Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 9368692Abstract: An electronic color-chart device includes plural LEDs with different peak wavelengths and displays images to serve as color references as color charts by making the plural LEDs emit light. In a case where a light emission intensity distribution of each of the plural LEDs is normalized with a maximum intensity being a value of 1, the plural LEDs include plural first LEDs of which at least one is an LED whose full wavelength width at half maximum intensity is 40 nm or narrower and between which a peak interval is 50 nm or narrower and a second LED whose light emission intensity at a wavelength of 555 nm is 0.4 or higher, and whose full wavelength width at half maximum intensity is wider than 40 nm.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Yoshifumi Shimodaira
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Patent number: 9365562Abstract: The present invention is directed to substituted azetidine compounds which are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of central nervous system disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Christopher D. Cox, Douglas C. Beshore, June J. Kim, Scott D. Kuduk, Carol A. McVean, Thomas Reger, Justin T. Sheen
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Patent number: 9365846Abstract: The present invention provides, in part, an antibody display system that simultaneously uses a secretion and a display mode. A bait complexed with a monovalent antibody fragment can be expressed on the surface of the host cell wherein the fragment may be assayed for antigen binding while full antibody is simultaneously secreted from the host cell. Methods of using the system for identifying antibodies that bind specifically to an antigen of interest are also provided. Polypeptides, polynucleotides and host cells useful for making the antibody display system are also provided along with methods of use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.Inventors: Hussam Hisham Shaheen, Dongxing Zha
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Patent number: 9368521Abstract: A TFT substrate (100) includes a gate line (2) and a source line (4), a TFT (6), a transparent pixel electrode (30) electrically coupled with the TFT, a transparent electrically-conductive layer (34) including a transparent connecting portion (34A) connected with the drain electrode (15) of the TFT and the transparent pixel electrode, and a transparent insulating layer (28) provided between the transparent pixel electrode and the transparent electrically-conductive layer. The transparent connecting portion (34A) includes a first connecting portion (C1) which is a portion connected with the drain electrode and a second connecting portion (C2) which is a portion connected with the transparent pixel electrode. At least part of the second connecting portion (C2) is present in a region enclosed by the gate line and the source line. In the second connecting portion, a portion ranging from the transparent connecting portion to the transparent pixel electrode is configured to allow transmission of light.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
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Patent number: 9365927Abstract: Techniques for producing an organic electroluminescent element while collecting a vapor deposition material that is vapor-deposited on a vapor deposition device, collecting a vapor-deposited film by use of a collection device, and producing an organic electroluminescent element by use of a collection device. In one example, a film is provided on at least a part of a surface of each of a vapor deposition preventing plate and a shutter of a vacuum chamber on which surface vapor deposition particles are vapor-deposited, the film being provided so as to be peeled off from the each of the vapor deposition preventing plate and the shutter, and the film being made of a material differing in at least one of a melting point, a sublimation point, solubility in a given solvent, microbial biodegradability, and photodegradability from a material of which a vapor-deposited film that is formed on the film is made.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tohru Sonoda, Shinichi Kawato, Satoshi Inoue, Satoshi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20160165639Abstract: A communication system comprises a base station that includes circuitry and a mobile station that includes circuitry and which is configured to perform random access to the base station using a preamble. The preamble corresponds to an ID number among a plurality of ID numbers, the number of the plurality of ID numbers is constant, the plurality of ID numbers are contiguous, and the ID number is randomly selectable, by the mobile station, from a set of ID numbers which are included in the plurality of ID numbers. The base station notifies the mobile station of information indicating the number of ID numbers which are included in the set of ID numbers. The mobile station acquires, from the base station, the information indicating the number of ID numbers which are included in the set of ID numbers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuyuki KATO, Shohei YAMADA, Wahoh OH
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Publication number: 20160159744Abstract: The present invention provides quinoline carboxamide and quinoline carbonitrile compounds of formula (I) wherein ring A, RQ, -L-, R1, n, R2, and R3 are as defined herein. The compounds of the invention are useful as non-competitive mGluR2 antagonists, or mGluR2 negative allosteric modulators (NAMs), and in methods of treating a patient (preferably a human) for diseases or disorders in which the mGluR2-NAM receptor is involved, including potentially Alzheimer's disease, cognitive impairment, schizophrenia and other mood disorders, pain disorders and sleep disorders, by administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the invention, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Christopher James Bungard, Antonella Converso, Pablo De Leon, Barbara Hanney, Timothy John Hartingh, Jesse Josef Manikowski, Peter J. Manley, Robert Meissner, Zhaoyang Meng, James J. Perkins, Michael T. Rudd, Youheng Shu
