided with an inclined surface downwardly increasing in distance from the cylindrical member. When the document feeding device moves upward relative to the image reading device, the cylindrical member and the cable are pulled upward along the through hole, and the cable moves and is wired along the inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Reishi Aoki, Hisashi Yamanaka, Shohichi Fukutome, Yasumasa Morimoto, Atsuo Nakao
  • Patent number: 12717129
    Abstract: A rotational direction of a multi-beam light source around a rotational axis is made different to a side where a sub-scanning width in a sub-scanning direction of a plurality of light beams is made smaller between a case of one-side incidence in which the plurality of light beams are made incident to the rotary polygon mirror from either one of sides in the rotary axis direction of a rotary polygon mirror and a case of the other-side incidence in which the plurality of light beams are made incident to the rotary polygon mirror from the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenzo Ohkubo, Takayuki Ohno