Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20130279363
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for triggering aperiodic Channel State Information (CSI) feedback used in a multiple coordinated cells multiple component carriers system. According to the present disclosure, a base station firstly semi-statically configures a user equipment to CoMP transmission modes, and/or information on measurement cells, and/or information on measurement component carriers by a high layer signaling (RRC signaling). Then, the base station dynamically initiates an aperiodic CSI feedback request to the user equipment by downlink control information (through PDCCH). When receiving the aperiodic CSI feedback request transmitted by the base station, the user equipment transmits measured aperiodic CSI to the base station through an uplink channel (PUSCH or PUCCH). According to the present invention, the method for triggering aperiodic CSI feedback in CoMP transmission modes can be flexibly configured, and good backward compatibility can be obtained at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Ming Ding, Zeng Yang, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20130280623
    Abstract: The present invention has been achieved to provide a metal-air battery that allows removal of a metallic compound without suspending power supply. The metal-air battery of the present invention includes: first and second electrolytic tanks for storing an electrolytic solution; a metallic electrode to serve as an anode provided in the first electrolytic tank; and an air electrode to serve as a cathode, wherein the metallic electrode is formed of a metal which becomes a metallic ion or composes a metallic compound in the electrolytic solution with progress of a battery reaction, the first and second electrolytic tanks are communicated with each other for allowing the electrolytic solution in the first electrolytic tank to move into the second electrolytic tank, and the metallic ion or the metallic compound in the electrolytic solution is precipitated as a metallic compound precipitate in the second electrolytic tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito YOSHIDA, Hirotaka MIZUHATA, Tomohisa YOSHIE, Masaki KAGA, Shinobu TAKENAKA, Tomoharu ARAI
  • Publication number: 20130279394
    Abstract: To provide a mobile communication system and the like that can efficiently use network resources, by defining a control method of releasing network resources by a counting function of a base station device. In a mobile communication system that performs distribution of broadcast data by an MBMS bearer service, from a BM-SC to a mobile station device that is connected to a base station device, via a GGSN and an SGSN for which an MBMS bearer has been established, the base station device transmits a session stop request associated with the MBMS bearer context to the SGSN when stopping the distribution of broadcast data associated with a flow identifier included in an MBMS bearer context, and stops distribution of broadcast data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Aramoto, Katsuyuki Machino, Junji Hiraide, Masayuki Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20130280214
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Polycyclic Heterocycle Derivatives, such as compound 1: (1) compositions comprising the Polycyclic Heterocycle Derivatives, and methods of using the Polycyclic Heterocycle Derivatives for treating or preventing HCV infection in a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Vacca, Craig A. Coburn, David B. Olsen, Joseph A. Kozlowski, Stuart B. Rosenblum
  • Publication number: 20130278214
    Abstract: A control apparatus (14) of an electric vehicle charging apparatus (1) applies control such that, when not charging a motive power storage battery (41), a storage battery (13) for supplying charging power is charged with electric power supplied from an alternating current power source (17) input via an AC-DC conversion apparatus (11) and a bidirectional DC-DC conversion apparatus (12), and when charging the motive power storage battery (41), the motive power storage battery (41) is charged with electric power from the alternating current power source (17) output via the AC-DC conversion apparatus (11) as well as electric power discharged from the storage battery (13) for supplying charging power and output via the bidirectional DC-DC conversion apparatus (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Satoh
  • Publication number: 20130276473
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an air conditioner provided with a cross flow fan having sufficient air blowing efficiency. The air conditioner includes, in a housing, an air passage extending from a suction port to a blowout port, a heat exchanger arranged at the upstream side of the air passage, a cross flow fan arranged in the air passage on the downstream side of the heat exchanger, and an air passage wall provided in a downstream area of the cross flow fan to reach the blowout port. A restricting section, which restricts an air passage sectional area, is provided at a corner section of the side wall of the air passage wall, which side wall is located at each of both shaft direction ends of the cross flow fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaya Takahashi, Masaki Ohtsuka, Yukishige Shiraichi
  • Publication number: 20130280840
    Abstract: A vapor deposition device (50) in accordance with the present invention is a vapor deposition device for forming a film on a film formation substrate (60), the vapor deposition device including a vapor deposition source (80) that has an injection hole (81) from which vapor deposition particles are injected, a vapor deposition particle crucible (82) for supplying the vapor deposition particles to the vapor deposition source (80), and a rotation motor (86) for changing a distribution of the injection amount of the vapor deposition particles by rotating the vapor deposition source (80).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Sonoda, Shinichi Kawato, Satoshi Inoue, Satoshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130279184
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a light source unit that has a light source, a holding member (supporting frame) that holds the light source unit, and a locking mechanism that locks by the operation of an operating piece in a condition where the light source unit is held by the supporting frame. The locking mechanism is arranged for containing the operating piece inside the lighting apparatus. The operating piece to which an external force is applied is contained in the lighting apparatus in the locking condition. Thus, it is possible to avoid the release of the lock, and prevent the light source unit from being detached by unintentionally applied external force or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takafumi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130279730
    Abstract: The present invention outputs a sound with favorable sound quality and volume, while inhibiting degradation in frequency characteristics and reduction in volume, with a structure in which a speaker is provided on the rear-face side of a display panel. A display device includes: a display panel that displays an image; a housing to which the display panel is attached; and a speaker provided inside the housing on the rear-face side of the display panel. The speaker axis (x) of the speaker is inclined toward the outside in the horizontal direction of the display panel with respect to the normal line (y) to the display surface of the display panel, and the directivity of the speaker is arranged outward and obliquely rearward of the display device. The housing has one or more sound output holes for outputting the sound emitted from the speaker to the outside, the sound output hole(s) being located more toward the outside than the speaker axis (x).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130279146
    Abstract: A light guide member of the pseudo-sunlight irradiation apparatus is formed of eight light guide plates WG1?-WG8? arrayed in one direction. A light diffusing part formed of a plurality of dot-like protrusions 701, 702 is formed on a surface opposite to an irradiating surface of each of the light guide plates WG1?-WG8?. A dot diameter of the dot-like protrusions 701 of the light guide plates WG1?, WG8? positioned at ends in the one direction orthogonal to the light guide direction of the light guide plates WG1?-WG8? is made larger than a dot diameter of the dot-like protrusions 702 of the light guide plates WG2?-WG7? positioned at central portions other than the ends in the one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130279395
    Abstract: To provide a mobile communication system and the like that can efficiently use network resources, by defining a control method of releasing network resources by a counting function of a base station device. In a mobile communication system that performs distribution of broadcast data by an MBMS bearer service, from a BM-SC to a mobile station device that is connected to a base station device, via a GGSN and an SGSN for which an MBMS bearer has been established, the base station device transmits a session stop request associated with the MBMS bearer context to the SGSN when stopping the distribution of broadcast data associated with the MBMS bearer context, and stops distribution of broadcast data to thereby release the MBMS bearer resources between the base station device and the SGSN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Aramoto, Katsuyuki Machino, Junji Hiraide, Masayuki Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20130278575
    Abstract: A pixel of a liquid crystal panel is constituted by three subpixels. When the gradation of the pixel can be represented by only the subpixel, with setting the gradations of the subpixels to their minimum gradations, the gradation of the subpixel is determined. When the gradation of the pixel is represented by the subpixels, with setting the gradation of the subpixel to its maximum gradation and setting the gradation of the subpixel to its minimum gradation, the gradation of the subpixel is determined so that the ratio of the transmittance of the subpixel to the transmittance of the pixel is less than a limit value. When the gradation of the subpixel cannot be determined to satisfy a condition, with setting the gradation of the subpixel to its minimum gradation, the gradations of the subpixels are determined to obtain a gradation higher than or equal to the gradation of the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20130282876
    Abstract: A client (1) includes: a content selecting section (13) for selecting contents in accordance with Attributes of combination included in an MPD, that indicate combinations of contents to be reproduced simultaneously; a request executing section (14) for requesting a server (2) to send the selected contents; and a content reproducing section (15) for reproducing the contents sent from the server (2) in response to the request, in the selected combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130280925
