Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8653059
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to substituted six-membered heterocyclic compounds 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 obesity and diabetes, 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: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Tesfaye Biftu, Danqing Feng, Ann E. Weber, Jason M. Cox, Xiaoxia Qian, Jinyou Xu
  • Patent number: 8654157
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image display device including an image signal input section (2), an overshoot operation section (3) that, when an image signal is inputted from outside one frame at a time, corrects the gradation level of the inputted image signal for a frame, a frame memory (4) that stores the corrected image signal of the frame, and a sub-frame division processing section (5) that time-divides the corrected and stored image signal of the frame into a plurality of sub-frame periods. The overshoot operation section (3) corrects the gradation level of an image signal of a frame according to a relation between the corrected gradation level of the image signal of a frame immediately preceding the frame, which is stored of the frame memory (4), and the gradation level of the image signal of the frame. Thus, the costs can be reduced, the device can be made compact, and the power consumption can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Asahi Yamato, Kohzoh Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8654290
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (1) includes a first substrate (2), a second substrate (3) provided to face the first substrate (2), a liquid crystal layer (4) sandwiched between the first substrate (2) and the second substrate (3), a first polarizing plate (5) and a second polarizing plate (6) respectively provided on a side of the first substrate (2) and a side of the second substrate (3) which are opposed to sides to which the liquid crystal layer (4) is provided, and a common electrode (7) and a pixel electrode (9) provided to the liquid crystal layer (4) side of the first substrate (2). Alignment of liquid crystal molecules (4a) of the liquid crystal layer (4) is controlled by an electric field generated between the common electrode (7) and the pixel electrode (9). A polarizing layer (13) is provided on the liquid crystal layer (4) side of the second substrate (3) so as to be in contact with the liquid crystal layer (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Tadashi Ohtake, Takashi Katayama, Masako Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8654115
    Abstract: A gate driver includes: a scan signal output circuit for performing alternately scanning whereby either odd-numbered scan signal lines or even-numbered scan signal lines are sequentially driven and scanning whereby the remaining scan signal lines are sequentially driven; a rise counter circuit for sensing the rise count for a clock signal in a HIGH level period of an externally supplied start signal; a scan sequence setup circuit for setting up a scan sequence to be followed by the scan signal output circuit according to the rise count; and a start signal generating circuit for generating a start signal to be supplied to a next scan signal line driver circuit. Hence, the resultant scan signal line driver circuit and method thereof is capable of producing high quality images at low cost while restricting power consumption and heat generation by a data signal line driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8651696
    Abstract: The light-emitting device includes: a substrate which has a single layer structure in which a conductive member is partially provided on a surface of the substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements which are directly provided on the surface of the substrate so as to be electrically connected with the conductive member; a first light reflection resin layer; a second light reflection resin layer which is provided in a looped shape on the surface of the substrate so as to surround an area in which the plurality of light-emitting elements are provided; and a sealing resin which covers the plurality of light-emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Ishizaki, Tomokazu Nada, Makoto Agatani, Makoto Matsuda, Shinji Osaki, Tatsuya Morioka, Hitoshi Matsushita, Toyonori Uemura, Toshio Hata
  • Patent number: 8654049
    Abstract: Each of pixels of a liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a reflective region R and a transmissive region T. A pixel electrode 14 includes a reflective pixel electrode 15 and a transparent pixel electrode 14. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of vertical alignment films 32a, 32b respectively provided between the pixel electrode 14 and a liquid crystal layer 42 and between a counter electrode 24 and the liquid crystal layer 42; and a pair of alignment sustaining layers 34a, 34b respectively provided on surfaces of the pair of vertical alignment films on the liquid crystal layer side and formed of a photopolymerization product. The first substrate or the second substrate has a plurality of protrusions 23A provided in correspondence with the reflective regions of the plurality of pixels and protruding toward the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masatoshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 8654571
    Abstract: A static random-access memory (SRAM) cell which includes: a sampling switch and a feedback switch; and a first inverter and a second inverter connected in series whereby an output of the first inverter is connected to an input of the second inverter. An input of the first inverter is connected to a data input of the SRAM cell via the sampling switch, and to a data output of the SRAM cell independent of the feedback switch, an output of the second inverter is connected to the input of the first inverter via the feedback switch, and first and second clock inputs of the SRAM cell are configured to control the sampling switch and the feedback switch, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gareth John, Patrick Zebedee
