Patents Assigned to Sharp
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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
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Patent number: 8953982Abstract: A displacement mechanism for a secondary transfer unit (40) includes a first eccentric cam (71), a second eccentric cam (72) and a shaft member (73). The first eccentric cam (71) and the second eccentric cam (72) are in contact with either edge portion of the secondary transfer unit (40) in width direction of a primary transfer belt (31), and rotate in phase with each other. The shaft member (73) supports the first eccentric cam (71) and the second eccentric cam (72). The first eccentric cam (71) is configured in such a manner that any radius in a peripheral portion (711) is of magnitude not less than a radius at a segment of the second eccentric cam (72) that is in phase with a segment of the peripheral portion (711).Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Tachiki, Hideshi Izumi, Toshiki Takiguchi
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Patent number: 8953183Abstract: A multifunctional image forming apparatus includes: a communication device communicable with a server providing a service related to image formation with the user; a display operation device having a display function, for receiving a user operation; and an image forming unit for forming an image in response to a user instruction received through the display operation device. The multifunctional image forming apparatus receives an input operation by the user through the display operation device, displays a screen in accordance with the input operation and, in addition, executes a user registration process for the service provided by the server through communication with the server through the communication device, and displays a screen thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiro Mizoguchi, Atsushi Kurimoto
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Patent number: 8952949Abstract: Pixel electrodes (17a and 17b) are provided in a pixel (101), and the pixel (101) is associated with a data signal line (15x), scanning signal lines (16a and 16b), and transistors (12a and 12b). One pixel electrode (17a) is connected to the data signal line (15x) via the transistor (12a). The other pixel electrode (17b) is connected to the pixel electrode (17a) via a capacitor (C101) and is connected to the data signal line (15x) via the transistor (12b). Storage capacitance (Cha and Chb) is formed between the pixel electrodes (17a and 17b) of the pixel (101) and a scanning signal line (16d) associated with a pixel (100). Thus, a configuration of a liquid crystal display device of a capacitively coupled pixel division mode is proposed in which a decline in display quality caused by image sticking of a sub-pixel is less likely to occur.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshihide Tsubata
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Patent number: 8952880Abstract: A display panel drive circuit includes a shift register constructed of unit circuits connected in stages. The unit circuits generate signal line selection signals, respectively, which signal line selection signals are made active for a respective certain period of time to form a respective pulse, and the pulses are outputted successively from respective unit circuits in order of ordinal number starting from a first stage until an end stage. In at least one embodiment, each of the unit circuits receive (i) clock signals generated based on a sync signal received from outside of the display panel drive circuit, (ii) a start pulse signal generated based on the sync signal, or a signal line selection signal generated in a stage different from its own stage, and (iii) a clear signal. The clear signal is made active in a case where anomalousness is included in the sync signal, and no pulse is outputted from the shift register until a subsequent vertical scanning period starts.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Mizunaga, Hideki Morii, Akihisa Iwamoto, Masahiro Hirokane, Yuuki Ohta
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Patent number: 8952005Abstract: The present invention is directed to benzothiazol-one and thiazolo pyridine-one 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: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Mark E. Layton, Michael J. Kelly, III
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Patent number: 8950747Abstract: A recording paper conveying device includes a registration roller pair and a conveyor roller pair adjacent to the registration roller pair. By rotating the conveyor roller pair, a sheet of recording paper is fed until leading edge of the sheet abuts the registration roller pair in stationary state so that the sheet is deflected by a prescribed amount. Then, conveyor roller pair is rotated at the constant velocity, and while the sheet is kept deflected, rotation of the registration roller pair is started, to start feeding of the sheet by the registration roller pair. While the registration roller pair is kept rotating, rotation of the conveyor roller pair is suspended, and then, the conveyor roller pair is returned to the state of rotation before suspension. Thus, unnecessary deflection of the sheet just in front of the registration roller pair can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiteru Kikuchi, Kohji Aoki, Shinichi Azumi, Norichika Katsura, Yoshinori Shiraishi
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Patent number: 8951888Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes a first step of forming, on a first substrate, a first element region in which a plurality of elements are collectively arranged, a second step of relocating the plurality of elements formed on the first substrate to a holding member in the same arrangement as in the first element region to have the plurality of elements held on the holding member, a third step of rearranging the plurality of elements held on the holding member and having the plurality of elements held on an intermediate substrate, thereby forming a second element region having a shape different from a shape of the first element region on the intermediate substrate, and a fourth step of dispersing the plurality of elements held on the intermediate substrate and adhering the plurality of elements to a second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Katsuyuki Suga
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Patent number: 8951965Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel substituted aminotetrahydropyrans of structural formula I which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved, such as diabetes and particularly Type 2 diabetes. 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 the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Tesfaye Biftu, Ann E. Weber
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Patent number: 8952955Abstract: A display driving circuit for driving a liquid crystal display panel includes a shift register including a plurality of shift register circuits provided in such a way as to correspond to a plurality of gate lines, respectively, the display driving circuit having latch circuits provided in such a way as to correspond one-by-one to the shift register circuits, a polarity signal being inputted to the latch circuits. When a internal signal generated by a shift register circuit becomes active, a latch circuit loads and retains the polarity signal, and an output from the latch circuit is supplied to a CS bus line. The internal signal becomes active before a first vertical scanning period of a display picture.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Yokoyama, Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Shige Furuta
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Patent number: 8952001Abstract: The invention relates to amino-heteroaryl derivatives having the general Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, as well as to the use of these derivatives for the treatment of pain, such as neuropathic pain or inflammatory pain.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Simon James Anthony Grove, Angus John Morrison, Craig Jamieson, Ronald Palin, John Kinnaird Ferguson Maclean
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Patent number: 8952136Abstract: Antibodies which block binding of hPD-1 to hPD-L1 or hPD-L2 and their variable region sequences are disclosed. A method of increasing the activity (or reducing downmodulation) of an immune cell through the PD-1 pathway is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V.Inventors: Gregory John Carven, Hans Van Eenenneem, Gradus Johannes Dulos
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Patent number: 8953124Abstract: An optical system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a reflective imaging element having a first principal face which is struck by light emitted from a display panel, a second principal face parallel to the first principal face, and two mutually-orthogonal specular elements being perpendicular to the first principal face, and causes an image displayed on a display surface of the display panel to form an image at a position of planar symmetry with respect to the reflective imaging element as a plane of symmetry. A transparent substrate which is disposed on at least either the first principal face side or the second principal face side of the reflective imaging element is further included, and first light striking the transparent substrate is linearly polarized light, with a large proportion of p-polarized light.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kentarou Imamura, Shigeto Yoshida, Takafumi Shimatani, Hisashi Watanabe
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Patent number: 8951790Abstract: The present invention relates to the construction and utilization of a new mammalian expression vector that contains a unique multiple cloning site (MCS), designated pUHAB. The pUHAB vector comprises a high copy replication origin (ColE1), a drug resistance gene (TK-Hygromycin), and a human cytomegalovirus promoter operably associated with a unique intron (hCMV/intron). Further, pUHAB comprises a selectable marker conferring resistance to kanamycin in bacterial cells, and a phage f1(+) region. pUHAB can be used to transiently or stably express cloned genes when transfected into mammalian cells. The invention also encompasses kits and host cells and cell lines comprising pUHAB, and methods of producing a recombinant protein using pUHAB.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventor: Deba P. Saha
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Patent number: 8950884Abstract: A backlight is provided for a direct-view display. The backlight comprises a plurality of discrete light sources (11), such as light emitting diodes, spaced from a diffuser (5). The light sources are arranged as sets cooperating with a mirror structure (101), which surrounds the set to form a region. The regions substantially tessellate the area of the backlight. Each mirror structure (101) comprises a plurality of mirror segments which are curved and concave in cross-section perpendicular to the diffuser (5). The mirror segments extend from around the light sources (11) towards the diffuser (5). The edges of adjacent mirror segments of adjacent regions meet at a meeting line such that all of the meeting lines are at the diffuser (5) or between the diffuser (5) and the light sources (11).Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2008Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Oliver Andrew Charles Stevens, David James Montgomery
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Patent number: 8951024Abstract: An air blower includes a motor; a fan connected to an output shaft of the motor and rotatively driven by the motor; and a fan nut fixing the fan onto the output shaft of the motor, a diffusive substance is kept in the fan nut provided on the output shaft of the motor, and an ion generating unit is attached to a motor body concentrically with the output shaft. Therefore, the diffusive substance, positive ions and negative ions may be diffused without interrupting blowing and without harmfully affecting the air blowing function. Since the diffusive substance and the ion generating unit are provided inside a fan guard, an infant or the like may be prevented from touching them, and thus, the safety may be secured.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hikoya Ishii, Katsushi Morimoto
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Patent number: 8951439Abstract: A population of light-emissive nitride nanoparticles has a photoluminescence quantum yield of at least 10% and an emission spectrum having a full width at half maximum intensity (FWHM) of less than 100 nm. One suitable method of producing light-emissive nitride nanoparticles comprises a first stage of heating a reaction mixture consisting essentially of nanoparticle precursors in a solvent, the nanoparticle precursors including at least one metal-containing precursor and at least one first nitrogen-containing precursor, and maintaining the reaction mixture at a temperature to seed nanoparticle growth. It further comprises a second stage of adding at least one second nitrogen-containing precursor to the reaction mixture thereby to promote nanoparticle growth.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michael Alan Schreuder, Peter Neil Taylor
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Patent number: 8951816Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a film forming method comprising: arranging a surface of a film formation substrate 10 including an absorption layer 12 on a first substrate 11 and a material layer 13 containing a film formation material and a surface of a film-formation target substrate 20 including a first layer 23 over a second substrate 22, so as to face each other; forming a second layer 13a containing the film formation material over the first layer 23 by performing first heat treatment on the material layer 13; and forming a third layer 13b containing the film formation material over the second layer 13a by performing second heat treatment on the material layer 13. In the second heat treatment, energy with a density higher than that in the first heat treatment is applied to the material layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Rena Tsuruoka, Hisao Ikeda, Takuya Tsurume, Tohru Sonoda, Satoshi Inoue