Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9673881
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system that performs non-linear pre-coding, degradation in transmission performance due to a feedback error is improved. The terminal device according to the present invention is a terminal device which receives radio signals that are space-multiplexed and on which non-linear pre-coding is performed, from a base station device including multiple antennas, the terminal device including: a channel state estimator 53 that estimates channel state information on a channel between the terminal device and the base station device; a terminal antenna module 51 that acquires a linear filter that is calculated in the base station device; and a channel equalization module 57 that performs channel equalization processing on the radio signals that are received at a first point in time, based on the channel state information at a second point in time that precedes the first point in time and on the linear filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20170154914
    Abstract: An aim of the present invention is to provide a technology that increases the aperture ratio of an imaging panel. The imaging panel captures scintillation light, which are X-rays that have passed through a specimen and been converted by a scintillator. The imaging panel includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. The imaging panel includes, in each of the pixels, a conversion element that converts scintillation light to electric charge, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line, data line, and conversion element, and a metal wiring line connecting to the conversion element and supplying a bias voltage to the conversion element. The metal wiring line is positioned generally parallel to the data line and is closer to the data line that connects to the thin film transistor than approximately the center in the extension direction of the gate line of the conversion element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhide TOMIYASU, Shigeyasu MORI
  • Publication number: 20170152221
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula (IVA), or a salt thereof, and pharmaceutical formulations (pharmaceutical compositions) comprising those compounds, or a salt thereof: Formula (IVA), wherein “RIa”, “RIb”, “RIc”, “RId”, “RIe”, are defined herein above, which compounds are believed suitable for use in positive modulation of the alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (?7 nAChR) receptors, for example, those found in the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus. Such compounds and pharmaceutical formulations are believed to be useful in treatment or management of neurodegenerative diseases, for example, Alzheimer's disease (AD), schizophrenia, and Parkinson's disease (PD), or movement disorders arising from use of certain medications used in the treatment or management of Parkinson's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: KENNETH LEAVITT, BRENDAN CROWLEY, IAN M. BELL, ANDREW HARVEY, THOMAS AVERY, DHARAM PAUL, JUSTIN RIPPER, BELINDA HUFF, RAJINDER SINGH, LAURENT SCHAEFFER, CHRISTOPHE JOSEPH, CHRISTOPHE MORICE, BRUNO GIETHLEN, PATRICK BAZZINI, AURELIE FROMEYER
  • Publication number: 20170153364
    Abstract: A light diffusion member includes a light transmissive substrate, a plurality of light diffusion sections, a light shielding layer, and a bonding layer. The plurality of light diffusion sections are disposed in first regions on one surface of the substrate. The light shielding layer is disposed in a second region which is other than the first regions on the one surface of the substrate. The bonding layer is disposed so as to overlap with the plurality of light diffusion sections. Each of the light diffusion sections is formed such that one surface side of the substrate forms a light emitting end surface, a surface facing the light emitting end surface forms a light incident end surface, and a cross-sectional area of each of the light diffusion sections is increased from the light emitting end surface toward the light incident end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru KANNO, Tsuyoshi MAEDA, Emi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170154916
    Abstract: An aim of the present invention is to make it possible to achieve stable operation of thin film transistors in an imaging panel of an X-ray imaging system that uses an indirect conversion scheme. An imaging panel includes a substrate, thin film transistor, photoelectric conversion element, and bias wiring line. The thin film transistor is formed on the substrate. The photoelectric conversion element is connected to the thin film transistor and irradiated by scintillation light. The bias wiring line is connected to the photoelectric conversion element and applies a reverse bias voltage to the photoelectric conversion element. The thin film transistor includes a semiconductor active layer and a gate electrode. The gate electrode is formed between the substrate and semiconductor active layer. The bias wiring line includes a portion that overlaps the gate electrode and semiconductor active layer as seen from the radiation direction of the scintillation light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeyasu MORI, Kazuhide TOMIYASU
  • Publication number: 20170154915
    Abstract: The present invention aims at inhibiting the occurrence of thinning or disconnecting of the bias wiring line in an imaging panel and X-ray imaging device, thereby inhibiting signal delays, signal transmission defects, and the like. A second contact hole electrically connecting an electrode of a photodiode to a bias wiring line penetrates a second interlayer insulating film and photosensitive resin layer. In the second contact hole, an area of a region where the photosensitive resin layer opens is smaller than an area of a region where the second interlayer insulating film opens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhide TOMIYASU, Shigeyasu MORI
  • Patent number: 9662397
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel powder daptomycin formulations which have improved chemical stability and faster reconstitution times when in the solid state. Some examples of the compositions comprise daptomycin and sucrose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Sandra O'Connor, Sophie Sun, Gaauri Naik
  • Patent number: 9666769
    Abstract: A substrate-type LED light source (10) includes: at least one blue LED chip (2) which has an emission peak in a range from 400 nm to 480 nm so as to correspond to a blue light region absorption peak of chlorophyll; a red phosphor (7b) which emit, upon receiving excitation light from the at least one blue LED chip (2), light having a peak wavelength in a range from 620 nm to 700 nm so as to correspond to a red light region absorption peak of chlorophyll; and a resin layer (7) in which the red phosphor 7b is dispersed and which covers the at least one blue LED chip (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Osaki, Toyonori Uemura, Toshio Hata, Tomokazu Nada, Tatsuya Morioka, Makoto Matsuda, Shinya Ishizaki, Makoto Agatani, Hitoshi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 9663490
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a novel process for synthesizing 3-(substituted phenoxy)-1-[(5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)methyl])-pyridin-2(1H)-one derivatives. The compounds synthesized by the processes of the invention are HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors useful for inhibiting reverse transcriptase, HIV replication and the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus infection in humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Itoh, Ingyu Jeon, Ian Mangion, Gang Qian, Benjamin D. Sherry, Donald R. Gauthier, Yang Cao
  • Patent number: 9663506
    Abstract: The present invention provides quinoline carboxamide and quinoline carbonitrile compounds of formula (I) wherein ring A, RQ, -L-, R1, n, R2, and R3 are as defined herein. The compounds of the invention are useful as non-competitive mGluR2 antagonists, or mGluR2 negative allosteric modulators (NAMs), and in methods of treating a patient (preferably a human) for diseases or disorders in which the mGluR2-NAM receptor is involved, including potentially Alzheimer's disease, cognitive impairment, schizophrenia and other mood disorders, pain disorders and sleep disorders, by administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the invention, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher James Bungard, Antonella Converso, Pablo De Leon, Barbara Hanney, Timothy John Hartingh, Jesse Josef Manikowski, Peter J. Manley, Robert Meissner, Zhaoyang Meng, James J. Perkins, Michael T. Rudd, Youheng Shu
  • Patent number: 9663522
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds according to Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof. Such compounds can be used in the treatment of RORgammaT-mediated diseases or conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barr, John K. Maclean, Hongjun Zhang, Richard T. Beresis, Neville J. Anthony, Matthew Daniels, Blair T. Lapointe, Nunzio Sciammetta
  • Patent number: 9665253
    Abstract: An information processing device has a touch position detection unit that detects the touch position on a display screen of a touch performed on the display screen of a display device, a pressing force value detection unit that detects the pressing force value of the touch, a display control unit that changes the display magnification of the display device when the pressing force value detection unit detects a pressing force value equal to or greater than a prescribed pressing force value, and a selection unit that establishes selection of an item to be selected, based on the touched position when the touch position detection unit detects that the touch is broken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoko Koide, Hisashi Ide
  • Patent number: 9667976
    Abstract: A prediction set determining section selects a prediction set from a prediction set group including a plurality of prediction sets having different combinations of prediction modes corresponding to different prediction directions. Further, a prediction mode determining section selects a prediction mode from the prediction set thus selected. An entropy encoding section encodes the prediction set thus selected, the prediction mode thus selected, and residual data between an input image and a predicted image formed on the basis of the prediction set and the prediction mode. This allows an image encoding device to carry out predictions from more various angles, thereby improving prediction efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsukuba, Yasuaki Tokumo
  • Patent number: 9666866
    Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a transition metal hexacyanometallate (TMHCM) electrode with a water-soluble binder. The method initially forms an electrode mix slurry comprising TMHCF and a water-soluble binder. The electrode mix slurry is applied to a current collector, and then dehydrated to form an electrode. The electrode mix slurry may additionally comprise a carbon additive such as carbon black, carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes, graphite, or graphene. The electrode is typically formed with TMHCM greater than 50%, by weight, as compared to a combined weight of the TMHCM, carbon additive, and binder. Also provided are a TMHCM electrode made with a water-soluble binder and a battery having a TMHCM cathode that is made with a water-soluble binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Long Wang, Yuhao Lu, Sean Vail
  • Patent number: 9665383
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for remote interaction with an imaging device. According to a first aspect of the present invention, an imaging device may receive, from a remote computing device, an HTTP request for an interface image associated with an interface on the imaging device. A functional replica of the interface, at a time associated with the request, may be sent, to the remote computing device, in an HTTP response. According to a second aspect of the present invention, a computing device may send, to an imaging device, an HTTP request for an interface image, and the computing device may receive, in an HTTP response, an interface image. According to a third aspect of the present invention, a gateway computing device may receive, from a remote computing device, an HTTP request for an interface image associated with an interface on an imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Basil Isaiah Jesudason
  • Patent number: 9663502
    Abstract: The invention provides certain benzoxazine compounds of the Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, Rg, and Cy are as defined herein. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds of the Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods of using the compounds of the Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same for treating diseases or conditions mediated by RORgammaT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: Lycera Corporation, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas D. Aicher, Chad A. VanHuis, John MacLean, Brian M. Andresen, Kenneth J. Barr, Corey Bienstock, Neville J. Anthony, Matthew Daniels, Yuan Liu, Catherine White, Blair T. Lapointe, Nunzio Sciammetta, Vladimir Simov, Wesley B. Trotter, Kun Liu
  • Patent number: 9663513
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pyrimidine compounds which are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of central nervous system disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Scott D. Kuduk, Casey C. McComas, Thomas S. Reger
  • Patent number: 9666402
    Abstract: Each of first to fourth needle-like electrodes is arranged such that a direction of extension thereof is parallel, and generates ions by discharge. Through a space, a gas for conveying the ions generated by the first to fourth needle-like electrodes flows. Needle tips of the first needle-like electrode and the second needle-like electrode protrude from a first wall surface that forms the space, are spaced apart from each other, and are arranged in line in the space. Needle tips of the third needle-like electrode and the fourth needle-like electrode protrude from a second wall surface that forms the space and faces the first wall surface, are spaced apart from each other, and are arranged in line in the space. The first needle-like electrode and the fourth needle-like electrode generate positive ions, and the second needle-like electrode and the third needle-like electrode generate negative ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ezaki, Yoshinori Sekoguchi, Satohiko Yamamoto, Tomoaki Takado, Keitaro Yamada, Satoshi Okano
  • Patent number: 9667971
    Abstract: A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Segall, Kiran Misra
  • Patent number: 9662651
    Abstract: An active matrix electrowetting on dielectric (AM-EWOD) device includes a plurality of array elements configured to manipulate one or more droplets of fluid on an array, each of the array elements including a corresponding array element circuit. Each array element circuit includes a top substrate electrode and a drive electrode between which the one or more droplets may be positioned, with an insulator layer being interposed between the one or more droplets and the drive electrode; and write circuitry configured to write data to the array element. At least some of the array element circuits include measure circuitry configured to detect a pinhole defect in the insulator layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Microfluidic Solutions Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin James Hadwen