Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 9276127Abstract: This TFT substrate (100A) includes: a gate connecting layer (3a) formed on a substrate (1) out of a same conductive film as a gate electrode (3) or a transparent connecting layer (2a) formed on the substrate (1) out of a same conductive film as a first transparent electrode (2); an oxide layer (5z) which is formed on an insulating layer (4) and which includes at least one conductor region (5a); and a source connecting layer (6a) formed on the oxide layer (5z) out of a same conductor film as a source electrode (6s). The source connecting layer (6a) is electrically connected to either the gate connecting layer (3a) or the transparent connecting layer (2a) via the at least one conductor region (5a).Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiichi Uchida, Tadayoshi Miyamoto, Yasuyuki Ogawa, Yutaka Takamaru, Kazuatsu Ito, Takuya Matsuo, Shigeyasu Mori
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Patent number: 9276647Abstract: The present invention reduces the amount of frequency resources required for uplink cooperative communication. There is provided a base station device that is applied to a communication system in which a plurality of base station devices establish cooperative communication with at least one mobile station device and includes a base station-to-base station communication section 220 and a control information determination section 216. The base station-to-base station communication section 220 communicates with another base station device when establishing cooperative communication. The control information determination section 216 allocates a band for communication use by the mobile station device in such a manner that a signal received cooperatively by another base station device and a signal received uncooperatively by another base station device overlap with each other at certain frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jungo Goto, Hiroki Takahashi, Osamu Nakamura, Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Publication number: 20160055812Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that performs intermittent driving involving a driving period and an idle period includes a gray scale level control unit that generates, from an input image signal, an image signal for display and an image signal for correction. A signal line control unit writes the image signal for correction to the plurality of signal lines before writing the image signal for display during a driving period. An LUT stores a correction gray scale value associated with a gray scale value of at least a current frame. An adding circuit corrects the input image signal based on the correction gray scale value read from the LUT. The subtracting circuit specifies, in a pixel region, a regular image pattern including at least a first pixel and a second pixel and changes an output from the adding circuit for the first image by a predetermined gray scale width.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiyuki KOBAYASHI, Asahi YAMATO, Akizumi FUJIOKA, Ken INADA
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Publication number: 20160055827Abstract: A display device having, in a single display screen, a first display area which requires power for displaying information, and a second display area, having a smaller dimension than the first display area and which requires power for displaying information. The display of each of the first and second display areas being selectively in an off-state or an on-state. The display device is configured to display, in the second display area, a display content relevant to an operation of a user or to information necessary for the user, in a case where the display of the first display area is in the on-state. In addition, the display device is configured to rotate an orientation of the display content as suitable for an orientation of the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Minoru HAMADA
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Publication number: 20160056453Abstract: A positive electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries includes a collector and a positive electrode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the collector. The positive electrode active material layer contains a lithium-containing metal oxide having a unit cell represented by the following formula and a conductive material and has voids with a volume of 0.82×10?3 cm3/cm2 to 7.87×10?3 cm3/cm2 per unit area of the collector: LiFe1-xZrxP1-ySiyO4??(1) where 0<x<1 and 0<y<1. The unit cell has lattice constants satisfying 10.326?a?10.335, 6.006?b?6.012, and 4.685?c?4.714. The sum of the volume of the lithium-containing metal oxide and the volume of the conductive material is 1.61×10?3 cm3/cm2 to 6.46×10?3 cm3/cm2 per unit area of the collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao ASAKO, Naoto NISHIMURA, Tomohisa YOSHIE, Takahiro MATSUYAMA, Shougo ESAKI, Shumpei NISHINAKA, Yuichi KAMIMURA
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Publication number: 20160056131Abstract: A primary surface of a normally-off field-effect transistor (102) on which a source electrode (120) is formed and a first primary surface of a die pad (105) are in contact with each other, and the die pad (105) also serves as a source terminal of a semiconductor device (100). Accordingly, a semiconductor device capable of decreasing an inductance, which is a matter of great importance for an operation of a cascode connection circuit, and improving performance of circuit operation is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomotoshi SATOH, Eiji OGINO, Naoyasu IKETANI, Satoshi MORISHITA
