Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20150221261
    Abstract: The present invention includes a write-in start position control section (36) that performs a process of shifting, by a given shifting amount, a start position of a write-in operation to the frame memory (31), when the write-in operation is started, the given shifting amount being predetermined so as not to exceed a capacity reserved in advance in the frame memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junki Asai, Fumitaka Seki
  • Publication number: 20150219946
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel that exhibits increased light use efficiency and decreased occurrence of display anomalies. The display panel includes substrates; a light modulating layer that contains shape-anisotropic members that rotate according to the direction of an electric field and that controls the transmittance of incident light by changing the area projected onto the substrates by the shape-anisotropic members; and supporting members that support the shape-anisotropic members and are rotatably connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji Satoh, Takuma Tomotoshi, Tomoko Teranishi, Takahiro Nakahara
  • Patent number: 9095637
    Abstract: A casing, including an inlet through which air can flow in and outlets through which air can flow out, is internally provided with: an air passage through which the inlet and the outlets are connected to each other; and an ion generation device for discharging ions into the air passage. The casing has an inclined wind guide surface and an attachment surface that forms an acute angle with the wind guide surface. The inlet is provided in a region of the wind guide surface, the distance of which from the attachment surface is shorter, the first outlet is provided in a region of the wind guide surface, the distance of which from the attachment surface is longer, and the second outlet is provided in a region of the casing, extending to the attachment surface from an end of the wind guide surface at which the first outlet is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN CASH MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Motoyuki Suzuki, Naoki Wada
  • Patent number: 9098771
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining a skew angle associated with a document image. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a rotation vector may be estimated for at least one layer in a vertical-edge buffer and a horizontal-edge buffer. According to a second aspect of the present invention, a rotation vector may be estimated directly from the vertical-edge buffer and the horizontal-edge buffer using a fixed-sized, progressively constrained histogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: John E. Dolan
  • Patent number: 9100619
    Abstract: The invention provides data for display on the display area for a child frame when the child frame is synthesized and displayed on the parent frame in picture-in-picture playback in order to give the displayed area of the child frame in conformity with the video content in the parent frame, as well as providing a video display apparatus etc. for displaying the child frame at an appropriate displayed position using the data for display. A video display apparatus 1 includes: decoders 101 and 103 for decoding two sets of video data; a synthesizer 105 for synthesizing the decoded videos to output; an input unit 108 for commanding display/non-display of the child frame; a processing controller 109 for controlling the operations of decoders 101 and 103 in accordance with the command; and a position designator 110 which receives the command and the data for display and time information and designates the displayed position of the child frame to the synthesizer 105.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichi Watanabe, Jiro Kiyama, Takayoshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9100259
    Abstract: GI removers b102-nR remove a GI from received signals. FFT units b103-nR apply a time-to-frequency transform to the signals obtained in the GI removers b102-nR. Demapping units b104-nR separate from the obtained frequency-domain signals the received signals of resource elements in which data, a first pilot symbol, and a second pilot symbol were respectively transmitted. Path extractors b105-nR use the first pilot symbol to extract effective paths for estimation. Channel estimators b106-nR compute first CFR estimation values using the second pilot symbol, compute CIR estimation values by using path location information extracted by the path extractors and the first CFR estimation values, and then convert the CIR estimation values into second CFR estimation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuya Kato, Takashi Yoshimoto, Ryota Yamada, Kozue Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 9095583
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds according to Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof. Such compounds can be used in the treatment of RORgammaT-mediated diseases or condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V.
    Inventors: Willem Frederik Johan Karstens, Mario Van Der Stelt, Jos Cals, Rita Corte Real Goncalves Azevedo, Kenneth Jay Barr, Hongjun Zhang, Richard Thomas Beresis, Dongshan Zhang, Xiaobang Duan
  • Patent number: 9096582
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein each of the substituents is given the definition as set forth in the specification and claims. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds of Formula (I) and use of the compounds in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases or conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP
    Inventors: William Greenlee, Dmitri Pissarnitski, Zhiqiang Zhao, Zhaoning Zhu
  • Patent number: 9097921
    Abstract: An active matrix display device has: a first auxiliary wiring line (700); a second auxiliary wiring line (710) positioned outside of a plurality of second lead-out wiring lines (250) and a first driver circuit in a plan view; and an external auxiliary wiring line (790). Along each of a plurality of connecting wirings (900) are disconnected portions (91) inhibiting electrical connections between a plurality of transmission terminals and first common wiring lines (130). A plurality of intersections (901), where the first auxiliary wiring line (700) and the plurality of connecting wirings (900) intersect, are positioned more to the side of the plurality of transmission terminals than to the disconnected portions (91) in each of the plurality of connecting wiring lines (900).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isao Ogasawara, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9099719
    Abstract: A transition metal hexacyanoferrate (TMHCF) battery electrode is provided with a Fe(CN)6 additive. The electrode is made from AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles overlying a current collector, where the A cations are either alkali and alkaline-earth cations such as sodium (Na), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), or magnesium (Mg), and M is a transition metal. A Fe(CN)6 additive modifies the AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles. The Fe(CN)6 additive may be ferrocyanide ([Fe(CN)6]4?) or ferricyanide ([Fe(CN)6]3?). Also provided are a related TMHCF battery with Fe(CN)6 additive, TMHCF fabrication process, and TMHCF battery fabrication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Jong-Jan Lee, David Evans
  • Patent number: 9099275
    Abstract: An ion generation device includes: a high voltage generation circuit; and an ion generation element. The high voltage generation circuit includes: a capacitor; a high voltage transformer; a switching element; and a pulse signal generation portion which generates a pulse signal for controlling the turning on and off of the switching element. The pulse signal generation portion adjusts a pulse width of an on-period such that the pulse width of the on-period of the pulse signal is substantially equal to a time obtained by multiplying the reciprocal of an output voltage frequency at the time of a forward operation of the high voltage transformer by one-fourth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuharu Date
  • Patent number: 9099718
    Abstract: A transition metal hexacyanoferrate (TMH) cathode battery is provided. The battery has a AxMn[Fe(CN)6]y.zH2O cathode, where the A cations are either alkali or alkaline-earth cations, such as sodium or potassium, where x is in the range of 1 to 2, where y is in the range of 0.5 to 1, and where z is in the range of 0 to 3.5. The AxMn[Fe(CN)6]y.zH2O has a rhombohedral crystal structure with Mn2+/3+ and Fe2+3+ having the same reduction/oxidation potential. The battery also has an electrolyte, and anode made of an A metal, an A composite, or a material that can host A atoms. The battery has a single plateau charging curve, where a single plateau charging curve is defined as a constant charging voltage slope between 15% and 85% battery charge capacity. Fabrication methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Hidayat Kisdarjono, Jong-Jan Lee, David Evans
  • Patent number: 9096406
    Abstract: A sheet conveying device (30) includes a plurality of first conveyance rollers (31) and a plurality of second conveyance rollers (32). The sheet conveying device (30) includes stiffening rollers (34). The stiffening rollers (34) are disposed coaxially with at least one conveyance rollers (32) among the first and second conveyance rollers (31) and (32), and have diameters larger than diameters of the conveyance rollers (32). The stiffening rollers (34) includes first stiffening rollers (34a), which apply conveying forces to a sheet (P), and second stiffening rollers (34b), which apply smaller conveying forces to the sheet (P) than the conveying forces to the sheet (P) in the first stiffening rollers (34a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaharu Kimura, Kohji Aoki, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Norichika Katsura
  • Patent number: 9100924
    Abstract: Optimal transmit power control is performed on each of a periodic SRS and an aperiodic SRS. In a radio communication system in which a mobile station apparatus 1 transmits a first reference signal or a second reference signal to a base station apparatus 3, the base station apparatus 3 notifies the mobile station apparatus 1 of a first parameter used for setting of a transmit power for transmission of the first reference signal, and a second parameter used for setting of a transmit power for transmission of the second reference signal, and the mobile station apparatus 1 sets the transmit power for transmission of the first reference signal using the first parameter, while setting the transmit power for transmission of the second reference signal using the second parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9100141
