Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9069199
    Abstract: A liquid crystal module 15 includes a liquid crystal display panel 10;a rear frame member 44 located on a rear side of the liquid crystal display panel; and a wiring board 60 located on the rear side of the liquid crystal display panel. A part of the wiring board has an opening 65 running through the board and/or a notch 70 formed therein. An inspection patch 80A, 80B having a thickness equal to, or larger than, that of the wiring board is attached to the opening and/or the notch. A part of the wiring board around the inspection patch is secured to the rear frame member via a double-sided adhesive tape 55A, 55B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Isobe
  • Patent number: 9067941
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to fused heterocyclic azaindane carboxamide derivatives which are antagonists of CGRP receptors and useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the CGRP is involved, such as migraine. 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 CGRP is involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Burgey, Anthony Ginnetti, Ashley Nomland, Daniel V. Paone
  • Patent number: 9068754
    Abstract: A cooking device has an exhaust duct (19) configured and arranged to mix together exhaust air discharged from an opening (61a) at a tip of a nozzle part (61) and part of cooling air discharged from a cooling fan and guide the mixed exhaust air to discharge it outside of a casing, and an exhaust duct temperature sensor (70) placed within the exhaust duct (19) to detect a temperature of an atmosphere inside the exhaust duct at a portion upper than the opening (61a) of the nozzle (61). A fan abnormal-stop detection part detects an abnormal stop of the fan when an increment per unit time of an atmosphere temperature inside the exhaust duct (19) detected by the temperature sensor (70) during cooking becomes equal to or higher than a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiichi Hirano, Mitsuo Ohuchi, Masayuki Iwamoto, Hiroshi Hirano, Shinji Asami
  • Patent number: 9068714
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of laser elements, a light-emitting section for emitting light in response to a laser beam, and an emission control section for controlling whether each of the plurality of laser elements emits light or not. At least a part of the plurality of laser elements is positioned in such a manner that irradiation regions of the light-emitting section are positioned at least partially differently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Takahira, Koji Takahashi, Yosuke Maemura, Hiroshi Kijima
  • Patent number: 9070223
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a map filtering processing unit which applies filtering to a parallax map based on a parallax value with respect to each pixel of an image; a blurred image generation unit which generates a blurred image of the image from the image; and an image composition unit which generates a composite image which is obtained by compositing the image and the blurred image based on the parallax map after the filtering by the map filtering processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Seiichi Tanaka, Shinichi Arita, Takuya Okamoto, Takashi Yasumoto
  • Patent number: 9071711
    Abstract: In an image processing system, a control device (11) of a first host PC (1) controls (i) a storage device (12) of the first host PC (1) to store an icon registered on the first host PC (1), (ii) the icon to be registered on a multifunction peripheral (5), and (iii) the icon to be transmitted to a first client PC (3). In the image processing system, a control device (31) of the first client PC (3) controls a storage device (32) of the first client PC (3) to store the icon received from the first host PC (1), and controls a display device (35) of the first client PC (3) to display the icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshinori Nagata
  • Patent number: 9069361
    Abstract: A thermostat user interface (UI) is provided for presenting calculated set point ranges. The thermostat UI has a major thermostat scale for presenting a current temperature and an overall range of feasible temperatures. A set point indictor indicates a set point input (e.g., desired temperature) with respect to the major thermostat scale. A minor thermostat scale presents a set point range, where the set point range is a range of permitted temperature measurement variations from the set point input. The set point range brackets the set point indicator with a maximum temperature value representing a highest temperature in the set point range, and a minimum temperature value representing a lowest temperature in the set point range. If high and low temperature set point indictors are used, then there are first and second minor thermostat scales bracketing, respectively, the high and low temperature set point indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Vitaliy Merkulov, David Elrod, Daniel Park
  • Patent number: 9071154
    Abstract: This DC/DC converter includes a first DC/DC converter, and a second DC/DC converter for carrying out a DC/DC conversion of voltage supplied from the first DC/DC converter. One of either the first DC/DC converter or the second DC/DC converter is a fixed-factor DC/DC converter, and the other of either the first DC/DC converter or the second DC/DC converter is a variable-factor DC/DC converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwata, Yoshifumi Yaoi, Kenji Komiya, Masaru Nomura, Yoshiji Ohta
  • Patent number: 9071389
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network, said network comprising a primary station and at least a first secondary station, wherein the first secondary station transmits to the primary station an indication of a first plurality of precoding vectors, wherein the number of first precoding vectors is greater than a preferred rank of transmission from the primary station to the first secondary station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignees: Koninklijke Philips N.V., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Matthew Peter John Baker, Milos Tesanovic, Timothy James Moulsley
  • Patent number: 9070819
    Abstract: To manufacture a thin film compound solar cell which can improve the adhesive property of electrodes even when being provided with a base material, and which prevents the base material from being separated. A cell main body configured by laminating a plurality of compound semiconductor layers is formed on a substrate. A rear surface electrode 7 is formed on the cell main body, and a rear surface film 8 as the base material is formed on the rear surface electrode 7. A reinforcing material 9 is attached on the rear surface film 8. The substrate is separated from the cell main body, and the cell main body is mesa-etched. A surface electrode 13 is formed on a contact layer 3 after the etching. The reinforcing material 9 is separated, and the surface electrode 13 is annealed. The formed thin film compound solar cell is separated into a plurality of solar cell elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Kodama
  • Patent number: 9070600
