Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 11516769
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment, including: acquiring, from a base station, paging-related parameters, where the paging-related parameters include paging search space configuration parameter-related information; and determining, according to the paging search space configuration parameter-related information, an association mechanism for mapping a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion in a paging search space to a PDCCH monitoring occasion for paging, where when the information indicates that a paging search space configuration parameter has been configured and a search space indicated by the paging search space configuration parameter is not a type0-PDCCH common search space, a non-default association mechanism is used; when the information indicates that the paging search space configuration parameter is not configured, or the paging search space configuration parameter-related information indicates that the paging search space configuration parame
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chao Luo, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11516847
    Abstract: A CCA level is made to be variable efficiently while maintaining the fairness relating to acquisition of a transmission opportunity by wireless terminal apparatuses, and thus efficiency of a radio resource is improved. Provided is a terminal apparatus that performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus, and includes; a MAC frame categorization unit categorizing MAC frames, in each of which media access control header is attached to transmission data, based on a type of MAC frame; and a QoS control unit performing a carrier sense using a first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a first category that results from the categorization by the MAC frame categorization unit, and performing the carrier sense using a second CCA level different from the first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a second category different from the first category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera
  • Patent number: 11516688
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a plurality of reference signals from a base station apparatus in a cell; a measurement unit configured to measure at least one reference signal received power (RSRP) of at least one of the plurality of reference signals; and a calculating unit configured to average N highest ones of the at least one RSRP measured to obtain a reference RSRP of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Takahashi, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Kazunari Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 11513403
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel (display panel) 11 includes a display area AA configured to display images, a non-display area NAA outside the display area AA, a light blocking layer (a light blocking portion) 11i disposed at least in the non-display area NAA and configured to block light, a signal line connection line (a narrow line portion) 29 where lines are arranged at intervals in the non-display area NAA, and a common electrode connection line portion (a wide line portion) 30 disposed in the non-display area and having a line width greater than that of the signal line connection line 29 and including empty portions 34.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Yuminami, Masakazu Miyamoto, Masahiro Yoshida, Masayuki Takashima, Toshiaki Fujihara
  • Patent number: 11516493
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for performing entropy coding. According to an aspect of an invention, a parity level flag specifying a parity of a transform coefficient level at a scanning position is decoded if a value of a second absolute level greater flag is equal to a first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Frank Bossen
  • Patent number: 11515007
    Abstract: The invention relates to an in silico screening method to identify candidate excipients for reducing aggregation of a protein in a formulation. The method combines computational molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulations to identify sites on a protein where non-specific self-interaction and interaction of different test excipients may occur, determine the relative binding energies of such interactions, and select one or more test excipients that meet specified interaction criteria for use as candidate excipients in empirical screening studies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Francis Insaidoo, David Roush
  • Patent number: 11515513
    Abstract: A display device manufacturing method according to the disclosure includes the steps of forming a first resin layer serving as a first flexible substrate on a first mother substrate, forming a first light-emitting layer on the first resin layer, and forming, on the first light-emitting layer, a first encapsulating layer encapsulating the first light-emitting layer, forming a second resin layer serving as a second flexible substrate on a second mother substrate, forming a second light-emitting layer on the second resin layer, and forming, on the second light-emitting layer, a second encapsulating layer encapsulating the second light-emitting layer, bonding the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate with a buffer sheet interposed between the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate so that the first encapsulating layer and the second encapsulating layer face each other, peeling the first resin layer from the first mother substrate in a state where the first resin layer and the seco
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yixin Yang
  • Patent number: 11515026
    Abstract: A smart pill container and system integrating the same, combined with a method for digitally translating natural language prescription medication into a programmatically operable structure and form for use by the smart pill container system, where the digital translation includes the abstraction of a prescription frequency characteristic into a number of “slots” and the abstraction of a prescription temporary characteristic by creating an array of “as of” date and value pairs, allowing for the building of a patient's prescription schedule, where the smart pill container has a number of pill wells for storing different doses of medication, and where based on the prescription schedule, an opening in the pill container provides at least one user with access to the medication stored in a particular one of the pill wells at a given dosing time, and where a platform associated with the pill container provides instructions for dosing such medication and monitors use of the pill container for compliance with the pres
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Daniel S Sharp, II, Zigmond Robert Gustafson
  • Publication number: 20220376004
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes, on a substrate, a red pixel electrode and a green pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a blue pixel electrode, in order from the substrate side, and includes a transparent region adjacent to a light-emitting region including a position overlapping the red light-emitting layer, the green light-emitting layer, and the blue light-emitting layer in a plan view. At least a part of the blue light-emitting layer overlaps the red light-emitting layer and the green light-emitting layer adjacent to the red light-emitting layer in the plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: TAZUKO KITAZAWA, YOSHIHIRO UETA
  • Patent number: 11506945
