Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Production of glycoproteins with reduced O-glycosylation
    Patent number: 8795984
    Abstract: A method is described for producing protein compositions having reduced amounts of O-linked glycosylation. The method includes producing the protein in cells cultured in the presence of an inhibitor of Pmt-mediated O-linked glycosylation and/or in the presence of one or more ?-1,2-mannosidases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Piotr Bobrowicz, W. James Cook, Warren Kett
  • Antagonists of IL-23P19 for treatement of atopic dermatitis
    Patent number: 8795666
    Abstract: Nucleic acids encoding mammalian, e.g., primate, receptors, purified receptor proteins and fragments thereof. Antibodies, both polyclonal and monoclonal, are also provided. Methods of using the compositions for both diagnostic and therapeutic utilities are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Madaline Chirica, Robert A. Kastelein, Kevin Moore, Christi L. Parham
  • Air blowing device and ion generating apparatus
    Patent number: 8797704
    Abstract: A space-saving mounting structure of an air blower having a vibration-insulating function is achieved to reduce a size of an ion generating apparatus. A holding case that holds an air blower and a mount having an air blowing duct are provided in a body case. A cushioning member is provided on an outer surface of a fan casing of the air blower. The air blower is held between the holding case mounted to the body case and the mount as a part of the body case. Two mounting members are formed on the fan casing. One mounting member is held between a pair of regulating members and formed on the holding case. The other mounting member is held between regulating members and formed on the holding case and the mount, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hikoya Ishii, Takahiro Hanai, Masafumi Nishino
  • Display device
    Patent number: 8797297
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device (1) that is provided with a function of identifying the position of a subject to be detected (finger) in an image display region (12b) of a liquid crystal panel (10) by emitting light to the image display region (12b) and by detecting light reflected by the subject to be detected (finger). The liquid crystal display device is provided with a backlight (30) and a front light-emitting unit (40), which radiate light to the image display region (12b). The backlight (30) is disposed on the side of the liquid crystal panel (10) opposite to the image display surface (10a), and emits light to the image display region (12b) from the rear side of the liquid crystal panel (10). The front light-emitting unit (40) is disposed outside of the image display region (12b), and emits light to the image display region (12b) without having the liquid crystal panel (10) therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Yabuta, Mikihiro Noma
  • Display device with optical sensors
    Patent number: 8797306
    Abstract: In a display device with optical sensors, a recognition processing portion (22) performs recognition processing on a scan picture generated by optical sensors (2), and calculates a position. A mode control portion (24) determines whether or not the mode is standby so that the recognition processing portion (22) is stopped from operating. At the time of transition to the standby mode, decimated image memory (25) stores a decimated image with a decreased number of pixels. The mode control portion (24) performs pixel-by-pixel comparison between the stored decimated image and a decimated image supplied anew, and exits the standby mode when the number of pixels whose difference in pixel values is greater than or equal to a first threshold is greater than or equal to a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Gotoh, Atsushi Okada
  • Display device including light-transmitting cover with lens portion and electronic device including same
    Patent number: 8797234
    Abstract: A direct-viewing type display device according to the present invention includes: at least one display panel having a display region and a frame region provided outside the display region, with a boundary extending along the first direction between the display region and the frame region; and at least one light-transmitting cover disposed on a viewer's side of the at least one display panel. The at least one light-transmitting cover includes a lens portion disposed astride the boundary for refracting a portion of light going out from the display region toward the frame region; and a viewer-side surface of the lens portion is a curved surface, and a rear-side surface of the lens portion is also a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Satoshi Shibata
  • Image processing system
    Patent number: 8797568
    Abstract: A complex apparatus (image processing apparatus) requests the transmission of an identification number from a security box (data processing apparatus). The security box transmits the stored own identification number to the complex apparatus. When no response is received within a predetermined time after the request of transmission of the identification number, or alternatively when the identification number transmitted from the security box differs from the identification number of a security box stored in advance, the complex apparatus displays a warning screen indicating that the appropriate security box has been removed, on the displaying section of the operation panel, and then turns ON a notifying lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihiro Yamanaka
  • Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8798371
    Abstract: The number of pixels in an identified pixel region is counted, a feature point of the pixel region is extracted and the number of the feature points is counted when the number of the pixels counted has been determined to be equal to or higher than a first threshold value, whether the counted number of the feature points is equal to or lower than a second threshold value is determined, features is calculated based on the feature point extracted from the pixel region when the number of the feature points has been determined to be above the second threshold value, and the first threshold value is changed when the number of the feature points has been determined to be equal to or lower than the second threshold value. Image similarity determination process can be stably performed without any degradation in determination accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Yoshino
  • Video data reproducing apparatus and method utilizing acquired data structure including video data and related reproduction information, non-transitory recording medium containing the data structure and non-transitory recording medium storing control program for causing computer to operate as reproducing apparatus
    Patent number: 8798440
    Abstract: A video disk player includes (i) a disk reading section for reading out video data, a program, synchronization timing information from an optical disk; (ii) a clock for generating a clock signal; (iii) a decoder for converting, in accordance with the clock signal, the video data into decompressed video data for reproduction output; (iv) a video reproducing section including a synchronization control section for transmitting, in accordance with the clock signal, a synchronization control signal to the program executing section at a timing specified by a field timing contained in the synchronization timing information, and (v) a program executing section for executing a program in accordance with the synchronization control signal received from the synchronization control section. This makes it possible to efficiently execute the program in synchronization with reproduction of AV data or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jiro Kiyama, Hideaki Kizuki, Katsushi Ohizumi
  • Ejection device and droplet disposition method
    Patent number: 8794180
    Abstract: An ejection device in which a multi-nozzle mechanism including failure nozzles ejects droplets such that variation in amounts of droplets (spacers) is prevented and droplets are disposed on spacer regions of a substrate. An ejection device includes a multi-nozzle mechanism including a pair of nozzle row units prepared by equally dividing a nozzle row including a plurality of nozzles ejecting a spacer dispersion liquid, a moving mechanism relatively moving the multi-nozzle mechanism and a substrate in the longitudinal direction and the align direction of spacer regions, and a control mechanism controlling the nozzles and the moving mechanism. When one nozzle row unit includes a failure nozzle, the control mechanism gives a command to the failure nozzle not to eject the liquid and a command to a corresponding nozzle of the other unit to halve cycles of forward and backward paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Kawazoe
  • Liquid crystal display device and method for fabricating the same
    Patent number: 8797490
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates, with a liquid crystal layer sealed therebetween. The device also includes a first electrode formed on the first substrate, a second electrode formed on the second substrate, a first molecule orientation film formed on the first substrate so as to cover the first electrode, a second molecule orientation film formed on the second substrate so as to cover the second electrode, and a plurality of micro structures associated with at least one of the first and second electrodes, wherein at least some of the micro structures extend generally parallel to each other. When a driving voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are oriented such that no dark line occurs in a vicinity of the plurality of micro structures and no dark line occurs between adjacent micro structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Kataoka, Arihiro Takeda, Takahiro Sasaki, Tsutomu Seino, Yoshio Koike, Hidefumi Yoshida, Yuichi Inoue, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Seiji Tanuma, Takatoshi Mayama, Kimiaki Nakamura, Hideo Chida, Seiji Doi, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Hiroyasu Inoue, Takashi Takagi
  • Display device and method for driving same
    Patent number: 8797305
    Abstract: Provided is a display device for carrying out seamless display so that a sense of strangeness is not given to a viewer or the sense of strangeness is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentarou Imamura, Shigeto Yoshida
  • Cyclic azabenzimidazole derivatives useful as anti-diabetic agents
    Patent number: 8796258
    Abstract: Novel compounds of structural formula (I) are activators of AMP-protein kinase and are useful in the treatment, prevention and suppression of diseases mediated by the AMPK-activated protein kinase. The compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Rajan Anand, James M. Apgar, Tesfaye Biftu, Ping Chen, Lin Chu, Vincent J. Colandrea, Guizhen Dong, James F. Dropinski, Danqing Feng, Jacqueline D. Hicks, Jinlong Jiang, Alexander J. Kim, Kenneth J. Leavitt, Bing Li, Xiaoxia Qian, Iyassu Sebhat, Lan Wei, Robert R. Wilkening, Zhicai Wu
  • Display driving circuit, device and method for polarity inversion using retention capacitor lines
    Patent number: 8797310
