Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9647181
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device in which with the general color rendering index Ra and the special color rendering index R9 maintained at high numeric values, the light emission efficiency is prevented from being reduced as much as possible, and the high color rendering and the high efficiency are achieved so as to be usable for general lighting usage. The device includes at least one light emitting element 6 emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength in a near-ultraviolet to blue region, and a phosphor layer 5 containing a green phosphor excited by a primary light emitted from the light emitting element 6 and emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength in a green region, a first red phosphor excited by the primary light and emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength in a red region, and a second red phosphor exited by the primary light and emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength different from that of the first red phosphor in the red region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinya Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 9647322
    Abstract: A first resin layer is provided with a step part formed in conformity with a shape of at least part of an electrically conductive pattern, and the first resin layer and a second resin layer closely adhere to each other in the step part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Iriyama
  • Patent number: 9645082
    Abstract: A ballistic carrier spectral sensor includes a photon absorption region to generate photo-generated carriers from incident light; a first potential barrier region adjacent the photon absorption region and having an adjustable height defining a minimum energy of the photo-generated carriers required to pass therethrough; a second potential barrier region having an adjustable height defining a minimum energy of the photo-generated carriers required to pass therethrough; a spillage well region disposed between the first potential barrier region and the second potential barrier region and configured to collect photo-generated carriers having an energy lower than that required to pass through the second potential barrier region; and a collection region adjacent the second potential barrier region and configured to collect carriers that cross the second potential barrier region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Diego Gallardo, James Andrew Robert Dimmock, Matthias Kauer, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet
  • Patent number: 9643982
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Fused Tricyclic Heterocycle Derivatives of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1-R8, A, X and n are as defined herein. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one Fused Tricyclic Heterocycle Derivative, and methods of using the Fused Tricyclic Heterocycle Derivatives for treating or preventing HIV infection in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Paul J. Coleman, Timothy J. Hartingh, Izzat T. Raheem, John Schreier, John Sisko, John Wai, Thomas H. Graham, Lihong Hu, Xuanjia Peng
  • Patent number: 9648311
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device is provided where the luminance variation encountered when the parallax barrier is switched is reduced for viewing from a wide region. The stereoscopic display device includes: a display panel that displays an image; a switch liquid crystal panel disposed to overlie the display panel and including a liquid crystal layer; a position sensor that obtains positional information about a viewer; and a control unit that receives the positional information from the position sensor and locally applies to the liquid crystal layer a first voltage for rendering the switch liquid crystal panel translucent and a second voltage for rendering the switch liquid crystal panel non-translucent to display a parallax barrier that depends on the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuto Yoshino, Takehiro Murao, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9646551
    Abstract: A processor determines a drive scheme from among candidates of a plurality of drive schemes having differing schemes for supplying a signal to a signal line of a display panel. A controller stores a scheme drive information in which a drive scheme information and a signal control information in a drive scheme are associated. A controller receives a scheme information from a processor, and controls a signal supplied to a signal line of a display panel, the control being made based on a scheme information and a scheme drive information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akizumi Fujioka, Atsushi Sakamoto, Kazuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9644801
    Abstract: A light-emitting section (2) and a transparent member (1) which is arranged on a side of a surface (SUF2) of the light-emitting section (2) and exhibits transparency with respect to laser light (L) are provided, and the transparent member (1) includes a plurality of scattering microregions (MP) which isotropically scatter the laser light (L) passing therethrough and increase a light-emission spot size of the laser light (L).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kishimoto, Rina Sato, Hidenori Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 9648626
    Abstract: In a communication system in which a mobile station apparatus is connected to a base station apparatus simultaneously using a plurality of frequency bands, an event is efficiently determined concerning measurement of reception qualities of the frequency bands. The mobile station apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives from the base station apparatus an event condition for measuring a reception quality of at least one carrier component defined in the frequency bands different from each other and a parameter used for determining whether or not the event condition is satisfied; a measurement processing unit that measures the reception quality of the at least one carrier component; a cell determination unit that determines whether to adjust the received parameter; and an event determination unit that sets the event condition based on the received parameter or the adjusted parameter and that determines whether or not the set event condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsunari Uemura, Shohei Yamada, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9643345
    Abstract: A lens molding apparatus (100) of the present invention includes: a mold (1) having a transfer surface (1a) for transferring a predetermined lens shape to a resin material; a mold (2) having a transfer surface (2a) for transferring a predetermined lens shape to the resin material; a support device (3) for moving the mold (1); a heating device (4) curing the resin material so as to form a lens, the resin material having been supplied between the transfer surface (1a) and the transfer surface (2a); and an ultrasonic vibrator (5) applying vibration from a side surface of the mold (1 or 2) so as to form a gap at least at a part between the transfer surface (1a or 2a) and the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakahashi, Hiroyuki Hanato
  • Patent number: 9645666
    Abstract: A display device equipped with a touch panel includes a touch panel unit, a touch panel control unit, a pen incline information acquiring unit, a coordinate correction unit, and a display panel unit. The touch panel control unit detects a touch upon a touch panel surface, and acquires touch point coordinate information which is information for specifying a location which is touched on the touch panel surface. The pen incline information acquiring unit acquires pen or input member incline information, which is information relating to an angle which is formed by the touch pen and the touch panel surface when the touch pen and the touch panel face are in contact. The coordinate correction unit corrects, on the basis of the pen incline information, the touch point coordinate information when the line is drawn with the touch pen or input member upon the touch panel screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Nishida
  • Patent number: 9643955
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2-pyridyloxy-3-nitrile-4-substituted compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. The present invention is also directed to uses of the 2-pyridyloxy-3-nitrile-4-substituted compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these pharmaceutical compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Scott D. Kuduk, Jason W. Skudlarek
  • Publication number: 20170123253
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor-equipped display device (1) that includes: a first substrate (20a); a second substrate (20b) opposed to the first substrate (20a); a liquid crystal layer (LC); a plurality of first lines (15) extending in a first direction in a pixel area (AA); second lines extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction; pixel switching elements that are provided for pixels, respectively, and are connected to the first lines and the second lines; a plurality of sensor electrodes (SE, DL) provided at positions that overlap the pixel area on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, for detecting the contact or approach of the object; and a plurality of sensor lead-out lines that are provided in parallel to the first lines or the second lines in the pixel area on the first substrate, and are connected to the sensor electrodes, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SUGITA, Kohhei TANAKA, Takeshi NOMA, Takayuki NISHIYAMA, Ryo YONEBAYASHI, Kenshi TADA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Jean MUGIRANEZA
  • Publication number: 20170125600
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a lower wiring layer formed on a substrate; a lower insulating layer formed on the lower wiring layer; an upper wiring layer formed on the lower insulating layer, the upper wiring layer intersecting with the lower wiring layer across the lower insulating layer to form a wiring cross portion; and an island-shaped upper insulating layer formed on the lower insulating layer so as to be in contact with the upper wiring layer, wherein the upper wiring layer includes a first portion formed on the upper face of the lower insulating layer and a second portion disposed on the wiring cross portion and formed on a side wall of the upper insulating layer, and wherein the upper wiring layer is not formed on the upper face of the upper insulating layer at the wiring cross portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuhichi SAITOH
  • Publication number: 20170127058
    Abstract: The invention is: A method for decoding a bitstream comprising: (a) decoding at least one pictures from the bit-stream; and (b) partitioning each of the at least one pictures into a plurality of slices, wherein each of the plurality of slices includes at least one coding units, wherein (c) palette table predictor size of a coding unit of the at least one coding units is set equal to 0 at start of a slice of the plurality of slices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiran Mukesh MISRA, Seung-Hwan KIM, Jie ZHAO, Christopher Andrew SEGALL, Tomohiro IKAI
  • Publication number: 20170127148
    Abstract: An advertisement delivery device includes a first obtaining unit that obtains viewing-related information indicating a content viewing state on a content display device, a permission/denial information obtaining unit that obtains permission/denial information associating an advertisement delivery condition with information regarding content, and a delivery control unit that cancels, on the basis of the permission/denial information and the viewing-related information, delivery of a delivery candidate advertisement if the content is being viewed on the content display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki KONDO, Hajime YAMADA, Masaya WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20170123568
    Abstract: Sensitivity of a stylus pen to a touch panel is stabilized. The stylus pen (3) includes a pen tip (31) which is provided to be movable in an axial direction in accordance with a writing pressure and a writing pressure sensor (31d) which generates a signal corresponding to the amount of movement of the pen tip (31). A threshold updating circuit (40) is provided to update a threshold for determining, by the writing pressure sensor (31d), presence or absence of the writing pressure on the basis of a distance between the stylus pen (3) and the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michiaki TAKEDA, Takahiro KATAYAMA, Mamoru TAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20170119912
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pyrrolopyridine compounds of formula (I) or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, which may be suitable for imaging tau aggregates, b-sheet aggregates, beta-amyloid aggregates or alpha-synuclein aggregates, and hence are useful in binding and imaging tau aggregates in Alzheimer's patients. More specifically, this invention relates to a method of using the compounds of this invention as tracers in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to study tau deposits in brain in vivo to allow diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases characterized by tau pathology. The invention further relates to a method of measuring clinical efficacy of therapeutic agents for Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases characterized by tau pathology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Abbas W. Walji, Eric Hostetler, Thomas J. Greshock, Jing Li, Keith P. Moore, Idriss Bennacef, James Mulhearn, Harold Selnick, Yaode Wang, Kun Yang, Jianmin Fu
  • Publication number: 20170125452
    Abstract: A semiconductor device (100) includes a substrate (11), a first TFT (10), and a second TFT (20). The first TFT includes a first semiconductor layer (12) that is supported by the substrate, a first gate electrode (14) that is formed on the first semiconductor layer and overlaps with the first semiconductor layer with a first gate insulating layer (13) interposed therebetween, a first insulating layer (16) that covers the first gate electrode, and a first source electrode (17s) and a first drain electrode (17d) that are formed on the first insulating layer and are connected to the first semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke IDE, Takao SAITOH, Yohsuke KANZAKI, Yutaka TAKAMARU, Seiji KANEKO, Hiroshi MATSUKIZONO, Tadayoshi MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170127166
    Abstract: A backlight device (illumination device) includes LEDs (light sources), sheet-shaped optical members that apply optical effects to light from the LEDs, and vibrating elements that are attached to the optical members and make the optical members vibrate. The vibrating elements can be attached to a non-effective region of the optical members, for example. Here, when an effective region is defined to be a region of the optical members that applies optical effects to the light from the LEDs and then emits that light effectively, the non-effective region can be a frame-shaped region that surrounds the effective region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mikihiro NOMA
  • Publication number: 20170121394
    Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies which have high anti-RSV neutralizing titers. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. The invention yet further provides for diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention, particularly as a passive immunotherapy agent in infants and the elderly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Kalpit A. Vora, Kara S. Cox, Aimin Tang, Zhifeng Chen, Daniel DiStefano, Lan Zhang, Hua-Poo Su