Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20150325741
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light emitting device is provided with a substrate having depression and projection, a base layer, and a structure of a stack of layers of nitride semiconductor at least having a light emitting layer sequentially. A cavity is provided in the base layer over a projection included in the depression and projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi KOMADA
  • Publication number: 20150326752
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a dividing process section (122) configured to divide a captured image into a plurality of partial images; a histogram creating section (123) configured to create a histogram representing a distribution of the number of pixels for density values with respect to each color component of each of the partial images; an adjustment value calculating section (124) configured to determine, for each of the partial images, an adjustment value based on a peak in the histogram; an adjusting section (127) configured to generate, for each of the partial images, tone correction data by replacing a specific input value in reference data with the adjustment value; and a correction process section (128) configured to generate a corrected image by tone-correcting each of the partial images with use of the tone correction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto HAYASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150326742
    Abstract: An image editing apparatus includes a display device, a storage device for storing image data, and a preview display unit for displaying a preview image of the image data on a display screen. The preview display unit displays a scroll bar as a UI component for scrolling the preview image, on the display screen. When the image is scrolled, the scroll bar is changed to an enlarged scroll bar. On the screen image, a page jump button and a page number are additionally displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kumiko OGINO, Shinsaku TOHKI
  • Publication number: 20150320724
    Abstract: Use of a glucagon receptor antagonist in combination with a cholesterol absorption inhibitor for the treatment of diabetes and related conditions is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Hong-Ping Guan, Jose M. Castro-Perez, Harry R. Davis, Samuel E. Engel, Douglas G. Johns, Songnian Lin, Stephen F. Previs, Thomas P. Roddy, Liangsu Wang, Sheng-Ping Wang, Yusheng Xiong
  • Publication number: 20150326866
    Abstract: Pictures having the same time between a plurality of layers are allocated to the same display time POC. There is provided restriction of coded data in which the same POC is allocated to the pictures of the same time in all the layers, for example, by allowing all of the layers to have the same NAL unit type so that the initialization timings of the POC are the same between the layers, and a management length of the POC and a POC low-order bit are the same between the layers. An RAP picture with the layer ID other than 0 has a slice type other than an intra-slice I_SLICE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro IKAI, Tadashi UCHIUMI, Yoshiya YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150322041
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2-pyridyloxy-3-nitrile-4-substituted compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. The present invention is also directed to uses of the 2-pyridyloxy-3-nitrile-4-substituted compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these pharmaceutical compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: SCOTT D. KUDUK, JASON W. SKUDLAREK
  • Publication number: 20150322056
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I) wherein R1 is H or C1-6 alkyl, R2, is H or C1-6 alkyl or CH2OH, R3 is H or C1-6 alkyl, and R4 is H or C1-6 alkyl, provided that when R1, R2, and R3 are H, R4 is C1-6 alkyl, and when R1, R2, and R4 are H, then R3 is C1-6 alkyl, and when R1, R3, and R4 are H, R2 is C1-6 alkyl or —CH2OH, and when R2, R3, and R4 are H, then R1 is C1-6 alkyl; A is 1) a 9-10 membered bicyclic heterocycle having 1-3 heteroatoms independently selected from N, S and O, which 9-10 membered bicyclic heterocycle is unsubstituted or substituted with R5 and unsubstituted or substituted with R6 and unsubstituted or substituted with NH2, or 2) a 6-9 membered monocyclic or bicyclic carbocyclic ring system unsubstituted or substituted with R5, unsubstituted or substituted with R6, and unsubstituted or substituted with —CH2NH2; and B is 1) a 5- or 6-membered monocyclic heterocycle having 1 or 2 heteroatoms independently selected from N, S or O, which is unsubstituted or substitut
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicants: Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Cameron James SMITH, John Qiang TAN, Ting ZHANG, James BALKOVEC, William John GREENLEE, Liangqin GUO, Yi-Heng CHEN, Yili CHEN, Jiayi XU, Samuel CHACKALAMANNIL, Tomokazu HIRABAYASHI, Hiroshi NAGASUE, Kouki OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150322040
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to 3-ester-4-substituted compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. The present invention is also directed to uses of the 3-ester-4-substituted compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these pharmaceutical compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Scott D. KUDUK, Jason W. SKUDLAREK
  • Publication number: 20150326174
    Abstract: Provided is a cleaning device that does not cause degradation of cleaning performance even if there is an obstacle on a surface to be cleaned. A cleaning device includes a housing, blades used for cleaning, a cleaning liquid supply section for supplying cleaning liquid to a surface of a solar cell module, and a wheel for travelling on a solar photovoltaic power generation device. Moreover, the blades are arranged in such a manner that regions which pass through a fixation member are shifted and overlap each other in a front-rear direction with respect to an advancing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoji ISHIMURA, Hideaki NAGURA, Makoto HORIYAMA, Yasuhiro SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150322039
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2-pyridylamino-4-nitrile-piperidinyl compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. The present invention is also directed to uses of the 2-pyridylamino-4-nitrile-piperidinyl compounds described herein in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these pharmaceutical compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: SCOTT D. KUDUK, JASON W. SKUDLAREK
  • Publication number: 20150321386
    Abstract: A mold release processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: (a) providing a mold releasing agent, including a fluorine-based silane coupling agent and a solvent, and a mold of which the surface has a porous alumina layer; (b) applying the mold releasing agent onto the surface; and (c) heating, either before or after the step (b), the surface to a temperature not less than 40° C. and less than 100° C. in an ambient with a relative humidity of 50% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidekazu HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150325187
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device in which both a vertical electric field and a horizontal electric field are used and flickering is hardly recognized. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel and a control unit. The control unit includes a horizontal electric field control unit and a vertical electric field control unit. The horizontal electric field control unit controls the potentials of pairs of drive electrodes included in the liquid crystal panel, and thereby controls a horizontal electric field that is generated between each pair of drive electrodes. The vertical electric field control unit controls the potentials of a common electrode and an opposite electrode included in the liquid crystal panel, and thereby controls a vertical electric field that is generated between the common electrode and the opposite electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohhei TANAKA, Mitsuhiro MURATA, Akihito JINDA, Yosuke IWATA
  • Publication number: 20150326325
    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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki SHINMEI, Hiroki KASHIWAGI, Shoichi SHITARA, Kazuhiko IKEHATA, Masamori TOKUDA
  • Publication number: 20150327243
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE determines that dual-connectivity is configured with more than one cell group. The UE also determines if a total scheduled transmission power of the cell groups exceeds a maximum allowed transmission power of the UE. The UE further determines a priority of uplink control information (UCI) types and channel types among the cell groups. The UE additionally determines if UCI is carried on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission for a cell group. The UE also determines if total transmission power of all cell groups with UCI-only transmissions exceeds the maximum allowed transmission power of the UE. The UE transmits UCI and channels on the cell groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 9182632
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that rarely causes burn-in at high throughput. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the pair of substrates, wherein at least one of the pair of substrates includes an alignment layer and a polymer layer for controlling the alignment of adjacent liquid crystal molecules, the polymer layer being disposed on the alignment layer, the polymer layer has a structure containing at least three condensed benzene rings, and the alignment layer is covalently bonded to the polymer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 9185690
    Abstract: An evolved Node B (eNB) for allocating resources for a device-to-device (D2D) link between User Equipments (UEs) is described. The eNB includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The eNB allocates resources for a D2D signal. The D2D signal is transmitted or received by the UE in uplink spectrum in a case of Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) or in uplink subframes in a case of Time Division Duplexing (TDD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ahmad Khoshnevis, Shohei Yamada, Zhanping Yin, John M. Kowalski
  • Patent number: 9185663
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system comprising a base station (100) and a plurality of mobile stations (200) and operating closed loop transmitter power control, power control commands for transmission on an uplink are derived from measurements made on received downlink signals comprising nonpredetermined data values. Optionally the non-predetermined data values may comprise power control commands for uplink transmit power control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignees: Koninklijke Philips N.V., Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy J. Moulsley, Matthew P. J. Baker
  • Patent number: 9185743
    Abstract: In a communication system in which a base station performing precoding processing and a mobile terminal communicate with each other, communication is efficiently performed. The terminal device reports to the base station device, information indicating a codebook that the terminal device supports, among a plurality of codebooks. The base station device determines a transmission mode, based on the information indicating the codebook that the terminal device supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 9181630
    Abstract: This method for disposing fine objects, in a substrate preparing step, prepares a substrate having specified positions where fine objects (120) are to be disposed in an area where a first electrode (111) and a second electrode (112) face each other, and in a fluid introducing step, a fluid (121) is introduced on the substrate (110). The fluid (121) contains a plurality of the fine objects (120). The fine objects (120) are diode elements, each of which has, as an alignment structure, a front side layer (130) composed of a dielectric material, and a rear side layer (131) composed of a semiconductor. In the fine object disposing step, by applying an AC voltage to between the first electrode (111) and the second electrode (112), the fine objects (120) are disposed by dielectrophoresis with the front side layer (130) facing up at the predetermined positions in the area (A) where the first electrode (111) and the second electrode (112) face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihide Shibata, Tetsu Negishi, Kenji Komiya, Yoshifumi Yaoi, Takeshi Shiomi, Hiroshi Iwata, Akira Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9181632
    Abstract: The present invention provides polypeptide domains of C. difficile toxin B (B1, B2, B3, B4) and complexes between the polypeptides and antibodies that bind specifically for the polypeptide. Methods of using the polypeptides to generate antibodies are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Nicholas Murgolo, Lorraine Hernandez, Payal Sheth, Corey Strickland, Peter Orth, Alex Therien, Paul Reichert, Li Xiao