Patents Assigned to Sharp Laboratories
  • Patent number: 9099719
    Abstract: A transition metal hexacyanoferrate (TMHCF) battery electrode is provided with a Fe(CN)6 additive. The electrode is made from AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles overlying a current collector, where the A cations are either alkali and alkaline-earth cations such as sodium (Na), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), or magnesium (Mg), and M is a transition metal. A Fe(CN)6 additive modifies the AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles. The Fe(CN)6 additive may be ferrocyanide ([Fe(CN)6]4?) or ferricyanide ([Fe(CN)6]3?). Also provided are a related TMHCF battery with Fe(CN)6 additive, TMHCF fabrication process, and TMHCF battery fabrication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Jong-Jan Lee, David Evans
  • Publication number: 20150215826
    Abstract: A method for receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving an RRC connection reconfiguration (RRCConnectionReconfiguration) message including secondary cell group (SCG) configuration parameters. The RRC connection reconfiguration message has a structure that the SCG configuration parameters do not include a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150215965
    Abstract: A method for receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a first evolved Node B (eNB), an RRC connection reconfiguration (RRCConnectionReconfiguration) message including data radio bearer (DRB) configuration parameters for remapping a DRB that is established on a master cell group (MCG) to a secondary cell group (SCG).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 9094208
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for sending, by a first computing device to a second computing device, a set of authentication information; determining, by the second computing device, a globally unique identifier associated with the set of authentication information; determining, by the first computing device, a set of properties associated with the received request based on the determined globally unique identifier; and establishing, by the first computing device, a communication channel to the second computing device, wherein the communication channel is established based on the determined set of properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Boguslaw Ludwik Plewnia, Weifeng Yao
  • Patent number: 9090742
    Abstract: A method is provided for synthesizing a metal (M) meso-tetraphenylporphyrin polymer. The method begins with the provision of a free-base (H2)-meso-tetra-4-(trialkylsilyl)ethynylphenylporphyrin (H2-tetra-C?C-TriAS-TPP) including a trialkylsilyl (TriAS) moiety attached to an ethynyl termini. In response to a reaction with a metal (M)-containing material, the H2-tetra-C?C-TriAS-TPP is converted to a metal (M)-tetra-4-(trialkylsilyl)ethynylphenylporphyrin (M-tetra-C?C-TriAS-TPP). Then, the M-tetra-C?C-TriAS-TPP is converted to a M-tetra-4-ethynylphenylporphyrin (M-tetra-C?C-TPP) monomer by removing the trialkylsilyl (TriAS) moiety from the ethynyl termini. Finally, a plurality of M-tetra-C?C-TPP monomers are coupled together to supply a metal (M)-meso-tetraphenylporphyrin polymer (M-poly-meso-TPP), whereby meso-phenyl groups of adjacent M-tetra-C?C-TPP monomers in the M-poly-meso-TPP are connected through a butadiyne linking moiety. In one aspect, the metal is zinc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Vail, David Evans
  • Patent number: 9093475
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming a printed top gate thin film transistor (TFT) with a short channel length. The method provides a substrate with a low surface energy top surface. A metal ink line is continuously printed across a region of the substrate top surface, and in response to the surface tension of the printed metal ink, discrete spherical ink caps are formed in the region. Then, the surface energy of the substrate top surface in the region is increased. A source metal ink line is printed overlying a source spherical ink cap contact, and a drain metal ink line, parallel to the source metal ink line, is printed overlying a drain spherical ink cap contact. After depositing a semiconductor film, a channel is formed in the semiconductor film between the source and drain spherical ink cap contacts having a channel length equal to the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc
    Inventors: Kurt Ulmer, Kanan Puntambekar
  • Patent number: 9090743
    Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a metalloporphyrin polymer on a substrate. The method creates a functionalized substrate by attaching an anchor group of a linker, including a terminal alkyne group, to a substrate surface. The functionalized substrate is then exposed to metalloporphyrin monomers, where each metalloporphyrin monomer includes at least two terminal alkyne groups. A plurality of metalloporphyrin monomers (e.g., zinc porphyrin monomers) are thus linked via the metalloporphyrin monomer terminal alkyne groups, forming a metalloporphyrin polymer attached to the substrate. In one aspect, linking the plurality of metalloporphyrin monomers via the metalloporphyrin monomer terminal alkyne groups includes forming butadiyne groups between adjacent metalloporphyrins. Then, forming the metalloporphyrin polymer attached to the substrate includes attaching the metalloporphyrin polymer, via a metalloporphyrin monomer terminal alkyne group, to the terminal alkyne group of an associated linker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Vail, David R. Evans, Jong-Jan Lee
  • Patent number: 9092842
    Abstract: A system for identifying a repair cut location for a defect in a liquid crystal device includes receiving an input image, a defect mask image, and a landmark structure image. The system determines a repair cut location, based upon the input image, the defect mask image, and the landmark structure image, for a liquid crystal device proximate the defect. The determination may be based upon a type of said defect, a cause of said defect, a position of said defect, and a spatial relationship of the defect and a structure of the landmark image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinyu Xu, Chang Yuan
  • Patent number: 9091812
    Abstract: An energy-efficient transparent solar film is presented. The solar film has a first film layer with metal nanostructures. The metal nanostructures have plasmon resonances in wavelength bands greater than, or both less than and greater than visible wavelengths, depending on size and shape. The metal nanostructures have no plasmon resonance at visible wavelengths. In another aspect, metal oxide nanocrystals are formed with the first film layer. The metal oxide nanocrystals have absorption in a band of wavelengths less than visible wavelengths, and absorption in a band of wavelengths greater than visible wavelengths. Also provided is a solar film window and fabricating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori Hashimura, Douglas Tweet, Gary Hinch, Alexey Koposov
  • Patent number: 9094617
