Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20140332760
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming an epoxy-based planarization layer overlying an organic semiconductor (OSC) film. Generally, the method forms a fluoropolymer passivation layer overlying the OSC layer. A photopatternable adhesion layer is formed overlying the fluoropolymer passivation layer, and patterned. A photopatternable planarization layer, comprising an epoxy-based organic resin, is formed overlying the photopatternable adhesion layer and patterned to expose the fluoropolymer passivation layer. Then, the fluoropolymer passivation layer is plasma etched to expose the OSC layer. More explicitly, the method can be used to fabricate a bottom gate or top gate organic thin-film transistor (OTFT). Top gate and bottom gate OTFT devices are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Karen Nishimura, Lisa Stecker, Themistokles Afentakis, Kurt Ulmer
  • Publication number: 20140333563
    Abstract: A display device (110) is provided with a detection controller (122) that controls a detection device (130) such that detection is carried out within a horizontal blanking period for a display panel (112). An oxide semiconductor is used in the semiconductor layer for a TFT for each of the plurality of pixels provided in the display panel (112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akizumi Fujioka, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20140334391
    Abstract: A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) on a user equipment (UE) is described. A Type 2 channel state information (CSI) report is generated for a CSI reference resource. The Type 2 CSI report is sent to a base station. The Type 2 CSI report is computed from a channel measurement based on a non-zero power reference signal on a single subframe within a configured CSI-RS resource associated with a CSI process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmad Khoshnevis, Shohei Yamada, Zhanping Yin
  • Patent number: 8885067
    Abstract: A multocular image pickup apparatus includes: a distance calculation unit that calculates information regarding the distance to a captured object from an output video of a first image pickup unit, which is to be the reference unit of a plurality of image pickup units that pick up images, and from an output video of an image pickup unit that is different from the first image pickup unit; a multocular video synthesizing unit that generates synthesized video from the output video of the plurality of image pickup units based on the distance information for regions where the distance information could be calculated; and a monocular video synthesizing unit that generates synthesized video from the output video of the first image pickup unit for regions where the distance information could not be calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Seiichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8885183
    Abstract: An image forming system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an air cleaner for cleaning air, an image forming apparatus that is settable to a mode for economizing power, and a control unit that causes a display unit of the air cleaner to display an operating state of the image forming apparatus when the image forming apparatus is set to the mode for economizing power. An image forming system according to another embodiment of the present invention includes an image forming apparatus that prints an image on recording paper, an air cleaner that is for cleaning air, and is integrally attached to the image forming apparatus via a support member, and supported above the image forming apparatus by the support member, and a control unit that causes a display unit of the air cleaner to display an operating state of the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuhji Fujii, Kouji Miyake, Takateru Yamamoto, Takeshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8885350
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a holding member, a circuit board and a heat-transfer member. The display panel is configured to display images. The holding member holds the display panel. The circuit board arranged so as to face the holding member and connected to the display panel. The heat-transfer sheet is arranged between the circuit board and the holding member so as to be in contact with the circuit board and the holding member. The heat-transfer sheet has a circuit board fixing portion, a holding member fixing portion and flexible connection portions that make connections between the fixing portions. The circuit board fixing portion is attached to the circuit board and separated from the holding member. The holding member fixing portion is attached to the holding member and separated from the circuit board. Therefore, a display quality is less likely to decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hokshing Liu
  • Patent number: 8884922
    Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel and displays stereoscopic images with reducing its thickness and weight. The display device includes a liquid crystal display panel 20, a switching liquid crystal panel 30 and a touch panel 50. The switching liquid crystal panel 30 is provided on a display surface side of the display panel 20 and switches a display mode between two-dimensional display and three-dimensional display. The touch panel 50 is provided on the display surface side of the display panel 20. The touch panel 50 and the switching liquid crystal panel 30 commonly include one common board 32 and are configured as one component. A touch panel transparent electrode 51 and a switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrode 33 are provided on the common board 32. The switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrode 33 applies a voltage to liquid crystals of the switching liquid crystal panel 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hamada, Akira Imai, Tomoo Takatani
  • Patent number: 8885612
    Abstract: When performing a handover from an access network B to an access network A, a UE 10 transmits an attach request to an MME 30. MME 30 establishes a bearer on a first access network based on the attach request. UE 10 requests MME 30 to establish a specific bearer that guarantees the necessary QoS for a flow. MME 30 receives the request for establishment of a specific bearer, establishes a specific bearer that guarantee the QoS for the flow and sets up a path for performing communication of the flow between UE 10 and a PGW 20. This enables the mobile station to select a specific flow among a plurality of flows and be directly handed over to the bearer communication path when the mobile station performs a handover, thus providing a mobile communication system and the like that can realize a handover while maintaining communication quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masafumi Aramoto, Hirokazu Naoe
  • Patent number: 8883801
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compounds of Formula (I) as inhibitors of mammalian Target Of Rapamycin (mTOR) kinase, which is also known as FRAP, RAFT, RAPT or SEP. The compounds may be used in the treatment of cancer and other disorders where mTOR is deregulated. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Lianyun Zhao, Duan Liu, Shuyi Tang, Amit K. Mandal, Umar Faruk Mansoor, Lalanthi Dilrukshi Vitharana, Panduranga Adulla P. Reddy, M. Arshad Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 8885018
    Abstract: A display comprises a parallax optic (2), such as a combined parallax barrier and lens array, and a pixellated display device (1). The pixels of the display device (1) are arranged as groups cooperating with a parallax element (4) of the parallax optic (2). Each group comprises a first pixel (A) aligned with the centre of the parallax element (4), second and third pixels (B, C) on either side of the first pixel (A), and fourth pixels (D) shared with adjacent groups and disposed outside the second pixels (B, C). The parallax elements (4) make the different pixels of each group visible in different viewing regions. A control arrangement selects regions of the display and selects different combinations of the pixels of each group for image display within respective regions so as to provide simultaneously-present different viewing modes having different viewing range characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nathan James Smith, Benjamin John Broughton, Lesley Anne Parry-Jones, Jonathan Mather, Harry Garth Walton
  • Patent number: 8884840
    Abstract: A multi-display system includes a test pattern display controller that causes a test pattern to be displayed in a predetermined display region on a periphery of an LCD module of each image display device, an optical transmitting unit that constitutes a plurality of transmission channels each capable of transmitting an emitted light from each of the display regions, a spectral radiance sensor that detects spectral characteristics of the emitted light transmitted by each of the transmission channels, and an adjustment unit that adjusts, based on the spectral characteristics detected by the spectral radiance sensor, luminance and chromaticity of the image display device having the LCD module that has outputted the emitted light having the spectral characteristics so that the difference from luminance and chromaticity of the adjacent image display devices decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8885496
    Abstract: A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) on a user equipment (UE) is described. A number of bits for a channel quality indicator and/or a precoding matrix index and/or a rank indication (CQI/PMI/RI) is obtained. A number of component carriers with hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) reporting is also obtained. A total number of HARQ-ACK bits is further obtained. A number of HARQ-ACK bits that can be carried on the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined. Bundling is performed on the total number of HARQ-ACK bits to be reported to fit the total number of HARQ-ACK bits to be reported into the number of HARQ-ACK bits that can be carried on the PUCH. A backward compatible PUCCH format is used to simultaneously carry the CQI/PMI/RI bits and the HARQ-ACK bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 8885187
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a server computer and a plurality of image processing apparatuses communicable with the server computer. The server computer has a function of causing the plurality of image processing apparatuses to execute one job in a shared manner, and if power supply/demand situation is good, it causes the plurality of image processing apparatuses to execute one job in a shared manner, and if the power supply/demand situation is tight, it excludes at least one of the image processing apparatuses and causes the remaining image processing apparatuses to execute one job in a shared manner. This reduces power consumption of the image processing system while it is possible to cause a plurality of image processing apparatuses to execute one job such as a cluster printing job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryoh Hamada
