Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9402082
    Abstract: An electronic device for sending a message is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device determines whether a first picture is a Clean Random Access (CRA) picture. The electronic device also determines whether a leading picture is present if the first picture is a CRA picture. The electronic device further generates a message including a CRA discard flag and an initial CRA Coded Picture Buffer (CPB) removal delay parameter if a leading picture is present. The electronic device additionally sends the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20160211388
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device capable of preventing anomalous transmission of light of a wavelength that is not supposed to be transmitted and reducing the half-width of a spectral waveform and a method for manufacturing such a photoelectric conversion device are provided. A first photoelectric conversion element is formed on a substrate. A first metal film having a plurality of openings arranged periodically or aperiodically is formed above the first photoelectric conversion element with insulating films interposed therebetween. A second metal film covering a part of the openings in the first metal film is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro NATSUAKI, Masayo UCHIDA, Takahiro TAKIMOTO, Nobuyoshi AWAYA, Kazuya ISHIHARA, Takashi NAKANO, Mitsuru NAKURA
  • Publication number: 20160207926
    Abstract: The instant invention provides compounds of formula I which are PI3K-delta inhibitors, and as such are useful for the treatment of PI3K-delta-mediated diseases such as inflamation, asthma, COPD and cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Abdelghani Abe Achab, Michael D. Altman, Yongqi Deng, Solomon Kattar, Jason D. Katz, Joey L. Methot, Hua Zhou, Meredeth McGowan, Matthew P. Christopher, Yudith Garcia, Neville John Anthony, Francesc Xavier Fradera Llinas, Liping Yang, Changwei Mu, Xiaona Wang, Feng Shi, Baijun Ye, Sixing Zhang, Xiaoli Zhao, Rong Zhang, Kin Chiu Fong, Xiansheng Leng
  • Publication number: 20160212290
    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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi TANI
  • Publication number: 20160209580
    Abstract: A display device includes a light source, a light guide plate, a chassis, a display panel, a flexible circuit board, a signal transmission circuit board, and a first heat dissipation member. The chassis includes a bottom plate that includes a light source supporting portion and a light guide plate supporting portion. The bottom plate includes a surface on which the light source and the light guide plate are arranged. The flexible circuit board is bent and a portion thereof is opposed to another surface of the light source supporting portion. The signal transmission circuit board is arranged over the other surface. The first heat dissipation member is sandwiched between the light guide plate supporting portion and the flexible circuit board and in contact with the other surface and with the flexible circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru HOSOKI
  • Publication number: 20160206161
    Abstract: A self-propelled vacuum cleaner comprising: a self-propellable case having a suction opening provided on a bottom surface and an exhaust opening provided at a rear part; and a dust-collecting part provided between the suction opening and the exhaust opening through a ventilation channel, wherein the dust-collecting part includes a dust box disposed at the suction-opening side and an electric fan disposed at the exhaust-opening side, and the dust box and the electric fan are configured to be separable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro OKA
  • Publication number: 20160212645
    Abstract: Provided is a technique related to a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication system, a control method, and an integrated circuit which perform cell measurements efficiently. In a case where a measurement event which sets frequencies of a plurality of serving cells as a measurement object is configured by measurement configuration, the terminal apparatus determines each of an evaluation object cell and a neighbor cell from the plurality of serving cells at a frequency of the measurement object based on the measurement configuration configured by the base station apparatus, and evaluates the measurement event by using a measurement result of the evaluation object cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsunari UEMURA, Hidekazu TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20160212801
    Abstract: A heating cooker includes a body casing, a heating chamber, a magnetron that supplies microwaves into the heating chamber, a cooling fan that delivers cooling air flow to the magnetron, an air discharge duct that is for discharging discharge air from inside of the heating chamber to outside, a first guiding channel that guides into the heating chamber a portion of the cooling air flow from the cooling fan which has flowed out to a downstream side after cooling the magnetron, and a second guiding channel that guides toward the air discharge duct another portion of the cooling air flow from the cooling fan which has flowed out to the downstream side after cooling the magnetron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro NISHIJIMA, Shinji ASAMI, Masaki KATABE
  • Publication number: 20160210095
    Abstract: A multifunctional image forming apparatus includes: a communication device communicable with a server providing a service related to image formation with the user; a display operation device having a display function, for receiving a user operation; and an image forming unit for forming an image in response to a user instruction received through the display operation device. The multifunctional image forming apparatus receives an input operation by the user through the display operation device, displays a screen in accordance with the input operation and, in addition, executes a user registration process for the service provided by the server through communication with the server through the communication device, and displays a screen thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MIZOGUCHI, Atsushi KURIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160207922
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are inhibitors of the ROMK (Kir1.1) channel. The compounds may be used as diuretic and/or natriuretic agents and for the therapy and prophylaxis of medical conditions including cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, heart failure and chronic kidney disease and conditions associated with excessive salt and water retention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Haifeng Tang, Barbara Pio, Jinlong Jiang, Alexander Pasternak, Shuzhi Dong, Ronald Dale Ferguson, II, Zack Zhiqiang Guo, Harry Chobanian, Jessica Frie, Yan Guo, Zhicai Wu, Yang Yu, Ming Wang
  • Publication number: 20160210891
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of reproducing colors faithfully is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a color gamut conversion unit that generates an RGB signal for a liquid crystal panel (RGBout), which is provided to a liquid crystal panel, by converting data values of respective colors included in an input RGB signal (RGBin) in accordance with the color gamut of the input RGB signal (RGBin) and the color gamut of the liquid crystal panel. When the color gamut of the input RGB signal (RGBin) is included within the color gamut of the liquid crystal panel, colors represented by the input RGB signal (RGBin) are faithfully reproduced on the liquid crystal panel by providing the RGB signal for liquid crystal panel generated by the color gamut conversion unit to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Xiaomang ZHANG, Toshihiro YANAGI, Takae ITOU, Hideki MORII, Takayuki MIZUNAGA, Keishi NISHIKUBO
