Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9035548
    Abstract: An electron emission element (1) includes an electrode substrate (2) and a thin film electrode (3), and emits electrons from the thin film electrode (3) by voltage application across the electrode substrate (2) and the thin film electrode (3). An electron accelerating layer (4) containing at least insulating fine particles (5) is provided between the electrode substrate (2) and the thin film electrode (3). The electrode substrate (2) has a convexoconcave surface. The thin film electrode (3) has openings (6) above convex parts of the electrode substrate (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kaneko, Tadashi Iwamatsu, Ayae Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 9035173
    Abstract: A back electrode type solar cell in which a no-electrode-formed region where no electrode is placed is provided in a part of a peripheral portion of a back surface of the back electrode type solar cell such that a line connecting end portions of a plurality of electrodes to one another includes a partially inwardly recessed region and the no-electrode-formed region is located adjacent to each of an electrode for n-type and an electrode for p-type adjacent to each other, a solar cell module, a method of manufacturing a back electrode type solar cell with interconnection sheet, and a method of manufacturing a solar cell module are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinsuke Naito, Yasushi Sainoo, Tomohiro Nishina, Kohjiroh Morii, Tomoyo Shiraki, Akiko Tsunemi, Takayuki Yamada, Masatomo Tanahashi, Koji Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9036607
    Abstract: A mobile station device includes, but is not limited to: a generation unit. The generation unit generates a gap for suspending communication between the mobile station device and a base station device located in a serving cell and for monitoring a neighboring cell. A predetermined interval based on a measurement type is previously set for a gap. The predetermined interval is common between the mobile station device and the base station device. The mobile station device autonomously detects necessity of generation of the gap for monitoring a neighboring cell, and notifies the base station device of a result of the autonomous detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsunari Uemura, Wahoh Oh, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 9034541
    Abstract: The present invention provides a color filter substrate manufacturing method which can prevent the occurrence of color mixing between adjacent pixels despite of the use of an inkjet method, and which are unlikely to cause flicker when used for displays such as televisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakano, Yutaka Miyajima, Hirokazu Yoshioka, Keita Katayose
  • Patent number: 9035295
    Abstract: A semiconductor device (100A) according to the present invention includes an oxide semiconductor layer (31a), first and second source electrodes (52a1 and 52a2), and first and second drain electrodes (53a1 and 53a2). The second source electrode (52a2) is formed to be in contact with a top surface of the first source electrode and inner to the first source electrode (52a1). The second drain electrode (53a2) is formed to be in contact with a top surface of the first drain electrode (53a1) and inner to the first drain electrode (53a1). The oxide semiconductor layer (31a) is formed to be in contact with the top surface of the first source electrode (52a1) and the top surface of the first drain electrode (53a1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Okifumi Nakagawa, Yoshifumi Ohta, Yoshimasa Chikama, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Masahiko Suzuki, Michiko Takei, Yoshiyuki Harumoto, Yoshinobu Miyamoto, Hinae Mizuno
  • Patent number: 9036580
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for dynamically configuring a flexible subframe is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines that a subframe is a flexible subframe. The UE determines whether a downlink is indicated for the flexible subframe. The UE sets the flexible subframe as a downlink subframe if a downlink is indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 9036695
    Abstract: Systems and devices for, and methods of, motion-compensated temporal filtering based on variable filter parameters. A method embodiment includes (a) determining, by a processor having memory, a pixel-related residue image based on a set of differences between a current pixel intensity of a current frame and a corresponding pixel intensity of a previous frame, wherein the corresponding pixel intensity is augmented by a motion-compensated vector of the previous frame; (b) determining an intensity weight based on the determined pixel-related residue image and a temporal filtering parameter; and (c) filtering the pixel intensity of the current frame based on the determined intensity weight and the motion compensated vector of the previous frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Junlan Yang, Yeping Su, Christopher A. Segall
  • Patent number: 9035315
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to reduce the driving voltage of a semiconductor device that includes an n-type TFT and a p-type TFT. Disclosed is a semiconductor device in which an n-channel type first thin film transistor (100) and a p-channel type second thin film transistor (200) are provided on the plane of a substrate (1). A first semiconductor layer (11) of the first thin film transistor (100) has a main portion, which is sandwiched between the upper surface and the lower surface of the first semiconductor layer (11), and an slanted portion, which is sandwiched by the side face and the lower surface of the first semiconductor layer (11). A second semiconductor layer (20) has a main portion, which is sandwiched between the upper surface and the lower surface of the second semiconductor layer (20), and a slanted portion, which is sandwiched between the side face and the lower surface of the second semiconductor layer (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Saitoh, Naoki Makita
  • Patent number: 9036167
    Abstract: An operation console used in relation to an apparatus as an object of control operated by a user operation includes: a display device having a display area for displaying information to the user; an input device for the user to input a request; and a display control device displaying, if a request for displaying specific information on said display device is input through the input device, the specific information on the display device. The input device includes a plurality of operation buttons for inputting a plurality of requests, corresponding to respective requests, arranged in the vicinity of the display area. Among the plurality of operation buttons, an operation button corresponding to the request for displaying the specific information is provided closest to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kumiko Ogino, Takaya Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20150131605
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal that performs communication with a base station, the terminal retaining first information that specifies a first starting position which is a starting position of OFDM symbols in which an enhanced physical downlink control channel in a common search space is mapped, and second information, independent of the first information, which specifies a second starting position which is a starting position of OFDM symbols in which an enhanced physical downlink control channel in a terminal-specific search space is mapped; and detecting the enhanced physical downlink control channel in the common search space and the terminal-specific search space, based on the first information and the second information, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Publication number: 20150130694
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixels grouped into four types of type 1, type 2, type 3, and type 4; a panel driver circuit connected to the liquid crystal panel to drive the liquid crystal panel; and a display control circuit connected to the panel driver circuit, wherein said display control circuit divides each refresh cycle of the image signal into consecutive first to fourth terms and causes the panel driver circuit to drive the liquid crystal panel to perform a halftone display by changing pixel luminance during each refresh cycle composed of the first to fourth terms, and wherein said display control circuit provides timing signals and gradation data to the panel driver circuit so that, for a given halftone to be displayed in a refresh cycle, pixels belonging to respective types in the liquid crystal panel are driven such that the halftone is generated as averaged over the first to fourth terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae KAWABATA, Fumikazu SHIMOSHIKIRYOH, Kentaroh IRIE
  • Publication number: 20150130854
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to implement a liquid crystal display device which is capable of a three dimensional display, with which it is possible to alleviate image quality degradation caused by crosstalk when a difference in gradation between a left eye image and a right eye image is large. Provided is a liquid-crystal display device that is capable of a three dimensional display, in which a panel drive control circuit alternately performs writing of a right-eye image and writing of a left-eye image for each frame period in order from one end to another end of a liquid crystal panel, and performs writing of either a near-black image or a black image in order from the one end to the other end of the liquid crystal panel in a vertical blanking period during each of the frame periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Matsumoto, Masae Kawabata, Kentaroh Irie
  • Publication number: 20150129866
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a circuit board and a display device wherein a patterned film is disposed in a manner that can sufficiently reduce the increase in capacitance and sufficiently minimize the degradation of display quality due to signal delay, while sufficiently shielding the lost part of a light shielding member with the patterned film. The present invention provides a circuit board used for a display device in which pixels are used to make an image. The circuit board comprises: a plurality of first wires and a plurality of second wires intersecting with the first wires; a thin-film transistor element; a plurality of pixel electrodes electrically connected to the drain electrodes of the thin-film transistor element; and a patterned film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryohki Itoh
  • Publication number: 20150131029
    Abstract: A color conversion substrate that can improve light use efficiency is provided. A color conversion substrate includes a transparent substrate having a main surface, a plurality of phosphor patterns arranged on the main surface and each of the phosphor patterns having side faces, and a reflective film that reflects light and is formed on at least the side faces of the phosphor patterns. An air layer is defined between the main surface and the phosphor patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Kaida, Shinya Kadowaki
  • Publication number: 20150131588
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus receives, on a PDCCH (physical downlink control channel), information used for initiating a random access procedure. The mobile station apparatus also transmits a random access preamble on a physical random access channel resource based on or in response to the information. Furthermore, the mobile station apparatus receives a random access response corresponding to the random access preamble on one specific downlink component carrier among a plurality of downlink component carriers where the one specific downlink component carrier linked to an uplink component carrier on which the random access preamble is transmitted on the physical random access channel resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Yasuyuki KATO, Shohei YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20150129867
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has: a first transparent electrode, a drain electrode, and a source electrode formed on a substrate; an oxide layer joined electrically to the source electrode and the drain electrode and containing a semiconductor region; an insulating layer formed on the oxide layer and the first transparent electrode; a gate electrode formed on the insulating layer; and a second transparent electrode formed so as to overlap at least a part of the first transparent electrode with the insulating layer interposed therebetween. The oxide layer and the first transparent electrode are formed of the same oxide film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Takamaru, Tadayoshi Miyamoto, Kazuatsu Ito, Shigeyasu Mori
  • Publication number: 20150131317
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing an illumination device and a display device that can suppress uneven brightness while improving light use efficiency and brightness. The illumination device includes a plurality of light sources arranged next to each other, a light guide member that guides light from the light sources, and protrusions that protrude towards the respective light sources from an end face of the light guide member. The protrusions each have side faces formed such that light emitted so as to spread in the arrangement direction of the light sources exits the light guide member and then re-enters from the end face thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuzo Yuki, Takeshi Ishida
  • Publication number: 20150131565
    Abstract: It is possible to efficiently transmit and receive signals containing uplink control information between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. eREG is configured with a plurality of resources into which one DL PRB pair is divided, eCCE is configured with an aggregation of a plurality of eREGs, a second PDCCH is configured with an aggregation of one or more eCCEs, a PUCCH resource corresponds to each eCCE, a first reception processing unit receives information indicating a plurality of second PDCCH regions and information indicating a PUCCH resource in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region for each second PDCCH region is started, from the base station apparatus, and a first control unit configures a PUCCH resource, in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region is started, for each second PDCCH region, based on the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Publication number: 20150131114
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an image display operation device with a function selecting portion to correlate with a plurality of functions executed in the image forming apparatus, a display portion, and a display control portion. The function selecting portion includes a function selecting portion in which selectable function items are displayed in accordance with an operation mode selected in the image forming apparatus. A second function selecting portion display other function items that are simultaneously selected. The display control portion simultaneously displays the function selecting portions on the display portion. The image display operation device simultaneously makes functions selectable. When the functions according to the first function selecting portion is selected, the display control portion changes functions according to the second function selecting portion that is displayed, based on contents of the functions according to the first function selecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinsaku Tohki, Makoto Okumura
  • Publication number: 20150131309
    Abstract: Provided are an illumination device capable of improving the uniformity in brightness of the illumination light, and a display device using the same. An illumination device is provided with: a plurality of light sources arranged in a row in one direction; and a light guide plate which has, along a side edge face, a light receiving face facing the light source, guides light entering through the light receiving face, and outputs illumination light from a light emitting surface disposed on the front surface; the light guide plate having a plurality of prisms and a plurality of prisms provided in an indented manner on the front or rear surface and arranged in a row along the longitudinal direction of the light receiving face; the prisms being formed spanning between the light receiving face and the opposing face opposite the light receiving face; and the prisms being formed, between adjacent prisms, deeper than the prisms within a predetermined range in the vicinity of the light receiving face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ichiro Umekawa, Hirofumi Oosawa, Takeshi Ishida, Ryuzo Yuki, Masaki Kageyama, Shugo Yagi