Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Anti-ADDL antibodies and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8889138
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies that differentially recognize multi-dimensional conformations of A?-derived diffusible ligands, also known as ADDLs. The antibodies of the invention can distinguish between Alzheimer's Disease and control human brain extracts and are useful in methods of detecting ADDLs and diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease. The present antibodies also block binding of ADDLs to neurons, assembly of ADDLS, and tau phosphorylation and are there useful in methods for the preventing and treating diseases associated with soluble oligomers of amyloid ? 1-42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Northwestern University
    Inventors: Paul Acton, Zhiqiang An, Andrew J. Bett, Robert Breese, Elizabeth Chen Dodson, Gene Kinney, William L Klein, Mary P. Lambert, Xiaoping Liang, Paul Shughrue, William R. Strohl, Kirsten Viola, Lei Chang
  • Devices for reporting uplink information
    Patent number: 8891402
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for reporting information is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE selects a reference cell having a reference uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration. The UE also selects a first uplink subframe from the reference cell. The UE further selects a first subframe set from a first cell having a first UL-DL configuration. The first UL-DL configuration is different than the reference UL-DL configuration. The UE additionally determines a first set of associations between the first subframe set and the first uplink subframe. The UE further aggregates information corresponding to the reference cell and information corresponding to the first cell based on the first set of associations to produce aggregated information. The UE also reports the aggregated information on an uplink reporting cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada, Ahmad Khoshnevis, John M. Kowalski
  • Power control device, backlight unit, and liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 8890909
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power control device, which generates PWM signals corresponding to obtained voltage signals, and which performs PWM control of power to be supplied to a load. The power control device is provided with a sampling section that performs sampling of the voltage signals, and a duty factor updating section, which updates the duty factor of the PWM signals on the basis of the sampling results. The sampling section is prevented from performing sampling during a masking period which is set as the on-period or the off-period of the PWM signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shouichi Fukutoku
  • Image forming system and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8891095
    Abstract: An image forming system contains a multifunctional printer that has a plurality of functional units and is capable of controlling transition to a power saving mode for each functional unit. Further, the image forming system includes personal computers and a server. The server, in the power saving mode, sets one or more functional units that are determined to be switched over to the power saving mode from among the plurality of functional units based on time entry, log-in states of users to the personal computers, and a history of past usage of the multifunctional printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisuke Fujiki, Toshiyuki Taniuchi
  • Adaptive filtering based upon boundary strength
    Patent number: 8891634
    Abstract: Adjacent regions are identified in an image. Coding parameters for the adjacent regions are identified. Selective filtering is performed at the region between the identified adjacent regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shijun Sun, Shawmin Lei, Hiroyuki Katata
  • Image forming apparatus and image forming method including an alarm that, under a predetermined condition, indicates that a front side and a back side of the recording paper are inverted
    Patent number: 8891988
    Abstract: An image forming portion has a transfer portion for transferring a toner image formed on an image carrier onto the recording paper, and a fixing portion for heating and compressing the recording paper on which the toner image is transferred to fix the toner image to the recording paper. A control portion controls to heat and compress the recording paper by the fixing portion without performing transfer of the toner image by the transfer portion to smooth the recording paper under predetermined condition. At this time, the control portion is able to set variably the number of times to pass through the fixing portion without performing transfer of the toner image onto the recording paper and pressure force when the recording paper passes through the fixing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Takahashi, Tsutomu Yoshimoto, Shuhji Fujii
  • Lighting device, display device and television device
    Patent number: 8888308
    Abstract: It is an object of present invention to improve wiring workability in a lighting device and to prevent the entry of dust or the like into the device. A backlight unit according to the present technology includes a chassis having hole portions, LEDs housed in the chassis as light sources, relaying and connecting part electrically connected to the LEDs from outside the chassis through the hole portion and relaying electric power supply to the LEDs, and a covering member covering a clearance between the hole portions and the relaying and connecting parts inserted therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiki Takata
  • Image processing device converting a color represented by inputted data into a color within a color reproduction range of a predetermined output device and image processing method thereof
    Patent number: 8890884
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device. A first color space converting unit converts image data in an RGB colorimetric system, which has a color gamut wider than a color gamut of a liquid crystal panel into image data in an XYZ colorimetric system. A three-dimensional nonlinear color gamut converting unit performs conversion on tristimulus values of the XYZ signal. At this time, the image data is classified into four colors and converted respectively such that the first color is displayed in a color accurate to the inputted data, the second color is displayed such that saturation of the second color is increased, the third color is displayed using a color gamut of a predetermined range out of the color gamut of the liquid crystal panel, and the fourth color is displayed in a color corresponding to a boundary of the color gamut of the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Xiaomang Zhang
  • Heat exchanger and air conditioner having the heat exchanger mounted therein
    Patent number: 8887520
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (1) is provided with two header pipes (2, 3) arranged parallel to each other with a spacing therebetween, flat tubes (4) arranged between the header pipes (2, 3) and having refrigerant paths (5) provided therein and connected to the insides of the header pipes (2, 3), and corrugated fins (6) arranged between the flat tubes (4). That end of each corrugated fin (6) which is on that surface of the heat exchanger (1) which is on the side on which condensed water collects is made to protrude from ends of the flat tubes (4), and linear water leading members (10) are inserted between gaps (G) between the protrusions. The water leading members (10) are inserted from ends of the corrugated fins (6) toward the flat tube side into a range in which surface tension can act.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Madoka Ueno
  • Mold release treatment method, mold, method for producing anti-reflective film, mold release treatment device, and washing/drying device for mold
    Patent number: 8889220
    Abstract: A mold release treatment method of the present invention includes: the step of providing a mold releasing agent and a mold which has a porous alumina layer over its surface, the mold releasing agent containing a fluoric compound which has mold releasability and a solvent; the step of applying over the surface of the mold a solvent that is capable of dissolving the fluoric compound; and thereafter, the step of applying the mold releasing agent over the surface of the mold according to a spray coating method. According to the present invention, a mold release treatment can be performed over a surface of the mold which has the porous alumina layer over its surface, without causing uneven application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekazu Hayashi, Takao Imaoku
  • In-pixel ultrasonic touch sensor for display applications
    Patent number: 8890853
    Abstract: A video display is provided with a planar piezoelectric transmitter to transmit ultrasound signals, and a display panel including a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has a data interface to accept a video signal with a variable voltage associated with a range of light intensity values, and to supply a touch signal with a variable voltage derived from a range of reflected ultrasound signal energies. Each pixel is made up of a light device to supply light with an intensity responsive to the video signal voltage, and a storage capacitor to maintain a video signal voltage between refresh cycles. A piezoelectric transducer accepts a reflected ultrasound signal energy and maintains a touch signal voltage between refresh cycles. In one aspect, the storage capacitor and the piezoelectric transducer are the same device. The light device may be a liquid crystal (LC) layer or a light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Schuele, Themistokles Afentakis, John Hartzell
  • Lighting apparatus, headlamp, and mobile body
    Patent number: 8888342
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided that, while suppressing an increase in size, can change the illuminating direction. The lighting apparatus has: a laser generator which emits laser light; a light emitting member which is irradiated with the laser light emitted from the laser generator to emit light; an irradiated position changer which moves and thereafter stops an irradiated position at which the light emitting member is irradiated with the laser light; and a light projecting member which projects the light emitted from the light emitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Takahashi
  • Lighting device, display device and television receiver
    Patent number: 8888348
    Abstract: Provided is an illumination device that is capable of improving the utilization efficiency of light, while being lighter and thinner. This illumination device (10) is provided with: a light source (11) that emits ultraviolet light; a light guide plate (14) that guides the light from the light source; an optical member (15) placed between the light source and the light guide plate and that allows ultraviolet light emitted from the light source to pass through and that reflects visible light; and a fluorescent member (16) that is arranged between an ultraviolet light incident surface (15d) of the optical member and the light guide plate and that converts the ultraviolet light into visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kentaro Terashima
  • Display driving circuit, display device and display driving method
    Patent number: 8890856
    Abstract: A display driving circuit that carries out CC driving is configured such that retaining circuits are provided in such a way as to correspond one-by-one to their respective stages of a shift register, that a polarity signal CMI is inputted to each of the latch circuits, that when an internal signal Mn generated by a shift register at the nth stage becomes active, a latch circuit corresponding to the nth stage loads and retains the polarity signal CMI, that an output signal SRBOn from the shift register at the nth stage is supplied as a scanning signal to a gate line connected to pixels corresponding to the (n+1)th stage, and that an output from latch circuit corresponding to the nth stage is supplied as CSOUTn to a CS bus line forming capacitors with pixel electrodes of pixels corresponding to the nth stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Shige Furuta, Makoto Yokoyama
  • Coordinate sensor and display device
    Patent number: 8890804
    Abstract: The amount of the light emitted from a light-emitting diode is changed from that of the initial condition to increase, among the light sensors that are not shielded from the light emitted from the light-emitting diode, the number of the light sensors at which the difference (C?D) between the light detection amount at the light sensor when the light-emitting diode is ON and the light detection amount at the light sensor when the light-emitting diode is OFF is equal to the difference (A?B) between the light detection amount at the light sensor in the initial condition when the light-emitting diode was ON and the light detection amount at the light sensors in the initial condition when the light-emitting diode was OFF with no detection object present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Hata, Toshiaki Nakagawa, Toshiyuki Yoshimizu
  • Backlight unit and liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 8891040
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) of the present invention includes an edge light type backlight unit (10) and a liquid crystal panel (20). The backlight unit (10) includes a light guide plate (2) and a light source (1) that emits light to a light entrance end surface (2a) of the light guide plate (2). An opposite end surface (2b), of the light guide plate (2), which is opposite to the light entrance end surface (2a), is shaped to have one or more triangular shape(s) or one or more rounded shape(s) in a cross section both in a thickness direction of the light guide plate (2) and in a peak luminance direction of light from the light source (1). Light parallel to the peak luminance direction, which light is from the light source (1), is suitably reflected without being scattered by an inclined surface of the opposite end surface (2b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Hirayama, Shigenori Tanaka, Ryoh Araki
  • Substituted quinoxalines as inhibitors of fatty acid binding protein
    Patent number: 8889683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel quinoxaline compounds of Formula I: as Fatty Acid Binding Protein (“FABP”) inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the quinoxaline compounds and the use of the quinoxaline compounds for treating or preventing a cardiovascular disease, a metabolic disorder, obesity or an obesity-related disorder, diabetes, dyslipidemia, a diabetic complication, impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Clifford Cheng, Gerald W. Shipps, Jr., Xiaohua Huang, Ying Huang, Ning Shao, Ashwin Rao, Anandan Palani, Peter Orth, Johannes H. Voigt, Robert J. Herr, Lana Michele Rossiter, Qi Zeng, Xianfeng Sun
  • Display device and television receiver
    Patent number: 8891029
    Abstract: The display device includes a display unit, a front cabinet 3, and a back cabinet 4. The front cabinet 3 includes a front surface part 31, a peripheral surface part 32, and a protruding plate part 322. The back cabinet 4 includes a screw insert hole 42 and an extension part 41. The front cabinet 3 and the back cabinet 4 are coupled by fastening of a tapping screw 5 which is inserted into a screw insertion hole 42 from the rear side and tapped and screwed to the peripheral surface part 32 and the protruding plate part 322 or a tip surface of the protruding plate part 322, and by fitting of the extension part 41 to a gap 324 between the peripheral surface part 32 and the protruding plate part 322.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Yoshikazu Ichinari
  • Television set
    Patent number: D717753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhsuke Totsuka, Takeshi Kodera, Keiichi Takao, Daijiro Yamaguchi, Thomas Schaad
  • Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filtering in block based motion compensationed video coding
    Patent number: RE45250
    Abstract: Adjacent blocks are identified in an image. Coding parameters for the adjacent blocks are identified. Deblock filtering between the identified adjacent blocks is skipped if the coding parameters for the identified adjacent blocks are similar and not skipped if the coding parameters for the identified adjacent blocks are substantially different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shijun Sun, Shawmin Lei