Patents Assigned to Sharp Laboratories
  • Patent number: 8344917
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for context model initialization in entropy encoders and decoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Christopher A. Segall
  • Publication number: 20120326946
    Abstract: A display system comprising first and second panels, where the second panel is maintained at a different orientation with respect to the first panel such that the first panel is non-coplanar with the second panel. The display system projecting the image onto the first and second display panels in such a manner so as to reduce geometric distortions of a viewer when viewing the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Yuan, Dean Messing, Xinyu Xu
  • Patent number: 8339670
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for rendering graphical objects in a printing system. According to one aspect of the present invention a graphic list may be partitioned, and the graphic-list partitions may be rendered “out-of-order” or concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Uoc H. Nguyen, James E. Owen, Paul R. Henerlau
  • Patent number: 8341238
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for session synchronization between multiple devices connected to a server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishnu Kumar Shivaji-Rao, Mark G. Hanley, David C. Barton
  • Patent number: 8339671
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for rendering graphical objects in a printing system. According to one aspect of the present invention a graphic list may be partitioned, and the graphic-list partitions may be rendered “out-of-order” or concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Uoc H. Nguyen, James E. Owen, Paul R. Henerlau
  • Patent number: 8339663
    Abstract: Machine-enabled methods of, and devices and systems for, encoding color bitmap data as indexed red-green-blue (RGB) data for printing and optional multi-functional peripheral (MFP) device raster image processor (RIP) bypass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: James E. Owen
  • Patent number: 8339653
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for rendering graphical objects in a printing system. According to one aspect of the present invention a graphic list may be partitioned, and the graphic-list partitions may be rendered “out-of-order” or concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Uoc H. Nguyen, James E. Owen, Paul R. Henerlau
  • Patent number: 8340430
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for determining image characteristics in a digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard John Campbell
  • Patent number: 8339672
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for rendering graphical objects in a printing system. According to one aspect of the present invention a graphic list may be partitioned, and the graphic-list partitions may be rendered “out-of-order” or concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Uoc H. Nguyen, James E. Owen, Paul R. Henerlau
  • Patent number: 8339543
    Abstract: A plasmonic display device is provided having dual modulation mechanisms. The device has an electrically conductive bottom electrode that may be either transparent or reflective. A dielectric layer overlies the bottom electrode, made from an elastic polymer material having a refractive index responsive to an electric field. An electrically conductive top electrode, either transparent or reflective, overlies the dielectric layer. A plasmonic layer, including a plurality of discrete plasmonic particles, is interposed between the top and bottom electrodes and in contact with the dielectric layer. In one aspect, the plasmonic layer is embedded in the dielectric layer. Alternately, the plasmonic layer overlies the bottom (or top) electrode. Then, the dielectric layer overlies the plasmonic layer particles and exposed regions of the bottom electrode between the first plasmonic layer particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Tang, Akinori Hashimura, Apostolos T. Voutsas
  • Patent number: 8334999
    Abstract: A method and system for augmenting an imaging device with non-native job settings without unduly complicating the processing of imaging jobs that utilize only native job settings is disclosed. In one aspect, an imaging device comprises a processor, a user interface communicatively coupled with the processor and a network interface communicatively coupled with the processor, wherein under control of the processor in response to job settings selected on the user interface for an imaging job the imaging device selectively invokes via the network interface an external process to process the imaging job per at least one selected job setting based on a determination of whether at least one selected job setting is non-native to the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch
  • Patent number: 8334995
    Abstract: Methods and systems for adaptive control of an imaging node allow subsystems of the imaging node to dynamically register authorized commands with a pre-parser after which the pre-parser authorizes inbound line commands for execution by reference to the dynamic registrations. The methods and systems permit highly extensible and granular control over the imaging node, for example, by allowing a user to dynamically unlock and control registered options of the imaging node that are not otherwise controllable, for example, via a standard management protocol or proprietary Web interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Tommy Lee Oswald
  • Publication number: 20120314590
    Abstract: A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) on a user equipment (UE) is described. A first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to a multiple-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) downlink transmission is generated using a first codebook set. A second PMI corresponding to the MU-MIMO downlink transmission is generated using a second codebook set. The first PMI and the second PMI are sent to an eNode B in a channel state information (CSI) report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sayantan Choudhury, Zhanping Yin, Ahmad Khoshnevis, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 8331714
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for image processing, in particular, de-noising and de-blurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Petrus J. L. Van Beek, Junlan Yang
  • Patent number: 8330768
    Abstract: The method, system and apparatus embodiments of the present invention provide for rendering original images having high dynamic range into display images having lower dynamic range while retaining a visual quality of rendered images comparable to the original or reference images. Tone-mapping parameters are applied to the display images and are iteratively adjusted in order to reduce the differences between the conditioned original image and the conditioned display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Rafal Mantiuk, Scott James Daly
  • Patent number: 8331650
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for image-based automatic defect detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Yuan, Masakazu Yanase, Xinyu Xu
  • Patent number: 8327411
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for achieving low-latency, and rapidly attained high-resolution, access reception for transmitted and received video data involving the pre-transmission dividing of a source video stream into two downstream-deliverable data streams that differ by, on the one hand, low-latency, low-resolution characteristics for one stream, and on the other hand, higher-latency, higher-resolution characteristics for the other stream. Latency in these streams is determined by the frame spacing created between stream-inserted marker I-frames. The divided streams are multiplexed and transmitted. At the receiving end, monitoring, selecting and video output-signal switching take place under rules whereby the first-encountered marker frame in either stream directs that stream to provide the first content for the video output signal. If the first-encountered marker resides in the higher-resolution stream, the process ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis J. Kerofsky
  • Patent number: 8325190
    Abstract: A method for providing visual notifications related to an imaging job is disclosed. The method may implemented by an imaging device. The method may include receiving the imaging job as input. The method may also include producing desired output for the imaging job. The method may also include causing the display of at least one animated notification that depicts the progress of the imaging job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch
  • Patent number: 8325236
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for detecting the connection status of a communicatively-connected device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan Severt Hallberg
  • Patent number: 8319993
    Abstract: Methods for operating the user interfaces (UIs) of a device such as an MFP device while the device is under simultaneous user operations from different access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew R. Ferlitsch