Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20140221038
    Abstract: In a system including at least one base station device, the base station device efficiently controls uplink signals. A mobile station device includes a path loss calculation unit 4051 configured to calculate path losses, each based on one of a plurality of types of reference signals received by a reception processing unit 401, a transmit power setting unit 4053 configured to set a desired transmit power for an uplink signal using the path losses calculated by the path loss calculation unit 4051, and a power headroom control unit 4055 configured to generate a power headroom using the desired transmit power set by the transmit power setting unit 4053, the power headroom being information concerning transmit power to spare, and configured to control transmission of the power headroom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Yosuke Akimoto, Katsunari Uemura, Yasuyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20140218766
    Abstract: On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, a function selecting area and a preview area are displayed next to each other. On the function selecting area, a function setting menu is displayed in one display mode among an icon mode in which only a group of icons are displayed, a regular mode in which a group of icons and a group of texts are displayed, and an express mode in which a group of icons, a group of texts and a group of function setting buttons are displayed. In the icon mode, detailed preview information is displayed on a large preview area, and in the express mode, detailed function selecting information is displayed on a large function selecting area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minami Sensu, Yukari Ebi
  • Publication number: 20140218918
    Abstract: The present invention aims at mitigating a light guide member being peeled off and a display panel being damaged by stress exerted on an adhesive section or the like between the light guide members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Publication number: 20140217626
    Abstract: A lens molding apparatus (100) of the present invention includes: a mold (1) having a transfer surface (1a); a mold (2) having a transfer surface (2a); heating devices (3a and 3b) for curing, by heating, a resin material which is supplied to the transfer surface (1a) and against which the transfer surface (2a) is pressed; a pressure control section (6) for controlling a support device (4) so that the support device (4) applies a pressure on the resin material; and a DC power source (7) for forming an electric field by applying a voltage between the molds (1 and 2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakahashi, Hiroyuki Hanato
  • Publication number: 20140219227
    Abstract: A mobile station device that includes a receiving unit. The receiving unit of mobile station device receives using at least a first downlink component carrier and a second downlink component carrier which are aggregated, the receiving unit is configured to receive, a first physical downlink control channel for the mobile station device, on the first downlink component carrier, and a second physical downlink control channel for the mobile station device, on the second downlink component carrier, where both a first sequence including at least modulated symbols of the first physical downlink control channel and a second sequence including at least modulated symbols of the second physical downlink control channel are cyclically-shifted by a base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shoichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20140219675
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus 100 includes an intermediate transfer belt 21, a reading section 25, and an intermediate transfer unit 2 having a supplementary roller 26. The intermediate transfer belt 21 is passed over a drive roller 22 and an idle roller 23, and moves along a predetermined circulating path. The reading section 25 reads a concentration of a toner image from a surface of the intermediate transfer belt 21. The supplementary roller 26 is in contact with a rear face of the intermediate transfer belt 21 in such a manner that a gap between a reading face of the reading section 25 and the surface of the intermediate transfer belt 21 is kept constant. The supplementary roller 26 is disposed on a downstream side of the reading section 25 in a horizontal direction by a predetermined distance S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yudai TERAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140218667
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device provided with light fastness, stabilized alignment of liquid crystal, and excellent display quality by a polymer layer disposed on a photo-alignment film. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device in which at least one of a pair of substrates includes a polymer layer, a photo-alignment film, and an electrode in the stated order from a liquid crystal layer side; the photo-alignment film aligns liquid crystal molecules horizontally; a polarization transmission axis direction of a polarizing element in observation surface side of a liquid crystal cell is along an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules at a voltage lower than the threshold voltage; and a material constituting the photo-alignment film contains a material for aligning liquid crystal molecules in a direction crossing a polarization direction of polarized light by polarized light irradiated to the photo-alignment film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Miyachi, Isamu Miyake
  • Publication number: 20140219390
    Abstract: A multicarrier signal transmitting apparatus includes a rotation amount setting unit and a phase rotator. The rotation amount setting unit sets a phase rotation amount for each subcarrier of a plurality of subcarrier groups, where the phase rotation amount being set with a setting selected from a first setting being that the phase rotation amount is set for a first subcarrier group set which includes a plurality of continuous subcarrier groups and a second setting being that the phase rotation amount is set for a second subcarrier group set which includes a plurality of continuous subcarrier groups, where the number of the continuous subcarrier groups included in the first subcarrier group set is different from the number of the continuous subcarrier groups included in the second subcarrier group set. The phase rotator 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: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimihiko IMAMURA, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Yasuyuki KATO, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20140223383
    Abstract: This invention provides a remote control with a touch operation unit comprising multiple sensor elements disposed thereon, said remote control provided with functionality to discriminate which sensor elements are active according to, for example, the type of user interface. Specifically, the remote control has: a touch operation unit with multiple sensor elements disposed on a touch surface for the purpose of reading gestures; a first identification information acquisition unit that acquires first identification information, which is information that identifies the sensor element to make active in order to read the aforementioned gesture; and a gesture reading unit that reads the gesture using sensor signals from active sensor elements only.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Yarita, Keiichiro Sato, Takamasa Shimizu, Hiromichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20140221383
    Abstract: Compounds having the structures of Formula I, including pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds, are CETP inhibitors, and are useful for raising HDL-cholesterol, reducing LDL-cholesterol, and for treating or preventing atherosclerosis: In the compounds of Formula I, B or R2 is a phenyl group which has an ortho aryl, heterocyclic, benzoheterocyclic or benzocycloalkyl substituent, and one other position on the 5-membered ring has an aromatic, heterocyclic, cycloalkyl, benzoheterocyclic or benzocycloalkyl substituent connected directly to the ring or attached to the ring through a —CH2—.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Joann M. Napolitano, Qiaolin Deng, Zhijian Lu, Peter J. Sinclair, Gayle E. Hallet, Christopher F. Thompson, Nazia Quraishi, Cameron J. Smith, Julianne A. Hunt, Adrian A. Dowst, Yi-Heng Chen, Hong Li
  • Publication number: 20140218668
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which enables costs to be reduced, excels in productivity, and enables a high contrast ratio over a wide viewing angle range to be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Sakai
  • Publication number: 20140223292
    Abstract: An electronic book reader (1) includes an enlargement processing section (20) which determines, with reference to article management information (30), a scroll direction of a component to be displayed in an enlarged manner, and causes the component to be displayed in an enlarged manner in an enlarged-display area in which scrolling in the scroll direction thus determined is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Sakuta, Kazunori Ikeda, Azusa Umemoto
  • Publication number: 20140222961
    Abstract: A reproduction apparatus (100) includes a streaming control unit (110) configured to acquire a set of contents from N distribution apparatuses, and a reproduction unit (120) configured to reproduce the set of contents. The reproduction unit (120) reads out, for each distribution apparatus, a transmission delay that occurred when transmission from a distribution apparatus was performed by referring to a transmission delay history table (155), and the reproduction unit (120) derives a period with a length depending on the transmission delay. The reproduction unit (120) starts reproducing the set of contents after the contents are buffered for a period equal to the longest one of the derived periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Maki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140219318
    Abstract: A control station apparatus comprising a transmitter that is configured to transmit, to a terminal apparatus, information indicating an allocation method for allocating frequency signals to a plurality of subcarriers, where the information indicates a communication scheme which is one of Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) scheme and Clustered Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-OFDM (Clustered DFT-S-OFDM) scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Osamu NAKAMURA, Jungo GOTO, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Toshizo NOGAMI
  • Publication number: 20140218625
    Abstract: The backlight device (12) of the present invention is provided with: an LED (24); an LED substrate (25) on which the LED (24) is mounted; a reflective sheet (29) that reflects light from the LED (24), has a lens insertion hole (29d) into which the LED (24) is inserted, and is arranged so as to cover the mounting surface (25a1) of the LED (24) on the LED substrate (25); a first light-reflecting layer (30) that is formed in at least the portion of the mounting surface (25a1) of the LED substrate (25) that is inside the lens insertion hole (29d), and that reflects light from the LED (24); and a second light-reflecting layer (31) that is arranged in at least the portion of the mounting surface (25a1) of the LED substrate (25) that is inside the lens insertion hole (29d), has a light reflectance different from that of the first light-reflecting layer (30), and is formed to have a shape partially covering the first light-reflecting layer (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasumori Kuromizu
  • Publication number: 20140218810
    Abstract: A Fresnel lens includes an incident surface that is flat, and a prism-forming surface that has a plurality of prisms, the prism-forming surface being provided on the side of the Fresnel lens opposite to the incident surface. Each of the prisms has a converging surface that is located on the side away from the optical axis of the Fresnel lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Haruki Kamiyama, Hideaki Fujita, Kazushi Fujioka, Hiroki Okuno
  • Publication number: 20140216259
    Abstract: Provided is an air purifier capable of increased air purification properties due to charged particles being blown out. A first air-blower blasts air, thus drawing air in from the outside to a first air-flow path, and an air-purification unit purifies the air and blows out same. A second air blower blasts air, thus drawing air in from the outside to a second air-flow path, and the air is blown out together with charged particles generated by a charged particle generator. A control unit controls the amount of air blasted by the second air-blower, according to the amount of air blasted by the first air-blower. Alternatively, the control unit controls the angle to be adjusted by the regulator, according to the amount of air blasted by the first air-blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Iwaki
  • Publication number: 20140219669
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus (100) includes a discharge section (210), a paper receiving tray (93), a first detecting section (211), a lever (220), a second detecting section (230) and a decision section (240). The first detecting section (211) is disposed in the discharge section (210), and detects a paper jam. The second detecting section (230) detects a swinging state of the lever (220) from a first position at which the lever (220) is not in the process of receiving an action of the paper sheet to a second position. The decision section (240) judges an occurrence factor in a paper jam to be a user-induced factor when the second detecting section (230) detects a state in which the lever is at the first position in a state where the first detecting section (211) detects the paper jam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norichika Katsura, Kohji Aoki, Masaharu Kimura, Yasuaki Fukada
  • Publication number: 20140218761
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a display portion, a control portion including a display control portion for causing the display portion to display a preview image of output target data, a touch sensor for receiving, on the display portion, a user operation for performing output setting for the output target data concerning the preview image, an output portion for outputting the output target data based on the output setting, and a control portion for, in a state where the display control portion arranges objects in page unit sequentially to be displayed as the preview image, when the touch sensor receives a predetermined pinch operation for the objects, performing page setting concerning the objects to be operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihisa CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20140218673
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel (10) of the present invention is provided with: a liquid crystal layer (50); a sealing member (40) surrounding the liquid crystal layer (50); a pair of glass substrates (20, 30) that face each other through the liquid crystal layer (50) and the seal member (40); a terminal pattern (60) disposed on the inner surface of one glass substrate (20) outside of the sealing member (40); and a corrosive liquid intrusion detector (70) that is disposed on the inner surface outside of the terminal pattern (60), the corrosive liquid intrusion detector changing color on contact with corrosive liquid. Because of such color change in the corrosive liquid intrusion detector, it is possible to detect corrosion of the terminal pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Makino, Takatoshi Kira