Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9684204
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display which prevents the boundary line between a frame region and a display region from being observed in a mirror mode and which thus has improved design quality. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer, and a display device disposed behind the half mirror plate, the display device including a display panel and a frame component that supports a peripheral portion of the display panel, and the mirror display including a reflectance adjuster that makes equal the reflectance in a display region where the half mirror layer and the display panel face each other and the reflectance in a frame region where the half mirror layer and the frame component face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Takayuki Nishiyama, Masahiro Hasegawa, Hidefumi Yoshida, Shigeaki Mizushima
  • Patent number: 9684207
    Abstract: Provided are: a polymer for alignment films, which enables the production of a liquid crystal display device that is suppressed in image burn-in even if the light irradiation time is reduced; and a liquid crystal display device which is suppressed in image burn-in even if the light irradiation time is reduced. A polymer for alignment films, which has a main chain and a side chain that contains a structure represented by chemical formula —O—C(C6H5)(CO—C6H5)—O—; and a liquid crystal display device which comprises a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer that is held between the pair of substrates, and wherein at least one of the substrates has an alignment film, on which a polymer layer for controlling the alignment of liquid crystal molecules is formed, and the alignment film is formed using a polymer for alignment films, which has a main chain and a side chain that contains a structure represented by chemical formula —O—C(C6H5)(CO—C6H5)—O—.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ohnishi, Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 9686394
    Abstract: A mobile device that makes it possible to prevent a person other than a user from being aware of information relating to a predetermined communication while also enabling the user to immediately be aware of the information relating to the predetermined communication. The mobile device includes a status determining section (41) for determining, in a case where a communication is received, whether or not the mobile device is being left unattended; and an output control section (42) for outputting predetermined received communication information in a case where the mobile device is not being left unattended, the output control section (42) skipping output of the predetermined received communication information in a case where the mobile device is being left unattended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Kimura
  • Patent number: 9684112
    Abstract: A backlight device includes an LED, a light guide plate having one edge surface as a light entrance surface, one plate surface as a light exit surface and another plate surface as an opposite plate surface, further includes a chassis having a bottom plate portion that includes a light guide plate support portion supporting the light guide plate from a side of the opposite plate surface and a light guide plate non-support portion not supporting the light guide plate from the side of the opposite plate surface, and further includes a reflection sheet having an extended reflection portion that extends closer to the LED than the light entrance surface of the light guide plate and having a cutout portion that is formed by cutting out at least a part of a portion of the extended reflection portion overlapping with the light guide plate non-support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takaharu Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9685478
    Abstract: An electrode of an electronic component element (1) is bonded to an electrode (5) of a substrate (4) via a bump (2) by: after applying, to the bump (2), only a first pressure which is not less than a yield stress of a bulk material of which the bump (2) is made, reducing or stopping the application of the first pressure; and while applying a given ultrasonic vibration to the bump (2), gradually applying a pressure to the bump (2) until the pressure reaches a second pressure which is not less than the yield stress of the bulk material of which the bump (2) is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Sakota
  • Patent number: 9686756
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus which achieves high efficiency in power use in such a manner that transmission power is adequately distributed in simultaneous transmission to multiple base stations. The wireless communication apparatus provided by the present invention, at the same time, transmits a first data signal to a first base station apparatus by using a first CC and transmits a second data signal to a second base station apparatus by using a second CC. The wireless communication apparatus includes a transmission-power controller that scales transmission power by using different scaling factors for the first data signal and the second data signal, when the sum of transmission power of the first data signal and transmission power of the second data signal is larger than a predetermined value. The transmission power of the first data signal is calculated to obtain predetermined reception power in the first base station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Takahashi, Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9686047
    Abstract: To perform control of PUSCH retransmission efficiently in a wireless communication system where a mobile station apparatus and a base station apparatus communicate with each other using a plurality of downlink component carriers. In a mobile station apparatus which communicates with a base station apparatus using a plurality of downlink component carriers and a plurality of uplink component carriers, in case that the downlink component carrier corresponding to the uplink component carrier is set not to be used for downlink communication, the mobile station apparatus flushes HARQ buffers of the uplink component carrier associated with the downlink component carrier set not to be used for downlink communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Daiichiro Nakashima, Katsunari Uemura
  • Publication number: 20170171198
    Abstract: A communication system includes: a server apparatus; and a terminal apparatus that becomes capable of accessing the server apparatus through authentication based on information for identifying a user, wherein upon receiving an input of first identification information after the authentication, the terminal apparatus sends the first identification information to the server apparatus via a first communication line, the server apparatus receives second identification information sent from an electronic apparatus via a second communication line, the second identification information being unique to the electronic apparatus, upon receiving the first identification information and the second identification information, the server apparatus determines whether the first identification information matches part of the second identification information, and if the first identification information matches the part of the second identification information, the server apparatus registers the electronic apparatus in associa
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhsuke YAMADA, Misuzu KAWAMURA, Masaru TAKEUCHI, Akira FUJIWARA, Toshikazu HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170171560
    Abstract: The invention is: A device for decoding video data, comprising: an electric device circuitry configured to derive whether palette size for a current coding unit is equal to one; and recover the video data by a first value, in a case that the palette size for the current coding unit is not equal to one; and recover the video data by a second value, in a case that the palette size for the current coding unit is equal to one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seung-Hwan KIM, Jie ZHAO, Kiran Mukesh MISRA, Christopher Andrew SEGALL
  • Publication number: 20170171563
    Abstract: A method for constraining a bitstream is described. In one embodiment, when a source indicator obtained from a profile tier level syntax structure is not equal to a pre-determined value, a first indication is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sachin G. DESHPANDE
  • Publication number: 20170169749
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device having a see-through-type display capable of suppressing decrease in visibility when background is visually recognized through a screen. The liquid crystal panel is driven such that chromaticity and a color temperature of source light are approximated to chromaticity and a color temperature of ambient light that have been measured by a color illuminance sensor attached to the display, the source light being transmitted through a region through which the ambient light is originally to be transmitted and having luminance lower than luminance of source light emitted from the light source. With this, in a region through which background of the liquid crystal panel can be seen, transparency seems to be increased and a viewer is able to see the background more easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20170171739
    Abstract: A terminal device transmits a RI for PDSCH transmission, receives first information used for determining a first maximum value of layers, the first maximum value being assumed for determining a bit width for the RI, and receives a transport block on a PDSCH, and decodes a code block of the transport block. Here, rate matching for the code block is performed based on the first information used for determining the first maximum value of the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Tatsushi AIBA, Kimihiko IMAMURA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170170931
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device which includes a transmission unit that transmits HARQ response information to a first serving cell and a second serving cell on a physical uplink shared channel in a subframe n. The physical uplink shared channel is transmitted based on a physical downlink control channel or an enhanced physical downlink control channel which is detected in a state of including a downlink control information format 0/4. Two or more serving cells are configured in the terminal device, in a case where frame constitution types of any two configured serving cells are different from each other, and in a case where a primary cell has Frame constitution type 2, BcDL is applied to the first serving cell of Frame constitution type 2 by using the following expression (1), and is applied to the second serving cell of Frame constitution type 1 by using the following expression (2). [Math. 1] BcDL=min(WDAIUL,Mc)??Expression (1) [Math.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Wataru OUCHI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170171921
    Abstract: A microwave oven includes: a cooker body in the shape of a box having a heating chamber with an opening at the front side thereof; a storage having a door which opens and closes the opening, and an inner box including two side plates, a bottom plate and a back plate connected to the door, the storage being movable to the front side and storing an object to be cooked; and a hot-air generating unit generating hot air. The hot-air generating unit is located at the outer side of a rear wall of a heating chamber, and an air outlet from which hot air is blown out is located on the rear wall at a position higher than the back plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi NASU, Akihiro YOSHIDOME, Masayuki IWAMOTO, Junichi TAKEUCHI, Hiroshi HIRANO
  • Patent number: 9680602
    Abstract: A bit coding device that creates a coded bit sequence by performing error correction coding on an input bit sequence that is input, includes a coding unit that creates a first bit sequence by performing the error correction coding on the input bit sequence, an extraction unit that extracts a second bit sequence from the first bit sequence, and an information compression unit that creates a third bit sequence by performing lossy compression on the second bit sequence, in which coded bits include at least a portion of the third bit sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jungo Goto, Hiroki Takahashi, Osamu Nakamura, Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Shinsuke Ibi, Seiichi Sampei, Shinichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9678467
    Abstract: A developer detector includes a sensor housing portion, an optical sensor, and a cleaning portion. The sensor housing portion can be installed on a wall surface of a hopper storing a developer. The sensor housing portion includes a detection surface, and a step surface protruding a smaller amount from the wall surface than the detection surface to form a step height from the detection surface. The optical sensor is housed in the sensor housing portion and detects the developer through the detection surface. The cleaning portion moves in a moving region including a first region facing the detection surface and a second region facing the step surface and cleans the detection surface on the way of moving. The cleaning portion includes a flexible member and makes the flexible member slide on the detection surface while making the flexible member contact the detection surface under pressure in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi Maehara
  • Patent number: 9680676
    Abstract: A communication device receives a reception signal including at least a first reception signal and a second reception signal, where the first reception signal is a signal to be transmitted using a first set of subcarriers and the second reception signal is a signal to be transmitted using a second set of subcarriers which overlaps with at least one end of the first set of subcarriers in a time frame. The communication device also demodulates information indicating data included in the first reception signal after reducing the second reception signal transmitted by using one or more overlapping subcarriers of the second set of subcarriers from the reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Minoru Kubota, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Namba, Kazunari Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 9679942
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a ceramic substrate; a plurality of LED chips; a printed resistor(s) connected in parallel with the plurality of LED chips; a dam resin made of a resin having a low optical transmittance; a fluorescent-material-containing resin layer; and an anode-side electrode and a cathode-side electrode, (a) which are provided on a primary surface of the ceramic substrate so as to face each other along a first direction on the primary surface and (b) which are disposed below at least one of the dam resin and the fluorescent-material-containing resin layer. With the configuration in which a plurality of LEDs, which are connected in a series-parallel connection, are provided on a substrate, it is possible to provide a light emitting device which can achieve restraining of luminance unevenness and an improvement in luminous efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Ishizaki, Makoto Agatani, Tomokazu Nada, Toshio Hata
  • Patent number: 9679954
    Abstract: The EL substrate includes semiconductor layers of TFTs, a pixel electrode, and an upper part electrode of a Cs section which are provided on a gate insulating film. The semiconductor layers are covered with a protective film which has openings via which the pixel electrode and the upper part electrode are exposed. The semiconductor layers are an oxide semiconductor layer, and the pixel electrode and the upper part electrode are reduction electrodes of the oxide semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Takamaru
  • Patent number: 9680679
    Abstract: First information indicating a length of a cyclic prefix for an inter-terminal apparatus signal transmitted to the other terminal apparatus and second information indicating a length of a cyclic prefix for an uplink signal in the EUTRAN, from a base station apparatus of the EUTRAN are received from a base station apparatus of the EUTRAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kazunari Yokomakura, Hiroki Takahashi, Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura