Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20150085760
    Abstract: A method for sending a power headroom report (PHR) by a User Equipment (UE) is described. The method includes obtaining a value of a power headroom for each activated serving cell with configured uplink corresponding to a second radio connection. The method also includes generating an extended power headroom MAC control element based on the obtained values and information related to power management corresponding to a first radio connection. The method further includes transmitting the extended power headroom MAC control element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Zhanping Yin
  • Publication number: 20150089558
    Abstract: A content data recording device of the present invention includes: a first obtaining section which obtains content data used to reproduce a content by streaming and which switches, depending on a communication state, between obtainment of high-quality data and obtainment of low-quality data; a second obtaining section which obtains, part of the high-quality data which part has not been obtained by the first obtaining section, after the communication state is recovered; and a recording performing section (404) which records (i) the high-quality data obtained by the first obtaining section and (ii) the part of the high-quality data obtained by the second obtaining section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshinori Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20150086247
    Abstract: There are provided a developing device capable of preventing occurrence of image unevenness by releasing a developer residing on a surface of a developing roller reliably, and an image forming apparatus. An angle ? formed by a first plane including a position at which a magnetic flux density in a normal direction by a removing pole becomes a maximal value on a surface of the developing sleeve and a rotational axis of a developing sleeve, and a second plane including a first axis of a first rotational shaft section of a first agitating conveyance section and the rotational axis of the developing sleeve 17 is 20° or more and 40° or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuhsuke YOSHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150083193
    Abstract: A secondary lens includes a first face on which a concentrated light beam output from a concentrating lens is incident and a second face from which the concentrated light beam output from the concentrating lens is output to a photovoltaic cell. The secondary lens guides incident light to the photovoltaic cell through an optical refractive face provided on the first face. A cross-sectional area of the first face in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis (Ax) of the concentrated light beam monotonically increases as the cross-sectional area approaches from a side of the first face closer to the concentrating lens to a side of the first face closer to the photovoltaic cell. At least one point of inflection at which an angle of inclination (?) of the first face with respect to a plane perpendicular to the optical axis decreases as the angle of inclination (?) approaches from the side of the first face closer to the concentrating lens to the side of the first face closer to the photovoltaic cell is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohsuke Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150088952
    Abstract: An arithmetic processing device includes: a reception unit for receiving information including a numerical value and an operator; a generation unit generating arithmetic information regarding an arithmetic operation and having a plurality of codes including the numerical value and the operator that are received; and an information transmission unit transmitting the generated arithmetic information to an external device. The generation unit generates the arithmetic information in which the codes are arranged so that, when a plurality of rows including numerical values and operators are displayed on a display unit of the external device in accordance with the arithmetic information, an arrangement of a numerical value and an operator in each displayed row and an arrangement of a numerical value and an operator in another displayed row are matched to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimi II, Akiyoshi SATOH
  • Publication number: 20150086505
    Abstract: Provided are methods of producing mono- and di-pegylated IL-10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven J. Blaisdell, Collette M. Cutler, Brittany C. Paporello, Alexandre Ambrogelly
  • Publication number: 20150088521
    Abstract: A speech server includes: a speech terminal-specifying information management unit configured to manage speech terminal-specifying information; a reception unit configured to receive, from an external server, (i) the speech terminal-specifying information or user-specifying information and (ii) speech information indicative of speech content to be outputted as speech; and a speech instruction unit configured to instruct a speech terminal specified by the speech terminal-specifying information to output the speech content as speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro CHIBA, Kazunori SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20150085939
    Abstract: A method for sending a long-term reference picture indicator by an electronic device is described. The method includes generating a long-term reference picture indicator. The method also includes sending the long-term reference picture indicator. The method further includes generating a used by current picture flag corresponding to a current picture. The method additionally includes sending the used by current picture flag in at least one parameter set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20150085787
    Abstract: A terminal which performs communication with at least one base station, includes means for detecting a field indicating whether or not a transmission request of a sounding reference signal (SRS) is made from a downlink control information (DCI) format, means for generating a base sequence of the SRS on the basis of a first parameter in a case where the field indicates a transmission request of the SRS in a first DCI format, and means for generating a base sequence of the SRS on the basis of a second parameter in a case where the field indicates a transmission request of the SRS in a second DCI format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Wataru Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20150087832
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to processes for preparing beta 3 agonists of Formula (I) and Formula (II) and their intermediates. The beta 3 agonists are useful in the treatment of certain disorders, including overactive bladder, urinary incontinence, and urinary urgency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME, CORP.
