Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Base-station apparatus, terminal apparatus, communication system, and communication method
    Patent number: 9172448
    Abstract: A base-station apparatus configures a terminal apparatus with information related to mapping between a first channel-state information reference signal and a second channel-state information reference signal and codebook subset restriction information that restricts selection of a codebook subset as feedback information by the terminal apparatus, the codebook subset indicating precoding a weight to perform a first communication and a second communication. Using the information related to the mapping and the codebook subset restriction information, the terminal apparatus selects a codebook to perform the first communication and a codebook to perform the second communication. The terminal apparatus configures the base-station apparatus with information indicating the codebook to perform the first communication and information indicating the codebook to perform the second communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Mobile communication system, base station apparatus and mobile station apparatus
    Patent number: 9173125
    Abstract: A mobile station (MS) that transmits uplink data on a PUSCH, the PUSCH being assigned by using a PDCCH. The MS receives a radio resource control signal including first information instructing the MS apparatus to periodically transmit first reception quality information (RQI) and receives, on the PDCCH, second information instructing the MS to transmit second RQI on the PUSCH. The MS transmits only the second RQI on the PUSCH in a case that the transmission of the first RQI which is instructed by using the first information and the transmission of the second RQI which is instructed by using the second information would occur at the same time, where the second RQI is transmitted together with the uplink data on the PUSCH and an amount of resources for the second RQI is determined based on a size of the PUSCH assigned by using the PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shohei Yamada, Hiroshi Katsuragawa
  • Fixing device having pressure release member supported reciprocably, and image forming apparatus equipped therewith
    Patent number: 9170536
    Abstract: A fixing device is configured to move the pressure release member in predetermined movement directions relative to the support member such that the biasing member can function. The support member has a first retaining part. The pressure release member has a retention element to be held in the first retaining part of the support member. When the retention element is held in the first retaining part of the support member, the pressure release member is configured to apply a biasing force of the biasing member to the support member and thereby to cause the second fixing member to be pressed against the first fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouta Yoshikawa, Masaya Asakawa
  • Nitride semiconductor device
    Patent number: 9171947
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes a substrate, a nitride semiconductor laminate, and an ohmic electrode of TiAl-based material. The nitride semiconductor laminate has a first nitride semiconductor layer on the substrate, and a second nitride semiconductor layer forming a heterointerface with the first nitride semiconductor layer. The nitride semiconductor device has an oxygen concentration profile in a depth direction of the device across between the ohmic electrode and the nitride semiconductor laminate. The profile has a first oxygen concentration peak near an interface between the ohmic electrode and the nitride semiconductor laminate in a region, of the nitride semiconductor laminate, that is on a substrate side of the interface, and a second oxygen concentration peak having an oxygen concentration of 3×1017 cm?3-1.2×1018 cm?3 in a position deeper than that of the first oxygen concentration peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Morishita, Koichiro Fujita
  • DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD
    Publication number: 20150304641
    Abstract: In a display control circuit (200) of a display device (100) that enables 3-D display, a color correction table storage unit (22) stores a parameter (Mp) for adjusting a hue, and a data correction unit (23) corrects a pixel value by performing, based on the parameter (Mp), an arithmetic processing so as to change a blue hue. An adjustment is performed so as to match a hue in a case of 3-D display for which a parallax barrier is formed with a hue in a case of normal display for which the parallax barrier is not formed. Therefore, the adjustment is simple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken INADA, Asahi YAMATO
  • Inhibitors of the Renal Outer Medullary Potassium Channel
    Publication number: 20150299198
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are inhibitors of the ROMK (Kir1.1) channel. The compounds may be used as diuretic and/or natriuretic agents and for the therapy and prophylaxis of medical conditions including cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, heart failure and conditions associated with excessive salt and water retention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Shawn P. Walsh, Brian Cato, Jessica L. Frie, Dooseop Kim, Alexander Pasternak, Zhi-Cai Shi
  • METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE
    Publication number: 20150303155
    Abstract: In order to securely ground an exterior shield and reduce burden imposed on a dicing blade and the exterior shield, a method of producing a semiconductor module comprises a hole-forming step of forming a hole 30 extending from a top surface of a sealing resin layer 3 to a ground wiring 111 (112) provided at a collective substrate 100, a film-forming step of forming an electrically conductive film made of an electrically conductive material so as to cover at least the top surface of the sealing resin layer 3, an internal surface of the hole 20, and the ground wiring 111 (112), and a separation step of separating from each other a plurality of individual module sections which the individual module section comprises.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takae SAKAI, Masahiro MURAKAMI, Masahiko KUSHINO, Yoshihisa AMANO, Shinichi TOKUNO
  • ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150301389
    Abstract: On an active matrix substrate (5), metal electrodes (44) are provided below pixel electrodes (19). At least portions of a plurality of second thin-film transistors (second switching elements) (23b) are covered by light shielding films formed from the metal electrodes (44). The metal electrodes (light shielding films) (44) are covered by an interlayer insulating film (33) and an electrode film (CSa) of an auxiliary capacitance electrode (common electrode) (CS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro YOSHIDA, Isao OGASAWARA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH PANEL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20150301633
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an operation type judgment unit that judges a type of touch operation, based on information representing a number of pixels per unit length of a screen of a display with a touch panel connected to an own device and on information indicating a touch position at which the display with the touch panel was touched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuhiro NAKAMURA
  • MASK FRAME
    Publication number: 20150299840
    Abstract: A mask frame according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a side with a surface having a shape of a mountain that has the highest point at a center in the lengthwise direction thereof and respective lowest points at an end and another end in the lengthwise direction, and a side facing the side and having the same shape as the side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomofumi Osaki, Shinichi Kawato, Takashi Ochi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Manabu Niboshi, Tomohiro Kosaka, Yuto Tsukamoto
  • RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
    Publication number: 20150304084
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus receives a radio resource control signal including at least a first parameter POFFSET (0) and a second parameter POFFSET (1). The mobile station apparatus also transmits a first reference signal on a first antenna port and a second reference signal on a second antenna port. In addition, the mobile station apparatus sets a first transmit power for a transmission of the first reference signal based on at least the first parameter POFFSET (0), a maximum transmit power value, a path loss and a transmission power control command. The mobile station apparatus also sets a second transmit power for a transmission of the second reference signal based on at least the second parameter POFFSET (1), a maximum transmit power value, a path loss and a transmission power control command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Wataru OUCHI, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • DRIVE MODULE, DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MULTI-DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150302815
    Abstract: In order to realize display control of a display panel in which gate signals and source signals are supplied to the display panel via only one side of the display panel, a display device (1) includes a driving module (12) including: input terminals via which input signals from an input signal generating section (13) are supplied; output terminals via which gate signals and source signals are outputted; a gate driving circuit for generating the gate signals; and a source driving circuit for generating the source signals, and a display panel (11) in which control terminals are provided on only one side of the display panel (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinari MARUSHIMA, Nakae NAKAMURA, Nobuaki ASAYAMA
  • LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150301266
    Abstract: An illumination device of the present invention is provided with: a light source; a light guide plate having a light-receiving face that faces the light source and on which light that has been generated from the light source is incident, an opposite surface that is on the opposite side to the light-receiving face, and a light-exiting surface from which light that has entered the light guide plate from the light-receiving face exits; a first wall disposed along the front-back direction of the light guide plate and having a light absorbing surface that faces the opposite surface and absorbs light that has leaked out from the light guide plate; and a first light absorbing member that extends between a front periphery adjacent to the opposite surface on the light-exiting surface and a front end of the first wall, and absorbs light that has leaked out from the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoh ARAKI, Shugo YAGI, Kazuya HATTA
  • PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150298923
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body and a processing apparatus. The processing apparatus includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The main body has a manual-feed tray at one lateral face. The first processing unit and the second processing unit are stacked in the vertical direction on the same lateral face side of the main body as the manual-feed tray provided. The second processing unit is slidable in a toward-away direction between a connecting position and a separate position, and has a hollow to insert the manual-feed tray therein at the connecting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuhi AKAGAWA
  • DATA INPUT DEVICE, DATA INPUT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DATA INPUT PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20150302617
    Abstract: In a data input device according to one aspect of the present invention, a position detection unit detects a first position based on a position of one part of a body of a user represented in a video captured by an image capturing device and a second position based on a position of another part of the body. A drawing input detection unit establishes, based on the first position, an input detection region in which a drawing input is detected, and detects, based on whether or not the second position is included in the input detection region, the drawing input. A position-of-interest detection unit detects a position-of-interest corresponding to the second position on an image display plane. An image forming unit forms an image indicating a position-of-interest in a case that the drawing input detection unit detects the drawing input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya SHIMURA, Sakae SAITO
  • TOUCH PANEL CONTROLLER, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, TOUCH PANEL SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150301682
    Abstract: A touch panel controller (3) includes: a drive section (4); a differential amplifier (5); variable integral capacitors (Cint1, Cint2); and a capacitance control section (6) that controls the variable integral capacitors (Cint1, Cint2) so as to correct line dependency of capacitors (C31 to C34, C41 to S44).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kanazawa, Yoshihisa Fujimoto
  • DISPLAY APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150303219
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate that includes gate lines; and a driver circuit section that includes a gate driver that is connected to the gate lines. A frame region includes a wiring substrate that sandwiches the gate lines. The wiring substrate includes: a first wiring substrate that has first wiring lines that are connected to the gate lines; a second wiring substrate that has second wiring lines that are connected to the first wiring lines; and a third wiring substrate that is attached to the second wiring substrate and has third wiring lines that are connected to the second wiring lines and a gate driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenshi TADA
  • Regioselective N-2 Arylation of Indazoles
    Publication number: 20150299167
    Abstract: A novel process is provided for the efficient preparation of an asymmetric compound of structural formula I: comprising a copper-catalyzed, carbon-nitrogen cross-coupling step. The process described as part of the present invention can be used to manufacture poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, which may be useful for the treatment of cancer. In particular, the present invention describes a process for the manufacture of the PARP inhibitor, 2-{4-[(3S)-piperidin-3-yl]phenyl}-2H-indazole-7-carboxamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Cheol K. Chung, Mark E. Scott, Paul Gerard Bulger, Kevin Michael Belyk, John Limanto, Guy R. Humphrey
  • TOUCH PANEL-TYPE INPUT DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20150301647
    Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel including a touch sensor that detects an operation by an operator, and a display. The input device executes information processing based on information input on the touch sensor. The touch sensor is capable of changing a detection output to the information processing means, in accordance with a position of an object at a distance from the touch sensor. The input device also determines whether an operation on the touch sensor is performed with an operator's right hand or left hand, based on a distribution of the detection output from the touch sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi SATO, Kenji MAEDA, Tatsuo WATANABE, Kazuya TAKAYAMA, Masayuki NATSUMI, Tetsuya UMEKIDA
  • Copier
    Patent number: D741945
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Kawata