Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Publication number: 20110019262Abstract: A display device includes a display element including a plurality of first sub-pixels, a color filter element stacked on the display element, and including a plurality of second sub-pixels arranged to overlap the respective first sub-pixels, and a light source emitting white light toward the color filter element and the display element. The display device performs display with light from the light source transmitted through the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels. Each of the second sub-pixels of the color filter element includes a color region of which area is changed by electrowetting.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Noriko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110020025Abstract: An image forming system is provided with an Image Forming Operation Unit, an Air Cleaning Operation Unit, a power source, and a Control Unit. The Control Unit has a coordinated OFF control function of coordinating a first power supply OFF control for turning off power supply from the power source to the Image Forming Operation Unit and a second power supply OFF control for turning off power supply from the power source to the Air Cleaning Operation Unit, and the coordinated OFF control function is configured to execute the second power supply OFF control when a preset time period elapses after executing the first power supply OFF control. Also, in the image forming system, an air cleaning operation of an air cleaning apparatus is stopped when an image forming apparatus is set to an a night mode or when a fixed time period elapses after the night mode is set. The air cleaning operation of the air cleaning apparatus is restarted when the image forming apparatus is resumed from the night mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuhji Fujii, Kouji Miyake, Takateru Yamamoto, Takeshi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110018913Abstract: What is provided is a liquid crystal display unit (1), including: a first liquid crystal display element (2) for displaying an image; an accessory (4) provided behind the first liquid crystal display element (2); and a surface light source (3) provided between the first liquid crystal display element (2) and the accessory (4), the surface light source (3) being movable, and the surface light source (3) being moved (i) so that the accessory (4) is shielded in a first case where the image, displayed by the first liquid crystal display element (2), is viewed by a primary viewer of the first liquid crystal display element (2) and (ii) so that the accessory (4) is not shielded in a second case where the accessory (4) is viewed by the primary viewer. This makes it possible to fully shield, with a simple configuration, the accessory provided behind a liquid crystal display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2008Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eiji Nittou
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Publication number: 20110017599Abstract: A novel target recognition molecule is provided which has a electrostatic property whereby such target recognition molecules can be densely brought together in a self-assembly manner in a predetermined region of an analytical chip and, in addition, can be reversibly or irreversibly stably immobilized there. This target recognition molecule has a target recognition peptide segment as a specific binding site for a target substance, an electrostatically-charged segment which is provided with three or more electrostatically-charged functional groups capable of being electrically charged with charges of the same polarity in the same solution and which has no functional groups that become electrically charged to different polarities in the same solution, and a connecting segment which chemically links with the target recognition peptide segment and with the electrostatically-charged segment for establishing a connection between both the segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuichiro SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20110021516Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of the formula (I): (wherein variables A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, G1, G2, G3, G4, J, Q, Ea, Eb, Ec, R6, R7, RPG and Y are as described herein) which are antagonists of CGRP receptors and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which CGRP is involved, such as migraine. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which CGRP is involved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORPInventors: Harold G. Selnick, Ian M. Bell, Melody McWherter, Donnette D. Staas, Shawn J. Stachel, Thomas Steele, Craig Stump, Michael R. Wood, C. Blair Zartman
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Publication number: 20110018860Abstract: A display is provided having private and public viewing modes. The display comprises a display device and a parallax optic (3) comprising an array of parallax elements (4). Each of the elements (4) co-operates with a set of pixels (1,2) having at least one first pixel (1) and at least one second pixel (2). A line (23) passing through the centre (21) of each first pixel (1) and the centre (22) of the cooperating parallax element (4) extends into a first viewing region (20a). The parallax elements (4) re-strict viewing of the first pixels (1) to the first viewing region and permit viewing of the second pixels (2) in a second viewing region. The display device displays a private image in the private viewing mode by means of only the first pixels (1) and displays a non-private image in the public viewing mode by means of at least the second pixels (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Lesley Anne Parry-Jones, Grant Bourhill, Ben John Broughton, Jonathan Mather, Nathan James Smith, Emma Jayne Walton, Michel Sagardoyburu
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Publication number: 20110021203Abstract: In case that an uplink grand from a base station apparatus is detected on PDCCH, a data designated by the uplink grant, channel state information measured at the time of transmission are transmitted by PUSCH as an uplink transmission signal. Then, in case that a notice that indicates retransmission is received, the data to be retransmission and the channel state information measured at the time of retransmission are transmitted by PUSCH. Accordingly, the mobile station apparatus can transmit appropriate channel state information when designated to retransmission so that the base station apparatus can make an efficient communication control (scheduling) between the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus that is suitable for the current channel condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shohei Yamada, Tatsushi Aiba
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Patent number: 7877045Abstract: There is provided a charging device having high durability, of which controllability of charged potential of a photoreceptor is hardly impaired even with a some amount of contaminants such as a toner so that control of charged potential of a photoreceptor can be stably carried out to fall in an appropriate range over a long period of time, and moreover which is inexpensive. As a grid electrode, one prepared by forming a composite plated layer composed of three layers of an Sn plated layer, an Sn—Co plated layer and a Ni plated layer is used. More preferably, an upper layer is an Sn plated layer, an intermediate layer is an Sn—Co plated layer and a lower layer is a Ni plated layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takashi Hori
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Patent number: 7876916Abstract: A card-type sound apparatus has, on a card-shaped substrate, a combination of a sound signal input portion to which a sound signal is input from outside and a sound generation portion that generates sound according to the sound signal input to the sound signal input portion, or a combination of a sound collection portion that collects sound from outside and converts the sound into an electric signal and a sound signal output portion that outputs to outside the electric signal obtained from the sound collection portion, or both of these combinations. The sound generation portion generates sound by making the card-shaped substrate itself vibrate according to the sound signal input to the sound signal input portion. The sound collection portion collects sound by converting the vibration of the card-shaped substrate itself into an electric signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiko Miyata, Hidetaka Mizumaki
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Patent number: 7874434Abstract: A substrate carrying tray capable of horizontally placing a substrate thereon and enabling a plurality of trays to be stacked on each other, comprising an upper contact part coming into contact with one tray disposed on the upper side of the tray when the plurality of the substrates are stacked on each other and a lower contact part coming into contact with the other tray disposed on the lower side. The shapes of the upper contact part and the lower contact part are formed such that, when one tray is placed on the upper side of the tray, the one tray can be moved in the direction that the gravity center of the one tray is disposed just above the gravity center of the tray.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2004Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takenori Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 7876409Abstract: In a liquid crystal display element of the present invention, the aligning capability for imparting pre-tilt angles to a liquid crystal material is imparted only to the surface of the alignment film of one of the substrates, the material layer having dielectric anisotropy includes a chiral material and a liquid crystal material with a nematic liquid crystal phase, 0.25?d/p?0.50 is satisfied assuming that the thickness of the material layer having the dielectric anisotropy is d and the chiral pitch length of the liquid crystal material is p, and 1000×d/p??n×d is satisfied assuming that the refractive index anisotropy of the liquid crystal material is ?n.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Kume, Takashi Kurihara, Kazuhiko Tamai, Takaaki Okamoto, Shinya Saeki
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Patent number: 7876833Abstract: Adaptive up-sample filtering is used to improve compression efficiency of spatially scalable coding systems by more effectively predicting the high-resolution (enhanced-layer) video (or image) from the low-resolution lower-layer video (or image). Different up-sample filters adaptive to local image properties are selectively used for different portions of a low resolution frame to generate a better up-sampled image. Selection between different up-sample filters is determined by a variety of different information available to both the encoder and decoder. In one embodiment, the up-sample filters are selected by the encoder and then explicitly identified to the decoder. Other techniques are then used to minimize the cost of transmitting the up-sample filter identifiers. In alternative embodiments, the encoder and decoder independently make up-sample filters selections.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2005Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Andrew Segall, Shaw-min Lei
