Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9201387
    Abstract: In one embodiment of an image forming apparatus of the present invention, the image forming apparatus includes an opening/closing cover that is supported so as to be capable of moving relative to an image forming apparatus main body and opens/closes an opening portion of the image forming apparatus main body; and a unit installed so as to be capable of swinging on an image forming apparatus main body side of the opening/closing cover, in which when the opening/closing cover is opened/closed, the unit moves in a track that moves around a guide shaft of the unit, and in a track that moves so as to follow opening/closing of the opening/closing cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinji Nakazawa
  • Globally assembled, locally interpreted conditional digital signage playlists
    Patent number: 9202234
    Abstract: Globally assembled, locally interpreted conditional digital signage playlists allow a global administrator with knowledge of content provider intentions but without knowledge of local data collection methods or local customs at digital signage deployments to assemble a conditional playlist on a global basis and be ensured that content items from the playlist will be displayed at all deployments in a manner conformant with content provider intentions, local data collection methods and local customs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Louise Bourret, Basil Isaiah Jesudason, Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch, Sara Lynn Leslie, Ronnie Neil Patton
  • Recombinant subunit dengue virus vaccine
    Patent number: 9198964
    Abstract: The present invention provides dengue virus vaccines and immunogenic compositions for administration to human subjects. The vaccine compositions of the present invention comprise recombinantly produced monomeric and/or dimeric forms of truncated dengue virus envelope glycoprotein that, when formulated together with an adjuvant and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, induce balanced tetravalent immune responses. In preferred embodiments of the compositions described herein, the DEN4 protein component is a dimeric form of DEN4. The compositions are designed to be acceptable for use in the general population, including immunosuppressed, immunocompromised, and immunosenescent individuals. Also provided herein are methods of inducing a protective immune response in a human patient population by administering the compositions described herein to the patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Beth-Ann Griswold Coller, Vidya B. Pai, D. Elliot Parks, Michele Yelmene, Andrew J. Bett, Timothy Martyak
  • Wireless circuit
    Patent number: 9203531
    Abstract: A wireless circuit (100) which is capable of simultaneously outputting a plurality of transmission signals, including: a transmission signal selection circuit (31) which selectively outputs a detecting object signal out of a plurality of transmission signals; and a detection circuit (33) which detects a power of the detecting object signal thus outputted. This enables to provide, by use of a compact configuration, a technique for individually detecting transmission signals which are simultaneously generated by a respective plurality of transmission circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki Shinmei, Hiroki Kashiwagi, Shoichi Shitara, Kazuhiko Ikehata, Masamori Tokuda
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 9202422
    Abstract: A pixel of a liquid crystal panel is constituted by three subpixels. When the gradation of the pixel can be represented by only the subpixel, with setting the gradations of the subpixels to their minimum gradations, the gradation of the subpixel is determined. When the gradation of the pixel is represented by the subpixels, with setting the gradation of the subpixel to its maximum gradation and setting the gradation of the subpixel to its minimum gradation, the gradation of the subpixel is determined so that the ratio of the transmittance of the subpixel to the transmittance of the pixel is less than a limit value. When the gradation of the subpixel cannot be determined to satisfy a condition, with setting the gradation of the subpixel to its minimum gradation, the gradations of the subpixels are determined to obtain a gradation higher than or equal to the gradation of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Liquid crystal display, display method, program, and recording medium
    Patent number: 9202406
    Abstract: An LCD device includes: an LC panel which exhibits different gamma curves under different view angles, and a display control circuit which divides a single frame period into first and second display periods and divides a display region of the LC panel into first and second regions. The display control circuit has a luminance computing section which computes A to D so that A to D satisfies A+C=B+D and A?B?D as well as C?B?D, where A and C are gray-level luminances, A and B are the white luminances of pixel data displayed in the first and second regions, respectively, during the first display period, and C and D are the white luminances of pixel data displayed in the first and second regions, respectively, during the second display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ken Inada
  • Selective glycosidase inhibitors and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9199949
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds for selectively inhibiting glycosidases, prodrugs of the compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds or prodrugs of the compounds. The invention also provides methods of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or overexpression of O-GlcNAcase, accumulation or deficiency of O-GlcNAc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignees: Alectos Therapeutics Inc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Tong-Shuang Li, Ernest J. McEachern, David J. Vocadlo, Yuanxi Zhou, Harold G. Selnick
  • Quinoline amide M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators
    Patent number: 9199939
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to quinoline amide compounds of formula (I) which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, pain or sleep disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and to the use of the compounds and compositions in the treatment of diseases mediated by the M1 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Scott D. Kuduk, Kelly-Ann S. Schlegel, Zhi-Qiang Yang
  • Display device
    Patent number: 9201253
    Abstract: A display device (100A) includes a first substrate (11) and second substrate (41) that are placed so as to face each other; active color filter layers (32) which are placed between the first substrate (11) and the second substrate (41), which have memory properties, and which become in a colored state or an uncolored state depending on the voltage applied thereto; and a light-modulating layer (17) for controlling the intensity or degree of scattering of light incident on the active color filter layers (32) or the intensity or degree of scattering of light passing through the active color filter layers (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji Satoh, Akio Miyata, Kazuhiro Deguchi
  • LED lighting device
    Patent number: 9204507
    Abstract: This LED lighting device makes a maximum current to minimum current flowing in an LED a target proportion regardless of LED driving circuit performance and without erroneous operation. An LED lighting device (1) is provided with: an LED circuit (5) that includes at least one LED (1-5); a bypass means (6a) inserted in parallel with the LEDs (1-5); and an LED driving circuit (4) that supplies current by duty control to the LEDs (1-5) and the bypass means (6a). When a prescribed minimum current flows in the LED circuit (5), the LED driving circuit (4) supplies current in which a portion of current flowing in the bypass means (6a) is added to this minimum current and carries out control of the added current by a switching element (TR1) connected in series to the LED circuit (5) and the bypass means (6a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo Fukuda, Tomoyuki Ichiza, Toshimasa Ogawa
  • Light source for an automotive headlight with adaptive function
    Patent number: 9200780
    Abstract: A light source system operable in at least first and second modes to provide at least and first and second different far field illumination patterns, the system comprising: a photoluminescent material; and a light beam generator for generating, in the first mode, a first set of light beams for illuminating respective first regions of the photoluminescent material and for generating, in the second mode, a second set of light beams for illuminating respective second regions of the photoluminescent material, the first and second sets of light beams being independently controllable. In the first mode, the light beam generator generates the first set of light beams such that a first beam of the first set of light beams illuminates a first illumination region of the photoluminescent material having one side that is inclined with respect to another side of the illumination region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: James Rowland Suckling, David James Montgomery, Sarah Anne Mitchell, Koji Takahashi
  • Display system and electronic device
    Patent number: 9203993
    Abstract: A display system includes an image forming apparatus, and a tablet terminal transmitting/receiving information to/from image forming apparatus through wireless communication. The Image forming apparatus detects the tablet terminal, and establishes wireless communication with the detected tablet terminal through a wireless communication driver. When wireless communication is established, the image forming apparatus transmits a display request requesting display of operation information (operation manual) related to the currently ongoing operation, to the tablet terminal. Receiving the display request transmitted from the image forming apparatus, the tablet terminal displays the requested operation information (manual) of the operation manual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohito Yamashita
  • Multifunction apparatus and multifunction apparatus control system
    Patent number: 9203817
    Abstract: A multifunction apparatus 21 includes: a web browser section 5; a second web server section 8; and a setting information database 6 for storing Cookie information which is transmitted from a first web server section 53 of an information processing apparatus 51 to the web browser section 5. The web browser section 5 (i) receives, from the first web server section 53, control information for informing the second web server section 8 of a control instruction to control the multifunction apparatus 21, and (ii) informs the second web server section 8 of the control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
