Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20160135149
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus that includes a controller that reduces transmission power in case that data is transmitted simultaneously and a transmission circuit that simultaneous transmits said data using a plurality of channels, where the plurality of channels consists of at least one physical uplink control channel and at least one physical uplink shared channel. The transmission circuit of the mobile station apparatus also transmit hybrid automatic repeat request control information on said at least one physical uplink shared channel and also transmits channel state information on said at least one physical uplink control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi AIBA, Shohei YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160130259
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Xing Dai, Anandan Palani, Shuwen He, Ravi Nargund, Dong Xiao, Qun Dang, Xuanjia Peng, Peng Li
  • Publication number: 20160131821
    Abstract: A backlight device includes: a light guide plate, at least one end face thereof being a light-receiving face; and a plurality of light-emitting units arranged in a row along the light-receiving face such that light emitted from light-emitting units enters the light-receiving face of the light guide plate, wherein the plurality of light-emitting units are grouped into a plurality of groups such that an amount of light emitted by each light-emitting unit in a center group on a center-side of the row is less than an amount of light emitted by each light-emitting unit in a peripheral group on a relatively end-side of the row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takaharu SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20160130273
    Abstract: The invention encompasses a novel process for making piperidinone carboxamide indane and azainane derivatives, which are CGRP receptor antagonists useful for the treatment of migraine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Frank Chen, Carmela Molinaro, W. Peter Wuelfing, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Jianguo Yin, Yong-Li Zhong, Joseph Lynch, Teresa Andreani
  • Publication number: 20160130099
    Abstract: A paper feed apparatus includes a paper feeding portion that sends-out a paper placed in a paper placing tray, and is used in an image forming apparatus such as a multifunction machine. The paper feed apparatus comprises a first regulating portion and a second regulating portion that are arranged in the vicinity of a downstream side of a paper feeding position by the paper feeding portion. The first regulating portion is arranged outside a second width paper passage area to regulate a movement of a first width paper such as A4 paper placed in the paper placing tray toward a feeding direction. On the other hand, the second regulating portion is arranged inside the second width paper passage area to regulate a movement of a second width paper such as a name card placed in the paper placing tray toward a feeding direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasumasa Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20160130327
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to antigen binding proteins including, but not limited to, monoclonal antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof, that specifically bind to and preferably neutralize human cytomegalovirus (CMV). Also encompassed by the invention are antigen binding proteins that have been humanized. The antigen binding proteins of the invention are useful as a therapeutic agent for treating and/or preventing CMV infections in a patient in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Tong-Ming FU, Dai WANG, Zhiqiang AN
  • Publication number: 20160133885
    Abstract: To obtain a secondary battery that surely positions and fixes a laminated type of electrode group by effectively curbing lateral deviation and vertical deviation, in secondary batteries RB1 to RB11 that include a laminated type of electrode group 1 in which a positive-electrode plate 2 and a negative-electrode plate 3 are so laminated via a separator 4 as to form a plurality of laminated layers, a structure is employed, in which vertical deviation in a lamination direction and lateral deviation in a lamination surface direction are curbed via a fix means that fixes the electrode group 1 to a predetermined position in an outer case 11 that houses the electrode group 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya SAKASHITA, Kazuo YAMADA, Yoshihiro TSUKUDA, Yuki WATANABE, Hiroshi OKAMOTO, Tadashi NEMOTO, Takuya OOTANI
  • Publication number: 20160134869
    Abstract: By either subsampling neighbor pixels and deriving an illumination variation parameter, or deriving one normalization shift value of two normalization shift values for normalizing parameters which are used when deriving the illumination variation parameter, with a dependency on the other normalization shift value, an amount of calculation for illumination compensation is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ikai
  • Publication number: 20160131943
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, including; a liquid crystal panel; a polarizing plate attached to a surface of the liquid crystal panel; an adhesive sheet covering the polarizing plate, the adhesive sheet having a central region attached to the polarizing plate and a peripheral region attached to a peripheral surface of the liquid crystal panel, the peripheral region enclosing an entire circumference of an outer edge of the polarizing plate; and a transmissive member attached to the adhesive sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuya MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20160130659
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to methods for the treatment of B-cell lymphomas and leukemia by administering a SYK inhibitor. In another embodiment, the invention relates to a method for treating a patient diagnosed with a B-cell lymphoma or leukemia, comprising administering a SYK inhibitor, wherein the B-cells of said patient to be treated are characterized by elevated expression levels of CD86.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Kenzie MacIsaac, Manfred Kraus, Peter Richard Strack, Kumiko Nagashima, John Michael Ellis
  • Publication number: 20160131826
    Abstract: A backlight device includes LEDs, a light guide plate, and a heat dissipation member. The light guide plate includes edge surfaces including a light entrance surface through which light from the LEDs enters, a front plate surface as a light exit surface through which the light from the LEDs exits, and another plate surface as an opposed surface on an opposite side from the light exit surface. The heat dissipation member having heat dissipating properties includes a bottom plate portion extending along the opposed surface on an opposed surface side, and an upstanding portion extending from the bottom plate portion toward the light exit surface. The bottom plate portion includes projections projecting toward the light exit surface and facing short-side edge surfaces of the light guide plate. The projections are stopped at the corresponding edge surfaces to restrict a distance between the LEDs and the light entrance surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira GOTOU
