Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same
    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
  • Liquid crystal display element and liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 9335590
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display element (10) of the present invention includes a transparent common electrode (40) which is provided in a layer between (i) a scan line (20) and a signal line (19) and (ii) a pixel electrode (30) so that the transparent common electrode (40) covers a location which faces at least one of (i) at least part of the scan line (20) and (ii) at least part of the signal line (19), the transparent common electrode (40) having an opening part (41) at a location which faces the pixel electrode (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kaori Saitoh, Yoshimizu Moriya, Yuki Kawashima, Noboru Nakanishi
  • Method for fabricating active matrix substrate and method for fabricating display device
    Patent number: 9337215
    Abstract: A gate line is formed on a pixel region, and a plurality of wiring layers are formed on a frame region. Next, a gate insulating layer and a semiconductor material layer are formed to cover the wiring layers and the gate line. Next, a first resist is formed to cover a portion of the semiconductor material layer over the pixel region, and second resists are formed to individually cover portions of the gate insulating layer between adjacent pairs of the wiring layers. Next, portions of the semiconductor material layer exposed from the first and second resists and are etched by dry etching to form semiconductor layers of semiconductor elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Inoue
  • Context initialization based on decoder picture buffer
    Patent number: 9338472
    Abstract: A method for decoding a video frame includes receiving a slice in a video decoder, identifying the slice as one of at least a first predicted slice and a second predicted slice, receiving information used to determine a context initialization method corresponding to the slice, and initializing, based on the received information, one of a first context initialization method and a second context initialization method associated with the slice, and decoding the video frame using the slice and one of the first context initialization method and the second context initialization method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Christopher A. Segall
  • Liquid crystal display device and method for driving auxiliary capacitance lines
    Patent number: 9336736
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device with reduced power consumption employing a CS drive method. A CS driver (500) consists of a CS shift register (510) and a CS output portion (520). The CS shift register (510) outputs control signals (COUT(1) to COUT(m)) in accordance with a CS clock signal CCK. The CS output portion (520) outputs auxiliary capacitance signals (CSS(1) to CSS(m)) in accordance with the control signals (COUT(1) to COUT(m)), respectively. An idle period (T2) is set following a scanning period (T1). During the idle period (T2), the CS driver (500) is driven in accordance with the CS clock signal (CCK) at an idle-period CS frequency (fcck2). The idle-period CS frequency (fcck2) is lower than a scanning-period CS frequency (fcck1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kaoru Yamamoto, Seiji Kaneko, Yasuyuki Ogawa, Kohhei Tanaka, Seiichi Uchida, Yutaka Takamaru, Shigeyasu Mori
  • Multifunction peripheral which carries out printing processing according to an instruction of an application that operates on an information processing apparatus and method therefor
    Patent number: 9338323
    Abstract: In a case of a first function of carrying out a cooperative processing in accordance with an instruction from a user of a multifunction peripheral (10), the user is set as an execution user. In a case of a second function of carrying out a cooperative processing in accordance with an instruction from an application, a user instructed by the application is set as an execution user. Further, in a case where an execution user of a cooperative processing carried out using the first function and an execution user of a cooperative processing carried out using the second function are identical, use history information of the execution user is managed as use history information of a single user. This makes it possible to appropriately manage use history information of a cooperative processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
  • Display device and method for driving same
    Patent number: 9335598
    Abstract: In a pixel circuit, during a period during which an organic EL element is not emitting light, transistors are in an “on” state and the organic EL element (OLED) is reversed-biased by a low-level power-supply potential and a reverse-biasing power-supply potential. 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 thus written to a capacitor. A data voltage is then supplied to the capacitor via another capacitor, bringing the drive voltage of a transistor (T2) that controls the current that drives the organic EL element to Vsig+Voledr. This makes it possible to minimize decreases in the emission luminance of an electrooptical 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