  • Patent number: 8883850
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to naphthalene carboxamide compounds of formula (I) which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheimers disease, schizophrenia, pain or sleep disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and to the use of the compounds and compositions in the treatment of diseases mediated by the M1 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Douglas C. Beshore, Christina Ng DiMarco, Scott D. Kukuk
  • Patent number: 8882918
    Abstract: A vapor deposition apparatus (50) includes: a mask unit (54) including a vapor deposition source (70), a vapor deposition mask (60), and a mask holding member (80); a substrate holder (52); and at least either a mask unit moving mechanism (55) or a substrate moving mechanism (53), with a roller (83) provided in a surface of one of (A) the substrate holder (52) and (B) the mask holding member (80) which faces the other one of (A) the substrate holder (52) and (B) the mask holding member (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawato, Satoshi Inoue, Tohru Sonoda
  • Patent number: 8883810
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to benzoquinazolinone compounds of formula (I) which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, pain or sleep disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and to the use of the compounds and compositions in the treatment of diseases mediated by the M1 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Scott D. Kuduk, Douglas C. Beshore, Christina Ng Di Marco, Thomas J. Greshock
  • Patent number: 8885127
    Abstract: A first substrate includes a wiring layer formed on a support substrate, and an insulating film covering the wiring layer on the support substrate and having a surface which is located opposite to the support substrate and partially and directly covered with an alignment film. As seen perpendicularly to (i.e. as seen in the direction of the normal to) a surface of the support substrate, a recess portion formed on the insulating film at least partially overlaps the wiring layer. A bank of the recess portion has such a shape that a tangent plane of the bank increases in inclination toward the support substrate as the tangent plane is shifted toward a bottom of the recess portion, and supports an edge end of the alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohsuke Kanzaki, Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 8881891
    Abstract: A belt unit is provided with an endless belt, a driving roller, and a pair of guide ribs. The driving roller is disposed on an inner peripheral surface side of the endless belt and drives the endless belt. The pair of guide ribs is placed on each opposite widthwise end of the inner peripheral surface of the endless belt and contacts both end faces of the driving roller, thus preventing meandering of the endless belt. Additionally, the driving roller is equipped with a low friction region at both opposite lengthwise ends in a predetermined width and the low friction region is configured to have a friction coefficient that is lower than a friction coefficient of a region adjacent to the low friction region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumito Mizoguchi, Masashi Hirai, Toshiki Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 8884297
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a microcrystalline silicon film includes the steps of forming a first microcrystalline silicon film over an insulating film by a plasma CVD method under a first condition; and forming a second microcrystalline silicon film over the first microcrystalline silicon film under a second condition. As a source gas supplied to a treatment chamber, a deposition gas containing silicon and a gas containing hydrogen are used. In the first condition, a flow rate of hydrogen is set at a flow rate 50 to 1000 times inclusive that of the deposition gas, and the pressure inside the treatment chamber is set 67 to 1333 Pa inclusive. In the second condition, a flow rate of hydrogen is set at a flow rate 100 to 2000 times inclusive that of the deposition gas, and the pressure inside the treatment chamber is set 1333 to 13332 Pa inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sachiaki Tezuka, Yasuhiro Jinbo, Toshinari Sasaki, Hidekazu Miyairi, Yosuke Kanzaki, Masao Moriguchi
  • Patent number: 8885103
    Abstract: The present display device is a display device in which a display unit is provided with a first area (MAR) that displays a first picture and a second area (SAR) that displays a second picture, and is equipped with a first illumination unit that illuminates the first area with light and a second illumination unit that illuminates the second area with light, wherein power supply to the first illumination unit and power supply to the second illumination unit are controlled separately. Thus, it is possible to reduce power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Fujiwara, Tomohiro Kimura, Akiko Miyazaki, Toshiharu Kusumoto