Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 8743090Abstract: Disclosed is a display device equipped with an input section that can be operated accurately. A display device equipped with an input section (50) of the present invention includes a correcting section (39), which includes a sensor location detecting section (28) that detects the location of the optical axis of light projected from the light-projecting section. To the sensor location detecting section (28), the location information of a pointer is inputted as the location of the optical axis of the light. The correcting section (39) also includes a sensor shape detecting section (29) that detects the shape of the light-receiving region receiving the light projected from the light-projecting section. The display device equipped with an input section (50) further includes a pointer location correcting section that corrects the pointer location.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoichi Kuge
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Patent number: 8743042Abstract: Provided are a display device capable of preventing image noise arising from changes in potential of a common electrode and auxiliary capacitor lines at the time of a switch between a normal mode and a memory mode and a method for driving such a display device. In a case where it is necessary to cause the common electrode and the auxiliary capacitor lines to change in potential along with a switch between the normal mode and the memory mode, the change in potential is made while electrically connecting a node of each memory circuit to a corresponding source line with the corresponding source line having its potential fixed and with the memory circuit having its a switch circuit in a conductive state.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Shige Furuta, Seijirou Gyouten, Shuji Nishi
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Patent number: 8745285Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless transmission system provided with: a sink device which, when AV data transmitted by means of multicast wireless transmission from a source device is reproduced, performs reproduction control in accordance with the wireless connection state of another sink device that reproduces the AV data from the same source device; and the source device which is capable of determining the wireless connection state and the reproduction control state of the sink device. When the AV data obtained by means of multicast wireless transmission from the source device (1) is reproduced, the sink device (2a) acquires state information indicating the wireless connection state of the other sink device and adjusts reproduction control for the AV data of the actual sink device (2a) in accordance with this state information.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yohichi Eguchi, Keisuke Tsuji, Ryosuke Ohmae, Masayuki Etoh, Seiji Imanishi, Shinichi Katoh, Takuya Kinoshita
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Patent number: 8742440Abstract: Disclosed is a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element comprising a p-type nitride semiconductor layer 1, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer 3 placed in order above a nitride semiconductor active layer, wherein the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 1 and p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2 each contain Al, the average Al composition of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 1 is equivalent to the average Al composition of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2, the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 3 has a smaller band gap than the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2, the p-type impurity concentration of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2 and the p-type impurity concentration of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 3 are both lower than the p-type impurity concentration of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 1, and a method for producing same.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mayuko Fudeta, Eiji Yamada
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Patent number: 8742507Abstract: A variable resistive element configured to reduce a forming voltage while reducing a variation in forming voltage among elements, a method for producing it, and a highly integrated nonvolatile semiconductor memory device provided with the variable resistive element are provided. The variable resistive element includes a resistance change layer (first metal oxide film) and a control layer (second metal oxide film) having contact with a first electrode sandwiched between the first electrode and a second electrode. The control layer includes a metal oxide film having a low work function (4.5 eV or less) and capable of extracting oxygen from the resistance change layer. The first electrode includes a metal having a low work function similar to the above metal, and a material having oxide formation free energy higher than that of an element included in the control layer, to prevent oxygen from being thermally diffused from the control layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yukio Tamai
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Patent number: 8743175Abstract: A photographing apparatus has two binocular stereoscopic modes. In two-take photography mode, a 3D image file is generated from left and right monocular images acquired by performing monocular photographing twice, and the 3D image file thus generated is recorded. In one-take photography mode, a 3D image file is generated from left and right monocular images acquired by performing binocular photographing once, and the 3D image file thus generated is recorded. When the 3D image file is recorded, a homogeneity tag is recorded in 3D metadata, as tag information of the header data portion of the 3D image file. The homogeneity tag is information about the homogeneity of the two monocular images and describes whether the two monocular images have been acquired in the one-take photography mode in which monocular images highly homogeneous are provided, or in the two-take photography mode in which monocular images not so homogeneous are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2008Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sony CorporationInventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Ken Mashitani, Toshio Nomura, Tadashi Uchiumi, Hidehiko Sekizawa