  • Patent number: 8655350
    Abstract: A pn junction type solar cell is formed in a predetermined region on a substrate made of glass. Light emitted from a light emitting unit reaches an n-type semiconductor layer after it passed through substrate. The solar cell generates electromotive force corresponding to a quantity of the emitted light. A control circuit, a mask ROM, a transmitting circuit and an antenna are formed on an upper side of the solar cell. A surface of a semiconductor storage device is entirely covered with an insulating film to block entry of outside air. The insulating film is typically formed of physicochemically stable glass or silicon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Kyoto University, Keio University
    Inventors: Shigeki Imai, Yukihiro Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ochi, Naohisa Ohta, Sadayasu Ono
  • Patent number: 8654050
    Abstract: A multi-primary-color liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is adapted to conduct a display operation in at least four primary colors. The device has a plurality of pixels that form at least two different types of subsets. The device can perform rendering processing in which at least one of the pixels that form a first one of the at least two different types of subsets lends a luminance to a second type of subset. Each pixel includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel that could have mutually different luminance. The second type of subset borrows a luminance from one of the first and second sub-pixels of the at least one pixel that has the higher luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shun Ueki, Kohzoh Nakamura, Akiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8654108
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device provided with a monolithic gate driver, a panel frame area is to be reduced as compared with a conventional configuration so that the device size can be reduced. In a region on an array substrate located outside of a display region, a third metal (503) is formed as a metal film in addition to a source metal (501) and a gate metal (502). The source metal (501) forms a wiring pattern that includes source electrodes of thin film transistors disposed in a pixel circuit and a gate driver, and the gate metal (502) forms a wiring pattern that includes gate electrodes of the thin film transistors. The third metal (503) is electrically connected to at least one of the source metal (501) and the gate metal (502) through a contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Tanaka, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Junya Shimada, Takuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8651683
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source, a chassis, a reflection sheet, a spacer, and a press member. The chassis includes a bottom plate disposed on a side opposite to a light output side with respect to the light source and houses the light source. The reflection sheet includes a bottom portion disposed along the bottom plate and a rising portion rising from the bottom portion toward the light output side and reflects light. The spacer is arranged between the bottom plate and the rising portion. The press member has a press surface pressing the rising portion from the light output side. The press member and the spacer have mounting structures with which the press member is mounted to the spacer by moving the press member in a direction along the rising portion and to hold the press member to the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasumori Kuromizu
  • Patent number: 8653531
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thin film transistor wherein an ON current is increased and a leak current is reduced. The channel layer 60 of the TFT 10 is formed of a crystalline silicon, and the lower surface of one end of the channel layer 60 is electrically connected to the surface of an n+ silicon layer 40a, and the lower surface of the other end is electrically connected to the surface of an n+ silicon layer 40b. Furthermore, the side surface of said end of the channel layer 60 is electrically connected to a source electrode 50a, and the side surface of the other end is electrically connected to a drain electrode 50b. Thus, a barrier that makes electrons, which act as carriers, not easily transferred is formed on the boundary between the source electrode 50a and the channel layer 60. As a result, the ON current that flows when the TFT 10 is in the ON state can be increased, and the leak current that flows when the TFT is in the OFF state can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohsuke Kanzaki, Yudai Takanishi, Yoshiki Nakatani
  • Patent number: 8654116
    Abstract: A signal conversion circuit is disclosed which is suitably used in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device, and a multiprimary liquid crystal display device having such a signal conversion circuit. A signal conversion circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention is for use in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device, and converts an input video signal to a multiprimary signal corresponding to four or more primary colors. When generating a multiprimary signal for displaying dark skin, the signal conversion circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention applies a conversion to the video signal so that a color difference ?u?v?=((u??u60?)2+(v??v60?)2) is 0.03 or less, the color difference ?u?v? being defined by CIE1976 chromaticity coordinates (u?, v?) representing a chromaticity when the pixel is viewed from the frontal direction and CIE1976 chromaticity coordinates (u60?, v60?) representing a chromaticity when the pixel is viewed from a 60° oblique direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Tomohiko Mori, Shun Ueki, Takao Muroi
  • Patent number: 8654299
    Abstract: Provided is an active matrix substrate manufacturing method, including the steps of: selectively forming a laminated structure pattern, by forming the laminated structure on a glass substrate (2), by forming a first photosensitive resin pattern (PR) on the laminated structure, and by selectively forming the laminated structure pattern using the first photosensitive resin pattern (PR), the laminated structure including a metal layer (a scanning signal line (11) material), a gate insulative layer (30), and a semiconductor layer (31, 33) (transistor material); fluorinating a surface of the first photosensitive resin pattern (PR) by dry-etching with fluorine gas; applying a coating-type transparent insulative resin (60) onto the glass substrate (2) to fill a space in the laminated structure pattern; and removing the fluorinated first photosensitive resin pattern (PR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyohiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 8654266
    Abstract: An optical sensor is provided with a photodiode (D1) which receives light in a first range, including light to be detected, and a photodiode (D2) which receives light in a second range other than the light to be detected. For instance, the photodiode (D1) receives light at all the incident angles, and the photodiode (D2) has a light blocking film on an incident light path so as to selectively receive only the incident light from the oblique directions. The differential between the output from the photodiode (D1) and that from the photodiode (D2) is read out as sensor output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromi Katoh, Kohei Tanaka, Christopher Brown
  • Patent number: 8655277
    Abstract: A workspace energy management method and system control the power state of workspace appliances using multi-factor presence detection and mobile phone identity verification. Multifactor presence detection substantially reduces the risk that workspace appliances will be powered-up in response to erroneous detection of presence at the workspace (e.g., false positive). Mobile phone identity verification, which verifies that the office worker's mobile phone is at the workspace (and thus that the office worker is also likely at the workspace) before workspace appliances are powered-up, prevents workspace appliances from being inadvertently powered-up by personnel other than the office worker, but without compromising worker privacy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Basil Isaiah Jesudason, Craig Thompson Whittle, Mary Louise Bourret
  • Patent number: 8654751
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus according to the present invention includes: an encoding section; a modulation section; a variable-SF spreading section that performs spreading with variable SF according to control information A from a control section; an IDFT section that performs IDFT on output from the spreading section; a GI inserting section; a parallel/serial conversion section that converts output from the GI inserting section into a serial data sequence; a digital/analog conversion section; and an RF section that transmits a signal from an antenna after converting the signal to a frequency band for analog signal transmission and controlling it to an appropriate transmission power. The control section is configured to generate control information A for determining the variable SF and input the information A to the variable-SF spreading section and the RF section. In control information A, SF is varied depending on transmission power required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Minoru Kubota, Hideo Namba, Shimpei Toh, Kazunari Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 8655264
    Abstract: A communication system includes a unicast base station device, a multicast base station device, and a mobile station device. Before receiving information concerning a multicast service, the mobile station device transmits, to a position register server, identification information identifying a reception area in which a multicast service is provided. When receiving incoming call information indicating that information concerning a unicast service has been received, the multicast base station device transmits the incoming call information to the mobile station device. The mobile station device receives the incoming call information even while receiving the information concerning the multicast service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kameno, Koichi Tsunekawa, Katsutoshi Ishikura, Yoshio Konno
  • Patent number: 8653260
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and method of using the same in the treatment or prevention of diseases mediated by the activation of ?3-adrenoceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Richard Berger, Lehua Chang, Scott D. Edmondson, Stephen D. Goble, Sookhee Nicole Ha, Nam Fung Kar, Ihor E. Kopka, Bing Li, Gregori J. Morriello, Chris R. Moyes, Ding-Ming Shen, Liping Wang, Cheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 8654153
    Abstract: A projection device for projecting an image includes: a distance detector that detects the distance between the projection device and a measurement object onto which the image is to be projected; and an image projector that projects a scale image in actual size onto the measurement object based on the distance detected by the distance detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuji Okamoto