Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8565575
    Abstract: A video disk player includes (i) a disk reading section for reading out video data, a program, synchronization timing information from an optical disk; (ii) a clock for generating a clock signal; (iii) a decoder for converting, in accordance with the clock signal, the video data into decompressed video data for reproduction output; (iv) a video reproducing section including a synchronization control section for transmitting, in accordance with the clock signal, a synchronization control signal to the program executing section at a timing specified by a field timing contained in the synchronization timing information, and (v) a program executing section for executing a program in accordance with the synchronization control signal received from the synchronization control section. This makes it possible to efficiently execute the program in synchronization with reproduction of AV data or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jiro Kiyama, Hideaki Kizuki, Katsushi Ohizumi
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8563406
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor substrate, which comprises a singlecrystalline Si substrate which includes an active layer having a channel region, a source region, and a drain region, the singlecrystalline Si substrate including at least a part of a device structure not containing a well-structure or a channel stop region; a gate insulating film formed on the singlecrystalline Si substrate; a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; a LOCOS oxide film whose thickness is more than a thickness of the gate insulating film, the LOCOS oxide film being formed on the singlecrystalline Si substrate by surrounding the active layer; and an insulating film formed over the gate electrode and the LOCOS oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Takafuji, Yasumori Fukushima, Masao Moriguchi
  • Patent number: 8563746
    Abstract: Novel compounds of the structural formula (I) are activators of AMP-protein kinase and are useful in the treatment, prevention and suppression of diseases mediated by the AMPK-activated protein kinase. The compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp, Metabasis Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Qun Dang, De Michael Chung, Tony S. Gibson, Hongjian Jiang, Daniel K. Cashion, Jianming Bao, Ping Lan, Huagang Lu, Gergely M. Makara, F. Anthony Romero, Iyassu Sebhat, Dariusz Wodka
  • Patent number: 8565192
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a method for switching an RRC state; an eNB; and a UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Renmao Liu, Yongming Liang, Ming Ding, Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 8563983
    Abstract: The invention provides a display panel and display device enabling easy connection to an external connection component depending on the type of a mounted component, and provides a display device manufacturing method allowing a simple manufacturing process. The display panel of the present invention is a display panel in which a thin film transistor array substrate and an opposed substrate are disposed opposing each other. The thin film transistor array substrate has a first routing wiring that is routed at the outer edge of the substrate, a common transfer section that is formed at a position overlapping with the first routing wiring when the substrate surface is viewed from a normal direction, and a first terminal region, having a plurality of terminals formed thereon including a terminal that is joined to the first routing wiring, at an end portion of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hida, Gen Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 8564859
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus comprises: an image reading unit that includes a platen glass and a color contact image sensor configured by a line image sensor for reading red, a line image sensor for reading green, and a line image sensor for reading blue, the line image sensors being disposed in a sub-scanning direction of an original; and an automatic original feeder. In the image reading apparatus, the line image sensor for reading red and the line image sensor for reading green are disposed so that a line gap therebetween is two lines, and in a monochrome mode in which a color original is read and output as a monochrome image, the color original is read using the line image sensor for reading red and the line image sensor for reading green.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Yoshimoto, Kenji Tanaka, Kenji Nakanishi, Shohichi Fukutome
  • Patent number: 8564751
    Abstract: A VA-mode liquid crystal display device having a high display quality is provided. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer; a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other with the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a first electrode provided in the first substrate on the liquid crystal layer side and a second electrode provided in the second substrate on the liquid crystal layer side; and a first alignment film provided between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer and a second alignment film provided between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel areas located in a matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohei Nakanishi, Masanobu Mizusaki, Takashi Katayama, Yuichi Kawahira
  • Patent number: 8563543
    Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain iminothiadiazine dioxide compounds, including compounds Formula (a) and include tautomers, solvates, prodrugs, esters, and deuterates thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of said compounds, tautomers, solvates, prodrugs, esters, and deuterates, wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R9, ring A, ring B, ring C, m, n, p, q, -L1-, -L2-, L3-, and L4- is selected independently and as defined herein. The compounds of the invention have, surprisingly and advantageously, improved solution stability. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other active agents), and methods for their preparation and use in treating pathologies associated with amyloid beta (A?) protein, including Alzheimers Disease, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Jack D. Scott, Andrew W. Stamford, Eric J. Gilbert, Jared N. Cumming, Ulrich Iserloh, Lingyan Wang, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 8564801
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a network system according to the present invention is a network system in which a plurality of image forming apparatuses are communicably connected via a network, and an electronic device capable of independent operation is communicably connected to each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The electronic device includes a data input/output unit that sends/receives control data of the electronic device to/from the image forming apparatus to which the electronic device is connected, and the image forming apparatus includes a data communications unit that sends/receives the control data to/from the electronic device connected to the image forming apparatus, and a network communications unit that sends/receives the control data to/from another image forming apparatus via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Yamada, Shuhji Fujii, Kouji Miyake
  • Patent number: 8565252
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless transmission system which can transmit data accompanying video/audio by a different transmission method depending on the characteristic of the data in a wireless transmission environment where the transmission band is narrow and a transmission error is easily caused. The wireless transmission system includes: a wireless receiver (3) connected to a sink device (4); and a wireless transmitter (2) connected to a source device (1). A wireless communication is performed between the wireless receiver (3) and the wireless transmitter (2) so that video and audio are outputted from the source device (1) to the sink device (4). The wireless receiver (3) and/or the wireless transmitter (2) categorizes the data accompanying the video and the audio in accordance with the characteristic thereof and transmits the accompanying data by using a different transmission method depending on the categorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Tsuji, Seiji Imanishi, Ryosuke Ohmae
  • Publication number: 20130271570
    Abstract: Provided is a program information display technique that allows the user to easily find a desired program using 3-D display images. A program information display device according to the present invention displays 3-D images of program information conforming to user preferences regarding programs. This program information display device also adjusts the degree of protrusion of the 3-D display depending on the importance of the program information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kouhei Wakabayashi, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130271661
    Abstract: A display device includes a display portion having an aspect ratio of (16+a):9 on an assumption that a is a positive number and the aspect ratio represents a ratio of horizontal size:vertical size. The display device presents full display of a first image having the aspect ratio of 16:9 such that a vertical size of the first image is substantially equal to a vertical size of the display portion, while displaying a second image to be not overlapped with the first image. Convenience for users can be thereby increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kimura, Kohji Fujiwara, Akiko Miyazaki, Toshiharu Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20130271690
    Abstract: A semiconductor device (1001) includes a thin-film transistor (103) including a gate electrode (3a), source and drain electrodes (13as, 13ad), and an oxide semiconductor layer (7), and a source bus line (13s). The source electrode, the source bus line and the drain electrode include a first metallic element and the oxide semiconductor layer includes a second metallic element. When viewed along a normal to its substrate, at least respective portions of the source electrode, the source bus line, and the drain electrode overlap with the oxide semiconductor layer. A low reflecting layer (4s, 4d) which includes the first and second metallic elements and which has a lower reflectance to visible radiation than the source electrode has been formed between the source electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, between the source bus line and the oxide semiconductor layer, and between the drain line and the oxide semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matsukizono
  • Publication number: 20130271712
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that rarely causes burn-in at high throughput. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the pair of substrates, wherein at least one of the pair of substrates includes an alignment layer and a polymer layer for controlling the alignment of adjacent liquid crystal molecules, the polymer layer being disposed on the alignment layer, the polymer layer has a structure containing at least three condensed benzene rings, and the alignment layer is covalently bonded to the polymer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Publication number: 20130273945
    Abstract: An electronic device for sending a message is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device determines whether a first picture is a Clean Random Access (CRA) picture. The electronic device also determines whether a leading picture is present if the first picture is a CRA picture. The electronic device further generates a message including a CRA discard flag and an initial CRA Coded Picture Buffer (CPB) removal delay parameter if a leading picture is present. The electronic device additionally sends the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20130271680
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display that give a wide viewing angle. The present invention includes a first substrate, a second electrode opposed to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The second substrate includes a third electrode. The liquid crystal layer is driven by an electric field generated at least by the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode. The liquid crystal panel includes within a pixel a plurality of regions that are supplied with different voltages to drive the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Murata, Yosuke Iwata
  • Publication number: 20130272250
    Abstract: A base-station apparatus configures a terminal apparatus with information related to mapping between a first channel-state information reference signal and a second channel-state information reference signal and codebook subset restriction information that restricts selection of a codebook subset as feedback information by the terminal apparatus, the codebook subset indicating precoding a weight to perform a first communication and a second communication. Using the information related to the mapping and the codebook subset restriction information, the terminal apparatus selects a codebook to perform the first communication and a codebook to perform the second communication. The terminal apparatus configures the base-station apparatus with information indicating the codebook to perform the first communication and information indicating the codebook to perform the second communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Publication number: 20130276030
    Abstract: Provided are a video display device and a video display method, by which a user can easily select a program to be watched even if a numerical keypad is not provided in a remote control device. A display portion displays a video of a program. While the video of the program is displayed on the full screen of the display portion, an operation detection portion detects a rotational operation of a dial provided in a remote control device. When the rotational operation is detected by the operation detection portion, a control portion functions so that while the video of the program is displayed on the display portion, a program list including a plurality of program items associated with different programs is displayed on the display portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takaomi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: D691976
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiko Hotta, Yuhsuke Totsuka