Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9307294
    Abstract: In response to a user's operation, a menu screen generating section (12) changes a menu screen to be generated (i) from a first menu screen (M1) in which thumbnail images (Ta through Tg) corresponding to respective plurality of pieces of content are linearly arranged (ii) to a second menu screen (M2) in which the thumbnail images (Ta through Tg) are circularly arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Hiyoshi, Takahiro Tsugi, Bin Wu, Keiichi Hasegawa, Masayoshi Kanbara, Shinya Nishina
  • Patent number: 9307251
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining local-analysis-window size and weighting parameters in a gradient-based motion estimation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Petrus J. L. Van Beek, Xinyu Xu
  • Patent number: 9301929
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Substituted Biaryl Derivatives, compositions comprising a Substituted Biaryl Derivative, and methods of using the Substituted Biaryl Derivatives for treating or preventing obesity, diabetes, a metabolic disorder, a cardiovascular disease or a disorder related to the activity of GPR119 in a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Craig D. Boyle, Claire M. Lankin, William J. Greenlee, Joel M. Harris
  • Patent number: 9305492
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes a controller, a data driver, and a DRAM which provides a gain correction memory and a threshold voltage correction memory. The data driver sends, to the controller, first and second measurement data Im corresponding to the first and second measuring data voltages Vm, respectively. The controller compares ideal characteristic data IO(P) with the first and second measurement data Im, and updates threshold voltage correction data Vt and gain correction data B2R based on the comparison results. The controller corrects video data Vm based on the threshold voltage correction data Vt and the gain correction data B2R. Thereby, both threshold voltage compensation and gain compensation of a drive transistor are performed with respect to each pixel circuit, while display is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kengo Takahama, Yoshimitsu Yamauchi, Noboru Noguchi, Noritaka Kishi
  • Patent number: 9306089
    Abstract: A solar cell module according to the invention includes a solar cell; a light guiding portion including a first fluorescent substance having a faint color and that emits light having low luminosity factor, the light guiding portion absorbing part of light incident from the outside using the first fluorescent substance and transmitting a first light beam emitted from the first fluorescent substance toward the solar cell; and a converter disposed between the light guiding portion and the solar cell, the converter converting the first light beam incident from the light guiding portion into a second light beam to which the solar cell has higher spectral sensitivity than to the first light beam and causing the second light beam to be incident on the solar cell. Thus, when the solar cell module is used as a window, the solar cell module is highly transparent and highly efficiently generates power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideomi Yui, Hideki Uchida, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 9307527
    Abstract: A wireless communication device configured for selecting a codeword and determining a symbol length for uplink control information is described. The wireless communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The wireless communication device establishes communication with a base station, receives downlink control information from the base station and receives base station information. The wireless communication device generates uplink control information based on the base station information. The wireless communication device also determines a number of symbols for the uplink control information for a plurality of layers and sends the uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, John Michael Kowalski, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 9306558
    Abstract: This FET includes: a source electrode pad, which is formed on a source electrode and which is electrically connected to the source electrode; and/or a drain electrode pad, which is formed on the drain electrode and which is electrically connected to the drain electrode. The source electrode pad has a cutout for reducing a parasitic capacitance between the source electrode pad and the drain electrode, and the drain electrode pad has a cutout for reducing a parasitic capacitance between the drain electrode pad and the source electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Suzuki, Takahiko Andoh, Satoshi Morishita
  • Publication number: 20160094976
    Abstract: When a UE (User Equipment) that performs data transmission/reception in a neighborhood service detects a neighboring terminal, the UE receives a piece of information on a search range before neighborhood search of a UE as a communication target and searches for the UE as the communication target on the basis of the piece of information on the search range. This allows a mobile telecommunications carrier to control the search range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: MASAYUKI ENOMOTO, MASAFUMI ARAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160091919
    Abstract: In a touch panel system of the present invention, a touch pen is configured of an electronic pen that signals can be input into and output from. A touch panel controller includes a synchronization signal transmission unit that transmits a synchronization signal to the electronic pen during synchronization signal transmission periods immediately before each of a first signal line drive period and a second signal line drive period. The synchronization signal transmission unit transmits the synchronization signal of which the waveform is configured of a Manchester-coded pseudorandom sequence having periodicity to the electronic pen during the synchronization signal transmission period. The electronic pen includes a synchronization signal detecting unit that detects the synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michiaki TAKEDA, Mamoru TAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20160091910
    Abstract: In a first circuit 118, a voltage obtained by a summation of a forward junction voltage of base-emitter junction of a transistor 103 and a voltage drop due to a resistor 107 is generated between a first terminal and a second terminal in accordance with an emitter current of the transistor 103 and is applied to a collector terminal of a first bipolar transistor 108. In a second circuit 109, a forward junction voltage of base-emitter junction is generated between a first terminal connected to a terminal 116 and a second terminal connected to a base terminal of the transistor 108 in accordance with the emitter current and is applied to the base terminal of the first bipolar transistor 108.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiteru ISHIMARU
  • Publication number: 20160092007
    Abstract: A driving unit (14) applies a driving voltage based on a predetermined code sequence to each of a plurality of drive lines, and thereby an integration circuit (21) outputs a linear sum signal based on a linear sum of amounts of charges accumulated in a sense line. This is performed a plurality of times, and a computation unit (23) estimates an electrostatic capacitance. The driving unit (14) applies a positive driving voltage and a negative driving voltage to a pair of adjacent drive lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke KANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160091754
    Abstract: A display device includes a color display panel and an optical member arranged on the viewer's side of the color display panel. The color display panel includes a display region in which a plurality of color display pixels are arranged into rows and columns to form a matrix pattern. The display region includes a first display region and a second display region in which different arrangement patterns are used for primary color pixels. The first display region employs a first pattern in which primary color pixels of the same color are arranged in the column direction. The second display region employs a second pattern in which primary color pixels of different colors are arranged in the column direction in a repeating pattern. The second display region includes at least one column of color display pixels positioned on one end of the display region in the row direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisashi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9298059
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transflective display device which is high in transmittance, can secure sufficient brightness in display, and can display black. A transflective display device 1 includes a display panel 2 and a backlight 3. The display panel 2 includes a substrate 10 having an electrode 12. a substrate 20 having an electrode 22, and an optical modulation layer 30 containing shape-anisotropic members 32. A frequency of a voltage to be applied to the electrodes 12 and 22 is changed so as to rotate the shape-anisotropic members 32. When the shape-anisotropic members 32 are oriented such that their major axes extend in parallel with one of the substrates on which the shape-anisotropic members 32 abut, multiple reflection of incoming light is caused, and thus black is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakahara, Eiji Satoh, Kohzoh Nakamura, Hisashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9300920
    Abstract: A remote support site having a detector internally collecting information on a user-selectable intrinsic broadcast characteristic of a media-playing set or television and a server enabling specification of a preferred setting for such characteristic from this information. A method including maintaining a remote site, therefrom internally collecting information from the set about a user-selectable intrinsic broadcast characteristic, and therefrom specifying a preferred setting for such characteristic. A similar method but information detected upon user request about user-adjustable component for selecting on-screen characteristic and final step is remotely adjusting component. A similar method but information is about broadcast characteristic potentially selectable initially by user instead remotely specified initially. A similar method but information is about plural broadcast characteristics and final step is remotely providing settings for each.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Severt Hallberg, Gary A. Feather, George Rome Borden, Vishnu-Kumar Shivaji-Rao
  • Patent number: 9299316
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a display device and a driving method each of which is capable of displaying moving images without causing flicker and reducing power consumption. The display device (1) includes: a display panel (2) having a plurality of scanning signal lines (G) and a plurality of data signal lines (S); a scanning line drive circuit for scanning the plurality of scanning signal lines (G); and a signal line drive circuit (6) for supplying data signals, via the plurality of data signal lines, to pixels. In the display device 1, the plurality of scanning signal lines (G) includes a scanning signal line (Gb) for displaying a first certain color, scanning signal lines for displaying the other colors (Gr, Gg), among which the scanning signal line (Gb) is scanned least frequently than the scanning signal line (Gr) and the scanning signal line (Gg).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Masami Ozaki
  • Patent number: 9300457
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus and a base station apparatus each efficiently transmit and/or receive, using a PUCCH, a HARQ-ACK for a transport block transmitted on a PDSCH. In a case where an EPDCCH candidate corresponding to a first EPDCCH-PRB-set and an EPDCCH candidate corresponding to a second EPDCCH-PRB-set correspond to the same resource elements and furthermore a same value of a DMRS scrambling sequence initialization parameter is configured for the two EPDCCH-PRB-sets and DCI formats with the same payload size are monitored for the two EPDCCH candidates, then a terminal apparatus determines a first ECCE number based on the first EPDCCH-PRB-set to determine a PUCCH resource for transmission of HARQ-ACK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 9299877
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate (2) is provided with first connecting wirings (641, 643, 645, 647) connected to gate terminals (51) to which extraction wirings (611, 613, 615, 617) are connected, second connecting wirings (642, 644, 646) connected to gate terminals (51) to which extraction wirings (612, 614, 616) are connected, bundled wirings (651 to 654) each composed of a mutually adjacent first connecting wiring and second connecting wiring bundled together, a first inspection wiring (66) capable of inputting an inspection signal to bundled wirings (652, 654) that are not adjacent to each other among the bundled wirings, and a second inspection wiring (67) capable of inputting an inspection signal to bundled wirings (651, 653) that are not adjacent to each other and not connected to the first inspection wiring (66) among the bundled wirings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Takehiko Kawamura, Katsuhiro Okada
  • Patent number: 9298052
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device, whereby occurrence of defects due to a sealing member being uncured, and occurrence of defective products due to misalignment can be suppressed, and furthermore, in the cases where misalignment is generated, variance of a curing time of the seal material and power consumption among display apparatuses can be reduced. This display device is provided with a first substrate, a second substrate, and a seal between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of conductive layers, a plurality of bus lines, and first and second lead-out lines that are connected to the corresponding bus lines, respectively. The first and second lead-out lines respectively include, below the seal, a first portion and a second portion. The first and second portions are respectively provided in different conductive layers, and extend in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyori Mitsumoto, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9300962
    Abstract: A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Christopher A. Segall
  • Patent number: D753081
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kodera, Keiichi Takao, Nobuhara Nagai