Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 10708535Abstract: There is provided a light output system (100) including a speaker (170), a light output unit (135, 130), and a processor 110 to cause first audio and second audio to be output from the speaker (170) and cause the light output unit (135, 130) to output light corresponding to the second audio output.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Abe, Hideki Nishimura, Shusaku Mizukami, Hironori Inoue
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Patent number: 10702702Abstract: A light irradiation substrate is provided which can cope with cases of emergency and which is capable of optimum irradiation with therapeutic light regardless of the shape or size of affected parts while keeping a lid on cost. The center-to-center distance between two adjacent LED chips (13) facing each other across the boundary between two unit substrates (7) adjacent to each other in an X direction or (a Y direction) and belonging to the respective unit substrates (7) is twice or less as long as the center-to-center distance between two LED chips (13) adjacent to each other in the X direction (or the Y direction) within each of the unit substrates (7). Each of the unit substrates (7) includes a connection section (10) that provides external connection of wires (12). The connection section (10) is provided on a back surface of a flexible substrate (6).Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuji Iguchi, Jun Mori, Tohru Nakanishi
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Patent number: 10705395Abstract: A display apparatus (100) having a displaying region (RD) of a non-rectangular shape includes: a plurality of gate lines (22) being disposed in the displaying region (RD) and extending along a first direction; a plurality of source lines (24) extending along a second direction; a plurality of gate drivers (20G) and a plurality of source drivers (20S) disposed in the frame region (RF); and a gate connection line (26) being provided in the displaying region (RD) so as to extend along a direction which intersects the first direction and connected to one of the gate drivers (20G) and one of the plurality of gate lines (22). A region in which the plurality of gate drivers (20G) are provided and a region in which the plurality of source drivers (20S) are provided are opposite from each other, with the displaying region (RD) being interposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Takehisa Yoshida
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Patent number: 10705032Abstract: An x-ray inspection device includes an x-ray irradiation unit that irradiates an object for inspection with an x-ray; a sensor that detects an electric signal corresponding to a back-scattered x-ray reflected off the object for inspection; a measurement unit that measures the object for inspection with reference to the electric signal output by the sensor; and a heavy metal plate having a pinhole that allows the back-scattered x-ray to pass therethrough, the pinhole forming an image of the back-scattered x-ray on the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hiroaki Miyoshi, Takeshi Fujiwara, Hidetoshi Kato, Ryoichi Suzuki
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Patent number: 10705375Abstract: A backlight unit includes side emitting-type LEDs, a light guide plate, and an LED board. The light guide plate includes a light entering end surface, a light exiting plate surface, and an opposite plate surface. The LED board includes a plate surface attached to an edge of the opposite plate surface of the light guide plate. A gap is present between light emitting surfaces of the LEDs and the light entering end surface of the light guide plate. Each LED includes a light emitting surface having a dimension in the thickness direction of the light guide plate smaller than a dimension of the light entering end surface in the thickness direction. Each LED is disposed such that the center of the light emitting surface is opposed to the center of the light entering end surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Hirotoshi Yasunaga, Ryuzo Yuki, Mitsuhiro Murata
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Patent number: 10708949Abstract: A terminal apparatus (1) capable of efficiently performing a random access procedure includes a medium access control layer processing unit (15) for starting a random access procedure based on a PDCCH order, a transmitter (10) for transmitting a random access preamble by using a Physical Random Access CHannel (PRACH), and a transmit power controller (17) for setting transmit power for transmitting the random access preamble based on a transmission counter, in which the transmission counter is configured at least based on a first piece of information and a second piece of information included in the PDCCH order, the first piece of information is used for indicating the random access preamble, and the second piece of information is used for selecting a resource of the PRACH.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Wataru Ohuchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu
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Patent number: 10705392Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a functional unit internally or exteriorly installed in the display panel, a first flexible substrate and connected to one end part of the display panel, a signal-transmission substrate connected to another end part of the first flexible substrate and configured to transmit a driving signal to the first flexible substrate, a driving component mounted on the first flexible substrate and configured to process and supply a signal from the signal-transmission substrate to the display panel to drive the display panel and display an image, and a second flexible substrate having one end part that is connected to the functional unit and another end part that is connected to a part of the first flexible substrate that is closer to the display panel than a display panel side end edge of the driving component that is mounted on the first flexible substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masayuki Ohashi
