Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9379876
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus, that communicates with a base station apparatus, includes a reception unit that receives a physical downlink shared channel and information indicating radio resources for transmission of a physical uplink shared channel associated with contention based procedure and a transmission unit that transmits Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) information in response to the physical downlink shared channel and the physical uplink shared channel. The transmission unit also transmits, in case that transmissions of the HARQ information and the physical uplink shared channel happen in a single subframe, either both of the HARQ information and the physical uplink shared channel or the physical uplink shared channel without the HARQ information in the single subframe on the basis of a configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Kato, Shohei Yamada, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20160182135
    Abstract: A feedback information notification method of the present invention notifies of channel quality information indicating a channel quality during multi-user MIMO transmission at a first feedback timing, and differential channel quality information based on a difference value between a channel quality during the multi-user MIMO transmission and a channel quality indicated by the channel quality information of which notification is most recently sent, at a second feedback timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi ONODERA, Hiromichi TOMEBA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20160181291
    Abstract: A semiconductor device (100A) includes a first metal layer (12) including a gate electrode (12g); a gate insulating layer (14) formed on the first metal layer; an oxide semiconductor layer (16) formed on the gate insulating layer; a second metal layer (18) formed on the oxide semiconductor layer; an interlayer insulating layer (22) formed on the second metal layer; and a transparent electrode layer (TE) including a transparent conductive layer (Tc). The oxide semiconductor layer includes a first portion (16a) and a second portion (16b) extending while crossing an edge of the gate electrode. The second metal layer includes a source electrode (18s) and a drain electrode (18d). The interlayer insulating layer does not include an organic insulating layer. The interlayer insulating layer includes a contact hole (22a) formed so as to overlap the second portion and an end of the drain electrode that is closer to the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sumio KATOH, Naoki UEDA
  • Publication number: 20160182193
    Abstract: Provided are a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and an integrated circuit, by which the terminal apparatus performing interference suppression and cancellation is able to efficiently suppress an interference signal. The base station apparatus of the invention is a base station apparatus that notifies a first terminal apparatus of terminal information which is information of a second terminal apparatus and which causes interference. The base station apparatus always transmits, to the terminal apparatus performing interference suppression, a coded bit sequence, which includes the large number of systematic bits, regardless of a state of retransmission request, and notifies the terminal information of an interference signal. The terminal apparatus suppresses the interference signal based on the terminal information, and detects a desired signal from the coded bit sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi TOMEBA, Ryota YAMADA, Kozue YOKOMAKURA, Katsuya KATO
  • Publication number: 20160176884
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to processes for preparing beta 3 agonists of Formula (I) and Formula (II) and their intermediates. The beta 3 agonists are useful in the treatment of certain disorders, including overactive bladder, urinary incontinence, and urinary urgency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: John Y.L. Chung, Kevin Campos, Edward Cleator, Robert F. Dunn, Andrew Gibson, R. Scott Hoerrner, Stephen Keen, Dave Lieberman, Zhuqing Liu, Joseph Lynch, Kevin M. Maloney, Feng Xu, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Naoki Yoshikawa, Yong-Li Zhong
  • Publication number: 20160178979
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) has a liquid crystal display panel (1), which includes a first substrate (10), a second substrate (20), and a liquid crystal layer (30). The first substrate includes a first electrode (11) provided for each pixel, and a second electrode (12) for generating a lateral field across the liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the first electrode, whereas the second substrate includes a third electrode (21) for generating a vertical field across the liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi KITA, Yoshiki NAKATANI, Takao IMAOKU, Iori AOYAMA, Takatomo YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20160176858
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to oxazole compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. The present invention is also directed to uses of the oxazole compounds described herein in the potential 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: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: NIGEL LIVERTON, DOUGLAS C. BESHORE, SCOTT D. KUDUK, YUNFU LUO, NA MENG, TINGTING YU
  • Publication number: 20160183212
