Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20140169322
    Abstract: There are provided a base station, a terminal, a communication system, and a communication method in a communication system in which a base station 101 and a terminal 102 communicate with each other, in which the base station 101 can efficiently notify the terminal 102 of control information. The terminal includes a receiving unit 605 configured to receive a radio resource control signal including information concerning a path loss reference resource and information concerning an uplink power control related parameter configuration, and a transmit power control unit 6015 configured to set a path loss and an uplink transmit power on the basis of the information concerning the path loss reference resource and the information concerning the uplink power control related parameter configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura, Yosuke Akimoto, Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shoichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura
  • Publication number: 20140169209
    Abstract: There are provided a base station, a terminal, and a communication system in a wireless communication system in which a base station and a terminal communicate with each other, in which the base station and the terminal can efficiently perform communication. The base station includes a higher layer processing unit 501 configured to configure, for each terminal, a second measurement target configuration configured by the base station, and to configure, for each terminal, a third measurement target configuration for measuring a reference signal generated using a physical ID different from a physical ID of a cell to which the terminal is connected. The terminal includes a transmitting unit 607 configured to report to a base station a received signal of a reference signal as a measurement target specified in the second measurement target configuration and a received signal of a reference signal as a measurement target specified in the third measurement target configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimihiko Imamura, Wataru Ouchi, Yosuke Akimoto, Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shoichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura
  • Publication number: 20140171480
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymorphic forms of a compound of formula A: This compound is useful as a glucagon receptor antagonist and serves as a pharmaceutically active ingredient for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and related conditions, such as hyperglycemia, obesity, dyslipidemia, and the metabolic syndrome. Hydrates, hemihydrates, anhydrates and similar polymorphic forms are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: John Y. L. Chung, Yanfeng Zhang, Laura Artino, Aaron S. Cote, Donal Desmond, Jeremy Scott, Yekaterina Vaynshteyn
  • Publication number: 20140168289
    Abstract: In a display device (1) according to an aspect of the present invention, at least part of an N-M first sub pixel(s) is/are driven according to one of first and second gamma curve groups being selected depending on a position(s) where said at least part of the N-M first sub pixel(s) is/are located, and at least part of a second sub pixel(s) is/are driven according to one of the first and second gamma curve groups being selected depending on a position(s) where said at least part of the second sub pixel(s) is/are located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Shibata, Kohji Saitoh, Masami Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20140166834
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bracket that allows a target object to be attached easily and prevents it from being detached unexpectedly after the attachment. A bracket (10) for attaching, to a wall surface, a television provided with locking pins (30) fixed thereto includes a back board section (11), an upper board section (13), a lower board section (15), and a front board section (14), the front board section (14) and the back board section (11) being separated from each other by a clearance that is large at an upper portion and small at a lower portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kuroyanagi, Kenta Moribe, Tomohiro Okata, Kenichiro Ito, Yasufumi Gouma, Hideto Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20140168942
    Abstract: A light-emitting section (2) and a transparent member (1) which is arranged on a side of a surface (SUF2) of the light-emitting section (2) and exhibits transparency with respect to laser light (L) are provided, and the transparent member (1) includes a plurality of scattering microregions (MP) which isotropically scatter the laser light (L) passing therethrough and increase a light-emission spot size of the laser light (L).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kishimoto, Rina Sato, Hidenori Kawanishi
  • Publication number: 20140169328
    Abstract: A base station is configured to communicate with a terminal using a resource element configured of an area in the frequency direction and an area in the temporal direction, and a resource block pair configured of a predetermined number of the resource elements. The base station includes: a second control channel generating unit configured to generate a second control channel which can be mapped to a second control channel area which is an area different from a first control channel area where a first control channel can be mapped, and which is set to the terminal from the base station in units of the resource block pair. A resource element group which is a group of the predetermined resource elements in the resource block pair of the second control channel area is configured, and the second control channel is mapped to a plurality of the resource element groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Ahimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima, Tatsushi Aiba
  • Publication number: 20140168572
    Abstract: A phosphor substrate (10) includes a substrate (1), phosphor layers (3R, 3G, and 3B) which are disposed on the substrate (1) and which emit fluorescences (L2) using incident excitation light (L1), and a partition (7) surrounding side faces of the phosphor layers (3R, 3G, and 3B), in which at least portions of the partition (7) in contact with the phosphor layers (3R, 3G, and 3B) have light-scattering properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akiko Iwata, Mitsuhiro Koden, Yuhki Kobayashi, Hisanori Bessho, Satoshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20140168581
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (100A) is a liquid crystal display panel having a displaying region (81) including a plurality of pixel regions (31), including: a liquid crystal layer (1) having a plurality of liquid crystal regions (11) containing a nematic liquid crystal material and polymer-containing walls (12) between adjacent ones of the plurality of liquid crystal regions (11); and a first substrate (2) and a second substrate (3) having the liquid crystal layer (1) retained therebetween. The liquid crystal layer (1) extends to at least one side face of the liquid crystal display panel (100A). The distance between at least one side face of the second substrate (3) and a pixel region (11) that is located at the outermost edge among the plurality of pixel regions (11) while being adjacent to the at least one side face is less than 0.2 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Akira Sakai, Yuichi Iyama, Akiko Miyazaki, Eiji Satoh, Yasushi Asaoka
  • Publication number: 20140171437
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to certain oxazole derivatives which are useful as inhibitors of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH). The invention is also concerned with pharmaceutical formulations comprising these compounds as active ingredients and the use of the compounds and their formulations in the treatment of certain disorders, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetic neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, skeletomuscular pain, and fibromyalgia, as well as acute pain, migraine, sleep disorder, Alzeimer Disease, and Parkinson's Disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Harry Chobanian, Linus S. Lin, Ping Liu, Marc D. Chioda, Robert J. DeVita, Ravi P. Nargund, Yan Guo
  • Publication number: 20140168589
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device having excellent display quality, with reduced string-like defects that occur in display pixels. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, wherein at least one of the pair of substrates includes a photo-alignment film, the photo-alignment film aligns liquid crystal molecules horizontally to a main surface of the at least one of the pair of substrates, and the photo-alignment film has a film thickness of 50 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Miyake, Koichi Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20140168197
    Abstract: Provided is a display system (1) capable of further reducing electric power consumption. The display system (1) includes: a host device (2) including transceivers (Tx1, Tx2); a display device (3) including receivers (Rx1, Rx2); a plurality of interfaces (IF1, IF2) for transmitting image data from the transceivers (Tx1, Tx2) to the receivers (Rx1, Rx2); changing means for changing the number of transmission lanes to be used by each of the plurality of interfaces (IF1, IF2); and a display panel (5) provided in the display device (3). Each of the interfaces (IF1, IF2) transmits the image data at an identical transmission rate irrespective of the number of the transmission lanes to be used. The display panel (5) displays an image indicated by the image data, at a frame rate corresponding to the total number of the transmission lanes to be used by the each of the interfaces (IF1, IF2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Kohji Saitoh, Masami Ozaki, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20140168526
    Abstract: A backlight device (20) is combined with a display device (10) that has a display panel (11), such as a liquid crystal panel. The backlight device includes a chassis (21), a light guide plate (22) and optical sheets (23) arranged on the rear surface of the display panel (11), and an LED package (24) that illuminates an edge face of the light guide plate. A light reflecting face formed of a material that has silver as a main component is provided in the LED package. An adsorbing material (30) that adsorbs gas such as halogen gas and hydrogen sulfide, which have characteristics that lower the reflectance of silver, is coated onto a substrate (25) on which the LED package is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Munetoshi Ueyama
  • Publication number: 20140171456
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrrolo[3,2-e]pyrimidine and dipyrazolopyrimidine compounds of Formula (I) as inhibitors of mammalian Target Of Rapamycin (mTOR) kinase, which is also known as FRAP, RAFT, RAPT or SEP. The compounds may be used in the treatment of cancer and other disorders where mTOR is deregulated. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrrolo[3,2-e]pyrimidine or dipyrazolopyrimidine compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Zhaoyang Meng, Arshad Siddiqui, Panduranga Abdulla P. Reddy, Mehul F. Patel, Yang Nan
  • Publication number: 20140168162
    Abstract: A display includes a display area that emits light and a border region surrounding at least a portion of the light emitting region. A light guide plate is overlaying the display area. A lighting module is operatively interconnected with the light guide plate to provide light to the light guide plate and positioned within the border region, and a one camera module is operatively interconnected with the light guide plate to sense light from the light guide plate and positioned within the border region. The display determines a position of a touch on the light guide plate by determining a location of frustrated total internal reflection within the light guide plate as a result of the touch on the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Miao LIAO, Ahmet Mufit FERMAN, Xiaofan FENG, Philip B. COWAN
  • Publication number: 20140167100
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: an FET; a MOSFET having a drain thereof connected with a source of the FET; a resistor having one end thereof connected with a gate of the FET and having the other end thereof connected with a source of the MOSFET; and a diode having an anode thereof connected with the gate of the FET and having a cathode thereof connected with the source of the MOSFET.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuhji ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20140168181
    Abstract: A shift register is disclosed which includes, at respective stages, unit circuits (11) each including (i) a flip-flop (11a) including first and second CMOS circuits and (ii) a signal generation circuit (11b) for generating an output signal (SROUTk) for the current stage with use of an output (Q, QB) of the flip-flop (11a), the shift register including a floating control circuit (11c) between a gate terminal of an output transistor (Tr7) of the signal generation circuit (11b) and a Q terminal. This makes it possible to reduce a circuit scale of a display driving circuit without causing a shift register to malfunction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shige Furuta, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Makoto Yokoyama, Seijirou Gyouten
  • Publication number: 20140168199
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present application, a display controller is capable of changing a refresh rate, indicative of how often a screen displayed on a display device having a plurality of pixels is switched, between a low refresh rate of 40 Hz and a normal refresh rate of 60 Hz and generates (i) a dot clock (reference clock) serving as a timing signal indicative of a timing of operation in the display device, (ii) video data indicative of an image to be displayed on the screen, (iii) Hsync for defining a horizontal period of a display on the screen, and (vi) Vsync for defining a vertical period of the display on the screen, so as to supply the dot clock, the video data, Hsync, and Vsync to the display device, wherein the display controller includes a dot clock generation circuit for generating the reference clock whose frequency is constant without depending on a change of the refresh rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yanagi, Takuji Miyamoto, Atsuhito Murai
  • Publication number: 20140168548
    Abstract: Provide is a stereoscopic display device that is capable of, while preventing the crosstalk ratio from deteriorating, increasing the brightness during 3D display, switching 2D display and 3D display without decreases in the resolution, and achieving a switching response speed at the same level as that in the parallax barrier method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehiro Murao, Takuto Yoshino, Hiroshi Fukushima, Tomoo Takatani
  • Publication number: 20140168586
    Abstract: Several aspects of the present invention provide a liquid crystal composition capable of shortening the takt time and achieving excellent display qualities, and a liquid crystal display device and a method for producing a liquid crystal display device which use the liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition of several aspects of the present invention includes a liquid crystal material and one or more kinds of radical polymerizable monomers, at least one kind of the radical polymerizable monomers being a compound generating radicals through a self-cleavage reaction by exposure to light and having at least two radical polymerizable groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Yuichiro Yamada, Satoshi Enomoto, Yuki Hara, Hideo Kikuchi