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for providing real-time feed-back cues in an image acquisition process. An overlaid preview-frame image may be rendered comprising cues associated with acquisition factors. A cue may indicate whether, or not, an acquisition-factor value falls within a range of acceptable values. Image features may be extracted, from a preview-frame image, and interpreted to determine acquisition-factor values and their acceptability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence Shao-hsien Chen
  • Patent number: 9093031
    Abstract: A method for modifying an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image to be displayed on the display having a backlight and a transmissive panel. A backlight signal is provided to the backlight for causing the backlight to selectively illuminate different portions of the backlight with different characteristics. The characteristics include at least one of a different color and a difference luminance. A panel signal is provided to the panel for causing the transmissive panel to selectively change its transmittivities. At least one of the backlight signal and the panel signal are modified in a manner to reduce off-axis artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Joseph Kerofsky, Benjamin John Broughton
  • Publication number: 20150208163
    Abstract: A wearable physiological acoustic sensor has an embedded and stacked acoustic sensing component architecture that inhibits motion-related impulse noise and environmental background noise, and provides good body sound capture, good patient comfort and an unobtrusive presence. The embedded and stacked component architecture also includes an environmental microphone that enables cancellation of background noise for further noise reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Severt Hallberg, Glenn Peter Piekstra
  • Publication number: 20150199951
    Abstract: A noise event suppression technique for a monitoring system detects a noise event in a signal waveform when a focal sample in the waveform has an amplitude greater than an amplitude of algorithmically determined earlier and later samples in the waveform that are noncontiguous with the focal sample. When the monitoring system detects the noise event, the monitoring system reduces the amplitude of the focal sample to an amplitude between those of the earlier and later samples. The monitoring system outputs data determined using the waveform once noise events have been adequately suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan Severt Hallberg
  • Publication number: 20150200752
    Abstract: A UE for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE determines a duplex method of each serving cell for carrier aggregation. A primary cell is a FDD cell. When transmitting PDSCH HARQ-ACK information on a PUSCH or using a PUCCH format 3 in a later subframe, the UE generates two NACKs for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports up to two transport blocks, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell. The UE further generates a single NACK for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports a single transport block, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150200751
    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. Multiple serving cells are configured. The UE determines a first parameter that defines a maximum number of elements with downlink (DL) assignments for a subframe in the DL association set for a serving cell. The UE determines physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for the serving cell according to the first parameter. The UE sends the PDSCH HARQ-ACK information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 9083969
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for independently increasing the perceived brightness of a view in a multiple-view display. In some embodiments this increase compensates for a decrease in display light-source illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Joseph Kerofsky
  • Patent number: 9082700
    Abstract: An ultraviolet treatment method is provided for a metal oxide electrode. A metal oxide electrode is exposed to an ultraviolet (UV) light source in a humid environment. The metal oxide electrode is then treated with a moiety having at least one anchor group, where the anchor group is a chemical group capable of promoting communication between the moiety and the metal oxide electrode. As a result, the moiety is bound to the metal oxide electrode. In one aspect the metal oxide electrode is treated with a photoactive moiety. Exposing the metal oxide electrode to the UV light source in the humid environment induces surface defects in the metal oxide electrode in the form of oxygen vacancies. In response to the humidity, atmospheric water competes favorably with oxygen for dissociative adsorption on the metal oxide electrode surface, and hydroxylation of the metal oxide electrode surface is induced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Vail, David R. Evans, Wei Pan, Jong-Jan Lee
  • Patent number: 9082349
    Abstract: A method of illuminating a display includes spatially varying the luminance of a multi-colored light source illuminating a plurality of pixels of the display in response to receiving a plurality of pixel values, and varying the transmittance of a light valve of the display having filters corresponding to the multi-colored light source in response to receiving the plurality of pixel values. The illumination is modified for a plurality of pixel values based upon modification of the luminance of the light source and varying the transmittance of the light valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Xiao-Fan Feng
  • Patent number: 9083519
    Abstract: A method for selecting a decoding scheme to decode information is described. A codeword that represents at least a first message of a first information type and a second message of a second information type is received. A distribution pattern of symbols associated with the codeword is determined. The distribution pattern is compared to a threshold. A decoding scheme is selected based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Huaming Wu
  • Patent number: 9083041
    Abstract: A transition metal hexacyanometallate (TMHCM)-conductive polymer (CP) composite electrode is provided. The battery electrode is made up of a current collector and a transition metal hexacyanometallate-conductive polymer composite overlying the current collector. The transition metal hexacyanometallate-conductive polymer includes a AXM1YM2Z(CN)N.MH2O material, where A may be alkali metal ions, alkaline earth metal ions, ammonium ions, or combinations thereof, and M1 and M2 are transition metal ions. The transition metal hexacyanometallate-conductive polymer composite also includes a conductive polymer material. In one aspect, the conductive polymer material is polyaniline (PANI) or polypyrrole (Ppy). Also presented herein are methods for the fabrication of a TMHCM-CP composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Vail, Yuhao Lu, David Russell Evans, Jong-Jan Lee