  • Publication number: 20160132149
    Abstract: Provided is a driving control unit (93) which performs control to switch high and low of correlation of code sequences output by driving signal generation units (4a to 4d) according to a detection distance which is a distance between a surface of a touch panel (2) and an object to be detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke KANAZAWA
  • Patent number: 9337216
    Abstract: The present invention allows a current leakage path to be reliably disconnected even when a conductive film residue occurs between data wiring lines. An interlayer insulating film of a TFT panel includes an interlayer insulating film opening at a position corresponding to a pattern edge of an insulating protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Furukawa
  • Patent number: 9336738
    Abstract: In one or more example embodiments, a display controller includes a stable pixel writing period in one horizontal period in a display device, the stable pixel writing period being a period during which a voltage outputted from a gate driver is at a high level. The display controller also includes a first stable pixel writing period determination circuit which determines, by using a reference signal independent from the frame rate in the display device, the stable pixel writing period during which the voltage is at the high level. Thus, the display controller can be provided in which, regardless of whether and how the frame rate is changed, the stable pixel writing period can be of a target length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yanagi, Takuji Miyamoto, Atsuhito Murai
  • Patent number: 9336718
    Abstract: In a pixel circuit, during a period during which an organic EL element is not emitting light, a transistor is in an “on” state and a reverse-direction voltage determined by a reverse-direction current that depends on the degree to which degradation of the organic EL element has progressed is written to a capacitor. The transistor then turns off, another transistor turns on, and a compensating current that depends on the reverse-direction voltage flows from another capacitor towards a reverse-biasing power-supply line, causing a drive voltage maintained by the capacitor to change by a compensating voltage change. This makes it possible to minimize decreases in the emission luminance of an electro-optical element such as an organic EL element due to degradation thereof over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshinori Sugihara, Noboru Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9338465
    Abstract: A method for decoding a video frame includes receiving a slice header of at least one of a plurality of slices, identifying a type of a first slice and a type of a second slice, and initializing a first context associated with the first slice and a second context associated with the second slice using one of a first initialization method and a second initialization method. The first initialization method or the second initialization method is selected according to the type of the first slice and the type of the second slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Christopher A. Segall
  • Patent number: 9337489
    Abstract: A cathode active material of the present invention is a cathode active material having a composition represented by General Formula (1) below, LiFe1?xMxP1?ySiyO4??(1), where: an average valence of Fe is +2 or more; M is an element having a valence of +2 or more and is at least one type of element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Sn, Y, and Al; the valence of M is different from the average valence of Fe; 0<x?0.5; and y=x×({valence of M}?2)+(1?x)×({average valence of Fe}?2). This provides a cathode active material that not only excels in terms of safety and cost but also can provide a long-life battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Ohira, Motoaki Nishijima, Toshitsugu Sueki, Shogo Esaki, Isao Tanaka, Yukinori Koyama, Katsuhisa Tanaka, Koji Fujita, Shunsuke Murai
  • Patent number: 9335148
    Abstract: Realized is an electrostatic capacitance value distribution detecting device capable of determining whether or not external noise exists. An electrostatic capacitance value distribution detecting circuit (2) of an aspect of the present invention drives vertical signal lines (VL) to output, from horizontal signal lines (HL), electric charges corresponding to electrostatic capacitances, and then drives the horizontal signal lines to output, from the vertical signal lines, electric charges corresponding to the electrostatic capacitances. The electrostatic capacitance value distribution detecting device includes a noise detecting section (8) which determines whether or not external noise exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tamiyo Nakabayashi, Masayuki Miyamoto, Mutsumi Hamaguchi, Hiroshi Kuhara
  • Patent number: 9337213
    Abstract: This semiconductor device (100) includes: a gate electrode (3); a gate insulating layer (4); an oxide layer (50) which is formed on the gate insulating layer (4) and which includes a first conductor region (55) and a first semiconductor region (51) that overlaps at least partially with the gate electrode (3) with the gate insulating layer (4) interposed between them; a source electrode (6s) formed to contact with the upper surface of the first semiconductor region (51) of the oxide layer (50); a drain electrode (6d) which is formed to contact with the upper surface of the first semiconductor region (51) of the oxide layer (50) and which is electrically connected to the first conductor region (55); and a conductive layer (60) which is formed in contact with the upper surface of the oxide layer (50) and which a plurality of holes (66) or notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuatsu Ito, Yutaka Takamaru, Tadayoshi Miyamoto, Mitsunobu Miyamoto, Makoto Nakazawa, Yasuyuki Ogawa, Seiichi Uchida, Shigeyasu Mori
  • Patent number: 9336740
    Abstract: A shift register is disclosed which includes, at respective stages, unit circuits (11) each including (i) a flip-flop (11a) including first and second CMOS circuits and (ii) a signal generation circuit (11b) for generating an output signal (SROUTk) for the current stage with use of an output (Q, QB) of the flip-flop (11a), the shift register including a floating control circuit (11c) between a gate terminal of an output transistor (Tr7) of the signal generation circuit (11b) and a Q terminal. This makes it possible to reduce a circuit scale of a display driving circuit without causing a shift register to malfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shige Furuta, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Makoto Yokoyama, Seijirou Gyouten