Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20150006624
    Abstract: [Problem] A method by which a content-usage device connected to a network acquires a usable-service list from a server, and provides a service to a user on. the basis of the information shown on the service list, wherein it is not possible to change the services shown in response to conditions, and therefore the service does not conform to the user's needs and is not useful. [Solution] The present invention provides a content service system having a presentation-condition server device for transmitting presentation conditions for identifying a limited content list, the limited content list being a list of the part of the content, from a distributed content list, presented to the user on the content-usage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hajime Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150002381
    Abstract: In a case where a display device (1) receives an instruction to change a refresh rate of a display panel (2), the display device (1) changes the refresh rate with a timing with which there is a balance between the length of time for which positive source signals are written and the length of time for which negative source signals are written.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akizumi Fujioka, Toshihiro Yanagi, Taketoshi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20150000535
    Abstract: A cooking apparatus includes a bottomed-box-shaped container that contains an object; a discharging path through which at least part of hot air is discharged to the outside; an exhaust adjustment unit that adjusts the flow rate of discharge of the hot air through the discharging path; and a controlling unit that controls the exhaust adjustment unit, wherein the controlling unit controls the exhaust adjustment unit in such a manner that the flow rate of discharge of the hot air during a heating operation falls within a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro YOSHIDOME, Masayuki IWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150001788
    Abstract: A paper feeding device includes a pressing member, a restricting mechanism, and an interlocking mechanism. The pressing member is movable up and down between a pressing position and a release position. The pressing position causes a pressure to a paper sheet against the feed roller. The release position causes a release of the pressure. The restricting mechanism is movable between a restricting position and a removal position. The restricting position causes a restriction on moving up of the pressing member to the pressing position. The removal position causes a removal of the restriction. The interlocking mechanism is configured to move the restricting mechanism to the removal position in interlock with rotation of the feed roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji AOKI, Haruhisa FURUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150002800
    Abstract: This liquid crystal display panel (100A) includes: first and second substrates (10A, 20A) which are arranged to face each other with a liquid crystal layer (30A) interposed between them; a counter electrode (24) formed on one of the first and second substrates (10A, 20A); a first alignment film (16a) formed on one side of the first substrate (10A) to face the liquid crystal layer (30A); and a second alignment film (26a) formed on one side of the second substrate (20A) to face the liquid crystal layer (30A). In a pixel, the liquid crystal layer (30A) has a low-pretilt region (R1a) and a high-pretilt region (R2a) in which liquid crystal molecules (32) have mutually different pretilt angles. The counter electrode (24) includes a plurality of sub-counter electrodes which are electrically independent of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Hideki Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20150004726
    Abstract: A light-emitting device production method includes a positioning step of positioning, in a light-emitting element, a sealing member at least containing a silicone resin semi-cured at a room temperature (T0) by primary cross-linking and a fluorescent material, the silicone resin decreasing in viscosity reversibly in a temperature region between the room temperature (T0) and a temperature lower than a secondary cross-linking temperature (T1), and being totally cured non-reversibly in a temperature region equal to or higher than the secondary cross-linking temperature (T1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Konishi
  • Publication number: 20150003561
    Abstract: A multicarrier-signal transmitting apparatus sets a phase rotation amount for each subcarrier of a plurality of subcarrier groups, wherein the phase rotation amount being set with a setting among at least three settings. The settings being phase rotation amounts for subcarrier groups which each include a plurality of continuous subcarrier groups where each number of the continuous subcarrier groups included in each subcarrier group set is different from each other. Also, the multicarrier-signal transmitting apparatus adds, based on the phase rotation amount, a phase rotation to reference signals and a data signal of each subcarrier of the plurality of subcarrier groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimihiko IMAMURA, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Yasuyuki KATO, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20150002593
    Abstract: A light scanning device of the invention includes a scan deflection range of each of the light fluxes deflected by the deflecting part in a scan period of the scan object with the respective light fluxes is divided into a first deflection range where a reflection angle of each of the light fluxes with respect to the deflecting part is small and a second deflection range where the reflection angle is large. A polarization direction of each of the light fluxes is set such that a reflectivity of the reflective mirror when each of the light fluxes deflected in the second deflection range is reflected becomes larger than a reflectivity of the reflective mirror when each of the light fluxes deflected in the first deflection range is reflected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhiro SHIRAI, Takaharu MOTOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150003040
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes an excitation light source that emits excitation light; a first substrate which is disposed so as to face the excitation light source and on which a fluorescent layer and a first low-refractive-index layer are formed, the fluorescent layer being excited by the excitation light to emit fluorescence; and a barrier that surrounds side surfaces of the fluorescent layer, the side surfaces extending in a stacking direction of the excitation light source and the first substrate. At least a portion of the barrier that faces the fluorescent layer has a light-scattering property. The first low-refractive-index layer is located between the fluorescent layer and the first substrate. The first low-refractive-index layer has a refractive index lower than that of the first substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisanori Bessho, Mitsuhiro Koden, Akiko Iwata, Yoshimasa Fujita, Yuhki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20150002532
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a display device in which the occurrence of crosstalk can be suppressed. A display device (10) includes a display unit and a separation unit (34). The display unit displays a synthetic image formed by dividing each of a plurality of images that are different from one another and arraying the divisional images thus obtained in a predetermined order. The separation unit (34) separates the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image. The display unit includes a storage unit (54) and a correction unit (52). The storage unit (54) stores crosstalk levels used when gray scale level data of a pixel displaying an image that a viewer is supposed to see, among the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image, are corrected. The correction unit (52) corrects the gray scale level data of the pixel displaying the image that a viewer is supposed to see, by using the crosstalk levels stored in the storage unit (54).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Sone, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8919977
    Abstract: A lamp comprises a thin layer of phosphor (105,113) which is irradiated (46), for example by ultraviolet radiation, by a source which typically comprises a laser diode and a condenser (101,111). This causes the phosphor (105,113) to emit visible light with a Lambertion-type emission pattern. An optical system such as a reflector (102,115) concentrates the light from the phosphor (105,113). The phosphor (105,113) is thermally connected to a heatsink (103,116), of example by a plate (114) of sapphire glass, so as to dissipate the heat produced by the phosphor (105,113). The phosphor (105) may be mounted on a plane reflector (104) disposed on or comprising the heatsink (103) and facing a curved reflector (102) and the radiation source. Alternatively, the optical system may have an optical axis and the phosphor (113) may be substantially flat and inclined with the respect to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: David James Montgomery, James Rowland Suckling, Katsuhiko Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 8922473
    Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of correctly displaying an image when surplus outputs are produced within a driver, regardless of a shifting direction of a shift register within the driver, without bringing about increase in cost and increase in consumption current. A timing controller (200) is provided with a register (22) that can store data indicating the length of a horizontal back porch when a shifting direction of a shift register within a source driver (300) is in a forward direction and data indicating the length of the horizontal back porch when the shifting direction is in an inverse direction. A source-start-pulse generation unit (21) within the timing controller (200) refers to the data within the register (22) according to the shifting direction of the shift register, and generates one of a first source start pulse signal (SSP1) for the forward direction and a second source start pulse signal (SSP2) for the inverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihisa Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 8922724
    Abstract: Disclosed are active shutter glasses and a three-dimensional image recognition unit capable of visually recognizing a three-dimensional image with excellent display quality. The active shutter glasses are active shutter glasses for three-dimensional image recognition. The active shutter glasses comprise a right temple, a left temple, a right-eye lens, and a left-eye lens. The right-eye lens and the left-eye lens comprise liquid crystal cells. The right-eye lens and the left-eye lens have an inclination with respect to a state where the right-eye lens and the left-eye lens are arranged on the same plane, and are arranged on a surface orthogonal to a horizontal surface including the top surfaces of the right temple and the left temple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shun Ueki, Kozo Nakamura, Takahiro Nakahara
  • Patent number: 8923715
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a developing device having a developing vessel, a developing roller and a toner supply port; a toner supply device; a toner supply detecting sensor for detecting the toner concentration inside the developing vessel; a toner concentration controller for directing toner supply; a toner empty detector; and a sheet conveyance detecting sensor. The toner concentration controller has a toner supply device control function; and a toner supply stopping function of stopping toner supply when the last sheet of image printout being executed has passed by the predetermined position in the sheet conveyance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motoyuki Itoyama, Kiyofumi Morimoto, Takeshi Ohkawa, Tomoki Minamikawa
  • Patent number: 8923618
    Abstract: An expression, for which complementary information can be outputted, is extracted from a document obtained by character recognition for an image. Complementary information related to the extracted expression is outputted when a character or a symbol adjacent to the beginning or the end of the extracted expression is not a predetermined character or symbol. Output of complementary information related to the extracted expression is skipped when the character or symbol adjacent to the beginning or the end of the extracted expression is the predetermined character or symbol. A problem that complementary information unrelated to an original text is outputted is prevented even when a false character recognition occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Kutsumi
  • Patent number: 8924034
    Abstract: An energy management system includes a controller that receives a signal representative of current electrical generation. A storage source stores energy from the current electrical generation associated with the controller. The controller predicts the amount of storage of energy in said storage source over time, receives pricing information, includes a model of a temperature system of a building, and includes a comfort model of a user. The controller selects a desirable temperature based upon the current electrical generation, the stored energy, the pricing information, the building model, and the comfort model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin G. Deshpande, Louis Joseph Kerofsky
  • Patent number: 8922594
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for increasing the perceived brightness of an image. In some embodiments this increase compensates for a decrease in display light-source illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Joseph Kerofsky, Scott James Daly
  • Patent number: 8923717
    Abstract: A transfer device includes a plurality of primary transfer rollers, a second link member and a regulatory member. The regulatory member restrains the second link member from moving further than a predetermined position toward the second direction. The second link member causes the primary transfer rollers to be displaced as it moves. The second link member is split into a plurality of link arms of which overall length is variable within a predetermined range; and its joint portion includes an elastic member urging the plurality of link arms toward a direction to which the overall length gets longer in a state where the second link member is most separate from a cam shaft, and a first locking section and a second locking section engaging the plurality of link arms with one another for the overall length not to get longer beyond a maximum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideshi Izumi, Toshiki Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 8922604
    Abstract: An image display device (2) controls a backlight luminance on the basis of a plurality of areas corresponding to LEDs, which are defined by dividing an input image. To cause sides of each subscreen to coincide with sides of its corresponding area, a subscreen control section (10) included in the image display device (2) changes positions and sizes of subscreen input images Dv1 to Dv3 included in a multiscreen input image Dv, the positions and the sizes being determined by subscreen setting data Ds, which is setting information. As a result, the number of areas corresponding to each subscreen is reduced, so that the number of LEDs to be lit up is reduced without causing display failures, thereby achieving low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsunori Nakamura, Shigeki Imai
  • Patent number: 8923238
    Abstract: A mobile station (MS) transmits, to a base station (BS), uplink data on a PUSCH, the PUSCH is assigned by using a PDCCH. The MS receives, from the BS, a radio resource control signal including first information instructing the MS to periodically transmit first reception quality information (RQI), the radio resource control signal including second information for determining an amount of resources for second RQI transmitted on the PUSCH, and third information instructing the MS to transmit the second RQI on the PUSCH; and transmits, to the BS, 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 third information would occur at the same time, wherein the amount of resources for the second RQI is determined based on the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shohei Yamada, Hiroshi Katsuragawa