Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Optical transmission device, light guide plug, optical fiber plug, light reception device, and portable apparatus
    Patent number: 9587985
    Abstract: A jack (10) of the invention includes a holding body (9) having an insertion hole (15) into which an optical plug is able to be inserted, a window material (6) through which infrared radiation passing through the insertion hole (15) is transmitted, and a light reception unit (2) which detects infrared radiation of 6 ?m or more and 15 ?m or less transmitted through the window material (6). The window material (6) is provided in the holding body (9) so as to prevent water from intruding into the light reception unit (2), and arranged at a bottom of the insertion hole (15). Thereby, it is possible to give a waterproof property to an element which receives infrared radiation without limitation to design or aesthetic appearance of an electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehisa Ishihara, Nobutaka Nishigaki
  • Super resolution image enhancement technique
    Patent number: 9589323
    Abstract: A method for image enhancement may include selecting a plurality of patches of an image and determining at least one dimensionally reduced feature for each of the plurality of patches. The system may further determine a generally closest cluster from a set of clusters for each of the dimensionally reduced features and select a corresponding set of regression coefficients for each of the set of generally closest cluster. The system may also apply the selected set of regression coefficients to a corresponding patch to enhance the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Anustup Kumar Choudhury, Xu Chen, Petrus J. L. van Beek
  • Triazolyl derivatives as Syk inhibitors
    Patent number: 9586931
    Abstract: Provided are triazole derivatives of Formula I which are potent inhibitors of spleen tyrosine kinase and pharmaceutical composition. The triazole derivatives are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases mediated by said enzyme, such as asthma, COPD, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Merck Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle R. Machacek, Eric T. Romeo, Solomon D. Kattar, Matthew Christopher, Michael D. Altman, Alan B. Northrup, John Michael Ellis, Brendan O'Boyle, Anthony Donofrio, Jonathan Grimm, Michael H. Reutershan, Kaleen Konrad Childers, Ryan D. Otte, Brandon Cash, Yves Ducharme, Andrew M. Haidle, Kerrie Spencer, Dilrukshi Vitharana, Lingyun Wu, Li Zhang, Peng Zhang, Christian Beaulieu, Daniel Guay
  • Immobilized transaminases and process for making and using immobilized transaminase
    Patent number: 9587229
    Abstract: The invention is directed to immobilized transaminases and methods of making and using them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Matthew D. Truppo, Jacob M. Janey, Gregory Hughes
  • 2-pyridyloxy-3-ester-4-nitrile orexin receptor antagonists
    Patent number: 9586950
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2-pyridyloxy-3-ester-4-nitrile compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. The present invention is also directed to uses of the 2-pyridyloxy-3-ester-4-nitrile compounds described herein in the 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: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Scott D. Kuduk, Jason W. Skudlarek
  • MIXED MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND ORGANIC ELEMENT USING SAME
    Publication number: 20170058133
    Abstract: A mixed material for vapor deposition of lithium contains lithium oxide M1 in an amount of 90% or more, sodium chloride (at least one material selected from oxides, sulfides, chlorides, and fluorides of alkali metals) M2 having a melting point lower than the melting point of lithium oxide M1, and magnesium oxide (at least one material selected from oxides and sulfides of alkaline-earth metals) M3 having a melting point higher than the melting point of lithium oxide M1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu NIBOSHI, Yuto TSUKAMOTO, Yoshiyuki ISOMURA, Satoshi INOUE, Hideki UCHIDA, Shinichi KAWATO, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI
  • SERVER, PROPOSAL METHOD, PROPOSAL SYSTEM, AND NOTIFICATION APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170061384
    Abstract: The present invention is a server including: a calendar information obtaining section for obtaining calendar information; a suggestion content determining section for determining suggestion content for each notification device by referring to the calendar information; and a suggestion content providing section for providing, to an electrical device for notifying the suggestion content, suggestion content information indicative of the suggestion content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motoki SONE
  • METHOD FOR TREATING CANCER
    Publication number: 20170056406
    Abstract: A method for the treatment of cancer by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor with a therapeutically effective amount of a B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia/lymphoma 2 inhibitor (“B Cell CLL/Lymphoma 2”, or “BCL-2”). Administration of the CDK inhibitor and BCL-2 inhibitor can be simultaneous, successive or separate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Peter Strack, Robert Booher
  • PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170064064
    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: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu KIMURA
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20170061912
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, each pixel includes first and second subpixels. CS bus lines connected to the respective storage capacitors of the first and second subpixels are electrically independent of each other. A CS voltage has a waveform that inverts its polarity at least once a frame, which includes a first subframe for sequentially scanning a series of odd rows and a second SF for sequentially scanning even rows that have been skipped during the first SF. A source signal voltage varies so as to have two frames or subframes with mutually opposite polarities. A CS voltage has a waveform that has quite opposite consequences on the effective voltage of a subpixel of a pixel connected to the jth scan line to be selected during the first subframe and on that of another subpixel of a pixel connected to the (j+1)th scan line to be selected during the second subframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masae KITAYAMA, Fumikazu SHIMOSHIKIRYOH, Kentaroh IRIE, Toshihide TSUBATA, Naoshi YAMADA, Hidetoshi NAKAGAWA
  • TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
    Publication number: 20170064734
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus generates a transmission resource request message that includes identifier information for identifying a service or an application to which transmission data belongs, or frequency information indicating a frequency that is used for the service or the application to which the transmission data belongs, and notifies the base station apparatus of the generated transmission resource request message, in a case where the transmission data for the service or the application for any device-to-device data communication is prepared in a transmission buffer of the terminal apparatus itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekazu TSUBOI, Katsunari UEMURA
  • TERMINAL DEVICE AND BASE STATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170064571
    Abstract: A terminal device communicating with a base station device includes a reception unit which performs first measurement based on a first RS and performs second measurement based on a second RS; and a higher layer processing unit which reports a first measurement result obtained by the first measurement and a second measurement result obtained by the second measurement to the base station device. The first measurement is performed in a first state. The first measurement or the second measurement is performed in a second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Wataru OUCHI, Toshizo NOGAMI, Alvaro RUIZ DELGADO, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • MIRROR DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20170059935
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that can suppress warp of a half mirror plate with a reflective polarizer under heat to prevent distortion of a reflected image in a mirror mode. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate that includes a first reflective polarizer and a first base material, a display device, and a warp-suppressing member that suppresses shrinking of the first reflective polarizer under heat. The first reflective polarizer and the first base material are integrated, and the display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HAKOI, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Akira SAKAI, Kiyoshi MINOURA
  • TERMINAL DEVICE AND BASE STATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170064576
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a reception unit which performs first measurement when a predetermined cell is in a first state and second measurement when the predetermined cell is in a second state, and a higher layer processing unit which reports the first measurement or the second measurement to a base station device. Based on information indicating the first state/the second state of the predetermined cell, the first measurement and the second measurement are switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Wataru OUCHI, Toshizo NOGAMI, Alvaro RUIZ DELGADO, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170062375
    Abstract: A GaN-based power device (1) includes a bonding pad portion (2) to which an aluminum wire (3) is bonded by ultrasonic bonding, and a second electrode (42) which is formed under the bonding pad (2). Ultrasonic vibration is applied such that an angle ? between a direction in which the ultrasonic vibration is applied to a wire and a length direction of the second electrode (42) is 0°???45°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Etsuko ISHIZUKA, Tomotoshi SATOH, Hiroyuki NAKANISHI
  • PAGING MESSAGE RECEIVING/TRANSMITTING METHOD AND RELATED USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170064670
    Abstract: There is provided a paging message receiving method at a user equipment, comprising reporting status information of the user equipment to a base station, the status information including information on coverage enhancement of the user equipment and information on a cell on which the user equipment camps, the information on coverage enhancement including information indicating a level of coverage enhancement that the user equipment needs; receiving from the base station a paging repetition level configuration message which indicates a paging repetition level of the user equipment; and receiving from the base station a paging message that is transmitted according to the paging repetition level of the user equipment and/or the information on the cell on which the user equipment camps. There are also provided related methods at the base station and a network side device and related devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Xingya SHEN, Renmao LIU, Qi JIANG
  • Lighting device, display device and television device
    Patent number: 9581757
    Abstract: A backlight device (a lighting device) 12 includes LEDs (a light source) 17, a light guide plate 16, a chassis 14, LED boards 18, and heat dissipation members 19. The light guide plate 16 includes an end surface that is opposite the LEDs 17 and configured as a light entrance surface 16b through which light from the LEDs 17 enters. One of the plate surfaces of the light guide plate 16 is configured as a light exit surface 16a through which the light exits. The chassis 14 supports another plate surface 16c of the light guide plate 16 opposite from the light exit surface 16a. Each LED board 18 includes a bottom plate 18b that extends parallel to at least the other plate surface 16c of the light guide plate 16. Each heat dissipation member 19 extends parallel to a plate surface 18b1 of the bottom plate 18b and is in surface contact with the plate surface 18b1 of the bottom plate 18b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kaori Ikuta
  • Information distribution method, computer program, information distribution apparatus and mobile communication device
    Patent number: 9584854
    Abstract: Provided are: an information providing system, an information providing method and a computer program, which are able to detect a position on a screen of a display specified by each of multiple users who view the screen, and to provide each user with information according to the position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Susumu Hayakawa, Toshihiko Ikeda
  • Terminal, base station, communication system, and communication method
    Patent number: 9585040
    Abstract: A terminal that communicates with a base station monitors a physical downlink control channel that is arranged in a physical downlink control channel region and that specifies transmission of broadcast information, obtains higher layer control information that specifies monitoring in an extended physical downlink control channel region, which is different from the physical downlink control channel region, and, in a case where the higher layer control information has been obtained, monitors an extended physical downlink control channel that is arranged in the extended physical downlink control channel region and that specifies the transmission of the broadcast information instead of the physical downlink control channel arranged in the physical downlink control channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Autoinjector pen
    Patent number: D780909
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Greg Burkett, Shu Kuen Chang, Angie Kim, Jin Ko, Scott Mackie, Philip G. Green, Sharad Gupta, Angela M. Amend Kwasnik, Christin L. O'Neill, Robert Stianchi, Witold Swiatek