Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Publication number: 20140184980Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 1 comprises a liquid crystal display panel 4, a backlight unit 20 emitting light toward the liquid crystal display panel 4, control substrates 9 for controlling the liquid crystal display panel 4 and the backlight unit 20, and an outer cover 2 containing the liquid crystal display panel 4, the backlight unit 20, and the control substrates 9. The control substrates 9 are arranged on the side opposite to the side including the display panel 4 with respect to the backlight unit 20, and the liquid crystal display device 1 further comprises a heat insulating frame 6, which is disposed between the backlight unit 20 and the control substrates 9, and which forms a space covering one surface of the backlight unit 20 on the side facing toward the control substrates 9.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masato Onoue
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Publication number: 20140189767Abstract: A monitor includes: an input receiving section for causing a single setting screen to receive an input of respective communication setting values of an STB and a monitor; and a setting section for setting, for each of the STB and the monitor, a corresponding communication setting value of an inputted plurality of communication setting values.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryosuke Ohmae
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Publication number: 20140184966Abstract: An active matrix display device is equipped with: a first auxiliary wiring line (700) that intersects a second common wiring line (230) through an insulation film, and that intersects with any of a plurality of first connecting wiring lines (900) through an insulating film; and a second auxiliary wiring line (710) that intersects, across an insulation film, any of a plurality of redundant portions (101), which are the other end portions of each of a plurality source wiring lines (100) and are located outside of a display region (60), and that, in a plan view, is positioned outside of a plurality of second lead-out wiring lines (250) and a first driver circuit, and is capable of being connected electrically to the second common wiring line (230).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isao Ogasawara, Masahiro Yoshida
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Publication number: 20140186719Abstract: A method is provided for forming a sodium-containing particle electrolyte structure. The method provides sodium-containing particles (e.g., NASICON), dispersed in a liquid phase polymer, to form a polymer film with sodium-containing particles distributed in the polymer film. The liquid phase polymer is a result of dissolving the polymer in a solvent or melting the polymer in an extrusion process. In one aspect, the method forms a plurality of polymer film layers, where each polymer film layer includes sodium-containing particles. For example, the plurality of polymer film layers may form a stack having a top layer and a bottom layer, where with percentage of sodium-containing particles in the polymer film layers increasing from the bottom layer to the top layer. In another aspect, the sodium-containing particles are coated with a dopant. A sodium-containing particle electrolyte structure and a battery made using the sodium-containing particle electrolyte structure are also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Long Wang, Yuhao Lu, Jong-Jan Lee
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Publication number: 20140185554Abstract: To prevent a collision from occurring at the time of random access in cases such as handover, response to paging and the like where a mobile station apparatus performs random access in response to directions from a base station apparatus. In a mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus 200 uses a signature of a beforehand determined signature group at the time of random access with a base station apparatus 100, the signature group is comprised of a signature group managed by the base station apparatus 100 and another signature group managed by the mobile station apparatus 200. The signature group managed by the base station apparatus 100 includes signatures associated with particular random access reasons to be selected by the base station apparatus 100.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuyuki KATO, Shohei YAMADA, Wahoh OH
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Publication number: 20140185309Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided that, while suppressing an increase in size, can change the illuminating direction. The lighting apparatus has: a laser generator which emits laser light; a light emitting member which is irradiated with the laser light emitted from the laser generator to emit light; an irradiated position changer which moves and thereafter stops an irradiated position at which the light emitting member is irradiated with the laser light; and a light projecting member which projects the light emitted from the light emitting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koji TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20140187229Abstract: A wireless transmission apparatus that transmits transmission data in each of a plurality of system frequency bands using a transmission power controlled so that a total transmission power of each of the plurality of system frequency bands is less than a maximum transmit power, where the maximum transmit power incase of transmitting the transmission data simultaneously using two or more system frequency bands in the plurality of system frequency bands is less than a maximum transmit power in case of transmitting the transmission data using single system frequency band in the plurality of system frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Osamu NAKAMURA, Jungo GOTO, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20140184056Abstract: Provided is a phosphor particle group of divalent europium-activated oxynitride green light emitting phosphor particles each of which is a ?-type SiAlON substantially represented by a general formula: EuaSibAlcOdNe, where 0.005?a?0.4, b+c=12, d+e=16, wherein 60% or more of the phosphor particle group is composed of the phosphor particles in which a value obtained by dividing a longer particle diameter by a shorter particle diameter is greater than 1.0 and not greater than 3.0. A high-efficiency and stable light emitting apparatus using a ?-type SiAlON, which includes a light converter using the phosphor particle group, and a phosphor particle group therefor are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya HANAMOTO, Masatsugu MASUDA, Kenji TERASHIMA
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Publication number: 20140185251Abstract: A display device includes a panel laminated body including a panel laminated body including a plurality of panels stacked together, flexible printed circuit boards each being connected to a corresponding one of respective short sides of the plurality of panels disposed in one of side portions of the panel laminated body, and an extension portion formed in at least a part of the flexible printed circuit boards so as to extend outwardly from a side area of the panel laminated body in a short-side direction of the panels in the side area. At least a pair of the extension portions is electrically connected together in a state where the pair of the extension portions is superimposed on each other and is folded in the side area of the panel laminated body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromi Enomoto, Yuhsuke Nii, Nobuhiko Akanuma
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Publication number: 20140184962Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vertically and horizontally positionable stereoscopic display device that can obtain an excellent stereoscopic display by reducing light leakage through areas (inter-line areas) between drive electrodes (36, 42) and auxiliary electrodes (38, 44) and improving light shielding properties of light shielding parts. A switching liquid crystal panel (14) provided in the stereoscopic display device of the present invention realizes a parallax barrier (48) in which transmission parts (52) and light shielding parts (50) are arrayed alternately. The switching liquid crystal panel (14) includes a pair of substrates (30, 32) on which drive electrodes (36, 42) and auxiliary electrodes (38, 44) are arranged alternately.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiro Murao, Takuto Yoshino, Hiroshi Fukushima, Tomoo Takatani
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Publication number: 20140185594Abstract: A communication device comprising a transmission unit and a reception unit. The transmission unit is configured to transmit, to a first communication device, first information indicating a first set of subcarriers comprising of a plurality of subcarriers, and to a second communication device, second information indicating a second set of subcarriers comprising of a plurality of subcarriers. The reception unit is configured to receive a first Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM) signal from the first communication device using the first information and a second Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM) signal from the second communication device using the second information. Also, in the communication device, a portion of the second set of subcarriers can overlap with at least a portion of the first set of subcarriers in a time frame of a plurality of time frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Shimpei TO, Minoru KUBOTA, Hideo NAMBA, Seiichi SAMPEI, Shinichi MIYAMOTO, Shinsuke IBI
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Publication number: 20140183636Abstract: Film thickness variations are prevented in a plurality of single crystal semiconductor films separated at a fragile layer reliably and transferred to a base substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masahiro Mitani
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Publication number: 20140185569Abstract: A mobile station apparatus, that communicates with a base station apparatus, includes a reception unit that receives a physical downlink shared channel and information indicating radio resources for transmission of a physical uplink shared channel associated with contention based procedure and a transmission unit that transmits Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) information in response to the physical downlink shared channel and the physical uplink shared channel. The transmission unit also transmits, in case that transmissions of the HARQ information and the physical uplink shared channel happen in a single subframe, either both of the HARQ information and the physical uplink shared channel or the physical uplink shared channel without the HARQ information in the single subframe on the basis of a configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Yasuyuki KATO, Shohei YAMADA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20140184920Abstract: In a wireless communication device having a sheet-like antenna 41 and a first and second covers 42, 43 covering the antenna 41, a dielectric first rib 42a that is in contact with the antenna 41 is provided on the antenna 41 side of the first cover 42. The method for adjusting a resonance frequency is as described below. The first cover 42 on which the first rib 42a is provided is molded using a mold, a resonance frequency of the antenna 41 covered with the first cover 42 thus molded is measured, and the measured resonance frequency is compared with a predetermined frequency. The mold is changed such that the contact area between the first rib 42a and the antenna 41 is increased when the measured resonance frequency is higher than the predetermined frequency, and is decreased when the measured resonance frequency is lower than the predetermined frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Ikeda, Teruyoshi Monden
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Publication number: 20140184929Abstract: Provided are: a thin display device that has reduced dimensions between a light guide plate and a display panel; and a television receiver provided with the display device. By threading screws, the edge of an opening and a bottom part press, with an elastic member interposed therebetween, the display panel and the light guide plate together. As a result, the dimensions between the display panel and the light guide plate can be reduced by sandwiching the display panel and the light guide plate by a front cabinet and a back cabinet from the front and back without interposing a support member between the display panel and the light guide plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20140185674Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for predicting high dynamic range (HDR) image blocks with block-specific prediction data, where the systems and methods may comprise low dynamic range (LDR) image data and HDR image data for a target image block, where a scaled, offset LDR image block may be combined with HDR residual image block to form an HDR image block corresponding to the target image block.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventor: Christopher A. Segall
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Publication number: 20140186707Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a battery using an anode preloaded with consumable metals. The method forms an ion-permeable membrane immersed in an electrolyte. A preloaded anode is immersed in the electrolyte, comprising MeaX, where X is a material such as carbon, metal capable of being alloyed with Me, intercalation oxides, electrochemically active organic compounds, and combinations of the above-listed materials. Me is a metal such as alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and combinations of the above-listed metals. A cathode is also immersed in the electrolyte and separated from the preloaded anode by the ion-permeable membrane. The cathode comprises M1YM2Z(CN)N.MH2O. After a plurality of initial charge and discharge operations are preformed, an anode is formed comprising MebX overlying the current collector in a battery discharge state, where 0?b<a.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Long Wang, Jong-Jan Lee
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Publication number: 20140185265Abstract: A structure includes a housing made of a dielectric substance, an electrically conductive member embedded in the housing so as to penetrate the housing, and an electrically conductive pattern which is provided on at least one of surfaces, in which the electrically conductive member lies by penetrating the housing, so that the electrically conductive pattern is electrically connected with the electrically conductive member. The electrically conductive pattern is made up of an electrically conductive film which has no self-shape retention property.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomofumi Katayama, Nozomu Hikino, Shuhhei Ohguchi, Takashi Naito, Hiroyuki Takebe
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Patent number: 8768362Abstract: A communication system includes: a determination unit, provided in any one of a first base station, a second base station, and a mobile station, which determines a transmission timing change amount on the basis of reception timing of a signal transmitted between the first or second base station and the mobile station. The mobile station includes a handover execution unit which performs a handover from the first base station to the second base station on the basis of the transmission timing change amount calculated by the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadashi Shimonabe, Akira Ohshima, Mitsuru Sakamoto, Yuhsuke Takagi
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Patent number: 8768079Abstract: A method for tracking a reference picture on an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding a portion of the bitstream to produce a decoded reference picture. The method further includes tracking the decoded reference picture in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) with reduced overhead referencing. The method additionally includes decoding a picture based on the decoded reference picture.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Kiran Misra, Sachin G. Deshpande, Christopher A. Segall