Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 12262007
    Abstract: A decoding device for filtering reconstructed video data is provided. The decoding device includes computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed, cause the decoding device to: receive an edge type variable specifying whether a vertical edge or a horizontal edge is being filtered in a current block of the reconstructed video data; derive a maximum filter length of a deblocking filter based on the edge type variable and one or more conditions relating to at least one of a size of a transform block associated with the current block or a size of an adjacent transform block; and perform a deblocking filtering, by the deblocking filter, on the current block of the reconstructed video data based on the maximum filter length, wherein a value of a luma filtered sample of the reconstructed video data is clipped based on a position of the luma filtered sample of the reconstructed video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wei-Jia Zhu, Kiran M. Misra, Christopher Andrew Segall, Philip Cowan
  • Patent number: 12259615
    Abstract: A backlight apparatus includes an LED substrate having a principal surface over which a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit excitation light are arrayed, a phosphor layer containing a phosphor that emits fluorescence upon receiving the excitation light, a wavelength-selective reflecting layer disposed between the phosphor layer and the LED substrate, and a louver film disposed between the wavelength-selective reflecting layer and the LED substrate and having a plurality of louvers. The wavelength-selective reflecting layer has different transmittances according to wavelengths and/or angles of incidence of light falling thereon. The louver film blocks the fluorescence and the excitation light falling thereon at an angle greater than or equal to a first angle and smaller than 90 degrees with respect to a direction normal to a film surface of the louver film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Satsuki Hagihara, Kazuhiko Negoro, Mayumi Hori, Kenichi Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 12262060
    Abstract: A device may be configured to perform filtering based on information included in a neural network post-filter characteristics message. In one example, the neural network post-filter characteristics message includes a syntax element indicating whether the post-processing filter accepts as input a patch size having a width equal to horizontal sample counts indicated by a syntax element and a height equal to vertical sample counts indicated by a syntax element, or a patch size having a width equal to a multiple of horizontal sample counts indicated by a syntax element and a height equal to a multiple of vertical sample counts indicated by a syntax element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sachin G. Deshpande, Ahmed Cheikh Sidiya
  • Patent number: 12262594
    Abstract: In a display device including a light-emitting element layer formed on a thin film transistor layer, the light-emitting element layer includes pixel electrodes, a cover film, a light-emitting layer, and a common electrode. The pixel electrodes each include a flat first portion overlapping with the light-emitting layer and a second portion surrounding the first portion. The first portion protrudes toward the light-emitting layer compared to the second portion. The cover film covers the second portion and causes the first portion to expose. An upper face of the first portion and an upper face of the cover film form a flush planar face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohei Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 12262439
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for data transmission is provided. The method includes transmitting, in radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, an RRC message to a base station for requesting an RRC state transition on an uplink (UL) resource of a configured grant (CG) configuration; transmitting first uplink data to the base station on an UL resource of the CG configuration; starting a timer upon transmitting on an UL resource of the CG configuration; and monitoring a response from the base station while the timer is running. The timer is configured to stop in response to at least one stop condition, and the at least one stop condition includes the response that responds to the RRC message for requesting the RRC state transition is received. In addition, a UE using the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Heng-Li Chin, Hsin-Hsi Tsai
  • Patent number: 12259139
    Abstract: A heating cooking apparatus (100) includes a housing (1), a lid portion (21), a moving member (25), at least two connecting members (60), and a pivoting mechanism (30). The housing (1) includes an opening and a first face disposed on an outer periphery of the opening. The lid portion (21) includes a second face (21B) facing the first face, and a fixing member (26) fixed to the second face (2B). The moving member (25) moves along a first direction (D1) with respect to the housing (1). At least two connecting members (60) connect the housing (1) and the lid portion (21) when the lid portion (21) is placed at a position where the lid portion (21) covers the opening. The pivoting mechanism (30) couples the fixing member (26) of the lid portion (21) and the moving member (25) such that the lid portion (21) pivots about a rotation axis extending along a second direction intersecting with the first direction (D1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Shinohara
  • Patent number: 12262445
    Abstract: A method of a small data transmission for a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a radio resource control (RRC) release message, the RRC release message including a configured grant configuration and a first timer associated with the configured grant configuration, the configured grant configuration indicating an uplink (UL) resource; transitioning to an RRC_INACTIVE state in response to receiving the RRC release message; starting the first timer in response to receiving the RRC release message; determining whether the UL resource is valid, the UL resource being invalid at least when the first timer expires; and transmitting UL data on the UL resource after the UE determines that the UL resource is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Mei-Ju Shih
  • Publication number: 20250090475
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention provides a drug-loaded amino acid-based poly(ester urea) film for controlled local release of non-opioid analgesic compounds and various methods for their making and use. In one or more embodiments, he present invention is directed to a drug-loaded amino acid-based poly(ester urea) film for controlled local release of non-opioid analgesic compounds comprising an amino acid-based poly(ester urea) polymer or copolymer and a therapeutically effective amount of a non-opioid analgesic compound. In various embodiments, these amino acid-based poly(ester urea) polymers or copolymers will comprise a plurality of diester monomer units connected by a carboxyl group to form a poly(ester urea) (PEU) polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicants: The University of Akron, MERK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew BECKER, Seth P. FORSTER, Natasha BRIGHAM, Tiffany GUSTAFSON, Andre HERMANS, Rebecca NOFSINGER
  • Publication number: 20250092138
    Abstract: Compositions including solid forms of polypeptides such as crystalline antibodies, and related methods, are generally described. The compositions may include carriers such as hydrogels that at least partially encapsulate the solid form of the polypeptides (e.g., crystals, amorphous solids). Encapsulation with certain of the materials described may result in compositions containing relatively high loadings of polypeptides while in some instances retaining structural and functional properties of the polypeptides useful for certain types of administration to subjects (e.g., for prophylactic or therapeutic applications). In some instances, compositions having relatively low dynamic viscosities while having relatively high polypeptide loadings are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp
    Inventors: Patrick S. Doyle, Jeremy Schieferstein, Paul Reichert, Chakravarthy Narasimhan, Amir Erfani-Khaneghahi
  • Patent number: 12255844
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method comprises: determining sidelink resource pool configuration information to be first configuration information (S101); receiving, from another user equipment, sidelink control information (SCI) and a corresponding or associated physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) (S102); and determining a cyclic shift of a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) corresponding to the PSSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yinan Zhao, Renmao Liu, Chao Luo
  • Patent number: 12253809
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum on which a toner image is formed and a charging roller that is brought into contact with a surface of the photosensitive drum to charge the surface of the photosensitive drum. The photosensitive drum is rotatable in both a forward rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction which are rotation directions in image formation, and the charging roller is rotatable in accordance with rotation of the photosensitive drum. The image-forming apparatus executes a preliminary charging operation of applying a DC voltage to the charging roller and then rotating the photosensitive drum in at least one of the forward rotation direction and the reverse rotation direction so that a pre-rotation contact portion that is in contact with the charging roller before the rotation on the surface of the photosensitive drum is charged when being moved to discharge regions on the charging roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuki Kawajiri
  • Patent number: 12256410
    Abstract: A method for a UE for performing a CG-SDT is provided. The method includes receiving a CG-SDT-specific RSRP threshold from a BS, the CG-SDT-specific RSRP threshold being configured to the UE for an SSB selection for the CG-SDT; in a case that one or more SSBs with RSRPs above the CG-SDT-specific RSRP threshold are available, performing the SSB selection to determine a first SSB index from one or more SSB indices of the one or more SSBs; and performing an initial transmission of the CG-SDT or a subsequent new transmission of the CG-SDT through a first UL grant corresponding to the first SSB index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Heng-Li Chin, Mei-Ju Shih
  • Patent number: 12256393
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured to determine that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) and a PUCCH for uplink control information (UCI) of enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) overlap with an enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The higher layer processor is also configured to determine multiplexing of both URLLC UCI and eMBB UCI on the eMBB PUSCH, where the URLLC UCI starts immediately after a first set of demodulation reference symbols (DMRS) in the eMBB PUSCH. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform the multiplexing of the URLLC UCI and the eMBB UCI jointly on the eMBB PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Kazunari Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 12254823