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including an active matrix substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a color filter substrate in a stated order, the active matrix substrate including a first substrate, and a first electrode and second electrodes stacked with an insulating layer in between, the second electrodes arranged in the respective sub-pixels, the color filter substrate including a second substrate, a color filter, and a third electrode, either the first electrode or the second electrodes arranged with electrical connection over the sub-pixels, each of the sub-pixels provided with an optical opening, the third electrode not superimposed with at least a portion of each of the optical openings in a plan view and arranged with electrical connection, a control circuit configured to switch between application of alternating voltage and application of constant voltage to the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Hidefumi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11509955
    Abstract: A display system includes: a plurality of secondary display units that respectively display a plurality of videos; a primary display unit that displays at least one of the plurality of videos; a detection unit that detects a number of viewers of each of the plurality of secondary display units; and a control unit that causes the primary display unit to display a same video as the video being displayed by the secondary display unit having a highest number of viewers among the plurality of secondary display units, based on the numbers of viewers detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eifu Nezu
  • Patent number: 11509602
    Abstract: This resource management server includes a controller, a communicator that communicates with a license management server which manages a license, and a storage. The storage stores resource information. The controller acquires license information from the license management server via the communicator, and activates resources stored by the storage, starting from a highest priority resource, based on the license information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Sato, Katsuyoshi Kondoh, Takayoshi Ohkohchi
  • Patent number: 11507270
    Abstract: A touch input device includes: a position detector that determines an input range in a touch input produced with an inputter on a touch panel and that detects, as a touch position, any position within the input range; a line information generator that generates line information which is information of a line connecting a plurality of the touch positions detected with the position detector; a smoothing level setter that sets, based on the area of the input range, a smoothing level indicating the degree of smoothing; and a smoothing processing processor that executes, on the line of the line information generated by the line information generator, smoothing corresponding to the smoothing level set by the smoothing level setter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachio Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11508797
    Abstract: A display device includes: a resin substrate; a TFT layer; a bending portion; at least one inorganic film forming the TFT layer; an interlayer insulating film forming the TFT layer; and a plurality of wires forming the TFT layer, wherein the at least one inorganic film and the interlayer insulating film include an opening disposed at the bending portion, the at least one inorganic film includes a plurality of island-shaped inorganic films remaining in the opening, each of the plurality of wires overlaps a corresponding island-shaped inorganic film among the plurality of island-shaped inorganic films, and the display device includes a metal layer in a form of islands disposed between each of the plurality of wires and the corresponding island-shaped inorganic film overlapping each of the plurality of wires, the metal layer being in contact with each of the plurality of wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Yamanaka, Masahiko Miwa, Yohsuke Kanzaki, Takao Saitoh, Yi Sun, Seiji Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11508798
    Abstract: In an organic electroluminescence (EL) display device, a display region and a first frame region are defined in a substantially circular shape or a substantially oval shape, and in a bending portion, an opening is formed in an inorganic layered film, and a frame flattening film is provided to fill the opening. An end portion of the opening on the display region side is formed along an arc of the first frame region on the bending portion side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takao Saitoh, Seiji Kaneko, Yohsuke Kanzaki, Masahiko Miwa, Masaki Yamanaka, Yi Sun
  • Patent number: 11507241
    Abstract: A touch panel including a sense electrode having a rectangular shape extending in a first direction and including a first sense electrode and a second sense electrode, and a drive electrode having a rectangular shape extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction on the sense electrode and including a first drive electrode having a shielding property against electric field components. The first drive electrode is positioned covering at least a part of the first sense electrode in a planar view in which the sense electrode is viewed from the drive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11508799
    Abstract: A flexible organic EL display device includes a plurality of short ring wiring lines. Each of the plurality of short ring wiring lines contacts a flattening film that is a resin layer on an end face of a terminal portion region in the flexible organic EL display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mayuko Sakamoto, Tamotsu Sakai
  • Patent number: 11508708
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a ground substrate that is provided with a drive circuit, and a plurality of light emitting elements that are electrically coupled to the drive circuit, in which a distance between the light emitting elements adjacent to each other is equal to or less than 20 ?m in a top view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Onuma, Takashi Ono, Hiroyoshi Higashisaka, Tsuyoshi Ono, Takashi Kurisu, Toshio Hata
  • Patent number: 11508930
    Abstract: A light-emitting device having a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emissive layer (EML) in electrical contact with the first electrode and the second electrode. A charge transport layer (CTL) is positioned between the EML and the second electrode, with the second electrode being an ultrathin transparent metal layer of less than five nanometers, and including an auxiliary electrode metal grid formed by wet etching. The ultrathin transparent metal layer is positioned between the CTL and the auxiliary electrode metal grid, and the ultrathin metal layer is preferably a metal with an etchant selectivity such that it is unaffected by the wet etching of the auxiliary electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hywel Hopkin
  • Patent number: 11508792
    Abstract: In a display region, etching stopper layers are provided between a plurality of inorganic insulating films, openings are formed in the inorganic insulating films located closer to a light-emitting element than the etching stopper layers so as to expose the upper surfaces of the etching stopper layers, and flattening films are provided in the openings such that the openings are filed with the flattening films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinji Ichikawa, Kohji Ariga, Shinsuke Saida, Hiroki Taniyama, Hiroharu Jinmura, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara, Akira Inoue