    Abstract: An efficient discontinuous reception operation is provided for a mobile station device in Advanced-EUTRA. In a mobile station device connected to a base station device using a plurality of component carriers, during discontinuous reception, one discontinuous reception parameter is applied to all the component carriers used by the mobile station device to thereby perform the operation of monitoring a control channel in all the component carriers, and when the control channel addressed to the mobile station device is received in one or more component carriers during a reception ON period, the reception ON period is extended in all the component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kato, Shohei Yamada, Daiichiro Nakashima, Katsunari Uemura
  • Patent number: 9096559
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel class of 4-carboxybenzylamino derivatives. The 4-carboxybenzylamino compounds can be used to treat cancer. The 4-carboxybenzylamino compounds can also inhibit histone deacetylase and are suitable for use in selectively inducing terminal differentiation, and arresting cell growth and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, thereby inhibiting proliferation of such cells. Thus, the compounds of the present invention are useful in treating a patient having a tumor characterized by proliferation of neoplastic cells. The compounds of the invention may also be useful in the prevention and treatment of TRX-mediated diseases, such as autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases, and in the prevention and/or treatment of diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), such as neurodegenerative diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Paul Harrington, Richard W. Heidebrecht, Jr., Solomon Kattar, Thomas A. Miller, Karin M. Otte, Phieng Siliphaivanh, Matthew G. Stanton, Paul Tempest, Kevin J. Wilson, David J. Witter
  • Patent number: 9099586
    Abstract: To provide a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element in which a buffer layer provided between an n-type nitride semiconductor layer and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer has a first buffer layer expressed by an equation of Inx1Ga1-x1N (0<x1?1) and a second buffer layer expressed by an equation of Inx2Ga1-x2N (0?x2<1, x2<x1) alternately laminated, an In composition x1 of the first buffer layer is changed, and the In composition x1 of at least one layer of the first buffer layers is higher than an In composition of the active layer, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaya Ueda, Yoshihiro Ueta, Yuichi Sano, Toshiyuki Okumura
  • Patent number: 9099042
    Abstract: A high luminance display apparatus is provided. When a spectral radiance of a backlight at a time point of factory shipment is less than a spectral radiance of external light, a CPU generates a correction matrix for performing color correction so that color produced by external light, i.e., color produced by reflection light of external light by a half mirror conforms to color produced by only irradiation light of the backlight, transmits the generated correction matrix to a video image signal processing section as parameter information, and causes execution of color correction based on the parameter information. The CPU generates a correction matrix based on a spectral radiance of external light detected by a second spectral radiance sensor, a spectral radiance of the backlight detected at the time point of factory shipment, and spectral transmittance of a color filter as well as a color-matching function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Sugiyama, Taikoh Akashi
  • Patent number: 9099409
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes an organic EL section including an organic layer held between a first electrode and a second electrode, one of the two electrodes serving as a reflective electrode, and the other serving as a translucent electrode; a blue pixel portion including a blue color filter configured to mainly transmit a light component in a blue wavelength region of light emitted from the organic EL section; a green pixel portion including a green color filter configured to mainly transmit a light component in a green wavelength region of the light emitted from the organic EL section; and a red pixel portion including a wavelength conversion layer configured to absorb at least one of the light component in the blue wavelength region and the light component in the green wavelength region of the light emitted from the organic EL section and emit light in a red wavelength region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Fujita
  • Patent number: 9097403
    Abstract: A light source device includes a circuit board having a light-emitting element mounted on a one surface; a support body positioned on the other surface side of the circuit board for supporting the circuit board; a rivet having a head portion, which is positioned on a side of the one surface of the circuit board and cannot be inserted into a first through hole provided on the circuit board and the support body, and a shaft portion having a tip side stopped and held on the support body in a penetration via the first through hole; and a reflection sheet arranged on the one surface of the circuit board for reflecting light. The light source device provides a second through hole having a diameter larger or smaller than the diameter of the head portion at the position corresponding to the head portion on the reflection sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideto Takeuchi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Tatsuo Sugahara, Keita Ito, Toshiyuki Fujita, Yuuki Kawamura, Kenzo Toshiyuki, Kenichiro Ito, Kazuki Nakamichi, Tomoo Sasaki, Kenta Moribe, Mamoru Yahata