Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20090262268
    Abstract: First rubbing is performed on an entire surface of an alignment film provided on a substrate, and then a mask part for masking a first region and a region of an alignment mark is formed on the alignment film by using a resist layer. After performing second rubbing on the alignment film through the mask part, the mask part is removed. and a liquid crystal layer is formed on the alignment film. In this way, the alignment mark is formed as a region having an optical function different from an optical function of a region surrounding the alignment mark. Thus, it is possible to produce a substrate having an alignment mark formed without increasing processing steps at such a position as to contact the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro MATSUMOTO, Akihiko Kojima
  • Publication number: 20090262279
    Abstract: In a light source inverter rectifier circuits are respectively connected to a CCFL in a substantially U-shaped lamp and a CCFL in a substantially U-shaped lamp, and the outputs from the rectifier circuits are fed to a stabilization circuit. Thus, the stabilization circuit monitors an average of currents flowing through the substantially U-shaped lamps. This makes it possible to make uniform the currents flowing through the substantially U-shaped lamps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Koh
  • Publication number: 20090262381
    Abstract: In an external authentication system for a multifunction printer according to the present invention, a USB device management section, according to an instruction from a USB device management section instructing section, (i) performs a virtualization process for virtually connecting an information processing device to a user information reading device which is locally connected to a multifunction printer, (ii) manages a status of the connection between the information processing device and the user information reading device; and a multifunction printer association management section associates the multifunction printer controlled by the information processing device with the user information reading device which is locally connected to the multifunction printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
  • Publication number: 20090261338
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of transistors. A source electrode is connected with a data signal line, and a drain electrode is connected with a pixel electrode in each transistor. The source electrode is located on a semiconductor layer, and at least a portion of the drain electrode is overlapped with the gate electrode. A gate insulating film covering the gate electrode of each transistor has a thin section having a reduced film thickness, at a portion where the gate insulating film is overlapped with each gate electrode. An overlapping area of the thin section with the source electrode is smaller than an overlapping area of the thin section with the drain electrode. Thus, the active matrix substrate can prevent the generation of short-circuits between the signal lines (between the data signal line and a scanning signal line) in a TFT forming region, while guaranteeing TFT characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihide Tsubata, Yoshihiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20090262386
    Abstract: A method for reusing data in an imaging device is described. An imaging job is received at an imaging device. The imaging job includes file system information and a document in a first format. It is determined whether the document has been previously processed by the imaging device. The document is processed if it was determined that the document had not been previously processed by the imaging device. The processing provides a processed document in a second format. The processed document is saved if it was determined that the document had not been previously processed by the imaging device. A previously saved processed document is reused that corresponds to the document if it was determined that the document had been previously processed by the imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch, Roy Kenneth Chrisop
  • Publication number: 20090262274
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display uses a pixel division method by which the size of a defect can be reduced much more than conventionally possible, and a defect correcting method for the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display is provided with an active matrix array substrate including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of source lines arranged on a transparent substrate so as to intersect with each other, and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, each pixel electrode including an assembly of a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes, separate TFTs respectively connected to the sub-pixel electrodes in the vicinity of an intersection portion of the gate line and the source line, the TFTs being driven by the common gate line and the common source line, and at least one opening portion being formed in a lower-layer side line placed in a lower layer at the intersection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Noda, Toshihide Tsubata, Masanori Takeuchi, Kenji Enda
  • Publication number: 20090262661
    Abstract: A content transmission device (11) transmits communications data by infrared. The content transmission device (11) includes: a one-way communications section (48) for transmitting the communications data by one-way communications; a two-way communications section (49) for transmitting the communications data by two-way communications; and a control section (40) for selecting which of the one-way communications section (48) and the two-way communications section (49) transmits the communications data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Hitoshi Naoe, Fumihiro Fukae, Tsukasa Kaminokado, Azusa Umemoto, Aya Enatsu, Katsuya Nakagawa, Koji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20090264076
    Abstract: An rf signal transmitter for transmitting rf signals through a plurality of antennas is described, which comprises: a transmit section adapted to selectively set, with respect to an input signal, the initial phase of an output to at least one of said antennas depending on a time or frequency region used for communication and to provide delay to the output on an antenna-by-antenna basis and on the basis of a transmission timing or a transmission frequency; and a quality information receive section for receiving quality information from destination station, i.e., a wireless terminal unit, said quality information concerning the rf signal transmitted from said transmit section and received at said destination station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura, Ryota Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090262379
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that can support the user in sleep mode is provided. When the apparatus enters sleep mode, guidance information is displayed on an electronic paper. The electronic paper maintains displayed contents even when power is not supplied and, therefore, even when power is not supplied to a display panel in the sleep mode, the display for the user is continuously given, thereby supporting the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouji Miyake, Shuhji Fujii, Shinji Kato, Tsutomu Yoshimoto
  • Publication number: 20090262519
    Abstract: An illumination device is provided on a backside of a display panel so as to irradiate a display panel with light, the illumination device including a plurality of rod-like light sources arranged in a planar configuration such that they do not cross each other, and columnar members being respectively provided adjacent to the rod-like light sources, each columnar member including a light incidence plane through which light emitted from a longitudinal direction of the rod-like light sources enters, a first light exit plane arranged to emit the incoming light from the light incidence plane toward the display panel, and a first light reflecting plane arranged to reflect the incoming light from the light incidence plane to the light exit plane. Therefore, with the illumination device applied as a direct backlight, it is possible to reduce luminance unevenness in both a front direction and oblique directions sufficiently, so as to reduce the luminance unevenness of the backlight sufficiently, as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiki Takata
  • Publication number: 20090263007
    Abstract: If horizontal viewpoint quantity information Nx and vertical viewpoint quantity information Ny are predetermined quantities, a value of the aspect ratio of the output image data to be finally output satisfies a predetermined condition, and a 3D identification mark is contained in the output image data, then an image recording device adds a first extension as general-purpose 3D image data which can also be used in a conventional device and records it. Accordingly, when 3D image data is output (displayed and printed) in a conventional device, image data which can be used as 3D image data (which can be viewed as a stereoscopic image) can be output as general-purpose image data while image data which cannot be used as 3D image data in the conventional device is not output as image data. This prevents a confusion of general users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Olympus Imaging Corp., SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuji Kitaura, Hideaki Yoshida, Ken Mashitani, Haruhiko Murata, Hidehiko Sekizawa
  • Publication number: 20090261440
    Abstract: In a microlens unit (MSU), at least part of the edges of microlenses (MS) (convex lenses MS[BG]) supported on elevations (BG) overlap with trenches (DH) in a direction (VV) perpendicular to the surface of a flattening film (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20090262392
    Abstract: One embodiment of a printer driver according to the present invention includes a document data obtaining means for obtaining document data indicated by a received print instruction, a conversion means for converting the obtained document data into print data written in page description language, a transmission-use data generation means for obtaining application information indicating an application program that issued the print instruction and inserting the application information into the print data and a transmission means for transmitting the print data into which the application information was inserted to a printer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7606123
    Abstract: A light receiving and emitting integrated device is provided that can be connected to an IC for an optical pickup of the discrete package type, regardless of use of the knife edge method for a focus servo signal. In the light receiving and emitting integrated device, a diffraction grating branches light emitted from a semiconductor laser into three, namely, first to third lights, a hologram element divided into four regions, namely, first to four regions divides the first to third lights reflected by an optical recording medium, and four light receiving segments provided in a light receiving element receive and detect the first light. A focus servo signal can be obtained by the knife edge method using detection outputs of the first light received and detected by the four light receiving segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobumasa Ono
  • Patent number: 7605057
