Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9276933
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for determining a time-expiry algorithm based on a cached and verified security token, a disposition of the security token, and a cache table, where the disposition of the security token is based on whether the received security token is a single-use token or a multiple-use token and where the cache table is selected from two separate cache tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Swee Huat Sng
  • Patent number: 9274371
    Abstract: A color conversion substrate that can improve light use efficiency is provided. A color conversion substrate includes a transparent substrate having a main surface, a plurality of phosphor patterns arranged on the main surface and each of the phosphor patterns having side faces, and a reflective film that reflects light and is formed on at least the side faces of the phosphor patterns. An air layer is defined between the main surface and the phosphor patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Kaida, Shinya Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 9276126
    Abstract: This semiconductor device (100A) includes: a substrate (1); a gate electrode (3) and a first transparent electrode (2) which are formed on the substrate (1); a first insulating layer (4) formed over the gate electrode (3) and the first transparent electrode (2); an oxide semiconductor layer (5) formed on the first insulating layer (4); source and drain electrodes (6s, 6d) electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer (5); and a second transparent electrode (7) electrically connected to the drain electrode (6d). At least a portion of the first transparent electrode (2) overlaps with the second transparent electrode (7) with the first insulating layer (4) interposed between them, and the oxide semiconductor layer (5) and the second transparent electrode (7) are formed out of the same oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Miyamoto, Kazuatsu Ito, Shigeyasu Mori, Mitsunobu Miyamoto, Yasuyuki Ogawa, Makoto Nakazawa, Seiichi Uchida, Takuya Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9274384
    Abstract: One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device with high transmittance or viewing angle characteristics. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a first substrate (10) which includes a pixel electrode (30); a second substrate (20) which includes a counter electrode (25); and a liquid crystal layer (21) and a spacer (40) which are provided between the first substrate (10) and the second substrate (20). The pixel electrode (30) includes a first portion which is formed by a plurality of first branch portions (34A) extending in a first direction, a second portion which is formed by a plurality of second branch portions (34B) extending in a second direction, a third portion which is formed by a plurality of third branch portions (34C) extending in a third direction, and a fourth portion which is formed by a plurality of fourth branch portions (34D) extending in a fourth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9276385
    Abstract: Two flow passages are provided for allowing the passage of air sent out from a blower in the same direction individually and discharging the air to outside. An ion generation unit for generating positive ions by only corona discharge is arranged at one flow passage, and an ion generation unit for generating electrostatic atomized water particles with negative polarity by electrostatic atomizing phenomenon is arranged at the other flow passage. A throttle is provided at the one flow passage for making the wind speed of air flowing through the one flow passage faster than the wind speed of air flowing through the other flow passage. Since positive ions having shorter lifetime are emitted more than electrostatic atomized water particles with negative polarity having longer lifetime, the balance between positive and negative polarities in the air can be sustained over a long period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasutaka Kataoka
  • Patent number: 9277543
    Abstract: A mobile communication system, a base station device, a mobile station device, a communication method, and an integrated circuit that each can efficiently transmit HARQ-ACK and/or channel state information are provided. A mobile station device includes means for receiving a first parameter that is used for instructing whether simultaneous transmission of information relating to HARQ-ACK and channel state information is allowed or not; and means for receiving a second parameter that is used for instructing whether simultaneous transmission of the information relating to HARQ-ACK and the channel state information is allowed or not, and controls a transmission method of the information relating to HARQ-ACK and the channel state information based on the first parameter, the second parameter, and whether or not the information relating to HARQ-ACK corresponds to transmission on a single physical downlink shared channel only on a primary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9274476
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms a first image in an image region of printing paper and forms a second image in a non-image region of the printing paper that is outside the image region includes an enlargement/reduction ratio specification unit that enables an enlargement/reduction ratio to be specified for the second image; and an image forming unit that forms the first image in the image region of the printing paper without enlarging/reducing the first image and forms the second image and the non-image region on the printing paper after enlarging/reducing the second image and the non-image region by the enlargement/reduction ratio specified through the enlargement/reduction ratio specification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norio Tomita
  • Patent number: 9275440
    Abstract: An image processing device (100) is configured such that an edge histogram creating section (130) calculates interproximal pixel luminance difference for each of pixels constituting a frame, and a first ratio, which is a ratio of pixels whose interproximal pixel luminance difference is greater than or equal to a first threshold, and an edge enhancement section (140) performs edge enhancement in such a way that a shoot component to be added is smaller for a frame having a larger first ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ichiro Mizobuchi, Akira Koike, Masahiko Takiguchi, Yoshinori Kohno
  • Patent number: 9275587
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel LCP includes a first side and a second side which are adjacent to each other. This liquid crystal panel LCP includes: data signal lines Sa and Sb formed so as to extend in a direction parallel to the second side, and also so as to array in a direction perpendicular to the second side; a plurality of vertical-side source terminals f formed along the second side to which edge portions of the plurality of data signal lines Sa and Sb formed in a position on a closer side to the second side of the data signal lines Sa and Sb are each connected; and a plurality of horizontal-side source terminals F formed along the first side to which edge portions of the plurality of data signal lines Sa and Sb formed in a position on a farther side from the second side are each connected. Thus, higher definition can be handled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tamotsu Sakai
  • Patent number: 9277202