    Abstract: A drain electrode (17) includes (i) a lower drain electrode (17a) stacked on a semiconductor layer (14) so as to partially cover an upper surface of the semiconductor layer (14) and (ii) an upper drain electrode (17b). The semiconductor layer (14), the lower drain electrode (17a), and the upper drain electrode (17b) form steps. In a step part where the steps are formed, a distance between a periphery of the lower drain electrode (17a) and a periphery of the upper drain electrode (17b) is more than 0.4 ?m but less than 1.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Katsui, Yoshimasa Chikama, Wataru Nakamura, Tetsunori Tanaka, Kenichi Kitoh
  • Patent number: 9071040
    Abstract: A partition is formed between an ion generating unit at the windward side and an ion generating unit at the leeward side, so that the amount of airflow to pass through the ion generating unit at the windward side will become more in comparison to the amount of airflow to pass through the ion generating unit at the leeward side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshio Mamiya, Masato Urushisaki, Takashi Nakabayashi
  • Patent number: 9067770
    Abstract: A portable compressed gas powered lift, said lift possessing an inner and outer frame of a scissor design. The frame possesses rollers, allowing said frame to roll on a surface. Compressed flexible gas bags are mounted to upper and lower gas bag mounting plates, which are correspondingly mounted to the scissor frame. A lifting bar with adjustable lifting arms is mounted to the top of the scissor frame. As a compressed gas is introduced into the flexible gas bags the flexible gas bags expand causing the scissor frame to expand and lift vertically. The compressed gas is controlled by a flexible line, from the flexible gas bags, to a compressed gas control valve, said valve being mounted to a Tee handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MARK PERRY SHARP
    Inventor: Mark Perry Sharp
  • Patent number: 9069496
    Abstract: In an operation unit, a display panel displays a two-sided copy setting screen image including a still image display area on which a plurality of software keys (two-sided copy setting keys) corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of processes (one-sided/one-sided copy process, one-sided/two-sided copy process, two-sided/two-sided copy process and two-sided/one-sided copy process), for selecting any of the plurality of processes, are displayed. A touch-panel receives an input operation to the plurality of software keys. In response to the touch-panel receiving the input operation, a CPU displays, on a movie display area different from the still image display area of the two-sided copy setting screen image, an image representing contents of the selected process in a prescribed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Tani, Mayuko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9071307
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication apparatus, which includes a plurality of transmission antennas and transmits signals in an MIMO scheme, and a second wireless communication apparatus, which receives the signals. The first wireless communication apparatus performs the same frequency allocation for transmission antennas from which the same data is transmitted in case that transmission is performed in a rank less than the number of transmission antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Nakamura, Hiroki Takahashi, Jungo Goto, Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9072056
    Abstract: Transmission power of a plurality of uplink carrier components used for radio communication by a mobile station device and a base station device is efficiently controlled. The mobile station device communicates by radio with the base station device using a plurality of component carriers. The mobile station device receives, from the base station device, downlink control information that includes information indicating radio resource assignment to a downlink shared channel disposed in any of downlink component carriers, and a TPC command to an uplink control channel in an uplink component carrier in which ACK/NACK to the downlink shared channel is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Shohei Yamada, Katsunari Uemura, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9068730
    Abstract: In order to accurately illuminate a lighting target with planar light having few nonuniformities, a backlight (2) is provided with a light guide plate (5) having multiple leg members (531) protruding from an attachment part (53), which is the surface opposite of an emission part (52), and a chassis (4) having holding units (411) into which the leg members (531) are inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Gotou
  • Patent number: 9069318
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion that forms an image on a recording sheet, a transport path that transports the recording sheet with the image formed thereon by the image forming portion, a coating portion that performs a coating process that forms a coating film on the recording sheet that is being transported on the transport path, and a reading portion that reads a calibration chart on the recording sheet that is being transported on the transport path. The coating portion is disposed on the upstream side in a recording sheet transport direction of the reading portion on the transport path, a calibration process is performed for an image formed by the image forming portion, and the calibration chart is formed on the recording sheet by the image forming portion in order to perform the calibration process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norio Tomita, Hiroshi Nakatani, Ryosuke Sakai, Takumi Mori, Kyosuke Taka, Kohichi Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9069412
    Abstract: Provided is a display device having a photodetecting element in a pixel, and having an input function that is not dependent on light environments. This is a display device having an optical sensor in a pixel region. The optical sensor includes a first sensor pixel circuit that outputs a sensor signal corresponding to electric charges accumulated during an accumulation period in an ON time of a light source for the sensor; and a second sensor pixel circuit that that outputs a sensor signal corresponding to electric charges accumulated during an accumulation period in an OFF time of the light source. A sensor driving circuit for driving the first sensor pixie circuit and the second sensor pixel circuit supplies reset signals (RST1, RST2) to the first sensor pixel circuit and the second sensor pixel circuit, respectively, during vertical flyback periods in pixel display in the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Yasuhiro Sugita, Kazuhiro Maeda, Hiroaki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9070805
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device has a first conductive-type nitride semiconductor layer, a superlattice layer provided on the first conductive-type nitride semiconductor layer, an active layer provided on the superlattice layer, and a second conductive-type nitride semiconductor layer provided on the active layer. An average carrier concentration of the superlattice layer is higher than an average carrier concentration of the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mayuko Fudeta, Satoshi Komada, Ryu Kaihara