Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 7923568
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds and derivatives thereof, their synthesis, and their use as estrogen receptor modulators. The compounds of the instant invention are ligands for estrogen receptors and as such may be useful for treatment or prevention of a variety of conditions related to estrogen functioning including: bone loss, bone fractures, osteoporosis, metastatic bone disease, Paget's disease, periodontal disease, cartilage degeneration, endometriosis, uterine fibroid disease, hot flashes, increased levels of LDL cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, impairment of cognitive functioning, cerebral degenerative disorders, restenosis, gynecomastia, vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, obesity, incontinence, inflammation, inflammatory bowel disease, sexual dysfunction, hypertension, retinal degeneration and cancer, in particular of the breast, uterus and prostate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Mark L. Greenlee, Dongfang Meng, Dann L. Parker, Jr., Wanying Sun, Kenneth J. Wildonger, Robert R. Wilkening
  • Patent number: 7923310
    Abstract: A fabrication method is provided for a core-shell-shell (CSS) nanowire transistor (NWT). The method provides a cylindrical CSS nanostructure with a semiconductor core, an insulator shell, and a conductive shell. The CSS nanostructure has a lower hemicylinder overlying a substrate surface. A first insulating film is conformally deposited overlying the CSS nanostructure and anisotropically plasma etched. Insulating reentrant stringers are formed adjacent the nanostructure lower hemicylinder. A conductive film is conformally deposited and selected regions are anisotropically plasma etched, forming conductive film gate straps overlying a gate electrode in a center section of the CSS nanostructure. An isotropically etching removes the insulating reentrant stringers adjacent the center section of the CSS nanostructure, and an isotropically etching of the conductive shell overlying the S/D regions is performed. A screen oxide layer is deposited over the CSS nanostructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Crowder, Yutaka Takafuji
  • Patent number: 7923919
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent panel, a production method thereof, and an organic electroluminescent display device, in which color mixing between adjacent pixels, caused by overflow or pull-in of a liquid material is suppressed and discontinuity (physical and electrical separation by the step) of an upper electrode is reduced when an organic film such as a luminescent layer is formed by an application method such as an ink jet printing method. The organic electroluminescent panel of the present invention is an organic electroluminescent panel comprising a lower electrode, a bank, an organic film, and an upper electrode on a substrate, wherein the organic electroluminescent panel has: two or more bank regions having different film thicknesses; and an organic film region surrounded by the two or more bank regions, the organic film region having a planar shape of a quadrangle or a substantial quadrangle with a rounded vertex or side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Okano
  • Patent number: 7924298
    Abstract: A modulation processing section compares video data of a current frame and a previous frame representative value supplied from a frame memory, corrects the video data so that a gradation transition from a gradation indicated by the previous frame representative value to a gradation indicated by the video data is emphasized, and outputs the corrected video data. A judgment section compares both of the data and judges, out of a value calculated from the previous frame representative value by a representative value generating section and the video data, which is to be stored in the frame memory till a next frame begins. This allows for realizing a liquid crystal display device capable of preventing with a relatively small-scale circuit (alternatively, a relatively small amount of calculation) a phenomenon such that: although a response speed of a pixel is improved, the emphasis modulation and a response delay of the pixel are combined so that image quality in displaying moving images deteriorates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihisa Uchida, Makoto Shiomi, Kazunari Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 7924372
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device having excellent display quality and a substrate to be used for such liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display device is provided with a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal sealed between the substrates, CF resin layers formed in a display area on the substrate; and a structure for sustaining a cell gap between the substrates in the display area. The structure is provided with a resin spacer layer occupying 90% or more of the volume of an organic member constituting the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Takashi Takagi
  • Patent number: 7924381
    Abstract: A method for producing a liquid crystal display device including a first irradiation step for realizing alignment of liquid crystals in a first azimuth direction on a first alignment layer by obliquely irradiating the first substrate, a second irradiation step for realizing alignment of liquid crystals in a second azimuth direction by obliquely irradiating a region of the first substrate where irradiation has not been conducted in the first irradiation step with rays in an azimuth direction that is 180 degrees different from an azimuth direction of irradiation in the first irradiation step, a third irradiation step for realizing alignment of liquid crystals in a third azimuth direction on a second alignment layer by obliquely irradiating the second substrate, and a sticking step of sticking together the first and second substrates such that the first azimuth direction and the third azimuth direction are perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsutomu Seino, Yasutoshi Tasaka
  • Patent number: 7923926
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent panel has excellent reliability of luminance of emitted light, and an organic electroluminescent display device includes such an organic electroluminescent panel. The organic electroluminescent panel includes a structure in which the first electrode, an organic layer including at least a light-emitting layer, the second electrode are stacked in this order on a substrate having a surface on which an organic insulating film is formed, wherein the organic electroluminescent panel further includes an inorganic insulating film, the inorganic insulating film covers the organic insulating film and the first electrode, the inorganic insulating film has an opening in a display region and an opening in a non-display region, and the opening in the display region is formed on the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohsuke Terada, Haruyuki Morita, Akira Tagawa
  • Patent number: 7923204
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a novel forward mutation assay based on 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) resistance which utilizes a strain of Salmonella typhimurium derived from the Ames strain TA100. More specifically, the invention provides a high throughput alternative to the standard Ames mutation assay for the evaluation of the genotoxicity activity of compounds during an early stage of the drug development process. The invention also identifies the upp locus as a mutational target that is capable of detecting a diverse spectrum of mutagenic events and further describes a S. typhimurium tester strain, designated FU100 (his+, rfa, ?uvrB, pkM101, 5-fluorouridine resistant) for use in the assay of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Warren E. Glaab, Thomas R. Skopek, Katerina Vlasakova, Judith E. Miller
  • Publication number: 20110081901
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a secondary station in a network, the secondary station comprising a transceiver adapted for simultaneously receiving transmissions from a primary station controlling a first cell and at least one primary station controlling a second cell, the method comprising the secondary station (a) selecting a first precoding matrix for the first cell out a primary set of precoding matrices for the first cell, (b) selecting a subset of at least one precoding matrix for the at least one second cell in dependence on the first precoding matrix, out of a set of subsets of precoding matrices for the second cell, (c) selecting a second precoding matrix for the at least one second cell out of the selected subset of precoding matrices for the second cell, (d) transmitting a first indicator representative of the first precoding matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicants: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V., SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Timothy James Moulsley, Choo Chiap Chiau
  • Publication number: 20110081875
    Abstract: A wireless communication device may autonomously transition from a multiple antenna port mode to a single antenna port mode. The wireless communication device may implicitly notify a base station about the autonomous transition from the multiple antenna port mode to the single antenna port mode. The base station may reallocate resources that were previously allocated to the wireless communication device but that are no longer being used by the wireless communication device. In some cases, the base station may configure the wireless communication device's antenna port mode via radio resource control signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimihiko Imamura, John M. Kowalski, Sayantan Choudhury
  • Publication number: 20110080623
    Abstract: The image display system includes an image reading apparatus having an image reading portion for reading a document to output as first image data, and a data output portion for outputting the first image data accompanied with a plurality of specific image data or locations of the plurality of specific image data and display information data including a display time and display order of each specific image data, and a display apparatus having an image display portion for displaying the specific image data based on display information data of the specific image data in displaying the first image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Itoh
  • Publication number: 20110081934
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is configured for performing uplink transmission power control. The wireless communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The wireless communication device performs uplink transmission power control for multiple regulated frequency bands or component carriers. The wireless communication device determines a total transmission power for at least one component carrier and allocates transmission power to at least one antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimihiko Imamura, Prem L. Sood
  • Publication number: 20110080540
    Abstract: A lighting device which is thin and has improved heat dissipation properties. The device (10) is provided with light guide plates (1), light source substrates (2), a chassis (5) on which the light guide plates (1) and the light source substrates (2) are mounted, and driver substrates (6) located on the side of the rear surface of the chassis (5). One driver substrate (6) is provided for each two or more of the light source substrates (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Tomiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20110080520
    Abstract: There is provided a signal conversion circuit which is suitably used in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device (especially a multiprimary liquid crystal display device which performs display in a vertical alignment mode), and a multiprimary liquid crystal display device having such a signal conversion circuit. A signal conversion circuit according to the present invention is for use in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device which performs display in a vertical alignment mode, and converts an input video signal to a multiprimary signal corresponding to four or more primary colors. When generating a multiprimary signal for displaying dark skin, the signal conversion circuit according to the present invention applies a conversion to the video signal so that a color difference ?u?v?=((u??u60?)2+(v??v60?)2) is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Kohzoh Nakamura, Shun Ueki, Tomohiko Mori, Yuichi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20110080539
    Abstract: A backlight device (20) is disclosed which includes regularly provided light guide plates (40a, 40b, and 40c), the backlight device (20) being arranged such that (i) the light guide plates (40a, 40b, and 40c) have their respective light-emitting surfaces (32a, 32b, and 32c) and light-entering surfaces (34a, 34b, and 34c) via which light from light sources enters the light guide plates (40a, 40b, and 40c), (ii) the light guide plates (40a, 40b, and 40c) are provided so that a first light guide plate (40a) overlaps a second light guide plate (40b) adjacent to the first light guide plate (40a), and (iii) a distance between a light-entering surface (34b) and a light-emitting surface (32b) of the second light guide plate (40b) is different from a distance between a light-entering surface (34a) and a light-emitting surface (32a) of the first light guide plate (40a). As a result, it is possible to provide an illumination device in which an increase in the number of components can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20110080543
    Abstract: The present invention provides a color filter substrate and a liquid crystal display device that allow suppressing the occurrence of liquid crystal alignment disorder in the vicinity of stack spacers without increasing the number of processes, even in a case where a colored layer is used as a base of the stack spacers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kohara, Tohru Sakata, Makoto Nishiuchi
  • Publication number: 20110080876
    Abstract: A method for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmit diversity scheme is described. A UCI is coded with a Reed-Muller code to obtain a coded UCI. The coded UCI is mapped to quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) symbols to obtain a mapped coded UCI. A phase shift is applied to the mapped coded UCI based on an acknowledge/negative-acknowledge (ACK/NACK) to obtain a phase shifted mapped coded UCI. The mapped coded UCI is sent using a PUCCH resource on a first antenna. The phase shifted mapped coded UCI is sent using a PUCCH resource on a second antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhanping Yin
  • Publication number: 20110081898
    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: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Park
  • Publication number: 20110080903
    Abstract: A method for coding control data with user data repetition is disclosed. Bits in user data may be removed. Bits in control data may be repeated to increase a number of bits in the control data. A number of bits in the user data that is the same as the number of bits in the control data may be copied. The copied user data bits may be added to the control data. The user data and the control data may be multiplexed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, John M. Kowalski, Lizhong Zheng
  • Publication number: 20110080880
    Abstract: A method for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmit diversity scheme is described. A UCI is coded with a Forward Error Correction code to obtain a coded UCI. The coded UCI is mapped to quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) symbols to obtain a mapped coded UCI. A phase shift pattern is selected. A phase shift from the phase shift pattern is applied to the mapped coded UCI based on an acknowledge/negative-acknowledge (ACK/NACK) to obtain a phase shifted mapped coded UCI. The mapped coded UCI is sent using a PUCCH resource on a first antenna. The phase shifted mapped coded UCI is sent using a PUCCH resource on a second antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, John M. Kowalski, Lizhong Zheng