Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 9366424Abstract: A light source device includes: a substrate having a front surface on which a light-emitting diode is mounted; and a case having a bottom plate that holds the substrate, wherein a driver circuit for driving the light-emitting diode is mounted on a rear surface of the substrate that is opposite to the front surface thereof, wherein an opening corresponding to a size of the light-emitting diode is formed in the bottom plate of the case, wherein the front surface of the substrate is fixed to a rear surface of the bottom plate of the case from outside of the case with the light-emitting diode fitted in the opening, and wherein a coating material with an emissivity of equal to or higher than 0.9 and equal to or lower than 1.0 is applied to an outer surface of four side walls of the case.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Takase
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Patent number: 9368072Abstract: Control sections of displays 11 each determine control information Pi used when area-active driving is performed individually and transmit the control information Pi to a multi-display control section 12. The multi-display control section 12 determines control information Ps for the entire device on the basis of the received pieces of control information Pi and transmits the control information Ps to the control sections of the displays 11. All the displays 11 perform area-active driving on the basis of the same control information Ps. In this way, occurrence of a luminance difference or chromaticity difference among display screens of the displays 11 is prevented and the quality of a displayed image is improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuya Otoi, Katsuteru Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9365539Abstract: Compounds of structural formula I are inhibitors of prolylcarboxypeptidase (PrCP). The compounds of the present invention are useful for the prevention and treatment of conditions related to the enzymatic activity of PrCP such as abnormal metabolism, including obesity; diabetes; metabolic syndrome; obesity related disorders; and diabetes related disorders.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Hale, Jinlong Jiang, Dong-Ming Shen, Zhi-Cai Shi, Min Shu, Zhicai Wu, Cangming Yang
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Patent number: 9369971Abstract: In a system including at least one base station device, the base station device efficiently controls uplink signals. A mobile station device includes a path loss calculation unit 4051 configured to calculate path losses, each based on one of a plurality of types of reference signals received by a reception processing unit 401, a transmit power setting unit 4053 configured to set a desired transmit power for an uplink signal using the path losses calculated by the path loss calculation unit 4051, and a power headroom control unit 4055 configured to generate a power headroom using the desired transmit power set by the transmit power setting unit 4053, the power headroom being information concerning transmit power to spare, and configured to control transmission of the power headroom.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Yosuke Akimoto, Katsunari Uemura, Yasuyuki Kato
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Patent number: 9366933Abstract: An array board (a semiconductor device) 11b includes a display area TFT (a display area transistor) 17, a non-display area TFT (a non-display area transistor) 29, an upper insulator 31, and a lower insulator 30. The display area TFT 17 is arranged in a display area AA. The non-display area TFT 29 is arranged in a non-display area NAA. The upper insulator 31 is arranged in the non-display area NAA and formed from a second interlayer insulation film 41. The lower insulator 30 is arranged in the non-display area and formed from a first interlayer insulation film 39. The lower insulator 30 is arranged below the upper insulator 31 such that they are layered.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tohru Okabe, Hirohiko Nishiki, Takeshi Hara, Kenichi Kitoh, Hisao Ochi
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Patent number: 9367277Abstract: An image processing apparatus is wirelessly connected to an external communication apparatus that includes a communicator that performs wireless communication with the image processing apparatus, a display that displays information on a screen, a sound generator that generates a sound, and a sound transmitter that sends the generated sound. The image processing apparatus includes a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication with the external communication apparatus, a display that displays information on a screen, a sound receiver that receives the sound sent from the sound transmitter, and a screen switch that switches a screen of the display based on the sound received by the sound receiver. When the sound transmitter sends the sound based on screen information displayed on the display of the external communication apparatus and the sound receiver receives the sound, the screen switch switches the screen of the display of the image processing apparatus according to the screen information.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasutomo Hayano