  • Paper conveying device, image forming apparatus provided with the device and paper conveying method
    Patent number: 9199815
    Abstract: A paper conveying device includes: a registration roller pair provided along a paper conveying path; a pick-up roller, a paper feed roller and a separation roller for feeding sheets of paper to the paper conveying path; and a controller controlling conveyance of sheets of paper such that when a preceding sheet is stopped at the registration roller pair, a following, succeeding sheet is temporarily stopped at a prescribed position G downstream of a conveying roller in the paper conveying direction, and the succeeding sheet is re-conveyed toward the registration roller pair at a prescribed timing. The controller changes the timing to start re-conveyance of the succeeding sheet in accordance with paper length of the conveyed sheet of paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norichika Katsura, Kohji Aoki, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Haruhisa Furumoto
  • Methods and compositions for regulating cell cycle progression
    Patent number: 9200275
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is provided of inhibiting proliferation of a mammalian cell comprising introducing into said cell an effective amount of at least one at least one small interfering RNA agent (iRNA), wherein said iRNA comprises a nucleotide sequence of at least 15 nucleotides, wherein the nucleotide sequence comprises a seed region consisting of nucleotide positions 1 to 12, wherein position 1 represents the 5? end of the iRNA nucleotide sequence and wherein said seed region comprises a nucleotide sequence of at least six contiguous nucleotides that is complementary to six contiguous nucleotides within positions 1 to 12 of a nucleotide sequence, wherein position 1 represents the 5?end of the nucleotide sequence, wherein the nucleotide sequence is selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ ID NO:5, SEQ ID NO:6, SEQ ID NO:7 and SEQ ID NO:8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Peter S. Linsley, Janell Schelter, Julja Burchard, Lee Lim, Miho Kibukawa
  • Image forming apparatus and image data processing method
    Patent number: 9203983
    Abstract: A user is enabled to make different selection as to whether or not to include a blank page for each data processing. A storage portion stores setting information indicating whether or not to perform data processing of image data with a blank page excluded for each data processing, and a control portion judges whether or not each data processing is processing performed with a blank page of the image data excluded based on the setting information stored in the storage portion, and executes first data processing which is judged as processing performed with the blank page excluded by excluding the blank page as well as executes second data processing which is judged as processing performed without excluding the blank page concurrently with the first data processing by including the blank page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazushi Yamaneki, Manabu Matsumoto, Kazuma Ogawa
  • Triazolyl PDE10 inhibitors
    Patent number: 9200001
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to substituted triazolyl 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: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Cox, Vadim Y. Dudkin, June J. Kim, Scott D. Kuduk, Carol A. McVean, Thomas Reger, Justin T. Sheen, Thomas Steele
  • Display device with auxiliary capacitance line
    Patent number: 9202436
    Abstract: A display device 10 according to the present invention includes a plurality of pixels 40 each including a plurality of sub pixels 42, a plurality of auxiliary capacitance lines 36 forming an auxiliary capacitance 56 with the sub pixels 42, and an auxiliary capacitance driver 34 configured to supply an auxiliary capacitance drive signal to the auxiliary capacitance lines 36 and to apply a voltage to the auxiliary capacitance. In the display device 10, the auxiliary capacitance driver 34 includes a plurality of connection terminals 64 each connected to each of the auxiliary capacitance lines 36.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakamizo, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Takamitsu Suzuki, Akifumi Hashimoto
  • Mobile station apparatus, base station apparatus, management method in a mobile station apparatus, processing section and communication system
    Patent number: 9204331
    Abstract: Provided are a communication system, a base station apparatus, a mobile station apparatus, and a communication method where a configuration message is transmitted or received. The configuration message includes a measurement configuration, where the measurement configuration includes a measurement object and a reporting configuration. The measurement object is used to determine a first cell from among the plurality of cells, the measurement object is linked to the reporting configuration and indicates the measurement frequency, the reporting configuration includes an criterion, and the criterion triggers the mobile station apparatus to send a measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Katsunari Uemura, Yasuyuki Kato, Daiichiro Nakashima, I, Waho Oh
  • Video projector
    Patent number: D744577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Harumi Sakamoto, Keiichi Takao