Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 11322105Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an active matrix substrate (100) includes a display region (DR) defined by a plurality of pixel regions (P) arranged in a matrix and a peripheral region (FR) located around the display region. The active matrix substrate includes a substrate (1), a first TFT (10), and a second TFT (20). The first TFT is supported by the substrate and disposed in the peripheral region. The second TFT is supported by the substrate and disposed in the display region. The first TFT includes a crystalline silicon semiconductor layer (11), which is an active layer. The second TFT includes an oxide semiconductor layer (21), which is an active layer. The first TFT and the second TFT each have a top-gate structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuo Kikuchi, Hideki Kitagawa, Hajime Imai, Toshikatsu Itoh, Masahiko Suzuki, Teruyuki Ueda, Kengo Hara, Setsuji Nishimiya, Tohru Daitoh
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Patent number: 11322145Abstract: A voice processing device includes a voice receiver that receives a voice, an imager, an image acquirer that acquires a captured image captured by the imager, an utterer identifier that identifies an utterer based on the voice received by the voice receiver and the captured image acquired by the image acquirer, a voice determiner that determines whether the voice is a specific word based on the voice received by the voice receiver and an image of the utterer identified by the utterer identifier, the image being included in the captured image, and a voice transmitter that switches a transmission destination of the voice received by the voice receiver based on a determination result by the voice determiner.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiko Hirukawa, Satoshi Terada
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Patent number: 11324003Abstract: A radio transmission apparatus selects any one group from a plurality of groups each indicating a combination of a plurality of radio reception apparatuses, notifies at least a plurality of radio reception apparatuses belonging to the selected group of an identification number assigned in advance to the selected group, and allocates transmission data addressed to the radio reception apparatuses belonging to the selected group to each of a plurality of frequency resources based on order of the radio reception apparatuses, which is determined in advance in the selected group.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera
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Patent number: 11324071Abstract: There is a concern that communication failure may occur in a case that the state of a serving cell is not properly managed during communication of SPS or GF. A mobile station apparatus of a communication system including at least a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus configured to perform communication by using carrier aggregation that simultaneously uses multiple serving cells configured by the base station apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, wherein the mobile station apparatus restarts a deactivation timer of a serving cell of the multiple serving cells at a timing indicated by a configured uplink grant configured for the serving cell.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Seiji Sato, Jungo Gotoh, Osamu Nakamura, Shohei Yamada, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11320701Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display that can reduce occurrence of quality problems and improve adhesive strength between substrates. The present invention is a liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a seal. The first substrate includes a shift register monolithically formed on an insulating substrate, a plurality of bus lines, a first end, and a display region. The shift register includes a plurality of multistage-connected unit circuits and wiring connected to the plurality of unit circuits, and is arranged in a region between the first end and the display region. At least one of the unit circuits includes a clock terminal, an output terminal, an output transistor, a second transistor, and a bootstrap capacitor. The output transistor and the bootstrap capacitor are arranged in a region between the first end and one of the wiring and the second transistor.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahiro Mori
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Patent number: 11323163Abstract: A base station apparatus is capable of adjusting antenna gains in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the plurality of antennas included in the base station apparatus, by adjusting a phase and an amplitude of a signal addressed and transmitted to a terminal apparatus, stores a codebook which is shared with the terminal apparatus and describes a plurality of linear filters associated with antenna gains in the horizontal direction and antenna gains in the vertical direction, acquires control information indicating at least one out of a plurality of linear filters described in the codebook, of which notification is sent from the terminal apparatus, performs precoding on the signal addressed to the terminal apparatus, based on the control information and the first codebook, and transmits the signal subjected to the precoding.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Minoru Kubota
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Patent number: 11320853Abstract: An image transmission apparatus includes: a processor that performs a process of generating image data and that transmits the image data to a display apparatus connected via a network; and a clock controller that receives information relating to a display mode of the display apparatus from the display apparatus and that controls a drive clock frequency of the processor based on the information.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Ogiwara
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Patent number: 11322523Abstract: To reduce a reduction in the quality of a displayed image in portions corresponding to source lines including detour portions in a display area. Gate lines (20) and source lines (30), which intersect with each other, extend on an insulating substrate (1) so as to detour an opening area (A1). Separated portions (24) are provided as lower shielding electrodes (23) in an inner non-display area (A2) so as to be overlapped with source detour portions (31) of the source lines (30) in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiichi Ina, Yasuyoshi Kaise
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Patent number: 11320777Abstract: In a photosensitive drum, a drum flange is press-fitted to each end of a drum element tube. The drum flange includes a flange facing the drum element tube, and a press-in boss formed on a drum-facing surface side of the flange and press-fitted to the inner circumferential side of the drum element tube. The outer circumferential surface of the press-in boss is configured so that partial cylindrical surfaces to be in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the drum element tube and oppositely-facing partial cylindrical surfaces not to be in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the drum element tube are alternately formed along the circumferential direction. First openings formed to penetrate at least a part of the press-in boss are respectively provided on the proximal end side of the partial cylindrical surfaces in the press-in boss.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi Hori
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Patent number: 11324034Abstract: In a case that multiple configured uplink grants are configured in a single serving cell, there is a problem that normal communication cannot be performed unless appropriate control is performed to prevent transmissions in a radio resource (slot) of the same timing. A mobile station apparatus in a communication system including at least a base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus for which the base station apparatus allocates a normal uplink and a supplementary uplink in a single serving cell, wherein the mobile communication apparatus is configured to configure a configured uplink grant individually for each of the normal uplink and the supplementary uplink, and validate, in a case that the serving cell is activated, one of the configured uplink grant configured for the normal uplink and the configured uplink grant configured for the supplementary uplink and suspend another one.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Seiji Sato, Jungo Gotoh, Osamu Nakamura, Shohei Yamada, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11320679Abstract: In a display device including a connection portion pressure-bonded with an anisotropic conductive film and an FPC, a closed circuit configured to allow an abnormality, such as a connection failure in the connection portion, or disconnection or a short circuit in a wiring line of the FPC to be detected, is provided separately from a wiring line needed for displaying an image. When an abnormality occurs, a resistance value of the closed circuit changes, and thus a current value of current flowing through the closed circuit changes. As a result, even when an image is displayed, a detection circuit detects a change in a value of voltage applied to the closed circuit and notifies a user, and thus the user can know that an abnormality occurs in the connection portion or the wiring line of the FPC.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keisuke Kanda
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Patent number: 11320573Abstract: In order to make a step of forming an coated-type polarizer easier, provided is a display device including, from a lower layer, a TFT layer, a light-emitting layer, a sealing layer, and a polarization layer in this order, in which the polarization layer includes a polymerizable liquid crystal layer containing a polymerizable liquid crystal into which a dichroic pigment is mixed and an alignment film coming in contact with a portion of the polymerizable liquid crystal layer to align the polymerizable liquid crystal contained in the polymerizable liquid crystal layer with which the alignment film is in contact, and in a display region, a region in which the polymerizable liquid crystal layer and the alignment film of the polarization layer come into contact with each other is a polarization portion, and in a frame region surrounding the display region, a region in which the polymerizable liquid crystal layer and the alignment film of the polarization layer do not come in contact with each other is a black frType: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11322786Abstract: An air electrode includes a current collector, a catalyst layer, and a water repellent membrane provided in this order. The catalyst layer has a first face in contact with either one of the current collector and the water repellent membrane, a second face in contact with either other of the current collector or the water repellent membrane, and a plurality of through holes, through which the first face and the second face communicate with each other. The through holes each have a constriction with an inner diameter smaller than either of an opening diameter in the first face and an opening diameter in the second face.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mai Takasaki, Keigo Mitamura, Hiroyuki Yamaji, Fumitoshi Sugino, Hirotaka Mizuhata, Akihito Yoshida
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Patent number: 11323917Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit Phase-tracking reference signals (PTRS), and an higher layer processing unit configured to configure information for indicating a time density and/or a frequency density of the PTRS. A PTRS pattern is configured such that the time density of the PTRS is higher for a larger Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) scheduled for the terminal apparatus, and the frequency density of the PTRS is based on the number of resource blocks scheduled for the terminal apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Kozue Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11323197Abstract: The present disclosure provides a resource mapping and transmission method and a corresponding base station and user equipment. The method comprises: generating radio frames for NB-IoT TDD, and in the radio frames for NB-IoT TDD, mapping a Narrowband Primary Synchronization Signal “NPSS,” a Narrowband Secondary Synchronization Signal “NSSS,” a Narrowband Physical Broadcast Channel “NPBCH,” and a Narrowband System Information Block Type 1 “SIB1-NB” to subframes selected from subframes 0, 4, 5, and 9 of the radio frames, wherein the NPSS, the NSSS, the NPBCH, and the SIB1-NB are respectively mapped into different subframes and are not respectively mapped into the subframes 5, 9, 0, and 4; and transmitting the generated radio frames. According to embodiments of the present invention, user equipment supporting NB-IoT TDD can exit a search for an NB-IoT TDD cell as early as possible.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Chao Luo, Renmao Liu
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Patent number: 11318415Abstract: A humidity conditioning method includes: the humidity-absorbing step of bringing a hygroscopic liquid containing a hygroscopic material into contact with a first mass of air so that the hygroscopic liquid absorbs moisture in the first mass of air; and the regeneration step of separating moisture from the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, wherein the regeneration step retains the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, bombards at least some of the retained hygroscopic liquid with ultrasound to generate misty droplets from the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, and removes the misty droplets to separate moisture from the hygroscopic liquid.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sho Ochi, Tetsuya Ide, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Makoto Yamada, Hiroka Hamada, Jun Sakuma
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Patent number: 11319283Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: (Formula (I)). Also disclosed herein are uses of a compound disclosed herein in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising a compound disclosed herein. Further disclosed herein are uses of a composition in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.Inventors: Meredeth Ann McGowan, Abdelghani Achab, Xavier Fradera, Yongxin Han, Derun Li, Jongwon Lim, Kun Liu, Nunzio Sciammetta, Catherine M. White, Wensheng Yu, Hongjun Zhang, Hua Zhou
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Patent number: 11322574Abstract: A display device including: a driver outside a display area; a special-shape portion on an edge of the display area, the special-shape portion being shaped like a line that is curved or oblique to an extension direction of signal lines in the display area; a plurality of first-type circuit blocks outside the special-shape portion, each of the first-type circuit blocks including a unit circuit for the driver in a rectangular region having a first side parallel to the extension direction and a second side perpendicular to, and shorter than, the first side; and a plurality of second-type circuit blocks outside the special-shape portion, each of the second-type circuit blocks including a unit circuit for the driver in a rectangular region obtained by rotating the previous rectangular region by 90°.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiko Kawamura, Junichi Yamada, Makoto Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11319180Abstract: A document feeder includes a document placing tray on which a document is placed; a document discharging tray on which a document discharged from a document discharging port in a discharging direction is stacked; and a light source that radiates light to the document discharging tray. The document discharging tray is disposed below the document placing tray. The document discharging tray has a protruding portion protruding upward from the surrounding area. The light source is disposed within a region having a width that is the same as a document having a maximum size in the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shohichi Fukutome, Kenji Kuroda, Hironori Ogasawara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Toshiki Fukunishi
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Patent number: 11319298Abstract: The present invention is directed to heteroarylpiperidine ether 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., MSD R&D (China) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jianming Bao, Ronald Ferguson, Xiaolei Gao, Scott Harrison, Sandra L. Knowles, Michael Man-Chu Lo, Robert D. Mazzola, Jr., Jeffrey W. Shubert