Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20140354712
    Abstract: A display device that adopts a field sequential method and that is capable of achieving desired luminance while suppressing mixing of colors is provided. With respect to display of each color by a liquid crystal display device adopting a field sequential method, a period is provided for which light sources of each color remain turned on until a turning-off delay time has elapsed since an end timing of a subframe period. The turning-off delay time relating to LEDs for which an off state begins in a preceding subframe period is configured in such a way as to be shorter than a turning-on delay time relating to LEDs for which an on state begins in a succeeding subframe period. As a result, an all-off period, in which LEDs of all colors are in the off state, is provided between on periods of two colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunori Ake
  • Publication number: 20140353705
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting element includes a transparent substrate that transmits light emitted from said semiconductor light emitting element and a multi-layered structure formed on the transparent substrate. The multi-layered structure includes a semiconductor multi-layered film consisting of an n-type layer, an MQW light emitting layer and a p-type layer. The transparent substrate includes a light scattering structure formed in the transparent substrate for scattering the light that entered the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamikawa, Masaaki Katoh, Tetsuya Hanamoto
  • Patent number: 8902157
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Kimura, Kunihisa Chiba, Kazuyuki Ogida
  • Patent number: 8901139
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Tricyclic Indole Derivatives, compositions comprising at least one Tricyclic Indole Derivatives, and methods of using the Tricyclic Indole Derivatives for treating or preventing a viral infection or a virus-related disorder in a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Srikanth Venkatraman, Anilkumar Gopinadhan Nair, Kevin X. Chen, Francisco Velazquez, Qingbei Zeng, Duan Liu, Yueheng Jiang, Joseph A. Kozlowski, F. George Njoroge, Stuart B. Rosenblum, Stephen J. Gavalas, Patrick A. Pinto, Oleg B. Selyutin, Bancha Vibulbhan
  • Patent number: 8901560
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate of a display device of the present invention includes a glass substrate (30), a plurality of connection terminals (41) formed on the surface of the glass substrate and arranged in parallel with one another at an equal interval, and an interlayer insulating film (38) covering the plurality of connection terminals. The edge of the interlayer insulating film is so formed that tips of the plurality of connection terminals are exposed. An opening (50) is formed along the edge of the interlayer insulating film between two adjacent connection terminals. It is possible to avoid formation of pixel electrode material residue near the edge of the interlayer insulating film when a pixel electrode is formed by photo-etching through the formation of a pixel electrode material layer and a photosensitive resist layer on the interlayer insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yamada, Daisuke Fuse
  • Patent number: 8901804
    Abstract: In an organic EL illumination device (1), a plurality of organic EL elements (4) are provided between an element substrate (30) and a covering substrate (20). A heat dissipation member (14) which covers surfaces of the organic EL elements (4) is provided in a space formed between the element substrate (30) and the covering substrate (20), between each organic EL element (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Emi Yamamoto, Hidenori Ogata, Yoshimasa Fujita, Makoto Yamada
  • Patent number: 8902149
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for controlling power consumption with a power controlling display device. Some aspects relate to a power controlling display device that receives a notification of a power control event that may control internal display components as well as connected power consuming devices. Some aspects relate to methods and systems for automatically compensating a displayed image when display backlight levels are modified in response to a power control event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Joseph Kerofsky
  • Patent number: 8902319
    Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus includes: a basic movement level finding section for detecting a movement level of a video image; a timing controller for dividing one frame period into a plurality of periods containing a sub-frame A period and a sub-frame B period; a sub-frame A image signal generating section for subjecting, to a smoothing process, image signals which are supplied to pixels, in the sub-frame A period, in accordance with the movement level of the video image; a sub-frame B image signal generating section for subjecting, to an emphasizing process, image signals which are supplied to pixels, in the sub-frame B period, in accordance with the movement level of the video image; and an applied movement level finding section for finding, from a movement level of a video image of a current frame period and a movement level of a video image of a previous frame period, an applied movement level which is applied to the sub-frame A image signal generating section and/or the sub-frame B image signal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Ishihara
  • Patent number: 8902824
    Abstract: Data is transmitted from a radio communication device by selecting a signal dependent on data to be transmitted, transmitting to a radio communication station the selected signal as a random access transmission, deriving an identifier dependent on the data, and employing the identifier to identify a subsequently received signal intended for the radio communication device The data is received at a radio communication station by receiving the random access signal which is indicative of the data to be received, determining the data indicated by the random access signal, deriving an identifier dependent on the determined data, and including the identifier in a subsequent transmission from the radio communication station to identify the intended recipient of the subsequent transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Koninklijke Philips N.V., Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy J. Moulsley, Filippo Tosato, Matthew P. J. Baker
  • Patent number: 8900675
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a deposition method for forming a layer 13a containing a deposition material on a deposition target surface of a second substrate, comprising the steps of forming an absorbing layer 12 over one surface of a first substrate 11; forming a material layer 13 containing the deposition material over the absorbing layer; performing first heat treatment on the material layer from the other surface of the first substrate to a temperature lower than the sublimation temperature of the deposition material so as to remove an impurity 14 in the material layer 13; disposing the one surface of the first substrate and the deposition target surface of the second substrate to face each other; and performing second heat treatment on the material layer from the other surface of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Ibe, Tomoya Aoyama, Rena Tsuruoka, Satoshi Inoue, Tohru Sonoda
  • Patent number: 8902439
