Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8830439
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel using polymer network liquid crystal in which a monomer unreacted region is reduced and a thin-film transistor can be prevented from being irradiated with light energy. In the display panel, a black matrix (22a) is provided as an element having a light-shielding property in a first substrate (2a), a pixel electrode (37) and a thin-film transistor (32) serving as a switching element for driving the pixel electrode (37) are provided in a second substrate (3a), polymer network liquid crystal (11) is filled between the first substrate (2a) and the second substrate (3a), a cover portion (221) that is part of the black matrix (22a) provided in the first substrate (2a) faces the thin-film transistor (32) provided in the second substrate (3a), and the outer periphery of the cover portion (221) is located outside the outer periphery of a channel region by a specified dimension or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isao Asako, Yukinori Nakagawa, Hiromi Nishino, Shinji Shimada
  • Patent number: 8829196
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods that modulate at least one TRP family member. Specifically, the present invention relates to novel TRPA1 antagonists and their use in the treatment of pain such as chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Compounds that can modulate one or more TRPA1 functions are useful in many aspects including, but not limited to, maintaining calcium homeostasis; maintaining sodium homeostasis; modulating intracellular calcium levels; modulating membrane polarization (membrane potential); modulating cation levels; and/or treating or preventing diseases, disorders, or conditions associated with calcium homeostasis, sodium homeostasis, calcium or sodium dyshomeostasis, or membrane polarization/hyperpolarization (including hypo and hyperexcitability), and/or treating or preventing diseases, disorders, or conditions associated with regulation or misregulation of TRPA1 expression or function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Mark T. Bilodeau, Melissa Egbertson, Ahren Green, John C. Hartnett, Yiwei Li
  • Patent number: 8829517
    Abstract: A TFT substrate (20a) includes: an insulating substrate (10a); a plurality of source terminals (15) located on the insulating substrate (10a); and a first terminal cover (24) covering part of each of the source terminals (15) and made of an oxide semiconductor. The first terminal cover (24) is removed in a region R between adjacent ones of the source terminals (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hara, Yukinobu Nakata
  • Patent number: 8830497
    Abstract: Image forming apparatus communicates with a server computer and obtains information related to state of power supply from the server computer. Based on the obtained information, the image forming apparatus determines whether or not it is in a time zone of peak power consumption. If it is determined to be the time zone of peak power consumption, a method of counting the number of outputs is switched to a weighted counting method, for counting with weight added to the normal counting method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirotaka Kodama
  • Patent number: 8830388
    Abstract: In order to attain an optical module which can prevent a foreign object from intruding into the optical module, a camera module includes a top surface section having an opening for allowing light to pass through the opening into the optical module; and a glass substrate for sealing the opening, the glass substrate being adhered to the top surface section, the top surface section including a projection section which projects to abut on the glass substrate, the projection section being formed to surround the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuo Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8827474
    Abstract: A display devices includes a light diffusing sheet and a display section. The display section includes a backlight section, and a liquid crystal panel that serves as a liquid crystal display element section. The backlight section includes a light source such as a light emitting diode or a cold-cathode tube, and a light guide plate for guiding, to the liquid crystal display element section, light which is emitted from the light source and is subjected to internal reflection. The light diffusing sheet is configured by forming, on a substrate, a plurality of light diffusing sections each having an inverse tapered shape. In the display device, the light diffusing sheet is provided on a front surface of the display section such that the substrate is located on a light exit surface side of the light diffusing sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Emi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Toru Kanno
  • Publication number: 20140247397
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 10 of the present invention includes: LEDs 22; LED substrates 24 to which the LEDs 22 are attached; a liquid crystal panel 11 where display is performed using light from the LEDs 22; a light guide plate 16 that is arranged so as to overlap the side of the liquid crystal panel 11 opposite to the display surface, the edge faces of the light guide plate facing the LEDs 22; a chassis 14 arranged on the side of the light guide plate 16 opposite to the liquid crystal panel 11; a frame 13 arranged on the display surface side of the liquid crystal panel 11 and housing the LEDs 22, LED substrates 24, liquid crystal panel 11, and light guide plate 16 between the chassis 14 and the frame itself; and heat dissipating members 18 with heat dissipating characteristics that are respectively arranged abutting the LED substrates 24 and that are held between the frame 13 and the chassis 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ozeki
  • Publication number: 20140247794
    Abstract: A mobile station (MS) receives a parameter used for configuring PUCCH resources, the PUCCH resources being configured on an uplink component carrier (UCC) on which HARQ control information is transmitted on a PUCCH; determines a first PUCCH resource on the UCC for a first PDSCH transmission indicated by a detection of a first PDCCH in a sub-frame on a first downlink component carrier (DCC), the first PUCCH resource being determined based on a control channel element of the first PDCCH; determines a second PUCCH resource on the UCC for a second PDSCH transmission indicated by a detection of a second PDCCH in the sub-frame on a second DCC, the second PUCCH resource being determined from the PUCCH resources which are configured; and transmits information bits using one of the first or the second PUCCH resource, the information bits being used for indicating the HARQ control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi AIBA, Shohei YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20140248279
    Abstract: Novel methods and drug products for treating autoimmune ocular inflammatory disease are disclosed, which involve administration of agents that antagonize one or both of IL-17 and IL-23 activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., The Government of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of
    Inventors: Daniel J. Cua, Robert A. Kastelein, Van T. Tsai, Rachel Caspi, Phyllis Silver, Dror Luger
  • Publication number: 20140246082
