Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 11309512
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes a reflective electrode and a transparent electrode disposed facing each other with an organic EL layer interposed therebetween. The reflective electrode includes a reflective film and a protection film formed on the reflective film, and the protection film includes a frame-shaped portion surrounding the periphery of the organic EL layer and an opening surrounded by the frame-shaped portion. This improves the reflectivity of the reflective electrode while protecting the reflective electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11309509
    Abstract: A display device is provided with a light-emitting element layer including an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a quantum dot light-emitting layer sandwiched between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, wherein the quantum dot light-emitting layer includes at least quantum dots and nanofibers. A method for manufacturing a display device includes forming a quantum dot light-emitting layer by applying a colloidal solution including at least quantum dots and nanofibers by ink-jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasushi Asaoka, Shigeru Aomori
  • Patent number: 11310378
    Abstract: A system includes an image processing device connected to a transmission and reception device that communicates with an external device, and a terminal device connected to a display device. The image processing device includes an evaluation value calculation processor that calculates, for each of two or more types of output modes, an evaluation value of output image data when image data is output in the output mode, and an evaluation information transmitter that transmits evaluation information including information based on the evaluation value for each of the output modes, to the terminal device, via the transmission and reception device. The terminal device includes a display controller that performs control of displaying, for each of the output modes, the information based on the evaluation value corresponding to the output mode, on the display device, if the evaluation information is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Takashima, Daisaku Imaizumi
  • Patent number: 11309506
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and a crosslinked emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode in which quantum dots are dispersed. The crosslinked layer includes a crosslinked material and quantum dots dispersed in the crosslinked mater, the quantum dots having ligands respectively bonded to the quantum dots. The quantum dots are distributed unevenly within the crosslinked material. The ligands have a concentration relative to the weight of the quantum dots of 10 to 45 wt %. A method of forming a crosslinked emissive layer of a light-emitting device in which quantum dots are dispersed includes the steps of depositing a mixture on a deposition surface and subjecting at least a portion of the mixture to an activation stimulus to crosslink the cross-linkable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Enrico Angioni, Isabel Arranz De La Calle, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Patent number: 11308917
    Abstract: The amount of calculation related to correction of an image signal in a display device is suppressed. A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight luminance distribution calculation unit configured to calculate an intensity of illumination light from a backlight in a pixel of interest, and the backlight luminance distribution calculation unit calculates the intensity of illumination light with reference to a one-dimensional lookup table indicating a relationship between a distance from one of control areas included in the backlight to the pixel of interest and the intensity of illumination light at the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Aya Okamoto, Naoko Goto
  • Patent number: 11308881
    Abstract: The present application discloses a current-driven display device capable of preventing a decrease in display quality due to luminance gradient or the like caused by a voltage drop in a power supply line while preventing an increase in circuit and processing necessary for driving a pixel circuit. In an organic EL display device, at a connection point of a high-level power supply line ELVDD with a pixel circuit 15 (Pix(n,k)) (n=1 to N; k=1 to M) on each branch wire ELVk, a display control circuit calculates a voltage drop ?Vn=V0?Vn caused by a current flowing in the branch wire ELVk in a data write period for the pixel circuit Pix(n,k), corrects corresponding pixel data (pixel data for Pix(n,k)) dn in input image data based on the voltage drop ?Vn, and generates a driving image data signal Sdda to be given to a data-side drive circuit based on the corrected pixel data dcn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ueno
  • Patent number: 11310495
    Abstract: A method of filtering reconstructed video data, the method comprising: determining whether one or more conditions associated with the adjacent reconstructed video blocks are satisfied; selecting a filter based on whether the one or more conditions are satisfied; modifying sample values in the adjacent reconstructed video blocks based on the selected filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Seung-Hwan Kim, Jie Zhao, Kiran Mukesh Misra, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Patent number: 11310374
    Abstract: This system includes: an apparatus; a first server; and a second server connectable to the apparatus and the first server. The first server includes a voice receiver that receives a voice from a user, a command transmitter that transmits a command based on the voice to the second server, and an output part that, responsive to a response signal received from the second server, provides an output based on the response signal. The second server includes a command processor that transmits a response signal to the first server responsive to a first command received from the first server, and that acquires a status of the apparatus, and a status transmitter that transmits a response signal based on the acquired status of the apparatus to the first server responsive to a second command received from the first server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Kondoh
  • Patent number: 11307293
    Abstract: A TOF ranging sensor according to Embodiment includes: a light-emitting unit that radiates light beams to subspaces; a light-receiving unit that receives light and forms images of the light on light-receiving elements allocated to the subspaces; and a space control unit that independently controls each element group that includes a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element that are allocated to a common one of the subspaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuma Hiramatsu, Takayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11310857
    Abstract: To provide a communication control means for establishing a session suitable for a terminal apparatus connecting to multiple access networks of various kinds and a network apparatus, a user data communication control means suitable for a terminal apparatus that has established sessions via multiple access networks and a network apparatus, and the like. This provides a communication control means suitable for a terminal apparatus and a network apparatus that support connection to multiple access networks of various kinds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yudai Kawasaki, Masafumi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 11306080
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel crystalline form of verubecestat (Crystalline Form II of Verubecestat) and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, each of which may be useful in treating, preventing, ameliorating, and/or delaying the onset of an A? pathology and/or a symptom or symptoms thereof. Non-limiting examples of such A? pathologies, including Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment, are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Laura M. Artino, William Morris, Eric Sirota, Richard J. Varsolona
  • Patent number: 11307710
    Abstract: A position detecting device including an antenna function includes a plurality of electrodes including a plurality of shared electrodes separated by spaces, a position detection circuit configured to detect a position by energizing the plurality of electrodes and using electric fields generated between the plurality of electrodes, an antenna circuit configured to perform wireless communication by energizing the plurality of shared electrodes and using magnetic fields generated in the spaces, and a switch connected to at least the plurality of shared electrodes among the plurality of electrodes, the position detection circuit, and the antenna circuit, the switch being configured to selectively connect either the position detection circuit or the antenna circuit to the plurality of shared electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Takenori Maruyama, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Shinji Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11308905
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a control circuit configured to generate a source signal voltage supplied to each pixel. The liquid crystal display panel includes an active matrix substrate including a pixel electrode applied with a source signal voltage and a common electrode applied with a common voltage. The common voltage and the source signal voltage corresponding to each gradation are set such that a source-common center difference at least one of lowest and highest gradation levels is greater than the source-common center difference at least some of the other gradation levels. A degree of symmetry of a gradation level voltage is equal to or lower than 95% at least at one of gradation levels equal to or lower than a 127/255-th gradation level except for the lowest gradation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Yagi, Masatoshi Itoh, Shogo Nishiwaki, Hisashi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11310818
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a transport block and HARQ-ACK on PUSCH; and a physical layer processing unit configured to calculate a number of coded bits for the HARQ-ACK, at least based on a number of SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb for PUSCH initial transmission for the transport block, and modulation order for the transport block, wherein the number of the SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb is given at least based on NLBT and a number of SC-FDMA symbols NULsymb included in an uplink slot, and a value of NLBT is 1 in a case that a time continuous signal of a first SC-FDMA symbol included in the PUSCH is generated based on a content of a resource element corresponding to a second SC-FDMA symbol following the first SC-FDMA symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Liqing Liu, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 11307337
    Abstract: The present invention provides: (I) a display device including a display panel, a retardation layer, and a polarizer which are stacked in the stated order from a back surface side to a viewing surface side and integrated without an adhesive layer; and (II) a method for producing a display device including: forming a first alignment film on a display panel, applying a solution containing first polymerizable liquid crystal to the first alignment film, and curing the first polymerizable liquid crystal to produce a retardation layer; and forming a second alignment film on the retardation layer, applying a solution containing second polymerizable liquid crystal and a dichroic material to the second alignment film, and curing the second polymerizable liquid crystal to produce a polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa, Atsushi Ban, Koji Murata, Yuichi Kawahira, Kiyoshi Minoura, Takako Koide, Kozo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11310760
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus, a location server, and methods for performing positioning measurement are provided. A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a PRS configuration from a location server; receive a first PRS resource from a serving cell and a second PRS resource from a neighboring cell based on the PRS resource configuration; and a position measuring unit configured to determine a RSTD based the reception timing(s) of the first PRS resource and/or second PRS resource; wherein the first PRS resource and the second PRS resource are configured with a first subcarrier spacing and a second subcarrier spacing respectively; the first PRS resource and the second PRS resource are configured with their corresponding QCL information for determining their corresponding spatial receiving filter for receiving the first PRS resource and the second PRS resource by the terminal apparatus respectively; the first QCL information is different from the second QCL information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Ryota Yamada, Hiromichi Tomeba
  • Patent number: 11307822
    Abstract: A display control device that controls a display device including a display panel on which an image is rendered to display the image, the display control device includes: a host controller that obtains or generates image data of the image; and a display controller that outputs the image data to the display panel, wherein the host controller issues a request for rendering update of the image to the display controller, and transfers the image data to the display controller at a predetermined frequency; and when the display controller outputs first image data to the display panel, and then second image data is transferred from the host controller to the display controller, the display controller determines whether the first image data and the second image data are same or different from each other to determine whether or not the second image data is to be output to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuya Kambe
  • Patent number: 11309351
    Abstract: A micro light-emitting diode includes a first micro light-emitting diode including a first light-emitting layer and emitting light at a first wavelength, and a second micro light-emitting diode including the first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer emitting light at a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength, in which the second light-emitting layer is a nitride semiconductor layer doped with a second rare earth element, and a nitride semiconductor of the first micro light-emitting diode and the nitride semiconductor of the second micro light-emitting diode are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuji Iguchi, Hidenori Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 11306125
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula I, or a salt thereof cyclic polypeptide of Formula I: Formula I where A, B, E, R4, and R8 are as defined herein, which compounds have properties for antagonizing PCSK9. Also described are pharmaceutical formulations comprising the compounds of Formula I or their salts, and methods of treating cardiovascular disease and conditions related to PCSK9 activity, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Yusheng Xiong, Thomas Joseph Tucker, Chengwei Wu, Elisabetta Bianchi, Danila Branca, Angela Dawn Kerekes, Abbas M. Walji, Hubert B. Josien, Fa-Xiang Ding, Hyewon Youm, Alessia Santoprete, Raffaele Ingenito
  • Patent number: 11309989
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit capability information of the terminal apparatus, and a receiver configured to perform blind detection of a PDCCH from a search space in a control resource set, wherein in a case that a capability of blind detection is supported, the blind detection detecting the PDCCH from search spaces in control resource sets the number of which is greater than a prescribed number in a prescribed duration, the transmitter transmits, as the capability information of the terminal apparatus, at least two of pieces of information including (a) a maximum number of blind detections that can be performed in the prescribed duration, (b) a maximum number of blind detections in a unit time, (c) a maximum number of blind detections based on configuration for the control resource set, and (d) a maximum number of the control resource sets for which blind detections can be simultaneously performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee, Daiichiro Nakashima