Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20160269759
    Abstract: To realize a display processing device which is able to easily specify an acquisition destination of a partial video which the viewer desires to display in a specified display region. A video acquisition processing section (220) of a television (200) acquires MPD data (metadata) in which an identifier and an acquisition destination are indicated in association concerning each of a plurality of partial videos. The respective identifiers of the plurality of partial videos are identifiers which are able to specify the identifier of the partial video adjacent to the partial video without referencing other information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuhichi WATANABE, Yasuaki TOKUMO, Takuya IWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20160262567
    Abstract: A beverage preparation apparatus prepares a beverage by mixing and agitating tea leaves and hot water. In the beverage preparation apparatus, a heater representing one example of a heating mechanism heats water. As a motor for milling which implements a grating mechanism drives, a mill grates food. In the beverage preparation apparatus, as a time period TD has elapsed since start of heating by the heater, drive of the motor for milling is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nahoko SAKUMASU, Kazuya KITATANI, Yasuaki SAKANE
  • Publication number: 20160269750
    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: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukinobu YASUGI
  • Publication number: 20160267857
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device which suppresses power consumption as well as displaying an image with excellent quality. A display device (1) in accordance with one aspect of the present invention includes a polarity determining section (35) for determining whether or not a first polarity in a drive vertical period immediately preceding a first term in which an image is not rewritten is the same as a second polarity in a pause vertical period which is a last pause vertical period before the second vertical period, and a refresh control section (34) for providing an additional vertical period in the first term in a case where the first polarity is the same as the second polarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuo WATANABE, Junki ASAI, Kenji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20160268459
    Abstract: There is provided a photoelectric conversion element which can prevent the contact resistance between a non-crystalline semiconductor layer containing impurities and an electrode formed on the non-crystalline semiconductor layer from increasing, and can improve the element characteristics. A photoelectric conversion element (10) includes a semiconductor substrate (12), a first semiconductor layer (20n), a second semiconductor layer (20p), a first electrode (22n), and a second electrode (22p). The first semiconductor layer has a first conductive type. The second semiconductor layer has a second conductive type. The first electrode is formed on the first semiconductor layer. The second electrode is formed on the second semiconductor layer. The first electrode includes a first transparent conductive layer (26n) formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a first metal layer (28n) formed on the first transparent conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji KIMOTO, Naoki KOIDE, Yuta MATSUMOTO, Junichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160270060
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device which includes a transmission unit that transmits hybrid automatic retransmit request response information. In a case where one serving cell is configured in the terminal device in time division duplex, or in a case where serving cells of which the number is more than one are configured in the terminal device and uplink/downlink configurations of all of the configured serving cells are the same as each other, the transmission unit transmits the hybrid automatic retransmit request response information in an uplink subframe n, in response to detection of physical downlink control channel transmission in a subframe (n?k). The transmission unit transmits the hybrid automatic retransmit request response information in an uplink subframe m, in response to detection of physical downlink control channel transmission in a subframe (m?4), in a primary cell having Frame constitution type 1, in which frequency division duplex-time division duplex carrier aggregation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Wataru OUCHI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 9443471
    Abstract: A gate driver divides n scanning lines (G1 to Gn) into p blocks (BL1 to BLp), and provides for each block, a common selection period for selecting a whole or a part of k scanning lines included in the block, and a scanning period for sequentially selecting k scanning lines included in the block. A source driver (30) detects a characteristic of a driving transistor via a data line from a pixel circuit (11) corresponding to a scanning line that is being selected in the common selection period, and supplies to the data line a corrected data voltage that has been obtained by correcting the data voltage based on the detected characteristic of the driving transistor. Accordingly, there is provided a display device that can compensate for a characteristic variation of the driving transistor while solving a shortage of writing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noritaka Kishi, Masanori Ohara, Noboru Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9445494