    Abstract: A motion vector detecting unit 12 detects a motion vector V1 of an input image X(n), and an interpolating vector generating unit 13 generates an interpolating vector V2 in accordance with the motion vector V1. In a two-dimensional display mode, the input image X(n) is output as an original image, and an image generating unit 16 generates an interpolated image X(n+0.5) in accordance with the interpolating vector V2. In a three-dimensional display mode, the input image X(n) is output as a left-eye image L(n), and the image generating unit 16 generates a right-eye image R(n+0.5) in accordance with a sum of the interpolating vector V2 and a parallax vector V3 input from the outside. The image generating unit is shared in a frame rate conversion process and a three-dimensional conversion process, and the right-eye image is generated at the same location as the interpolated image in time axis. In this way, image quality is increased when a moving image is displayed with a small amount of circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Ueno, Xiaomang Zhang, Yasuhiro Ohki
  • Patent number: 9277398
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) configured for signaling UE capability is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE sends an indicator regarding whether the UE can support different time division duplex (TDD) configurations on different bands for a band combination. The UE also sends an indicator regarding whether the UE can support concurrent transmission and reception on different bands for the band combination. The UE additionally sends an indicator regarding whether the UE can support different uplink timing adjustments for the band combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, John M. Kowalski, Zhanping Yin
  • Patent number: 9274345
    Abstract: A multiple view display comprises a display device and a plurality of converging lenses, such as a lenticular screen. Each lens cooperates with a respective region of the display device comprising one or more pixels (L) for displaying part of a first image for viewing in a first viewing region (Region 2 windows) and second pixels (R) for displaying part of a second image for viewing in a second region (Region 1 windows). The second pixels (R) are spaced horizontally from the first pixels (L). Each lens comprises first and second portions (Region 1, Region 2) extending vertically and parallel to each other and having lens centers (Lens Center 1, Lens Center 2) spaced apart horizontally. Each lens forming first and second images of the respective region of the display device, the first and second images being displaced from one another in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jonathan Mather, Nathan James Smith
  • Patent number: 9273040
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula (A) or a salt thereof, wherein “Het”, Ra, and Rb are defined herein, which have properties for blocking Nav 1.7 ion channels found in peripheral and sympathetic neurons. Also described are pharmaceutical formulations comprising the compounds of Formula (A) or their salts, and methods of treating neuropathic pain disorders using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Mark E. Layton, Joseph E. Pero, Hannah Fiji, Michael J. Kelly, III, Pablo de Leon, Michael A. Rossi, Kevin F. Gilbert, Anthony J. Roecker, Zhijian Zhao, Swati I P. Mercer, Scott Wolkenberg, James Mulhearn, Lianyun Zhao, Dansu Li
  • Patent number: 9272987
    Abstract: A compound having the structure or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R6 is hydrogen, —OH, —C1-6alkyl, —OC1-6alkyl, aryl, or halogen, or together with R7, forms an oxo group, or together with R7 and the atom to which they are attached, form a 5-7-membered carbocycle ring or a 5-7-membered heterocyclic ring having 1, 2, or 3 heteroatoms, wherein alkyl and aryl are unsubstituted or independently mono-, di-, or tri-substituted with R14; R7 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, —CF3, aryl, —O-aryl, —O—C1-6alkyl, —C(O)OC1-6alkyl, —C(R15R16)OH, a 5-7-membered heteroaryl having 1, 2, 3 or 4 nitrogen atoms, or halogen, or together with R6, forms an oxo group, or together with R6 and the atom to which they are attached, form a 5-7-membered carbocycle ring or a 5-7-membered heterocyclic ring having 1, 2, or 3 heteroatoms wherein alkyl, aryl and heteroaryl are unsubstituted or independently mono-, di- or tri-substituted with R14; R12 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, or —(CH2)1-2OH, or together with R13 and the nitr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Michael Man-Chu Lo, Lin Yan
  • Patent number: 9274376
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which enables costs to be reduced, excels in productivity, and enables a high contrast ratio over a wide viewing angle range to be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Sakai
  • Patent number: 9273973
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to find a route on which a self-propelling electronic device preferentially runs a region which (i) is designated by a user and (ii) the self-propelling electronic device ran less frequently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jitsuo Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 9276179
    Abstract: There is provided a light emitting device highly resistant to the environment, and having good heat resistance, light resistance and gas barrier property, and a method for producing same. With the light emitting device, a substrate 2 and interconnect patterns 5A, 5B formed on the surface thereof are covered with an acrylic resin primer 10 having better gas barrier property than a silicone resin sealing resin part 3. Light resistance is ensured by the silicone resin sealing resin portion 3 and the gas barrier property can be ensured by the acrylic resin primer 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuji Takenaka, Masashi Takemoto, Nobuaki Aoki
  • Patent number: 9275932
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate (5) provided with a plurality of scan lines (G) and a plurality of data lines (Sr, Sg, Sb) arranged in a matrix, in which first, second, and third short bars (31r, 31b, 31g) are connected to the respective data lines (Sr, Sg, Sb), and, among the first, second, and third short bars, the second short bar (31b) in the middle is provided in a different layer from the first and third short bars (31r, 31g) which are positioned on the sides of the second short bar (31b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9273033
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to substituted pyridinone 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Scott D. Kuduk, Casey C. McComas, Thomas S. Reger
  • Patent number: 9274255
    Abstract: A light-diffusion member includes a substrate having light transparency, a plurality of light-diffusion parts formed on one surface of the substrate, and a light-absorbing layer formed in a region other than a region where the light-diffusion parts are formed, among the one surface of the substrate. Each light-diffusion part includes a light-emission end surface on the side of the substrate and a light-incident end surface of an area larger than an area of the light-emission end surface on a side opposite to the side of the substrate. The height from the light-incident end surface of the light-diffusion part to the light-emission end surface thereof is larger than the thickness of the light-absorbing layer. The plurality of light-diffusion parts are randomly arranged on the one surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Emi Yamamoto, Toru Kanno, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Tsuyoshi Kamada