Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8773676
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 8771030
    Abstract: This invention provides a method capable of fabricating, by simple manufacturing processes, a color conversion layer which realizes high-efficiency color conversion characteristics without greatly increasing the film thickness of the color conversion layer. Further, this invention provides a color conversion layer manufactured by this method, and an organic EL element which includes this color conversion layer. By means of a method in which a polymer material having a weight-average molecular weight in a specific range is brought into contact with a color conversion material layer, and the polymer material is caused to intrude into the color conversion layer by a diffusion phenomenon, concentration quenching in the color conversion layer can be suppressed, and the fluorescence quantum yield can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaru Nagai
  • Patent number: 8774510
    Abstract: A system for image processing includes determining edge pixels of a model image using an edge based technique and determining an angular orientation for each the edge pixels of the model image. The system determines a histogram of gradient orientations based upon the angular orientations of the model image. The system determining edge pixels of an input image using an edge based technique and determining an angular orientation for each of the edge pixels of the input image. The system determines a histogram of gradient orientations based upon the angular orientations of the input image. The system compares the histogram of gradient orientations of the model image with the histogram of gradient orientations of the input image to determine candidate locations of an object within the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinyu Xu, Petrus J. L. Van Beek, Chang Yuan
  • Patent number: 8773634
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a liquid crystal panel capable of repairing a defective portion of an alignment film more easily. Provided is a method for producing a liquid crystal panel, including the step of repairing a defective portion 50 of an alignment film 30 formed on a substrate 12 by use of a repair stamp 60 having repair ink 61 attached thereto. The step of repairing includes step (a) of locating the repair stamp 60 in a zone (repair zone) 55 including the defective portion 50; step (b) of moving the repair stamp 60 from the position (60a) at which the repair stamp 60 has been located in step (a); and step (c) of moving the repair stamp 60 again from a position (60b) to which the repair stamp 60 has been moved in step (b) to the position (60a) at which the repair stamp 60 was located in step (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Satoh
  • Patent number: 8772790
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device includes a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element, a package substrate and an optically transparent resin sealing portion. The nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a substrate, a nitride semiconductor multilayer portion having a light-emitting layer and a protective layer. The nitride semiconductor multilayer portion is provided on the substrate. The protective layer is provided on an upper portion of the nitride semiconductor multilayer portion. The resin sealing portion seals the nitride semiconductor light-emitting element that is mounted on the package substrate. An air gap layer is formed in at least one of an area between the substrate and the light-emitting layer in the nitride semiconductor light-emitting element, an area between the light-emitting layer and the protective layer in the nitride semiconductor light-emitting element and an area in the package substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yufeng Weng
  • Patent number: 8771599
    Abstract: An air blower including a motor 2 having output shafts 21, 21 on both sides in the axial direction and two impellers 3, 3 mounted on the respective output shafts 21, 21, and two ducts 5, 5 that individually allow passage of the air blown out by rotation of each of the impellers 3, 3 in the same direction and discharge the air to the outside are included. At a part or the whole of each of the ducts 5, 5, a laminar flow section that makes the flowing air laminar flow. An ion generating section is arranged at each laminar flow section so that ions generated by the ion generating section can effectively be included in the air, increasing the ion concentration of ions discharged in a room together with the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumimasa Funabiki, Tomohisa Itoh, Yoshihiro Uramoto, Takahiro Hanai, Yoshiroh Tanoue
  • Patent number: 8774976
    Abstract: A peak load management system and method take countermeasures to reduce the risk of a spike in grid power use above a target peak load due to battery exhaustion. The countermeasures replace or at least reduce the safety margins built into target peak load peak load management systems and increase the cost savings realized from peak load management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl Mansfield
  • Patent number: 8772328
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel substituted aminotetrahydropyrans of structural formula I which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved, such as diabetes and particularly Type 2 diabetes. 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 the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Tesfaye Biftu, Ann E. Weber
  • Patent number: 8775842
    Abstract: A memory device can perform a first operation mode in which a discrete level is supplied to cause the memory cell to retain a logical level, and prevent unnecessary power consumption due to an operation of a power source which is unnecessary in the first operation mode. The memory device includes: a first power source for supplying a first potential level; a second power source for supplying a second potential level, a third power source for supplying a potential higher than a highest potential of discrete levels; and a fourth power source for supplying a potential lower than a lowest potential of the discrete levels, the first and second potential levels being used to supply the discrete levels, when the first operation is carried out, VDD, VSS, and GVDD being caused to be in operation and the fourth power source being stopped from being in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Shige Furuta, Seijirou Gyouten, Shuji Nishi
  • Patent number: 8774559
    Abstract: A system for decoding a video sequence includes a first sequence of images corresponding to a first image acquisition device of a stereoscopic pair of image acquisition devices and a second sequence of images corresponding to another image acquisition device of the stereoscopic pair of image acquisition devices, wherein at least one of the images of at least one of the sequence of images and the second sequence of images has an exposure different than the exposure of other images. A high dynamic range image sequence is created, having a dynamic range greater than the dynamic range of the first sequence and the second sequence, based upon at least one of the first sequence of images and the second sequence of images together with at least one of the images of at least one of the first sequence of images and the second sequence of images having exposure different than the exposure of other images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher A. Segall
  • Patent number: 8773683
    Abstract: When a user uses one of a plurality of image forming apparatuses from one of a plurality of terminals, an authentication server determines, on a user by user basis, whether he/she is permitted to use each image forming apparatus, and detects if any of the image forming apparatuses is in a troubled state and incapable of executing a prescribed function. If one image forming apparatus is in a troubled state and the user requests another, trouble-free image forming apparatus to execute a job utilizing a function of the trouble-free image forming apparatus, the authentication server permits execution of the job if the user is permitted to use the image forming apparatus in the troubled state. Thus, the user can get a print even if a usually used image forming apparatus is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryoh Hamada
  • Patent number: 8772752
    Abstract: An object is to prevent light leakage caused due to misregistration even when the width of a black matrix layer is not expanded to a designed value or larger. One embodiment of the present invention is a semiconductor device including a single-gate thin film transistor in which a first semiconductor layer is sandwiched between a bottom-gate electrode and a first black matrix layer. The first semiconductor layer and the first black matrix layer overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekazu Miyairi, Atsushi Hirose, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Tomohiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 8773340
    Abstract: A color conversion circuit converts a three-primary-color signal PS0 to a 5-color signal PS5, and includes (i) a color component extraction module that generates, by performing isochromatic conversion, a 7-color signal PS2 made up of 7 color components equivalent in terms of color to color components d1 through d5 of the 5-color signal PS5, and (ii) a matrix operation module that generates color components of the 5-color signal by performing linear combination of the color components of the 7-color signal. With this, it is possible to realize a color conversion circuit by which colors represented by a signal after conversion can be adjusted using intuitively-understandable parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Kozo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8772286
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of general Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds can be used in the treatment of immune, autoimmune, inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases, bone resorption disorders, neurodegenerative diseases or proliferative diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V.
    Inventors: Tjeerd Andries Barf, Arthur Oubrie, Carsten Schultz-Fademrecht, Eduard Willem Zwart, Niels Hoogenboom, Sander Martijn De Wilde, Allard Kaptein
  • Publication number: 20140185272
    Abstract: Provided is a lighting device that can suppress decrease in its luminous efficiency and shortening of its life. A lighting device (1) includes a fluorescent member (4) which is irradiated with laser light emitted by a semiconductor laser (2) and emits fluorescent light, a rotation mechanism (6) which rotates the fluorescent member, and a reflecting member (7) which reflects the fluorescent light emitted by the fluorescent member toward the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20140185528
    Abstract: There are provided a terminal, a base station, a communication system, and a communication method allowing a base station to efficiently notify a terminal of control information in a communication system in which the base station and the terminal communicate with each other. A terminal configured to communicate with a base station including a plurality of transmit antenna ports is configured to estimate, based on a channel state information reference signal transmitted from the plurality of transmit antenna ports, a channel state between the base station and the terminal; and to generate power difference information representing a difference between powers for groups of transmit antenna ports that are some of the plurality of transmit antenna ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Kimihiko Imamura, Toshizo Nogami
  • Publication number: 20140186706
    Abstract: A method is presented for fabricating an anode preloaded with consumable metals. The method provides a material (X), which may be one of the following materials: carbon, metals able to be electrochemically alloyed with a metal (Me), intercalation oxides, electrochemically active organic compounds, and combinations of the above-listed materials. The method loads the metal (Me) into the material (X). Typically, Me is an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, or a combination of the two. As a result, the method forms a preloaded anode comprising Me/X for use in a battery comprising a M1YM2Z(CN)N·MH2O cathode, where M1 and M2 are transition metals. The method loads the metal (Me) into the material (X) using physical (mechanical) mixing, a chemical reaction, or an electrochemical reaction. Also provided is preloaded anode, preloaded with consumable metals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Long Wang, Yuhao Lu, Jong-Jan Lee
  • Publication number: 20140186065
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, guidance information is stored in advance for guiding an optimal operation procedure for execution of a job, and the guidance information is displayed on a display portion based on operation input that is input to an input portion in order to execute a job of image formation. For example, a device control portion compares operation input that is input to the input portion in order to execute the job of image formation to the guidance information corresponding to the job executed by the operation input, and causes the display portion to display the guidance information in a case where an actual frequency of operation input is greater than a frequency of operation input that is specified in an operation procedure of the guidance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Michiaki NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20140184784
    Abstract: A defect inspection device of the present invention for detecting a position of a defect existing in a wire formed on a panel, includes: a probe which applies a voltage to a terminal section of the wire; probe moving means for moving the probe to the terminal section; a first infrared sensor which photographs an entire surface of the panel; a second infrared sensor which photographs a part of the panel; and sensor moving means for moving the second infrared sensor to each position on the panel, the first infrared sensor including a plurality of infrared cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masakazu Yanase
  • Publication number: 20140186714
    Abstract: A cathodic active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the invention includes a lithium-containing transition metal phosphate containing Li and a transition metal. A transition metal site and P site of the lithium-containing transition metal phosphate are replaced by elements other than elements contained in the lithium-containing transition metal phosphate, and the quantity of P site is excessive with respect to a stoichiometric proportion of the lithium-containing transition metal phosphate. With this cathodic active material, a high-power and high-capacity secondary battery which is superior in safety and cost and has superior rate performance can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Kamimura, Motoaki Nishijima, Tomohisa Yoshie, Koji Ohira