Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11868669
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a setting history storage that stores a setting history being a history of a setting value when a job is executed; a list displayer that displays a list of the setting history; a setting screen displayer that displays, in a case where the setting history is selected, a setting screen on which the setting value included in the selected setting history is input; and a job executer that executes a job, based on the setting value input on the setting screen. The list displayer displays a list including the setting history for which authentication information is required, in a case where a job based on the setting value is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Ido
  • Patent number: 11871615
    Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate; a TFT layer including a plurality of pixel circuits arranged; and a light-emitting element layer. Each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes: a TFT including a semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode; and a capacitor including the gate electrode, a first inorganic insulating film, and a capacitive electrode. The capacitive electrode extends all around a perimeter of the gate electrode and extends to an outside of the perimeter. An angle formed between an upper surface of the base substrate and at least a part of an end surface in a circumferential direction of the gate electrode not overlapping the semiconductor layer in the plan view is greater than an angle formed between the upper surface of the base substrate and an end surface of the gate electrode overlapping the semiconductor layer in the plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takao Saitoh, Masahiko Miwa, Yohsuke Kanzaki, Masaki Yamanaka, Yi Sun
  • Publication number: 20240008357
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a light-emitting layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a material having a perovskite structure, and a blocking layer provided in at least one of a position between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer or a position between the second electrode and the light-emitting layer, and configured to suppress migration of charges from the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: MANABU NIBOSHI, YUTO TSUKAMOTO, TOKIYOSHI UMEDA
  • Patent number: 11864297
    Abstract: A heating cooking apparatus includes a heating chamber, a main body outer case, a fan, a first duct member, and an air sending unit. The fan is disposed in a first space. The first space is formed between an outer surface of the heating chamber and an inner surface of the main body outer case. The first duct member is attached to the outer surface of the heating chamber. The first duct member separates a blown air flow into a first air flow and a second air flow. The first air flow flows inside the first duct member. The second air flow flows outside the first duct member. The air sending unit includes an air sending chamber and a heater. The heater is located in the air sending chamber. The air sending chamber is disposed at a position where the air sending chamber is exposed to the first air flow and is not exposed to the second air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Asami
  • Patent number: 11862423
    Abstract: A relay control circuit is configured to control opening and closing of a contact of a non-latch relay that includes the contact and a coil configured to operate the contact. The relay control circuit includes: a low-voltage power supply; a high-voltage power supply; a first transistor; a rectifying element; and a reference voltage node. A high-voltage terminal of the first transistor is connected to a positive electrode of the high-voltage power supply. A low-voltage terminal of the first transistor is connected to one end of the coil. An anode of the rectifying element is connected to a positive electrode of the low-voltage power supply. A cathode of the rectifying element is connected to one end of the coil. A negative electrode of the high-voltage power supply, a negative electrode of the low-voltage power supply, and the other end of the coil are connected to the reference voltage node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Shiomi
  • Patent number: 11863326
    Abstract: A base station which communicates with a user equipment (UE) is described. The RRC configuration information may indicate that a maximum number of codewords scheduled by DCI is two. The base station may comprise transmitting circuitry configured to, after a channel access procedure, transmit, to the UE, a PDSCH which contains only a first transport block. The base station may further comprise receiving circuitry configured to receive, from the UE, a HARQ-ACK feedback including at least a first HARQ-ACK information bit and a second HARQ-ACK information bit. The first HARQ-ACK information bit may correspond to the first transport block of the PDSCH. The second HARQ-ACK information bit may be set to NACK. A contention window for the channel access procedure may be adjusted using the HARQ-ACK feedback, wherein the second HARQ-ACK information bit may be ignored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: 11864402
    Abstract: A top emitting quantum dot light emitting diode (QLED) apparatus for an emissive display apparatus sub-pixel, with at least one bank defining an emissive region of the emissive display apparatus sub-pixel, includes an emissive layer deposited in the emissive region between a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode includes a reflective metal, and the second electrode has a transparent conductive electrode and an auxiliary electrode. The bank has a sloped portion adjacent the emissive region. The auxiliary electrode includes a reflective conductive metal and is configured to cover the sloped portion, and the sloped portion is configured at an angle, such that the auxiliary electrode reflects internally reflected light out of the sub-pixel in a viewing direction, and the auxiliary electrode is configured with a partially light scattering surface to broaden a reflective angle range of the auxiliary electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hywel Hopkin
  • Patent number: 11864198
    Abstract: A receiver receives one or multiple first DCI formats, one or multiple second DCI formats, and a third DCI format. The third DCI format does not include a PDSCH group indication field. A PDSCH scheduled by the third DCI format is included in a first PDSCH group. A transmitter transmits a first HARQ-ACK codebook for the first PDSCH group, and/or a second HARQ-ACK codebook for the second PDSCH group. The third DCI format schedules a PDSCH. In a case that the third DCI format is detected, the transmitter transmits an HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to the PDSCH scheduled by the third DCI format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Huifa Lin, Shoichi Suzuki, Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11863764
    Abstract: A device is provided with: a first transformer which transforms an coding unit (CU); and a second transformer which transforms a part of first transform coefficients output from the first transformer, wherein the second transformer transforms at least any of the first transform coefficients for a region (first region) having different sizes in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction or the first transform coefficients for a non-rectangular region (second region).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoko Aono, Tomohiro Ikai
  • Patent number: 11864434
    Abstract: In an organic EL display device including a proximity sensor, deterioration in display quality due to irradiation with IR light is suppressed. In the organic EL display device including the proximity sensor is provided with a light shielding unit that prevents a channel layer of a first initialization transistor from being irradiated with IR light, the first initialization transistor being provided in a pixel circuit in order to initialize a voltage that is applied to a control terminal of a drive transistor. The first initialization transistor preferably has a dual-gate structure. The first initialization transistor may have a LDD structure (including a one-side LDD structure).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigetsugu Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11864436
    Abstract: A display panel includes a frame region surrounding a display region. The frame region includes: a frame corner including a round corner having a curved outline in plan view of the display panel; and two sides provided so that the frame corner is sandwiched between the two sides. The two sides include: a first frame side in parallel with gate wires; and a second frame side in parallel with source wires. A gate driver and an emission driver are divided and provided to the first frame side and the second frame side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisao Ochi, Jumpei Takahashi, Tohru Sonoda
  • Patent number: 11861253
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes: a character recognition processor which reads an image of a document and extracts text information in the document; a setting manager which manages settings including a setting to allow or prohibit a function of character recognition; a job controller which controls job execution related to reading of the document; and an operation controller which provides a setting menu to receive a setting of at least one item related to the job execution and receives a setting, in which when the function of the character recognition is set to be prohibited, the operation controller hides a function that requires the character recognition from the setting menu or indicates that the function is not to be set, and when the function that requires the character recognition has already been set, the operation controller enables the function to be replaced by another function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuya Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 11863717
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a scanner unit that scans a document including a plurality of pages and reads an image of each of the pages; an image processing unit that determines characteristics of each page of the read images and performs image processing in accordance with the characteristics; a display device that previews the processed image of each page; an operation detection device that accepts a setting of an extraction condition related to the characteristics; and a controller that extracts, based on the set extraction condition, and previews a read image of a page having determination accuracy pertaining to the characteristics below a predetermined standard among the images processed for each page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Ohwaku
  • Patent number: 11861140
    Abstract: A system including: a control device; a storage device that stores a file; a display device; and a voice device, wherein the control device displays a list of first identification display for specifying the file on the display device when voice of a command for displaying a list is input from a user via the voice device, the control device assigns an identification code to the file displayed in the list, and displays the identification code as second identification display, and the control device selects the file corresponding to the identification code when voice including the identification code is input from the user via the voice device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Munetomo, Keiko Hirukawa, Yuuki Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11854478
    Abstract: The present application discloses a current-driven display device that can perform accurate external compensation in consideration of a temperature distribution in a display panel while preventing the configuration from being complicated. A display portion of an organic EL display device is provided with a plurality of temperature detection circuits in addition to pixel circuits arranged in a matrix. A data-side drive circuit measures a current flowing through a transistor in each temperature detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Moriya, Masafumi Ueno, Naoki Shiobara
  • Patent number: 11856233
    Abstract: A method of decoding video data includes receiving a first decoding unit information message corresponding to a first decoding unit of a current access unit, determining a syntax element used to compute a decoded picture buffer output time of the current access unit is not present in the first decoding unit information message, and based on the syntax element not being present in the first decoding unit information message, inferring the value of the syntax element to be equal to a value of a corresponding instance of the syntax element in a second decoding unit information message, wherein the second decoding unit information corresponds to a second decoding unit belonging to the current access unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11854483
    Abstract: The present application discloses a current-driven display device of an internal compensation type in which threshold compensation of a drive transistor is appropriately performed without causing a decrease in display quality or a decrease in yield during manufacturing, and display luminance is improved while a drive voltage is maintained. A pixel circuit 15 in the display device includes first and second drive transistors M1a, M1b, and the gate terminals thereof are connected to each other and connected to a holding capacitor Cs. During the data write period, a voltage of a corresponding data signal line Dj is written to the holding capacitor Cs via the first drive transistor M1a, having been set in a diode connection mode by a threshold compensation transistor M3, to perform data writing accompanied by threshold compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Ueda, Ryohei Morita
  • Patent number: 11856827
    Abstract: A display device includes: a semiconductor layer; a gate insulating film; a first display wire; a first interlayer insulating film; a second display wire; a second interlayer insulating film; and a third display wire stacked on a substrate in this order, pixel circuits being provided corresponding to intersections of data signal lines and scanning signal lines included in the third display wire, each of the pixel circuits including a first transistor and a second transistor in which any one of the scanning signal lines overlaps the semiconductor layer through the gate insulating film, one terminal of the first transistor and one terminal of the second transistor are connected together through a connector included in a conductor region of the semiconductor layer, and the connector includes an overlap connector overlapped in a plan view with the data signal lines through a constant potential wires included in the first display wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tamotsu Sakai, Tetsuya Ueno
  • Patent number: 11852924
    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: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Mori
  • Patent number: 11856169
    Abstract: A display device includes a non-translucent cover, a light source provided inside the cover, and a translucent light display that is transmissive to light from the light source. The light display has a protrusion disposed in a through opening of the cover. The protrusion fitted into the through opening from the inside spans a first side surface and a second side surface of the cover, and protrudes outward from the outer surface of the cover to form a light guide. The light guide has a smaller thickness in a corner portion corresponding to a connection region between the first side surface and the second side surface than in other portions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takenori Ohtoshi