Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9105224
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device includes: a parallax barrier in which light transmission parts that transmit light and light shielding parts that block light are formed alternately, and a display panel that displays a stereoscopic image. A plurality of pixels for displaying the stereoscopic image are formed on the display panel. Each pixel includes a plurality of color forming subpixels that contribute to the color formation of the stereoscopic image, and a contrasting subpixel that contributes to the contrast of the stereoscopic image. In each pixel, the contrasting subpixel is positioned at both ends of the pixel in a direction in which the light transmission parts and the light shielding parts are arranged alternately. In each pixel that overlaps the light shielding part when the display panel is viewed from front, the contrasting subpixel is positioned at both ends of the light shielding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Eguchi, Shinya Yamasaki, Akira Imai, Tomoo Takatani
  • Patent number: 9105255
    Abstract: A mutual capacitance touch sensor includes a substrate, and an array of electrode elements formed on the substrate. Each electrode element includes at least one of a first electrode group having at least two drive electrodes and at least one sense electrode, or a second electrode group having at least two sense electrodes and at least one drive electrode. The respective electrodes of the first or second group are arranged to form multiple capacitances over different coupling distances. A controller is operatively coupled to the array of electrode elements, the controller configured to assign an input object as a conductive object when measurements of the multiple capacitances decrease as the input object approaches the touch sensor, and assign the input object as non-conductive object when measurements of at least one of the multiple capacitances increase as the input object approaches the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Christopher James Brown, Andrew Kay, Dauren Slamkul
  • Patent number: 9104064
    Abstract: Concave marks indicative of an orientation of a circuit board are formed on the circuit board, convex indices to be engaged with the marks are formed in a position in which the circuit is to be attached. An operator confirms the orientation of the circuit board easily and accurately by visually recognizing the marks and touching the marks with a finger. Moreover, the operator positions the circuit board by engaging the marks with the indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideto Takeuchi, Toshiyuki Fujita, Tatsuo Sugahara, Yuuki Kawamura, Mamoru Yahata, Hiroshi Takahashi, Keita Ito, Kenzo Toshiyuki, Kenichiro Ito, Kazuki Nakamichi, Tomoo Sasaki, Kenta Moribe
  • Patent number: 9106782
    Abstract: An image reader is provided, in its housing, with a first scanning unit made up of an LED array of a plurality of LED elements that are arranged in a row in the horizontal scanning direction and that emit light to a document. An air intake port and an air exhaust port are disposed on the housing of the image reader. An imaginary line of an air flow path coupling the air intake port and the air exhaust port to one another is configured to pass adjacent a center of the LED array of the first scanning unit in the horizontal scanning direction with the first scanning unit stopped at a reading position of the document transferred by a document transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Yamanaka, Mitsuharu Yoshimoto, Kenji Nakanishi, Yasuhiro Suto, Shohichi Fukutome, Masahiro Imoto
  • Patent number: 9106297
    Abstract: When spatial multiplexing is performed to any of a plurality of receiving antennas included in each terminal, it becomes possible to obtain excellent receiving characteristics by combining signals received by all antennas appropriately. A receiving antenna unit 28 receives channel state information from each terminal, a channel matrix H is obtained. A transmit weight/interference coefficient calculation unit 24 calculates a transmit weight and an interference coefficient based on channel matrix. The transmit weight is input to transmit weight multiplication units 17 and 23. The interference generation unit 15 generates an interference signal based on the interference coefficient. An interference subtraction unit 13 subtracts the interference signal from a desired signal. A modulo unit 14 adds a signal so that amplitude of an information signal output from the interference subtraction unit 13 falls within a constant range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Takashi Onodera, Kozue Hirata, Hiroshi Nakano, Hiromichi Tomeba
  • Patent number: 9102676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of general Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds can be used in the treatment of immune, autoimmune, inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases, bone resorption disorders, neurodegenerative diseases or proliferative diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V.
