Patents Assigned to Sharp Laboratories
  • BUFFER COMPRESSION FOR MOTION VECTOR COMPETITION
    Publication number: 20120189059
    Abstract: A method for decoding video includes creating a first list of motion vectors from at least one neighboring block in a current frame of the video and creating a second list of motion vectors from at least one previous block in a temporally earlier frame of the video. A third list of motion vectors is created based upon the first list and the second list. Based upon receiving a motion vector competition control parameter selecting one of the motion vectors from the third list, wherein the second list of motion vectors is further based upon a flooring function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher A. Segall
  • Printer job language suspension
    Patent number: 8228515
    Abstract: A method is provided for temporarily disabling printer job language (PJL) commands in a printer device. In a printer device, an electronically formatted print job is accepted with embedded PJL commands. The method parses the print job, and in doing so, differentiates a first PJL command and a PJL disable command. The print job is automatically processed (as is conventional), while temporarily ignoring the first PJL command in response to the PJL disable command. In one aspect, the printer differentiates the first PJL command enveloping the print job, and the PJL disable command enveloping the first PJL command envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Lena Sojian
  • Determining whether system information can be reused and managing system information in a wireless communication system
    Patent number: 8229412
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to determining whether system information can be reused and managing system information in a wireless communication system. A wireless communication device may read and compare a physical cell identity and specific system information of a target component carrier with the physical cell identity and specific system information of a source component carrier to determine whether generic system information needs to be read or can be reused. A base station may determine whether a change in system information impacts generic system information and specific system information. The base station may update a data control variable such that it is synchronized for particular sets of component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth James Park
  • Methods and systems for distributing localized display elements to an imaging device
    Patent number: 8230328
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for imaging device display content localization. Some aspects relate to methods and systems for sending geographical-locale-related information from an imaging device to a remote computing device where the geographical-locale-related information is matched with related data comprising a language and at least one of a time format, a date format, an address format, a calendar format, a currency type and a geographical-locale-related cultural custom, which is then sent to the imaging device for output to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamamura, Joey P. Lum, Mark Liu Stevens
  • Methods and systems for identifying the orientation of a digital image
    Patent number: 8229248
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the orientation of an electronic document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmet Mufit Ferman, Richard John Campbell
  • Methods and systems for display source light management with variable delay
    Patent number: 8223113
    Abstract: Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for synchronizing a source light illumination level signal with an image compensation process with a delay process on the source light illumination level signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis J. Kerofsky
  • Plasmonic device tuned using physical modulation
    Patent number: 8223425
    Abstract: A plasmonic display device is provided that uses physical modulation mechanisms. The device is made from an electrically conductive bottom electrode and a first dielectric layer overlying the bottom electrode. The first dielectric layer is a piezoelectric material having an index of expansion responsive to an electric field. An electrically conductive top electrode overlies the first dielectric layer. A first plasmonic layer, including a plurality of discrete plasmonic particles, is interposed between the top and bottom electrodes and in contact with the first dielectric layer. In one aspect, the plasmonic particles are an expandable polymer material covered with a metal coating having a size responsive to an electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori Hashimura, Liang Tang, Apostolos T. Voutsas
  • Empty job detection for direct print
    Patent number: 8223361
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide for empty object/file detection by classifying an object/file based on a set of classification types, and parsing a portion of the object/file to determine whether the object/file is empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch
  • Methods and systems for refining text color in a digital image
    Patent number: 8223395
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for refining text color in a digital image. A pixel of interest from a first plurality of pixels in a digital image may be selected, and the first plurality of pixels may be separated into a second plurality of pixels and a third plurality of pixels based on the color value of the pixel of interest. A refinement color value may be calculated based on the second plurality of pixels when the second plurality of pixels meets a quantity threshold. When the second plurality of pixels does not meet the quantity threshold, the refinement color value may be calculated based on the third plurality of pixels. The refinement color value may be assigned to the pixel of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmet Mufit Ferman, John E. Dolan
  • Method and apparatus for automatic language switching for an imaging device
    Patent number: 8218187
    Abstract: Recognizing a language format of an input data stream including reading a next data sample of the input data stream in a current state, selecting a next state in response to the next data sample, transitioning to the next state and repeatedly reading the next data sample and selecting the next state until the next state is an end state, and identifying the language format in response to the current state when the next state is an end state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch
  • Method and apparatus for adaptive buffering
    Patent number: 8218439
    Abstract: An adaptive buffering scheme allows more effective media transport and buffering. In one aspect of the adaptive buffering scheme, buffering parameters are adapted to different media characteristics, such as media play commands or the amount of encoding/transcoding required for the particular media stream. In another aspect of the adaptive buffering scheme, buffering is adapted to different transmission or memory conditions, such as transmission rate, packet jitter, or the amount of available buffer memory. In one example, the adaptive buffering is supported using Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), and/or Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP) and associated Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP), and/or Session Description Protocol (SDP) messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Systems and methods for enhanced display and navigation of streaming video
    Patent number: 8220020
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced navigation of streaming video are disclosed. An exemplary method involves receiving a video as it is streamed from a server over a computer network. A first user request is received to display a first navigation video strip on the display device. The first navigation video strip includes a first plurality of video frames from the video. In response to the first user request, first instructions are obtained for displaying the first navigation video strip. The first navigation video strip is then displayed on the display device in accordance with the first instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Adaptive automatic printing
    Patent number: 8218160
    Abstract: Adaptive automatic printing methods and systems allow a user to modify print settings for an automatic print job after sending the job, after which the job is output under the modified print settings without any requirement to resend the job. Accordingly, if a user discovers after sending an automatic print job that an improper or suboptimal print setting has been used, the user can correct the problem without having to resend the job and, in some embodiments, without having to return to the client node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch
  • Liquid crystal display with black point modulation
    Patent number: 8217890
    Abstract: A backlit display with improved dynamic range. A first pixel is illuminated at a first non-zero illumination level during a first frame and a second non-zero illumination level during a second frame, immediately following the first frame. The second illumination level is greater than the first level. The first pixel is decreased in illumination to a level less than the first illumination level prior to illuminating the first pixel at the second illumination level during the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott J Daly, Xiao-fan Feng
  • Multifunctional peripheral print container modification
    Patent number: 8213037
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for appending element files to a print container in a multifunctional peripheral (MFP) device. The method accepts a first element file and a print container including a second element file. Examples of element files other print containers, fixed documents, application-specific documents, page description language (PDL) documents, extensible markup language (XML) paper specification (XPS) fixed documents, facsimile documents, and scanned documents. The method modifies the print container to include the second element file and the first element file preserved as separate entities, and stores the modified print container in a tangible memory medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Leo Klave, James E. Owen
  • Methods and systems for processing film grain noise
    Patent number: 8213500
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for image noise characterization, parameterization, removal, reconstruction and/or re-combination with a denoised image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Byung Tae Oh, Shawmin Lei
  • Methods and systems for providing remote file structure access on an imaging device
    Patent number: 8213034
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for providing remote file structure data access to an imaging device user interface. Some aspects relate to methods and systems wherein a request for file structure data is sent from an imaging device (IDev) to a remote computing device (RCD) that is capable of retrieving and converting file structure data. Some aspects relate to reading the file structure data of a remote resource and converting that file structure data to a format that is compatible with an IDev user interface (UI). The converted file structure data may then be received by the IDev and displayed at the IDev UI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Amarender Reddy Kethi Reddy, Shinichi Yamamura
  • Printer system and method for recovery from a document assembly failure
    Patent number: 8213853
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for recovering from print assembly failure in a printer with printed medium assembly capabilities. The method generates a first print set including a plurality of physical medium sheets, and stores the first print set of a first interim stacker. A second print set is generated including a plurality of physical medium sheets. Sheets are accessed sheets from the first interim stacker and assembled with sheets from the second print set, generating a final print set with a plurality of sheets in a first order. The final print set is stored in an output stacker. In the event of a first print set failure, first print set replacement sheets are generating. In one aspect, generating the final print set includes directly merging first print set replacement sheets (bypassing the interim stacker) with sheets from the second print set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Burton L. Levin, James E. Owen
  • Systems and methods for network channel characteristic measurement and network management
    Patent number: 8213301
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for detecting and applying network channel characteristic measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Park, Deepak Ayyagari, George M. Peponides, James E. Petranovich
  • Synchronization of video and data
    Patent number: 8214741
    Abstract: A system including a video stream and a data stream. The system synchronizes the data stream to different portions of the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: James Errico, Baoxin Li