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Patent number: 8744778Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention provides methods of determining whether an agent is more like a partial agonist of a target molecule than a full agonist of the same target molecule. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods to select a candidate compound that may reduce blood plasma glucose concentration in a mammal. Populations of genes are provided that are useful in the practice of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Yejun Tan, Hongyue Dai, Pek Yee Lum, John Ryan Thompson, Joel Peter Berger, Eric Stanley Muise, Richard F. Raubertas, Kenny Kin Chung Wong
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Patent number: 8742693Abstract: A switching power supply circuit includes a full-wave rectification circuit that performs full-wave rectification of an AC input voltage so as to generate a primary voltage, a transformer that transforms the primary voltage into a secondary voltage utilizing electromagnetic induction between first and second isolated windings, a rectifying and smoothing circuit that generates a DC output voltage from the secondary voltage so as to supply the DC output voltage to a load, a primary current control circuit that performs on/off control of primary current based on a result of comparison between a primary current detection voltage corresponding to the primary current flowing in the first winding and a first reference voltage, and a reference voltage correction circuit for monitoring an on-duty ratio of secondary current flowing in the second winding so as to correct the first reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masakazu Ikeda
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Patent number: 8743047Abstract: At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: pixels each of which includes a plurality of sub-pixels; and scanning signal lines provided in a display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines, the groups being sequentially selected, the polarity POL of signal electric potentials being inverted when the selected group is changed from a preceding group to a succeeding group which is selected immediately after the preceding group, a plurality of (for example, two) dummy scanning periods being inserted between a horizontal scanning period corresponding to last horizontal scanning (scanning of G23) in the preceding group and a horizontal scanning period corresponding to first horizontal scanning (scanning of G2) in the succeeding group, and a scanning signal line (for example, G2) which belongs to a group selected after the preceding group being subjected to dummy scanning during each dummy scanning period so as toType: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
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Patent number: 8743088Abstract: A pointing device including a touching surface, a light emitting diode, an imaging element, and a first light control part. A fingertip is placed on the touching surface. The light emitting diode illuminates the touching surface from a side opposite to a side where the fingertip is placed. The imaging element receives light reflected from the fingertip. The first light control part controls light, which is emitted from the light emitting diode and reaches the touching surface, so that the light is evenly incident to the touching surface. The pointing device improves detection accuracy and prevents malfunctions, even when there is deviation in an output from a light source. In addition, an electronic apparatus including an input device can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takahiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 8743841Abstract: A mobile station transmits to a base station a plurality of pre-coding indicators using respective feedback schemes of a plurality of kinds of feedback schemes that can be set simultaneously by the base station. The mobile station receives from the base station a downlink signal on which pre-coders corresponding to one of the transmitted pre-coding indicators have been applied, and a pre-coder confirmation representing whether the corresponding pre-coders have been applied. The pre-coders represented by the pre-coder confirmation are associated with one of the plural feedback schemes.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Akimoto, Tatsushi Aiba, Seiji Sato, Shohei Yamada
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Patent number: 8741525Abstract: The resin coated carrier is used with a toner in which an external additive having an average primary particle size of 50 nm or more is added to a toner particle, and has a carrier core and a resin coating layer on the surface of the carrier core. In the resin coated carrier, the following expression (1) is satisfied: 0.5??log {(A/C)/(B/C)}?2.5??(1) wherein A represents a volume resistance value (?/cm) of the resin coated carrier in an electric field of 1000 V/cm that is obtained by conducting a stirring test, B represents a volume resistance value (?/cm) of the resin coated carrier in an electric field of 1000 V/cm before the stirring test, and C represents a volume resistance value (?/cm) of the carrier core in an electric field of 1000 V/cm.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2009Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Wada, Takanori Kamoto, Tadashi Iwamatsu, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Hiroyuki Hirakawa, Yoshinori Mutoh, Takashi Hara, Hirofumi Kanda, Yoshio Ichii
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Patent number: 8743286Abstract: A peripheral control system enhances expandability in the operation of peripheral by enabling the customization and display of operation panels for each of the peripherals, regardless of whether any operation panel exists at the display device side. The peripheral control system is configured by connecting a TV and a recorder via an HDMI connection. The TV stores operation panel information that includes array information for arraying, on the screen, image data of the operation buttons that comprise the operation panel of the recorder. The recorder stores image data of the operation buttons, and sends, according to operation panel information obtained from the TV, the aforementioned stored image data of the operation buttons in association with the array information to the TV. The TV disposes and displays image data of the operation buttons sent from the recorder, at a position that is in accordance with the array information.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Mamoru Oda, Kenichi Kimura, Tatsuya Yoshida, Yoshinori Satoh
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Patent number: 8741910Abstract: Compounds of Formula I are capable of modulating the body's production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (“cGMP”) and are generally suitable for the therapy and prophylaxis of diseases which are associated with a disturbed cGMP balance. The invention furthermore relates to processes for preparing compounds of the Formula I, to their use for the therapy and prophylaxis of the abovementioned diseases and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose, and to pharmaceutical preparations which comprise compounds of the Formula I.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Linda L. Brockunier, Jian Guo, Emma R. Parmee, Subharekha Raghavan, Keith Rosauer, Darby Schmidt, John E. Stelmach
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Patent number: 8742110Abstract: Substituted spirocyclic amines of structural formula (I) are selective antagonists of the somatostatin subtype receptor 5 (SSTR5) and are useful for the treatment, control or prevention of disorders responsive to antagonism of SSTR5, such as Type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, lipid disorders, obesity, atherosclerosis, Metabolic Syndrome, depression, and anxiety.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Joseph L. Duffy, Jianming Bao, Debra L. Ondeyka, Sriram Tyagarajan, Patrick Shao, Feng Ye, Revathi Katipally, Aaron Zwicker, Edward C. Sherer, Michael A. Plotkin, Remond Moningka, Zahid Hussain, Harold B. Wood, Feroze Ujjainwalla, F. Anthony Romero, Paul E. Finke, Yi Zang, Weiguo Liu
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Patent number: 8741329Abstract: The subject invention provides a drug delivery system comprising at least one compartment comprising (i) a drug-loaded thermoplastic polymer core layer, (ii) a drug-loaded thermoplastic polymer intermediate layer and (iii) a non-medicated thermoplastic polymer skin covering the intermediate layer, wherein said core layer is loaded with crystals of a first (pharmaceutically) active compound and said intermediate layer is loaded with, crystals of the second (pharmaceutically) active compound.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V.Inventors: Wouter de Graaff, Raymond Zeeman
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Patent number: 8743095Abstract: A display device as an electronic apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a clock signal wiring (104) for connecting to a source driver circuit; a power supply wiring (105) formed at a position where the power supply wiring (105) does not overlap with a projection plane of the clock signal wiring (104), so as to sandwich at least an insulating layer with a layer in which the clock signal wiring (104) is formed; and a capacitive electrode (109) electrically connected to the clock signal wiring (104). The capacitive electrode (109) is formed so as to overlap at least partially with a projection plane of the power supply wiring (105). A capacitance (301) is formed between the capacitive electrode (109) and the power supply wiring (105).Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Moriwaki, Mayuko Sakamoto, Kenichi Ishii
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Patent number: 8743922Abstract: A laser device is disclosed that provides at least an ultraviolet laser beam and preferably both an ultraviolet laser beam and a visible laser beam. The laser device includes a semiconductor laser device (e.g. a laser diode) to generate visible laser light which is coupled into a frequency doubling crystal taking the form of a single crystal thin film frequency-doubling waveguide structure. The single crystal thin film frequency-doubling waveguide converts a portion of the visible light emitted by the laser diode into ultraviolet light. Both visible and ultraviolet laser light is emitted from the waveguide. As an example, the single crystal thin film frequency-doubling frequency doubling waveguide includes a frequency doubling crystal region composed of ?-BaB2O4 (?-BBO), a cladding region composed of materials that are transparent or nearly transparent at the wavelength of the ultraviolet laser light beam and a supporting substrate composed of any material.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tim Smeeton, Stewart Hooper, Edward Andrew Boardman, Robin Mark Cole
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Publication number: 20140146265Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device in which one pixel is divided into a plurality of sub-pixels, power consumption is reduced. A liquid crystal display device in which a pixel formation portion forming one pixel includes a first sub-pixel portion and a second sub-pixel portion is provided with a charge sharing circuit (50) for short-circuiting a CS bus line (CSL1) provided for the first sub-pixel portion and a CS bus line (CSL2) provided for the second sub-pixel portion to each other based on a short-circuit control signal (CTL). A CS voltage generating circuit (40) generates CS signals (CS1 and CS2) whose potentials change every predetermined period. The charge sharing circuit (50) short-circuits the CS bus line (CSL1) and the CS bus line (CSL2) to each other at timing at which the potentials of the CS signals (CS1 and CS2) change, based on the short-circuit control signal (CTL).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiko Nakamizo, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Takamitsu Suzuki, Akifumi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20140146097Abstract: An adjacent gradation correcting unit 11 performs processing for correcting gradations of sub-pixels to a video signal X2 after overshoot processing. When determining that a gradation of a target sub-pixel corresponds to a higher liquid crystal application voltage than that of a gradation of an adjacent sub-pixel, and that a gradation difference between the target sub-pixel and the adjacent sub-pixel is large, the adjacent gradation correcting unit 11 corrects the gradation of the adjacent sub-pixel so as to make the gradation difference smaller. In driving a liquid crystal panel 1, a video signal X3 after correction obtained by the adjacent gradation correcting unit 11 is used. With this, when displaying a specific color, such as red, green, or blue, it is possible to suppress a lateral electric field occurring between two sub-pixels that are adjacent to each other, and to improve response speed of the liquid crystal panel 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenichi Kimura