Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 12764658Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method for a power saving operation in one of a radio resource control (RRC)_INACTIVE state and an RRC_IDLE state are provided. The method includes receiving a first configuration from a base station (BS), the first configuration indicating a paging search space; receiving a second configuration from the BS, the second configuration indicating a first search space for monitoring a specific indication; monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the first search space to detect the specific indication; and determining whether to monitor a paging occasion (PO) based on whether the specific indication is detected in the first search space, the PO being determined according to the paging search space.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Mei-Ju Shih, Hung-Chen Chen
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Patent number: 12759653Abstract: A traveling apparatus includes a first left-side wheel, a second left-side wheel, and a third left-side wheel disposed in a front-rear direction on a left side of a vehicle body, and a first right-side wheel, a second right-side wheel, and a third right-side wheel disposed in the front-rear direction on a right side of the vehicle body, on a front wheel side or a rear wheel side, the first left-side wheel is connected to a left end portion of a first link member extending in a left-right direction, the first right-side wheel is connected to a right end portion of the first link member, and a first rotation shaft disposed at an intermediate position of the first link member is attached to a frame of the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2024Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryoji Ishimura
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Patent number: 12764653Abstract: The present invention provides a method performed by sidelink remote user equipment (UE) and user equipment. The method comprises: receiving, by the sidelink remote UE out of coverage, a discovery message transmitted by sidelink relay UE, and saving a first cell identifier carried in the discovery message as a current cell identifier; receiving a system message forwarded by the sidelink relay UE; initiating RRC connection establishment, performing an access control procedure, and starting a first timer when access is barred; and during the running of the first timer, in case a first condition is met, then stopping the first timer, and performing barring alleviation.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Lei Liu, Renmao Liu, Ningjuan Chang
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Patent number: 12764794Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to monitor SSBs/PBCHs (synchronization signal blocks/physical broadcast channels) and obtain system information block type 1 (SIB1) information including PRACH configurations. The receiving circuitry may also be configured to evaluate a reference signal received power (RRSP) of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) for an optimal downlink (DL) beam to determine an uplink (UL) beam, a preamble format/sequence and a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource for a preamble transmission. The receiving circuitry may also be configured to monitor DL signals for a random access response (RAR) within a RAR window. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the determined preamble in the determined PRACH resource using the determined UL beam.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2024Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Zhanping Yin, Tomoki Yoshimura
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Patent number: 12764341Abstract: A device may be configured to decode video data based on information included in a text description information message. In one example, a text description information message includes a syntax element indicating that the text description information message cancels a persistence of a previous text description information message with the same purpose as the text description information message. In one example, a text description information message includes a syntax element indicating that the text description information message cancels a persistence of a previous text description information message with the same identifier value as the text description information message.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2025Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Patent number: 12755657Abstract: A display device comprises a switch configured to switch between: a first mode for connecting only one of a left-pixel signal line or a right-pixel signal line to a black voltage line and connecting an other one of the left-pixel signal line or the right-pixel signal line to a video signal line; and a second mode for connecting both the left-pixel signal line and the right-pixel signal line to the video signal line.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2025Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Noichi, Noriyuki Tanaka, Daiji Kitagawa, Tatsuhiko Suyama
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Patent number: 12757275Abstract: The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method is a processing method performed during communication performed between the user equipment (UE) and a base station on the basis of a multi-path communication mode, and includes the following steps: receiving, by the UE, a radio resource control (RRC) message from the base station, the message carrying information used to instruct the UE to establish an indirect connection for communicating with the base station via relay UE; and upon receiving the RRC message, starting, by the UE, a timer, and establishing a sidelink (SL) connection or a PC5 connection with the relay UE.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
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Patent number: 12756506Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes circuitry configured to determine that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) with high priority (HP) carrying HP hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgements (HARQ-ACKs) overlaps with a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with low priority (LP). When only one HP PUCCH with HP HARQ-ACK overlaps with a LP PUSCH, multiplex the HP HARQ-ACK on the LP PUSCH starting from an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol that is available after a first consecutive demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) OFDM symbol. When more than one HP PUCCH with HP HARQ-ACK overlaps with a LP PUSCH, for each overlapping HP PUCCH carrying the HP HARQ-ACK, multiplex a corresponding HP HARQ-ACK on confined symbols of the LP PUSCH.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Zhanping Yin, Kai Ying, Kazunari Yokomakura
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Patent number: 12754499Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a heat source, a fixing belt that is heated by the heat source to thermally fix a color material to each of a plurality of pieces of paper in sequence, an operation acceptor that allows a user to specify a fixation degree of the color material for the plurality of pieces of paper, and one or more controllers that cause each of the plurality of pieces of paper to pass through the fixing belt in sequence at a control paper feed amount which is a paper feed amount per unit time according to the fixation degree.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2024Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Kitami
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Patent number: 12756867Abstract: A device may be configured to decode video data based on information included in a photosensitive content information message. In one example, a photosensitive content information message includes syntax elements indicating information regarding photosensitive content characteristics. In one example, a syntax element specifies whether photosensitive content in pictures in a persistence scope of the photosensitive content information message exceed photosensitivity content guidelines specified by a standard. In one example, a syntax element specifies whether photosensitive content in pictures in the persistence scope of the photosensitive content information message satisfy or exceed conditions specified in a clause specified by the standard.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2025Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Patent number: 12756823Abstract: Systems and methods for applying deblocking filters to reconstructed video data are disclosed. Sample values in adjacent reconstructed video blocks are modified according to multiple passes of a deblocking filter. A filtering pass may correspond to processing or constructing of all or subset of samples to be deblocked. The number of processing or constructing for each sample in a given pass may correspond to the pass index or order.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2025Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Weijia Zhu, Kiran Mukesh Misra, Christopher Andrew Segall, Philip Cowan
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Patent number: 12756787Abstract: A control system includes an image forming apparatus and a terminal apparatus. The image forming apparatus determines whether the image forming apparatus is in a state conforming to a security requirement in response to a connection request from the terminal apparatus used by a user who has an administrator privilege; and transmits, to the terminal apparatus, display information of a first display screen through which a firmware update of the image forming apparatus is to be performed when the image forming apparatus is in the state conforming to the security requirement, the first display screen including a selection item allowing selection of whether to display a status of the firmware update. The terminal apparatus displays, based on the display information of the first display screen, the first display screen including the selection item allowing the selection of whether to display the status of the firmware update.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2024Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Rika Ichiu, Chikako Tomita
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Patent number: 12753926Abstract: A heating cooking apparatus includes a heating cooking unit, a microwave supply unit, an air blowing mechanism, and a fixing member. The heating cooking unit includes a heating cooking chamber. The microwave supply unit is fixed to the heating cooking unit and supplies microwaves to the heating cooking chamber. The air blowing mechanism blows air onto the microwave supply unit. The fixing member is fixed to the heating cooking unit. The air blowing mechanism includes a fan, a motor that drives the fan, and a first attachment member disposed on a side, in a predetermined direction, of the fan. The fixing member includes a support portion that supports the first attachment member, and an attachment portion to which the first attachment member is attached.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Asami, Masahiro Nishijima
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Patent number: 12757166Abstract: A user equipment (UE), comprising: higher layer circuitry configured to receive information to configure a sidelink bandwidth part (BWP) and second information to configure one or more resource pool for sidelink transmission and/or reception; transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH), wherein subcarrier spacing is associated with the sidelink BWP, and a demodulation reference signal configuration for the PSCCH and PSSCH is configured for each of the one or more resource pools.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Tatsushi Aiba, Jia Sheng
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Patent number: 12756838Abstract: A method of decoding video data includes: receiving a buffering period message; parsing a first syntax element in the buffering period message, wherein the first syntax element plus one specifies a maximum number (M) of temporal sublayers for which coded picture buffer removal delay and coded picture buffer removal offset are indicated in the buffering period message; and parsing a second syntax element in the buffering period message, in a case that a value of the first syntax element is greater than a threshold value, wherein the second syntax element specifies whether decoded picture buffer output time offsets are present for temporal sublayer representations.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2024Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Patent number: 12750638Abstract: Methods and devices for Multicast/Broadcast Service (MBS)-related operations are provided. The method includes receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) release message from a Base Station (BS), the RRC release message including a suspending configuration indicating that the UE is allowed to receive, in an RRC_INACTIVE state, data of an MBS Radio Bearer (MRB) associated with a multicast session; transitioning to the RRC_INACITVE state in response to receiving the RRC release message; and receiving the data of the MRB after transitioning to the RRC_INACTIVE state.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2023Date of Patent: September 29, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hung-Chen Chen
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Patent number: 12750826Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may comprise high-layer processing circuitry configured to acquire a first RRC parameter, a second RRC parameter, a third RRC parameter, and a fourth RRC parameter, and transmission circuitry configured to transmit a PUSCH in multiple slots.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 29, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru Ouchi, Toshizo Nogami, Tomoki Yoshimura, Takahisa Fukui, Huifa Lin, Shoichi Suzuki, Ryota Morimoto, Daiichiro Nakashima
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Patent number: 12744942Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 13, 2025Date of Patent: September 22, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Patent number: 12744928Abstract: A load in processing of searching for a motion vector is reduced. In order to solve the problem described above, a motion vector derivation apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention that derives a motion vector to be referred to for generating a prediction image to be used for coding or decoding of a video includes a motion vector search unit configured to search for a motion vector on a prediction unit basis through matching processing. The motion vector search unit is configured to stop search of the motion vector, depending on whether or not a conditional expression according to a pixel bit-depth is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2024Date of Patent: September 22, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Chujoh, Tomoko Aono, Tomohiro Ikai, Eiichi Sasaki, Yukinobu Yasugi
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Patent number: 12745249Abstract: A communication method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, system information including a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter, wherein the first RRC parameter provides a cell-specific physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource set and the cell-specific PUCCH resource set includes one or more PUCCH resources; and receiving a PDCCH with a DCI format scheduling a PDSCH; and transmitting, on a PUCCH resource included in the cell-specific PUCCH resource set, a PUCCH with HARQ-ACK information in response to the PDSCH received, wherein whether or not to transmit the PUCCH using frequency hopping is determined based on one, more or all of a first DCI field of the DCI format, RRC parameter(s) and a predefined rule.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 22, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi