Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 12289169Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine a subslot structure for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetition for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) transmissions. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the PUCCH repetition for the URLLC transmissions based on the subslot structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Zhanping Yin
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Patent number: 12289944Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: an electron transport layer; a hole transport layer; and a light-emitting layer between the electron transport layer and the hole transport layer, the light-emitting layer including: quantum dots; and ligands coordinated to the quantum dots, wherein the ligands in the light-emitting layer have a lower concentration on an electron transport layer side of the light-emitting layer than on a hole transport layer side of the light-emitting layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke Honda, Yoshihiro Ueta
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Patent number: 12288769Abstract: A micro-LED mounting substrate includes a wiring line substrate provided with at least a plurality of substrate-side connecting portions on one plate surface, a plurality of micro-LEDs disposed side by side in the one plate surface of the wiring line substrate and each including at least a light-emitting face and an LED-side connecting portion provided on a surface opposite to the light-emitting face and connected to the substrate-side connecting portion, a first positioning portion provided on at least a portion of the plurality of micro-LEDs, and facing an installation surface of the substrate-side connecting portion of the wiring line substrate, and a second positioning portion provided on the installation surface of the substrate-side connecting portion of the wiring line substrate and capable of positioning the micro-LEDs including the first positioning portion by being recess-projection-fitted to the first positioning portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyuki Harumoto, Yoshito Hashimoto
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Patent number: 12289652Abstract: A wireless node that communicates over a radio interface with a wireless access node of a radio access network (RAN), the wireless node comprising: processor circuitry configured to establish, with the radio access node, dual connectivity (DC) comprising a first connection and a second connection, the first connection being relayed by an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node; receiver circuitry configured to receive from the IAB node a notification message indicating a radio link failure (RLF) on the first connection, and; transmitter circuitry configured to transmit, based on the notification message, a failure information message to the wireless access node using the second connection, wherein; the failure information message comprises information representing the RLF.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Atsushi Ishii
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Patent number: 12289936Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a first light-emitting layer including a first quantum dot and a second light-emitting layer including a second quantum dot provided between the cathode electrode and an anode electrode in order from the cathode electrode, the first quantum dot has a core-shell structure including a first core and a first shell, the second quantum dot has a core-shell structure including a second core and a second shell, and an energy level at a lower end of a conduction band of the first core is higher than an energy level at a lower end of a conduction band of the second core.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Sakuma, Yasushi Asaoka
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Patent number: 12289674Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) comprises control circuitry and transmission and reception circuitry. The transmission and reception circuitry is configured to receive, from an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), a first configuration update command message including a rejected Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) including a Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information for which a maximum number of UEs has been reached, a cause value indicating that the S-NSSAI is not available due to the maximum number of UEs being reached, and a back-off timer value for the S-NSSAI. The control circuitry is configured to start a timer with the back-off timer value for the S-NSSAI. The transmission and reception circuitry is further configured not to attempt to use the S-NSSAI while the back-off timer is running.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuo Sugawara
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Patent number: 12288535Abstract: A liquid crystal display module for a multi-screen display device includes a liquid crystal display panel that includes a first gate driver connected to one ends of a plurality of gate bus lines and a second gate driver connected to other ends of the plurality of gate bus lines, and a control device. The control device receives, from a host computer, an image signal and an arrangement information signal indicating arrangement information of the liquid crystal display panel in the multi-screen display device, generates a gate signal from the image signal, and outputs the gate signal to one or both of the first gate driver and the second gate driver determined based on the arrangement information signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventor: Kazuya Kondoh
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Patent number: 12287439Abstract: An X-ray image capturing apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion element, a TFT, a gate drive circuit, a control circuit, and a filter section. The TFT is connected to the photoelectric conversion element. The gate drive circuit supplies a gate signal to a gate electrode of the TFT. The control circuit supplies a control signal to the gate drive circuit. The filter section attenuates a component of the gate signal or the control signal that has a frequency lower than a prescribed frequency.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventor: Kohzoh Takahashi
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Patent number: 12288055Abstract: An electronic blackboard device that stores software of a plurality of functionalities includes: a touch panel that receives a user operation, a CPU that executes a piece of software of a functionality corresponding to the user operation, a usage history acquirer that acquires usage histories of the plurality of functionalities based on the execution of the piece of the software; an update information acquirer that acquires update information indicating update targets; a determiner that determines a functionality to be preferentially updated among the update targets based on the usage histories; and a display that provides an update notification to prompt update of the functionality thus determined.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Miyano
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Patent number: 12285939Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an operation acceptor; a transporter transporting paper along a transport path; an image former forming an image on the paper on the basis of image data; a paper detector detecting a transport status of the paper on the basis of detection results of paper detection sensors provided at various locations on the transport path; a display; a storage storing a predetermined image showing an assumed jam status of the paper and predetermined guidance for clearing the jam status of the paper when a jam occurs while the paper is transported; and a controller. When the jam occurs while the paper is transported, the controller displays, in a user-selectable manner, a predetermined image showing the paper jam status according to the detection result of the paper detector. When the operation acceptor accepts a selection operation, the controller displays the guidance for clearing the paper jam status.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Michiaki Nishimura
