Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 11887541Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of light-emission control lines; a plurality of pixel circuits each including a light-emitting element; a scanning line drive circuit that drives the scanning lines based on a first clock signal; a data line drive circuit that drives the data lines; a light-emission control line drive circuit that drives the light-emission control lines based on a second clock signal; and a display control circuit that outputs at least the first and second clock signals. The display control circuit classifies a frame period into a scanning period and a pause period, and during the pause period, the display control circuit stops the first clock signal and makes a frequency of the second clock signal lower than that during the scanning period. This further reduces the power consumption of the display device that performs low-frequency driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Seiichi Uchida
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Patent number: 11889446Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by user equipment, comprising: receiving a timing advance command in a slot n; and determining, according to the slot n in which the timing advance command is received and/or other information related to an uplink transmission timing adjustment, time to apply the uplink transmission timing adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chao Luo, Renmao Liu, Shoichi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11887510Abstract: A rollable electronic apparatus being windable, includes: a flexible electronic device; a flexible cable; a circuit substrate; and a support body having a tubular body, wherein the flexible electronic device includes a terminal portion, the flexible cable connects the terminal portion and the circuit substrate, a drive circuit is mounted on the circuit substrate, the flexible electronic device and the flexible cable are wound on an outer circumferential surface of the support body by rotating the support body, the support body has, in a cross-sectional view, two curved portions and a planar portion connecting the two curved portions, and the circuit substrate is stored in the planar portion in a state in which the flexible cable is wound.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuyuki Suga, Yuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 11889728Abstract: A display device includes: a resin substrate; a TFT layer; and a light-emitting element. A bending portion is provided with a first resin film formed of the same material and in the same layer as those of a first flattening film, and the first resin film fills a slit. An upper face of the first resin film is provided with a plurality of first connection wiring lines formed of a third metal film, and the plurality of first connection wiring lines extend in parallel to each other in a direction intersecting the extending direction of the bending portion. The plurality of first connection wiring lines are electrically connected to a plurality of first lead-out wiring lines, respectively in a display region side of the slit, and electrically connected to a plurality of second lead-out wiring lines, respectively in a terminal portion side of the slit.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinji Ichikawa, Shinsuke Saida, Shoji Okazaki, Tokuo Yoshida, Hiroki Taniyama, Kohji Ariga, Hiroharu Jinmura, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Yoshihiro Kohara, Koji Tanimura
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Patent number: 11884869Abstract: Provided are a latent heat storage material that changes the phase within a prescribed temperature range, and a cold storage tool, a logistic packaging container, and a food cold storage tool each using the latent heat storage material, and a cooling method. The latent heat storage material includes a tetrabutylammonium ion and a bromide ion constituting tetrabutylammonium bromide, a potassium ion and a nitrate ion constituting potassium nitrate, and water. The molar ratio of potassium nitrate to tetrabutylammonium bromide is 0.3 or more and 1.3 or less, and the molar ratio of water to tetrabutylammonium bromide is 22 or more and 32 or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masakazu Kamura, Kyohei Sezukuri, Yuka Utsumi
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Patent number: 11886762Abstract: A printing control system comprising: a plurality of image forming apparatuses set as parent units; and a plurality of image forming apparatuses set as child units, all of which are connected together through a network, wherein a child of the child units unit obtains a job list response from any one of the parent units either storing a print data item to be identified with a job name of a print data item included in a job list information item requested by a job list request, or not storing the print data item.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhiro Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 11889070Abstract: A filtered image with enhanced image quality is output. Provided is a loop filter including: a filtering processing unit configured to apply a filter to an unfiltered image; and an ALF unit configured to receive input of a DL image to which a filter is applied by a first filtering processing unit out of the filtering processing unit. The ALF unit further receives input of the unfiltered image.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Norio Itoh, Takeshi Chujoh, Yasuaki Tokumo, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 11884868Abstract: Provided are a latent heat storage material having a melting point within a prescribed temperature range; a latent heat. The latent heat storage material includes a compound (A) represented by a formula (A), an inorganic salt (B) represented by a formula (B) and composed of a cation of an alkali metal and an anion of the same element as the anion of the quaternary alkyl salt, and water. The compound (A) is a material that forms a clathrate hydrate together with the water, the composition ratio of the compound (A) and water is a composition ratio that gives a congruent melting point of the clathrate hydrate, and the molar ratio of the inorganic salt (B) to the compound (A) is 0.1 or more and 10 or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masakazu Kamura, Hwisim Hwang, Kyohei Sezukuri, Yuka Utsumi
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Patent number: 11887518Abstract: A display device includes a first liquid crystal panel, a second liquid crystal panel disposed on a back face side of the first liquid crystal panel, a position compensation unit that compensates for a display position of an image on the second liquid crystal panel based on position compensation information indicating a relative positional relationship between the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel, and an area expansion unit that expands a displayable area of the image before the display position is compensated for or a displayable area of the image after the display position is compensated for by the position compensation unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tatsunori Nakamura
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Patent number: 11889729Abstract: A display device includes a short ring TFT, wherein the short ring TFT includes a semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, a first gate insulating film provided between the semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode, and a second gate insulating film provided between the semiconductor layer and the second gate electrode, one of a pair of adjacent lead-out wiring lines is electrically connected to a source region of the semiconductor layer, the other of the pair of adjacent lead-out wiring lines is electrically connected to a drain region of the semiconductor layer, one of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode is electrically connected to the source region or the drain region, and the other of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode is electrically connected to a threshold value control wiring line.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Takeshi Yaneda
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Patent number: 11889092Abstract: A mechanism is provided that implements video coding and decoding such that only a specific partial image region on a screen can be independently decoded. A video decoding apparatus (31) according to an aspect of the present invention configures, in intra prediction, inter prediction, loop filter processing, or the like, a partial image region in a picture, handles a region outside the partial image region in a similar manner to a region outside the picture, and does not apply such restriction to a non-partial image region other than the partial image region in the picture.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Takeshi Chujoh, Yukinobu Yasugi, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomoko Aono, Tomohiro Ikai
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Patent number: 11889324Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is provided. The UE includes higher layer circuitry configured to receive first information to configure a sidelink bandwidth part (BWP) and second information to configure one or more resource pools for sidelink transmission and/or reception. The UE further includes transmission circuitry configured to transmit a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The first information includes a configuration of numerologies for the PSCCH and PSSCH and the second information includes a configuration of one or more resource pools for the PSCCH and PSSCH within the sidelink BWP.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Tatsushi Aiba, Jia Sheng
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Patent number: 11883999Abstract: A synthetic polymer film (35), (36) having a surface which has a plurality of raised portions (35p), (36p), wherein a two-dimensional size of the plurality of raised portions is in a range of more than 20 nm and less than 500 nm when viewed in a normal direction of the synthetic polymer film, the surface having a microbicidal effect, and the synthetic polymer film includes a fluorine element in such a profile that a fluorine content is not constant in a thickness direction but is higher in a portion closer to the plurality of raised portions than in a portion farther from the plurality of raised portions.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Nakahara, Hidekazu Hayashi
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Patent number: 11889118Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling types of pictures for coded video. In particular, this disclosure describes techniques for enabling and signaling a so-called gradual random access picture. According to an aspect of an invention, a second syntax element is decoded by using a value of a first syntax element wherein the first syntax element indicates a picture is a random access picture having a recovery point picture and the second syntax element specifies a first picture order count value of the recovery point picture.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Patent number: 11889035Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. When the service ends, the forgotten item notification screen is displayed on the display. In the forgotten item notification screen, a forgotten item reminder unit is provided for reminding a user who left behind a reminder target item, including the property of the user used in connection with the service. An individual reminder section is provided in a forgotten item reminder unit, to give an individual reminder to prevent the occurrence of leaving behind of each reminder target item, for a first-type item for which retrieval cannot be detected and a second-type item for which retrieval can be detected but which has not been retrieved, from among the reminder target items.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Publication number: 20240028718Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a primary communication circuit for communication with an external device via a primary line; a secondary communication circuit for communication with a specific device via a secondary line; a transmission/reception processor communicating with the external device via the primary line or the specific device via the secondary line to acquire virus definition information from the external device or the specific device; a virus checker performing a virus check using the acquired virus definition information; and a line selector selecting communication using the primary communication circuit or communication using the secondary communication circuit. In a state where the communication via the primary line can no longer be established, the line selector selects the secondary line. In the case where the updated virus definition information is acquired via the secondary line, the virus checker performs the virus check by using such virus definition information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: YOHICHI KIMURA
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Publication number: 20240031500Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a reader that reads a document and generates first document data; a first extractor that extracts first character information included in the first document data; a second extractor that searches a storage device storing a plurality of pieces of document data and extracts one or more pieces of second document data including second character information related to the first character information; and an estimator that estimates a file name to be set for the first document data from the first character information, on basis of a naming rule for a file name of the second document data based on a relation between the second character information and the file name of the second document data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: MASAYA FUJITANI, TAKASHI USUI
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Patent number: 11881163Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Sato, Kenji Maeda, Shinji Yamamoto, Takuya Okamoto, Fumitaka Seki, Masafumi Ito, Yohichi Takazane
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Patent number: 11881685Abstract: An ion generation device includes a discharge electrode substrate, an induction electrode substrate, and an insulating resin. The discharge electrode substrate on which a discharge electrode is mounted and a first electrode connected to the discharge electrode is formed. The induction electrode substrate on which an induction electrode configured to generate a discharge between the induction electrode and the discharge electrode and a second electrode connected to the induction electrode are formed. The insulating resin is filled at least between the discharge electrode and the induction electrode. The insulating resin provides insulation between the discharge electrode and the induction electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed and face each other at least partially. The first electrode, the second electrode, and the insulating resin interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode form a capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Ohe, Tetsuya Ezaki, Satoshi Okano
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Patent number: 11880615Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes an accepting portion that accepts authentication information for identifying whether a user is an authorized user having a right to use the image formation apparatus; an authenticator that authenticates whether the user is the authorized user, based on the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion; and an adder that adds, to an image to be printed, tracking information including information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user by the authenticator. If the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion is single identification information, the adder adds, as the tracking information, to the image, user specifying information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user, the user specifying information being different from the single identification information.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sho Tsujimoto