    Abstract: In a display device (i) which carries out a display based on a video signal whose resolution has been converted to higher resolution (high-resolution conversion driving) and (ii) which carries out CC driving, when the resolution of the video signal is converted by a factor of 2 (double-size display), assuming that a direction in which the gate lines extend is a row-wise direction, signal potentials having the same polarity and the same gray scale are supplied to pixel electrodes included in respective two pixels that correspond to two adjacent gate lines and that are adjacent to each other in the column-wise direction (scanning direction), and a direction of change in the signal potentials written to the pixel electrodes from the source lines varies every two adjacent rows according to the polarities of the signal potentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Etsuo Yamamoto, Shige Furuta, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Seijirou Gyouten
  • Imidazobenzazepine CGRP receptor antagonists
    Patent number: 8796260
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I: I (where variables R1A, R1B, R2, R3, R4, A, and Z are as defined herein) useful as antagonists of CGRP receptors, and useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which CGRP receptors are involved, such as headache, and in particular migraine and cluster headache. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which CGRP receptors are involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Howard G. Selnick, Ian M. Bell
  • Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus and communication method
    Patent number: 8797977
    Abstract: When a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus communicate with each other using a wider frequency band consists of multiple carrier components, efficient communication is achieved without increasing control information (control signal) notified from the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus. The base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus communicate with each other such that each of multiple uplink carrier components corresponds to each of multiple downlink carrier components or multiple downlink carrier component groups including multiple downlink carrier components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shohei Yamada
  • Transmission of data packets from a transmitter to a receiver
    Patent number: 8798015
    Abstract: Due to NACK-to-ACK misinterpretations in base stations, packets are lost, and there may be gaps in a re-ordering buffer of a base station. According to the present invention, when the receiver decodes—possibly after some retransmissions—a first data packet without an error, which first data packet is sent along with an indicator indicating that the first data packet is a new data packet, after the receiver has sent a negative confirmation message (NACK) with respect to a second data packet, the receiver sends a Revert (REV) message to the transmitter. The REV message informs the base station that the first data packet was decoded error-free, and that the second data packet is still missing on the receiving side so that the base station may re-send this second data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: Koninklijke Philips N.V., Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Christoph Herrmann, Patrick Nickel
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20140215516
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a content identification information selecting section that allows a user to select at least a single piece of content identification information from content identification information, a registered information storing section that associates the selected content identification information with user operation, one to one, and stores the associated content identification information and user operation, and a registered information output section that, when the user operation is received, outputs content identification information stored in the storage section in association with the user operation to an external destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masafumi Yashiki
  • WATER PURIFIER
    Publication number: 20140209525
    Abstract: In a water purifier, a flow system includes a first channel in which liquid is filtrated in at least one of a first filter tank and a second filter tank, a second channel in which the liquid is filtrated in the second filter tank and the first filter tank is washed, and a third channel in which the liquid is filtrated in the first filter tank and the second filter tank is washed. A switching lever actuates valve mechanisms to perform switching among the first, second, and third channels such that the channels are selected cyclically in order of the first channel, the second channel, the first channel, the third channel and the first channel. The valve mechanisms work with operation of the switching lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mugihei Ikemizu
  • CONDUCTIVE PASTE, ELECTRODE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140210073
    Abstract: Provided is a conductive paste, an electrode for a semiconductor device manufactured by using the conductive paste, a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device. The conductive paste includes conductive powder made of a plurality of conductive particles and silver powder made of a plurality of silver particles. The conductive particles includes a base material made of ceramics and a conductive layer configured to cover at least a part of an outer surface of the base material. The ratio of the mass of the conductive layer relative to the total mass of the conductive particles is 10% or more by mass, and the ratio of the mass of the conductive powder relative to the total mass of the conductive powder and the silver powder is 25% or less by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Tanaka