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Publication number: 20160057436Abstract: In a video processing apparatus, even when a resolution of a video signal to be decoded is switched, scaling is performed so as to match with a display size of a display portion for outputting to the display portion and the display portion is caused to display a video matching with the display size. A video processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a decoding portion that decodes a video signal, and a scaling portion that applies scaling processing to a video frame indicated by the video signal decoded by the decoding portion. The decoding portion gives resolution information of the video frame indicated by the decoded video signal to the scaling portion, and the scaling portion applies scaling processing to the video frame based on the resolution information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke KOYANO, Akio KITAYA
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Publication number: 20160055306Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to remotely check a condition of a monitored person in detail without using monitoring sensors. [Solution] In a user condition checking system 1, a connection terminal device 30 is connected to a television device 10 operated by a user, so as to enable communication with a server device 2. The communication terminal device 3 acquires a user operation state output from the television device 10. Upon acquisition of the user operation state, the communication terminal device 30 outputs, to the television device 10, screen information corresponding to a question screen or the like to be displayed on the television device 10. The communication terminal device 30 acquires a user's answering state for the displayed question screen or the like and transmits the user's answering state to the server device 2. In this way, the server device 2 can check the condition of the monitored person in detail.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: SHARP CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko OZEKI, Daiki OGASAWARA
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Publication number: 20160056933Abstract: According to the present invention, there are provided a base station device, a terminal device, a communication method, and an integrated circuit capable of performing communication more efficiently when the terminal device transmits an uplink signal based on scheduling by the base station device. The terminal device includes a setting unit that sets a first uplink-downlink configuration, a second uplink-downlink configuration, and a third uplink-downlink configuration, a reception unit that monitors a physical downlink control channel accompanied with a downlink control information format which is used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel in a downlink subframe based on the third uplink-downlink configuration and includes information making a request for transmitting a sounding reference signal, and a transmission unit that transmits or drops the sounding reference signal and transmit an HARQ-ACK for transmission with the physical downlink shared channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsushi AIBA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Kimihiko IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20160057745Abstract: A communication system includes a terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus communicates with a base station apparatus by carrier aggregation using a plurality of serving cells, where each of the plurality of serving cells has a different frequency. In addition, the terminal apparatus removes a measurement identity relevant to a serving cell of the plurality of serving cells based on that the serving cell was removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shohei YAMADA, Katsunari UEMURA, Yasuyuki KATO, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Waho OH
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Patent number: 9268183Abstract: At least either a first substrate or a second substrate has regions corresponding to subpixels (15a, 15b, 15c) and provided with ribs (100a) for controlling how a liquid crystal material is aligned. Scanning signal lines (32) and picture element electrodes (60) are overlapped with each other via an insulating material as seen in plan view. The ribs (100a) and the scanning signal lines (32) are at least partially overlapped with each other as seen in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsushige Asada, Masahiro Yoshida, Masakatsu Tominaga, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Junichi Morinaga, Toshiaki Fujihara
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Patent number: 9265477Abstract: The present invention provides adaptive lightweight acoustic signal classification for physiological monitoring applications. In an exemplary implementation, the total energy of a segment of an acoustic signal recording body sounds is first determined. For each of a plurality of signal classes (e.g., good, noisy, weak), the probability that the segment belongs to the signal class is then calculated using the total energy and profile data for the signal class. The segment is then assigned to one of the plurality of signal classes by reference to the probabilities. Physiological data are then selectively generated and outputted using the segment, depending on the assigned signal class, and the segment is selectively applied as feedback to update profile data for the assigned signal class.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Te-Chung Isaac Yang, Yongji Fu
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Patent number: 9266881Abstract: The present invention is directed to triazolopyridinone 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: James C. Barrow, Christopher D. Cox, Mark B. Nolt, William D. Shipe