  • Patent number: 9398186
    Abstract: In an image forming device, a light-guiding member includes an integrated ridge extending in the longitudinal direction of the light-guiding member. The light-guiding member further includes a protrusion on the ridge. The illuminating device includes an attachment recess that holds the light-guiding member and a holder member that has a fit portion to which a protrusion is fitted. The protrusion is disposed at a position decentered to one end portion of the light-guiding member in the longitudinal direction of the light-guiding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suto, Kenji Nakanishi, Shohichi Fukutome, Masahiro Imoto, Kazuhiro Iguchi, Hiroki Kuruma
  • Patent number: 9397563
    Abstract: A driver circuit includes normally-on first and second transistors, a first control circuit for controlling the first transistor in response to a first control signal, a second control circuit for controlling the second transistor in response to a second control signal, a capacitor connected between first and second power supply nodes of the first control circuit, a power supply connected between third and fourth power supply nodes of the second control circuit, a switch element connected between first and fourth power supply nodes, and a third control circuit for turning the switch element on when an output voltage becomes about 0V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiichiro Kihara, Akio Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9394308
    Abstract: This disclosure describes novel compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting the TRPA1 ion channel and/or medical conditions related to TRPA1, such as pain and respiratory conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Qingyi Li, Lily Cheng, Christopher M. Liu, Iwona E. Wrona, Blaise S. Lippa, Chester A. Metcalf, III, Andrew J. Jackson, Lauren M. Chapman
  • Patent number: 9398135
    Abstract: A mobile terminal (1) includes a telephone communication control section (23) which makes a call by use of a details screen (320b) for a person to contact and causes a screen (330c) showing that a call is being made to be displayed; and a telephone communication establishment determining section (23a) which, in a case where a telephone communication has been established, terminates a telephone book application (32), and which, in a case where no telephone communication has been established, after the display of the screen (330c) showing that a call is being made, causes the details screen for a person to contact to be displayed. This makes it possible to prevent (i) a display of personal information registered in a telephone book DB and (ii) a decrease in user convenience even in a case where a call is made by use of a screen of a telephone book application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Fujimoto, Takeshi Ohkubo, Fumihiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9395483
    Abstract: A backlight device is provided with the following: LEDs; a light guide plate formed in a rectangular plate shape and having at the end surfaces thereof a light-receiving face opposing the LEDs and a reflection surface disposed on the side opposite the light-receiving face, and having on the plate surface thereof a light-emitting surface that emits light; a portion to be supported provided to the corner part, from among the corner parts of the light guide plate, that is disposed on the opposite surface side; a supporting portion that supports the light guide plate in a first direction and a second direction by coming into contact with the portion to be supported, when the first direction is a direction in which the LEDs and the light guide plate are lined up, and the second direction is a direction that is orthogonal to the first direction and that follows along the light-emitting surface of the light guide plate; and a inclined portion that is provided to the portion to be supported and that forms a slanted s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Kondoh, Tsuyoshi Ozeki, Mamoru Ohashi
  • Patent number: 9395856
    Abstract: A touch panel controller (3) capable of accurately detecting a change in capacitance includes: a driving section (4) which drives capacitors (C1 through CM) in parallel in accordance with N M-dimensional vectors; and an estimating section (5) which obtains linear sums of the capacitors (C1 through CM) in accordance with the driving in parallel and estimates values of the capacitors (C1 through CM) based on an inner product operation carried out with respect to (i) the linear sums of the capacitors (C1 through CM) and (ii) the N M-dimensional vectors, the driving section (4) driving the capacitors (C1 through CM) in parallel in a first order of the N M-dimensional vectors, the estimating section (5) estimating a first estimated value of the capacitors (C1 through CM) in accordance with the driving in parallel in the first order, the driving section (4) driving the capacitors (C1 through CM) in parallel in a second order of the N M-dimensional vectors, the estimating section (5) estimating a second estimated va
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaishi
    Inventor: Kunihiko Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9398307
    Abstract: A system for decoding a video bitstream includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile and where 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 tile is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one tile including intra-prediction information, motion information. The system receives a set of data from a set of largest coding unit of at least two of the tiles and decoding the largest coding units in a selected manner depending upon a flag in the bitstream. The flag indicates that the decoding is to be performed in a raster scan order within a tile or the decoding is to be performed in a raster scan order across at least two tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Christopher A. Segall
  • Patent number: 9394282
    Abstract: The instant invention provides compounds of formula I which are JAK inhibitors, and as such are useful for the treatment of JAK-mediated diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, COPD and cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Brubaker, Joshua Close, Tony Siu, Graham Frank Smith, Luis E. Torres, Hyun Chong Woo, Jonathan R. Young, Zhongyong Wei, Feng Shi
  • Patent number: 9398179
    Abstract: When displaying a N-up image view in which a plurality of thumbnail images displayed in given windows are grouped and displayed in a single window by using a detecting section for detecting a contact position on a display screen of a display section, position specifications for the N-up image view of thumbnail images in the windows are received based on a contact position in the window in selecting thumbnail images to be displayed in the N-up image view by making contact with the thumbnail images, and the thumbnails images are displayed in the N-up image view based on the received position specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Hirohata, Kazuhisa Kubota