Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20090201455
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes an insulating substrate, gate wires and source wires that intersect with each other on the insulating substrate, and TFTs provided at intersections of signal lines. The TFTs include gate electrodes, source electrodes and drain electrodes, respectively. A transparent conductive film, which is arranged to be used as a lower layer of the sources and the drains, is used as common electrodes for pixel areas surrounded by adjacent source wires, and also common electrode wires arranged to connect adjacent ones of the common electrodes parallel or substantially parallel to the source wires. This provides an active matrix substrate in which a signal delay caused by resistance and parasitic capacitance is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsuhito Murai
  • Publication number: 20090201315
    Abstract: A diagnostic support device supports a diagnosis of a display state of a composite image displayed on a display device that is arranged to display a composite image obtained by combining a plurality of composite target images corresponding to pieces of information supplied from respective devices mounted on a vehicle, the plurality of composite target images being combined with reference to layout information, the diagnostic support device including a layout information obtaining section arranged to obtain the layout information, a layout information output section arranged to output to an image combining apparatus, the layout information, per composite target image, the image combining apparatus combining the plurality of composite target images, and the layout information being obtained by the layout information obtaining section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Nishida
  • Publication number: 20090201666
    Abstract: In a backlight module, when relay connectors exposed to a back side of a chassis are engaged with the connector portions of a lighting jig, the power from the power supply source of the lighting jig is supplied to discharge tubes via the connector portions and the relay connectors. Thereby, the discharge tubes can be lighted, even if a power board is not connected to the relay connectors. At the time, the lighting jig is arranged to face the back surface of the chassis, and therefore optical sheets can be mounted to the chassis from the front side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiki Takata, Kenichi Iwamoto, Takaaki Kudo, Naofumi Ikenaga
  • Publication number: 20090201557
    Abstract: The image data transmitting apparatus acquires the address book data corresponding to the user or such data and the transmittal cover letter data from the server apparatus, selects, out of the acquired information on destinations, the destination according to selecting operation by the user, generates transmittal cover letter image data based on the transmittal cover letter data related to the selected destination and attaches the image data to be transmitted as second and subsequent pages, thereby generating the image data with the transmittal cover letter attached thereto. While thus generated image data with the transmittal cover letter attached thereto is transmitted to the destination, transmission is prohibited of image data other than thus generated image data with the transmittal cover letter attached thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Honma
  • Publication number: 20090201414
    Abstract: A solid image capture device 100 in accordance with the present invention includes a holder 4 securing a lens barrel 8a onto a transparent lid section 3. When the holder 4 is in engagement with an external section of the transparent lid section 3, the holder 4 presses down the lens barrel 8a to secure the lens barrel 8a to the transparent lid section 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuo Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090200923
    Abstract: An organic EL device having excellent light-emitting properties, particularly a long lifetime, by controlling a balance between a hole and an electron, which is required for light-emitting in the organic EL device, includes a structure in which an anode, an organic layer including a light-emitting layer, and a cathode are stacked on a substrate in this order, wherein the light-emitting layer includes two or more different light-emitting materials, and a difference in photoluminescence peak wavelength between the two or more different light-emitting materials is about 50 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Fujita, Yumiko Saeki
  • Publication number: 20090201777
    Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus, a reproducing apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a tracking error signal generation method are provided. Four light-receiving elements receive stray light of main and sub beams reflected from, out of a plurality of recording layers of the optical disk, the one other than that for effecting recording or reproduction. The four light-receiving elements are disposed individually near every side of the four-part split light-receiving element, of which light-receiving elements are disposed between the two-part split light-receiving elements. Based on stray-light intensity detected by the four light-receiving elements, intensity distribution is calculated for tracking-error signal correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keisuke OHTA
  • Publication number: 20090204290
    Abstract: An instrument panel display system includes a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal controller arranged to generate display data to be inputted into the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal controller includes a graphic LSI arranged to autonomously create screen data from imaging data read out from a memory and image data inputted in the graphic LSI, and a control LSI arranged to receive vehicle data and create an imaging operation switching command according to the vehicle data. The graphic LSI creates the screen data in response to the imaging operation switching command, and outputs the screen data as the display data. This configuration can reduce the load on a processor connected to the vehicle network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20090204923
    Abstract: The device setting system is formed by connecting an MFP and a PC having a displaying portion over a network. The PC includes a storage portion that has stored thereon information of an instruction manual including description of a method of setup operation for various setup items of the MFP and setting instruction information for each of the various setup items; if various setup items are displayed when the instruction manual is displayed on the displaying portion, the PC additionally displays a setting instruction accepting portion that accepts an instruction for setting the setup items; and if the setting instruction accepting portion accepts an instruction for setting, the PC extracts and transmits the setting instruction information for the setup items to the MFP. The MFP receives the setting instruction information and sets the setup items in the own machine based on the received setting instruction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Seiichiroh Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20090201274
    Abstract: A timing signal generating device for a matrix-type display apparatus is disclosed, conducive to reduction of power consumption, the matrix-type display apparatus including the timing signal generating device, and a driving method thereof. In at least one embodiment, a timing signal generating apparatus provided in an active-matrix liquid crystal display apparatus includes a horizontal direction counter and a vertical direction counter for counting a clock number; and a horizontal counter cessation circuit and a vertical counter cessation circuit for stopping the horizontal direction counter and the vertical direction counter at a predetermined timing. With this structure, at least one embodiment of the present invention achieves reduction in power consumption in the liquid crystal display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kuwabara, Tomoyuki Nagai, Tamotsu Sakai, Kazuhiro Maeda, Shuji Nishi, Masakazu Satoh
  • Publication number: 20090201669
    Abstract: In a backlight device, two-channel LED modules including 4-light-emitting diodes connected in series and resistive elements connected in series to the respective LED module are provided. The resistor elements provide voltage drops to the corresponding LED modules, and thereby set output voltages to the respective LED modules in a predetermined voltage range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Hamada
  • Patent number: 7573605
    Abstract: A method and system for displaying for selection format-independent and format-specific imaging options for direct imaging. The method and system determines the type of imaging device that is to image an object file. It then determines and displays the format-independent imaging options supported by the imaging device, based on the type of imaging device. It determines the format of the object file. It then displays the imaging options supported by the printer that are specific to the format of the object file, based on the type of imaging device and the format of the object file. The method and system are particularly useful for direct imaging to a printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch
  • Patent number: 7573446
    Abstract: A driving method and a driving device are provided for an LED element in which light emitting layers different from each other in light emission wavelength peak, put on each other with a barrier layer being interposed, are sandwiched by a pair of p-type and n-type layers, and color of emitted light from which substantially depends only upon driving current value. The method comprises a driving current value calculation step of obtaining a value for designating a current value corresponding to a desired color of emitted light from the LED element; a driving current generation step of generating a driving current having the current value designated by the value obtained in the driving current value calculation step; and a driving current supply step of supplying the LED element with the driving current generated in the driving current generation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Kawaguchi, Shigetoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 7573457
    Abstract: A display is backlit by a source having spatially modulated luminance to attenuate illumination of dark areas of images and increase the dynamic range of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott J. Daly
  • Patent number: 7573924
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor laser device includes a nitride semiconductor laser element having a resonator end surface and capable of emitting light with a wavelength of at most 420 nm, a heat sink joined to the nitride semiconductor laser element, a stem with the heat sink mounted thereon, and a light detecting element mounted on the stem for detecting a laser beam from the nitride semiconductor laser element. The nitride semiconductor laser element, the heat sink and the light detecting element are enclosed within a cap that is joined to the stem, and an atmosphere within the cap has a dew point of at most ?30° C. and an oxygen concentration of at most 100 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhzoh Tsuda, Daisuke Hanaoka, Masaya Ishida
  • Patent number: 7573594
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for associating a hard-copy document with computer-readable information and for accessing that information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sara Lynn Leslie, Nathaniel Zachary Rutman, Gary Lin Gaebel
  • Patent number: 7573336
    Abstract: A bias circuit 22 in a power amplifier 1 is provided with a VBE-controlled voltage source circuit 20 and a Nagata current mirror circuit 21. The Nagata current mirror circuit 21 includes a transistor Tr5 and a transistor Tr6. The transistor Tr5 has its emitter grounded, its base connected to a control input terminal 17 via a resistor R3, and its collector connected to that base via a resistor R4. The transistor Tr6 has its emitter grounded, its base connected to the collector of the transistor Tr5, and its collector connected to the base of the transistor Tr3. The arrangement is capable of compensating both the temperature characteristics of the gain of the power amplifier 1 and the control input voltage characteristics of the gain of the power amplifier 1. In other words, the arrangement is capable of reducing the temperature dependence and control input voltage dependence of the gain of the power amplifier 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Ishimaru, Motoko Furukawa
  • Patent number: 7573540
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises a liquid crystal panel (22), a group of optical sheets (32) disposed rearward from the liquid crystal panel (22), a light source (28) disposed rearward from the group of the optical sheets (32), a frame-shaped front frame (21, 23) disposed forward from at least the group of the optical sheets (32), a back chassis (31) disposed rearward from the light source (28) and fixedly connected to the front frame (21, 23) directly or indirectly, and a holding member (27) integrally holding the group of the optical sheets (32) to keep the group of the optical sheets (32) held in position integrally, when the back chassis (31) and the front frame (21, 23) are unfixed from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Katsuda, Masato Onoue, Takayuki Iwai, Tatsuya Kudari
  • Patent number: 7571606
    Abstract: A Stirling engine A has a pressure container 1 filled with a working gas, a cylinder 2 secured inside the pressure container 1, a power piston 3 provided inside the cylinder 2, and a displacer 4a provided inside the cylinder 2 on the same axis as the power piston 3. The displacer 4 has a displacer piston 41a that slides inside the cylinder 2, and a rod 42a which is connected and fixed to the displacer piston 41a and placed through a slide hole 31 formed at the center of the power piston 3. The rod 42a is formed in the shape of a hollow pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jin Sakamoto, Kazushi Yoshimura, Shinji Yamagami, Yoshiyuki Kitamura, Hiroshi Yasumura
  • Patent number: 7574514
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying original streams of media content are disclosed. An exemplary method involves identifying at least one media content identifier in a media content directory. The media content identifier identifies media content. A plurality of stream access identifiers may be associated with the media content identifier. The method also involves identifying at least one stream access identifier of the plurality of stream access identifiers that includes access information for accessing an original stream of data from a media file comprising the media content. The method also involves providing identifier information about the at least one stream access identifier to a client in response to a client request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande