Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Phosphor member, light source device, projector and chromaticity adjustment method
    Patent number: 11340444
    Abstract: A phosphor member includes: a phosphor plate that converts a part of excitation light into fluorescent light and emits mixed color light including the fluorescent light and the remaining part of the excitation light; and a reflective layer that is provided on the phosphor plate and that transmits a part of the mixed color light and reflects the remaining part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Isao Takahashi
  • Semiconductor device and manufacturing method for semiconductor device
    Patent number: 11342308
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided with a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip that are arranged so as to oppose each other. The first semiconductor chip has a first connecting portion provided in a first hole portion, and the second semiconductor chip has an electrically conductive second connecting portion that is composed of a concave metal film formed on the front surface of a second electrode portion, the side surface of a second hole portion, and the front surface of a second protective film. The first electrode portion and the second electrode portion are electrically connected via the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiichi Sawai
  • Light-emitting element having commonly formed hole transport layer and anode electrode and light-emitting device
    Patent number: 11342527
    Abstract: For a purpose of simplifying a structure of a light-emitting element while maintaining luminous efficiency of the light-emitting element, the present invention provides a light-emitting element including: a cathode electrode; an anode electrode; a light-emitting layer between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode; an electron transport layer between the light-emitting layer and the cathode electrode; and a hole transport layer between the light-emitting layer and the anode electrode. The light-emitting element further includes a plurality of subpixels for each light emission wavelength of the light-emitting layer, the light-emitting layer and the electron transport layer for each of the plurality of subpixels, and the hole transport layer common to at least the plurality of subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakakibara, Kenji Kimoto, Tatsuya Ryohwa
  • Air purifier
    Patent number: 11339985
    Abstract: An air purifier includes: a housing; a fan in the housing; an outlet in a top face of the housing, air being blown out via the outlet; an air passage spatially connecting the fan to the outlet; and an illumination unit configured to illuminate the air passage, wherein the air passage includes an upstream, first air passage and a downstream, second air passage, the first air passage extends upwards, the second air passage has a curved surface or an inclined surface inclined with respect to the first air passage, and the illumination unit illuminates the curved surface or the inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Shimizu, Jinni Zhang, Takashi Kohama, Masaki Tabata, You Ka, Shota Suzuki
  • Image forming apparatus, recording medium recording control program, and control method
    Patent number: 11343398
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image reading unit. When printing a postcard is selected, a preview screen including a preview image about an image on a communication side of the postcard read by the image reading unit is displayed on a display. At this occasion, an instruction image indicating an orientation of an address side of the postcard is also displayed. When it is instructed to turn over the preview image on the communication side, the preview screen including the preview image on the address side is displayed on the display. When the orientation of the address side and the orientation of the communication side do not coincide with each other, or when they are not as intended by a user, printing is performed after the image on the communication side is rotated according to the user's operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Koujiro
  • 3-(1H-pyrazol-4-yl)pyridine allosteric modulators of the M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor
    Patent number: 11339156
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pyrazol-4-yl-pyridine compounds which are allosteric modulators of the M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. The present invention is also directed to uses of the compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these compositions in the potential prevention or treatment of such diseases in which M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., MSD R&D (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: John J. Acton, III, Jianming Bao, Qiaolin Deng, Melissa Egbertson, Ronald Ferguson, II, Xiaolei Gao, Scott Timothy Harrison, Timothy J. Henderson, Sandra L. Knowles, Chunsing Li, Michael Man-Chu Lo, Robert D. Mazzola, Jr., Meng Na, Michael T. Rudd, Oleg B. Selyutin, David M. Tellers, Ling Tong, Fengqi Zhang, Takao Suzuki
  • Methods for the treatment and prophylaxis of HIV and AIDS
    Patent number: 11337991
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for inhibition of HIV reverse transcriptase, treatment of infection by HIV, prophylaxis of infection by HIV, and the treatment, prophylaxis and/or delay in the onset or progression of AIDS or ARC by administering a compound of structural Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or co-crystal thereof, wherein X is —F or —Cl, less frequently than once daily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Daria Hazuda, Michael D. Miller, Jay A. Grobler, Deborah Anne Nicoll-Griffith
  • METHOD EXECUTED BY USER EQUIPMENT, AND USER EQUIPMENT
    Publication number: 20220159570
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method executed by a user equipment and a user equipment. The method executed by a user equipment (UE) comprising: receiving, from a base station, system information including a grouping wake-up signal (WUS) configuration for performing grouping wake-up on a WUS group associated with the UE; monitoring a grouping WUS for the WUS group associated with the UE according to the received grouping WUS configuration; and monitoring a following paging occasion (PO) for detecting a paging message when the grouping WUS is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: RENMAO LIU, CHAO LUO, FANGYING XIAO
  • Projection-type display device and method for adjusting a projected image
    Patent number: 11336877
    Abstract: This projection-type display device has: an operation signal detection unit that receives operation signals that indicate adjustment content of a projected image, the adjustment content having been instructed by way of an operation unit; an installation state detection unit that detects, as the installation state of the projection-type display device, a first state and a second state realized by rotating 90 degrees around an axis parallel to the optical axis of the projection lens; and a control unit that, upon detecting a signal that corresponds to the first direction by way of the operation signal detection unit in the first state and the second state, adjusts a projected image by shifting the projected image in the first direction or by moving a correction-object site in the projected image in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Ueda
  • Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit
    Patent number: 11336329
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) parameter and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including a downlink control information (DCI) format and scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The transmitter is configured to transmit the PUSCH with frequency hopping within one slot. The RRC parameter indicates one or a plurality of frequency offset values. The PUSCH includes a first frequency hop and a second frequency hop within the one slot. In a case that a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with or other than a temporary cell-radio network temporary identifier (TC-RNTI) is added to the DCI format, a frequency offset between the first frequency hop and the second frequency hop is based on a size of an initial uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) or the RRC parameter, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Glycan-based antibody-drug conjugates
    Patent number: 11332544
    Abstract: Genetically engineered antibodies containing non-native N-glycosylated sites, preparation of the antibodies in yeast and fungi, site-specific conjugation of drugs to these antibodies, and methods of treatment utilizing these antibodies are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Robert Davidson, Bing Gong
  • Wireless communication method and device
    Patent number: 11337255
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method executed by user equipment, the method comprising: executing a random access procedure; and if a random access response message includes a backoff indicator, setting a preamble backoff time parameter to a time value corresponding to the backoff indicator multiplied by a configured parameter. Furthermore, the present disclosure further provides corresponding user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Display device including trunk lines
    Patent number: 11333939
    Abstract: A display device includes a conventional first auxiliary trunk line formed to be narrow, and a second auxiliary trunk line additionally provided and disposed at the closest position to the periphery of a substrate. Thus, a shift register can be distanced from the periphery of the substrate without increasing a frame area as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Isao Ogasawara, Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada
  • Biological information measuring instrument, and method, device, and computer-readable storage medium containing a program for controlling the instrument
    Patent number: 11331054
    Abstract: A biological information measuring instrument performs high precision biological information measurement on a living body. The biological information measuring instrument includes: a measuring unit and an analysis unit that measure a user in a contactless manner to acquire biological information; and a speech unit that produces an alarm for reducing body movements of the user. The measuring unit and the analysis unit start to acquire biological information at an acquisition starting time. A control unit sets the acquisition starting time so as to fall in a prescribed range of time defined using an alarm starting time for the speech unit as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Adachi, Tetsuya Okumura, Takashi Nunokawa, Rieko Ogawa, Yuki Edo
  • Terminal apparatus and communication method
    Patent number: 11337238
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with: a radio resource control layer processing unit (16) configured to configure the number of PDCCH candidates configured in a dedicated control resource set, based on RRC signaling; a receiver (10) configured to monitor the multiple PDCCH candidates in the dedicated control resource set; and a decoding unit configured to decode the PDCCH candidates. a first number of the PDCCH candidates are monitored in the dedicated control resource set in a time period in which a common control resource set is not configured, a second number of the PDCCH candidates are monitored in the dedicated control resource set in a time period in which the common control resource set is configured, and a third number of the PDCCH candidates are monitored in the common control resource set. The sum of the second number and the third number is equal to the first number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Daiichiroh Nakashima, Tomoki Yoshimura, Shouichi Suzuki, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee, Wataru Ohuchi
  • Image decoding apparatus and image coding apparatus
    Patent number: 11336917
    Abstract: An image decoding apparatus including a header decoder configured to decode, from coded data, a flag indicating whether dependent quantization is enabled and a flag prohibiting transform skip residual quantization, and a TU decoder configured to decode a transform coefficient in a TU block in an RRC mode in which a LAST position is coded, the LAST position corresponding to a decoding start position for the transform coefficient, or a TSRC mode in which the LAST position is not coded. The TU decoder performs dependent quantization in the RRC mode in a case that the transform coefficient for transform skip is decoded in the TSRC mode, and does not perform dependent quantization in the RRC mode in a case that the transform coefficient for transform skip is decoded in the RRC mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomonori Hashimoto, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
  • System information requesting method, corresponding user equipment, and computer-readable medium
    Patent number: 11337252
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for acquiring system information by receiving, from a base station, information carrying direct or indirect associations between preamble sequences and system information blocks (SIBs); selecting a corresponding preamble sequence based on one or a plurality of required SIBs and the received associations by at least one of: selecting a single preamble sequence associated with the greatest number of required SIBs; selecting a single preamble sequence associated with the fewest number of not-required SIBs; selecting one or a plurality of preamble sequences associated with the one or plurality of required SIBs having the fewest total number; and selecting, according to a priority of the one or plurality of required SIBs, different preamble sequences respectively associated with required SIBs of different priorities; and transmitting the selected preamble sequences to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Spiropiperidine allosteric modulators of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
    Patent number: 11332463
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compounds of formula I that are useful as modulators of 7 nAChR, compositions comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds for preventing, treating, or ameliorating disease, particularly disorders of the central nervous system such as cognitive impairments in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and schizophrenia, as well as for L-DOPA induced-dyskinesia and inflammation (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Brendan M. Crowley, Brian T. Campbell, Harry R. Chobanian, James I. Fells, Deodial G. Guiadeen, Thomas J. Greshock, Kenneth J. Leavitt, Vanessa L. Rada, Ian M. Bell
  • Image decoding device, image encoding device, and image decoding method
    Patent number: 11336912
    Abstract: A video encoding device (2) includes a side information determination section (21) and a side information encoding section (22). The side information determination section (21) sets a quantization parameter for each macroblock in such a manner that a difference between quantization parameters for each pair of macroblocks with successive encoding orders is equal to one of n difference values, and transforms the difference into one of n indices with respect to each pair. The side information encoding section (22) generates a binary sequence having a length corresponding to the size of the absolute value of the index. The total of absolute values of the n indices is smaller than the total of absolute values of the n difference values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoyuki Yamamoto
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method
    Patent number: 11337251
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal apparatus to transmit a first random access preamble using a first precoding, monitor a random access response corresponding to the first random access preamble, increment a value of a counter in a case that a reception of the random access response is not successful, and transmit a second random access preamble using a second precoding, if the value of the counter does not reach a predetermined value in a case that the value of the counter is incremented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Hiroki Takahashi, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Tatsushi Aiba, Kazunari Yokomakura