  • Display device
    Patent number: 9335579
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 1 comprises a liquid crystal display panel 4, a backlight unit 20 emitting light toward the liquid crystal display panel 4, control substrates 9 for controlling the liquid crystal display panel 4 and the backlight unit 20, and an outer cover 2 containing the liquid crystal display panel 4, the backlight unit 20, and the control substrates 9. The control substrates 9 are arranged on the side opposite to the side including the display panel 4 with respect to the backlight unit 20, and the liquid crystal display device 1 further comprises a heat insulating frame 6, which is disposed between the backlight unit 20 and the control substrates 9, and which forms a space covering one surface of the backlight unit 20 on the side facing toward the control substrates 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato Onoue
  • UE, ANDSF, mobile communication system, PGW, and communication method
    Patent number: 9338728
    Abstract: UE receives a mobile operator policy including flow identification information, access system identification information, and a degree of compulsion from an ANDSF, and in a case where the degree of compulsion included in the mobile operator policy is a degree of compulsion that compels the UE to perform switching, transmits a request to forcibly switch a communication path used flow communication corresponding to the flow identification information to an access system corresponding to the access system identification information included in the mobile operator policy. As a result, by transmitting an MO policy from the ANDSF to the UE while the UE connected to a first access system is performing data communication, the UE changes a UE policy to the MO policy, thereby providing a mobile communication system or the like that is capable of avoiding concentration of traffic in the first access system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masafumi Aramoto, Masayuki Enomoto
  • LIGHT SOURCE SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND LIGHT SOURCE SUBSTRATE INSPECTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20160128143
    Abstract: An LED substrate (light source substrate) includes: a substrate; a plurality of LEDs (light sources) mounted on the substrate; a power supply wiring line on the substrate that can supply power to the plurality of LEDs by connecting the plurality of LEDs in series; and an inspection wiring line that is disposed on the substrate and connected to a portion of the power supply wiring line that connects adjacent LEDs included in the plurality of LEDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yosuke KAZIKAWA
  • DISPLAY COMPONENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160124255
    Abstract: A display component includes a glass substrate GS including a display area AA and a non-display area NAA surrounding the display area AA, a color filter 29 overlapping a surface of the glass substrate GS in the display area AA, a CF board side alignment film 32 disposed in at least the display area AA to cover the color filter 29 and partially including a thickness variation portion 36 that gradually decreases thickness thereof toward an outer side, and a film forming control portion 37 disposed in the non-display area NAA to be next to the display area AA and overlapping the surface of the glass substrate GS and configured to form the CF board side alignment film 32 such that the thickness variation portion 36 is in the non-display area NAA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya KIDA, Yutaka SAWAYAMA, Hiroyuki OKAZOE, Yoshiyuki IHARA
  • COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20160128052
    Abstract: A communication system comprises at least a base station device and a terminal device. The terminal device transmits a demodulation reference signal associated with a physical channel, receives a configuration of comb of the demodulation reference signal, and transmits the demodulation reference signal mapped based on the configuration of comb. The base station device transmits a configuration of comb of a demodulation reference signal related to a physical channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru OUCHI, Shoichi SUZUKI, Tatsushi AIBA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • CYCLIC PHOSPHONATE SUBSTITUTED NUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF FOR THE TREATMENT OF VIRAL DISEASES
    Publication number: 20160122380
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Cyclic Phosphonate Substituted Nucleoside Derivatives of Formula (I): (structure) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein B, X, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined herein, as well as to compositions and methods of using the Cyclic Phosphonate Substituted Nucleoside Derivatives for treating or preventing HCV infection in a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Stephane Bogen, Vinay Girijavallabhan, Quang Truong, Ping Chen, Frank Bennett, Angela Kerekes, Qun Dang, David B. Olsen, Ian Davies
  • RESTRICTING PLATE UNIT, VAPOR DEPOSITION UNIT, AND VAPOR DEPOSITION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160122861
