Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Publication number: 20150368344Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: 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
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Publication number: 20150370112Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2013Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Daiichi SAWABE
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Publication number: 20150373423Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya IWANAMI, Shuhichi WATANABE, Natarajan SEETHARAMAN, Arumugam JAWAHAR, Jayanty SUDHAKAR
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Publication number: 20150368269Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicants: 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
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Publication number: 20150368247Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: 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
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Publication number: 20150372172Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenji KIMOTO
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Patent number: 9217897Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki Hakoi, Masanobu Mizusaki, Koichi Miyachi
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Patent number: 9218791Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that appropriately compensates for a feed-through voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kentaroh Irie, Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
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Patent number: 9218098Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Hata, Tomotoshi Tsujioka, Mikihiro Noma, Kazutoshi Kida
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Patent number: 9220095Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Katsunari Uemura, Yasuyuki Kato
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Patent number: 9219919Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Patent number: 9219136Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masayuki Tajiri
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Patent number: 9218298Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tatsuaki Amemura
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Patent number: 9220108Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shimpei To, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Namba, Minoru Kubota
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Patent number: 9217552Abstract: 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 providType: GrantFiled: July 2, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Tohoku UniversityInventors: Tatsuo Uchida, Yoshito Suzuki, Tohru Kawakami, Takahiro Ishinabe, Katsunori Ehara, Yoshihiro Hashimoto, Toshiki Matsuoka, Kozo Nakamura, Yasuhisa Itoh, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Yutaka Ishii
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Patent number: 9219203Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshio Hata, Shinya Ishizaki, Makoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 9218775Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shige Furuta, Etsuo Yamamoto, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Seijirou Gyouten
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Patent number: 9219851Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihiro Sekimoto
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Patent number: 9219595Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
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Patent number: 9219212Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoyuki Ichiza