    Abstract: A display panel (100) of an embodiment of the present invention includes a wiring board (100a), a counter substrate (100b) which is provided on a viewer side of the wiring board (100a), and a display medium layer (32) which is provided between the wiring board (100a) and the counter substrate (100b), wherein the wiring board (100a) includes a substrate (11) and a plurality of metal wires (GB, SB, CSB, etc.) provided on the counter substrate (100b) side of the substrate (11), and at least part of the plurality of metal wires has a moth-eye structure or inverted moth-eye structure (12M) in its surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chiaki Minari, Kiyoshi Minoura, Tokio Taguchi, Takao Imaoku
  • Patent number: 9441841
    Abstract: A door is pivotably coupled to a lower portion or an upper portion on the front side of a box so as to be opened vertically to an opening. A gap having a predetermined space is present at the lower portion or at the upper portion between the box and the door with the door closed. The box has an aperture section on the side for introducing outside air blown by an air blower mechanism into a heating chamber. The aperture section is positioned adjacent to the gap on a side surface of the heating chamber. The outside air introduced into the heating chamber through the aperture section moves so as to traverse the opening to block vapor produced from an object being cooked by heating with a heating device from leaking through the gap to the outside of the heating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Kamii
  • Patent number: 9442426
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developing apparatus that develops a toner image on a photoreceptor drum. In the developing apparatus, a first transporting member that transports a developer stored in a developer vessel while churning and a second transporting member are provided in parallel with each other, and the developer that is transported by the first transporting member is supplied to a developing roller from the second transporting member. The first transporting member churns a new toner and carrier that are resupplied with the developer. In the second transporting member, the developer that a waste toner passing a developing process is churned and the developer that the new toner being resupplied is churned are face and collide with each other. Accordingly, the new toner gets into the developer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Akedo
  • Patent number: 9443484
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device for performing pause driving, occurrence of flicker is effectively suppressed while an increase in power consumption is suppressed. A frame in which an image signal is inputted without requesting an external portion to input the image signal is set as a refresh frame by a reversal driving technique deciding portion. A pause frame counting portion counts the number of times of pause frames since the previous refresh frame as a count value. The comparison portion compares the count value with a previously set threshold. As a result, when the count value is not smaller than the threshold, the reversal driving technique deciding portion sets a reversal driving technique in the first input frame to dot-reversal driving. When the count value is smaller than the threshold, the reversal driving technique deciding portion sets a reversal driving technique in the first input frame to column-reversal driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Suyama, Kouji Kumada, Norio Ohmura, Noriyuki Tanaka, Takuya Sone
  • Patent number: 9443664
    Abstract: A method is provided for charging a supercapacitor. The method initially provides a supercapacitor with a metal cyanometallate (MCM) particle anode, an electrolyte including a salt (DB) made up of cations (D+) anions (B?), and a cathode including carbonaceous materials (?). The method connects an external charging device between the anode and cathode, and the charging device supplies electrons to the anode and accepting electrons from the cathode. In response to the charging device, cations are inserted into the anode while anions are absorbed on the surface of the cathode. A supercapacitor device is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Long Wang, Jong-Jan Lee
  • Patent number: 9445430
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is provided in which a plurality of MTC devices can connect to a base station device efficiently. Each of MTC devices in group A that transmits data to the base station device using a predetermined application format is allocated first radio resource common in group A. The MTC device transmits an access request signal to the base station device using the first radio resource. The base station device receives the request signal from the MTC device. The base station device allocates second radio resource common in group A to the MTC device. The MTC device transmits data to the base station device using the second radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Nobusawa, Shuichi Takehana, Toshiaki Kameno, Hidenobu Fukumasa, Shusaku Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 9442316
