Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9322980
    Abstract: The backlight device (24) of the present invention is provided with: a heat-dissipating member (36) having a bottom surface part (36a); a light guide plate (20) that has a light-receiving face (20a) on the side face thereof and that is arranged such that the back surface of the plate faces the front of the bottom surface part (36a); and LED light-source (28) that is arranged opposite to the light-receiving face (20a) above the front surface of the bottom surface part (36a); a reflective sheet (26) that is arranged to be in contact with the back surface of the light-guide plate (20); and a protruding part (38) that is formed so as to protrude from the front surface of the bottom surface part (36a) between the LED light source (28) and the light-receiving face (20a), the protruding part (38) being higher than the back surface of the light guide plate (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kentaro Kamada
  • Patent number: 9324908
    Abstract: Provided is a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element including in order a first n-type nitride semiconductor layer, a second n-type nitride semiconductor layer, an n-type electron-injection layer, a light-emitting layer, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer, wherein the average n-type dopant concentration of the second n-type nitride semiconductor layer is 0.53 times or less as high as the average n-type dopant concentration of the first n-type nitride semiconductor layer, and the average n-type dopant concentration of the n-type electron-injection layer is 1.5 times or more as high as the average n-type dopant concentration of the second n-type nitride semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Watanabe, Satoshi Komada, Tomoya Inoue, Kosuke Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20160110022
    Abstract: A touch panel controller of the invention is provided with a driving unit which drives drive lines and causes a linear sum signal based on charges accumulated in respective electrostatic capacitances to be output from a sense line, and a correction processing unit which corrects influence on a change in the electrostatic capacitances by a parasitic capacitance which exists in the sense line. Thereby, it is possible to provide the touch panel controller and an electronic device capable of performing estimation of an electrostatic capacitance value more correctly by correcting the influence of the parasitic capacitance which exists in the sense line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke KANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160112999
    Abstract: A wireless communication system that includes a base station and one or more terminals carries out wireless data communication by use of a first frequency band. The wireless communication system includes a wireless access system that employs a CSMA/CA and/or TDMA/TDD system as the wireless access system of the wireless communication system and a control signal at the first frequency band is periodically broadcasts from the base station, where the control signal includes a control information configured to manage wireless data transmission by the one or more terminals. In addition to the first frequency band, one or more frequency bands different from the first frequency band for the wireless data transmission by the one or more terminals can be allocate by the base station, where the control signal at the first frequency band indicate the location of the one or more frequency bands which can be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: MINORU KOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20160108048
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Imidazole Derivatives of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein A, B, Y, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one Imidazole Derivative, and methods of using the Imidazole Derivatives for inhibiting CYP450 3A. Inhibition of CYP450 3A can be used to improve the pharmacokinetics of a drug that is metabolized by CYP450 3A4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Craig A. Coburn, Milana Maletic, Yunfu Luo, Zhiqi Qi, Chunsing Li, Tingting Yu, Richard Soll
  • Publication number: 20160108059
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Fused Tricyclic Heterocycle Derivatives of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1-R8, A, X and n are as defined herein. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one Fused Tricyclic Heterocycle Derivative, and methods of using the Fused Tricyclic Heterocycle Derivatives for treating or preventing HIV infection in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Paul J. Coleman, Timothy J. Hartingh, Izzat T. Raheem, John Schreier, John Sisko, John Wai, Thomas H. Graham, Lihong Hu, Xuanjia Peng
  • Publication number: 20160110015
    Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel which includes a plurality of horizontal signal lines and a plurality of vertical signal lines, a touch panel controller which controls the touch panel, and a touch pen. The touch panel controller drives the horizontal signal lines in one of successive two frame periods and drives the horizontal signal lines or the vertical signal lines in the other of the frame periods, the touch pen outputs a state signal about a state of the touch pen in each frame period, and a first item representing a state of the touch pen is expressed by a plurality of state signals which are outputted in a plurality of successive frame periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mamoru TAKAYA, Michiaki TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20160112863
    Abstract: A system includes a subscription storage that stores a group identifier for identifying a home base station 60 and the service available for a UE 70 as subscription information, in correspondence with a mobile terminal identifier for identifying UE 70; a positional information update request receiver for receiving a positional information update request of UE 70 from an MME 40; and a positional information response transmitter that extracts the available service corresponding to the mobile terminal included in the positional information update request, from the subscription storage and transmits a positional information update response included with the extracted service to MME 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masafumi ARAMOTO, Hirokazu NAOE
  • Publication number: 20160106835
    Abstract: A novel combination comprising a B-Raf inhibitor, particularly N-{3-[5-(2-Amino-4-pyrimidinyl)-2-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-1,3-thiazol-4-yl]-2-fluorophenyl}-2,6-difluorobenzenesulfonamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, the MEK inhibitor N-{3-[3-cyclopropyl-5-(2-fluoro-4-iodo-phenylamino)6,8-dimethyl; -2,4,7-trioxo-3,4,6,7-tetrahydro-2H-pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-1-yl]phenyl}acetamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, and a PD-1 antagonist; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and methods of using such combinations and compositions in the treatment of conditions in which the inhibition of MEK and/or B-Raf and/or immune modulation through PD-1 is beneficial, e.g., cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicants: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., GLAXOSMITHKLINE LLC
    Inventors: Axel Hoos, Keith W. Orford, Patrick Chun, Venkataraman Sriram, Elaine M. Pinheiro, Scot W. Ebbinghaus
  • Publication number: 20160112934
    Abstract: A communication system, a mobile station apparatus, a base station apparatus, and a processing method are provided that can perform decoding processing of a PDCCH related to a search space efficiently, and can perform communication promptly. A mobile station apparatus for performing communication with a base station apparatus in a mobile communication system: performs monitoring of a physical downlink control channel in an extension search space in accordance with an instruction from the base station apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei YAMADA, Shoichi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9319543
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a display portion, a control portion including a display control portion for causing the display portion to display a preview image of output target data, a touch sensor for receiving, on the display portion, a user operation for performing output setting for the output target data concerning the preview image, an output portion for outputting the output target data based on the output setting, and a control portion for, in a state where the display control portion arranges objects in page unit sequentially to be displayed as the preview image, when the touch sensor receives a predetermined pinch operation for the objects, performing page setting concerning the objects to be operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihisa Chiba
  • Patent number: 9316867
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which a display defect is less likely to occur even when an alignment layer is not formed. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer held between the pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates including an electrode, and the liquid crystal layer having negative dielectric anisotropy, in which each of the pair of substrates includes a silane coupling layer on a surface of the corresponding substrate, a polymer layer configured to vertically align adjacent liquid crystal molecules is formed on a surface of the silane coupling layer, the polymer layer is formed by the polymerization of at least one monomer contained in a liquid crystal composition, and the at least one monomer contains a compound represented by the chemical formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Noma, Youhei Nakanishi, Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 9319620
    Abstract: A light emission portion of a video signal is detected, and the display intensity of the light emission portion is enhanced for emphasis display. At this moment, the intensity stretch amount is controlled in accordance with a status of video black display, thereby increasing the feeling of brightness and hence improving the video quality. An area-active-control/luminance-stretching portion stretches and increases the intensity of a backlight portion on the basis of an index related to a brightness calculated, on the basis of a predetermined condition, from the input video signal, and lowers the video signal intensity of the non-light emission part excluding the light emission part. At this moment, the area-active-control/luminance-stretching portion changes, in accordance with a black display amount detected by a black detection portion, a control curve that defines the relationship between the index related to the brightness and the stretch amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujine, Yoji Shiraya
  • Patent number: 9318041
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixels grouped into four types of type 1, type 2, type 3, and type 4; a panel driver circuit connected to the liquid crystal panel to drive the liquid crystal panel; and a display control circuit connected to the panel driver circuit, wherein said display control circuit divides each refresh cycle of the image signal into consecutive first to fourth terms and causes the panel driver circuit to drive the liquid crystal panel to perform a halftone display by changing pixel luminance during each refresh cycle composed of the first to fourth terms, and wherein said display control circuit provides timing signals and gradation data to the panel driver circuit so that, for a given halftone to be displayed in a refresh cycle, pixels belonging to respective types in the liquid crystal panel are driven such that the halftone is generated as averaged over the first to fourth terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Kentaroh Irie
  • Patent number: 9318320
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an active element substrate aimed at reducing the production costs of an interlayer insulating film made from a spin-on glass material, for example. In the method of manufacturing an active element substrate, an interlayer insulating film is formed using a printing method that employs a plate. The plate includes: a main pattern that overlaps with signal lines that enclose openings; and fine line patterns that reduce, in the widthwise direction of the signal lines, the inclination of the edges of the printed pattern printed by the main pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Fuse, Masaya Yamamoto, Naoki Takao
  • Patent number: 9315457
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymorphic forms of a compound of formula A: This compound is useful as a glucagon receptor antagonist and serves as a pharmaceutically active ingredient for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and related conditions, such as hyperglycemia, obesity, dyslipidemia, and the metabolic syndrome. Hydrates, hemihydrates, anhydrates and similar polymorphic forms are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventor: John Y. L. Chung
  • Patent number: 9316385
    Abstract: A backlight device (lighting device) (12) according to the present invention includes a chassis (14) having an opened section (14b), optical members (15) disposed to cover the opened section (14b) in the chassis (14), LEDs (light source) (17) disposed outside of the chassis (14), and lens members (light guide members) (20) disposed in such a structure as to penetrate the chassis (14), the lens members guiding the light from the LEDs (17) into the chassis (14). An LED housing chassis (light source housing member) (19) that stores therein the LEDs (17) is attached to the chassis (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasutoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 9318454
    Abstract: This drive chip has a configuration that is provided with: a base main body; two terminal groups that are respectively disposed along the base main body sides in the longitudinal direction of the base main body, said sides facing each other; a narrow-pitch section in one terminal group wherein terminals are disposed in a zigzag manner in two or more rows, said narrow-pitch section having a narrow terminal pitch in the longitudinal direction; a rough pitch section in the one terminal group, said rough pitch section having a terminal pitch in the longitudinal direction wider than that of the narrow pitch section; and a dummy bump that is disposed between the two terminal groups, said dummy bump being disposed parallel to the rough pitch section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Matsui, Takeshi Horiguchi, Motoji Shiota
  • Patent number: 9319538
    Abstract: A first image forming apparatus detects a malfunction generated in a functional unit thereof and determines a functional mode that cannot be executed. The first image forming apparatus transmits the functional mode that cannot be executed to a management apparatus. When obtaining the functional mode that cannot be executed, the management apparatus updates a functional mode table. The management apparatus increases a priority of the first image forming apparatus for a functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. Along with this, the management apparatus decreases a priority of a second image forming apparatus that normally operates for the functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. When receiving a job, the management apparatus refers to the updated functional mode table to allocate the job to one of the image forming apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9319188
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for special subframe configuration for carrier aggregation is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Executable instructions are stored in the memory. The UE transmits and receives based on the special subframe configuration, regardless of a combination of special subframe configurations of the aggregated cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada