Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8691825
    Abstract: The instant invention provides for substituted fused pyrimidine compounds of Formula A that inhibit Akt activity: In particular, the compounds disclosed selectively inhibit one or two of the Akt isoforms. The invention also provides for compositions comprising such inhibitory compounds and methods of inhibiting Akt activity by administering the compound to a patient in need of treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Qi Chen, Mingxiang Cui, Bin Hu, Shuangxi Hu, Zhifa Pu, Philip E. Sanderson, Richard Soll, Xue Tang, Jiabing Wang, Yongjin Yan, Jinfeng Yao, Hongjie Zhang
  • Patent number: 8691827
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to amino tetrahydro-pyridopyrimidine compounds which are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of central nervous system disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Michael J. Breslin, Paul J. Coleman, Christopher D. Cox, Izzat T. Raheem, John D. Schreier
  • Patent number: 8693425
    Abstract: An ASN encoder of a mobile station apparatus generates transmission and reception capability information including information relating to one or a plurality of component carriers to be used for communication with a base station apparatus. A transmission and reception apparatus transmits the transmission and reception capability information to the base station apparatus. A controller controls the communication with the base station apparatus, using the one or the plurality of component carriers assigned by the base station apparatus based on the transmission and reception capability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Wahoh Oh
  • Patent number: 8691832
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel tricyclic heterocycles 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: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Duane A. Burnett, Zhiqiang Zhao, David Cole, Hubert Josien, Dmitri A. Pissarnitski, Thavalakulamgar Sasikumar, Wen-Lian Wu, Martin Domalski
  • Patent number: 8691833
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula I or a stereoisomer, tautomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein each variable in Formula 1 are as defined in the specification; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula I. Also disclosed are methods of inhibiting aspartyl protease, and in particular, the methods of treating cardiovascular diseases, cognitive and neurodegenerative diseases, and the methods of inhibiting of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, plasmepins, cathepsin D and protozoal enzymes. Also disclosed are methods of treating cognitive or neurodegenerative diseases using the compounds of formula I in combination with a cholinesterase inhibitor or a muscarinic m1 agonist or m2 antagonist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Pharmacopeia Inc.
    Inventors: Zhaoning Zhu, Brian McKittrick, Zhong-Yue Sun, Yuanzan C. Ye, Johannes H. Voight, Corey O. Strickland, Elizabeth M. Smith, Andrew W. Stamford, William J. Greenlee, Robert D. Mazzola, Jr., John P. Caldwell, Jared N. Cumming, Lingyan Wang, Yusheng Wu, Ulrich Iserloh, Xiaoiang Liu, Tao Guo, Thuy X.E. Le, Kurt W. Saionz, Suresh D. Babu, Rachael C. Hunter, Michelle L. Morris, Huizhong Gu, Gang Qian, Dawit Tadesse, Ying Huang, Guoqing Li, Jianping Pan, Jeffrey A. Misiaszek, Gaifa Lai, Jingqi Duo, Chuanxing Qu, Yuefei Shao
  • Patent number: 8691357
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet 1 for an optical data recording medium D1 from which a signal with a mark length shorter than the resolution limit of an optical system of a reproducing device is capable of being reproduced by reproduction light emitted during reproducing, the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet 1 having an adhesive transparent resin layer 11 to be disposed on an data recording layer 3 of the optical data recording medium D1, the transparent resin layer 11 having a (meth)acrylate copolymer containing no acidic group as a main component, the transparent resin layer 11 having a storage elastic modulus at 23° C. of 1.5×105 Pa or less and a gel fraction of 68 wt % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignees: Lintec Corporation, Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Taya, Takehito Nakayama, Hideharu Tajima, Yasuhiro Harada, Masaki Yamamoto, Hirohisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 8692960
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention has a pixel (P), which includes red, green, blue and yellow subpixels (R, G, B and Y). The chromaticity of the yellow subpixel (Y) is outside of a triangle that is defined by connecting together the respective chromaticities of the red, green and blue subpixels (R, G and B). And the respective aperture areas SR, SG, SB and SY of the red, green, blue, and yellow subpixels (R, G, B and Y) and the respective transmittances TR, TG, TB and TY of their associated red, green, blue, and yellow color filters (CR, CG, CB and CY) satisfy the inequality TY>[(SR+SG+SB+SY)(TR+TG+TB)?3(SR×TR+SG×TG+SB×TB)]/3SY.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshio Fujii
  • Patent number: 8692469
    Abstract: An LED drive circuit connectable to a phase control type light adjuster includes a first reference voltage generation portion that generates a first reference voltage, a second reference voltage generation portion that generates a second reference voltage according to a phase angle of the light adjuster, an input voltage detection portion that detects a size relationship between an input voltage and a threshold value voltage, a current draw-out portion that draws out a current in accordance with the first reference voltage or the second reference voltage from an electricity supply line that supplies electricity to an LED drive portion, and a switch portion that in accordance with a detection result by the input voltage, detection portion, performs switching between an output from the first reference voltage generation portion to the current draw-out portion and an output from the second reference voltage generation portion to the current draw-out portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Atsushi Kanamori, Hirohisa Warita, Takeshi Murata
  • Patent number: 8690142
    Abstract: A post-processing device includes an introductory conveying path, a processing tray, a paper receiving tray, an upper paper discharge roller, a lower paper discharge roller and a control section. The upper paper discharge roller and the lower paper discharge roller are disposed at an edge portion on the paper receiving tray's side of the processing tray. The upper paper discharge roller is capable of coming into contact with and away from the lower paper discharge roller. The control section causes the upper paper discharge roller to start a descending motion with a timing such that the upper paper discharge roller comes into contact with paper before the paper comes into contact with the paper receiving tray if the paper belongs to a second kind, where the paper of the second kind is lighter weight than that of a first kind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jinichi Nagata
  • Patent number: 8691672
    Abstract: A method is provided for consuming oxides in a silicon (Si) nanoparticle film. The method forms a colloidal solution film of Si nanoparticles overlying a substrate. The Si nanoparticle colloidal solution film is annealed at a high temperature in the presence of titanium (Ti). In response to the annealing, Si oxide is consumed in a resultant Si nanoparticle film. In one aspect, the consuming the Si oxide in the Si nanoparticle film includes forming Ti oxide in the Si nanoparticle film. Also in response to a low temperature annealing, solvents are evaporated in the colloidal solution film of Si nanoparticles. Si and Ti oxide molecules are sintered in the Si nanoparticle film in response to the high temperature annealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Themistokles Afentakis, Karen Yuri Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8692758
    Abstract: A display device of an embodiment of the present invention is a display device of an active matrix type, and includes a display driver supplied with image data included in serial data by serial transmission. The serial data has a first flag for specifying a polarity of voltage of a common electrode added thereto. The display driver generates, in accordance with a timing of a serial clock, a timing signal for a horizontal period for a data signal line driver, and a timing signal for a gate signal line driver. This realizes a display device capable of easily generating, within a driver IC, a timing signal for writing the image data in pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noboru Matsuda, Isao Takahashi, Takahiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8693793
    Abstract: A method for reducing signal overhead on an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a picture. The method also includes encoding the picture. The method further includes indicating a reference picture set (RPS) corresponding to the picture based on an initialized index value. The method additionally includes sending a bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Christopher A. Segall, Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20140093875
    Abstract: Nucleic acids encoding mammalian cytokine receptor, e.g., for cytokine IL-B50, purified proteins and fragments thereof. Antibodies, both polyclonal and monoclonal, are also provided. Methods of using the compositions for both diagnostic and therapeutic utilities are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Pedro A. Reche-Gallardo, Vassili Soumelis, Yong-Jun Liu, Rene de Waal Malefyt, J. Fernando Bazan, Robert A. Kastelein
  • Publication number: 20140091343
    Abstract: The present invention provides a color filter substrate manufacturing method which can prevent the occurrence of color mixing between adjacent pixels despite of the use of an inkjet method, and which are unlikely to cause flicker when used for displays such as televisions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakano, Yutaka Miyajima, Hirokazu Yoshioka, Keita Katayose
  • Publication number: 20140092338
    Abstract: A display module 1 of the present invention includes a first board 3, a second board 4, a base film 5, and a circuit member 2. The first board 3 and the second board 4 are bonded together to face with each other. The base film 5 is provided between the first board 3 and the second board 4 and extends outwardly from an end of the first board 3. The base film 5 has an insulating property and the extended portion is bent to an outer surface side of one of the first board 3 and the second board 4. The circuit member 2 is formed on the base film 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Miyazaki, Motoji Shiota, Takatoshi Kira, Gen Nagaoka, Seiji Muraoka, Makoto Tamaki, Keiji Aota, Yukio Shimizu, Takashi Matsui, Hiroki Nakahama, Hiroki Makino, Minoru Horino
  • Publication number: 20140095164
    Abstract: A control server (1) causes an analyzing section (15) to analyze (i) at least either of sensor information from a household sensor (10) and operation information on a household electric appliance and (ii) external information, and then originates a message to be directed to a user, the message being generated by a message generating section (16) in correspondence with the result of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki SONE, Yuka HAYANO, Kasumi HATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140092310
    Abstract: A video signal processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a motion vector detection unit and a plurality of interpolated image generation units. The motion vector detection unit detects an interpolated motion vector which represents a motion between a first broad image and a second broad image. Each of the interpolated image generation units generates an interpolated partial image corresponding to a divided area by using a first partial image of a first frame, a second partial image of a second frame, and the interpolated motion vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naohiro Hohjoh
  • Publication number: 20140092961
    Abstract: A system for decoding a video bitstream includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile and where each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Louis Joseph KEROFSKY, Sachin G. DESHPANDE
  • Patent number: D702392
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kaoru Ohuchi, Yasuo Kondou, Katsuyuki Sakouh, Naohiro Yamada
  • Patent number: RE44830
    Abstract: A simple, cost-effective stamping or molding in the nanometer range is enabled using a stamping surface or molding face with a surface layer having hollow chambers that have been formed by anodic oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Thomas Sawitowski