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stacked body for manufacturing a compound semiconductor solar battery, wherein a first etching stop layer (103) and a semiconductor stacked body (10) including at least one pn junction are arranged in this order on a semiconductor substrate (100), the semiconductor stacked body (10) has a contact layer (104) at a position in contact with the first etching stop layer, and the first etching stop layer (103) and the contact layer (104) contain a group V element of the same type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Juso, Naoki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140247881
    Abstract: A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiran MISRA, Christopher A. SEGALL
  • Publication number: 20140247741
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is described. A measurement configuration is received from an evolved NodeB (eNB). The measurement configuration comprises a measurement object in a carrier frequency and the measurement object comprises a set of channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configurations. A measurement is performed based on a cell-specific reference signal (CRS). A measurement is performed based on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based on the measurement configuration. A measurement report is generated in a radio resource control (RRC) layer. The measurement report is sent to the eNB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20140248817
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device provided with a thin-film electronic circuit 11 includes: forming the thin-film electronic circuit 11 having a glass substrate 21 that is temporarily attached to a support member 23 by thinning the glass substrate 21 through etching while the glass substrate 21 is temporarily attached to the support member 23; attaching the thin-film electronic circuit 11 that is temporarily attached to the support member 23 to a display panel; and peeling off the support member 23 from the thin-film electronic circuit 11 attached to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mikihiro Noma, Tomotoshi Tsujioka, Minoru Mayumi, Takatoshi Kira, Hiroki Makino, Gen Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20140246982
    Abstract: A display device (100) includes a sensor (6A) which measures luminance of light emitted from a display region at an A side of a display section (5), a sensor (6B) which measures luminance of light emitted from a display region at a B side of the display section (5), and an operation section (7) which, in accordance with a result of the measurement by the sensors (6A) and (6B), decreases luminance of an LED (4A) or LED (4B) which illuminates a display region from which light with higher luminance is emitted, and/or increases luminance of an LED (4A) or LED (4B) which illuminates a display region from which light with lower luminance is emitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryoh Araki, Shigenori Tanaka, Yoshinobu Hirayama, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20140247259
    Abstract: In a case where two-lines simultaneous writing is carried out in a CS control pixel-division-type liquid crystal panel including: a first scanning signal line and a second scanning signal lines (G2, G3) which are adjacent to each other; a third scanning signal line (G49) which is not adjacent to the first scanning signal line; and a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel connected to the first scanning signal line, the second scanning signal line, and the third scanning signal lines, respectively, the first pixel receives a data signal from the first data signal line, the second and third pixels receive a data signal from the second data signal line, and the first and third scanning signal lines (G2, G49) are simultaneously selected. This makes it possible to suppress transverse lines of display unevenness of a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuaki Hirata
  • Publication number: 20140247396
    Abstract: A display section (2) includes: a display-end path switching section (50) for detecting, within a LAN, a tuner section (1) with use of a pairing ID which is obtained for establishing communication via a communication path (a) and which is generated with use of a MAC address of the tuner section (1); and a display-end connection processing section (52) for establishing communication with the tuner section (1) via a communication path (c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Ohmae, Shinichi Katoh, Fumiaki Suzuki, Yohichi Eguchi, Seiji Imanishi, Takaomi Fujimoto, Yoshinori Moto, Kazuma Naito, Atsushi Hanzawa
  • Publication number: 20140247465
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral of the present invention includes: a display section that displays an information display screen; a storage section that stores information display screen setting data including default conditions for preparing the information display screen; and an information display screen preparation section that prepares the information display screen on the basis of the information display screen setting data, the information display screen preparation section (i) changing, in accordance with an instruction received from the server, at least one of the default conditions included in the information display screen setting data, and (ii) causing the display section to display the information display screen prepared on the basis of the information display screen setting data including the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihiko TSUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140247882
    Abstract: A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiran MISRA, Christopher A. SEGALL
  • Publication number: 20140247796
    Abstract: In a communication system in which a base station apparatus and a terminal apparatus communicate with each other, a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication system with which the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus can efficiently communicate with each other are provided. The terminal apparatus that communicates with the base station apparatus includes a radio resource control section 6011 that configures a plurality of uplink physical channels and that configures an uplink power control-related parameter for each of the plurality of uplink physical channels in accordance with information included in a radio resource control (RRC) signal and a transmission power control section 6015 that sets transmission power of the uplink physical channels on the basis of the uplink power control-related parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shoichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura
  • Patent number: 8826333
    Abstract: Provided are a video display device and a video display method, by which a user can easily select a program to be watched even if a numerical keypad is not provided in a remote control device. A display portion displays a video of a program. While the video of the program is displayed on the full screen of the display portion, an operation detection portion detects a rotational operation of a dial provided in a remote control device. When the rotational operation is detected by the operation detection portion, a control portion functions so that while the video of the program is displayed on the display portion, a program list including a plurality of program items associated with different programs is displayed on the display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takaomi Fujimoto