    Abstract: A vapor deposition unit (1) includes a vapor deposition mask (50), a vapor deposition source (10), and a limiting plate unit (20). The limiting plate unit (20) includes (i) a plurality of first limiting plates (32) separated from each other in an X axis direction and (ii) a plurality of second limiting plates (42) disposed directly above the first limiting plates (32) in a plan view and separated from each other in the X axis direction. At least two second limiting plates (42) are arranged in the X axis direction for each first limiting plate (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhki KOBAYASHI, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI, Shinichi KAWATO, Satoshi INOUE, Takashi OCHI, Eiichi MATSUMOTO, Masahiro ICHIHARA
  • PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF CHIRAL TERT-BUTYL 4-((1R,2S,5R)-6-(BENZYLOXY)-7-OXO-1,6-DIAZABICYCLO[3.2.1]OCTANE-2-CARBOXAMIDO)PIPERIDINE-1-CARBOXYLATE DERIVATIVES AND (2S,5R)-7-OXO-N-PIPERIDIN-4-YL-6-(SULFOXY)-1,6-DIAZABICYCLO[3.2.1]OCTANE-2-CARBOXAMIDE
    Publication number: 20160122350
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of N-protected 6-(piperidin-4-ylcarbamoyl)piperidin-3-yl sulfonates of Formula (III): which comprises contacting a lactone of Formula (II): with an azacycloalkylamine of formula (II-Am): followed by contact with a sulfonyl halide of formula (II-Su): R4—SO2W (II-Su) in the presence of tertiary amine base, wherein PG1 and PG2 are amine protective groups; k, p and q are 0, 1, or 2, and W, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are defined herein. Additional embodiments add a series of process steps leading to the synthesis of 7-oxo-1,6-diazabicyclo[3.2.1]octanes suitable for use as ?-lactamase inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Steven P. Miller, John Limanto, Yong-Li Zhong, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Zhijian Liu
  • SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME
    Publication number: 20160126697
    Abstract: In a semiconductor laser device including a semiconductor laser element that emits laser light from an emission region thereof, a cap having a peripheral wall and a ceiling wall that cover the semiconductor laser element and having a window portion formed in the ceiling wall to face the emission region, and a transparent optical member that fills the window portion, the optical member is formed by curing a liquid resin and holds the ceiling wall, and a light incidence surface of the optical member faces the emission region and is formed by natural flow of the liquid resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiro TSUCHIDA
  • DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER
    Publication number: 20160124268
    Abstract: A fixing rib (240) includes a rib (2400) that protrudes toward a widthwise end of an LED substrate (22). The LED substrate (22) has a notch (222) provided at the widthwise end thereof so as to fit to the rib (2400) in a case where the LED substrate (22) is moved to a fixing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji OHTSUKA, Ikuo NAKAMURA, Shunsaku FUCHIKAWA, Tetsuroh KUWABARA, Youhei YAMAZAKI, Hideki MIYATA
  • Respiration Monitoring Method and Device with Context-Aware Event Classification
    Publication number: 20160120479
    Abstract: A respiration monitoring method and device with context-aware noise detection use context supplied by neighboring events when deciding how to classify a target event. More particularly, the present invention considers similarities between a target event and neighboring events relative to event attributes and timing to inform the decision whether to classify the target event as a respiration event or a noise event. Target events classified as noise events are removed from the respiration signal or otherwise ignored when estimating respiration parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan Severt Hallberg
  • ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TV RECEIVER
    Publication number: 20160124270
    Abstract: The backlight device includes: a plurality of LEDs arranged in a row; and a light guide plate having, on the long-side side faces, light-entering faces into which light emitted from the plurality of LEDs enters, the light guide plate further having side faces that respectively abut the light-entering faces 20a. The light-entering faces have a plurality of recesses or protrusions on the light-entering faces 20, each of the plurality of recesses or protrusions having a shape of a prism that directs the light entering the prism toward one of the side faces that is closer to where the prism is located relative to a center of the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takaharu SHIMIZU
  • Methods and systems for display source light management with rate change control
    Patent number: 9330630
    Abstract: Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for modifying or adjusting a display source light illumination level based on power consumption goals. In some embodiments, a rate control parameter may be used to limit the rate at which the illumination level is varied. In some embodiments, image content analysis may be used to determine the value of the rate control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Joseph Kerofsky