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Patent number: 9368056Abstract: In a pixel memory portion of a display device, as corresponding to each pixel memory unit, there are provided a flip-flop, a voltage selection portion, which selects either white display voltage or black display voltage in accordance with an output signal from the flip-flop, and a liquid crystal capacitance, which reflects the voltage selected by the voltage selection portion in the display state of the pixel that corresponds to the flip-flop. Moreover, the flip-flops respectively included in the pixel memory units within the pixel memory portion are connected in series, forming a shift register.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hajime Washio
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Patent number: 9365574Abstract: A compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are capable of modulating the body's production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (“cGMP”) and are generally suitable for the therapy and prophylaxis of diseases which are associated with a disturbed cGMP balance. The invention furthermore relates to processes for preparing compounds of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for their use in the therapy and prophylaxis of the abovementioned diseases and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose, and to pharmaceutical preparations which comprise compounds of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Subharekha Raghavan, John E. Stelmach, Cameron J. Smith, Hong Li, Alan Whitehead, Sherman T. Waddell, Yi-Heng Chen, Shouwu Miao, Olga A. Ornoski, Joie Garfunkle, Xibin Liao, Jiang Chang, Xiaoqing Han, Jian Guo, Jonathan A. Groeper, Linda L. Brockunier, Keith Rosauer, Emma R. Parmee
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Patent number: 9364482Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I that are useful as hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS5B polymerase inhibitors, the synthesis of such compounds, and the use of such compounds for inhibiting HCV NS5B polymerase activity, for treating or preventing HCV infections and for inhibiting HCV viral replication and/or viral production in a cell-based system.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Xing Dai, Hong Liu, Anandan Palani, Shuwen He, Ravi Nargund, Dong Xiao, Nicolas Zorn, Qun Dang, Casey C. McComas, Xuanjia Peng, Peng Li, Richard Soll
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Patent number: 9365884Abstract: An environmental evaluation installation including an evaluation chamber 1 isolated from outer space by isolation walls 2, minute substance supply means 3 configured to supply a microorganism into the evaluation chamber 1, a minute substance removing means 4 configured to supply removal particles for removing the microorganism into the evaluation chamber 1, and a minute substance collecting means 5 configured to collect the microorganism in the evaluation chamber 1, and which is characterized in that many air supply holes 21 are provided for almost the whole surfaces of the isolation walls 2 except at least the floor surface of the isolation walls 2 and that air is made to flow into the evaluation chamber 1 from the air supply holes 21.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuo Nishikawa, Norihiro Matsuoka, Tetsuya Yoneda, Hisaharu Yagi, Masashi Kawai
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Patent number: 9366450Abstract: Provided is an air adjuster that maintains low-noise performance of back-inlet types and allows realization of efficient airflow from the front side toward the back side thereof and prevents the occurrence of stagnant air. The air adjuster includes a housing in which air inlets and an air outlet are formed; a blower that sucks in air through the air inlets; and a conditioning unit that conditions the air sucked in by the blower. The air inlets are located on the back side of the housing, and the air conditioned by the conditioning unit is blown to the outside through the air outlet. The housing allows the air to pass through a space between a bottom surface thereof and a placement surface, and the housing is provided with leg units that form a gap whose vertical dimension on the front side is smaller than that on the back side.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2011Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyasu Yamashita
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Patent number: 9366414Abstract: Provided is an illumination device capable of reducing coherence of laser light emitted from a laser irradiation device to ensure safety to the eye at low cost. In the illumination device for exciting a fluorescent substance by irradiating the fluorescent substance with the laser light from the laser irradiation device to emit visible light for use as illumination light, a light scattering material is placed on and around an optical axis of the laser light.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Takahashi, Hidenori Kawanishi
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Patent number: 9366839Abstract: To make it possible to adjust a relative positional relationship between an imaging lens and an image pickup device highly precisely within a short period of time, a position adjusting device includes: an image pickup device rotating and holding section (101) for holding an image pickup device (202) at any one of three or more rotational angles; a relationship information obtaining section (103) for obtaining, for each of respective images captured at the rotational angles, information on a relationship between the corresponding rotational angle and a contrast of the image at a plurality of points or regions in the image; a line approximation section (104) for approximating the relationship with use of an approximation line; and an image pickup device adjusting section (105) for rotating the image pickup device (202) so that the image pickup device (202) is held at a rotational angle corresponding to a position at which a plurality of the approximation lines cross each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Norimichi Shigemitsu, Hiroyuki Hanato
