Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9612562
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a first pullout unit, a second pullout unit, and a first lock mechanism. The first unit is movable along a first axis between a first retracted position where the first unit is fully retracted in the apparatus, and a first exposed position where at least one side surface thereof is fully exposed to the front of the apparatus. The second unit is movable along a second axis, which is perpendicular to the first axis, between a second retracted position where the second unit is fully retracted in the first unit, and a second exposed position where the second unit is exposed to a side of the side surface of the first unit. The first lock mechanism prevents movement of the second unit from the second retracted position to the second exposed position when the first unit is not in the first exposed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiko Seike, Toshiki Takiguchi, Junya Masuda, Hiroyuki Murai
  • Patent number: 9614130
    Abstract: A light emitting device which emits a secondary light with high color purity and has a fast response speed is obtained. A KSF phosphor (15) which absorbs a part of blue light and emits red light and a CASN phosphor (16) are distributed in a resin (14) which seals an LED chip (13) which emits the blue light. The KSF phosphor (15) absorbs the blue light and emits the red light by forbidden transition, and the CASN phosphor (16) absorbs the blue light and emits the red light by allowed transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamashita, Masatsugu Masuda, Toyonori Uemura, Masanobu Okano, Masayuki Ohta
  • Patent number: 9615083
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a display device in which the occurrence of the crosstalk can be suppressed. A display unit includes a display panel (12), a storage unit (54), a confirmation unit (56), and a correction unit (52). The display panel displays a synthetic image. The storage unit stores respective crosstalk levels set with respect to a plurality of areas (13a, 13b, 13c) that the display panel has. The confirmation unit that confirms in which one of the plurality of areas a pixel exists that displays an image that a viewer is supposed to see, among the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image. The correction unit reads the crosstalk level corresponding to the area, among the plurality of areas, in which the confirmation unit confirms the pixel displaying the image that a viewer is supposed to see exist, from the storage unit, and corrects the gray scale level data of the pixel displaying the image that a viewer is supposed to see, by using the crosstalk level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Takuya Sone, Kouji Kumada
  • Patent number: 9614501
    Abstract: A pulse generation circuit is configured with a plurality of transistors of a single conductivity type. The pulse generation circuit includes: an output unit including a current limiting element configured to supply, by a predetermined current, a first voltage from a first power supply line supplied with the first voltage to an output terminal, the output unit being configured to perform a bootstrap operation that outputs the first voltage to the output terminal in response to a received input signal; and an output control unit configured to initiate the bootstrap operation when the output terminal transitions to the first voltage, and after the output terminal transitions to the first voltage, terminate the bootstrap operation and perform control so as to output the first voltage from the current limiting element to the output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Maeda, Yousuke Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9613587
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for enhancing display viewability in high ambient conditions without excessive increase in power consumption. In one aspect, a controller associated with the display device can be configured to obtain an indication of ambient light conditions from an ambient light sensor or from a host device hosting the display device. Upon receiving an image frame, the controller can derive a set of color subfields and determine a bit-depth value for each color subfield based on the obtained indication of current ambient light conditions and mapping data which maps ranges of ambient light to respective bit-depth values on a color subfield by color subfield basis. The controller can then generate a number of subframes for each color subfield based on the respective determined bit-depth value and cause the generated subframes to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: SNAPTRACK, INC., SHARP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Halfman, Edward Buckley, Nakano Taketoshi, Brian Finkel, James Eakin, Jignesh Gandhi, Alan Gerald Lewis, Robert Myers, Fahri Yaras, John Fijol
  • Patent number: 9614169
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming a back contact perovskite solar cell. A substrate is coated with a positive electrode layer. The positive electrode layer is then conformally coated with a first insulator. A plurality of negative electrode segments are selectively deposited overlying the first insulator layer, and a second insulator layer is conformally deposited overlying the negative electrode segments and first insulator layer. The second insulator layer is selectively etched to expose the negative electrode segments, and an n-type semiconductor is selectively deposited overlying each exposed negative electrode segment to form n-type contacts. The first and second insulator layers are then selectively etched to expose positive electrode segments. A p-type semiconductor is selectively deposited over each exposed positive electrode segment to form p-type contacts. Finally, a hybrid organic/inorganic perovskite (e.g., CH3NH3Pbl3-XClX) layer is conformally deposited overlying the p-type and n-type contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexey Koposov, Wei Pan
  • Patent number: 9614001
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of bus lines (1, 2) provided in a pixel region, a plurality of signal terminals (5) provided in a connection terminal region (K), connection lines (3), additional signal terminals (11), test lines (8), and switching elements (4). The switching elements (4) are divided into a plurality of groups, and can control connections between the bus lines and the test lines (8) on a group basis, and connection elements (12) that each include a diode or a switching element and connect the signal terminals (5) to each other are provided in the connection terminal region (K).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kawase, Isao Ogasawara, Kazuhide Ikuta
  • Patent number: 9612486
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided that has favorable display characteristics in a display mode using a vertical electric field and a horizontal electric field. This liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged facing each other, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer has liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric anisotropy, and the first substrate has a plate-shaped first common electrode and a pixel electrode formed in a separate layer from the first common electrode with an insulating film therebetween. The pixel electrode has a comb-shaped structure, and the second substrate has a second common electrode with a liquid crystal orientation structure that is linear in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Yosuke Iwata, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yasuhiro Nasu, Koichi Miyachi, Tsuyoshi Kamata
  • Patent number: 9611455
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of increased culture pH, relative to standard insect cell culture conditions, during baculovirus infection of lepidopteran insect cells to enable production of recombinant chikungunya (CHIKV) virus like particles (VLPs). The invention further relates to adapted insect cell lines derived from insect cells such as Sf21, which can grow robustly at elevated culture pH, the use of said cell lines to recombinantly produce pH sensitive proteins in the correct conformation and increase expression of recombinant proteins relative to standard insect cell lines. In some embodiments of the invention, the cells are useful for recombinant production of CHIKV VLPs. The invention also relates to a method for the production of a pH-adapted lepidopteran insect cell line. In some embodiments of said method, the cell line is produced and/or maintained in reduced phosphate serum-free insect cell media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: James M. Wagner, Shyamsundar Subramanian, David Pajerowski
  • Publication number: 20170093389
    Abstract: A driver circuit includes normally-on transistors (Q1, Q2), control circuits (1, 2) that control the transistors (Q1, Q2), a capacitor (4) connected between power source nodes (1c, 1d) of the control circuit (1), a power source (7) connected between power source nodes (2c, 2d) of the control circuit (2), a MOSFET (16) connected between the power source nodes (1d, 2d), a control circuit (3) that turns on the MOSFET (16) when an output voltage VO reaches approximately 0 V, and a startup circuit that includes a Zener diode (20) connected in parallel to the capacitor (4) and that can charge the capacitor (4) with a Zener voltage even when the MOSFET (16) is off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Seiichiro KIHARA
  • Publication number: 20170089914
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind to the antibody pembrolizumab (pembrolizumab). These antibodies are useful, for example, for use as positive controls in assays for detecting the presence of anti-drug antibodies in a sample, e.g., the blood of a patient who has been administered pembrolizumab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: LiNa Loo, Shuangping Shi
  • Publication number: 20170088749
    Abstract: An adhesive member for bonding a liquid crystal panel to a protective panel that has a window frame portion on a bonding surface includes an adhesive layer, and a pair of protective sheets respectively temporarily attached to both surfaces of the adhesive layer. One of the pair of protective sheets has a temporary attachment-side protrusion formed thereon having the same shape and height dimensions as the window frame portion formed on the bonding surface of the protective panel, and the adhesive layer is arranged between the pair of protective sheets so as to conform to the shape and height dimensions of the temporary attachment-side protrusion on the protective sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichiroh TSUCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170090229
    Abstract: The semiconductor device of the present invention is provided with: source wiring lines that are formed on a substrate; light-shielding members that are in the same layer as the source wiring lines; a source insulating film that covers the source wiring lines and the like; holes that penetrate the source insulating film; channel region that are formed of an oxide semiconductor film that is formed on the source insulating film so as to overlap the light-shielding members; source electrode portions that are formed of the oxide semiconductor film, the resistance of which has been decreased, and that are connected to the source wiring lines via the holes; drain electrode portions that are formed of the oxide semiconductor film, the resistance of which has been decreased, and that oppose the source electrode portions with the channel region being interposed therebetween; gate insulating films that are formed on the channel region; and gate electrodes that are formed on the gate insulating films so as to overlap th
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime IMAI, Tohru DAITOH, Hisao OCHI, Tetsuo FUJITA, Hideki KITAGAWA, Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Masahiko SUZUKI, Shingo KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20170090251
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device less likely to cause peeling even with a narrow frame, and capable of achieving both a horizontal alignment mode and a vertical alignment mode without conventional alignment films; and a method for producing the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates disposed to face each other; a liquid crystal layer and a sealing material disposed between the substrates; and an alignment control layer designed to control the alignment of liquid crystal molecules and disposed between each of the substrates and the liquid crystal layer, the substrates being in direct contact with the sealing material, the alignment control layers each being made of a polarized-light-absorbing compound, the polarized-light-absorbing compound containing in a molecule at least one of a phenylene group and a phenyl group and at least one of a carbonyl group and an azo group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanobu MIZUSAKI, Youhei NAKANISHI, Toshihiro MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170094667
    Abstract: A transmission device that generates control information including 3-bit information and transmits a physical downlink shared channel, a reference signal for demodulation of the physical downlink shared channel, and the control information, wherein, in a case that all codewords which are mapped to the physical downlink shared channel are enabled, among a first value to an eighth value indicated by the 3-bit information, the third value to the eighth value indicate that the number of layers is from 3 to 8 respectively, and the first value and the second value indicate that the number of layers is equal to 2, and the first value indicates that the scrambling identity for the reference signal is equal to 0 and the second value indicates that the scrambling identity is equal to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170092673
    Abstract: A light detection device includes: a TFT having a semiconductor layer supported on a substrate, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode; a photodiode having a bottom electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode, a semiconductor laminate structure, and a top electrode; and an electrode made of the same conductive film as the bottom electrode and arranged on the semiconductor layer with an insulating layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadayoshi MIYAMOTO, Kazuhide TOMIYASU, Atsushi TOMYO, Kazuatsu ITO, Shigeyasu MORI
  • Publication number: 20170094687
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system in which a first base station apparatus and a second base station apparatus perform communication with a terminal device, in which the first base station apparatus transmits radio resource configuration information including radio bearer configuration information of the first base station apparatus or the second base station apparatus, to the terminal device, in which the terminal device receives the radio resource configuration information, in which the terminal device executes a re-establishment procedure in a case where a random access failure with respect to the first base station apparatus is detected, and in which, in a case where a random access failure with respect to the second base station apparatus is detected, the terminal device transmits to the first base station apparatus a message indicating that the random access failure with respect to the second base station apparatus is detected and deletes the radio bearer configuration information for the secon
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyuki KATO, Katsunari UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20170090625
    Abstract: A touch panel is realized that is able to decrease the amount of dead space at the periphery of the touch panel and that has highly accurate touch panel sensitivity. In a touch panel, Y direction conductive patterns are arranged so as to be separated from wiring patterns in Y direction conductive pattern regions between electrode units of X direction conductive patterns. As a result, in this conductive sheet, it is possible to appropriately prevent the occurrence of parasitic capacitance resulting from the Y direction conductive patterns and the wiring patterns. Therefore, in a touch panel device or the like that uses such a touch panel, it is possible to effectively prevent the generation of noise that overlaps sense signals as a result of the above-mentioned parasitic capacitance, thereby making it possible to realize highly accurate touch panel sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki MAKINO, Mikihiro NOMA, Tomotoshi TSUJIOKA, Daiji KITAGAWA, Hiroyuki OGAWA, Yasuhiro SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20170087916
    Abstract: A laminated printed matter is provided which is less likely to cause apparently white-tinged images and capable of restraining a decrease in image quality of the printed matter. The laminated printed matter includes a printed matter and an anti-reflection film. The anti-reflection film is attached to a viewing side surface of the printed matter. The laminated printed matter is provided with a frame-like region having a lower light transmittance than an anti-reflection surface of the anti-reflection film on an outer edge. Preferably, the anti-reflection film has, on a viewing side surface thereof, an anti-reflection structure with multiple protrusions disposed at a pitch not greater than the visible light wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi WATANABE, Akiko MIYAZAKI, Kiyoshi MINOURA
  • Publication number: 20170087135
    Abstract: Described herein are polymeric nanoparticles that comprise 8-[4-(1-aminocyclobutyl)phenyl]-9-phenyl-2H-[1,2,4]-triazolo-[3,4-fJ[1,6]-naphthyridin-3-one (Compound A), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of making and using such nanoparticles. The nanoparticle comprises about 50 to about 99.8 weight percent of a diblock poly(lactic) acid-poly(ethylene)glycol copolymer or a diblock poly(lactic acid-co-glycolic acid)-poly(ethylene)glycol copolymer, wherein the total amount of poly(ethylene)glycol in the nanoparticle is about 10 to about 30 weight percent poly(ethylene)glycol and about 0.2 to about 30 weight percent of Compound A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicants: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., BIND THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Young Ho SUNG, Greg TROIANO, Hong WANG, Maria FIGUEIREDO, Michael H. LAM, Caroline MCGREGOR