Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8604506
    Abstract: This invention provides a surface mounting type light emitting diode excellent in heat radiation performance, reliability and productivity. The surface mounting type light emitting diode includes a metallic base member, a semiconductor light emitting element having a bottom face fixedly bonded to a top face of the base member, and a metallic reflector joined to the top face of the base member with a heat conduction type adhesive sheet interposed therebetween, to surround the semiconductor light emitting element. Heat generated from the semiconductor light emitting element is transferred to the reflector via the base member and the heat conduction type adhesive sheet, and then is radiated to the outside. The metallic reflector can efficiently radiate the heat to the outside. The cutting margin provided for the reflector facilitates a dicing process, which improves productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Konishi, Toshio Hata, Taiji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 8605310
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus is provided with a preview image generating portion for generating a preview image of image data to be output in the unit of an output job, and an image display portion such as a touch panel for displaying the generated preview image. The image display portion displays a generation stop key for stopping generation of the preview image during the generation of the preview image so as to be selectable by a user, and displays a different screen in accordance with a generation state of the preview image when the generation stop key is selected by a user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukari Ebi
  • Patent number: 8603465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method for treating medical disorders mediated by mutations in the APC gene by administering an IGF1R inhibitor. Such disorders include, for example, familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme, Corp.
    Inventor: Siu-Long Yao
  • Patent number: 8605016
    Abstract: The display device substrate according to the present invention is arranged so that: a source line is provided on an area on which a pixel electrode is not provided, and a gap is provided between the source line and the pixel electrode, and a black matrix (light shielding film) which covers a surface of the source line overlaps with the pixel electrode. Thus, it is possible to prevent parasitic capacitance (Csd) between the pixel electrode and the source line from becoming uneven in a display area, so that it is possible to reduce display unevenness of a liquid crystal display device using the present display device substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihide Tsubata, Morihide Ohsaki, Masanori Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8605029
    Abstract: A display device is implemented that can suppress degradation in display quality caused by crosstalk, without causing an increase in frame size or an increase in power consumption. In an embodiment, each bistable circuit includes an output terminal that outputs a state signal; a thin film transistor having a drain terminal to which a high-level potential is provided, and a source terminal to which the output terminal is connected; a thin film transistor having a source terminal connected to a region netA connected to a gate terminal of the thin film transistor, and a gate terminal to which a clock is provided; a thin film transistor for increasing the potential of a region netZ connected to a drain terminal of the thin film transistor; and thin film transistors for decreasing the potentials of the netA, the netZ, and the output terminal, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiji Ohhashi
  • Patent number: 8606782
    Abstract: A segmentation description scheme for video material that includes references to segments of video contained in different programs. The segmentation description scheme may also interact with a presentation device to present the referenced segments to a user contiguously, without first storing the segments respectively referenced from the different programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Petrus J. L. van Beek, Ahmet Mufit Ferman
  • Patent number: 8604579
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device (1) comprising a substrate (2), a base coating film (3) disposed on the substrate (2), a base insulating film (4) disposed on the base coating film (3), and a semiconductor film (20) disposed on the base insulating film (4) and made of a polysilicon film. Below the semiconductor film (20), a light-shielding film (28) is formed, which is embedded in the base coating film (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Mitani, Yutaka Takafuji
  • Patent number: 8606195
    Abstract: In a mobile phone, a vibrator, arranged on a substrate, has two power supply terminals. The vibrator's first and second terminals are each connected to a control unit via a first wiring, a coil and a second wiring. A capacitor is connected between the two terminals' first wirings One end of an antenna sub-element is connected to the first terminal's first wiring and one end is connected to a radio circuit unit. An antenna unit operates at frequency ?2, corresponding to a communication frequency. The control unit and the vibrator operate at frequency ?1. The coils have a self-resonant frequency of ?2 and form a short-circuit connection at frequency ?1 and an open-circuit connection at frequency ?2. The capacitors form an open-circuit connection at frequency ?1 and a short-circuit connection at frequency ?2. This reduces the number of antenna component members mounted on a radio and an antenna's size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Suetake, Hiroyuki Takebe, Toshinori Kondo
  • Patent number: 8604195
    Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention relates to a novel class of substituted bicyclic piperidinyl- and piperazinylsulfonamide compounds useful to inhibit 11?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type-I, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more conditions associated with the expression of 11?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type-I using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Unmesh Shah, Craig D. Boyle, Samuel Chackalamannil
  • Patent number: 8603798
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method for increasing the yield of plasmid DNA production. The method includes the steps of selecting a highly productive clonal subtype of a strain of E. coli, including but not limited to the DH5 strain, harboring a DNA plasmid and cultivating said clonal subtype with fed-batch fermentation in a chemically-defined medium. The plasmid DNA production process described herein can generate record quantities of plasmid DNA when said highly productive clonal subtypes are cultivated on an industrial scale. The disclosed method can be used for the production of pharmaceutical grade DNA for use in polynucleotide vaccination and gene therapy treatment regimens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Michel Chartrain, Laura Kizer Bentley, Barbara Ann Krulewicz, Kristin M. Listner, Wen-jun Sun, Chanyong Brian Lee
  • Patent number: 8604949
    Abstract: A serial-to-parallel converter which includes n input latching elements; k intermediate latching elements, and n output latching elements configured to sample outputs of the k intermediate latching elements and a remaining (n?k) input latching elements of the n input latching elements, respectively, after the nth data of the n successive data has been sampled by the nth input latching element and before the kth data of a next n successive data in the serial input data stream has been sampled by the kth input latching element, wherein the n input latching elements and the k intermediate latching elements are transparent for one state of their clock input, and n and k are positive integers, where n>k.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gareth John, Patrick Zebedee
  • Patent number: 8606166
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a laser light source for irradiating an unfixed toner image formed on a recording sheet, and melts a toner by light from the laser light source to fix the toner image on the recording sheet. Here, where a conveyance speed of the recording sheet is p, a length of a light irradiation area in a conveyance direction of the recording sheet is q, time during which the toner of the unfixed image is subjected to light during conveyance is r, and energy per unit area given to the toner of the unfixed image is J, light output of the laser light source is controlled so that the energy during a constant time r1 from the start of a time r is differentiated from the energy during a time r2 until the end of the time r after the elapse of the r1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Maeda
  • Patent number: 8605222
    Abstract: A receiver device is provided singly capable of applying demodulator circuits with differing frequency characteristics with respective signals of desired frequencies for the demodulator circuits. The receiver device in accordance with the present invention switches between a mode in which a digital signal having a frequency suitable for various signal processes is supplied to a DA converter and a mode in which a digital signal for which the IF frequency is about 30 MHz to 60 MHz is supplied to the DA converter, by using a switch and a wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Mitsunaka, Pascal Lore
  • Patent number: 8605616
    Abstract: Provided are a communication system, a base station apparatus, a mobile station apparatus, and a communication method which can effectively manage measurement information held by a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus in a system comprising a plurality of component carriers. The mobile station apparatus is used in a mobile communication system configured by a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. For a plurality of cells with the cell having different frequency, a reference cell with respect to an object to be measured is defined as a measurement reference cell when executing a measurement. The mobile station apparatus specifies one or more of the measurement reference cell for the object to be measured and executes a measurement of the object to be measured for the specified one or more of the measurement reference cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Katsunari Uemura, Yasuyuki Kato, Daiichiro Nakashima, Waho Oh
  • Patent number: 8603596
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided therebetween. The liquid crystal layer is formed of a liquid crystal material which contains molecules having at least one of a carbon-carbon triple bond and a polycyclic group. The illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8605422
    Abstract: A thin display apparatus equipped with a video display panel controls rise in temperature of a disk drive by heat-transfer from high temperature internals of the apparatus. A thermal insulating recess is formed in a face of a rear side casing which faces a disk drive unit, and a surface of the disk drive unit mounted on the rear side casing seals the thermal insulating recess. An area of the thermal insulating recess sealed by the disk drive unit becomes a thermal insulating layer between the rear side casing and the disk drive unit, and the thermal insulating layer interrupts thermal transfer from the high temperature internals of the apparatus to the disk drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Matsui, Katsuhiko Matsuya
  • Patent number: 8605077
    Abstract: TFTs 10 and 15 and the organic EL device 17 are provided between a power line Vp and a common cathode Vcom, and a capacitor 16 and a TFT 11 are provided between a gate of the TFT 10 and a data line Sj. A TFT 12 is provided between the gate and a drain of the TFT 10, a TFT 13 is provided between an anode terminal of the organic EL device 17 and the common cathode Vcom, and a TFT 14 is provided between one electrode of the capacitor 16 and the power line Vp. Gates of the TFTs 11 to 13 are connected to a scanning line Gi, and gates of the TFTs 14 and 15 are connected to a scanning line Ei. When writing, a high potential is supplied to the scanning line Gi, and a low potential is supplied to the scanning line Ei a little after this. While the high potentials are supplied to the two scanning lines, the data line Sj is controlled to be in a high impedance state. In this manner, a pixel circuit configured by N-type transistors is driven using two types of scanning lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Senda
  • Patent number: 8606883
    Abstract: There is provided an IP broadcast receiver apparatus capable of, even when the input of a stream is delayed, determining whether a stream is to be inputted later and displaying a picture when a stream is inputted. When the content providing side makes a request to set a streamstatus attribute to “play” in a display using BML, the IP broadcast receiver apparatus determines whether channel information has been acquired from an IP broadcast server. The IP broadcast receiver apparatus sets the streamstatus attribute to “play” if channel information has been acquired from the IP broadcast server and sets the streamstatus attribute to “stop” if channel information has not been acquired from the IP broadcast server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Yamada, Toshinori Shimizu, Ryuhsuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130324143
    Abstract: In SORM (Spectrum-Overlapped Resource Allocation), interference to other cells caused by an increase in transmit power of mobile station apparatuses is suppressed. A wireless control apparatus allows a plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses to locate transmit signals at part of frequencies in a system band in an overlapping manner, and determines frequencies at which the individual wireless terminal apparatuses locate transmit signals, so that an interference level of the entire system band is suppressed to be lower than or equal to a certain value. Also, the wireless control apparatus determines frequencies at which the individual wireless terminal apparatuses locate transmit signals, so that a total sum of frequency bands allocated to the individual wireless terminal apparatuses is smaller than or equal to the system band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Nakamura, Jungo Goto, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130321498
    Abstract: Control sections of displays 11 each determine control information Pi used when area-active driving is performed individually and transmit the control information Pi to a multi-display control section 12. The multi-display control section 12 determines control information Ps for the entire device on the basis of the received pieces of control information Pi and transmits the control information Ps to the control sections of the displays 11. All the displays 11 perform area-active driving on the basis of the same control information Ps. In this way, occurrence of a luminance difference or chromaticity difference among display screens of the displays 11 is prevented and the quality of a displayed image is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuya Otoi, Katsuteru Hashimoto