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display that displays an image based on image data; a backlight device that irradiates the display with light; an image determiner that determines, based on the image data, whether the image includes a target image having a contrast higher than a reference contrast; and a luminance value setter that sets each luminance value of the image based on the image data, wherein when the image determiner determines that the image includes the target image, the luminance value setter changes the luminance value set for at least one of two or more areas in the target image to reduce a difference between the luminance values of the two or more areas in the target image set based on the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroto Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12256356
    Abstract: A UE transmits a registration request message including an S-NSSAI and receives a registration accept message including the S-NSSAI, a first cause value, and a first back-off timer value. The UE starts a back-off timer using the first back-off timer value corresponding to the S-NSSAI. In a case that the UE receives a configuration update command including the S-NSSAI, a second cause value, and a second back-off timer value before expiration of the back-off timer, the UE updates, in a case that the second back-off timer value indicates a value other than zero the back-off timer to be the second back-off timer value and stops, in a case that the second back-off timer value indicates zero, the back-off timer. In a case that the back-off timer expires or stops, the UE transmits the registration request message including the S-NSSAI or a PDU session establishment request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuo Sugawara, Yudai Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 12256589
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes, in order of listing, an anode, an hole transport layer, an emission layer, and a cathode. The light-emitting element includes an reducing material disposed in at least a part between the anode and the hole transport layer, being in contact with the anode and the hole transport layer, and containing a reducing material that reduces a layer having the hole transport layer. The reducing material contains, in a structure of the reducing material, hydrogen either at a concentration ratio of 1 to 1 with resect to a base metal, or at a larger concentration ratio than the base metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Ueta
  • Patent number: 12256372
    Abstract: A method for MBS acquisition is provided. The method includes receiving system information from a BS; determining a first CORESET configuration and a second CORESET configuration according to the system information, the first CORESET configuration determining a first set of CORESETs scheduling at least one MCCH, the second CORESET configuration determining a second set of CORESETs scheduling a plurality of MTCHs; receiving an MCCH message on the at least one MCCH provided through a first beam of a plurality of beams associated with the BS; and determining, according to the second CORESET configuration and the MCCH message, a plurality of MBS-specific CORESET groups in the second set of CORESETs, wherein each of the plurality of MBS-specific CORESET groups corresponds to a respective MBS session and includes at least two CORESETs configured to be provided through at least two different beams of the plurality of beams. A UE using the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Hai-Han Wang, Hung-Chen Chen, Heng-Li Chin
  • Patent number: 12255852
    Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a method performed by user equipment, and the method is characterized by including: obtaining indication information related to resource allocation; and determining Nindicatedres time/frequency resources according to the indication information, wherein Nindicatedres is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, the indication information related to resource allocation includes information indicated in sidelink control information (SCI), and the information indicated in the SCI includes a time resource allocation indication value TRIV and/or a frequency resource allocation indication value FRIV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chao Luo, Renmao Liu, Yinan Zhao
  • Patent number: 12256451
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a communication control method is provided that determines whether congestion control is to be continued in a destination PLMN in a case that a PLMN is changed during the application of congestion control and the PLMN before the change is a home PLMN. In a case that the PLMN is changed while a back-off timer received along with a cause value for the congestion control is running and the PLMN before the change is a home PLMN, it is determined whether to allow UE to transmit an SM request message in the destination, based on the presence or absence of an information element notified from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yudai Kawasaki, Masafumi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 12253766
    Abstract: A plurality of pixel electrodes each forming one pixel are provided on a TFT substrate. A size of a pixel electrode located at a boundary portion between a non-rectangular active area and a frame region, which is an area outside the active area, is smaller than a size of a pixel electrode not located at the boundary portion. In such a configuration, a voltage is always applied to the plurality of pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Imai, Yasuyoshi Kaise, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh