Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Publication number: 20150042897Abstract: The backlight device 12 of the present embodiment includes: a plurality of LEDs 17; a chassis 14 that is a plate-shaped member and on which the LEDs 17 are arranged; a plurality of diffusion lenses 40 that are fixed to the chassis 14, that individually cover the LEDs 17 from the side opposite to the chassis 14, and that exert optical effects on the light from the LEDs 17; a reflective sheet 21 that covers the plate surface of the chassis 14, that exposes the LEDs 17, and that has the lens insertion holes 21 through which the diffusion lenses 40 are respectively inserted; and reflective sheet holding members 30 that hold the reflective sheet 21 from the side opposite to the chassis 14, that engage the adjacent diffusion lenses 40 and 40, and that extend on the sheet surface of the reflective sheet 21 between the adjacent diffusion lenses 40 and 40.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuuki Namekata
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Publication number: 20150040593Abstract: The air conditioner 1 includes an outdoor unit 10 and an indoor unit 30. The outdoor unit 10 includes an outdoor heat exchanger 16, a compressor 12, an outdoor fan 15, a temperature detector 23 for detecting a temperature of the outdoor heat exchanger 16, and a temperature detector 27 for detecting an outdoor temperature. The indoor unit 30 includes an indoor heat exchanger 33 and an indoor fan 32. The air conditioner 1 has a heating operation mode: that is, when the outdoor temperature reaches a predetermined first specified temperature or lower during a heating operation, the air conditioner 1 stops the heating operation and goes to standby, and thereafter, when the outdoor temperature reaches a temperature equal to or higher than a predetermined second specified temperature higher than the first specified temperature, the air conditioner 1 executes a defrosting operation and subsequently resumes the heating operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tohru Ariga
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Publication number: 20150043434Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) for performing subframe bundling is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines consecutive uplink (UL) subframes based on UL subframes of a UL-reference uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration of a serving cell. The UE also performs a subframe bundling operation based on the consecutive UL subframes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Zhanping Yin
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Publication number: 20150042564Abstract: A technology reducing the number of components in a projector. Illuminating light from a lamp is made incident from a first surface of a TIR prism via an optical system, reflected, output from a second surface of the TIR prism, optically modulated by a DMD, and made incident to the second surface of the TIR prism. Projection light from the DMD is transmitted through the TIR prism, emitted from a third surface of the TIR prism, and enlarged by a projection lens, to form an image on a screen. Light from a light emitting element is reflected by the screen, made incident to the third surface of the TIR prism via the projection lens, reflected, and output from a fourth surface of the TIR prism, to form an image on an imaging element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Shiina, Sadahiko Shimazaki
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Publication number: 20150042922Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a metal electrode, a transparent electrode, an interlayer insulating film, and a comb-shaped electrode. Distorted horizontal electric fields are generated in order to distort the orientation of liquid crystal molecules. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve a transflective liquid crystal display device that has high transmittance, reflectance, and yield, and that can suppress display defects such as screen burn-in without using a panel gap adjusting structure, a driving method that respectively applies different electric fields to the reflective region and the transmissive region, or a multi-L/S structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yosuke Iwata
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Publication number: 20150042933Abstract: Provided are a fluorescent substrate that prevents the occurrence of the phenomenon in which the display color becomes faint and a display device provided with the same. A fluorescent substrate 10 includes a substrate 11; pixels 12 provided on the substrate 11; and partitions 13 that partition the pixels 12, wherein each of the pixels 12 includes at least a red sub-pixel 12R that performs display of red light; a blue sub-pixel 12B that performs display of blue light; and a third color sub-pixel that performs display of third color light different from the two colors, and wherein a distance between the red sub-pixel 12R and the blue sub-pixel 12B is greater than a distance between other sub-pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaidshaInventors: Shun Ueki, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Kazuyoshi Sakuragi, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Shohei Katsuta, Daisuke Shinozaki
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Publication number: 20150043022Abstract: An image display unit capable of displaying image data page-wise includes: a scanner portion; a display panel for displaying input image data in preview representation; an input condition determiner that compares the image data successively input through the scanner portion, as to input condition and determines whether there is any change in the image data input condition; and a display controller that, when the input condition determiner determines that the input image data has changed in the input condition, makes control such as to display the image data that was determined to have changed in the input condition and the image data input immediately before the image data in question, together on the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoichi KIMURA, Kunihisa CHIBA, Kazuyuki OGIDA
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Publication number: 20150043451Abstract: The present invention reduces the amount of frequency resources required for uplink cooperative communication. There is provided a base station device that is applied to a communication system in which a plurality of base station devices establish cooperative communication with at least one mobile station device and includes a base station-to-base station communication section 220 and a control information determination section 216. The base station-to-base station communication section 220 communicates with another base station device when establishing cooperative communication. The control information determination section 216 allocates a band for communication use by the mobile station device in such a manner that a signal received cooperatively by another base station device and a signal received uncooperatively by another base station device overlap with each other at certain frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jungo Goto, Hiroki Takahashi, Osamu Nakamura, Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Publication number: 20150044696Abstract: An integrated microfluidic device for carrying out a series of fluidic operations includes a housing including a plurality of n microfluidic conduits, wherein n is at least three, and a rotating valve having an internal channel with an entrance port and an exit port that are angularly separated. The rotating valve is positionable in a first position to connect two of the n fluidic conduits via the internal channel, and upon rotating the valve to a second position, two other of the n fluidic conduits are connected by the internal channel. The device further may include one or more fluidic chambers in fluid communication with respective fluidic conduits. Fluid contained in one fluidic chamber is transferrable by application of positive or negative gas pressure through associated fluidic conduits into another fluidic chamber via the internal channel. The device may be utilized to perform a variety of fluidic operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Pamela Ann DOTHIE, Daniel Christopher SPENCER
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Publication number: 20150044789Abstract: A method of manufacturing an array substrate 20 according to the present invention includes a line forming step, and line forming step includes following performances. A plurality of source lines 27 are formed on a glass substrate GS so as to extend from a first region A1 on the glass substrate GS to a second region A2 that is adjacent to the first region on an outer side thereof. A plurality of source driver side check lines 45A are formed on the glass substrate GS so as to extend from the second region A2 to a third region that is adjacent to the first region A1 on an outer side thereof and adjacent to the second region A2. A plurality of first line connection portions 49 are formed in the second region A2 and the first line connection portions 49 connect the source lines 27 and the first source driver side check lines 45A. A capacity stem line 43 and a common line 44 are formed to extend from the first region A1 to the third region A3.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaharu Yamada, Ryohki Itoh, Masahiro Yoshida, Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Takuya Ohishi, Masahiro Matsuda, Kazutoshi Kida
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Publication number: 20150043053Abstract: This light modulation panel is provided with: a substrate having comb electrodes disposed on a uniformly planar electrode with an insulating layer therebetween; a substrate provided with a uniformly planar electrode; a light modulation layer obtained by dispersing anisometric members in a medium; and a circuit for changing the direction in which an electric field is applied, which changes the direction of an electric field applied to the light modulation layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiji Satoh, Kohzoh Nakamura, Hisashi Watanabe, Takahiro Nakahara
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Publication number: 20150046955Abstract: A wireless transmission system is provided that can minimize the control command transmission amount by operating a plurality of sink devices in conjunction with each other with respect to each group. The wireless transmission system includes: a bridge device (1) which wireless-transmits an AV content; and a plurality of wireless sink devices (5, 6) which reproduce the wireless-transmitted AV content. The bridge device (1) has a group identification table which stores a group identifier for identifying a group formed by the wireless sink device (5, 6). The bridge device (1) adds a group identifier extracted from the group identification table to a control command for controlling the sink devices (5, 6) and wireless-transmits the control command having the group identifier. The wireless sink devices (5, 6) receive a control command wireless-transmitted from the bridge device (1) if a corresponding group identifier is added to the control command.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohichi EGUCHI, Keisuke TSUJI, Ryosuke OHMAE, Masayuki ETOH, Seiji IMANISHI, Shinichi KATOH, Takuya KINOSHITA
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Publication number: 20150042902Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source; a light guide plate including a side surface, on which light of the light source is incident, and a front surface extending perpendicular to the side surface; and a plurality of light emitting regions disposed on the front surface to be spaced apart from one another, and having optical patterns for emitting light from an inside of the light guide plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromi Enomoto, Nobuhiko Akanuma, Yuhsuke Nii, Shinji Tomokawa
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Publication number: 20150042769Abstract: A display device includes control electronics and a pixellated liquid crystal (LC) panel. The control electronics receives inputs of main image data for a main image and side image data for a side image. The control electronics outputs combined image data combining the main and side images such that an on-axis viewer perceives from the combined image the main image, and an off-axis viewer perceives from the combined image the side image. The output image data comprises data values chosen from a set of available output data values for the pixels selected from multiple sets of available data values depending on at least on the side image data. For a pixel currently being processed, the output data value is chosen from the selected set of available output data values for which a resulting luminance value is closest to a target luminance value for the current pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Benjamin John BROUGHTON, Kenji MAEDA, Tatsuo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20150042693Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention employs a liquid crystal panel of CS control pixel division, and is configured such that two adjacent pixel rows share one retention capacitor wire, and two adjacent scanning signal lines are simultaneously selected. In a case where two pixels ((Pn+1) and (Pn+2)) which are adjacent along a scanning direction but are not simultaneously selected are to have an identical predetermined luminance in two frames, a first signal potential is written to one pixel (Pn+1) in one of the two frames and a second signal potential having a polarity identical to that of the first signal potential is written to the other pixel (Pn+2) in the other of the two frames, the first and second signal potentials are different from each other. The present invention makes it possible to suppress transverse lines of display unevenness which occur in the liquid crystal display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mitsuaki Hirata
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Publication number: 20150042898Abstract: This liquid crystal display device is provided with: an LED; a liquid crystal panel; a light guide plate; a metal chassis disposed on the reverse side of the light guide plate from the liquid crystal panel, the chassis having a step provided by bending a bottom plate, and the bottom plate being sectioned into a first bottom plate part and a second bottom plate part by the step; an LED substrate attached to the first bottom plate part, the LED being arranged on a plate surface of the LED substrate; and a frame for accommodating the liquid crystal panel, the LED, the light guide plate, and the LED substrate so as to enclose these accommodated components between the frame and the first bottom plate part while abutting the second bottom plate part, the frame being arranged on a display surface side with respect to the liquid crystal panel. By the present invention, the temperature of the frame can be prevented from becoming too high in a display device of a type not provided with a cabinet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Jo Ikuta
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Patent number: 8952166Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are inhibitors of the ROMK (Kir1.1) channel. The compounds may be used as diuretic and/or natriuretic agents and for the therapy and prophylaxis of medical conditions including cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, heart failure and conditions associated with excessive salt and water retention.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Fa-Xiang Ding, Shuzhi Dong, Jessica Frie, Xin Gu, Jinlong Jiang, Alexander Pasternak, Haifeng Tang, Zhicai Wu, Yang Yu, Takao Suzuki
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Patent number: 8953027Abstract: In the case of plural viewers viewing the 3D image, it is difficult to implement the display condition requested by the individual viewer without the viewer's burden for manipulating to change to the image requested by the viewer. A stereoscopic-image display apparatus is provided with a viewer detecting unit that identifies the viewer, and a viewer/stereoscopic eyewear database that stores and manages individual data for each of the viewers and stereoscopic eyewears. The stereoscopic-image display apparatus automatically instructs the stereoscopic eyewear utilized by the viewer to implement the display condition requested by the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Horiuchi, Yoshinori Seki
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Patent number: 8953519Abstract: A method of transmitting a data signal in a wireless communication system from a primary station to a secondary station, where the data signal includes a medium access control header (MAC-hs header) and a protocol data unit associated with the medium access control header. The medium access control header includes a set of fields (TSN, SEG, LI, LCid). The method includes determining a size allocated to at least one field of the set based at least in part on a length of the protocol data unit. For example, the size allocated to a segmentation indication field (SEG) determined for a first length of the protocol data unit is lower than the one determined for a second length of the protocol data unit, where the second length being higher than said first length, where the segmentation indication indicates in how many segments the protocol data unit is subdivided.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2008Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignees: Koninklijke Philips N.V., Sharp CorporationInventors: Paul Bucknell, Matthew Peter John Baker
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Patent number: 8953635Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) for sending feedback information is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines a primary cell (PCell) feedback parameter corresponding to a PCell. The UE also determines a secondary cell (SCell) feedback parameter corresponding to an SCell. The SCell feedback parameter is different from the PCell feedback parameter. The UE further performs Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) Format 1b channel selection based on the PCell feedback parameter and the SCell feedback parameter. The UE additionally sends Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information based on the channel selection.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada