Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Color enhancement technique using skin color detection
    Patent number: 9143657
    Abstract: A method for enhancing the color of an image to be displayed includes receiving an input image having a plurality of pixels where each of the pixels has a plurality of color components. The input image is filtered using a spatial filter in such a manner that the lower frequency content of the input image is enhanced in such a manner that the dynamic range of the lower frequency content is increased. The filtered image is modified such that the higher frequency content of the input image is used to modify the filtered image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Hao Pan
  • Aminomethyl biaryl benzotriazole derivatives
    Patent number: 9139576
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to aminomethyl biaryl benzotriazole derivatives which are potentiators of metabotropic glutamate receptors, particularly the mGluR2 receptor, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction and diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Douglas C. Beshore, Robert M. Garbaccio, Scott D. Kuduk, Adam W. Johnson, Jason W. Skudlarek
  • Wireless communication device
    Patent number: 9143179
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes an antenna element for carrying out wireless communications, a power feeding section for supplying power to the antenna element, a conductor other than the antenna element, and a dividing part for dividing the conductor, the dividing part being provided so as to divide the conductor into parts so that each of the parts has a length equal to or less than a quarter of wavelength at an operating frequency at which the antenna element carries out wireless communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nozomu Hikino
  • Light-emitting device, lighting device, display device, and method for manufacturing light-emitting device
    Patent number: 9144118
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element, a phosphor layer containing a phosphor that is excited by the light emitted by the light-emitting element to emit fluorescence, a substrate with the light-emitting element and the phosphor layer on the surface, and a resin body that seals the light-emitting element and the phosphor layer. An additional member is provided on an opposite surface opposed to the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting element on the surface of the resin body. The additional member at least reflects or diffuses the light emitted by the light-emitting element and the phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shin Ito
  • Inhibitors of the Renal Outer Medullary Potassium channel
    Patent number: 9139585
    Abstract: This invention relates to compounds of Formula I-VI having the following general structure: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which are inhibitors of the Renal Outer Medullary Potassium (ROMK) channel (Kir1.1). The compounds are useful as diuretics and natriuretics and therefore are useful for the therapy and prophylaxis of disorders resulting from excessive salt and water retention, including cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and chronic and acute heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Shawn P. Walsh, Alexander Pasternak, Reynalda K. DeJesus, Haifeng Tang, Barbara Pio, Aurash Shahripour, Kevin M. Belyk, Harry R. Chobanian, Yan Guo, Jessica L. Frie, Zhi-Cai Shi, Helen Chen, Timothy A. Blizzard, Brian Cato
  • Thin film transistor substrate and method for producing same
    Patent number: 9142573
    Abstract: Each of the auxiliary capacitors (6a) includes a capacitor line (11b) comprised of the same material as the gate electrode (11a) and provided in the same layer as the gate electrode (11a), the gate insulating film (12) provided so as to cover the capacitor line (11a), a capacitor intermediate layer (13c) provided using the oxide semiconductor and provided on the gate insulating film (12) so as to overlap the capacitor line (11b), and a capacitor electrode (15b) provided on the capacitor intermediate layer (13c), and the capacitor intermediate layer (13c) is conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamashita, Tokuo Yoshida, Yoshimasa Chikama, Yoshifumi Ohta, Yuuji Mizuno, Hinae Mizuno, Masahiko Suzuki, Okifumi Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Harumoto, Yoshinobu Miyamoto
  • Multi display system, and display device
    Patent number: 9140433
    Abstract: The present invention aims at mitigating a light guide member being peeled off and a display panel being damaged by stress exerted on an adhesive section or the like between the light guide members. A multi-display system has a plurality of display devices (100) arranged in a matrix such that a cushioning member (310) is arranged alongside a light guide member (150) and between the respective light guide members (150) of two of the adjacent display devices (100) among the plurality of display devices (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Charged particle emission device and air-blowing device
    Patent number: 9140462
    Abstract: A charged particle emission and air-blowing device includes a communication port biased toward an end portion in a predetermined direction with respect to an air outlet, and a width expander configured to widen a flow path between an air directing plate of the end portion and a second blowing duct wider than a periphery. Emitted light from a light guide plate is reflected by the air directing plate in the delivery direction of an air flow. An air flow passes from a downward direction to an upward direction along a circuit board in an auxiliary suction path, and an opening portion faces the upper portion of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Hanai, Kenichi Shiraishi, Nobuhiro Iwaki
  • Fuel cell stack and electronic device provided with the same
    Patent number: 9142853
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel cell stack having reduced thickness and weight and an improved output density. The fuel cell stack according to the present invention includes two or more stacked fuel cell layers, and is characterized in that at least one of the fuel cell layers is formed by arranging two or more composite unit cells in an identical plane with a gap provided therebetween, that the composite unit cell includes a plurality of unit cells and a fuel supply portion for supplying fuel to anode electrodes of the unit cells, and that the anode electrodes of the plurality of unit cells are arranged to face the fuel supply portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Muraoka, Toshiyuki Fujita, Tomohisa Yoshie, Hironori Kambara
  • Display system for vehicle and vehicle
    Patent number: 9140716
    Abstract: A display system of the present invention for a vehicle includes plural speed display areas which are capable of being simultaneously displayed, such as a first speed display area and a second speed display area, and a display controlling section causing predetermined one of speed display areas to display speed and for causing other one or more of speed display areas to display information other than speed according to necessity. This allows decrease in false recognition of the speed. With this, a display system for a vehicle can be provided, the display system being able to improve safety of driving by a user by getting rid of false recognition of speed, which is important information for safe driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Abe, Aki Miake, Takeshi Yamamoto, Toshiya Takahashi, Shinichirou Ota, Megumi Itoh, Koji Sato, Mika Akada
  • Data forwarding circuit, data forwarding method, display device, host-side device, and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 9142195
    Abstract: The timing controller determines the number of data lanes (11, 12, 13), which are used to transfer data, based on information in relation to an amount of data to be transferred during a predetermined time period. Out of the plurality of data lanes (11, 12, 13), the determined number of data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) are used to transfer data. Further, a data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) which is not used in the data transfer is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Asahi Yamato
  • Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9141026
    Abstract: A developing apparatus including a layer thickness adjustment member configured to regulate a layer thickness of a two-component developer carried on a surface of a developing sleeve of a developing roller is disposed so that one end portion in a width direction faces the surface of the developing sleeve at a predetermined interval. At two end portions in a longitudinal direction of the layer thickness adjustment member, a notch open to the one end side in the width direction is provided. Since an amount of conveyance of the developer locally increases at two end portions of the developing sleeve by providing such a notch in the layer thickness adjustment member, density of an ear of a magnetic brush to be formed increases, and it is possible to exhibit the sufficient seal performance and prevent the toner from being scattered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Morimoto, Takeshi Ohkawa
  • Method for producing proteins in that lack detectable cross binding activity to antibodies against host cell antigens
    Patent number: 9139632
    Abstract: Methods for producing proteins and glycoproteins in Pichia pastoris that lack detectable cross binding activity to antibodies made against host cell antigens are described. In particular, methods are described wherein recombinant Pichia pastoris strains that do not display a ?-mannosyltransferase 2 activity with respect to an N-glycan or O-glycan and do not display at least one activity selected from a ?-mannosyltransferase 1, 3, and 4 activity to produce recombinant proteins and glycoproteins. These recombinant Pichia pastoris strains can produce proteins and glycoproteins that lack detectable ?-mannosidase resistant ?-mannose residues thereon and thus, lack cross binding activity to antibodies against host cell antigens. Further described are methods for producing bi-sialylated human erythropoietin in Pichia pastoris that lack detectable cross binding activity to antibodies against host cell antigens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Piotr Bobrowicz, Sujatha Gomathinayagam, Stephen Hamilton, Huijuan Li, Natarajan Sethuraman, Terrance A. Stadheim, Stefan Wildt
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9141317
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes an image processing portion for creating image data of a document read by an image reading portion and a communication portion for transmitting the created image data to a server or cloud, and obtains the image data saved in the server or the like to perform required processing, in which a reduced image generating portion for creating reduced image data based on the created image data, a main storage portion for linking the reduced image data and a saving destination of the data serving as original thereof for storage, and a display portion for displaying an operation screen are included, and the reduced image data stored in the main storage portion is displayed on the display portion to select image data for which the required processing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Tawada
  • Liquid crystal display device and multi-display system
    Patent number: 9140942
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first scanning line, a second scanning line and a third scanning line which are provided for each of a plurality of pixel rows; a first signal line and a second signal line which are provided for each of a plurality of pixel columns; a pixel capacitor provided for each of a plurality of pixels; a temporary storage capacitor for temporarily storing a voltage to be written to the pixel capacitor; a first switching element for controlling electrical connection between the first signal line and the temporary storage capacitor; a second switching element for controlling electrical connection between the temporary storage capacitor and the pixel capacitor; and a third switching element for controlling electrical connection between the second signal line and the pixel capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Miyata, Tamotsu Sakai
  • Aminotetrahydropyrans as dipeptidyl peptidase-IV inhibitors for the treatment of diabetes
    Patent number: 9138426
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel substituted aminotetrahydropyrans of structural formula I which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved, such as diabetes and particularly Type 2 diabetes. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Tesfaye Biftu, Ann E. Weber
  • Multi-mode phase rotation apparatus that transmits CQI depending on the mode used
    Patent number: 9144058
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus and a communication method thereof, where the terminal apparatus receives, from a base station, signals based on a mode which is selected either a first mode to be capable of applying a phase rotation difference to signals between adjacent subcarriers at least in a transmitting antenna or a second mode not to be capable of applying the phase rotation difference; and transmits a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) depending on the mode selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimihiko Imamura, Ryota Yamada
  • Prioritizing multiple channel state information (CSI) reporting with carrier aggregation
    Patent number: 9143973
    Abstract: A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) on a user equipment (UE) is described. Multiple channel state information (CSI) reports are generated for multiple component carriers (CCs) that are scheduled to be transmitted in a subframe. A method of prioritization for the CSI reports is selected. A highest priority CSI report of the multiple CSI reports is determined using the selected method of prioritization. The highest priority CSI report is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sayantan Choudhury, Shohei Yamada
  • Display device and frame member
    Patent number: 9144162
    Abstract: A display device includes a frame body (15) formed by joining a plurality of frame members (15a to 15f) for supporting a circumferential end portion of a display panel (2), wherein a cushioning material (17a) of a first frame member (15a) of the plurality of frame members includes a protruding portion (Ta) protruding toward a second frame member (15b) to be joined to the first frame member and a recessed portion (Ha) recessed inwardly, and a cushioning material (17b) of the second frame member (15b) includes a recessed portion (Hb) recessed inwardly so as to correspond to the protruding portion (Ta) of the cushioning material (17a) of the first frame member and a protruding portion (Tb) protruding so as to correspond to the recessed portion (Ha) of the cushioning material (17a) of the first frame member (15a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuya Kondoh
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150261276
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device. During a vertical scanning period, a positive signal voltage is sent from three data signal lines corresponding to first- to third-colored pixel columns that belong to one group, and a negative signal voltage is sent from three data signal lines corresponding to first- to third-colored pixel columns that belong to another group, the two groups being adjacent to one another. Within each group, the first-colored pixel column is arranged furthest upstream, the third-colored pixel column is arranged furthest downstream, a signal voltage is sent from a data signal line positioned upstream of the first-colored pixel column to the first-colored pixel column, and a signal voltage is sent from a data signal line positioned upstream of the third-colored pixel column to the third-colored pixel column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichi Ina, Yoshimizu Moriya, Shige Furuta