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Patent number: 9269318Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to achieve a display device capable of performing an all-selecting drive for gate bus lines without increasing the number of circuit elements more than heretofore and without lowering withstand voltage reliability. In a stage constituent circuit, which constitutes a shift register in a gate driver, an all-selecting signal (ALL-ON) for simultaneously turning all of gate bus lines to a selected state is given, as a low-potential power supply, to a source terminal of a thin film transistor (Tr4) for setting, at a low level, a QB node provided for setting a scanning signal (OUT) at the low level and to a source terminal of a thin film transistor (Tr3) for setting, at the low level, a Q node provided for setting the scanning signal (OUT) at a high level.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Takahiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9270975Abstract: A receiver (101) that receives main information (2) including 2D video content and complementary information (3) for converting the 2D video content to 3D, and an integrating unit (102) that integrates the main information (2) and the complementary information (3), received by the receiver (101), as integrated information (4) by using the main information (2) and the complementary information (3) are provided. Accordingly, 3D video can be viewed without changing the broadcasting format of the current 2D broadcasting or without degrading the image quality.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideharu Tajima, Hiroshi Kijima
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Patent number: 9268073Abstract: The present invention provides a counter electrode (13) and an alignment controlling electrode opening (14) directly on a color filter colored layer (12) to produce a liquid crystal display device (1) of a vertical alignment (VA) display mode. The present invention includes no overcoat layer for the color filter colored layer (12), and adjusts the thickness, pigment concentrations and the like for the color filter colored layer (12) to achieve a wide color reproduction range and high alignment stability.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Takashi Ochi
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Patent number: 9268175Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a parallax barrier, and a spacer. The display panel includes a display area in which an image is displayed and a display surrounding area located around the display area. The parallax barrier includes a separation area and a separation surrounding area located around the separation area. The image displayed on the display panel is separated by parallax in the separation area. The parallax barrier is attached to the display panel with a space between the separation surrounding area of the parallax barrier and the display surrounding area of the display panel. The spacer is arranged in the space. The spacer is configured to define a distance between the display surrounding area of the display panel and the separation surrounding area of the parallax barrier.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsutoshi Kikuchi, Masayuki Ohhashi, Hajime Washio
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Patent number: 9271279Abstract: A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) on a user equipment (UE) is described. A Type 2 channel state information (CSI) report is generated for a CSI reference resource. The Type 2 CSI report is sent to a base station. The Type 2 CSI report is computed from a channel measurement based on a non-zero power reference signal on a single subframe within a configured CSI-RS resource associated with a CSI process.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Ahmad Khoshnevis, Shohei Yamada, Zhanping Yin
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Patent number: 9266827Abstract: The invention provides bicyclic sulfone compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of inhibiting RORy activity, reducing the amount of iL-17 in a subject, and treating immune disorders and inflammatory disorders using such bicyclic sulfone compounds. Another aspect of the invention provides a method of treating a subject suffering from a medical disorder. The method comprises administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of one or more bicyclic sulfone compounds described herein. In certain other embodiments, the disorder is rheumatoid arthritis.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Lycera CorporationInventors: Thomas D. Aicher, Kenneth Jay Barr, Vladimir Simov, William D. Thomas, Peter L. Toogood, Chad A. Van Huis
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Patent number: 9270437Abstract: Provided are a communication system, a base station apparatus, a mobile station apparatus, and a communication method for reducing interference between uncoordinated adjacent cells. The communication system of the present invention comprises a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. The base station apparatus notifies the mobile station apparatus of a downlink control information format, the downlink control information format including resource allocation information that dictates switching of resource allocation of an uplink demodulation reference signal localized resource allocation and distributed resource allocation, and a frequency offset of the distributed resource allocation of the uplink demodulation reference signal specific to the mobile station apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Daiichiro Nakashima