Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11887518
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11889092
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Takeshi Chujoh, Yukinobu Yasugi, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomoko Aono, Tomohiro Ikai
  • Publication number: 20240031500
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: MASAYA FUJITANI, TAKASHI USUI
  • Publication number: 20240028718
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: YOHICHI KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11880613
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a CPU, the CPU stores, in an HDD, a print job received via a network connection circuit. The CPU analyzes PDL data for each page of the print job, and executes a PDL process for generating bitmap data. When an unrecoverable error occurs in analyzing of the PDL data, only the PDL process is restarted, a print job in which an unrecoverable error occurs is re-input, and analysis is resumed from the page in which the unrecoverable error occurs. When an unrecoverable error occurs on the same page again, only the PDL process is restarted again, the page in which the previous unrecoverable error occurs is skipped, and analysis and printing of a next page are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuya Kitayama
  • Patent number: 11882478
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a user equipment (UE). The UE comprises at least one of a transmission unit and a reception unit, wherein the at least one of the transmission unit and the reception unit receives, from a core network, a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment reject message including first identification information, the first identification information indicating behaviors of the UE after a first public land mobile network (PLMN) is changed; and a controller, wherein the controller: does not stop, when the first PLMN is changed, a back-off timer for congestion management based on single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI), the back-off timer being activated in the first PLMN; and determines, based on the first identification information, whether initiation of a procedure for the S-NSSAI in a second PLMN is allowed after the first PLMN is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takakura, Masafumi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 11881163
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Sato, Kenji Maeda, Shinji Yamamoto, Takuya Okamoto, Fumitaka Seki, Masafumi Ito, Yohichi Takazane
  • Patent number: 11882253
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a post-processor including a sheet detection circuit detecting a sheet inserted in a sheet insertion opening for manual stapling, a staple mechanism executing stapling processing on the sheet, and a drive circuit actuating the staple mechanism; a post-processing controller operating the drive circuit in response to detection of the sheet; a power circuit supplying power to the drive circuit and another circuit in the apparatus; and a power saving controller shutting off a power supply from the power circuit to the drive circuit and the other circuit and shifting from a normal mode to a power saving mode when a shifting condition is satisfied. Prior to shifting, the power saving controller checks the post-processing controller whether the stapling processing is currently executed, and, when the stapling processing is not currently executed, instructs prohibition of the stapling processing and shifts to the power saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Mukaiyama, Nobuyuki Ueda
  • Patent number: 11881685
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ohe, Tetsuya Ezaki, Satoshi Okano
  • Patent number: 11878884
    Abstract: A document feed device including a document tray and a document guide. The document guide has a document guide side document loader and a document guide member. The document tray includes a groove. The document guide, at an end of the document guide side document loader in the width direction, includes: a scooper, and an upstream outline portion that is formed so as to gradually approach the document guide member toward an upstream side in the conveying direction with the scooper as an apex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11880615
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sho Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 11880150
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing roller and a pressure roller provided in a rotatable manner, a heat source for heating the fixing roller, and a controller for controlling AC power supplied to the heat source. The fixing device fixes an unfixed image on a sheet held and conveyed by the fixing roller and the pressure roller. The controller causes a current to flow including current-carrying waveforms having different phase angles in half-wave units during preset control cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsunori Mitsuoka
  • Publication number: 20240023185
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes reception circuitry configured to receive, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a search space set configuration, wherein the first RRC parameter includes one or more second RRC parameters, indicating a number of monitoring occasions R associated to each DCI; and monitoring circuity configured to monitor, based on the first RRC parameter, a set of PDCCH candidates for the search space set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Meng CHENG, LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240020088
    Abstract: A voice control system includes a setting processing unit that sets up a conversation group including a plurality of users in a virtual space, and a restriction processing unit that restricts an output of voice which is outside the conversation group to be set by the setting processing unit to a user in the conversation group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KUMATA, KAZUO MAKIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240023002
    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) includes a transmission and/or reception unit and a storage unit. During roaming, in a case that the transmission and/or reception unit receives Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI) included in rejected Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) included in an Extended rejected NSSAI IE, one or more mapped S-NSSAI for the S-NSSAI included in allowed NSSAI are stored in the storage unit, and the Extended rejected NSSAI IE includes all of the one or more mapped S-NSSAI, the S-NSSAI is removed from the allowed NSSAI stored in the storage unit, and the rejected NSSAI is rejected NSSAI with respect to a current Public land mobile network (PLMN) or Stand-alone Non-Public Network (SNPN) or rejected NSSAI with respect to a current registration area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: YOKO KUGE
  • Patent number: 11877012
    Abstract: A method for determining a reference index for a reference picture list is disclosed. A reference picture list structure in one of a sequence parameter set and a slice header is decoded. A reference index for the reference picture list structure is derived according to a value of a reference picture list flag. A number of reference index active syntax in the slice header is decoded, if a number of entries in the reference picture list structure is greater than 1. The number of reference index active syntax is defined for i. A variable is derived by adding one to a value of the number of reference index active syntax. A value subtracted one from a value of the variable specifies a maximum reference index for the reference picture list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11874997
    Abstract: A display device including a touch panel implements touch detection with sufficient accuracy without reducing the accuracy of a compensation process that uses an external compensation scheme. A plurality of sensor electrodes for touch detection are divided into a plurality of blocks such that each block corresponds to pixel circuits in a plurality of consecutive rows and pixel circuits in a plurality of consecutive columns. A cathode electrode is divided so as to correspond to the plurality of blocks, and each of the divided cathode electrodes is shared by a corresponding plurality of organic EL elements. A touch panel controller applies a touch driving signal to sensor electrodes belonging to a block different from a block corresponding to pixel circuits that are targets for a characteristic detection process, during a current measurement period included in a period during which the characteristic detection process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masashi Mayumi
  • Patent number: 11874577
    Abstract: A see-through window display includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels and a drive circuit that applies a voltage according to input gray scale data to the plurality of pixels, in which the display panel includes a first substrate having a pixel electrode, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first polarizer provided on the first substrate having a first polarization axis, and a second polarizer provided on the second substrate having a second polarization axis, and when a transmittance of each of the pixels when the drive circuit applies a minimum voltage to the pixel is set to TW and a transmittance of each of the pixels when the drive circuit applies a maximum voltage to the pixel is set to TB, the display panel has a normally white characteristic satisfying TW>TB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 11875077
    Abstract: A history information management device includes a storage capable of storing a predetermined limit number of pieces of setting history information pertaining to execution of a job; and a controller that controls execution of the job by using the setting history information. In a case where the number of pieces of the stored setting history information has reached the predetermined limit number, the controller deletes, from the storage, the setting history information according to a result of use of the setting history information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoya Arifuku
  • Patent number: 11877283
    Abstract: A terminal device for performing communication method, the terminal device comprising a receiver for receiving a PDCCH having a first DCI format; and a transmitter for transmitting a PUCCH including UCI, and a PUSCH. The transmitter multiplexes the UCI onto a first PUSCH dynamically scheduled via the first DCI format when the PUCCH conflicts with a first plurality of PUSCHs including the first PUSCH and a second PUSCH for semi-permanently transmitted CSI, and multiplexes the UCI onto a third PUSCH for aperiodically transmitted CSI when the PUCCH conflicts with the third PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Huifa Lin, Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee, Wataru Ouchi, Toshizo Nogami