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral includes: a second storage section which stores state image data for causing a display section to display an image indicative of a state of the multifunction peripheral; and a device control section which generates a URL indicative of a location of the state image data. A web browser section obtains the state image data indicated by the URL from the second storage section in accordance with operation screen data including the URL generated by the device control section, so as to cause an operation screen including a state image represented by the state image data to be displayed in the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 8902140
    Abstract: Separating partition walls, demarcating regions forming adjacently color conversion layers having different chromaticities that are stacked and arranged by an inkjet method, have at least one incision in tip faces of both length-direction end portions extended outside the screen region. A color conversion filter panel can be provided having separating partition wall structures which, when forming color conversion layers using an inkjet method, can prevent color mixing of inks between adjacent color conversion layers at length-direction end portions of the separating partition walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukinori Kawamura, Kohichi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8902373
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention includes an active matrix substrate (120); a counter substrate (140); and a liquid crystal layer (160). Each of pixels (P) includes sub pixels (Spa, Spb) respectively having liquid crystal capacitances (CLa, CLb) and storage capacitances (CCa, CCb). A gate bus line (Lg) includes gate lines (Lga, Lgb) electrically connected to gates of thin film transistors (130a, 130b) and a connection line (Lgc) for electrically connecting the gate line (Lga) and the gate line (Lgb) to each other. A sub pixel electrode (124a) strides over the gate line (Lga), and a sub pixel electrode (124b) strides over the gate line (Lgb). Owing to this, change of a parasitic capacitance caused by an alignment shift between the sub pixel electrode and the gate bus line is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8902192
    Abstract: The touch sensor system includes: a touch panel having a two-dimensional region made up of a hand placing region and a remainder region; a hand placing region processing section for carrying out a process related to the hand placing region in accordance with a hand placing region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the hand placing region; and a drawing input processing section for carrying out a drawing input process in accordance with a remainder region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the remainder region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Shinichi Yoshida, Manabu Yumoto, Kengo Takahama
  • Patent number: 8901860
    Abstract: A photovoltaic apparatus according to the present invention includes a photovoltaic module and a tracking control device. The photovoltaic module includes a plurality of series portions coupled in parallel. The series portion includes a plurality of photovoltaic elements coupled in series. The photovoltaic elements coupled in a same straight row of the plurality of series portions are coupled parallel to one another. The tracking control device is configured to perform a maximum power point tracking control on an output of the photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic module includes a temperature sensor that detects a real panel temperature that is a panel temperature when the photovoltaic module is operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Yaoi, Kohtaroh Kataoka, Masatomi Harada, Kohichiroh Adachi, Yoshiji Ohta, Hiroshi Iwata
  • Patent number: 8902200
    Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel having sense lines, and drive lines which intersect the sense lines and form capacitance with the sense lines, a touch panel controller for processing signals of the sense lines, and a drive line driving circuit for driving the drive lines in parallel. The touch panel controller includes a subtracting section for finding differences in signals between the sense lines adjacent to each other, a decoding section for calculating a distribution of differences between the capacitances by calculating an inner product of code sequences for driving the drive lines in parallel and difference output sequences which correspond to the code sequences, a touch detecting section for obtaining touch information based on the distribution of differences between the capacitances calculated by the decoding section, and a region setting section for setting an effective region in the touch panel based on the touch information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Shinichi Yoshida, Akira Nishioka, Manabu Yumoto, Kengo Takahama
  • Patent number: 8902410
    Abstract: An optical ranging device has a light emitting element, a light receiving element, a light emitting lens, and a light receiving lens. Provided between the light receiving lens and the light receiving element are a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface for changing a direction of an optical axis of a light beam condensed by the light receiving lens and guiding the light beam to the light receiving element. A single medium exists between the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Wada
  • Patent number: 8901512
    Abstract: There is provided a particle detector that can increase a detection sensitivity to fluorescence emitted from biogenic particles. A particle detector for detecting biogenic particles includes a substrate having a principal surface and configured to collect the biogenic particles on the principal surface, a light emitting element configured to irradiate particles collected on the principal surface with excitation light, and a light receiving element configured to receive fluorescence emitted from the particles when the particles are irradiated with the excitation light from the light emitting element. An optical axis of the Fresnel lens and a ray direction of the excitation light intersect with each other. The principal surface is a mirror surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Fujita, Haruki Kamiyama, Kazushi Fujioka, Hiroki Okuno
  • Patent number: 8901591
    Abstract: There is realized a light-emitting device that emits, with high efficiency, white light with excellent color rendering index. A light-emitting device (1) of the present invention is a light-emitting device (1) for emitting white light, including at least a light-emitting element (2) for emitting blue light, an orange fluorescent material (13) which absorbs the blue light so as to emit orange light, and a green fluorescent material (14) which absorbs the blue light so as to emit green light, the orange fluorescent material (13) being a Ce-activated CaAlSiN3 fluorescent material in a solid solution crystal form in which Ce and oxygen are dissolved in a crystal having a composition of cCaAlSiN3.(1?c)LiSi2N3 where 0.2?c?0.8, and the orange fluorescent material (13) containing 2 weight % or more of Ce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Kohsei Takahashi, Hiroshi Fukunaga, Naoto Hirosaki
  • Patent number: 8901281
    Abstract: The present invention provides binding molecules that specifically bind to ILT3, e.g., human ILT3 (hILT3), on antigen presenting cells, such as for example, monocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells (DC), e.g., monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDDC). Various aspects of the invention relate to binding molecules, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Methods of using the binding molecules of the invention to detect human ILT3 or to modulate human ILT3 activity, either in vitro or in vivo, are also encompassed by the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Paul Ponath, Patricia Rao, Michael Rosenzweig, L. Mary Smith, Jose F. Ponte