Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20130335673
    Abstract: A display device (100) is provided with: a display panel (110); a light guide member (150) provided in a frame shape at a periphery of the display panel (110) on the viewing side, the light guide member (150) guiding the light that performs image display on the display panel (110) to outside of the display panel (110); and a transparent sheet-shaped covering member (140) laminated on the surface of the display panel (110) on the viewing side, with a portion of the covering member (140) provided in-between the light guide member (150) and the display panel (110). The light guide member (150) is bonded to the surface of the covering member (140) by an adhesive agent (151).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Publication number: 20130334530
    Abstract: The invention provides a thin film transistor that can reduce an off-current flowing in end-parts in a channel width direction of a channel layer and a manufacturing method therefor. Widths of a source electrode (160a) and a drain electrode (160b) are smaller than a width of a channel layer (140). Accordingly, in the channel layer (140), low resistance regions (140b) are formed to surround respectively the source electrode (160a) and the drain electrode (160b). A high resistance region (140a) having a higher resistance value than those of the low resistance regions (140b) remains not only in the region sandwiched between the two low resistance regions (140b), but also in the end parts in the channel width direction. As a result, in a TFT (100), the high resistance region (140a) is extended not only to the channel region sandwiched between the source electrode (160a) and the drain electrode (160b), but also to the end parts in the channel width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sumio Katoh, Hidehito Kitakado
  • Publication number: 20130335940
    Abstract: A wiring substrate (11) includes: a substrate; and, formed upon the substrate, a plurality of wiring lines, a plurality of circuit elements, and a plurality of connecting terminals (51) connected via the plurality of wiring lines. Each of the plurality of connecting terminals (51) includes a pair of protrusion parts (50), forming a depression part (60) between the pair of protrusion parts (50), and a depression electrode (52) that is disposed in the depression part (60) and that at least partially covers each protrusion of the pair of protrusion parts (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Matsui, Motoji Shiota, Hiroki Nakahama
  • Publication number: 20130337498
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sensor including a detection unit having a detection electrode and a polymer layer that is disposed on the detection electrode and includes a mold having a three-dimensional structure complementary to a steric structure of a microorganism to be detected. The sensor detects the microorganism based on a state of capturing the microorganism in the mold. The polymer layer is formed by a manufacturing method including: a polymerization step of polymerizing a monomer in the presence of the microorganism to be detected, to form the polymer layer having captured the microorganism on the detection electrode; a destruction step of partially destroying the microorganism captured in the polymer layer; and a peroxidation step of peroxidizing the polymer layer to release the microorganism from the polymer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiho Tokonami, Hiroshi Shiigi, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Mugihei Ikemizu, Mari Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130336261
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke AKIMOTO, Tatsushi AIBA, Seiji SATO, Shohei YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20130334528
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a semiconductor layer, a plurality of electrode portions each overlapping the semiconductor layer, and an insulating film placed between the plurality of electrode portions to lie on the semiconductor layer is fabricated. The fabrication method includes the steps of: forming an oxide semiconductor layer part of which is covered with the insulating film; forming a conductive material layer to cover the oxide semiconductor layer and the insulating film; forming the plurality of electrode portions from the conductive material layer by photolithography and plasma dry etching, to expose part of the oxide semiconductor layer from the plurality of electrode portions and the insulating film; and removing the part of the oxide semiconductor layer exposed from the plurality of electrode portions and the insulating film to form the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsunobu Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20130335989
    Abstract: A headlamp (1) includes a semiconductor laser (3); a light-emitting element (7) that emits light in response to laser light emitted from the semiconductor laser (3); a heat-conducting member (13) that receives heat generated by the light-emitting element (7) through a light-emitting-element facing surface (13a); and a gap layer (15) that is disposed between the light-emitting element (7) and the light-emitting-element facing surface (13a) and that conducts the heat generated by the light-emitting element (7) to the light-emitting-element facing surface (13a). The gap layer (15) contains at least an inorganic amorphous material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Rina Sato, Katsuhiko Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20130335374
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a plurality of drive lines and a plurality of sense lines, a sampling switch connected to the sense lines, and an integral circuit connected to the sense lines through the sampling switch. The sampling switch is arranged to keep an on- or off-state for a certain time (P) from a moment at which a voltage of a source bus line is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sugita, Shinji Yamagishi, Kazutoshi Kida
  • Publication number: 20130335531
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for projecting a grid pattern, and more particularly, to an apparatus for projecting a grid pattern that projects an image of a grid pattern onto a test object during a three-dimensional measurement. The apparatus for projecting a grid pattern comprises: a camera which takes, as an input, a grid pattern image using grid pattern projecting means including a grid pattern signal generating unit and a grid pattern emitting unit, wherein the grid pattern signal generating unit receives grid pattern information to emit light in the form of grid pattern onto the test object and generates a grid pattern signal, and controls the grid pattern signal, wherein the grid pattern emitting unit controls a micro-mirror for a light source and a laser scanner using the grid pattern signal to emit a grid pattern; information processing means for extracting a three-dimensional image; and output means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keyoung Ja Lee, Su yeoung Choi, Su Heyng Choi
  • Publication number: 20130340019
    Abstract: A playback device for playing back a program, including a program information acquisition unit configured to acquire program identification information for identifying a program; and a memory unit configured to store an adjustment item setting file for setting an adjustment item related to playback of a program for each program identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshinori Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20130335309
    Abstract: A method for adapting display behavior on an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining an image. The method also includes determining a backlight level based on the image. The method further includes determining a compensated image based on the image and the backlight level. The method additionally includes determining a refresh indicator based on the image. The method also includes determining pixel data based on the backlight level, the compensated image and the refresh indicator. The method further includes sending the pixel data, the refresh indicator and the backlight level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Joseph Kerofsky, Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20130336688
    Abstract: A fixing apparatus of the invention includes a pressure roller 6 and a fixing roller 7 that make press-contact with each other and an oil roller 8 that makes press-contact with either the pressure roller 6 or the fixing roller 7, and passes a recording sheet through a nip area between the pressure roller 6 and the fixing roller 7 to fix toner on the recording sheet. The fixing apparatus also includes: a pressure roller gear 21 and an oil roller gear 22 that transmit a rotation of a shaft of the pressure roller 6 that makes press-contact with the oil roller 8 to a shaft of the oil roller 8; and a one-way clutch 23 that causes the oil roller 8 to idly rotate in a direction of a driven rotation when the oil roller 8 is driven to rotate by pressing against the pressure roller 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaya Asakawa, Hirokazu Nakamura, Takashi Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20130336276
    Abstract: A transmitting device is a transmitting device configured to transmit a signal, and is provisioned with a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to perform a frequency clipping to remove a portion of a spectrum of the signal to transmit on the basis of a control information representing a frequency band used by the transmitting device to transmit data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Takahashi, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Kazunari Yokomakura, Osamu Nakamura, Jungo Goto
  • Publication number: 20130336160
    Abstract: A method for sending feedback information by a User Equipment (UE) is described. The method includes determining uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configurations for multiple cells. At least two of the multiple cells have different uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configurations. The method also includes determining first feedback factors for the multiple cells based on a second feedback factor. The method further includes sending Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) based on the first feedback factors for the multiple cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20130336793
    Abstract: A cross-flow fan includes a plurality of fan blades provided to be circumferentially spaced apart from each other. The fan blade has an inner edge portion arranged on the radially inner side to/from which air flows in/out, and an outer edge portion arranged on the radially outer side to/from which air flows in/out. Fan blade has a blade surface extending between the inner edge portion and the outer edge portion. The blade surface includes a pressure surface arranged on the rotation direction side of the cross-flow fan and a suction surface arranged on the back side of the pressure surface. When cut along a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis of the cross-flow fan, the fan blade has a blade cross-sectional shape in which a concave portion concave from the pressure surface is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukishige Shiraichi, Masaki Ohtsuka
  • Publication number: 20130337597
    Abstract: A vapor deposition device includes a vapor deposition source (60) having a plurality of vapor deposition source openings (61) that discharge vapor deposition particles (91), a limiting unit (80) having a plurality of limiting openings (82), and a vapor deposition mask (70) in which a plurality of mask openings (71) are formed only in a plurality of vapor deposition regions (72) where the vapor deposition particles that have passed through a plurality of limiting openings reach. The plurality of vapor deposition regions are arranged along a second direction that is orthogonal to the normal line direction of the substrate (10) and the movement direction of the substrate, with non-vapor deposition regions (73) where the vapor deposition particles do not reach being sandwiched therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawato, Satoshi Inoue, Tohru Sonoda, Satoshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130336418
    Abstract: A terminal device notifies a base station device about control information associated with a receive quality of the terminal device. The base station device performs data modulation on a plurality of pieces of transmit data for the terminal device, by using a plurality of different data modulation schemes one by one, based on the control information, and spatially multiplexes the plurality of pieces of transmit data after the data modulation over a single wireless resource and transmits a spatially multiplexed signal. The terminal device receives the signal with the plurality of pieces of transmit data spatially multiplexed, and detects desirable transmit data from the receive signal, based on a first channel matrix which represents channel state information between the base station device and the terminal device and a second channel matrix in which the first channel matrix is multiplied by a transform matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Hiroshi Nakano, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Shimpei To
  • Publication number: 20130335649
    Abstract: An optical component (1) is switchable between a directional mode and a 2-D mode. The optical component (1) comprising a lens array and an electro-optic layer, for example a liquid crystal layer, disposed in the path of light through the lens array. In the 2-D display mode the lens array has an optical effect on light passing through the component and the electro-optic layer at least partially nullifies the effect. For example the electro-optic layer may, in the 2-D display mode, scatter light or diverge light so as to nullify the focusing effect of the lens array. The optical component (1) may be disposed in the path of light through an image display panel (2) to form a display that may be switched between a directional display mode, eg a 3-D display mode, and a 2-D display mode by suitably switching the optical component (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jonathan Mather, Nathan James Smith
  • Publication number: 20130336282
    Abstract: A transmitter apparatus to transmit to a plurality of receiver apparatuses a data signal at the same timing and on the same frequency, includes a transmitter unit that transmits a demodulation reference signal addressed to a first receiver apparatus and a demodulation reference signal addressed to a second receiver apparatus different from the first receiver apparatus at the same timing and on the same frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakano, Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Alvaro Ruiz Deldago
  • Patent number: D696483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Carts Management LLC
    Inventors: Tim Otterlee, Dave Hager