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus detects a downlink frame timing based on a synchronization signal in EUTRAN, receives a TA (Timing Advance) command from a base station apparatus of the EUTRAN, transmits an uplink signal in the EUTRAN to the base station apparatus of the EUTRAN at a timing based on at least the downlink frame timing and a value of the TA command, and transmits a signal between terminal apparatuses to another terminal apparatus at the same timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Tatsushi AIBA, Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Wataru OUCHI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160179440
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a near field communication unit configured to make a short-range wireless communication with a portable information processing device including a display unit; a recognition unit configured to recognize a portable information processing device that is within a communicable range through communication via the near field communication unit; a job setting unit configured to request and instruct the portable information processing device to display a job setting screen on the display unit; and a job control unit configured to execute a job in response to a start instruction of the job, wherein the job setting unit receives a job setting, which is made by using the job setting screen, via the near field communication unit after the recognition to receive the job setting from the portable information processing device, and the job control unit receives a start instruction for the job whose job setting is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao SAEDA
  • Publication number: 20160178735
    Abstract: An object is sensed without a malfunction due to disturbance light. An optical sensor (101) of an aspect of the invention includes: a light-emitting element (LED) which turns off and turns on alternately for each one period; a light-receiving element (PD1) which receives reflection light and generates a photocurrent; and an integrating circuit (11) which integrates the photocurrent in a positive direction in a period during which the light-emitting element turns on and integrates the photocurrent in a negative direction in a period during which the light-emitting element turns off. A sum of lengths of integration periods in a first period and a last period is same as a length of another integration period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki SHIRASAKA, Takayuki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20160181329
    Abstract: A display device (100) includes a spontaneous light emission-type display panel (10). The display device includes a plurality of pixels (P). The plurality of pixels each include a plurality of sub pixels including a red sub pixel (R), a green sub pixel (G) and a blue sub pixel (B). The display panel includes a red light emitting element (1r), a green light emitting element (1g), and a blue light emitting element (1b). Red light, green light and blue light respectively emitted by the red light emitting element, the green light emitting element and the blue light emitting element each have a spectrum half width of 10 nm or less. The plurality of sub pixels included in each pixel further include a yellow sub pixel (Ye). The display panel further includes a yellow light emitting element (1y) provided in an area corresponding to the yellow sub pixel. The yellow light emitting element emits yellow light having a dominant wavelength of 550 nm or greater and 600 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kazunari TOMIZAWA, Akiko SATOH, Yoshifumi SHIMODAIRA, Gosuke OHASHI, Yusuke AMANO
  • Patent number: 9372574
    Abstract: A touch panel controller (1A) includes: a capacitor drive portion (5A); a multiplying portion (2A) which performs multiplication of first linear sum signals by a second code sequence to obtain signals and then performs addition of the signals to generate a second linear sum signal; an inner product operation portion (3A) which generates a first inner product operation signal by calculating an inner product of the second linear sum signal and the second code sequence; an inner product operation portion (3AA) which generates a second inner product operation signal by calculating an inner product of the first inner product operation signal and the first code sequence. This makes it possible to reduce a mounting area of the touch panel controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 9371980
    Abstract: The backlight device 12 of the present embodiment includes: a plurality of LEDs 17; a chassis 14 that is a plate-shaped member and on which the LEDs 17 are arranged; a plurality of diffusion lenses 40 that are fixed to the chassis 14, that individually cover the LEDs 17 from the side opposite to the chassis 14, and that exert optical effects on the light from the LEDs 17; a reflective sheet 21 that covers the plate surface of the chassis 14, that exposes the LEDs 17, and that has the lens insertion holes 21 through which the diffusion lenses 40 are respectively inserted; and reflective sheet holding members 30 that hold the reflective sheet 21 from the side opposite to the chassis 14, that engage the adjacent diffusion lenses 40 and 40, and that extend on the sheet surface of the reflective sheet 21 between the adjacent diffusion lenses 40 and 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuuki Namekata
  • Patent number: 9373648
    Abstract: This semiconductor device (100A) includes: an oxide layer (15) which includes a semiconductor region (5) and a conductor region (7) that contacts with the semiconductor region; a source electrode (6s) and a drain electrode (6d) which are electrically connected to the semiconductor region; an insulating layer (11) formed on the source and drain electrodes; a transparent electrode (9) arranged to overlap at least partially with the conductor region with the insulating layer interposed between them; a source line (6a) formed out of the same conductive film as the source electrode; and a gate extended line (3a) formed out of the same conductive film as a gate electrode (3). The source line is electrically connected to the gate extended line via a transparent connecting layer (9a) which is formed out of the same conductive film as the transparent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Takamaru, Kazuatsu Ito, Tadayoshi Miyamoto, Mitsunobu Miyamoto, Makoto Nakazawa, Yasuyuki Ogawa, Seiichi Uchida, Shigeyasu Mori
  • Patent number: 9373667
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which inhibits deterioration in display quality caused by color mixture of luminescent layers. In a case where vapor deposition particles are deposited onto a substrate, P+2Lc?{(Ts×M+0.96×G×Wn)/(Ts?G)}+2Dm and 3 ?m?Dm ?5 ?m are satisfied, where “M” is a width of a mask opening, “Wn” is a width of an injection hole, “G” is a distance between the TFT substrate and a vapor deposition mask, “Ts” is a distance between the TFT substrate and a vapor deposition source, “P” is a width of a first pixel opening, and “Lc” is a width of a non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawato, Takashi Ochi, Yuhki Kobayashi, Masahiro Ichihara, Eiichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9370336
    Abstract: A model-based method for assessing acoustic signal quality in a heart monitoring device. The personal heart sound interval distribution of a person being actively monitored is compared with a modeled global heart sound interval distribution shared by most human beings after which processing action is taken consistent with the quality assessment. The error in the best fit between the personal interval distribution and the global interval distribution is presumed to be caused predominantly by noise, allowing the quality of the fit to serve as a proxy for the level of noise in the acoustic signal and used in making processing decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Severt Hallberg, Fredrick Norman Hill
  • Patent number: 9370879
    Abstract: A lens molding apparatus of the present invention includes: a mold having a transfer surface for transferring a predetermined lens shape to a dielectric resin; a mold having a transfer surface for transferring a predetermined lens shape to the dielectric resin; a support device moving the mold; a heating device heating the dielectric resin so as to form a resin molded product, the dielectric resin having been supplied on the transfer surface; a DC power source forming an electric field by application of direct-current voltage between the mold and the mold; and switches switching a direction of the electric field between a direction from the mold to the mold and a direction from the mold to the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakahashi, Hiroyuki Hanato
  • Patent number: 9373826
    Abstract: A storage battery module is provided in which, even in a case where the storage battery module is formed by integrally assembling a plurality of secondary batteries, the secondary batteries can be compactly assembled while non-uniformity in battery temperature distribution is prevented, and wiring connection work is facilitated. Using a secondary battery RB (RB1 to RB4) including a battery can 10 that houses an electrode group 1 and rectanglar shape two secondary batteries are juxtaposed in parallel, they are spaced by a predetermined distance from each other, and with respect to these juxtaposed secondary batteries as one unit, in a direction in which units of these are stacked, these units are shifted in orientation by 90° from each other, and thus a storage battery module (M1 to M8) having a configuration in which a plurality of secondary batteries are stacked in parallel crosses is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tsukuda, Satoshi Okano
  • Patent number: 9374622
    Abstract: The present invention includes (i) a tuner (21b) for preferentially receiving broadcast waves (2b) for carrying television programs (3b) list-displayed near a television program (3a) carried by a broadcast wave (2a) rather than a broadcast wave for carrying television programs which are list-displayed away from the television program (3a) and (ii) an information obtaining section (11) for obtaining thumbnails (5a) representing the television programs (3b) from the broadcast waves (2b) received by the tuner (21b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Masahiro Tai, Kazunori Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 9374192
    Abstract: When a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus communicate with each other using a wider frequency band consists of multiple carrier components, efficient communication is achieved without increasing control information (control signal) notified from the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus. The base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with each other such that each of multiple uplink carrier components corresponds to each of multiple downlink carrier components or multiple downlink carrier component groups including multiple downlink carrier components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shohei Yamada