Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20160372632
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting element includes a substrate and a semiconductor stack portion provided on the substrate and having at least a first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, and a second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer. The substrate has a property to allow transmission of light from the light-emitting layer, and has a hexahedral shape including a first surface on which a semiconductor stack portion is provided, a second surface located opposite to the first surface, a pair of third surfaces orthogonal to the first surface and the second surface, and a pair of fourth surfaces orthogonal to the first surface and the second surface and different from the pair of third surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki YAMAMOTO, Susumu OHMI, Yufeng WENG, Kiminori TANABE
  • HEAT COOKING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160370014
    Abstract: A heat cooking device comprises a casing, a heating chamber, and an exhaust duct having an outlet provided on a rear edge side of an upper surface of the casing such that exhaust air from an inside of the casing is blown out forward. An upper outer wall surface of a rear surface plate of the casing is covered by the exhaust duct to form an exhaust passage between the casing and the exhaust duct. A guidance part is provided inside the exhaust passage, and guides the water infiltrating into the exhaust passage through the outlet of the exhaust duct, downward inside the exhaust passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro KITAURA, Yoshikazu KITAGUCHI, Noriko IZUMI, Mari NISHIDE, Junichi TAKEUCHI, Yasuhiko KAMII, Yoshihiro OKAMOTO
  • INTERACTIVE HOME-APPLIANCE SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, INTERACTIVE HOME APPLIANCE, METHOD FOR ALLOWING HOME-APPLIANCE SYSTEM TO INTERACT, AND NONVOLATILE COMPUTER-READABLE DATA RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH PROGRAM FOR ALLOWING COMPUTER TO IMPLEMENT THE METHOD
    Publication number: 20160372138
    Abstract: A home-appliance system is provided that may alleviate user's stress or fatigue. The interactive home-appliance system includes an utterance unit, a voice input unit for accepting input of a reply to voice, a storage unit for storing an assessment criterion for assessing stress or fatigue based on conversation with an utterer and data for outputting voice alleviating stress or fatigue, a determination unit for determining the utterer's stress or fatigue based on the assessment criterion and the reply, and a drive mechanism for performing an operation for assisting in the utterer's life. The utterance unit is configured to output an utterance based on the determination result and the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto SHINKAI, Toru UEDA, Hitoshi HIROSE, Keisuke IWASAKI
  • HEAT STORAGE CAPSULE AND HEAT STORAGE MEMBER USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20160370124
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a heat storage capsule capable of being readily produced and a heat storage member using the same. A heat storage capsule 10 includes a heat storage material 20 reversibly changing into a hydrate of a salt and an aqueous solution of the salt and also includes a capsule coating 22 encapsulating the heat storage material 20. The capsule coating 22 includes an inner sub-coating 24 and an outer sub-coating 26. The inner sub-coating 24 is a hydrogenated oil layer. The outer sub-coating 26 is made of a hydrophilic gel. The heat storage capsule 10 has a W/O/W three-layer structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya IDE, Yuka UTSUMI, Hisanori BESSHO, Tomohisa MIYATANI, Tomoko KASE, Daiji SAWADA, Takashi YAMASHITA
  • LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160370530
    Abstract: A backlight device includes an LED, a light guide plate having one edge surface as a light entrance surface, one plate surface as a light exit surface and another plate surface as an opposite plate surface, further includes a chassis having a bottom plate portion that includes a light guide plate support portion supporting the light guide plate from a side of the opposite plate surface and a light guide plate non-support portion not supporting the light guide plate from the side of the opposite plate surface, and further includes a reflection sheet having an extended reflection portion that extends closer to the LED than the light entrance surface of the light guide plate and having a cutout portion that is formed by cutting out at least a part of a portion of the extended reflection portion overlapping with the light guide plate non-support portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takaharu SHIMIZU
  • Methods and systems for suppressing non-document-boundary contours in an image
    Patent number: 9524445
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for boundary detection, in an image, by suppression of contours resulting from background textures and text in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard John Campbell
  • Glycosidase inhibitors and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9522883
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of Formula (I) for inhibiting gh cosidases, prodrugs of the compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds or prodrugs of the compounds. The invention also provides method of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or over-expression of O-gh coprotein 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-?-D-glucopyranosidase (O-GlcNAcase), accumulation or deficiency of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-?-D-glucopyranoside (O-GlcNAc).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: Alectos Therapeutics Inc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Ernest J. McEachern, David J. Vocadlo, Yuanxi Zhou, Harold G. Selnick
  • Fluorescence detection device
    Patent number: 9523641
    Abstract: A scanning module (9) is disposed over a first plate (32). A first motor (39) of moving the scanning module (9) in a second scanning direction and a second motor (49) of moving the scanning module (9) in a first scanning direction are disposed under the first plate (32). In this manner, the first motor (39) and the second motor (49) being a heat source are disposed on a side opposite to a scanning module (9) side using the first plate (32) as a boundary, and thus a transferred amount of heat from the first motor (39) and the second motor (49) to the scanning module (9) decreases. As a result, accuracy of fluorescence detection is prevented from degrading due to thermal distortion of a detection optical system in the scanning module (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryohhei Kawamuki
  • Display device with signal lines routed to decrease size of non-display area
    Patent number: 9524683
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a panel driver, panel-side output terminals, image signal lines, and control signal lines. The terminals are disposed in a non-display area of the display device and connected to the panel driver. The image signal lines are routed in the non-display area from the terminals to cross a long edge of the panel driver and spread in a fan-like form toward the display area. The control signal lines including first lines and second lines are routed in the non-display area from the terminals toward a display area of the display device. The first lines are routed from the terminals to cross the long edge and along the image signal lines toward the display area. The second lines each including portions having a width larger than the first lines are routed from the terminals to cross a short edge of the panel driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yohsuke Fujikawa
  • Arithmetic decoding device, image decoding device, arithmetic coding device, image coding device, and arithmetic decoding method
    Patent number: 9525876
    Abstract: The amount of processing is reduced with high coding efficiency maintained. There is provided an arithmetic decoding device including syntax decoding means for decoding each of at least a first syntax element and a second syntax element indicating a transform coefficient using arithmetic decoding with a context or arithmetic decoding without a context. The syntax decoding means performs decoding that at least includes not decoding the first syntax element and decoding the second syntax element using the arithmetic decoding without a context, and decoding the first syntax element using the arithmetic decoding with a context and decoding the second syntax element using the arithmetic decoding without a context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Yukinobu Yasugi, Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 9523900
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a columnar spacer. The first substrate includes a pixel electrode, a TFT, and an interlayer insulating layer. The second substrate includes first, second and third color filters arranged in a delta arrangement. Each pixel has a substantially polygonal shape with n vertices (where n is an integer and n?8) or a substantially circular shape. The TFT and the columnar spacer are arranged in a first tricolor boundary region. A contact hole cut through the interlayer insulating layer is arranged in a second tricolor boundary region. Two of three pixels that define the first tricolor boundary region also define the second tricolor boundary region, but the remaining pixel is arranged at a different location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Morinaga, Kuniko Maeno, Masayuki Yamanaka
  • Latent heat storage member and building material provided with same, microcapsules and thermal storage material using microcapsules
    Patent number: 9523539
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a latent heat storage member which is able to more reliably contribute to a daily peak shift of energy consumption, and a building material provided with the latent heat storage member. A latent heat storage member 20 which is formed by using a material including a latent heat storage material such as paraffin and a gelation agent and is used as a building material, includes an outer side surface 20b arranged on a solar light irradiation side facing the outside, and has a phase change temperature T1 within a temperature range between a lowest temperature Tsmin and a highest temperature Tsmax of the outer side surface 20b in the daytime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ide, Yuka Utsumi, Yasuyuki Umenaka, Tomohisa Miyatani, Takashi Yamashita, Akio Miyata, Kazuhiro Deguchi
  • Mobile terminal apparatus which displays captured images
    Patent number: 9525868
    Abstract: A determining apparatus of the present invention includes: a feature extracting section configured to extract, as a feature from at least one captured image, at least one piece of information on the at least one captured image out of (i) a piece of information on a blur, (ii) a piece of information on a skew, and (iii) a piece of information on an image type; and a captured image determining section configured to determine whether or not the at least one captured image is suitable for conversion into a compressed image in a platform independent file format, by determining whether or not the extracted feature satisfies a given condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisaku Imaizumi, Yasushi Adachi
  • Semiconductor device
    Patent number: 9525023
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a semiconductor device which includes a gate electrode; a gate insulating film formed to cover the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer formed over the gate insulating film and placed above the gate electrode; a second insulating film formed over the semiconductor layer; a first insulating film formed over a top surface and a side surface of the second insulating film, a side surface of the semiconductor layer, and the gate insulating film; silicon layers and which are formed over the first insulating film and electrically connected to the semiconductor layer; and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are formed over the silicon layers. The source electrode and the drain electrode are electrically separated from each other over the first insulating film. The semiconductor layer is not in contact with each of the source electrode and the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekazu Miyairi, Koji Dairiki, Yasuhiro Jinbo, Tomohiro Kimura, Yoshitaka Yamamoto
  • Immobilized transaminases and process for making and using immobilized transaminase
    Patent number: 9523107
    Abstract: The invention is directed to immobilized transaminases and methods of making and using them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Matthew D. Truppo, Michel Journet, Hallena Strotman, Jonathan P. McMullen, Shane T. Grosser
  • Information processing device
    Patent number: 9524053
    Abstract: An information processing device (1) of the present invention includes: a contact input section (51) for detecting an operating object being in a contact state; a proximity input section (52) for detecting the operating object being in a proximity state; a contact position obtaining section (20, 21) for obtaining a contact position; a proximity position obtaining section (22, 23) for obtaining a proximity position; an inputted contents specifying section (25, 27) for specifying an input from a user in accordance with the contact position and the proximity position; and a process carrying out section (26) for carrying out a process in accordance with the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Kanamori
  • Electric system and vehicle
    Patent number: 9525305
    Abstract: An in-vehicle solar system that supplies electric energy from a solar battery module to an electric device such as a secondary battery, a load, and the like includes a capacitor that accumulates electric energy from the solar battery module and supplies the accumulated electric energy to the electric device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihide Shibata, Kenji Komiya, Kohtaroh Kataoka, Hiroshi Iwata
  • Video decoder parallelization for tiles
    Patent number: 9525877
    Abstract: A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Christopher A. Segall
  • Indazole compounds as aldosterone synthase inhibitors
    Patent number: 9522141
    Abstract: This invention relates to indazole compounds of the structural formula: (structure represented) or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein the variable are defined herein. The inventive compounds selectively inhibit aldosterone synthase. This invention also provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I or their salts as well as potentially to methods for the treatment or amelioration of conditions that could be treated by inhibiting aldosterone synthase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Scott B. Hoyt, Jerry Andrew Taylor, Clare London, Yusheng Xiong, Andrew John Cooke
  • Auto injector
    Patent number: D774641
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Stephen G. Miggels, Inyoung Jang, Henry Mack, Wail Rasheed, Scott Brown, Robert Berger, Peter Basile