Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8976096
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device which displays each halftone by changing the luminance of pixels during a cycle (F1-F8) composed of a first term (F1-F2), a second term (F3-F4), a third term (F5-F6), and a fourth term (F7-F8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Kentaroh Irie
  • Patent number: 8976304
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 10 of the present invention includes: LEDs 22; LED substrates 24 to which the LEDs 22 are attached; a liquid crystal panel 11 where display is performed using light from the LEDs 22; a light guide plate 16 that is arranged so as to overlap the side of the liquid crystal panel 11 opposite to the display surface, the edge faces of the light guide plate facing the LEDs 22; a chassis 14 arranged on the side of the light guide plate 16 opposite to the liquid crystal panel 11; a frame 13 arranged on the display surface side of the liquid crystal panel 11 and housing the LEDs 22, LED substrates 24, liquid crystal panel 11, and light guide plate 16 between the chassis 14 and the frame itself; and heat dissipating members 18 with heat dissipating characteristics that are respectively arranged abutting the LED substrates 24 and that are held between the frame 13 and the chassis 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 8975261
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to aryloxymethyl cyclopropane derivatives 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: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Michael J. Breslin, Christopher D. Cox, Timothy J. Hartingh, Joseph Pero, Izzat T. Raheem, Michael Rossi, Laura Vassallo
  • Patent number: 8975286
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to ether benzotriazole derivatives which are potentiators of metabotropic glutamate receptors, particularly the mGluR2 receptor, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction and diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved. 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 metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Vadim Y. Dudkin, Mark E. Fraley, Cheng Wang, Robert M. Garbaccio, Douglas C. Beshore, Scott K. Kuduk, Jason W. Skudlarek
  • Patent number: 8977175
    Abstract: A fixing apparatus of the invention includes a pressure roller 6 and a fixing roller 7 that make press-contact with each other and an oil roller 8 that makes press-contact with either the pressure roller 6 or the fixing roller 7, and passes a recording sheet through a nip area between the pressure roller 6 and the fixing roller 7 to fix toner on the recording sheet. The fixing apparatus also includes: a pressure roller gear 21 and an oil roller gear 22 that transmit a rotation of a shaft of the pressure roller 6 that makes press-contact with the oil roller 8 to a shaft of the oil roller 8; and a one-way clutch 23 that causes the oil roller 8 to idly rotate in a direction of a driven rotation when the oil roller 8 is driven to rotate by pressing against the pressure roller 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaya Asakawa, Hirokazu Nakamura, Takashi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 8976748
    Abstract: When a mobile station apparatus capable of being connected to a base station apparatus by using a plurality of frequency bands performs an uplink transmission, the mobile station apparatus selects the optimum combination among the combinations of a plurality of frequency bands and uplink transmission methods, and performs the uplink transmission. The mobile station apparatus aggregates a plurality of cells to connect the same to a base station apparatus and requests, from the base station apparatus, an uplink radio resource required to transmit uplink data. The mobile station apparatus selects, based on a first condition, an uplink for making a radio resource request using a random access channel from the plurality of cells, and selects, based on a second condition, either the radio resource request using the random access channel or the transmission of uplink data using an uplink radio resource common to other mobile station apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsunari Uemura
  • Publication number: 20150067592
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for interacting with a digital marking surface, in particular, to methods and systems for activating an ink tool. According to a first aspect of the present invention, an activation gesture proximate to an ink tool may activate the ink tool. According to a second aspect of the present invention, an activation gesture may initiate a determination of whether or not an ink mark proximate to the activation gesture is associated with an ink tool and may effectuate activation of the ink tool when the ink mark is associated with an ink tool. According to a third aspect of the present invention, a plurality of ink tools may be activated as a group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. OWEN, Craig Thompson WHITTLE, John E. DOLAN, Paul R. HENERLAU
  • Publication number: 20150062460
    Abstract: In a mobile terminal and the method for manufacturing the mobile terminal, the bonding strength between a glass panel and a resin housing is ensured, as well as ensuring as large display area as possible. The width of a touch panel 4 is set greater than that of a glass panel 3, and insert molding is performed such that a corner space 7 formed between a protruding part of the touch panel 4 and a side surface of the glass panel 3 is covered by resin 14 forming a housing 2 in the state in which the touch panel 4 is bonded to a rear surface of the glass panel 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150063238
    Abstract: Means of configuring a reference signal unique to a mobile station apparatus is provided. There is provided a control station apparatus notifying a first mobile station apparatus of a parameter group generating a reference signal. The control station apparatus includes: an RRC layer to configure a parameter set including a plurality of parameter groups generating the reference signal; and a physical layer to select one of the parameter groups and notify the mobile station apparatus. It is preferred that the parameter set is configured with a plurality of parameter groups that respectively configure a sequence number and a cyclic shift hopping pattern of the reference signal and includes a parameter group generating a reference signal the same as in a second mobile station apparatus different from the first mobile station apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Hiroki Takahashi, Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20150061752
    Abstract: A cascode circuit (1) is provided with a switching element (Q1) which is normally off by default, a switching element (Q2) and a clamp circuit (10). A source of the switching element (Q2) is connected to a drain of the switching element (Q1). The cascode circuit (1) engages in a normally-off operation through a gate driving circuit (100) connected to a gate of the switching element (Q1). The clamp circuit (10) is provided between a power source terminal (P) of the gate driving circuit (100) and the drain of the switching element (Q1). A power source (E) is connected to the power source terminal (P). When the gate driving circuit (100) operates to turn off the switching element (Q1) and the switching element (Q2), the clamp circuit (10) clamps a voltage between the drain and the source of the switching element (Q1) to a power source voltage (V) supplied from the power source (E).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuya Abe
  • Publication number: 20150063237
    Abstract: There are provided a terminal device, a base station device, and an integrated circuit that enable a base station device and a terminal device to determine parameters related to uplink signals or uplink reference signals and to perform efficient communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Wataru Ouchi, Kazunari Yokomakura, Toshizoh Nogami
  • Publication number: 20150063264
    Abstract: A mobile station (MS) that transmits uplink data on a PUSCH, the PUSCH being assigned by using a PDCCH. The MS receives a radio resource control signal including first information instructing the MS apparatus to periodically transmit first reception quality information (RQI) and receives, on the PDCCH, second information instructing the MS to transmit second RQI on the PUSCH. The MS transmits only the second RQI on the PUSCH in a case that the transmission of the first RQI which is instructed by using the first information and the transmission of the second RQI which is instructed by using the second information would occur at the same time, where the second RQI is transmitted together with the uplink data on the PUSCH and an amount of resources for the second RQI is determined based on a size of the PUSCH assigned by using the PDCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi AIBA, Shohei YAMADA, Hiroshi KATSURAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150062457
    Abstract: Provided is an in-cell touch panel having improved display quality. An opposite substrate relating to one embodiment of the present invention is provided with a black matrix, first electrodes, which are disposed in the Y direction, and second electrodes, which are disposed in the X direction. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are formed such that the boundaries therebetween are positioned in regions that coincide with the black matrix in a planar view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Shinji Yamagishi, Yuhji Yashiro, Hiroyuki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20150063468
    Abstract: An improvement in efficiency in an image decoding process is intended. An image coding device codes a texture image and a depth image. In the coding, the image coding device performs coding of the texture image by using depth information and coding of the texture image without using the depth information while following a coding control parameter. Further, the image coding device codes use result information that indicates whether or not the depth information is used in coding the texture image. An image decoding device decodes the texture image and the depth image. In the decoding, the image decoding device decodes the depth image in a case where decoded use result information indicates that the depth information is used and skips a decoding process of the depth image in a case where the depth information is not used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150063241
    Abstract: In a radio communication system in which a base station and a terminal communicate with each other, the base station efficiently transmits control information to the terminal. The base station that communicates with the terminal using resource blocks, each of which is constituted by a prescribed time region and a prescribed frequency region, includes a terminal-specific control channel generation unit that generates terminal-specific control channels mapped in a terminal-specific control channel region constituted by a prescribed number of resource blocks and transmitted using the same antenna port as for terminal-specific reference signals, which are reference signals specific to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Kimihiko Imamura, Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20150063858
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a printing paper transport path in which printing paper is transported; a secondary transfer unit and a fixing section both disposed on the printing paper transport path; an open/close cover that, when opened, exposes the printing paper transport path in a main body of the apparatus; a pressure roller, disposed in the fixing section, that presses the printing paper on a side thereof facing the open/close cover against the printing paper transport path; and cooling fans that cool down the pressure roller, wherein the secondary transfer unit and the cooling fans are attached to the open/close cover and disposed at such positions that the secondary transfer unit and the cooling fans move following overlapping paths when the open/close cover is opened/closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirokazu Nakamura, Kimihide Tsukamoto, Masaki Amemiya
  • Publication number: 20150062648
    Abstract: In a communication system, an image forming apparatus sends an address of a receiving section to an external device. The external device receives a selection of image data through plural thumbnails displayed on a display section, and wirelessly sends the selected image data to the image forming apparatus with the address. The image forming apparatus receives the selected image data and prints an image. The image forming apparatus accepts a selection indicating whether a communication between the external device and the image forming apparatus is performed either by a first or second communication system method. The image forming apparatus performs sending and/or receiving the image data with the address by the first communication system method when the first communication system method is selected, and performs sending and/or receiving the image data with the address by the second communication system method when the second communication system method is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi OKIGAMI, Masanori MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150067593
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for interacting with a digital marking surface, in particular, to methods and systems for deactivating an ink tool. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a tap gesture, or other gesture, on an ink mark associated with an ink tool may deactivate the ink tool, if the ink tool is active. According to a second aspect of the present invention, a deactivation ink tool may effectuate the deactivation of an active ink tool when a first ink mark associated with the deactivation ink tool is placed on a first ink mark associated with the active ink tool. According to a third aspect of the present invention, a deactivation ink tool may effectuate the deactivation of an active ink tool when an ink mark associated with the deactivation ink tool is placed on a user-input solicitation mechanism associated with the active ink tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul R. HENERLAU, James E. OWEN
  • Publication number: 20150062870
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a display device in which light emitted from a phosphor is used with enhanced efficiency. A display device is provided with a light source unit for emitting light, a plurality of phosphors for emitting light upon incidence thereon of light from the light source unit, a transparent substrate disposed on the phosphors, a color conversion substrate formed between the phosphors and the transparent substrate and including a reflective member and a low refractive index layer having a refractive index lower than that of the phosphors, and an air layer between the phosphors and the light source unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinya Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 8968925
    Abstract: A method is provided for synthesizing a metal-doped transition metal hexacyanoferrate (TMHCF) battery electrode. The method prepares a first solution of AxFe(CN)6 and Fe(CN)6, where A cations may be alkali or alkaline-earth cations. The method adds the first solution to a second solution containing M-ions and M?-ions. M is a transition metal, and M? is a metal dopant. Subsequent to stirring, the mixture is precipitated to form AxMcM?dFez(CN)n.mH2O particles. The AxMcM?dFez(CN)n.mH2O particles have a framework and interstitial spaces in the framework, where M and M? occupy positions in the framework. Alternatively, the method prepares AaA?bMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles. A and A? occupy interstitial spaces in the AaA?bMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particle framework. A metal-doped TMHCF electrode is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Jong-Jan Lee, David Evans