Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • DEFECT INSPECTION DEVICE AND DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD
    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
  • CATHODIC ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY, CATHODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY
    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
  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140184980
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato Onoue
  • COMMUNICATION DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION SETTING, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20140189767
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryosuke Ohmae
  • MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140185554
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki KATO, Shohei YAMADA, Wahoh OH
  • ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140184966
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isao Ogasawara, Masahiro Yoshida
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD
    Publication number: 20140187229
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Osamu NAKAMURA, Jungo GOTO, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • PHOSPHOR PARTICLE GROUP AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140184056
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya HANAMOTO, Masatsugu MASUDA, Kenji TERASHIMA
  • STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140184962
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehiro Murao, Takuto Yoshino, Hiroshi Fukushima, Tomoo Takatani
  • MOBILE STATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND CIRCUIT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140185569
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Yasuyuki KATO, Shohei YAMADA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE, SUBSTRATE FOR FORMING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE, STACKED SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140183636
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Mitani
  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140185251
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromi Enomoto, Yuhsuke Nii, Nobuhiko Akanuma
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS, TELEVISION RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING RESONANCE FREQUENCY
    Publication number: 20140184920
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Ikeda, Teruyoshi Monden
  • DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER
    Publication number: 20140184929
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Nakamura
  • Methods and Systems for Inter-Layer Image Prediction Signaling
    Publication number: 20140185674
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher A. Segall
  • RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20140185594
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari YOKOMAKURA, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Shimpei TO, Minoru KUBOTA, Hideo NAMBA, Seiichi SAMPEI, Shinichi MIYAMOTO, Shinsuke IBI
  • Battery with an Anode Preloaded with Consumable Metals
    Publication number: 20140186707
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Long Wang, Jong-Jan Lee
  • STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING METHOD
    Publication number: 20140185265
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomofumi Katayama, Nozomu Hikino, Shuhhei Ohguchi, Takashi Naito, Hiroyuki Takebe
  • Communication system, mobile station, base station, and communication method
    Patent number: 8768362
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Shimonabe, Akira Ohshima, Mitsuru Sakamoto, Yuhsuke Takagi
  • Tracking a reference picture on an electronic device
    Patent number: 8768079
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Sachin G. Deshpande, Christopher A. Segall