    Inventors: Tjeerd Andries Barf, Arthur Oubrie, Carsten Schultz-Fadermrecht, Eduard Willem Zwart, Niels Hoogenboom, Sander Martijn De Wilde, Allard Kaptein
  • Patent number: 9103781
    Abstract: A sample separation and adsorption appliance (100) includes a negative electrode (2), a positive electrode (3), a sample separation unit (6) that has a first opening (17) opened to a side facing the negative electrode (2) and a second opening (18) opened to a side facing the positive electrode (3), the sample separation unit containing a separation gel (7), and a slit structure (8) including a slit (1) at a position facing the second opening (18). A transfer film (9) is arranged between the second opening (18) and the slit (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouji Kusumoto, Yutaka Unuma, Hideki Kinoshita, Shinichi Goto, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Yuji Maruo
  • Patent number: 9104037
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circularly polarizing VA mode liquid crystal display device having an excellent gray scale viewing angle from an intermediate gray scale to a high gray scale at an azimuth angle of 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sakai
  • Patent number: 9102673
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of formula I and Ia: which are tropomyosin-related kinase (Trk) family protein kinase inhibitors, and hence are 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 TrkA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Barbara Hanney, Peter Manley, Michael T. Rudd, John M. Sanders, Shawn J. Stachel, Darrell Henze
  • Patent number: 9106390
    Abstract: A base station apparatus in a mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, uplink data using a physical uplink shared channel assigned by an uplink data transmission permission signal. The base station apparatus includes a transmitting unit which is configured to transmit, to the mobile station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including first information for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality information together with the uplink data, wherein the transmitting unit which is configured to transmit, to the mobile station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including second information for permitting the mobile station apparatus to transmit the reception quality information without the uplink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shohei Yamada, Hiroshi Katsuragawa
  • Patent number: 9105278
    Abstract: An optical information recording medium has a first information recording layer (20) and a second information recording layer (40) each of which includes (i) a group of pre-pits (31, 51) constituting marks (32, 52) and spaces (33, 53) and (ii) a super-resolution film (23, 43), the marks (32, 52) and the spaces (33, 53) having different lengths, an average length of a smallest mark that is smallest in length and a smallest space that is smallest in length being less than or equal to a resolution limit of a reproduction optical system for reproducing information recorded on the first information recording layer (20) and the second information recording layer (40), the group of pre-pits (31, 51) being formed so that a push-pull signal for the reproduction optical system to reproduce the information recorded by the group of pre-pits is negative in polarity. This provides an inexpensive and high-capacity multilayer optical information recording medium based on a super-resolution technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Memory-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Hideharu Tajima, Go Mori, Yasuhiro Harada, Masaki Yamamoto, Hirohisa Yamada, Masahito Konishi
  • Patent number: 9105652
    Abstract: A resist layer (46a) including a thick film section (47a), which is relatively thick, at one side thereof, and a thin film section (47b), which is relatively thin, at the other side thereof is formed using a multiple-tone mask. A gate electrode (15a) is formed at a place where it will be provided on a semiconductor layer (12a) so as to be narrower than the resist layer (46a), by executing isotropic etching to a conductive film (44) formed in advance using the resist layer (46a) as a mask, in order to form overhang portions (48) on the resist layer (46a) at both sides of the gate electrode (15a). Then, the entire thin film section (47b) is removed, the thick film section (47a) is made thinner, and impurities are implanted into the semiconductor layer (12a) using the remaining resist layer (46a) and the gate electrode (15a) as masks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki Saitoh
  • Patent number: 9105243
    Abstract: A liquid crystal driving circuit controls operations of display areas in a liquid crystal display panel based on a plural pieces of divided image data which are prepared by dividing image data for a single screen in accordance with the display areas in the liquid crystal display panel. In response to an luminance signal corresponding to an LED resolution generated by an LED resolution signal generating circuit based on image data for a single screen which is not divided, the LED driving circuit controls operations of LEDs provided in a backlight unit. With the configuration of at least one embodiment, according to a liquid crystal display device including a backlight, in a case where display image data for a single screen is divided into a plural pieces of divided image data for a plurality of areas of a display screen and images to be displayed in the plurality of areas are controlled based on the plural pieces of divided image data, display quality in a border area of the plurality of areas can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 9105223
    Abstract: Provided is a display device and a display method for the display device with which a three-dimensional stereoscopic image with reduced crosstalk and a two-dimensional planar image with high brightness can be displayed. In a display device that is capable of displaying an stereoscopic image by displaying an image for the right eye and an image for the left eye, pixel lines for the right eye for displaying the image for the right eye and pixel lines for the right eye for displaying the image for the left eye are alternately arranged in the vertical direction with black pixel lines for displaying a black image therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuhsaku Ajichi
  • Patent number: 9106885
    Abstract: A television (1) of the present invention includes a CPU (118) which stores broadcast medium information and recording mode information in such a manner that the broadcast medium information and the recording mode information are related to a broadcast content and when the broadcast content is reproduced, automatically sets a degree of an image process carried out on the broadcast content by an image processing circuit (107) in accordance with the broadcast medium information and the recording mode information which are stored in such a manner as to be related to the broadcast content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ichiro Mizobuchi, Akira Koike
  • Patent number: 9106368
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus 2 is assigned multiple component carriers in an uplink and a downlink by a base station apparatus and communicates with the base station apparatus by using the component carriers. The mobile station apparatus 2 includes a downlink control channel detector 67 and a carrier component identifying unit 53a. The downlink control channel detector 67 detects a downlink control channel from multiple search spaces where to detect the downlink control channel. From the search space where the downlink control channel detected by the downlink control channel detector 67 is arranged, the carrier component identifying unit 53a identifies the component carriers controlled with downlink control information transmitted in the downlink control channel and addressed to the mobile station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Shohei Yamada, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20150223132
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus receives information indicating an event and parameters for evaluating a condition of the event using a first cell or a second cell wherein the condition of the event is evaluated for a neighboring cell on associated frequency of the second cell. A base station apparatus configures the first cell and the second cell. The mobile station apparatus also determines whether the neighboring cell is an applicable cell based on one or more cell identifications and evaluates the condition of the event, where the second cell is not an applicable cell when the first cell and the second cell are used for a carrier aggregation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsunari UEMURA, Shohei YAMADA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20150219945
    Abstract: A display drive apparatus (gate driver IC) in which the pitch of output line is narrower than a pixel pitch of a liquid crystal panel connected to the output line. The apparatus is provided with output circuits in which one end of each lead-out wiring is connected to a gate line or a signal line of the liquid-crystal panel having gate lines and signal lines in a matrix structure, and the other end of each of the lead-out wirings is connected to a driver output stage (gate driver). Adjustment circuits for correcting variations in line resistance corresponding to the array directions of the lead-out wirings are provided between the driver output stages and the lead-out wirings of the plurality of output circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20150219978
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrophoretic display device provided with a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode disposed oppositely to the first electrode as electrodes for controlling the migration of white charged particles and black charged particles. The present display device can achieve satisfactory color display with high color purity and brightness without reduced reflectance when displaying white.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Publication number: 20150221682
    Abstract: A circuit-on-wire (CoW) is provided that is made from a flexible metal wire with an outer surface, and a plurality of discrete electrical control devices formed in series along the metal wire outer surface. Each control device may have an electrical contact accessible through the metal wire. In one aspect, the control device may have a via through the metal wire from the top surface to the bottom surface with a second electrical contact accessible through the via. In addition, the control devices may have a top surface with an accessible third electrical contact. For example, the control device may be a first thin-film transistor (TFT), with a gate electrode accessible through the metal wire, wherein the second electrical contact is a first source/drain (S/D) electrode, and wherein the third electrical contact is a second S/D electrode. Using the above-described CoW, a woven active matrix array can be fabricated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Apostolos Voutsas, Themistokles Afentakis