Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 12659724
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes transmitting circuitry configured to send a low-capability indication that indicates reduced capabilities of the UE to a 5G New Radio (NR) network. In some examples, multiple low-capability indications may be sent to indicate capabilities of the UE to the 5G NR network. In other examples, a single low-capability indication may be sent in an attach request. The 5G NR network may request the reduced capabilities of the UE in a capability request update. In yet other examples, a single low-capability indication may be sent in a radio resource control (RRC) establishment cause.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kamel M. Shaheen, Kai Ying, John Michael Kowalski
  • Patent number: 12659516
    Abstract: A device may be configured to signal an encoder optimization information message. In one example, the encoder optimization information message includes a syntax element indicating a type of object-based optimization. The syntax element may indicate a type of object-based optimization as areas outside detected objects have been overwritten with a constant sample value or areas outside detected objects have been overwritten but not with a constant sample value. A device may be configured to receive the encoder optimization information message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 12657326
    Abstract: A signage system includes: a setting processing unit that, when access information for accessing the access target data is selected by a user, sets password information necessary to access the access target data to a predetermined operation folder associated with the access information in advance; a transmission processing unit that transmits an access request including the password information based on the access information; and an authentication processing unit that authenticates the access to the access target data based on the password information included in the access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuo Nishiura
  • Patent number: 12659855
    Abstract: A method of performing a power saving operation for a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a plurality of power saving configurations, while the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state or an RRC inactive state, selecting one of the plurality of power saving configurations according to a rule predefined in the UE or a first indication received from the BS, and applying the selected one of the plurality of power saving configurations for the power saving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 12656712
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a transferer, a fixer, and a controller, is provided. The transferer transfers a toner image on an image carrier onto a sheet. The fixer fixes the toner image on the sheet. The controller applies transfer voltage for transferring the toner image onto the sheet. The transferer defines a transfer nip for passing the sheet between the image carrier and the transferer. The fixer includes a heating portion and a pressing portion, and passes the sheet after passing through the transfer nip through a fixing nip between the heating portion and the pressing portion. The controller controls the transfer voltage such that transfer current flowing through the transfer nip is made constant at a setting value, and increases the setting value of transfer current after a leading end of the sheet passes through the transfer nip and immediately before it enters the fixing nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12658153
    Abstract: An electronic paper includes: a display panel including color particles that move by being applied with a voltage; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature; a display controller that controls a write operation of writing an image on the display panel by applying a voltage to the color particles; and a refresh timing determiner that determines a refresh timing for executing a refresh operation in which, after the write operation previously performed, the write operation is performed again, wherein the refresh timing determiner determines the refresh timing based on a detected temperature by the temperature sensor, and the display controller executes the refresh operation at the refresh timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kuniaki Matsui
  • Patent number: 12658125
    Abstract: A control device includes: a state acquisition unit configured to acquire first state data regarding a state of a first element included in a first self-light-emitting pixel included in a display panel and configured to emit first color light, and second state data regarding a state of a second element included in a second self-light-emitting pixel included in the display panel and configured to emit second color light longer in wavelength than the first color light; and a compensation processing unit configured to perform first compensation of compensating for a temporal change in the first self-light-emitting pixel based on the first state data, and perform second compensation of compensating for a temporal change in the second self-light-emitting pixel based on the first state data and the second state data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Ueno, Masaaki Moriya, Naoki Shiobara, Masafumi Kawai, Mohammad Reza Kazemi, Hiroyuki Furukawa
  • Patent number: 12651458
    Abstract: A display control system includes a meeting acquisition processor that acquires meeting information related to a meeting; a video image acquisition processor that acquires video image information corresponding to a video image capturing a user participating in the meeting; a determination processor that determines an image type of an image to be displayed on a meeting terminal on the basis of the meeting information acquired by the meeting acquisition processor; and an output processor that outputs an image corresponding to the video image information acquired by the video image acquisition processor and the image type determined by the determination processor, to the meeting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Osaki, Keiko Hirukawa
  • Patent number: 12652900
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an EL element, includes: a first quantum dot layer forming step of forming a quantum dot layer containing first quantum dots; a first quantum dot layer coating step of exposing a first portion included in the first quantum dot layer, and coating a second portion included in the first quantum dot layer, the first quantum dot layer coating step including: a photoresist layer forming step; and a photoresist layer patterning step; a solution supplying step of applying or spraying a solution only to or on the first portion, the solution containing first molecules each having a plurality of coordinating functional groups coordinatable with the first quantum dots and; a removing step of removing the second portion of the first quantum dot layer and the patterned photoresist layer, such that the first portion of the first quantum dot layer forms a first light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukio Takenaka, Yuma Yaguchi
  • Patent number: 12652150
    Abstract: A method for a UE for performing SDT is provided. The method includes receiving, from a BS, system information that includes a SIB1; determining whether to initiate an SDT procedure based on one or more conditions, the one or more conditions including the SIB1 including an SDT configuration; and initiating the SDT procedure in a case that the one or more conditions are fulfilled. A UE using the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Heng-Li Chin, Mei-Ju Shih, Yung-Lan Tseng, Ming-Hung Tao
  • Patent number: 12652926
    Abstract: A display region includes a second display region that transmits light used in a camera on the inner side of a first display region. A first electrode in the first display region has a structure in which a first lower transparent conductive layer, a first reflective conductive layer, and a first upper transparent conductive layer are layered in order. A first electrode in the second display region has a structure in which a second lower transparent conductive layer, a second reflective conductive layer, and a second upper transparent conductive layer are layered in order. The second reflective conductive layer is thinner than the first reflective conductive layer on the inner side of an opening of an edge cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 12651579
    Abstract: A control unit of a display device that presents a first image to a first user located at a first position with respect to a display surface and presents a second image different from the first image to a second user located at a second position different from the first position alternately switches a first display mode and a second display mode. The control unit converts a gray scale value of the first image based on a light transmittance of the display panel achieved by repetition of a gray scale value of the first image and a gray scale value of black, (i) a light amount of first illumination light when observed from the first position, and (ii) a light amount of second illumination light as leakage light to the first position when observed from the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masamitsu Kobayashi, Takafumi Miura, Yasuyuki Togashi
  • Patent number: 12652407
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling a picture type in coded video. According to an aspect of an invention, 4 bits NAL unit type information in a NAL unit header is decoded; and a NAL unit type indicating that a content of a NAL unit is trailing picture is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sachin G. Deshpande, Byeongdoo Choi
  • Patent number: 12651382
    Abstract: A device may be configured to perform spatial extrapolation based on information included in a neural-network post-filter characteristics message. In one example, a neural-network post-filter characteristics message includes spatial extrapolation offset syntax elements specifying a spatial extrapolation area. In one example, a neural-network post-filter characteristics message includes an output chroma format syntax element specifying a chroma output format for chroma upsampling. The device may be configured to calculate a patch height and a patch width based on the spatial extrapolation offset syntax elements and the output chroma format syntax element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 12652720
    Abstract: A data transmission method, wherein when small data arrives, user equipment (UE) in a radio resource control inactive state RRC_INACTIVE can establish a communication with a base station without entering an RRC connected state, so as to perform small data transmission (SDT). An RNAU timer for controlling a periodic radio access network (RAN) based notification area update is set for the base station. For the SDT, an SDT timer for SDT small data transmission is set. A small data transmission data radio bearer (DRB) is configured for the user equipment. When an RRC resume procedure is triggered by arrival of data at the DRB, a high layer triggering small data transmission, or the like, the user equipment starts the SDT timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: FangYing Xiao, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 12652649
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a processing method for a relay UE and user equipment. In the processing method for a relay UE, the relay UE serves a remote UE, and the processing method includes: the relay UE receiving a paging message transmitted from a base station, and confirming a UE identity in the received paging message; the relay UE obtaining a UE identity of the remote UE from an upper layer or an RRC layer of the relay UE; the relay UE determining whether the received paging message includes the UE identity of the remote UE; and if the paging message includes the UE identity of the remote UE, the relay UE generating a paging indication that includes the UE identity of the remote UE or indicates that the UE identity of the remote UE has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 12652657
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method performed by user equipment includes: determining an inter-UE coordination message, wherein the message includes type-1 time resource indication values (TRIVs), the number of which is expression I, and type-2 TRIVs, the number of which is expression II, and the type-1 TRIVs and the type-2 TRIVs are used to indicate slot offset values, the number of which is expression III; and transmitting the inter-UE coordination message. If expression III is an even number, then expression I=expression III/2, and expression II=0, and if expression III is an odd number, then expression I=expression IV, and expression II=1, wherein one type-1 TRIV can indicate one slot offset, and one type-2 TRIV can indicate two slot offsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chao Luo, Yinan Zhao, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 12645176
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes one or more controllers; a display; and a fixing unit. The fixing unit is attachable to and detachable from the image forming apparatus. When the fixing unit is replaced to an other fixing unit, the one or more controllers display, on the display, a fixing unit designation request that requests an input for designating the other fixing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Kubota
  • Patent number: 12647619
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling buffering period information for coded video. According to an aspect of an invention, a second syntax element in a buffering period syntax structure is parsed wherein the second syntax element specifies whether coded picture buffer related syntax elements are present for each temporal sublayer in a range of 0 to a value of a first syntax element or whether the coded picture buffer related syntax elements are present for the first syntax element'th temporal sublayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 12647985
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information used for indicating a repetition type from a set of repetition types for Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmission(s). The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive an RRC message comprising second information used for indicating a number of PUCCH repetitions or a set of numbers of PUCCH repetitions. Further, the receiving circuitry is also configured to receive, based on a detection of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) carrying a downlink control information (DCI), third information (in the DCI) used for indicating a selection or adjustment of the number of PUCCH repetitions. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit, to the base station, PUCCH transmission(s) according to the first information, the second information, and the third information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kai Ying, Zhanping Yin