    Abstract: This display device (100) includes: a display panel (10); a light-transmitting cover (20) which is arranged closer to a viewer than the display panel is so as to cover the display panel and which includes a lens portion at a position corresponding to an end portion of the display panel; and a bezel (30) including a side frame portion which covers the side surface of the display panel at least partially. The bezel (30) further includes a fixing portion (34) which is arranged at the tip of the side frame portion and in the vicinity of the side surface of the light-transmitting cover. The light-transmitting cover (20) and the fixing portion (34) of the bezel (30) are directly fixed to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Yuhzoh Fujimura
  • Patent number: 9445357
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of base station devices, and a mobile station device configured to communicate with the plurality of base station devices. The mobile station device includes: a necessity determining unit configured to refer to a communication state of a first base station device that is a base station device in communication with the mobile station device, and determine necessity of carrier aggregation; a cell search unit configured to, in a case that the necessity determining unit determines that carrier aggregation is necessary, search a communication available base station device from the plurality of base station devices; and a carrier aggregation requesting unit configured to, in a case that at least one communication available base station device is detected by the search, transmit a request for carrier aggregation to the first base station device, thus providing a wireless communication system that can obtain an excellent speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Sawada, Katsutoshi Ishikura, Shigeto Suzuki, Yuhsuke Takagi, Shumpei Fuse
  • Patent number: 9443885
    Abstract: An array board 11b includes a first diode 29, a contact portion 32, and a static protection portion 51. The first diode 29 includes first electrodes 29a, 29b and a first semiconductor portion 29d. The first electrodes 29a, 29b are formed from a second metal film 38. The first semiconductor portion 29d is connected to the first electrodes 29a, 29b via first diode-side holes 29c1, 29c2. The contact portion 32 includes agate line-side connecting portion 48 and a diode-side connecting portion 50. The gate line-side connecting portion 48 is formed from a first metal film at an end of a gate line 19. The diode-side connecting portion 50 is connected to the gate line-side connecting portion 48 via a contact portion-side hole 49a. The static protection portion 51 includes a static dissipating portion 52 and a static dissipation portion protection portion 53.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukinobu Nakata, Masaki Maeda
  • Patent number: 9445373
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus resets a first parameter or a second parameter, dependent on whether a random access response corresponds to a primary cell or a secondary cell, in a case that the random access response is received, wherein the random access response corresponding to a first serving cell is received in the first serving cell and the random access response corresponding to a second serving cell is received in the second serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba
  • Patent number: 9445039
    Abstract: There has been a need for a technology for effectively realizing a narrow frame in a flat-screen display device including a speaker. A liquid crystal television is provided with SP bosses (30) for attaching a speaker unit (50) to a bottom cover (20) which also serves as an appearance part. In addition, the speaker unit (50) is arranged onto a backlight chassis (12) (rear side). By arranging the speaker unit (50) and anchoring with a screw (81) so as to cause fixation holes of SP fixation portions (53) and holes of the SP bosses (30) to coincide, the speaker unit (50) is fixed to the bottom cover (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Suzuki, Daisaku Kiguchi, Harutaka Uno, Ryuji Hanao
  • Patent number: 9444021
    Abstract: The folding along the disposed direction of wiring patterns is prevented. Concave-convex shapes in a plan view for preventing the folding of a device as step portions in a plan view are provided on opposing sides of two conductive regions. A front edge side 3a1 of a convex shape in a plan view of a Cu foil layer 3a, which is one of the two conductive regions, is disposed to enter into a concave portion (on the side of a bottom side 3b2) of a concave shape in a plan view of a Cu foil layer 3b, which is the other conductive region, to prevent the folding along the disposed direction of wiring patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhsuke Fujita, Kenichi Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 9440848
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus including devices that include layers of passivation material covering at least a portion of an exterior surface of a thin film component within a microelectromechanical device. The thin film component may include an electrically conductive layer that connects via an anchor to a conductive surface on a substrate. The disclosure further provides processes for providing a first layer of passivation material on an exterior surface of a thin film component and for electrically connecting that thin film component to a conductive surface on a substrate. The disclosure further provides processes for providing a second layer of passivation material on any exposed surfaces of the thin film component after release of the microelectromechanical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignees: Pixtronix, Inc., Sharp Corporation, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Teruo Sasagawa, Junghun Chae, Jasper Lodewyk Steyn, Takeshi Hara, Asahi Yamato