Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20110037689
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel of the present invention is a liquid crystal panel including a scanning signal line (16x), a data signal line (15x), a transistor (12a) being connected with the scanning signal line (16x) and the data signal line (15x), a first pixel electrode (17a), and a second pixel electrode (17b), the first pixel electrode (17a) and the second pixel electrode (17b) being provided in a single pixel (101), said liquid crystal panel, further including a first capacitor electrode (37a) and a second capacitor electrode (37b), the first capacitor electrode (37a), the first pixel electrode (17a), and a conductive electrode (9a) of the transistor (12a) being electrically connected with each other, the second capacitor electrode (37b) being electrically connected with the second pixel electrode (17b), the first capacitor electrode (37a) and the second pixel electrode (17b) forming a capacitor, and the second capacitor electrode (37b) and the first pixel electrode (17a) forming a capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshihide Tsubata
  • Publication number: 20110041021
    Abstract: For downlink cooperative multi-point (CoMP) communication, each cooperating transmission point (e.g., base station) may send a retransmission packet with a different redundancy version to a user equipment (UE). Mechanisms may be provided to determine which transmission point should send packets with which redundancy version. For uplink CoMP, in order to reduce the backhaul overhead, each cooperating base station may share only a fraction of the retransmitted packet with the serving base station. Also, different retransmission packets with different redundancy versions can be transmitted to different cooperating base stations using spatial degrees of freedom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmad Khoshnevis, Sayantan Choudhury
  • Publication number: 20110037789
    Abstract: Provided is a backlight device having improved heat dissipating performance. The backlight device (20) is provided with a fluorescent lamp (90), a reflection sheet (80), a backlight chassis (50), a power supply substrate (60) to be attached to a main body section (51) of the backlight chassis, a tuner substrate (61) and an inverter substrate (62). The power supply substrate, the tuner substrate and the inverter substrate are arranged between the reflection sheet and the main body section of the backlight chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohji Hisakawa
  • Publication number: 20110038000
    Abstract: A printing system includes a plurality of printers, a plurality of information processing devices and a managing device which are interconnected via a network for data communication. Each of the information processing devices determines whether the number of printing sheets used in printing processes having been requested by the information processing device of concern belongs to a small number category or a large number category. If the number of printing sheets used is determined as belonging to the large number category, the information processing device of concern displays a window informing a user of the number of printing sheets used. On the other hand, if the number of printing sheets used is determined as belonging to the small number category, the information processing device of concern displays a window informing the user of the printing sheet saving rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Matsumoto, Tsutomu Yoshimoto, Tomoko Toizumi
  • Publication number: 20110037915
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device and provides a liquid crystal display device which can achieve high display quality. A liquid crystal display device is provided with first and second TFTs each having a gate electrode connected to an nth gate bus line and a drain electrode connected to a drain bus line; a first pixel electrode connected to a source electrode of the first TFT; a second pixel electrode connected to a source electrode of the second TFT; a third TFT having a gate electrode connected to an (n+1)th gate bus line and a source electrode connected to the second pixel electrode; and a buffer capacitance portion having a buffer capacitance electrode which is formed in the same layer as the first and second pixel electrodes and is connected to a drain electrode of the third TFT and a buffer capacitance electrode connected to a storage capacitance bus line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Tasaka, Yohei Nakanishi, Masakazu Shibasaki, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Hidefumi Yoshida, Hideaki Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20110037686
    Abstract: To provide a production method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device, in which generation of a joint line on a display screen is suppressed and yield can be improved even if a substrate is subjected to an alignment treatment by completing exposure for the substrate through several exposures in a liquid crystal display device including pixels each having two or more domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20110038354
    Abstract: When transmission of a downlink signal is to be performed in sub-frame 5, at this point, no feedback of reception quality information and transmit signal pre-coding information in mode 2, which would be covered by transmit signal pre-coder confirmation, has been performed. Therefore, information on the pre-coding that has been applied to all assigned resources is transmitted by being added to a downlink control signal (353). In sub-frame 9, a downlink signal is transmitted, and transmit signal pre-coder confirmation is added thereto. With respect to this case, the mobile station apparatus determines that the downlink signal has been pre-coded using the transmit signal pre-coding information transmitted in sub-frame 8, and demodulates the received signal with it. Sub-frame 12 represents a case where downlink data is transmitted by assigning sub-band 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Akimoto, Tatsushi Aiba, Seiji Sato, Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110037914
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: pixel electrodes arranged in columns and rows, each including a reflective electrode region; scanning lines; and signal lines. The device sequentially supplies a scanning signal voltage to one of the scanning lines after another to select one group of pixel electrodes, connected to the same one of the scanning lines, after another, and then supplies display signal voltages to the selected group of pixel electrodes by way of the signal lines, thereby displaying an image thereon. The pixel electrodes are arranged such that the polarity of a voltage to be applied to a liquid crystal layer is inverted for every predetermined number of pixel electrodes in each of the rows and in each of the columns. The display signal voltage to be supplied to each pixel electrode is updated at a frequency of 45 Hz or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noboru NOGUCHI, Hisashi NAGATA, Toshihiro MATSUMOTO, Kazuhiko TSUDA, Makoto KANBE, Akihiko KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20110040783
    Abstract: To provide AV equipment capable of outputting a large amount of contents, in which the entire image (total number or the like) of the large amount of contents that can be outputted can be intuitively grasped. Further, to provide AV equipment having a means for easily retrieving contents whose output the user requests from the large amount of contents. AV equipment capable of intuitively grasping the entire image of a large amount of contents that can be outputted and for displaying a GUI capable of determining and inputting contents to be outputted in one screen is provided. Further, AV equipment having a means for narrowing down contents to be GUI-displayed by a selecting means (keyword selection or the like) using the attribute information of contents, an image selecting means (cursor selection or the like) using GUI-display, or the like is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Uemichi, Atsushi Itoh, Ryouichi Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20110037785
    Abstract: At least one embodiment of the present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight unit having light sources arranged in back of the liquid crystal display panel. Image data obtained by adding a dummy image to a periphery of inputted image data is divided into blocks which correspond to positions of LEDs. A light-emitting luminance of an LED in an image display area, in which an image corresponding to the inputted image data is displayed, is determined in accordance with a maximum value among gradation values of pixels included in a block corresponding to the LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20110037936
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes an active matrix substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a sealant. The counter electrode is opposed to the active matrix substrate. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate. The sealant, which surrounds the liquid crystal layer between the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate, joins the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate and seals the liquid crystal layer. A portion of the surface on the liquid crystal layer side of the active matrix substrate which is located at the periphery of the liquid crystal display panel is flat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriaki ONISHI, Yohsuke FUJIKAWA, Hiroaki TOMIOKA, Hiroaki KOJIMA, Yasunobu TAGUSA
  • Patent number: 7889309
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display panel includes: a sealant arranging step of arranging a sealant on a main surface of one of or each of two substrates to be bonded to each other; a liquid crystal dropping step of dropping liquid crystal on one of the two substrates; and a bonding step of bonding the two substrates to each other, wherein the method further includes: to be performed prior to the liquid crystal dropping step, a deaerating step of arranging in a pressure-reduced atmosphere at least a substrate on which the liquid crystal is to be dropped out of the two substrates; and, to be performed prior to the bonding step, a releasing step of releasing the pressure-reduced atmosphere by an inert gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Kaida, Akinori Izumi
  • Patent number: 7890029
    Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of realizing improvement of an image density by improving dot reproducibility and reducing fog at the same time. An alternating voltage is applied to a development sleeve so that a first period during which a first peak-to-peak voltage Vpp(1) is applied and a second period during which a second peak-to-peak voltage Vpp(2) that is lower than the first peak-to-peak voltage is applied are repeated alternately. The alternating voltage to be applied is applied so that a development-side potential to move toner from the development sleeve to a photoreceptor and an opposite development-side potential to move toner from the photoreceptor to the development sleeve alternate with each other. The potential to be finally applied in the first period is preferably the development-side potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshimasa Hamada
  • Patent number: 7886563
    Abstract: A washer-dryer apparatus has a blower for sucking air from a water tank and blowing the air into a washing and dewatering tub. At an inlet of the blower is provided a filter, which is cleaned by a cleaning device (300). The cleaning device (300) has a main body (301) pivotable about one end thereof relative to an outer bottom surface of the water tank, a brush (302) provided on the other end of the main body, and a bias spring (303) for biasing the main body toward an opening direction. The main body (301) is subjected to a dynamic pressure of water in the water tank and thereby pivots in an opening direction. When the main body (301) has the pivoting angle of 90°, the brush (302) is in contact with the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanori Komori, Yoshirou Hisai, Nobutaka Matsunishi, Takahisa Ikegami, Masashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7889790
    Abstract: An encoding scheme dynamically adjusts a quantization rounding offset parameter used for encoding pictures according to statistics of previously encoded pictures of similar type. A look-up table can be used to store different relative quantization rounding offset parameters associated with different numbers of bits required to encode the pictures. The dynamically adjusted quantization rounding offset scheme achieves better coding performance at high bit rates. In one example, the dynamic quantization offset values are applied to a Uniform-Reconstruction-Quantizer (URQ) used for Laplacian sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shijun Sun
  • Patent number: 7890008
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided having a fixing device which heats a fixing roller from the surface thereof by means of an external heating device, which image forming apparatus is capable of improving fixability immediately just after a start-up and enhancing a job efficiency. An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming section, a transfer section, a fixing device, and an interrupt control section. At least two levels are set as a job interrupt reference temperature, the interrupt control section individually selects, from among the at least two levels of job interrupt reference temperature, the level to be used for either or both of a job immediately after the start-up from a power-on and a job immediately after a return from a sleep mode, and the level(s) for other job(s), and carries out an interrupt control using the selected level of job interrupt reference temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yamaji
  • Patent number: 7889196
    Abstract: An image signal composed of sequential frames is input to a 3-dimensional image creating apparatus, frame by frame. A controller (102) designates the presence/absence of reduction, the presence/absence of joining and 2D select. An image converter (101) creates image data in the format designated by the presence/absence of reduction and the presence/absence of joining. A 3D information creator (103) creates 3D information necessary for displaying the image as a 3-dimensional image by formatting the presence/absence of reduction, the presence/absence of joining and 2D select. A multiplexer (104) converts image data and 3D information in a predetermined format and outputs them to the outside. In this way, it is possible to make the image data for 3-dimensional display versatile and select an arbitrary viewpoint image efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshio Nomura, Hiroaki Yabe, Ryuji Kitaura, Kazuto Ohara, Masahiro Shioi, Tadashi Uchiumi
  • Patent number: 7889192
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile phone that includes a single camera for picking up a 2D image and provides the 2D image with parallax information to create a 3D image. The 3D image is displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minehiro Konya, Yusuke Miyata, Kei Okuda, Takashi Yasumoto
  • Patent number: 7887985
    Abstract: A carrier and a two-component developer are provided. A coating resin layer for coating a core material contains fine particles of titanium oxide which comprise an anatase-type crystal and a rutile-type crystal, and a carrier coating amount of the coating resin layer falls in a range of from 5% by weight to 20% by weight. In addition, a content rate of the rutile-type crystal falls in a range of from 5% to 20% on the basis of the total amount of crystal, and the weight of the fine particles of titanium oxide falls in a range of from 5% by weight to 50% by weight relative to the weight of the core material. Further, the primary particle size of the fine particles of titanium oxide falls in a range of from 40 nm to 80 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toru Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 7888345
    Abstract: Benzazepinone compounds represented by Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions comprise an effective amount of the instant compounds, either alone, or in combination with one or more other therapeutically active compounds, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Methods of treating conditions associated with, or caused by, sodium channel activity, including, for example, acute pain, chronic pain, visceral pain, inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, epilepsy, irritable bowel syndrome, urinary incontinence, pruritis, itchiness, allergic dermatitis, depression, anxiety, multiple sclerosis, and bipolar disorder, comprise administering an effective amount of the present compounds, either alone, or in combination with one or more other therapeutically active compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Scott B. Hoyt, Clare London, Dong Ok, William H. Parsons