    Abstract: A far-infrared plane heater 6 is placed in a closed-container-shaped device body 3 of an oxidation annealing device 1, an oxygen addition gas feed pipe 8 through which an oxygen addition gas containing water vapor and oxygen is fed into the device body 3 is connected to a gas exhaust pipe 11 through which gas in the device body 3 is discharged, and jet nozzles 16 through which the oxygen addition gas containing water vapor and oxygen is ejected to an oxygen-deficient portion of a substrate 50 are brought into communication with the oxygen addition gas feed pipe 8. This allows oxidation annealing of a large substrate at high throughput and low cost while preventing a leakage current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Ota, Masato Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130276701
    Abstract: A Film (7) is provided on at least a part of a surface of each of a vapor deposition preventing plate (3) and a shutter (4) of a vacuum chamber (5) on which surface vapor deposition particles are vapor-deposited, the film (7) being provided so as to be peeled off from the each of the vapor deposition preventing plate (3) and the shutter (4), and the film being made of a material differing in at least one of a melting point, a sublimation point, solubility in a given solvent, microbial biodegradability, and photodegradability from a material of which a vapor-deposited film that is formed on the film (7) is made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Sonoda, Shinichi Kawato, Satoshi Inoue, Satoshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130279486
    Abstract: In a mobile station that performs communication with a base station device via a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells are grouped into a first group constituted by cells having an uplink transmission timing that is the same as that of one primary cell and a second group constituted by one or more cells having an uplink transmission timing that is different from that of the primary cell. The uplink transmission timings are each managed using a corresponding transmission timing timer for each of the groups. In a case where a transmission timing timer for the first group has expired, the mobile station stops all uplink transmissions in the plurality of cells. In a case where a transmission timing timer for the second group has expired, the mobile station stops uplink transmissions in the cells constituting the second group for which the transmission timing timer has expired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura, Daiichiro Nakashima, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130279439
    Abstract: There is implemented a clipping technique that does not require a reception apparatus or a transmission apparatus to notify a transmission apparatus or a reception apparatus of information on clipping. A wireless transmission apparatus performs clipping processing not to transmit a spectrum of part of a frequency domain signal when transmitting data to a wireless reception apparatus and determines a frequency band to be subjected to the clipping processing using information other than information notified from the wireless reception apparatus and directly specifying a frequency band to be subjected to the clipping processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Takahashi, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Kazunari Yokomakura, Osamu Nakamura, Jungo Goto
  • Publication number: 20130279799
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a map filtering processing unit which applies filtering to a parallax map based on a parallax value with respect to each pixel of an image; a blurred image generation unit which generates a blurred image of the image from the image; and an image composition unit which generates a composite image which is obtained by compositing the image and the blurred image based on the parallax map after the filtering by the map filtering processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Seiichi Tanaka, Shinichi Arita, Takuya Okamoto, Takashi Yasumoto
  • Patent number: 8561982
    Abstract: A sheet carrying apparatus, being applicable in (i) an automatic document feeding apparatus and/or (ii) paper feeding and conveying mechanism of an image forming apparatus, has an opening in that part of a curved guiding surface of a lower conveyance guide of a sheet conveyance guiding section constituting a curved conveyance path, which receives a front end of a document fed to the curved conveyance path. The opening has such a size in a guide width direction orthogonal to a document conveying direction, which is passable for a small size sheet not larger than a predetermined size. With this, the small size sheet passed through the opening is sorted out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironori Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 8565369
    Abstract: A bistable circuit includes an input terminal (41) for a set signal, an input terminal (42) for a reset signal, an output terminal (48) for a state signal, a thin-film transistor (M2) for increasing a potential of the output terminal (48) based on a first clock, a thin-film transistor (M1) for increasing a potential of a first-node connected to a gate terminal of the thin-film transistor (M2) based on the set signal, a thin-film transistor (M5) for decreasing the potential of the first-node, a thin-film transistor (M7) for increasing a potential of a second-node connected to a gate terminal of the thin-film transistor (M5) based on the reset signal, a thin-film transistor (M6) for decreasing the potential of the output terminal (48) based on the potential of the second-node, a thin-film transistor (M3) for increasing the potential of the second-node based on the set signal, and a capacitor (CAP2) having one end connected to the second-node and the other end connected to the input terminal (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yasuaki Iwase