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Patent number: 12289471Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomonori Hashimoto, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
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Patent number: 12289468Abstract: The amount of memory required for CCLM prediction is reduced. The CCLM prediction parameter derivation unit (310442) derives a scale shift value corresponding to a luma difference value, and derives a CCLM prediction parameter, by shifting, by using the scale shift value, a value obtained by multiplying a value of a table referred to with a value obtained by performing right shift of the luma difference value by the scale shift value as an index and a chroma difference value. In addition, in a case of deriving a prediction image, a bit width is reduced by adaptively deriving a shift amount of a linear prediction parameter from the chroma difference value.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
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Patent number: 12289446Abstract: A device may be configured to perform filtering based on information included in a neural network post-filter characteristics message. In one example, the neural network post-filter characteristics message includes a syntax element specifying the bit depth of luma sample values output by the post-processing filter and a syntax element specifying the bit depth of chroma sample values output by the post-processing filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Publication number: 20250127879Abstract: Described herein are chimeric Newcastle disease viruses comprising a packaged genome comprising a transgene encoding interleukin-12. The chimeric Newcastle disease viruses and compositions thereof are useful in combination with an antagonist of programmed cell death protein 1 (“PD-1”) or a ligand thereof in the treatment of cancer. In particular, described herein are methods for treating cancer comprising administering the chimeric Newcastle disease viruses in combination with an antagonist of PD-1 or a ligand thereof, wherein the chimeric Newcastle disease virus comprises a packaged genome comprising a transgene encoding interleukin-12.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicants: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI, MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER, MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLCInventors: Peter PALESE, Adolfo GARCIA-SASTRE, Dmitriy ZAMARIN, Svetlana SADEKOVA, Rachel Allison ALTURA, Uyen PHAN, Brian B. HAINES, Jedd D. WOLCHOK
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Patent number: 12284321Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. The operation screen is displayed on the display. On the operation screen, an operation guidance portion, including a message for providing operation guidance to the user, and a plurality of operation keys for accepting user operations are displayed. A part of the operation guidance portion is colored in a first color, the operation keys which are the first type of operation key are colored in the first color, and the operation keys which are the second type of operation key are not colored in the first color.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Patent number: 12282231Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes an active matrix substrate including a gate layer including gate lines, a source layer including source lines, and an alignment film covering the gate layer and the source layer, a color filter substrate, placed opposite the active matrix substrate, that includes a black matrix including, in planar view, first portions separately overlapping each of the source lines and second portions crossing the first portions and separately overlapping each of the gate lines and spacers disposed in cross regions in which the first portions and the second portions cross each other, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the active matrix substrate and the color filter substrate. The active matrix substrate further includes bank portions provided in positions surrounding the spacers within regions overlapping the cross regions in planar view.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Hiroto Akiyama, Hiroyuki Ohgami
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Patent number: 12284688Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) for Message A (MsgA) transmission in a two-step Random Access (RA) procedure is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) configuration including sets of PRACH preambles, each set of PRACH preambles being associated with a feature or feature combination; receiving, from the BS, a first MsgA Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) configuration associated with the PRACH configuration; receiving, from the BS, a second MsgAPUSCH configuration associated with a specific set of PRACH preambles; determining a first PRACH preamble associated with a specific feature or feature combination from the sets of PRACH preambles; determining a MsgA PUSCH corresponding to the first PRACH preamble depending on whether the first PRACH preamble is within the specific set of PRACH preambles; and transmitting, to the BS, the first PRACH preamble and the MsgA PUSCH.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hai-Han Wang, Chia-Hung Wei
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Patent number: 12283253Abstract: A voltage monitoring device includes a voltage supply device configured to supply a second voltage generated from a first voltage to the electric component, a voltage supply control section configured to control the voltage supply device, a voltage level detection section configured to detect a voltage level related to the first voltage, and a voltage monitor section configured to monitor the first voltage, compare the voltage level with a first threshold in the voltage non-supply time, compare the voltage level with a second threshold that is lower than the first threshold in the voltage supply time, control the voltage supply device to continue supplying the second voltage when the voltage level is higher than the first threshold or the second threshold, and control the voltage supply device to stop supplying the second voltage when the voltage level is lower than the first threshold or the second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroaki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 12283025Abstract: Provided are a memory and a processor connected to the memory to execute a program stored in the memory. The processor classifies each of pixels included in an image into any one region of a region of achromatic color and a region of chromatic color inside a color space, uses the pixels classified into the region of achromatic color to extract a first predetermined number of representative colors, uses the pixels classified into the region of chromatic color to extract a second predetermined number of representative colors, and replaces each of the pixels included in the image with a pixel of a representative color having a smallest difference in pixel value from the pixels included in the image, among the first predetermined number of representative colors and the second predetermined number of representative colors, to generate a color-reduced image of the image.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruhiko Matsuoka, Masahiko Takashima, Daisaku Imaizumi
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Patent number: 12284394Abstract: A method of decoding video data includes: receiving a picture parameter set; parsing a first syntax element specifying whether a rectangular slice mode is in use for each picture referring to the picture parameter set; conditionally parsing a second syntax element in a case that the rectangular slice mode is in use; conditionally parsing a third syntax element in a case that the rectangular slice mode is in use and that each subpicture consists of a set of one or more rectangular slices; conditionally parsing a fourth syntax element based on a value of the third syntax element being greater than a threshold value; and conditionally parsing one of index delta value syntax elements associated with an index value in a case that the index delta value syntax elements are present and the index value is less than the value of the third syntax element.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande