Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20150368344
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for modulation interactions between MDL-1 and its binding partner, Gal9. Also provided are methods to screen for modulators of MDL-1/Gal9 interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Barbara Joyce-Shaikh, Douglas C. Wilson, Daniel J. Cua, Drake M. LaFace, Maribel Beaumont, Holly Cherwinski, Mark Hsieh, Sabrina Benchaar, Joseph H. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20150370112
    Abstract: A multi-display apparatus includes a plurality of liquid crystal display panels which are arranged to be tiled together contiguously for displaying an image respectively based on an input image signal, wherein at least two of the plurality of liquid crystal display panels are cut out and fabricated from one mother panel having a gap formed for sealing a liquid crystal material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daiichi SAWABE
  • Publication number: 20150373423
    Abstract: A server is provided with a video supplier which supplies a captured video of a camera to a client, and the supplier supplies to the client an MPD in which a range of parameter values supported by the camera is indicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya IWANAMI, Shuhichi WATANABE, Natarajan SEETHARAMAN, Arumugam JAWAHAR, Jayanty SUDHAKAR
  • Publication number: 20150368269
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I) where A is a heterocycle ring system and B is a heterocycle ring system or aryl ring system, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds, and methods for using said compounds for treating or preventing thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cameron James Smith, Edward Sherer, Louis-Charles Campeau, James Balkovec, William John Greenlee, Derun Li, Liangqin Guo, Tin-Yau Chan, Yi-Heng Chen, Yili Chen, Samuel Chackalamannil, John Qiang Tan, Tomokazu Hirabayashi, Mika Sekioka
  • Publication number: 20150368247
    Abstract: The present invention provides 2,6,7 substituted purines as described herein or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The representative compounds are useful as inhibitors of the HDM2 protein. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the above compounds and potential methods of treating cancer using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew P. Christopher, Francesc Xavier Fradera Llinas, Michelle Machacek, Michelle Martinez, Michael Hale Reutershan, Manami Shizuka, Binyuan Sun, Christopher Francis Thompson, B. Wesley Trotter, Matthew E. Voss, Liping Yang
  • Publication number: 20150372172
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes a semiconductor, an intrinsic layer disposed on the semiconductor and containing hydrogenated amorphous silicon, a first-conductivity-type layer that covers a part of the intrinsic layer and contains hydrogenated amorphous silicon of a first conductivity type, a second-conductivity-type layer that covers a part of the intrinsic layer and contains hydrogenated amorphous silicon of a second conductivity type, an insulating film covering an end region of the first-conductivity-type layer, a first electrode disposed on the first-conductivity-type layer, and a second electrode disposed on the second-conductivity-type layer. An end portion of the second-conductivity-type layer is located on the insulating film or above the insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji KIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9217897
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which enables to reduce the occurrence of image sticking without deteriorating the electric properties, and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device which enables to reduce the occurrence of image sticking. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates, an alignment film formed on at least one of the pair of substrates, and a polymer layer formed on the alignment film and controlling the alignment of liquid crystal molecules which are adjacent to the polymer layer, wherein the polymer layer is formed by polymerization of one or more kinds of monomers added in the liquid crystal layer, and at least one of the one or more kinds of monomers is a monomer polymerizable upon exposure to visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hakoi, Masanobu Mizusaki, Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 9218791
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that appropriately compensates for a feed-through voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaroh Irie, Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 9218098
    Abstract: A conducting layer (7) is formed in a shape of a grid having a predetermined width of lines extending along the first direction (horizontal direction in the drawing) and the second direction (vertical direction in the drawing). In a region that, when seen in planar view, overlaps those lines of the conducting layer (7) which extend along the first direction, lines of an insulating light-blocking layer (6) that are wider than those of the conduction layer (7) are arranged at predetermined intervals along the second direction. The conducting layer (7) is broken at predetermined places in a region that overlaps the insulating light-blocking layer 6 when seen in plane view. This makes it possible to achieve a liquid crystal display device including a touch panel substrate that has a high aperture ratio and that can suppress leakage of light through cuts in a conducting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Hata, Tomotoshi Tsujioka, Mikihiro Noma, Kazutoshi Kida
  • Patent number: 9220095
    Abstract: A base station device uses a downlink control channel and instructs a mobile station device to perform a random access procedure. The mobile station device switches, according to whether or not random access parameters are included in parameters of a secondary cell that has been allocated to the mobile station device, between a first random access procedure in which information in a carrier indicator field included in the downlink control channel is not used for selection of a cell in which a random access procedure is performed, and a second random access procedure in which information in the carrier indicator field included in the downlink control channel is used for selection of a cell in which a random access procedure is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Katsunari Uemura, Yasuyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 9219919
    Abstract: An electronic device for sending a message is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device determines whether a picture is allowed to be decoded on a sub-picture level. If the picture is allowed to be decoded on a sub-picture level, the electronic device generates at least one of a buffer size parameter and a buffer scale parameter. The electronic device sends at least one of the buffer size parameter and the buffer scale parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 9219136
    Abstract: Provided is a switching element that is hardly destroyed even under a high bias condition in an off state because an electric field near a gate electrode is relaxed. A switching element 1 includes a carrier transit layer 13, a carrier supply layer 14 formed on an upper surface of the carrier transit layer 13, having a wider bandgap than the carrier transit layer 13, and forming a heterojunction with the carrier transit layer 13, a source electrode 15, a drain electrode 16, and a gate electrode 17 arranged between the source electrode 15 and the drain electrode 16. An impurity-doped layer 20 is interposed between the carrier transit layer 13 and the drain electrode 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Tajiri
  • Patent number: 9218298
    Abstract: When an SD card is connected to an SD socket of an electronic device, a control unit of the SD card obtains permission/inhibition information (an output signal) outputted from a setting unit of the electronic device. Based on the obtained permission/inhibition information, the control unit starts the operation of a DC-DC converter corresponding to a memory unit from which reading-out of data is permitted. By virtue of this, reading-out of data from the memory unit is achieved in correspondence to the permission/inhibition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuaki Amemura
  • Patent number: 9220108
    Abstract: A communication terminal performing Fourier transform to convert a first time-domain signal into frequency-domain signals, allocating the frequency-domain signals to one or more first block is composed of two or more contiguous subcarriers as a first allocation unit, performing inverse Fourier transform to convert the allocated frequency-domain signals into a second time-domain signal, and transmitting, to a BS, the second time-domain signal simultaneously with another communication terminal, in case that the other communication apparatus performs communication with the BS using one or more second block composed of two or more contiguous subcarriers as a second allocation unit wherein the second block, wherein the number of subcarriers of the second block is equal to a value of x multiplied by the number of subcarriers of the first block, and x is equal to a value of 2 or a value greater than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Namba, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 9217552
    Abstract: A lighting device (100) includes: a surface light source (1); a first lens (L1) having a first focal point (F1), the first lens being provided on the light exit surface side of the surface light source; and a second lens (L2) having a second focal point (F2), the second lens being provided on a light exit surface side of the first lens, the surface light source, the first lens, and the second lens being configured such that a first virtual image (I1) is formed by the first lens and a second virtual image (I2) is formed by the second lens, wherein the first virtual image (I1) is formed between the second focal point (F2) and the first lens, the second focal point (F2) is on a side opposite to the light source side relative to a predetermined focal position f?, and at least either of a light entry surface or a light exit surface of the first lens or the second lens includes a non-revolution surface (SO) as a lens surface, and a plurality of boundary lines (B1-B4) whose curvatures vary discontinuously are provid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Tatsuo Uchida, Yoshito Suzuki, Tohru Kawakami, Takahiro Ishinabe, Katsunori Ehara, Yoshihiro Hashimoto, Toshiki Matsuoka, Kozo Nakamura, Yasuhisa Itoh, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Yutaka Ishii
  • Patent number: 9219203
    Abstract: A light emitting device (1) of the present invention is a light emitting device including a light emitting section (3) provided on a substrate (2), light storing phosphors (7) being provided on or above at least a part of the substrate (2). It is therefore possible to provide a planar light emitting device having a light storage function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshio Hata, Shinya Ishizaki, Makoto Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9218775
    Abstract: A display device employing CC driving switches from (i) a first mode in which to carry out a display by converting resolution of a video signal by a factor of 2 in a column-wise direction to (ii) a second mode in which to carry out a display at the resolution of the video signal. During the first mode, signal potentials having the same polarity and the same gray scale are supplied to pixel electrodes included in respective two pixels that correspond to two adjacent scanning signal lines and that are adjacent to each other in the column-wise direction, and a direction of change in the signal potentials written to the pixel electrodes varies every two adjacent rows (2-line inversion driving). During the second mode, the direction of change in the signal potentials written to the pixel electrodes lines varies every single row (1-line inversion driving).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shige Furuta, Etsuo Yamamoto, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Seijirou Gyouten
  • Patent number: 9219851
    Abstract: A lens barrel (3) includes a local maximum outer diameter section (3e) and a maximum outer diameter section (3a). The maximum outer diameter section (3a) is provided in a portion of an area of the local maximum outer diameter section (3e) which portion includes an area corresponding to an outer periphery of an image pickup lens (2m) which is the largest in lens diameter. This achieves a further size reduction while achieving a high-accuracy installation of a lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Sekimoto
  • Patent number: 9219595
    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) for receiving time-division duplexing (TDD) uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configurations is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE receives a first TDD UL/DL configuration for a cell and secondary configuration information that includes at least a second TDD UL/DL configuration for the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 9219212
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus, wherein a holding frame includes a placing portion which protrudes in a direction substantially perpendicular to a back surface of a display panel (a liquid crystal panel 1), and is long in a direction along a side face of the display panel (the liquid crystal panel 1), such that a heat dissipater (a heat spreader) is placed on the placing portion in a longitudinal direction thereof, the substrate (a base substrate) has information (rank information) regarding the light emitting element (a white LED) described on the other surface thereof, and the heat dissipater (the heat spreader) has an opening portion (a window portion 46) formed in a surface thereof to which the substrate (the base substrate) is fixed at a position corresponding to a position in which the information (the rank information) is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Ichiza