Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20150179823
    Abstract: According to an electrode structure of an embodiment of the invention, an ohmic electrode is provided from recess to a surface of an insulating film without being in contact with the surface of the nitride semiconductor multilayer body, so that the insulating film covers the surface of the AlGaN barrier layer. Accordingly, during the formation process of the ohmic electrode by dry etching, the surface of the nitride semiconductor multilayer body can be protected by the insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Kurita
  • Publication number: 20150177908
    Abstract: An input system includes a plurality of input devices that communicates with a touch panel apparatus, and are used to point out positions on a display screen of the touch panel apparatus, wherein each of the input devices includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a status signal representing a contact state of the input device with the display screen, a determination unit configured to determine a transmission order of the status signal based on a relationship with other input devices and a signal detection unit configured to detect an end of transmission of the status signal from another input device of which the determined transmission order is previous, and the touch panel apparatus includes a position detection unit configured to detect a position as an input position of the input device that is a transmission source of the status signal, when the touch panel apparatus receives the status signal and detect a contact of the input device with the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuro Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20150181539
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus, according to one embodiment of the present invention, receives information indicating a subframe in a first subframe set and a subframe in a second subframe set, using higher-layer signaling, calculates a power headroom using a first set of parameters and an estimated value of a downlink pathloss that is calculated in the terminal apparatus, if a certain subframe belongs to the first subframe set, to calculate the power headroom for the certain subframe, and calculates the power headroom using a second set of parameters and the estimated value of the downlink pathloss, if the certain subframe belongs to the second subframe set, in which a first parameter by which the estimated value of the downlink pathloss is multiplied is included in the first set of parameters, and a second parameter by which the estimated value of the downlink pathloss is multiplied is included in the second set of parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki, Kazunari Yokomakura
  • Publication number: 20150176783
    Abstract: The device bends readily and safely without a sealing resin peeling off or a breakage in a wire. In an LED columnar light emitting device 1 in which a plurality of two conductive regions 2 and 3 corresponding to the ± polarities are provided in the columnar direction on a film wiring board, each light emitting element is connected to and installed on the plurality of two conductive regions 2 and 3, and each LED chip 6, as each light emitting element, is sealed above with a transparent sealing resin 8, notch sections 9 and 9A are formed on both outer sides of two plated lines 4 as opening sections between the two conductive regions 2 and 3 and another two conductive regions 2 and 3 adjacent thereto in the columnar direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshio Hata, Yuhsuke Fujita, Kenichi Akamatsu
  • Publication number: 20150179122
    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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Christopher James Brown, Andrew Kay, Dauren Slamkul
  • Publication number: 20150179120
    Abstract: Upon each detection of an image switch by a display switch detection portion (27) included in a display control circuit (200), a selection frequency determination portion (23) makes a determination for each row corresponding to a scanning signal line as to whether or not the row includes any pixel with a middle tone. Further, a scanning signal output control portion (26) performs drive control such that any scanning signal line corresponding to a row without such a pixel is selected at intervals of one frame period. This results in reduced power consumption in selecting the scanning signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yousuke Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Maeda
  • Publication number: 20150176824
    Abstract: By using a light emitting device including an insulating substrate and a light emitting unit formed on the insulating substrate, the light emitting unit including: a plurality of linear wiring patterns disposed on the insulating substrate in parallel with one another, a plurality of light emitting elements that are mounted between the wiring patterns while being electrically connected to the wiring patterns, and a sealing member for sealing the light emitting elements, as well as a method for manufacturing thereof, it becomes possible to provide a light emitting device that achieves sufficient electrical insulation and has simple manufacturing processes so that it can be manufactured at a low cost, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro KONISHI, Makoto AGATANI, Toshio HATA
  • Publication number: 20150180868
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for determining a time-expiry algorithm based on a cached and verified security token, a disposition of the security token, and a cache table, where the disposition of the security token is based on whether the received security token is a single-use token or a multiple-use token and where the cache table is selected from two separate cache tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Swee Huat Sng
  • Publication number: 20150181050
    Abstract: Electronic device is linked with a mobile terminal, screen transition of the electronic device is eliminated, and various operation input is performed while confirming operation content from the mobile terminal on a screen of the electronic device. When proximity of the mobile terminal is detected in a state of displaying a specific screen on an operation display portion, an image forming apparatus transmits operation input information associated with the specific screen in advance to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal displays an operation input screen based on the operation input information transmitted from the image forming apparatus and transmits operation content instructed by a user from the operation input screen to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus updates the specific screen in accordance with the operation content transmitted from the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20150179139
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus which is capable of indicating information, such as a name of a manufacturer, while achieving a state wherein a frame region is narrow or the frame region is not seen, at the time of providing images to a user. A display apparatus has: a first display panel that has a first display region; and a second display panel that is disposed on the observer side of the first display region. When the first display panel is in a display state, the second display panel becomes transparent, and when the first display panel is in a non-display state, the second display panel displays previously determined information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Eiji Satoh
  • Publication number: 20150181580
    Abstract: In a system where two or more bands the channel state information of which is to be measured can be configured, measurement target of the channel state or the transmission resource is flexibly configured. In a mobile communication system in which a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus communicate with each other using a plurality of component carriers configured by the base station apparatus, the base station apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, a downlink control information format which is used for scheduling of a physical uplink shared channel on a certain uplink component carrier and, the mobile station apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, the channel state information for a downlink component carrier corresponding to the certain uplink component carrier in case that downlink control information included in the downlink control information format is set to request a transmission of the channel state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi AIBA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Toshizo NOGAMI
  • Publication number: 20150177446
    Abstract: A display device 10 includes a display panel 11, a light source row 170, a light guide plate 16, a chassis 14 and a recess portion 134b that is fitted the chassis 14. The light guide plate 16 includes a positioning projection portion 160 that is fitted to the recess portion 134b. The positioning projection portion 160 projects outwardly from a side edge surface 16e of the light guide plate 16. The positioning projection portion 160 has a projection, and among rays of light emitted from an end light source 17X included in the light source row 170 and entering the light guide plate through a light entrance surface 16b, narrow-angle light L2 directed outward at an angle ? (a critical angle ?c) with respect to an optical axis L1 travels into the projection. The positioning projection portion 160 includes a first edge surface 161 and a second edge surface 162. The first edge surface 161 is parallel to a side edge surface 16e and the narrow-angle light L2 does not reach the first edge surface 161.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Kasai
  • Publication number: 20150177593
    Abstract: A nonlinear frequency conversion (NLFC) component is incorporated into a light source. The light source includes a light emitting element that emits a non-diffraction limited input light beam, and the NLFC component that exhibits walkoff and performs an NLFC process, such as second harmonic generation. An optical component is configured to converge the non-diffraction limited input beam into the NLFC component with a determined convergence half-angle. The convergence half-angle in air in a non-walkoff plane of the NLFC component is larger than a convergence half-angle angle for diffraction-limited light. Said convergence half-angle may be a multiple, ?×M, multiplied by the convergence half-angle value for diffraction-limited light, wherein ? has a value between a lower value equal to the larger of 0.4 and 1 M and an upper value of 5.0, where M is the square root of the beam quality factor for the non-diffraction limited light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tim Michael Smeeton, Edward Andrew Boardman, Karl Peter Welna
  • Publication number: 20150181679
    Abstract: A system that determines the task of the viewer and/or gestures made by the user. Based upon the determined task and/or the gestures, the lighting provided to the viewer may be modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Miao LIAO, Xiao-Fan FENG, Xu CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150179881
    Abstract: A group III nitride-based light emitting device includes an n-type semiconductor layer; a first p-type semiconductor layer; an active region; and an electron blocking region comprising AlGaInN located between the active region and the first p-type semiconductor layer, and including at least an upgraded layer and a downgraded layer. An aluminium composition of the upgraded layer of the electron blocking region increases from an active region side to a first p-type semiconductor layer side of the electron blocking region, and an aluminium composition of the downgraded layer of the electron blocking region decreases from the active region side to the first p-type semiconductor layer side of the electron blocking region. The nitride-based light emitting device may be a light emitting diode or a laser diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mathieu Sénès, Tadashi Takeoka
  • Publication number: 20150177571
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided that has favorable display characteristics in a display mode using a vertical electric field and a horizontal electric field. This liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged facing each other, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer has liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric anisotropy, and the first substrate has a plate-shaped first common electrode and a pixel electrode formed in a separate layer from the first common electrode with an insulating film therebetween. The pixel electrode has a comb-shaped structure, and the second substrate has a second common electrode with a liquid crystal orientation structure that is linear in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Yosuke Iwata, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yasuhiro Nasu, Koichi Miyachi, Tsuyoshi Kamata
  • Publication number: 20150181579
    Abstract: A mobile station (MS) receives in a sub-frame a first and second PDCCH, where the first PDCCH indicating a first PDSCH transmission on a first downlink component carrier (DCC) and the second PDCCH indicating a second PDSCH transmission on the second DCC, determines a first PUCCH resource based on a control channel element (CCE) of the first PDCCH and a second PUCCH resource based on a CCE of the second PDCCH when the first PDCCH and the second DCC are received in the sub-frame and transmits control information on HARQ using a single PUCCH resource (selected from the first and second PUCCH resource), where the first and second PUCCH resource are mapped on a single uplink component carrier corresponding to the first DCC, and the control information on HARQ includes information indicating an ACK or a NACK for each of downlink transport blocks transmitted on the first and second PDSCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi AIBA, Shohei YAMADA, Shoichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20150181069
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured to be capable of being remotely operated by a terminal device via a wireless communication line. The image processing apparatus is equipped with a body control unit, a LAN interface, and a body operation unit. The body operation unit is capable of displaying a plurality of operation keys and capable of receiving a touch operation with respect to each of the plurality of operation keys. The LAN interface is used in order to acquire a positional relationship between the terminal device and the image processing apparatus. The body control unit, when determining that the terminal device is located close to the image processing apparatus, disables a touch operation with respect to a specific operation key among the plurality of operation keys on the body operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi TANI
  • Publication number: 20150181660
    Abstract: An LED drive circuit (1) includes: a booster circuit (2); a light emitting pattern generator (5); and a switching switch (3) for, (i) during an on period, feeding back, to the booster circuit (2), an electric current flowing to an LED (7), and (ii) during an off period, feeding back, to the booster circuit (2), a voltage signal obtained by dividing an output voltage of the booster circuit (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norikazu Yagi
  • Patent number: 9062059
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pyrimidine compounds which are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of central nervous system disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Cox, Vadim Y. Dudkin, Jeffrey Kern, Mark E. Layton, Izzat T. Raheem