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Patent number: 7876339Abstract: A display device which exhibits functional effects in which color separation between sub-pixels constituting a pixel is hardly recognized and white line display is easily recognized as one line, in enlargement of the color reproduction range in image display using multi-primary colors, and thereby improves display quality, and provides a liquid crystal display device including such a display device. The display device displays an image constituted by pixels each including sub-pixels of four or more colors, wherein the pixels constituting the display device mainly include a pixel arranging a sub-pixel of a color having the highest brightness value in a central region of the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoji Okazaki, Yoshihiro Okada, Kenji Nakamura, Kozo Nakamura
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Patent number: 7875413Abstract: There is provided a capsulated toner which has low-temperature fixing ability, good storage stability, excellent charge stability, high fixing strength to a sheet paper, and low consumption, and is capable of forming a color image of high-definition, high-gloss, and high-density. The capsulated toner for electrophotography includes a shell layer containing a cycloolefin copolymer resin and a core particle including a synthetic resin different from the cycloolefin copolymer resin, wherein the capsulated toner has a core/shell type structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Shibai, Katsuru Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7876969Abstract: Reduced complexity inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) masks and a method for reducing the number of IDCT calculations in video decoding are provided. The method comprises: accepting an n×m matrix of DCT coefficients; performing (n?y) horizontal IDCT operations, where y is greater than 0; performing y scaling operations; and, generating an n×m block of pixel information. Some aspects of the method further comprise: performing (m?z) vertical IDCT operations, where z is in the range between 0 and m/2. In some aspects, performing (n?y) horizontal ICDT operations includes performing IDCT operations for the first (n?y) horizontal rows. Then, performing y scaling operations includes: selecting the DC component from the first position of each horizontal row; scaling the selected DC component; and, copying the scaled DC component into the remaining positions of each of horizontal row.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Shijun Sun, Shawmin Lei
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Patent number: 7876386Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device of the present invention, when a display voltage is applied to picture element electrodes, each picture element electrode forms a plurality of domains in which liquid crystal molecules align themselves in different directions. The picture element electrodes are formed such that their edge portions on the opposite sides of a picture-element-electrode aperture portion formed between the picture element electrodes face parallel to each other with a certain interval. A source bus line is provided along the picture-element-electrode aperture portion formed between the picture element electrodes. The source bus line is disposed beneath the picture element electrodes and at the edge portions of the picture element electrodes by overlapping therewith in a direction of thickness.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Kubo, Akihiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7875642Abstract: Novel crystalline salts of 3-[1-(4-chlorophenyl)-trans-3-fluorocyclobutyl]-4,5-dicyclopropyl-r-4H-1,2,4-triazole are potent inhibitors of 11?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase Type 1 and are useful for the treatment of conditions associated with Metabolic Syndrome as well as cognitive impairment. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these novel salts, processes to prepare these salts and their pharmaceutical compositions as well as uses thereof for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia, obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and cognitive impairment.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2005Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Yuri Bereznitski, Mark A. Huffman, Joseph E. Lynch, Matthew Zhao
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Patent number: 7875636Abstract: The present invention is directed to pyridyl amide compounds which are antagonists of T-type calcium channels, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of disorders and diseases in which T-type calcium channels are involved. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which T-type calcium channels are involved.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: James C. Barrow, Thomas S. Reger, Zhi-Qiang Yang
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Patent number: 7876572Abstract: A wiring board of the present invention includes a dummy wiring in a semiconductor-chip mount area on which a semiconductor chip is to be mounted. The dummy wiring is arranged in a manner such that all wiring-lines included in the dummy wiring each have a free end within the semiconductor-chip mount area. This prevents a defect due to vaporization and expansion of moisture inside a semiconductor apparatus, with a simple structure and without raising costs.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshiki Sota
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Patent number: 7876959Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for detection of text in an image using an initial text classification result and a verification process. In particular, a support region of a candidate text pixel in a text-candidate map may be expanded to produce a revised text-candidate map. Pictorial regions in the image may be discriminated based on an entropy measure using masking and the revised text-candidate map, and the revised text-candidate map may be refined based on the pictorial regions.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Toyohisa Matsuda, Richard John Campbell, Lawrence Shao-hsien Chen