Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Shift register circuit, active matrix substrate, and display apparatus
    Patent number: 11475968
    Abstract: A circuit includes a first transistor whose gate is connected to a set terminal and whose source or drain is connected to an internal node, a second transistor connected such that one of a source and a drain is electrically connected to the internal node and the other one of the source and the drain is electrically connected to a reference voltage source, a third transistor connected such that a gate is connected to the internal node, one of a source and a drain is connected to a clock terminal, and the other one of the source and the drain is connected to a first output terminal, a bootstrap capacitor which is connected to the internal node and the first output terminal, and a stabilization circuit that suppresses a drop in potential at the internal node in a charging period of the bootstrap capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Takahashi
  • Solid-state image sensor
    Patent number: 11477405
    Abstract: An AD conversion circuit provided in a solid-state image sensor includes a counter circuit that performs count processing and a first latch circuit that holds at least one of a discrimination result of a first comparison circuit and a first output result of the counter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo Ushinaga, Yoshinao Morikawa
  • Login device and display method
    Patent number: 11475115
    Abstract: To provide a login device including a controller, a storage that stores a user capable of a login, where the user includes a plurality of the users, a display device that displays specific displays corresponding to the users, in a display screen, and a processing device that executes a login process with a user corresponding to a specific display selected from the displayed specific displays. If job data including user information is acquired, the controller provides an identifiable display on a specific display for a user corresponding to the user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Morishita
  • Liquid crystal display with in-cell touch panel preventing display defect during touch detection
    Patent number: 11475860
    Abstract: A memory liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel with a built-in touch panel is provided with a state control circuit configured to switch a state of a pixel electrode between a floating state and a non-floating state. A pulse signal for touch detection is supplied to a common electrode in a touch detection period. The state control circuit changes the state of the pixel electrode from the non-floating state to the floating state before the start of the touch detection period, and changes the state of the pixel electrode from the floating state to the non-floating state after the end of the touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa, Yousuke Nakamura, Daisuke Suehiro, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Light-emitting device, display device, and LED display device
    Patent number: 11475852
    Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided with a drive voltage adjustment circuit configured to adjust a voltage value of a drive voltage for driving a plurality of LEDs, and a feedback wiring line for supplying the drive voltage adjustment circuit with a voltage of a voltage detection target node while taking, as the voltage detection target node, a position before a position where a drive voltage wiring line branches on the LED substrate. In accordance with a difference between a voltage supplied from a drive voltage generation circuit and a voltage supplied from the feedback wiring line, the drive voltage adjustment circuit outputs, as the drive voltage, a voltage higher than the voltage supplied from the drive voltage generation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Hidekazu Miyata
  • COMBINATION OF A PD-1 ANTAGONIST AND A VEGFR INHIBITOR FOR TREATING CANCER
    Publication number: 20220324979
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes combination therapies comprising an antagonist of Programmed Death 1 receptor (PD-1) and a VEGFR inhibitor, and the use of the combination therapies for the treatment of cancer, and in particular for treating cancers that express PD-L1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicants: PFIZER INC., MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Andre MARTINI, Jamal Christo Tarazi, Rodolfo Fleury Perini, David J. Mauro
  • PNEUMOCOCCAL POLYSACCHARIDES AND THEIR USE IN IMMUNOGENIC POLYSACCHARIDE-CARRIER PROTEIN CONJUGATES
    Publication number: 20220323564
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Porambo, Chitrananda Abeygunawardana, Luwy Kavuka Musey, Michael J. Kosinski, Yadong Adam Cui
  • PNEUMOCOCCAL POLYSACCHARIDES AND THEIR USE IN IMMUNOGENIC POLYSACCHARIDE-CARRIER PROTEIN CONJUGATES
    Publication number: 20220323592
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Porambo, Chitrananda Abeygunawardana, Luwy Kavuka Musey, Michael J. Kosinski, Yadong Adam Cui
  • PNEUMOCOCCAL POLYSACCHARIDES AND THEIR USE IN IMMUNOGENIC POLYSACCHARIDE-CARRIER PROTEIN CONJUGATES
    Publication number: 20220323565
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Porambo, Chitrananda Abeygunawardana, Luwy Kavuka Musey, Michael J. Kosinski, Yadong Adam Cui
  • PNEUMOCOCCAL POLYSACCHARIDES AND THEIR USE IN IMMUNOGENIC POLYSACCHARIDE-CARRIER PROTEIN CONJUGATES
    Publication number: 20220323593
    Abstract: 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 Steptococcus pneumoniae serotypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Porambo, Chitrananda Abeygunawardana, Luwy Kavuka Musey, Michael J. Kosinski, Yadong Adam Cui
  • Systems and methods for partitioning video blocks at a boundary of a picture for video coding
    Patent number: 11470359
    Abstract: Method, device, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium to determine whether video block is a fractional boundary video block (See paragraph [0032] and FIG. 7.) and to partition the fractional boundary video block into inferred partitions using a subset of available partition modes (See paragraph [0033] and FIG. 8.) are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiran Mukesh Misra, Weijia Zhu, Christopher Andrew Segall, Frank Bossen
  • Cyclic di-nucleotide compounds as sting agonists
    Patent number: 11466047
    Abstract: A class of polycyclic compounds of general formula (I), wherein Base1, Base2, Y, Ya, Xa, Xa1, Xb, Xb1, Xc, Xc1, Xd, Xd1, R1, R1a, R2, R2a, R3, R4, R4a, R5, R6, R6a, R7, R7a, R8, R8a, and R9 are defined herein, that may be useful as inductors of type I interferon production, specifically as STING active agents, are provided. Also provided are processes for the synthesis and use of compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Wen-Lian Wu, Jongwon Lim, Jared N. Cumming, Benjamin Wesley Trotter, Wonsuk Chang
  • Sensor array
    Patent number: 11467117
    Abstract: There is provided an impedance sensor capable of counting the number of microscopic biological materials and specifying their properties stably with high sensitivity. An impedance sensor includes a measuring electrode pair formed at a wiring layer in a multilayer-wiring circuit board and one or more dielectrophoresis electrodes formed at another wiring layer lower than the wiring layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Ashida
  • Connector and electronic equipment
    Patent number: 11469558
    Abstract: A connector is mateable with a mating connector along a front-rear direction. The connector comprises a first sub connector and a second sub connector. The first sub connector and the second sub connector are mateable with each other in a direction intersecting with the front-rear direction. The first sub connector comprises a first holding member and a plurality of first terminals. The second sub connector comprises a second holding member and a plurality of second terminals. The second terminals are arranged in two rows. Each of the second terminals has a second contact point and an SMT portion. The SMT portion is configured to be fixed on a circuit board. The SMT portion of the second terminal of one of the two rows extends in an orientation opposite to an orientation in which the SMT portion of the second terminal of a remaining one of the two rows extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Tada, Kazutaka Okuzako, Motoo Gohda, Hideto Ohhori
  • Systems and methods for signaling scaling window information in video coding
    Patent number: 11470358
    Abstract: A method of decoding video data, that method includes: receiving a picture parameter set; parsing a first syntax element specifying whether in-loop filtering operations may be performed for pictures in the picture parameter set, in a case that a number of tiles in a picture is greater than 1, and parsing a second syntax element specifying whether a raster-san slice mode or a rectangular slice mode is in use and whether slice information is signaled in the picture parameter set, in the case that the number of tiles in the picture is greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jonatan Samuelsson, Sachin G. Deshpande, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Image forming apparatus including developing unit and photosensitive unit
    Patent number: 11467531
    Abstract: A developing unit and a photosensitive unit respectively have engaging mechanism parts that fit in each other in the longitudinal direction so as to integrate the developing unit and the photosensitive unit. The developing unit includes, as the engaging mechanism part, a first holding member to hold the front end part of a drum shaft. The photosensitive unit includes, as the engaging mechanism part, a second holding member to hold the rear end part of a roller shaft. The first holding member and the second holding member are provided in a slidable manner in a direction in which the developing roller and the photosensitive drum separate from each other, and furthermore are biased toward a direction in which the developing roller and the photosensitive drum come close to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Jun Yamaguchi
  • Systems and methods for performing motion vector prediction using a derived set of motion vectors
    Patent number: 11470346
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for performing motion vector prediction. According to an aspect of an invention, a motion vector and a corresponding reference picture identifier for the motion vector are received; a reference picture corresponding to a second motion vector is determined based on the reference picture corresponding to the received motion vector and a current picture; a scaling value is determined based on the determined reference picture, the reference picture corresponding to the received motion vector, and the current picture; and the second motion vector is generated from the received motion vector by scaling with the scaling value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Frank Bossen, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Systems and methods for data transmission based on a link layer packet structure
    Patent number: 11470188
    Abstract: A device may be configured to generate data packets including a packet header and a payload. The packet header may include a value that signals whether the payload encapsulates input data according to a single short packet encapsulation, a single long packet encapsulation, a segmented encapsulation, or a concatenated encapsulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Systems and methods for signaling decoding capability information in video coding
    Patent number: 11470357
    Abstract: A device may be configured to decoding capability information according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Test socket and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 11467185
    Abstract: A first base plate includes a plurality of first positioning hole portions, an accommodation portion that accommodates an optical module, a first opening portion, a first pressing portion, and a first engagement portion. A second base plate has a second positioning hole portion that is disposed at a position corresponding to the first positioning hole portion, a second opening portion that is disposed at a predetermined positional relationship with respect to the second positioning hole portion, a second holding portion, a conduction portion, a second pressing portion, a substrate portion, a cover portion, a second hinge portion, and a second engagement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Tamaki, Yasuki Fukui, Naruki Hara, Masataka Yamashita