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Patent number: 9366399Abstract: An illumination device 1 which is a light emitting device capable of emitting white light, includes: a laser element 2 for emitting a blue laser beam; a light emitting section 4 for generating fluorescence by be being irradiated with the blue laser beam emitted from the laser element 2; and a parabolic mirror 5 for reflecting the fluorescence generated from the light emitting section 4, the parabolic mirror 5 being disposed on an irradiated surface side which irradiated surface is a surface of the light emitting section 4 which surface is irradiated with the blue laser beam. This allows the illumination device 1 to efficiently project the white illumination light.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyuki Takahira, Yosuke Maemura, Yasuo Fukai, Koji Takahashi
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Patent number: 9368523Abstract: This semiconductor device (1000A) includes a TFT (100A) with an oxide semiconductor layer 9, a storage capacitor line (12), and a first transparent electrode (15) electrically connected to the storage capacitor line (12). The first transparent electrode (15) includes a portion which overlaps with a first connecting layer (8x) when viewed along a normal to a substrate (1). The portion that overlaps with the first connecting layer (8x) has a point symmetric shape of which a point of symmetry is located inside a contact hole (CH2) when viewed along a normal to the substrate (1). The first transparent electrode (15) is not in direct contact with the first connecting layer (8x). A portion of the first transparent electrode (15) is in direct contact with a second connecting layer (8x). The first connecting layer (8x) is in direct contact with the second connecting layer (19a).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsunori Misaki, Kunio Matsubara
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Patent number: 9370012Abstract: In SORM (Spectrum-Overlapped Resource Allocation), interference to other cells caused by an increase in transmit power of mobile station apparatuses is suppressed. A wireless control apparatus allows a plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses to locate transmit signals at part of frequencies in a system band in an overlapping manner, and determines frequencies at which the individual wireless terminal apparatuses locate transmit signals, so that an interference level of the entire system band is suppressed to be lower than or equal to a certain value. Also, the wireless control apparatus determines frequencies at which the individual wireless terminal apparatuses locate transmit signals, so that a total sum of frequency bands allocated to the individual wireless terminal apparatuses is smaller than or equal to the system band.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Nakamura, Jungo Goto, Hiroki Takahashi
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Patent number: 9367897Abstract: A method for increasing the resolution of a series of low resolution frames of a low resolution video sequence to a series of high resolution frames of a high resolution video sequence includes receiving the series of low resolution frames of the video sequence. The system determines a first plurality of semantically relevant key points of a first low resolution frame of the series of low resolution frames and determines a second plurality of semantically relevant key points of a second low resolution frame of the series of low resolution frames. The system temporally processes the first plurality of key points based upon the second plurality of key points to determine a more temporally consistent set of key points for the first plurality of key points.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Xu Chen, Anustup Kumar A. Choudhury, Christopher Andrew Segall, Petrus J. L. Van Beek
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Patent number: 9369728Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Tadashi Uchiumi, Yoshiya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9364517Abstract: Provided are methods of treatment for tumors. In particular, methods are provided for use of a chemically modified IL-10 to treat tumors.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Martin Oft, Catherine Sheppard, John Brian Mumm, Lingling Wu
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Patent number: 9366785Abstract: A moth-eye mold fabrication method includes: (a) providing an aluminum film deposited on a base, the aluminum film having a thickness of not less than 0.5 ?m and not more than 5 ?m, a surface of the aluminum film having a plurality of crystal grains whose average crystal grain diameter is not less than 200 nm and not more than 5 ?m; (b) after step (a), anodizing the surface of the aluminum film to form a porous alumina layer which has a plurality of minute recessed portions; and (c) after step (b), bringing the porous alumina layer into contact with an etching solution, thereby enlarging the plurality of minute recessed portions of the porous alumina layer. A method of readily fabricating a mold is produced that is for manufacture of an antireflection film in which a moth-eye structure is superposed over an antiglare structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyoshi Minoura, Akinobu Isurugi