Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 11493815Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed so that the numbers of pixel electrodes arranged in a column-wise direction vary according to locations in a row-wise direction, a plurality of image lines having lengths corresponding to the numbers of pixel electrodes arranged in the column-wise direction, a common electrode partially disposed in an area outside the display area, a common wire supplies a common potential signal to the common electrode, a plurality of image lead wires drawn from the plurality of image lines into the area outside the display area and disposed to intersect the common wire, and a plurality of capacitance forming sections connected to the plurality of image lead wires in the area outside the display area and disposed to overlap at least either the common electrode or the common wire via at least either of insulating films.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Yoshida
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Patent number: 11491216Abstract: The present invention provides capsular polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes identified using NMR. The present invention further provides polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which capsular polysaccharides from one or more of these serotypes are conjugated to a carrier protein such as CRM197. Polysaccharide-protein conjugates from one or more of these serotypes may be included in multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines having polysaccharides from multiple additional Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Richard J. Porambo, Chitrananda Abeygunawardana, Luwy Kavuka Musey, Michael J. Kosinski, Yadong Adam Cui, Julie Marie Skinner
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Patent number: 11492385Abstract: Long-acting co-agonists of the glucagon and GLP-1 receptors are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Anandan Palani, Ravi Nargund, Paul E. Carrington, Tomi Sawyer, Qiaolin Deng, Antonello Pessi, Elisabetta Bianchi, Federica Orvieto
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Publication number: 20220352482Abstract: A light-emitting element is provided with a first electrode which is an anode; a second electrode which is a cathode; a light-emitting layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; an oxide layer provided between the first electrode or the second electrode and the light-emitting layer; and an oxide layer provided in contact with the oxide layer and between the oxide layer and the second electrode, wherein of the oxide layer and the oxide layer, the layer closer to the light-emitting layer is formed from a semiconductor; and an oxygen atom density in the oxide layer is less than an oxygen atom density in the oxide layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: KENJI KIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220352481Abstract: A light-emitting device of a transmissive type includes, as subpixels, a red subpixel including a red light-emitting layer, a green subpixel including a green light-emitting layer, and a blue subpixel including a blue light-emitting layer arranged in parallel with one another. The display light-emitting device includes an opaque region that overlaps at least the red subpixel and the green subpixel, each in its entirety, in a plan view and blocks background light, and a transparent region that overlaps at least a portion of the blue subpixel in a plan view and transmits background light.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: TAZUKO KITAZAWA, YOSHIHIRO UETA
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Publication number: 20220353537Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling subpicture information for coded video. In one example, a method of decoding video data comprises: receiving a general constraint information syntax elements; parsing a first syntax element from the general constraint information syntax elements specifying whether a constraint is imposed on the number of slices that being contained in each subpicture; receiving a picture parameter set syntax elements; and parsing a second syntax element from the picture parameter set syntax elements specifying that each sub-picture contains one and only one slice, wherein a value of the second syntax element is constrained according to the first syntax element parsed from the general constraint information syntax elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: SACHIN G. DESHPANDE, Jonatan SAMUELSSON
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Patent number: 11489709Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus, the terminal apparatus including: a transmission unit configured to transmit a Phase-tracking reference signal (PTRS); and a higher layer processing unit configured to configure information of mapping of the PTRS. An antenna port for the PTRS is associated with an antenna port for a Demodulation reference signal (DMRS).Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Kozue Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11487319Abstract: An image display device has an image display unit including a display for displaying images and a backlight arranged behind the display to illuminate the display. The image display device includes an opening formed behind the image display unit, an optical sensor which detects light passing through the opening, and a sensor holder which holds the optical sensor, and the opening includes a protruding diaphragm and a passage hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Tatsuya Saito
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Patent number: 11487149Abstract: Provided is a curved display device capable of preventing or reducing local light leakage while achieving a certain contrast ratio. The curved display device includes a liquid crystal panel in a normally black mode. The liquid crystal panel includes a first polarizer, a liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizer in a stated order from a viewing surface side. The liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate including a transparent substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate including a transparent substrate in a stated order from the viewing surface side. At least one of the first substrate or the second substrate is provided with a third polarizer on a surface of the transparent substrate closer to the liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mikihiro Noma, Kiyoshi Minoura
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Patent number: 11485794Abstract: Antibodies that bind the apple 3 domain of human coagulation Factor XI and inhibit activation of FXI by coagulation factor XIIa as well as activation of FIX by FXIa are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Adimab, LLCInventors: Zhu Chen, Kenneth Ellsworth, James Milligan, Elizabeth Oldham, Dietmar Seiffert, Bianka Prinz
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Patent number: 11488992Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixels over a substrate and a frame region outside the pixel region. In the plurality of pixels, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are provided. In the frame region, an antistatic hole is provided. The pixel region and a portion of the frame region are covered with an insulating film, and the antistatic hole is bored through the insulating film. An antistatic wire is provided in the frame region so as to surround the pixel region, and has a surface exposed in the antistatic hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Rikiya Takita, Akinori Kubota, Fumiki Nakano
