Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • TOUCH INPUT DEVICE, TOUCH INPUT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING TOUCH INPUT PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220283702
    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: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: SACHIO TANAKA
  • NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR A AGONISTS USEFUL FOR THE TREATMENT OF CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASES, KIDNEY DISEASE AND DIABETES
    Publication number: 20220281886
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Compounds of Formula I: I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrug thereof. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one compound of Formula I, and methods of using the compounds of Formula I for treatment or prophylaxis of cardiometabolic diseases including high blood pressure, heart failure, kidney disease, and diabetes in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Frank Bennett, Jason E. Imbriglio, Angela D. Kerekes, Tanweer Khan, Claire Lankin, Derun Li, Zhicai Wu, Yusheng Xiong, Hyewon Youm, Yang Yu, Feng Ye, Anthappan Tony Kurissery, Venukrishnan Komanduri
  • ANTIGENIC GLYCOPROTEIN E POLYPEPTIDES, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20220280636
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to HSV glycoprotein E antigenic peptide constructs and HSV protein vaccines, as well as methods of using the vaccines and compositions comprising the vaccines. The present invention directed to immunogenic polypeptides of use for a vaccine against Herpes Simplex Vims (HSV). The polypeptides are glycoprotein E peptides that are mutated to reduce their binding to antibody Fc domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Arthur Fridman, Jennifer Dawn Galli, Dai Wang, Lan Zhang
  • Image decoding apparatus and image coding apparatus
    Patent number: 11438626
    Abstract: A method of generating a prediction for an area of video data, comprises Receiving a rectangular video block including sample values, and for each sample included in the video block, generating a predictive sample value by averaging a horizontal interpolation and a vertical interpolation corresponding to the location of the sample within the video block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiran Mukesh Misra, Jie Zhao, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Rollable display panel with switched power delivery
    Patent number: 11437461
    Abstract: A plurality of switching elements are each provided individually between a second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and each of a plurality of high power supply voltage wiring lines and input a high power supply voltage to a corresponding high power supply voltage wiring line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniharu Wakata, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Display system, display method, and program
    Patent number: 11438652
    Abstract: A display system includes a main display unit configured to display a video; a plurality of subordinate display units configured to display a plurality of videos, respectively; a detection unit configured to detect the number of viewers of the main display unit and the respective numbers of viewers of the plurality of subordinate display units; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to switch a video displayed on a subordinate display unit of the plurality of subordinate display units to the same video as a video displayed on the main display unit when the number of viewers of the main display unit detected by the detection unit is equal to or more than a first predetermined value and the number of viewers of the subordinate display unit is less than a second predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eifu Nezu
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and method
    Patent number: 11438806
    Abstract: To provide a technique related to a terminal apparatus, a method, and an integrated circuit for efficiently performing communication between a base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus by correctly managing QoS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Chromane monobactam compounds for the treatment of bacterial infections
    Patent number: 11433055
    Abstract: The present invention relates to monobactam compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present invention also relates to compositions which comprise a monobactam compound of the invention or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention further relates to methods for treating a bacterial infection comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the invention, either alone or in combination with a therapeutically effective amount of a second beta-lactam antibiotic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Tesfaye Biftu, Xianhai Huang, Weiguo Liu, Weidong Pan, Min Park, Alexander Pasternak, Wanying Sun, Haifeng Tang, Yi Zang
  • Optical scanning device including lower housing with bottom surface opening, and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 11435573
    Abstract: To provide an optical scanning device including a lower housing including an opened top part, an upper housing that covers the top part of the lower housing, a rotating polygon mirror that reflects a beam, an f? lens on which the beam reflected by the rotating polygon mirror is incident, and a reflection mirror that reflects the beam. The lower housing is provided with a bottom surface opening including an opened bottom surface between the rotating polygon mirror and the reflection mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Reishi Aoki, Atsuo Nakao, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Takaharu Motoyama
  • Display device
    Patent number: 11436980
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including an irregularly shaped display panel that allows a frame area to be narrowed by utilizing the frame area in a cutout portion. Some emission circuits that respectively correspond to scan circuits arranged in a first curvature portion are arranged in a part of a second side portion that is near the first curvature portion, and remaining emission circuits are arranged in a first notch side portion. Accordingly, the emission circuits arranged in the first notch side portion have lines connected to second emission control lines in a second display area from the first notch side portion side, resulting in a fewer number of lines extending into the first curvature portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Yamada, Makoto Yokoyama
  • Transistor and display device
    Patent number: 11437520
    Abstract: The transistor includes a first insulating film, an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film, an upper gate electrode, and a second insulating film being sequentially layered on a substrate, and the transistor includes a light blocking layer layered on the second insulating film and formed of metal. The light blocking layer is electrically connected to the upper gate electrode by interposing a gate contact hole provided in the second insulating film. The oxide semiconductor layer is configured such that a region overlapping with the upper gate electrode entirely overlaps with the light blocking layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Miyamoto, Yoshinobu Nakamura
  • Substrate sealing structure body, and, display device and production method therefor
    Patent number: 11437600
    Abstract: In the present embodiment, a sealing agent (50) sealing two substates contains a low melting-point glass material and is adhered to each of a first substrate (10) and a second substrate (20), a barrier rib (60), which is formed in such a manner as to surround the outer periphery of an electronic element (30), is disposed between the sealing agent (50) and the electronic element (30), and between the first substrate (10) and the second substrate (20), and the sealing agent (50) is spaced apart from the barrier rib (60). As a result, a deterioration of the electronic element, caused by the heat produced when sealing, may be prevented while the electronic element formed between the two substrates is protected from moisture and oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhki Kobayashi, Shinichi Kawato, Kiyoshi Minoura, Shinji Shimada, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Masahiro Mitani, Kohzoh Nakamura, Katsuhiko Kishimoto, Yozo Narutaki
  • Mobile station apparatus, base station apparatus, wireless communication method, and integrated circuit
    Patent number: 11438929
    Abstract: To make a mobile station apparatus efficiently generate a base sequence. In a mobile station apparatus that generates a sequence for a demodulation reference signal on the basis of at least a sequence group number and transmits to a base station apparatus the demodulation reference signal together with a physical uplink shared channel used for transmission of a transport block, the mobile station apparatus receives information indicating a value of a parameter relating to the sequence from the base station apparatus, and determines the sequence group number without using the value of the parameter in a case where the mobile station apparatus performs transmission of the transport block on the physical uplink shared channel as part of a contention based random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Tatsushi Aiba, Wataru Ouchi
  • Image forming apparatus, control method of image forming apparatus and image forming system
    Patent number: 11435967
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus, and the plurality of image forming apparatuses include a parent apparatus and a child apparatus(es). The parent apparatus transmits, when receiving a print instruction that is transmitted from the child apparatus for outputting operated by a user, print data to the child apparatus for outputting. The parent apparatus transmits, when transmission instruction data is included in the print data, print image data included in the print data to a transmission destination apparatus such as a child apparatus other than the child apparatus for outputting, the information processing apparatus and a further external apparatus with which the parent apparatus can perform communication via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunori Hasegawa, Satoshi Awata
  • Information processing device
    Patent number: 11438967
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Saeda, Yukio Kanaoka, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
  • Terminal device, base station device, report transmission method performed by terminal device, and report reception method performed by base station device
    Patent number: 11438945
    Abstract: A terminal device, a base station device, a communication system, a measurement method, and an integrated circuit, which are capable of efficiently performing Sidelink Direct Discovery, are provided. In the terminal device, a reception unit is configured to receive an RRC connection reconfiguration message including a first configuration related to Sidelink Direct Discovery, and in a case where the first configuration includes frequency information, to attempt to acquire configuration information about monitoring of a Sidelink Direct Discovery announcement at a frequency indicated by the frequency information, using a timer configured to count a predetermined time and while the timer is counting, by acquiring system information to be broadcast at the frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Katsunari Uemura, Shohei Yamada
  • Optical stack including multiple optical layers, display device including the optical stack disposed on a panel, and method for producing optical stack
    Patent number: 11435509
    Abstract: An optical stack for a display device includes multiple layers that are incorporated into a display device that further includes a display panel. The optical stack includes a resin layer, an alignment film, an optical compensation layer, a polarizer, and a hard coat layer that are stacked in this order from a panel side. The optical stack is formed by preparing and coating a solution for each layer, and then curing and otherwise treating each layer as warranted for a particular layer, in turn to form the optical stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa, Miho Yamada, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 11435609
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that, with photo-alignment films, can maintain a favorable voltage holding ratio for a long period of time and prevent generation of image sticking and stains on the display screen. The liquid crystal display device includes: an active-matrix liquid crystal panel; and a backlight, the liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal layer, paired substrates holding the liquid crystal layer in between, and alignment films disposed on the liquid crystal layer side surfaces of the respective substrates, the alignment films each being a photo-alignment film formed from a material exhibiting photo-alignment performance, the liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal material and a radical scavenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Miyachi, Masanobu Mizusaki, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Isamu Miyake, Toshihiro Matsumoto
  • NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR A AGONISTS USEFUL FOR THE TREATMENT OF CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASES, KIDNEY DISEASE AND DIABETES
    Publication number: 20220273669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Compounds of Formula I: I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrug thereof. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one compound of Formula I, and methods of using the compounds of Formula I for treatment of cardiometabolic diseases including high blood pressure, heart failure, kidney disease, and diabetes in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Qingmei Hong, Jason E. Imbriglio, Angela D. Kerekes, Tanweer Khan, Claire Lankin, Derun Li, Rui Liang, Pengcheng Patrick Shao, Zhicai Wu, Yusheng Xiong, Feng Ye, Hyewon Youm, Yang Yu, Anthappan Tony Kurissery, Venukrishnan Komanduri
  • GLUCOSE-RESPONSIVE INSULIN CONJUGATES
    Publication number: 20220273770
    Abstract: Glucose-responsive insulin conjugates that contain one or more trisaccharides are provided. Such insulin conjugates may display a pharmacokinetic (PK) and/or pharmacodynamic (PD) profile that is responsive to the systemic concentrations of a saccharide such as glucose or alpha-methylmannose, even when administered to a subject in need thereof in the absence of an exogenous multivalent saccharide-binding molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Danqing Feng, Erin N. Guidry, Pei Huo, Andrew J. Kassick, Ahmet Kekec, Songnian Lin, Christopher R. Moyes, Dmitri A. Pissarnitski, Lin Yan, Yuping Zhu