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Publication number: 20160158217Abstract: The present invention provides quinoline carboxamide and quinoline carbonitrile compounds of formula (I) wherein ring A, RQ, -L-, R1, n, R2, and R3 are as defined herein. The compounds of the invention are useful as non-competitive mGluR2 antagonists, or mGluR2 negative allosteric modulators (NAMs), and in methods of treating a patient (preferably a human) for diseases or disorders in which the mGluR2-NAM receptor is involved, including potentially Alzheimer's disease, cognitive impairment, schizophrenia and other mood disorders, pain disorders and sleep disorders, by administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the invention, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Christopher James Bungard, Antonella Converso, Pablo De Leon, Barbara Hanney, Timothy John Hartingh, Jesse Josef Manikowski, Peter J. Manley, Robert Meissner, Zhaoyang Meng, James J. Perkins, Michael T. Rudd, Youheng Shu
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Publication number: 20160162116Abstract: A display device with a lock function includes a touch panel; a display panel control unit that drives the display panel; a touch panel control unit that controls the touch panel; a lock setting unit that, at a prescribed timing, makes the display panel control unit display a lock screen showing an unlock image and activates the lock function; and an unlock unit that deactivates the lock function when a specific touch operation with respect to the unlock image is received; a coordinate setting unit that sets, when the lock function is deactivated, coordinate data that represents the coordinate range of the touch panel in accordance with the specific touch operation and the display location of the unlock image; and a correction unit that, after the lock function is deactivated, corrects the input location of an touch operation performed on the touch panel in accordance with the coordinate data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoichi KUGE, Noriyuki HOSHIAI
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Publication number: 20160165627Abstract: Provided is a technique related to a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication system, a control method, and an integrated circuit, which efficiently controls a state of a cell for a plurality of cells. In the terminal apparatus using a plurality of cells, configuration information which disables change in a state of a cell is received from the base station apparatus, and control is performed based on the received configuration information so that a state of a part of cells among the plurality of cells is not changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsunari UEMURA, Yasuyuki KATO, Hidekazu TSUBOI
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Publication number: 20160165747Abstract: Provided are a display device capable of suppressing occurrence of defective products due to fastening defect of screws, having excellent productivity and workability, achieving narrowing of frame and thinning of set thickness with excellent appearance quality, and manufacturing at a low cost, as well as a television receiver including the display device. A TV receiver includes a display module, and horizontal frames which cover long side peripheral end part of a front surface of the display module. A first plate part and a second plate part forming each side of L-shaped connectors are provided with a plurality of female screws. The horizontal frame includes an end edge covering part which covers long side end edge part of the display module, and a side covering part which covers a side part thereof, and a protruding part which protrudes inwardly of the side covering part. The protruding part is provided with a plurality of screw insertion holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2013Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki IWATA, Toshihiro YAMAMICHI
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Publication number: 20160159752Abstract: The present invention is directed to piperazine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and their use in the inhibition of HIV protease, the inhibition of HIV replication, the prophylaxis of infection by HIV, the treatment of infection by HIV, and the prophylaxis, treatment, and delay in the onset or progression of AIDS.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., MSD R&D (CHINA) CO., LTD.Inventors: Peter D. Williams, John A. McCauley, David Jonathan Bennett, Christopher J. Bungard, Lehua Chang, Michael P. Dwyer, M. Katharine Holloway, Kartik M. Keertikar, H. Marie Loughran, Jessie J. Manikowski, Gregori J. Morriello, Dong-Ming Shen, Edward C. Sherer, Jurgen Schultz, Sherman T. Waddell, Catherine M. Wiscount, Nicolas Zorn, Xin-Jie Chu, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli, Vijayasaradhi Sivalenka, Bin Hu, Tao Ji, Bin Zhong
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Publication number: 20160159779Abstract: This invention relates to a co-crystal of vorapaxar and aspirin. The inventive co-crystal antagonizes the PAR-1 receptor. This invention also provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising the inventive co-crystal as well as potentially to methods for the treatment, amelioration or prevention of conditions that could be treated by antagonizing the PAR-1 receptor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Scott Trzaska, Alicia V. Duran-Capece, Matthew Lamm
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Publication number: 20160165603Abstract: A communication device comprising at least a receiver and a demodulator. The receiver receives first receiving signals and second receiving signals, wherein the first receiving signals are allocated to a first set of subcarriers composed of two or more continuous subcarriers, the second receiving signals are allocated to a second set of subcarriers composed of two or more continuous subcarriers, and at least a portion of the second set of subcarriers overlaps a portion of the first set of subcarriers in a time frame. The demodulator configured to detect the second receiving signals transmitted using one or more subcarriers from receiving signals including the first receiving signals and the second receiving signals, wherein the one or more subcarriers are subcarriers such that the first set of subcarriers overlap the second set of subcarriers, and the demodulator being demodulates the first receiving signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Shimpei TO, Minoru KUBOTA, Hideo NAMBA, Seiichi SAMPEI, Shinichi MIYAMOTO, Shinsuke IBI
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Publication number: 20160162103Abstract: A touch panel having an active area where a touch input is performed, including: a tempered glass substrate having a compressive stress layer formed in a surface thereof; a transparent electrode made of an inorganic oxide film formed within the active area of the touch panel over the tempered glass substrate; a base layer made of an organic film provided between the transparent electrode and the compressive stress layer, the base layer being sandwiched between the transparent electrode and the compressive stress layer such that the transparent electrode and the compressive stress layer are not in contact with each other; and an overcoat layer made of an organic film provided on a side of the transparent electrode that is opposite to the compressive stress layer, the overcoat layer covering the transparent electrode so as to contact the transparent electrode on the base layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takatoshi KIRA
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Publication number: 20160163270Abstract: This display device is provided with a direct-view display panel in which a first pixel of green, a second pixel of blue, a third pixel of green, and a fourth pixel of red are arranged in a Bayer pattern. Luminance information that corresponds to a pixel position of the first pixel and serves as a basis for a display signal supplied to the first pixel is separate from luminance information that corresponds to a pixel position of the third pixel and serves as a basis for a display signal supplied to the third pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Makoto SHIOMI
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Publication number: 20160165255Abstract: A video encoding device (2) includes a side information determination section (21) and a side information encoding section (22). The side information determination section (21) sets a quantization parameter for each macroblock in such a manner that a difference between quantization parameters for each pair of macroblocks with successive encoding orders is equal to one of n difference values, and transforms the difference into one of n indices with respect to each pair. The side information encoding section (22) generates a binary sequence having a length corresponding to the size of the absolute value of the index. The total of absolute values of the n indices is smaller than the total of absolute values of the n difference values.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukinobu YASUGI, Tomohiro IKAI, Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160161809Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer of a horizontal orientation type that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first electrode pair that applies a first horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer, an insulating layer provided on the first electrode pair, and a second electrode pair that is provided on the insulating layer and that applies a second horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode pair includes first and second linear electrodes provided with a gap therebetween. The second electrode pair includes third and fourth linear electrodes provided with a gap therebetween. In a plan view of the first substrate, the third and fourth linear electrodes extend in a direction perpendicular with respect to the first and second linear electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuhiro MURATA, Yosuke IWATA, Hidefumi YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 9360718Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel capable of preventing the occurrence of display unevenness in the perimeter of the display area in the FFS mode. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a pair of substrates; a sealing material; and a liquid crystal layer enclosed by the pair of substrates and the sealing material.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akane Sugisaka, Akihiro Shohraku
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Patent number: 9360726Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display that enables to enhance the resolution of a display screen, to narrow a flame portion, and to simplify the production process of an array substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideaki Takizawa, Masahiro Kihara, Isao Ogasawara