Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 9185411Abstract: A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiran Misra, Christopher A. Segall
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Patent number: 9182859Abstract: A capacitive type touch sensing device includes a first electrode array including a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of sense electrodes, and a second electrode array spaced apart from the first electrode array and including a plurality of discrete, electrically floating conductive regions. At least part of the second electrode array positionally overlaps with at least part of the first electrode array to define a separation distance therebetween, the separation distance varying with a force applied to a surface of the touch sensing device. Further, each conductive region is positioned relative to a respective drive electrode and sense electrode of the first electrode array so that a capacitance between certain pairs of drive and sense electrodes is more sensitive to a variation in the separation distance than a capacitance between other pairs of drive and sense electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michael Paul Coulson, Christopher James Brown, Dauren Slamkul
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Patent number: 9182134Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner including: a heater control section (54) for carrying out duty control on a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater (55); and a current detecting section (53) for detecting a current value of the PTC heater (55). The PTC heater (55) starts to be driven at a predetermined duty ratio. When the current value detected by the current detecting section (53) takes a peak (P), a duty ratio increasing process of increasing the duty ratio of the PTC heater (55) by a predetermined amount is repeated until the duty ratio reaches to 100%.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tohru Ariga
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Patent number: 9185564Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) for sending feedback information is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines a primary cell (PCell) configuration. The UE also determines a secondary cell (SCell) configuration. The SCell configuration is different from the PCell configuration. The UE further determines a feedback parameter Mc based on the PCell configuration and the SCell configuration. Mc indicates a number of subframes that require Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) association for a cell c in a given uplink subframe. The UE also determines SCell HARQ-ACK information. The UE additionally sends the SCell HARQ-ACK information based on the feedback parameter.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
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Patent number: 9182844Abstract: A configuration of a touch panel in which an electrode pattern is not readily visible is attained in the present invention. A touch panel is provided with an insulating substrate, first island-shaped electrodes formed on the substrate and arranged in one direction, second island-shaped electrodes formed on the substrate and arranged in a direction intersecting the direction in which the first island-shaped electrodes are arranged, a first connecting member for connecting the first island-shaped electrodes, a metallic film formed on the first connecting member, an insulating film formed so as to completely cover the metallic film, and a second connecting member for connecting the second island-shaped electrodes over the insulating film. The first island-shaped electrodes, the second island-shaped electrodes, the first connecting member, and the second connecting member are formed using a transparent conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsunori Misaki
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Patent number: 9182631Abstract: A phosphor substrate (10) includes a substrate (1), phosphor layers (3R, 3G, and 3B) which are disposed on the substrate (1) and which emit fluorescences (L2) using incident excitation light (L1), and a partition (7) surrounding side faces of the phosphor layers (3R, 3G, and 3B), in which at least portions of the partition (7) in contact with the phosphor layers (3R, 3G, and 3B) have light-scattering properties.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akiko Iwata, Mitsuhiro Koden, Yuhki Kobayashi, Hisanori Bessho, Satoshi Shibata
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Patent number: 9183811Abstract: A process of correcting display unevenness of a liquid crystal panel 40 of the present invention includes following steps. (1) Supply image data to the liquid crystal panel 40 and display the liquid crystal panel 40. (2) Capture an image of a display area of the liquid crystal panel 44 with a camera 66. (3) Generate correction data for the liquid crystal panel based on a captured image result. (4) Store the correction data in a volatile storing device. (5) Generate corrected image data with using the correction data stored in the volatile storing device. (6) Supply the corrected image data to the liquid crystal panel and display the liquid crystal panel 40. (7) Executed repeatedly the processes from (2) to (6).Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takashi Sasaki
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Patent number: 9185577Abstract: To realize transmission performances equivalent to those of an MU-MIMO BLAST ZF-THP system without increasing a signal processing amount in a base station apparatus in a downlink MU-MIMO transmission system. A transmission apparatus is provided with a plurality of transmission antennas, generates a transmission signal addressed to each reception apparatus based on information indicating spatial correlation of channels to and from a plurality of reception apparatuses, space-multiplexes the generated each transmission signal in the same wireless resource, and transmits it to each reception apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota, Takashi Onodera, Shimpei To, Kozue Hirata, Hiroshi Nakano
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Patent number: 9183805Abstract: In the case where input terminals of a display driver circuit are compatible with two or more types of interface specifications, an LSI chip, which is the display driver circuit, has some input terminals connected to parallel data lines and its output terminals connected to display lines, and these input terminals and output terminals are arranged along a long side located on the display portion side. In at least one example embodiment, the rest of the input terminals, which are intended for parallel interface, are arranged along a long side located on the FPC board side. With this configuration, the long sides of the LSI chip can be rendered shorter (than in the case where all input terminals are arranged in a row) without causing malfunction.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Imai, Noriyuki Nakane
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Patent number: 9183797Abstract: Disclosed is a display device that (i) converts an input image formed of R, G, and B into a converted image formed of R, G, B, and W to display the converted image and that (ii) compresses the luminance of an input image for the subsequent frame on the basis of an adjustment value C which is corrected in correspondence with the number of, among all pixels in a converted image for the current frame, pixels in a state of luminance saturation and that then converts the input image into a converted image, the display device including a luminance oscillation detecting section (10) for detecting, while input images identical to each other are being inputted each as the above input image, whether converted images corresponding to the respective input images have an oscillating luminance, the display device, in the case where the luminance oscillation detecting section (10) has detected that the converted images have an oscillating luminance, stopping correction of the adjustment value C to fix the adjustment value CType: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohzoh Takahashi, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Ken Inada, Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Toshihiro Yanagi
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Patent number: 9184353Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting device (1) including a light-emitting element (2) emitting primary light, and a light converter (3) absorbing a part of the primary light emitted from the light-emitting element (2) and emitting secondary light having a longer wavelength than the primary light. The light converter (3) contains a green light-emitting phosphor (4) and a red light-emitting phosphor (5). The green light-emitting phosphor (4) is composed of at least one phosphor selected from a divalent europium-activated oxynitride phosphor substantially represented by the following formula: EuaSibAlcOdNe and a divalent europium-activated silicate phosphor substantially represented by the following formula: 2(Ba1-f-gMIfEug)O.SiO2, while the red light-emitting phosphor (5) is composed of at least one phosphor selected from tetravalent manganese-activated fluoro-tetravalent metalate phosphors substantially represented by the following formulae: MII2(MIII1-hMnh)F6 and/or MIV(MIII1-hMnh)F6.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masatsugu Masuda, Kenji Terashima
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Patent number: 9184943Abstract: A multicarrier-signal transmitting apparatus sets a phase rotation amount for each subcarrier of a plurality of subcarrier groups, wherein the phase rotation amount being set with a setting among at least three settings. The settings being phase rotation amounts for subcarrier groups which each include a plurality of continuous subcarrier groups where each number of the continuous subcarrier groups included in each subcarrier group set is different from each other. Also, the multicarrier-signal transmitting apparatus adds, based on the phase rotation amount, a phase rotation to reference signals and a data signal of each subcarrier of the plurality of subcarrier groups.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kimihiko Imamura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Yasuyuki Kato, Daiichiro Nakashima
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Patent number: 9185623Abstract: Efficient cell reselection taking the continuity of MBMS service into consideration is enabled. A communication system includes a base station apparatus managing a cell capable of providing a multimedia broadcast multicast service, and a mobile station apparatus belonging to a group of access-restricted cells, and the mobile station apparatus selects the access-restricted cell from the serving cell capable of providing the multimedia broadcast multicast service. The base station apparatus periodically transmits multimedia broadcast multicast service information to the mobile station apparatus (S101), and the mobile station apparatus is able to continue the multimedia broadcast multicast service being received from the cell capable of providing the multimedia broadcast multicast service by selecting the access-restricted cell and when a reception quality of the access-restricted cell satisfies cell reselection criteria, selects the access-restricted cell (S105).Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsunari Uemura, Hidekazu Tsuboi
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Patent number: 9183482Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems comprising one or more shielding elements repositionable, e.g., slidably disposed, along a structure, e.g., a stylus, the structure further comprising a set of one or more radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, where the one or more shielding elements effect the radio frequency (RF) transmissibility of the set of one or more RFID tags, and a computing device comprising a processor, where the processor is configured to determine an association of a set of received one or more RFID tags with a unique identifier.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventor: Dana S. Smith
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Patent number: 9183804Abstract: A display comprises independently addressable pixels, a pixel comprising first and second electrodes (12a,12b) disposed on a first substrate and spaced apart from one another. A counter electrode (22) is provided on a second substrate, with an electro-optical material provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. A controller, in use, applies a first voltage to the first electrode of the pixel, a second voltage different to the first voltage to the second electrode of the pixel, and a third voltage to the counter electrode of the pixel to define in the pixel at least one of a first region (18a), a second region (18c) and a third region (18b). The first, second and third voltages are selected such that an area of the first region, second region and third region or each of the first, second region and third region defined in the pixel produces a desired greyscale level for the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nathan James Smith, Benjamin John Broughton, Christopher James Brown, Paul Antony Gass
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Patent number: 9182534Abstract: Provided are: a thin display device that has reduced dimensions between a light guide plate and a display panel; and a television receiver provided with the display device. By threading screws, the edge of an opening and a bottom part press, with an elastic member interposed therebetween, the display panel and the light guide plate together. As a result, the dimensions between the display panel and the light guide plate can be reduced by sandwiching the display panel and the light guide plate by a front cabinet and a back cabinet from the front and back without interposing a support member between the display panel and the light guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 9181261Abstract: The present invention is directed to benzyl urea compounds, which are tropomyosin-related kinase (Trk) family protein kinase inhibitors, and hence may be useful in the treatment of pain, inflammation, cancer, restenosis, atherosclerosis, psoriasis, thrombosis, a disease, disorder, injury, or malfunction relating to dysmyelination or demyelination or a disease or disorder associated with abnormal activities of nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor Trk-A, Trk-B and/or Trk-C.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Shawn J. Stachel, Melissa Egbertson, Edward Brnardic, Kristen G. Jones, John M. Sanders, Darrell Henze
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Patent number: 9185695Abstract: A method for selecting an uplink modulation scheme may include receiving downlink control information (DCI). The format of the DCI may be decoded. The uplink modulation scheme may be determined according to the format of the DCI. The uplink modulation scheme may be selected. An uplink signal may be transmitted according to the uplink modulation scheme.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kimihiko Imamura
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Patent number: 9181057Abstract: A stepping motor control device includes a driving IC driving a stepping motor by PWM control, and a setting circuit for setting PWM frequency of the driving IC. The setting circuit sets the driving IC such that in stepping motor accelerating and decelerating periods, the PWM frequency of the driving IC becomes higher than the PWM frequency of the driving IC in a constant-speed period of the stepping motor. Thus, power loss of the driving IC in the stepping motor accelerating and decelerating periods can be reduced, and ripple current can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tamaki Mashiba
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Patent number: 9181236Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain iminothiazine dioxide compounds, including compounds Formula (I): and tautomers and stereoisomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of said compounds, said tautomeros and said stereoisomers, wherein each of the variables shown in the formula are as defined herein. The novel compounds of the invention are useful as BACE inhibitors and/or for the treatment and prevention of various pathologies related thereto. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other active agents), and methods for their preparation and use, including Alzheimer's disease, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Wen-Lian Wu, Duane A. Burnett, Andrew W. Stamford, Jared N. Cumming, Theodros Asberom, Chad Bennett, Thavalakulamgara K. Sasiskumar, Jack D. Scott