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device can suppress the generation of burrs when an array of integrated circuits to which a supporting member is bonded for assistance is separated into chips. The supporting member having thinned regions (or void regions which are openings in the supporting member) located correspondingly beneath the scribing lines extending between the integrated circuits is bonded by an adhesive to the back side of a semiconductor substrate on which integrated circuits are arrayed at the primary side. Then, a dicing tape is attached to the support member to secure the entire assembly, and the assembly of the integrated circuits, the semiconductor substrate, the adhesive, and the supporting member are cut along the scribing lines, and then the dicing tape is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Shimoyama, Hajime Oda, Keiichi Sawai, Takayuki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 7605776
    Abstract: This invention provides a stereoscopic-vision image processing apparatus, a stereoscopic-vision image providing method, and an image display method that are capable of managing specification of display unit on which a stereoscopic-vision image is desired to be displayed as accessory information (assumed display information). The assumed display information includes a type and a display size of the display unit on which a stereoscopic-vision image is desired to be displayed. This allows an appropriate stereoscopic-vision image to be obtained by specifying a type or a display size of the display unit that is desired to be displayed with them being combined with the stereoscopic-vision image and scaling the stereoscopic-vision image up or down, in display of a stereoscopic image, in accordance with the type or the display size of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Satoh, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Toshio Nomura, Masahiro Shioi, Goro Hamagishi, Ken Mashitani
  • Patent number: 7605011
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises an active region (4), a cladding layer (5,7), and a saturable absorbing layer (6) disposed within the cladding layer. The saturable absorbing layer comprises at least one portion (11a) that is absorbing for light emitted by the active region and comprises at least portion (11b) that is not absorbing for light emitted by the active region. The fabrication method of the invention enables the non-absorbing portion(s) (11b) of the saturable absorbing layer (6) to produced after the device structure has been fabricated. This allows the degree of overlap between the non-absorbing portion(s) (11b) of the saturable absorbing layer (6) and the optical mode of the laser to be altered after the device has been grown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Rakesh Roshan, Brendan Poole, Stewart Edward Hooper, Jonathan Heffernan
  • Patent number: 7605787
    Abstract: When receiving an interlaced video signal, an I/P conversion section converts the interlaced video signal into a progressive video signal by any of two or more I/P conversion methods. Further, an emphasis conversion section subjects the progressive video signal to emphasis conversion. Here, a control CPU controls the degree of emphasis conversion performed by the emphasis conversion section so as to be changed in accordance with which kind of conversion method among the two or more conversion methods is used for the conversion. This makes it possible to subject video data supplied to a liquid crystal display panel to emphasis conversion with a degree corresponding to the conversion method. As a result of this, it is possible to implement a liquid crystal display device which can realize both improvement in response speed of a liquid crystal display device and improvement in quality of video image displayed on the liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Akutsu, Toshiyuki Fujine, Takashi Yoshii
  • Patent number: 7605885
    Abstract: A first electrode substrate of the present invention includes a first signal line, a second signal line, a third signal line, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode. The first signal line, the second signal line and the third signal line extend in a first direction and in parallel to one another. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the first signal line. The second pixel electrode is adjacent to the first pixel electrode in the first direction, and is electrically connected to the second signal line. The third pixel electrode is adjacent to the second pixel electrode in the row direction, crossing the first direction, via the second signal line therebetween, and is electrically connected to the third signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichi Ina, Keisuke Yoshida, Ichiro Shiraki, Mutsumi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 7606523
    Abstract: An apparatus for image formation includes a slider, rotatable members, elastic members, and a waste toner box. The slider is supported by the main body of the apparatus and can reciprocate in the outward direction from the inside of the body to one side of the body and the inward direction opposite to the outward direction. The rotatable members are arranged in the outward and inward directions over the slider. Each of the elastic members biases one of the rotatable members upward relative to the slider. The rotatable members support the waste toner box, which has an inlet for connection to the bottom of the outlet. The box inlet is formed at the end of the waste toner box that is upstream in the outward direction. The elastic member most upstream of all the elastic members in the outward direction is the greatest in biasing force of all the elastic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Kubo