Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 12284861Abstract: An electroluminescent element including an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode, in which the electroluminescent element further includes an electron transport layer [[(33) including n-type semiconductor particles and a first insulating polymer, and a hole transport layer including p-type semiconductor particles, the electron transport layer is provided between the cathode and the light-emitting layer, the hole transport layer is provided between the anode and the light-emitting layer, and a volume proportion of the n-type semiconductor particles in the electron transport layer is smaller than a volume proportion of the p-type semiconductor particles in the hole transport layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noboru Iwata, Hisayuki Utsumi, Yoshihiro Ueta
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Patent number: 12284610Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method executed by a user equipment (UE) comprising: receiving a UE grouping-based wake-up signal (WUS) configuration from a base station; determining, by the UE supporting a UE grouping-based WUS function, a plurality of WUSs associated with a UE group to which the UE belongs according to the received WUS configuration; monitoring the plurality of WUSs; and skipping monitoring other WUSs of the plurality of WUSs when the UE successfully detects, for a paging occasion (PO), one of the plurality of WUSs.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ningjuan Chang, Renmao Liu
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Patent number: 12284617Abstract: A method for small data transmission (SDT) and a user equipment (UE) are provided. In the method, a SDT procedure is initiated. A synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) is selected during the SDT procedure. Transmission is performed based on a selected SSB during the SDT procedure. A timer is started or restarted in response to performing the transmission. A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is monitored, while the timer is running, by assuming the PDCCH has the same demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) antenna port quasi co-location properties as for the selected SSB associated with transmission.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Heng-Li Chin, Mei-Ju Shih, Yung-Lan Tseng
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Patent number: 12282621Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressure detection electrode, and a controller configured to impart a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire a signal value from each of the position detection electrode and the pressure detection electrode. The controller is configured to detect a touch range by a pointer based on the signal value obtained from the position detection electrode, determine a pressure detection range corresponding to the touch range, of the signal value obtained from the pressure detection electrode, and calculate a magnitude of a pressure by the pointer based on the signal value in the pressure detection range.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Takenori Maruyama, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Patent number: 12284393Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling temporal sub-layer information for coded video. According to an aspect of an invention, a range of a value of a third syntax element in a sequence parameter set is determined based on whether the sequence parameter set refers to a video parameter set, wherein the third syntax element specifies a maximum number of temporal sub-layers that is present in each coded video sequence referring to the sequence parameter set.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Patent number: 12283766Abstract: In a housing of a connector, there is formed an opening to be fitted with a protruding portion formed on a flat cable in a state in which a terminal section of the flat cable is electrically connected with contactors of a contact portion in an opening space.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Naoki Hosoya, Chengfu Chen, Akira Ieyama
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Patent number: 12283221Abstract: A display control device includes a visual field determination unit configured to determine whether or not a display device for displaying content is included in a visual field of a person included in an image captured by an imaging device that images a region around the display device, a central visual field determination unit configured to determine whether or not the display device is included in a central visual field within the visual field, and a change determination unit configured to determine whether or not to temporarily change a display mode of the display device displaying first content before the content is switched from the first content displayed on the display device to second content to be subsequently displayed when it is determined that the display device is included in the visual field but is not included in the central visual field.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Eisaku Ishii
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Patent number: 12284860Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: an anode; a cathode; a light-emitting layer between the anode and the cathode; and a hole transport layer between the anode and the light-emitting layer, the hole transport layer including: a p-type semiconductor layer of a p-type semiconductor material provided in a form of a layer; and a n-type semiconductor material dispersed in the p-type semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi Handa
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Patent number: 12281109Abstract: The present invention relates to Compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrug thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, A and B are as defined herein. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one compound of Formula I, and methods of using the compounds of Formula I for treating or preventing cancer, inflammation, neurodegeneration disease and/or diabetes in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Jian Liu, Younong Yu, Joseph A. Kozlowski, Deyou Sha, Wensheng Yu, Joseph M. Kelly, Scott E. Wolkenberg
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Patent number: 12280107Abstract: The present invention provides pneumococcal conjugate vaccine formulations comprising surfactant systems incorporating polysorbate 20 or a combination of a poloxamer and a polyol.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: William J. Smith, Cecilia Giovarelli, Denise K. Nawrocki
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Patent number: 12277914Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display region including a first and second region adjacent in a first direction, a substrate with a width of the second region in the first direction being greater than a width of the first region, a plurality of first and second gate bus lines extending in a second direction and arranged in the first and second regions, and a first and second gate driver connected to the plurality of first and second gate bus lines, respectively. A first scanning period in which the first gate driver scans the first gate bus lines overlaps a part of a second scanning period in which the second gate driver scans the second gate bus lines.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventor: Masakatsu Tominaga
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Patent number: 12276880Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed more to a viewer side than the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, with a plurality of pixels being arrayed in a matrix shape. Each pixel includes a reflective region for display in a reflection mode. The first substrate includes a thin film transistor provided corresponding to each pixel, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor, and a reflective layer located at least in the reflective region. The first substrate further includes a common electrode adjacent to the pixel electrode with a dielectric layer interposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. At least one from among the pixel electrode and the common electrode includes at least one slit.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Shinichi Terashita, Kouichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 12279513Abstract: A foldable display, includes a display layer with flexibility including a first display region, a second display region, and a third display region located between the first display region and the second display region; a cover with flexibility configured to cover the display layer; a first support substrate with inflexibility configured to support the first display region; a second support substrate with inflexibility configured to support the second display region; a bending part capable of bending including the third display region; and a shock absorbing layer provided between the display layer and the first support substrate and between the display layer and the second support substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu Yamane, Mayuko Sakamoto, Tokio Taguchi
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Patent number: 12279173Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from the base station apparatus, an RRC reconfiguration message including a first configuration related to a radio bearer to which a Dual Active Protocol Stack (DAPS) is applied, and a processing unit configured to perform configuration in accordance with the RRC reconfiguration message. In a case that a first timer expires, that no radio link failure is detected in a source primary cell, and that the first configuration is performed on any radio bearer, the processing units releases a configuration for a target primary cell, resets MAC for the target primary cell, discards all data of a PDCP entity for a SRB of the source primary cell, discards all data of an RLC entity for the SRB of the source primary cell, resumes the SRB suspended in the source primary cell, and transmits, to the base station apparatus, an RRC message for notifying that a DAPS handover is unsuccessful.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi
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Patent number: 12276893Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer, an interlayer insulating layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged above the interlayer insulating layer, a common electrode arranged between the pixel electrode and the interlayer insulating layer and also configured to function as a touch sensor electrode, a first dielectric layer arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode, a second dielectric layer arranged between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, a plurality of touch wiring lines arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode and formed of a third conductive film, and a plurality of pixel contact portions, in which each of the plurality of pixel contact portions includes a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, a connection electrode formed of the third conductive film and electrically connected to the drain electrode in a lower opening formed in the interlayer iType: GrantFiled: January 19, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihito Hara, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Teruyuki Ueda, Masaki Maeda, Tatsuya Kawasaki, Yoshiharu Hirata
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Patent number: 12279471Abstract: Provided are a support substrate, a thin-film transistor layer, a light emitter layer having a plurality of light emitters that emit mutually different colors of light, and a sealing layer sealing the light emitter layer. Each light emitter includes a first electrode, a hole transportation layer, an emissive layer, an electron transportation layer, and a second electrode. The electron transportation layer contains an oxide nanoparticle, a binder resin, and a photo-initiator.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisayuki Utsumi, Masayuki Kanehiro, Youhei Nakanishi
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Patent number: 12279489Abstract: A display device includes a display region and a frame region surrounding the display region. The display device includes a TFT layer, a light-emitting element layer formed with a plurality of light-emitting elements each including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode, and having a luminescent color different from each other, and a sealing layer including an organic film and configured to seal the light-emitting element layer. The second electrode is an electrode common to the plurality of light-emitting elements, and includes metal nanowires which are mesh-shaped.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Kanehiro, Youhei Nakanishi, Hiroki Imabayashi
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Patent number: 12277899Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the pixels including a first subpixel and a second subpixel each including a light-emitting layer emitting light of a first color, a third subpixel including a light-emitting layer emitting light of a second color, and a fourth subpixel including a light-emitting layer emitting light of a third color; a first power supply configured to supply a current to the first subpixel and the third subpixel; a second power supply configured to supply a current to the second subpixel and the fourth subpixel; and a signal processing circuit configured to receive an input signal for each pixel and generate a first signal corresponding to the first subpixel and a second signal corresponding to the second subpixel.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masafumi Ueno
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Patent number: 12276797Abstract: Provided is a display device having a thin profile and a high light use efficiency and a head-mounted display including the display device. The display device includes a display panel; a circular polarizer configured to convert display light from the display panel into circularly polarized light and to transmit the circularly polarized light; a patterning mirror including light transmitters and a light reflector, the light transmitters being configured to transmit the circularly polarized light and the light reflector being provided on a surface opposite to a surface facing the circular polarizer; a lens configured to transmit the circularly polarized light transmitted through the patterning mirror; and a circularly polarized light selective reflector configured to selectively reflect the circularly polarized light transmitted through the lens.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventor: Naru Usukura
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Patent number: 12279493Abstract: An organic EL display device includes the following: scanning line; data lines intersecting with the scanning lines; initialization lines; sub-pixel circuits provided to correspond to points of intersection between the scanning lines and data lines; and organic EL elements OLED provided to correspond to the sub-pixel circuits. The scanning signal lines, the data signal lines, the initialization power-source lines, the sub-pixel circuits and the light emitters are arranged in matrix in a display region. Each of the sub-pixel circuits includes the following: a drive transistor; a write transistor connecting a corresponding one of the data lines and the drive transistor together; a capacitor connected to the drive transistor and retaining a data signal; and a diode-connection transistor and an initialization transistor both connected between the drive transistor and a corresponding one of the initialization lines.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takayuki Nishiyama