Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9594454
    Abstract: Provided are (i) a touch panel substrate having improved uniformity in in-plane light transmittance and (ii) an electronic device including that touch panel substrate. First electrodes (11) each include a first protrusion (15), the first protrusions (15) each have an intersection at which two conductor lines cross each other, second electrodes (21) each include a second protrusion (25), the second protrusions (25) each have an intersection at which two conductor lines cross each other, and the plurality of first electrodes (11) and the plurality of second electrodes (21) are placed in such a manner that the plurality of first protrusions (15) and the plurality of second protrusions (25) engage alternately with each other in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Kida
  • Patent number: 9594282
    Abstract: In an active matrix substrate, each of a plurality of auxiliary capacitance electrodes contain a first electrode section and a second electrode section, at least a portion of the first electrode sections and at least a portion of a plurality of source bus lines overlap each other, the second electrode section has two linear sections that branch from the first electrode section and that extend in a second direction, a portion of the region between the two linear sections and at least a portion of the plurality of source bus lines overlap each other, and the first and second electrode sections, which are adjacent and arranged in a first direction, are disposed symmetrically to each other about a reference point that is on a straight line passing through a substantially central portion of respective pixels arranged in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Masahiro Yoshida, Takaharu Yamada
  • Patent number: 9595706
    Abstract: A protected transition metal hexacyanoferrate (TMHCF) battery cathode is presented, made from AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles, where the A cations are either alkali or alkaline-earth cations, and M is a transition metal. In one aspect the cathode pas tion layer may be materials such as oxides, simple salts, carbonaceous materials, or polymers that form a film overlying the AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles. In another aspect, the cathode passivation layer is a material such as oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, fluorine, chlorine, or iodine that interacts with the AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles, to cure defects in the AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O crystal lattice structure. Also presented are TMHCF battery synthesis methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Jong-Jan Lee, David Evans
  • Patent number: 9596011
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that sets an offset value with respect to a received power of a reference signal from each of base station apparatuses, taking into consideration a difference between precoding schemes, in a wireless communication system that supports multiple different precoding schemes. The base station apparatus according to the present invention communicates with at least one of terminal apparatuses using the multiple different precoding schemes. The base station apparatus according to the present invention includes a transmission unit that transmits to the terminal apparatus multiple offset values that are to be added by the terminal apparatus to the received power of the reference signal from the base station apparatus, in which the multiple offset values correspond to the multiple precoding schemes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Onodera, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Patent number: 9593155
    Abstract: Peptide analogs of oxyntomodulin (OXM, glucagon-37), which have been modified to be resistant to cleavage and inactivation by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) and to increase in vivo half-life of the peptide analog while enabling the peptide analog to act as a dual GLP-1/glucagon receptor (GCGR) agonist are described. The peptide analogs are useful for treatment of metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignees: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., MSD ITALIA S.R.L., INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul E. Carrington, George J. Eiermann, Donald J. Marsh, Joseph M. Metzger, Alessandro Pocai, Ranabir Sinha Roy, Elisabetta Bianchi, Paolo Ingallinella, Antonello Pessi, Alessia Santoprete, Elena Capito, Richard Dimarchi, Brian Ward
  • Patent number: 9594194
    Abstract: A light diffusion member includes a substrate having light transmissivity, a plurality of light shielding layers, and light diffusion portions. The light diffusion portions have a light-emitting end surface, a light incident end surface which has a larger area than the area of the light-emitting end surface, and a reflecting face. Light which enters from the light incident end surface is anisotropically diffused in an azimuth direction seen from a normal direction of the substrate, and the height from the light incident end surface to the light-emitting end surface of the light diffusion portion is greater than the thickness of the light shielding layers. A hollow portion of the light diffusion portion is formed in the formation region of the light shielding layers, and air is present in the hollow portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Asaoka, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Emi Yamamoto, Toru Kanno, Shohei Katsuta
  • Patent number: 9595544
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thin film transistor substrate and a display device that prevent peeling. The thin film transistor substrate includes: an insulating substrate; a thin film transistor; a first inorganic insulating layer; an organic insulating layer stacked on the first inorganic insulating layer; and a second inorganic insulating layer stacked on the organic insulating layer. The organic insulating layer includes a side covered with the second inorganic insulating layer. The first inorganic insulating layer may contain silicon oxide. The organic insulating layer may contain photosensitive resin. The second inorganic insulating layer may contain silicon nitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kiasha
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Chikama, Yukinobu Nakata, Tetsuya Yamashita, Jun Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9593096
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chemical compounds useful in the positive modulation of the alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (?7 nAChR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Andrew Harvey, Belinda Huff, Rajinder Singh, Nathan Kuchel
  • Patent number: 9595230
    Abstract: An MEMS shutter-type display device equipped with a power generation function, which achieves reduction of power consumption, is provided in the present invention. The display device equipped with a power generation function according to the present invention includes: a first substrate including a movable first shutter with a first slit, a first electrode, and a second electrode that is installed on the side opposite to the first electrode via the first shutter; a second substrate including a second shutter with a second slit; a drive circuit to actuate the first shutter; the first shutter being positively or negatively charged; and the drive circuit being connected to the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Eguchi
  • Patent number: 9595233
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a display device and a driving method thereof, in which uniformity of a video image displayed after charge sharing does not deteriorate. In a first horizontal period, a positive voltage and a negative voltage according to a video signal are alternately applied to source signal lines, and then, reset voltages of +5V and ?5V are respectively applied to source signal lines. As a result, the voltages of the source signal lines become +5V or ?5V. In this state, when the source signal lines to which +5V and ?5V are applied are short-circuited in the beginning of a second horizontal period, charge sharing is performed between the source signal lines, and the voltages of these source signal lines become 0V. Subsequently, when the voltage according to the video signal is applied, the liquid crystal display device can display a color video image having reduced display unevenness and high uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hajime Washio
  • Patent number: 9596458
    Abstract: A switchable imaging device (1) has a first mode of operation in which the device performs an imaging function and a second mode of operation different from the first mode, for example a non-imaging mode. In the first mode of operation the device comprises at least one first region that performs a lensing action and at least one second region that at least partially absorbs light passing through the or each second region. The switchable imaging device (1) may be disposed in path of light through an image display panel (4). This provides a display that may be operable in either a directional display mode such as an autostereoscopic 3D display mode or a 2-D display mode, by controlling the switchable imaging device to be in its first mode or its second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nathan James Smith, Alexander Zawadzki, Benjamin John Broughton, Alexandra Baum
  • Patent number: 9596373
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured to be capable of being remotely operated by a terminal device via a wireless communication line. The image processing apparatus is equipped with a body control unit, a LAN interface, and a body operation unit. The body operation unit is capable of displaying a plurality of operation keys and capable of receiving a touch operation with respect to each of the plurality of operation keys. The LAN interface is used in order to acquire a positional relationship between the terminal device and the image processing apparatus. The body control unit, when determining that the terminal device is located close to the image processing apparatus, disables a touch operation with respect to a specific operation key among the plurality of operation keys on the body operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Tani
  • Patent number: 9594966
    Abstract: By a disparity computation unit 21, first, with respect to a block in a bottom row of a first image, a corresponding block within a second image which has a same Y-coordinate as a Y-coordinate of the block and in which an object same as or similar to an object appearing in the block appears is searched for, and, next, in the case of searching for, with respect to a block which is upward in order from the searched block of the first image, a corresponding block within the second image in which an object same as or similar to that of the block appears, the corresponding block within the second image which has a same Y-coordinate as a Y-coordinate of the block of the first image and in which an object same as or similar to that of the block of the first image appears in an X-coordinate setting range with an X-coordinate of the corresponding block of the second image corresponding to the searched block which is immediately below the block of the first image as a center is searched for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Okada
  • Patent number: 9595232
    Abstract: Provided are: a liquid crystal display device capable of rapidly discharging an image signal which is held in a pixel formation portion, when a power supply thereof is turned off; and a driving method of the liquid crystal display device. If the liquid crystal display device shifts to an off-sequence mode, then a data signal Vd with a potential Vdoff1 corresponding to a shift amount ?V3 lowered by a coupling effect of a parasitic capacitance formed between a gate terminal and drain terminal of a thin film transistor (12) is applied to a signal line SL. When a scanning signal Vg turns to a high level, the data signal Vd applied to the signal line SL is written into the pixel formation portion (11), and a potential of a pixel signal Vpix becomes the Vdoff1. When the scanning signal Vg falls to a ground potential GND after an elapse of a period t1, the potential of the pixel signal Vpix is lowered by a shift amount ?V3, and accordingly, the potential of the pixel signal Vpix becomes the ground potential GND.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiji Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9596705
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a terminal apparatus is capable of reporting, to a base station apparatus, information indicating a mobility state of the terminal apparatus. In a case where the terminal apparatus reports information (history information) to the base station apparatus as mobility state indicating information, the terminal apparatus notifies the base station apparatus of a radio resource control connection setup complete message containing information indicating the presence of the history information that is notified as the mobility state indicating information. The history information contains an identifier of a cell that the terminal apparatus visited and the duration of stay in the cell. The base station apparatus notifies the terminal apparatus of information as to whether to report the mobility state indicating information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Katsunari Uemura
  • Publication number: 20170071005
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus includes: a higher layer on which NAICS information is configured from the base station apparatus; and a control unit that, in a case where the NAICS information has been configured, determines the number of layers, antenna port numbers, and scrambling identities of a signal addressed to the terminal apparatus and an interfering signal. The terminal apparatus further includes a receiving unit that receives downlink control information, and the control unit determines at least one of the number of layers, antenna port number, and scrambling identity of the interfering signal on the basis of the downlink control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuya KATO, Ryota YAMADA, Hiromichi TOMEBA, Kozue YOKOMAKURA, Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170070737
    Abstract: A coding device and a decoding device are configured to include an estimated prediction mode deciding section (122a) including: a reference block selecting section (1223a) for selecting a reference block for use in estimating an intra-prediction mode for a subject block; an estimating number deciding section (1222a) for deciding an estimating number of estimated values to be estimated for the intra-prediction mode; and an estimated prediction mode deriving section (1221a) for estimating, based on a reference block, the estimating number of estimated values of the prediction mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukinobu YASUGI
  • Publication number: 20170068355
    Abstract: A method of producing a touchscreen 12 includes a pattern forming process, a cutting process, and a three-dimensional forming process. The pattern forming process is for forming a touchscreen pattern 12P including at least electrode portions 17 and line portions on a plate surface of a base that has a sheet shape with flexibility. The cutting process is for cutting a use portion 16U out of the base 16 on which the touchscreen pattern 12 is formed. The three-dimensional shape forming process is for forming the use portion 16U out of the base 16 into a three-dimensional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kosuke NAGATA, Masayuki HATA
  • Publication number: 20170066207
    Abstract: A method for producing an optical film includes: (1) applying a lower layer resin and an upper layer resin; (2) forming a resin layer having the uneven structure on a surface thereof by pressing a mold against the lower layer resin and the upper layer resin from the upper layer resin side in the state where the applied lower layer resin and upper layer resin are stacked; and (3) curing the resin layer, the lower layer resin containing at least one kind of first monomer that contains no fluorine atoms, the upper layer resin containing a fluorine-containing monomer and at least one kind of second monomer that contains no fluorine atoms, at least one of the first monomer and the second monomer containing a compatible monomer that is compatible with the fluorine-containing monomer and being dissolved in the lower layer resin and the upper layer resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekazu HAYASHI, Tokio TAGUCHI, Nobuaki YAMADA, Yasuhiro SHIBAI, Atsushi NIINOH, Kenichiro NAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20170070903
    Abstract: Throughput is improved in a wireless environment in which various types of interference are caused. Included are a reception unit that assumes a first reference signal which corresponds to the base station apparatus and a second reference signal which is based on interference information that is configured by the base station apparatus, a channel state information generation unit that generates first channel state information which is based on at least the first reference signal and second channel state information which is based on at least the second reference signal; and a transmission unit that transmits the first channel state information and the second channel state information to the base station apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryota YAMADA, Takashi YOSHIMOTO, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA