Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9578631
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus using aggregated cells to connect to a base station apparatus. The mobile station apparatus determines a cell and a random access channel, where the cell being one of the aggregated cells, the cell determined based on first information in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message, the first information including a transmission setting of a random access channel on an uplink of the cell, the cell used to transmit a request an uplink radio resource which is required to transmit uplink data, and the random access channel for the radio resource request in a case that second information does not including an uplink control channel resource information for the radio resource request, the second information included in the RRC message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsunari Uemura
  • Publication number: 20170045766
    Abstract: The front of a fixing optical sheet (24) is bonded to the back of a liquid crystal display panel (22) having a rectangular plate shape. The front of a rectangular plate-shaped backlight unit (30) is brought into contact with the back of the fixing optical sheet (24). Extension portions (24b) extending from the four sides of the fixing optical sheet (24) are bonded to the four side portions of the back of the backlight unit (30). In this manner, a narrow picture frame of the liquid crystal display unit is achieved, while adopting a simple and easy-to-assemble structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru MAKINO, Kenzoh DAIMON
  • Publication number: 20170045381
    Abstract: An optical encoder includes first, second, and third light receiving elements (A, B, C) that are sequentially disposed and adjacent to each other; and a detection signal generation unit (50) that outputs a detection trigger (Ts) when an output level of the second light receiving element (B) that receives incident light after the first light receiving element (A) is higher than an output level of the first light receiving element A, and outputs a non-detection trigger (Te) when an output level of the third light receiving element (C) that receives incident light after the second light receiving element (B) is higher than the output level of the second light receiving element (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norikazu OKADA, Masaki TSUJI, Toshiyuki TAKADA, Katsunori SATOH, Takashi TAKAOKA
  • Publication number: 20170047159
    Abstract: Opening portions (5a and 6a) through which a base (2c) extends to an outside of one side of a core part which is formed by stacking a first core (5) and a second core (6) are formed in the first core (5) and the second core (6) in a transformer (1), and, in the base (2c), a portion which is closer to one region of an exposed core portion A (first region) and an exposed core portion B (second region) is notched, so that the transformer which secures an insulation property and is capable of realizing further size reduction is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi ITOH, Hironobu SHITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170048831
    Abstract: A mobile station device that receives downlink control information which is used to selectively provide downlink scheduling or a random access order, on a physical downlink control channel from a base station device. The mobile station device also transmits a random access preamble using a random access channel to the base station device based on receiving the downlink control information which provides a random access order, where the downlink control information provides a downlink resource allocation in a case that the downlink control information is used to provide the downlink scheduling and where a preset value is set for a field of the downlink resource allocation in a case that the downlink control information is used to provide the random access order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei YAMADA, Yasuyuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20170044149
    Abstract: The invention is directed to pharmaceutically acceptable salts of suvorexant, which is an antagonist of orexin receptors. The pharmaceutically acceptable salts of suvorexant are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The invention is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising pharmaceutically acceptable salts of suvorexant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Michael MCNEVIN, Sachin LOHANI
  • Publication number: 20170044206
    Abstract: A class of polycyclic compounds of general formula (I), of general formula (I?), or of general formula (I?), wherein Base1, Base2, Y, Ya, Xa, Xa1, Xb, Xb1, Xc, Xc1, Xd, Xd1, R1, R1a, R2, R2a, R3, R4, R4a, R5, R6, R6a, R7, R7a, R8, and R8a are defined herein, that may be useful as inductors of type I interferon production, specifically as STING active agents, are provided. Also provided are processes for the synthesis and use of compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Michael D. Altman, Brian Michael Andresen, Wonsuk Chang, Matthew Lloyd Childers, Jared N. Cumming, Andrew Marc Haidle, Timothy J. Henderson, James P. Jewell, Rui Liang, Jongwon Lim, Hong Liu, Min Lu, Alan B. Northrup, Ryan D. Otte, Tony Siu, Benjamin Wesley Trotter, Quang T. Truong, Shawn P. Walsh, Kake Zhao
  • Publication number: 20170045763
    Abstract: Provided is a configuration of a stereoscopic display device that can suppress light leakage in inter-wire regions and keep crosstalk to a minimum. A stereoscopic display device includes a display panel, switching liquid crystal panel, location sensor that acquires location information of a viewer, and a controller. The switching liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate and second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of segment electrodes arranged with prescribed gaps therebetween along a first direction and each extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a first insulating film rubbed in a first rubbing direction that is at a 45° to 90° angle to the second direction, a common electrode, and a second alignment film covering the common electrode and rubbed in a second rubbing direction that is orthogonal to the first rubbing direction. The controller changes the potential of the plurality of segment electrodes in accordance with the location information of the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiro MURAO, Ryoh KIKUCHI, Takuto YOSHINO, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20170047021
    Abstract: There is provided a field-sequential-system display device that reduces or eliminates a color mixture phenomenon while suppressing a reduction in luminance. In a field-sequential-system liquid crystal display device, when one frame period is divided into three subframe periods, red, green, and blue backlights are lit during light-on periods which are the second half of a first to a third subframe period, and the operation of writing an image to pixel formation portions is performed twice using two scanning periods each being shorter in length than the first half of each subframe period. By this configuration, pixel voltages are securely written to pixel capacitances, and color mixture with a color in a previous subframe period is prevented by a period other than a light-on period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masafumi YASHIKI
  • Publication number: 20170045988
    Abstract: A touch panel includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed on a viewer side of the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes and a common electrode for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of detection electrodes and a plurality of driving electrodes for a touch sensor. The first substrate includes: a first transparent substrate; and the plurality of pixel electrodes, which are formed on the liquid crystal layer side of the first transparent substrate. The second substrate includes: a second transparent substrate; and the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of detection electrodes formed on the liquid crystal layer side of the second transparent substrate. The touch panel does not include a conductive layer on the viewer side of the second transparent substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SUGITA, Kenshi TADA, Hiroyuki OGAWA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Jean MUGIRANEZA, Koichi MIYACHI, Hidefumi YOSHIDA, Mitsuhiro MURATA, Kohhei TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170044192
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I: and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are useful for the inhibition of HIV reverse transcriptase. The compounds may also be useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of infection by HIV and in the prophylaxis, delay in the onset or progression, and treatment of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antiviral agents, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Petr Vachal, Izzat Raheem, Zhiqiang Guo, Timothy John Hartingh
  • Publication number: 20170044183
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I) and pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds, and methods for using said compounds for treating or preventing thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes. The compounds are selective Factor XIa inhibitors or dual inhibitors of Factor XIa and plasma kallikrein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Yeon-Hee Lim, Zhuyan Guo, Amjad Ali, Scott D. Edmondson, Weiguo Liu, Giocanda V. Gallo-Etienne, Heping Wu, Ying-Duo Gao, Andrew W. Stamford, Younong Yu, Nancy J. Kevin, Rajan Anand, Deyou Sha, Santhosh F. Neelamkavil, Zahid Hussain, Puneet Kumar, Remond Moningka, Joseph L. Duffy, Jiayi Xu, Yu Jiang, Anjan Chakrabarti, Hiroki Sone
  • Patent number: 9570469
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate (100) includes: a gate electrode (12) formed on a substrate; an oxide semiconductor layer (16); a source electrode (14); a drain electrode (15A); a drain connecting portion (15B) as an extended portion of the drain electrode (15A); a first transparent conductive layer (22, 24); and a second transparent conductive layer (26), wherein: the drain connecting portion (15B) is arranged close to the drain electrode (15A); and the drain electrode (15A) extends from a connecting portion thereof for connection with the oxide semiconductor layer (16), across an edge of the gate electrode (12), and to the drain connecting portion (15B), where a width of the drain electrode (15A) is smaller than a width of the drain connecting portion (15B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiichi Uchida
  • Patent number: 9571850
    Abstract: A disparity vector generation section generates disparity vectors indicating a part of a disparity between a first layer image and a second layer image different from the first layer image and different part of the disparity based on a code indicating the part of the disparity. A predicted image generation section reads a reference image of a region indicated by the disparity vector generated by the disparity vector generation section from a reference image storage section that stores the reference image and generates a predicted image based on the read reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Tadashi Uchiumi, Yoshiya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9570655
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device that has a high emission efficiency, excellent stability and temperature properties, and that generates light having a high color rendering property sufficient for practical use. This semiconductor light-emitting device (1) comprises a semiconductor light-emitting element (2) that emits blue light, a green phosphor (14) that absorbs the blue light and emits green light, and an orange phosphor (13) that absorbs the blue light and emits orange light, and is characterized in that the orange phosphor is an Eu-activated ?-SiAlON phosphor having an emission spectrum peak wavelength within a range of 595 to 620 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Kohsei Takahashi, Hiroshi Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 9566712
    Abstract: In a self-propelled vacuum cleaner (1), a housing operation management section (51) and an image transmission control section (53) receive a stop instruction for stopping a transmission operation of an image from a user. In a case where the stop instruction is received, the image transmission control section (53) stops the transmission operation of the image and sets a command non-reception mode. Upon receipt of the stop instruction for stopping the transmission operation of the image, the command control section (56) notifies, to a login terminal device which has transmitted a command of the transmission operation of the image, that the command non-reception mode in which reception of the operation command from the login terminal device is refused has been set in the self-propelled vacuum cleaner 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Miki
  • Patent number: 9567231
    Abstract: A system and method are presented for the large scale synthesis of metal cyanometallates (MCMs). First and second precursor solutions are added to a main reactor, where the first precursor includes M1 metal cations. The second precursor solution includes AX?M2(CN)Z?, where M1 and M2 are from a first group of metals and A is from a second group of metals including alkali or alkaline earth metals. In response to stirring the first and second precursors, MCM particles are formed with the formula AXM1NM2M(CN)Z.d[H2O]ZEO.e[H2O]BND, in solution. In response to aging in the secondary reactor, the size of the MCM particles is increases. The aged MCM particles in solution are then transferred to a separation tank, where the aged MCM particles are filtered from the solution and collected. The solution reclaimed from the separation tank back is added back into the main reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Wei Pan, Sean Vail, Jong-Jan Lee
  • Patent number: 9572154
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for dynamically configuring a flexible subframe is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines that a subframe is a flexible subframe. The UE determines whether a downlink is indicated for the flexible subframe. The UE sets the flexible subframe as a downlink subframe if a downlink is indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 9568465
    Abstract: A measurement device for measuring a concentration of a component of a gas mixture includes a chamber that contains the gas mixture, a light source that emits light into the chamber, the emitted light having a wavelength between 230 nm and 320 nm, and a light sensor that detects a portion of the light from the light source that has propagated through the gas mixture. A processor is configured to determine the concentration of the component of the gas mixture based on the portion of the light emitted from the light source that is detected by the light sensor. The light source may include one or more LEDs, each having a central wavelength of light emission between 270 nm and 320 nm and a linewidth of less than 50 nm. The device may be employed to determine acetone concentration in exhaled breath, which may be indicative of diabetes or other health conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Samir Rihani, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Patent number: 9568705
    Abstract: A camera module (40) of the present invention includes: an optical section (1) having an image pickup lens (2) and a lens barrel (3); and a lens driving device (10) including a lens holder (11). The optical section (1) and the lens driving device (10) are provided on an upper side of a sensor cover (23) covering an image pickup element (22) of an image pickup section (20). The lens barrel (3) is positioned at such a location that the lens barrel (3) does not make contact with the sensor cover (23), so that the lens barrel (3) is fixed to the lens holder (11) at the location. Before being fixed to the lens holder (11), the lens barrel (3) is slidable in the optical axis direction with respect to the lens holder (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sekimoto, Kazuya Fujita