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Patent number: 10707350Abstract: A source terminal section of a TFT substrate includes a source terminal lower connection section included in a gate metal layer, and a source terminal upper connection section included in a conductive layer. A source gate connection section includes a source lower connection wiring line included in the gate metal layer and connected to the source terminal lower connection section, a source bus connection section included in a source metal layer and connected to a source bus line, and a source upper connection section included in a conductive layer, and the source upper connection section is in contact with the source lower connection wiring line within a third opening formed in a gate insulating layer and in contact with the source bus connection section within a fifth opening formed in an interlayer insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsunori Misaki
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Patent number: 10706238Abstract: A language setting apparatus includes a first control unit, a second control unit, a reception unit, a storage unit, and a first determination unit. The storage unit stores first correspondence information in which each of a plurality of first candidate languages corresponds to an associated one of a plurality of second candidate languages. The first determination unit determines a display language of the second control unit based on the first correspondence information and a reception language representing a language which is received and which is included in the plurality of first candidate languages. The second control unit sets the display language of the second control unit determined as the display language of the second control unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Uratani, Shoji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10706819Abstract: A display apparatus, which outputs a representation of content data, includes a communicator that obtains from a content distribution apparatus the content data and robot operation data used for operating a robotic device, a storage that stores the content data and the robot operation data, and a controller that transmits the robot operation data to the robotic device connected the display apparatus when the display apparatus outputs the representation of the content data.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuo Nishiura
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Patent number: 10705396Abstract: A circuit board includes first wiring, a first wiring arrangement region, first unit inspection sections, second wirings, a second wiring arrangement region, and second unit inspection sections. The first wirings are arranged regularly. The first wirings are arranged in the first wiring arrangement region. The first unit inspection sections are arranged in the first wiring arrangement region at given intervals and are a target for inspection images. The second wiring arrangement region is adjacent to the first wiring arrangement region. The second wirings are arranged in the second wirings. The second unit inspection sections are arranged in the second wiring arrangement region at given intervals and are occasionally the target for the inspection images. The second unit inspection sections are arranged in the second wiring arrangement region in an identical pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshimi Maeda
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Patent number: 10705398Abstract: An array board 11b includes a display section AA, a source line 20 connected to the display section AA, a test circuit 40 connected to the source line 20 and configured to test the display section AA, a panel-side image input terminal that is disposed such that the test circuit 40 is between the terminal and the display section AA and to which a signal to be supplied to the source line 20 is input, a terminal connection line 51 connecting the source line 20 to the pane-side image input terminal 35A and the terminal connection line 51 including the terminal connection line 51 at least a part of which overlaps the test circuit 40 and a flattening film (insulation film) 28 at least disposed between an overlapping portion of the test circuit 40 and the terminal connection line 51.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yohsuke Fujikawa
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Patent number: 10702112Abstract: A self-propelled electronic device including: at least one drive wheel disposed at a bottom of a housing, the drive wheel traveling the housing while being displaced in a vertical direction in accordance with undulations of a floor surface; a drive wheel sensor for detecting a position of the drive wheel relative to the housing; a floor detection sensor for detecting a distance between the bottom of the housing and the floor surface; and a travel control unit for determining and deciding a course of the housing based on the determination that there exists a step on the floor surface if the distance detected by the floor detection sensor is longer than a predetermined reference distance, or, otherwise, the position of the drive wheel detected by the drive wheel sensor is lower than a predetermined reference position, by successively referring to output of the drive wheel sensor and the floor detection sensor, wherein, if the position of the drive wheel detected by the drive wheel sensor is lower than a predeteType: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori Tsuboi, Toshihiro Senoo
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Patent number: 10707944Abstract: A wireless communication device may autonomously transition from a multiple antenna port mode to a single antenna port mode. The wireless communication device may implicitly notify a base station about the autonomous transition from the multiple antenna port mode to the single antenna port mode. The base station may reallocate resources that were previously allocated to the wireless communication device but that are no longer being used by the wireless communication device. In some cases, the base station may configure the wireless communication device's antenna port mode via radio resource control signaling.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kimihiko Imamura, John Michael Kowalski, Sayantan Choudhury
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Patent number: 10706803Abstract: Provided is a shift register circuit capable of preventing occurrence of malfunction caused by a threshold shift of a thin-film transistor due to an influence of external light. A unit circuit constituting each stage of the shift register circuit includes a plurality of thin-film transistors. The plurality of thin-film transistors are categorized into a first group (T2, T4, T9) whose on-off state is controlled at relatively high on-duty and a second group (T1, T3, T5, T6, T7, T8) whose on-off state is controlled at relatively low on-duty. In such a configuration, a light shielding film (LS) is provided only for the thin-film transistor included in one of the first group and the second group.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shige Furuta, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Junichi Yamada, Hidekazu Yamanaka, Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami
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Patent number: 10708460Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an intruder detecting unit that detects an intruder, a notification unit that notifies detection of the intruder, an intruder detection mode execution unit that executes an intruder detection mode to cause the notification unit to notify the detection of the intruder if the intruder is detected with the intruder detecting unit operating, a job reception unit that receives an instruction to perform a job, and an image forming unit that forms an image. The intruder detection mode execution unit suspends the intruder detection mode for a predetermined suspension time period if the job reception unit receives the instruction to perform a predetermined specific job while the intruder detection mode execution unit executes the intruder detection mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Daiki Yashima
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Patent number: 10707263Abstract: The thickness of an embedding film in a pixel region is adjusted without adding a step. A method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor (100) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a development step of removing a photosensitive material (M) in a peripheral circuit region (30) and reducing and adjusting the thickness of the photosensitive material (M) that is in a pixel region (20) and on a multilayered wiring layer (5) to a desired film thickness.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki Kawano, Tomoaki Arakawa
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Patent number: 10707204Abstract: A composite semiconductor device with improved response performance and reliability is provided while an increase in wiring area being suppressed. Fingers 1 are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. A signal inputted via a gate terminal (3) is supplied from intermediate regions in a row-wise direction of gate wires (18) connected to gate electrodes (G) of the same row or two adjacent rows of fingers 1 of the fingers 1 and formed along the rows.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Seiichiro Kihara
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Patent number: 10705276Abstract: A lighting device includes light sources having light emission surfaces, a light guide plate having a light entering edge surface, and a light collecting member. The dimension of each light emission surface perpendicular to the extending direction of the light entering edge surface is greater than a thickness of the light guide plate. The light collecting member includes light collecting holes through which the light from the light sources is collected to the light entering edge surface and each of which includes a light source side hole edge section and a light guide plate side hole edge section. The light source side hole edge section is opposite the light source and has an inner area and the light guide plate side hole edge section is opposite the light entering edge surface and has an inner area smaller than the inner area of the light source side hole edge section.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junichi Masuda
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Patent number: 10706808Abstract: Provided is a video signal line driver circuit capable of displaying a video with a high viewing quality even when gradation voltages of the same value are simultaneously selected as analog video signals. A voltage ladder 87 of a source driver 50 has formed therein gradation voltage supplement lines 91 extending to the outside of the source driver 50 from output terminals for outputting generated gradation voltages. The gradation voltage supplement lines 91 are grounded outside the source driver 50 via voltage supplement capacitors 90. Accordingly, even when gradation voltages of the same value are simultaneously selected as analog video signals, the voltage supplement capacitors 90 provide necessary current supplement to the voltage ladder 87, thereby inhibiting potential drop across the output terminals for outputting gradation voltages.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohji Nagasaka, Takashi Sasaki, Tatsuya Nakamoto