Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8995747
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for image-based automatic detection of a defective area in a flat panel display and classification of the defect type and the cause of the detected defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinyu Xu, Chang Yuan, Masakazu Yanase
  • Patent number: 8994012
    Abstract: An organic EL panel (1) in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention includes: an element substrate (10); a sealing substrate (14); and an organic EL element (15) which is (i) sandwiched between the element substrate (10) and the sealing substrate (14) and (ii) constituted by at least an anode, an organic light emitting layer and a cathode which are stacked together. The sealing substrate (14) has, on its surface facing the element substrate (10), a PVA sealing film (13) and an SiO2 sealing film (12) stacked together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Hirase
  • Patent number: 8994901
    Abstract: A display device in which an image with a wide color reproduction range and bright red can be displayed is provided. The display device is a display device such as, for example, a liquid crystal display device, a cathode ray tube, an organic electroluminescent display device, a plasma display panel, and a field emission display. The display device includes a display surface including a pixel having red, green, blue, and yellow sub-pixels, wherein the red sub-pixel preferably has the largest aperture area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kozo Nakamura, Shun Ueki, Tokio Taguchi, Akiko Itou
  • Patent number: 8994909
    Abstract: The width W1 of a groove (5a) is formed narrower than the width W2 of a groove (6a). The width W2 of the groove (6a) is formed at a prescribed width such that a sealing material (8) that overflows the groove (5a) can be formed along the groove (6a). The sealing material (8) spreads across the entirety of the groove (5a) and the groove (6a) when a color filter substrate (2) and an active matrix substrate (3) are bonded together. The groove (5a) is formed so as to be positioned within the groove (6a) in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takatoshi Kira, Tazo Ikeguchi
  • Patent number: 8995879
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a first pullout unit, a second pullout unit, and a first lock mechanism. The first unit is movable along a first axis between a first retracted position where the first unit is fully retracted in the apparatus, and a first exposed position where at least one side surface thereof is fully exposed to the front of the apparatus. The second unit is movable along a second axis, which is perpendicular to the first axis, between a second retracted position where the second unit is fully retracted in the first unit, and a second exposed position where the second unit is exposed to a side of the side surface of the first unit. The first lock mechanism prevents movement of the second unit from the second retracted position to the second exposed position when the first unit is not in the first exposed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiko Seike, Toshiki Takiguchi, Junya Masuda, Hiroyuki Murai
  • Patent number: 8993875
    Abstract: Provided is a solar battery module wherein solar battery cells are electrically connected to each other by using a wiring board having a predetermined wiring pattern formed on a resin base material. A method for manufacturing such solar battery module is also provided. In the wiring board of the solar battery module, a direction wherein a design margin is small is permitted to be a direction wherein the thermal contraction ratio of the resin base material is small, by the shape of an electrode pattern on the solar battery cell and that of the wiring pattern on the wiring board. At the time of manufacturing such solar battery module, temperature in a heat treatment step is set at 100° C. or higher but not higher than 180° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasushi Funakoshi
  • Patent number: 8995561
    Abstract: In a radio communication method non-contiguously using a frequency, notification information is reduced, while suppressing an effect on performance. In a communication apparatus which switches between a communication method contiguously using a frequency and a communication method non-contiguously using the frequency, sets a parameter corresponding to each communication method, and performs radio communication, the communication apparatus sets a same parameter to an entire frequency band in the communication method contiguously using the frequency, while dividing a frequency band into a plurality of frequency bands and setting a different parameter for each divided frequency band in the communication method non-contiguously using the frequency. The communication method contiguously using the frequency and the communication method non-contiguously using the frequency mutually have different PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio) characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Nakamura, Jungo Goto, Hiroki Takahashi, Yosuke Akimoto
  • Patent number: 8995371
    Abstract: The present invention enables random access which does not cause a load on a mobile station apparatus in an Advanced-EUTRA system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 8994621
    Abstract: A display device (100) includes a plurality of pixel circuits (10), a gate driver circuit (2) coupled to a plurality of scanning signal lines Gi and a plurality of control lines Ei, and a power control circuit (4) coupled to a plurality of power lines VPi via a common power line. The pixel circuits (10) each include an organic EL element, a plurality of TFTs, and a capacitor, and are controlled to collectively receive initialization potentials at the beginning of a frame through the power lines VPi, collectively perform threshold detection immediately thereafter, and then perform writing and light-emission operations. Thus, the aperture ratio of the pixel circuits (10) can be kept high, the power control circuit (4) typically has only one output buffer so that the circuit scale thereof is small, drive by potential is performed only once, so that power consumption is low, and threshold detection is performed only once, so that a sufficient amount of time can be ensured for a detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noritaka Kishi, Noboru Noguchi
  • Patent number: 8993588
    Abstract: Compounds of formula I: wherein variables A1, A2, B, m, n, J, R4, G1, G2, G3 and Y are as described herein, which are antagonists of CGRP receptors and which are 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: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Ian Bell, Harold Selnick, C. Blair Zartman
  • Patent number: 8993757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a N-piperidin-4-yl derivative having the general Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and to the use of said N-piperidin-4-yl derivatives for the treatment and prevention of endometriosis, for the treatment and prevention of pre-menopausal and peri-menopausal hormone-dependent breast cancer, for contraception, or for the treatment of uterine fibroids or other menstrual-related disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V.
    Inventors: Ines Huisman, Marcelis Van Der Stelt, Wouter Wiedenhof, Charles Anthony Graham Baker-Glenn, Wesley Peter Blackaby, Naimisha Trivedi
  • Patent number: 8995920
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes: a channel information acquiring unit that, acquires a transmitted signal channel matrix that is channel information as a transmitted signal of a pre-interference-removal transmitted signal group and an interference signal channel matrix that is channel information as an interference signal of the non-interference-removed transmitted signal group; an interference signal calculating unit that generates an interference signal group at the time of reception by the non-interference-removed transmitted signal group with respect to the pre-interference-removal transmitted signal group, based on the pre-interference-removal transmitted signal group, the non-interference-removed transmitted signal group, the transmitted signal channel matrix, and the interference signal channel matrix; a subtracting unit that subtracts the interference signal group from the pre-interference-removal transmitted signal group to generate a post-interference-removal transmitted signal group; an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kozue Hirata, Takashi Onodera, Hiroshi Nakano, Minoru Kubota, Naoki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8994907
    Abstract: In a display unit, measures against dropping of screws can be realized at low cost. The display unit includes: a wiring substrate in which wiring that is led out from a display panel is provided; a screw that fixes the wiring substrate to the display unit; and a substrate cover that covers the wiring substrate. The substrate cover has a screw covering region that covers a head of the screw, and part of the periphery of the screw covering region is separated from the other area of the substrate cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuya Shimojoh
  • Patent number: 8994692
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel system capable of reliably removing a wide variety of noises. The touch panel system (1p) includes a subtracting section (41a) which receives output signals from the sense lines (33) and finds differences between the capacitances in a direction in which each of drive lines (35) extends, as the differences in signal between the respective pairs of the sense lines (33) adjacent to each other. The subtracting section (41a) obtains a difference signal value between the sense lines adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Yumoto, Hiroshi Hamada
  • Patent number: 8994886
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (display device) 10 according to the present invention is provided with a display area AA that displays an image, and a non-display area NAA surrounding the display area AA. The non-display area NAA includes at least a backup wire 32 as a first wire and a source wire 24 as a second wire arranged on an upper side with respect to the backup wire 32 and intersecting with the backup wire 32. The backup wire 32 includes an intersecting portion 32CP intersecting with the source wire 24. The intersecting portion 32CP includes a crank portion 35 cranked at a side edge of the intersecting portion 32CP a second wire extending direction in which the source wire 24 extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akane Sugisaka
  • Patent number: 8995000
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus of an image forming system, a judging section judges, based on identification information included in print job data, whether a display apparatus corresponding to the print job data is a specific display apparatus. Based on a judgment result of the judging section, an image formation control section controls image forming operation of an image forming section. When it is judged by the judging section as being the specific display apparatus, this image formation control section suspends the image forming operation by the image forming section once. Further, when it is judged by the judging section as not being the specific display apparatus, the image formation control section causes the image forming operation by the image forming section to be executed promptly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirotaka Kodama
  • Publication number: 20150084885
    Abstract: A display portion provided in a portable electronic device including a touch panel has, as display modes, a full-screen display mode in which an image is displayed over an entire surface of the display surface, a right-hand display mode in which a scaled-down display of an original image with a similarity shape is provided along a right side and a lower side of the display surface, and a left-hand display mode in which a scaled-down display of an original image with a similarity shape is provided along a left side and a lower side of the display surface. When a prescribed input operation is received by an input portion, a control portion switches a display mode of the display portion from the full-screen display mode to the right-hand display mode or the left-hand display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kohsei Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20150084996
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device that performs white balance adjustment, the difference between hues during still image display and hues during moving image display can be reduced. In a display control circuit used in the liquid crystal display device that performs white balance adjustment, an R overshoot LUT, a G overshoot LUT, and a B overshoot LUT are provided as tables for overshoot parameters. The overshoot parameters are determined for each color among red, green, and blue such that, the more the white balance parameter of a particular color has a maximum value corresponding to applied voltage to liquid crystal lowered by a white balance processing circuit, the more the signal time shift will be emphasized through correction by an overshoot driving circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Yamakawa
  • Publication number: 20150085239
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display element (110) includes a common electrode (140). The common electrode (140) covers a location which faces at least one of at least a part of scanning lines (120) and at least a part of signal lines (119), has openings (141) at locations facing transparent pixel electrodes (130), and has a cutout section (142) at a pixel boundary region (146) in such a manner that the cutout section (142) exists at least at a part of the pixel boundary region (146) which part does not face the transparent pixel electrodes (130).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KAisha
    Inventors: Yuki Kawashima, Yoshimizu Moriya, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Noritaka Ajari
  • Publication number: 20150085943
    Abstract: On the basis of quantization codes of each separate block and results of motion determination of each separate block, a noise amount calculating section (150) of a video processing device (100) selects at least one noise reduction process that is applied to the target frame from among a plurality of noise reduction processes having different characteristics from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Taniguchi, Akira Koike, Yoshinori Kohno, Tetsuo Ikeyama, Masahiko Takiguchi, Mihoko Watanabe