    Inventors: John Y.L. Chung, Kevin Campos, Edward Cleator, Robert F. Dunn, Andrew Gibson, R. Scott Hoerrner, Stephen Keen, Dave Liebermann, Zhuqing Liu, Joseph Lynch, Kevine M. Maloney, Feng Xu, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Naoki Yoshikawa, Yong-Li Zhong
  • Publication number: 20150088287
    Abstract: A device-operation management apparatus of the present invention is an agent server for receiving a device operation instruction from a portable terminal via a user's input operation and managing an operation of a house device, and causes an operation button to be displayed on the user's portable terminal so that the user can perform a touch operation, which operation button is for transmitting, to the device, the operation instruction for operating the device in accordance with an operation proposal included in a message which indicates the operation proposal to the home device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki NAGAMATSU, Kazuyuki NAKO, Masaki HASHIURA
  • Publication number: 20150084147
    Abstract: The present invention achieves reduction in size and thickness while removing the cause of defective image and the like. According to an image pickup module (1), a solid-state image pickup device (3) and a flexible substrate (2) are connected to each other by flip-chip bonding, and an opening (5) is formed in the flexible substrate 2 by melting the flexible substrate (2) and an anisotropically-conductive film (8) adhered to the flexible substrate (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Sakota
  • Publication number: 20150085215
    Abstract: The TFT substrate of this liquid crystal display device has: a first gate bus line and a second gate bus line; a first data bus line; a first TFT and second TFT that are respectively connected to the first and second gate bus line and are both connected to the first data bus line; and a first pixel electrode and second pixel electrode that are respectively connected to the first TFT and the second TFT through a contact hole. The first and second gate bus line traverse the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, and a black matrix has a portion that integrally covers the first TFT and the contact hole, and a portion that integrally covers the second TFT and the contact hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150089421
    Abstract: A smart phone (100) is configured so that, in a case where a first display position of an icon (6) is changed, a condition determining section (11) determines whether or not an icon other than the icon (6) is being displayed within a predetermined region that includes a second display position of the icon (6) to which second display position the first display position of the icon (6) has been changed, and in a case where the condition determining section (11) determines that the icon other than the icon (6) is not being displayed within the predetermined region, a partition line display section (12a) causes a partition line (1) to be displayed between the second display position of the icon (6) and a display position of another icon other than the icon (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miho Kagei, Fumitoshi Tanoue, Toshiyuki Kamei
  • Patent number: 8987242
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I) as described herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a solvate thereof. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds, and methods for using said compounds for treating or preventing a thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Mochida Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Samuel Chackalamannil, Tin-Yau Chan, Mariappan V. Chelliah, Martin C. Clasby, Michael Dwyer, William J. Greenlee, Tomokazu Hirabayashi, Santhosh Neelamkavil, Hidemitsu Nishida, Fumihiko Saitoh, Unmesh Shah, Yan Xia
  • Patent number: 8989293
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a coder for jointly coding Pre-coding Matrix Index #1 (W1) and Rank Index (RI) for channel state information feedback of a double codebook precoding frame. In the present invention, it is determined whether Rank Index RI is more than 2; if the RI is no more than 2, a first half branch of a coding binary tree is used to represent joint coding of the RI and W1 when RI=1 and RI=2; if the RI is more than 2, a second half branch of the coding binary tree is used to represent remaining separate codings and/or joint codings when the RI is more than 2; and processing results of the above coding steps are output. The present invention may be applied to an equal-length coding or an unequal-length coding. The present invention has advantages such as easy implementation, lower signaling overhead etc., and may be suitable for an LTE-A/4G cellular communication system and a future 5G cellular communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ming Ding, Renmao Liu, Zeng Yang, Yongming Liang, Yingyu Zhang
  • Patent number: 8989156
    Abstract: A wireless communication device configured for selecting a codeword and determining a symbol length for uplink control information is described. The wireless communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The wireless communication device establishes communication with a base station, receives downlink control information from the base station and receives base station information. The wireless communication device generates uplink control information based on the base station information. The wireless communication device also determines a number of symbols for the uplink control information for a plurality of layers and sends the uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, John Michael Kowalski, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 8987036
    Abstract: A solar battery module (40) includes a stack of: a plurality of solar battery strings (30) and bus sections (32) connected to both ends of each of the plurality of solar battery strings (30); flexible resin layers (33a through 33c); and a flexible resin film (34). The flexible resin layers (33a through 33c) and the flexible resin film (34) have, on a light receiving surface side of solar battery cells (20), holes through which the bus sections (32) are each partially exposed. The exposed parts of the bus sections (32) serve as a respective plurality of electrically-connecting means (32a). A solar battery array (41) includes a plurality of solar battery modules (40). The plurality of solar battery modules (40) are electrically connected with each other via the plurality of electrically-connecting means (32a). This makes it possible to achieve a large-scale solar battery array (41) with high mechanical strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8985799
    Abstract: An object is to prevent or reduce uneven brightness in a direct-type lighting device. A lighting device according to the present technology includes LEDs 28 arranged in a matrix on a bottom plate of the chassis and a reflector 26 including first and second side walls 26a, 26b each arranged between the LEDs 28 adjacent in a Y-axis direction and an X-axis direction, respectively. The LEDs 28 are configured to emit light toward an opening of the chassis. The first side wall 26a has a side surface 26a rising from a front surface 30a of an LED board 30 toward the opening of the chassis while being inclined. The first side wall 26a extends straightly along the X-axis direction and has a triangular cross-sectional shape taken along the Y-axis direction. The second side wall 26b has a prism-like shape rising from the front surface 30a toward the opening and has a rhombic outline in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaharu Shimizu, Kaori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8987195
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 protease inhibitors containing a spirocyclic moeity, uses of such compounds, and synthesis of such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Merck Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Bara, Sathesh Bhat, Dipshikha Biswas, Linda Brockunier, Duane A. Burnett, Samuel Chackalamannil, Mariappan V. Chelliah, Austin Chen, Martin Clasby, Vince J. Colandrea, Zhuyan Guo, Yongxin Han, Charles Jayne, Hubert Josien, Karen Marcantonio, Shouwu Miao, Santhosh Neelamkavil, Patrick Pinto, Murali Rajagopalan, Unmesh Shah, Francisco Velazquez, Srikanth Venkatraman, Yan Xia