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Patent number: 11487489Abstract: A print instruction device includes: a communicator that communicates with plural printers, each of which has a function as a parent machine storing print data and a function as a child machine acquiring and printing the print data; a print data sending processor that sends the print data to be stored in the parent machine; a print completion reception processor that receives print completion information from the child machine; a print history manager that updates print-related history on the basis of the received print completion information; and a parent machine setting device that specifies a most frequently used printer on the basis of the updated history when sending the print data, switches the parent machine to a specified printer, and causes the switched parent machine to send the print data.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Ataka
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Patent number: 11484565Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula A, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: where A, X, R1, and R2 are as defined herein, which compounds have properties for antagonizing PCSK9. Also described are pharmaceutical formulations comprising the compounds of Formula I or their salts, and methods of treating cardiovascular disease and conditions related to PCSK9 activity, e.g. atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, coronary heart disease, metabolic syndrome, acute coronary syndrome, or related cardiovascular disease and cardiometabolic conditions.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLCInventors: Hubert Josien, Abbas Walji, Harold B. Wood, Fa-Xiang Ding, Jian Liu, Thomas Joseph Tucker, Michael Man-Chu Lo, Liangqin Guo
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Patent number: 11487103Abstract: An electrowetting device has an active matrix substrate including a plurality of first electrodes arrayed in a matrix shape, a plurality of TFTs, a plurality of first wiring lines extending along a row direction, and a plurality of second wiring lines extending along a column direction. The plurality of TFTs are disposed so as to have at least one of first and second relative arrangements. The first relative arrangement is a relative arrangement where two or more TFTs that are connected to any one of the plurality of first wiring lines alternately include, along the row direction: TFTs that are connected to the first electrodes belonging to one of a pair of rows adjoining the one first wiring line; and TFTs that are connected to the first electrodes belonging to the other row.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kei Ikuta
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Patent number: 11488531Abstract: A proximity sensor comprises a light emitting element configured to emit light; a synchronization signal input unit configured to be input with a synchronization signal which is output from a display device and which indicates a rewrite timing of an image displayed on a display screen; and an emission controller configured to control emission of the light from the light emitting element, wherein the emission controller is configured to cause the light emitting element to start the emission of the light at a start timing set based on the rewrite timing at which rewriting of one of a plurality of scanning lines of the image is caused to start in the specific display region, and an emission time of the light from the light emitting element, and the emission controller is configured to cause the light emitting element to end the emission of the light before the rewrite timing comes.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Sharp Semiconductor Innovation CorporationInventors: Kohji Hamaguchi, Takahiro Inoue, Masaya Ohnishi, Isamu Kawabe
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Patent number: 11485950Abstract: The present invention provides a cell stimulation device capable of uniformly electrically stimulating cells intended to be electrically stimulated, and of preventing medium components from decomposing and depositing. [Solution] The cell stimulation device according to the present invention is intended to stimulate the cells being cultured in a culture medium, and is characterized in that the cell stimulation device includes an electron emission element for feeding electric charges to the culture medium via a gas phase, and an electric charge collecting electrode for collecting the electric charges from the culture medium, the electron emission element includes a lower electrode, a surface electrode, and an intermediate layer disposed between the lower electrode and the surface electrode, and the electric charge collecting electrode is disposed so as to be contactable with the culture medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki Hirakawa, Haruo Yamamoto, Tadashi Iwamatsu, Yasuhiro Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Yamaji, Kohji Shinkawa, Mai Takasaki, Shohei Komaru, Fumiaki Sugimori
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Patent number: 11488990Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a thin film transistor that includes a gate electrode, a first inorganic insulating film that covers the gate electrode, a second inorganic insulating film that is disposed on the first inorganic insulating film and that has an opening overlapping the gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the second inorganic insulating film, and a semiconductor layer that overlaps the gate electrode in an opening of the first inorganic insulating film and that covers the source electrode and the drain electrode. Regarding a surface of the first inorganic insulating film in a first region overlapping the opening of the first inorganic insulating film and a surface in a second region other than the first region, the surfaces being arranged nearer to the second inorganic insulating film, the surface in the first region is lower than the surface in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsunori Misaki
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Patent number: 11489978Abstract: The present invention is an information processing device in which a printer driver for causing an image forming device to perform processing according to items is installed, and which is provided with an editable tab on a settings screen of the printer driver such that the items can be selected by a user. The information processing device includes a controller that, in a state where information about the editable tab has been registered in the image forming device by an administrator, and an acquisition request for information about the registered editable tab has been made from the printer driver to the image forming device, causes information about the registered editable tab to be transmitted to the information processing device, and causes the transmitted information to be reflected in the editable tab of the printer driver.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi Kawano
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Patent number: 11490107Abstract: A method of signaling tile set parameters is disclosed. A value for a syntax element is signaled in a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit. The value for the syntax element indicates that a tile set layer syntax structure is included in the NAL unit. Values for one or more tile set parameters included in the tile set layer syntax structure are signaled.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Publication number: 20220340660Abstract: Novel methods for selecting a patient with a cancer for treatment with a TIGIT antagonist are disclosed. The methods employ various biomarkers, including CD45, CD3?, CD11b, Foxp3, IFN-?, Cxcl11, Cxcl10, TNF-?, IL-23, MHC class II, CD80, CD86, and CD40.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Sybil M.G. Williams, Jin-Hwan Han, Drake Maurice LaFace, Elaine Pinheiro, Wolfgang Seghezzi