Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8546420
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 4,5-ring annulated indole derivatives of formula (I), compositions comprising at least one 4,5-ring annulated indole derivatives, and methods of using the 4,5-ring annulated indole derivatives for treating or preventing a viral infection or a virus-related disorder in a patient, wherein ring Z of formula (I), is cyclohexyl, cyclohexenyl, 6-membered heterocycloalkyl, 6-membered heterocycloalkenyl, 6-membered aryl or 6-membered heteroaryl, wherein R1, R2, R3, R6, R7 and R10 are as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Gopinadhan N. Anilkumar, Yueheng Jiang, Stuart B. Rosenblum, Srikanth Venkatraman, Francisco Velazquez, Neng-Yang Shih, F. George Njoroge, Joseph A. Kozlowski
  • Patent number: 8549429
    Abstract: A multi-window management apparatus includes: an activating icon display unit for displaying activating icons 60, 62, 64 and 66 on a display screen 56; a window display unit opening, when activating icon 64 is designated, a window 72 corresponding to activating icon 64 next to activating icon 64; and a window arranging unit for rearranging and displaying, when activating icon 64 is designated, a window 68 that has been open, and activating icons 60, 62 and 66 other than the designated activating icon 64, such that these are arranged along the longer side direction of display screen 56 not to be overlapping on an area where the new window 72 is to be opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuruta, Shinichiro Ota, Kohki Fukuda, Kazuhiro Miki, Keiko Hirukawa
  • Patent number: 8546049
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor comprising a charge generation layer containing a charge generation material and a charge transfer layer containing a charge transfer material laminating in this order on a conductive support with an undercoat layer interposed between the charge generation layer and the conductive support, or comprising a monolayer type photosensitive layer containing a charge generation material and a charge transport material being formed on a conductive support with an undercoat layer interposed between the monolayer type photosensitive layer and the conductive support, wherein the charge transport layer or the monolayer type photosensitive layer contains, as a charge transfer material, a bisamine compound represented by the following general formula (I):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akiko Kihara, Akihiro Kondoh, Takatsugu Obata
  • Patent number: 8547007
    Abstract: An electron emitting element of the present invention includes an electron acceleration layer between an electrode substrate and a thin-film electrode. The electron acceleration layer includes a binder component in which insulating fine particles and conductive fine particles are dispersed. Therefore, the electron emitting element of the present invention is capable of preventing degradation of the electron acceleration layer and can efficiently and steadily emit electrons not only in vacuum but also under the atmospheric pressure. Further, the electron emitting element of the present invention can be formed so as to have an improved mechanical strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ayae Nagaoka, Tadashi Iwamatsu, Hiroyuki Hirakawa, Yasuo Imura
  • Patent number: 8547595
    Abstract: A trapping determination process section calculates edge intensities in a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction of each pixel by using differential filters for each color plane. The trapping determination process section determines, for at least two color planes, whether there is a pixel where the absolute values of the edge intensities are equal to or greater than a threshold and the edge intensities take positive and negative values, respectively. When such a pixel exists, the trapping determination process section calculates color differences between this pixel and the average values of the pixel values in an increment direction region and a decrement direction region, and determines a direction in which the color difference is smaller to be a similar color direction. The trapping determination process section determines, on the basis of the similar color direction, whether or not to perform a trapping process, and performs the trapping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8549049
    Abstract: An application manager receives a descriptor for a MIDlet update from an MIDP server system. The application manager determines that the descriptor identifies an update to a MIDlet that is already installed on the MID. The application manager also identifies the MIDlet for which the update is intended, and determines that the update is valid with respect to the MIDlet. The application manager provides information from the descriptor to the user of the MID. If the user decides to download the update that corresponds to the descriptor, the application manager sends a request to the MIDP server system to transmit the MIDlet update to the MID. When the application manager receives the MIDlet update from the MIDP server system, an installer installs the file(s) of the MIDlet update in the existing MIDlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Vigil
  • Patent number: 8547623
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device that features dual-mode operation. The display device can operate in either a low-power consumption bistable mode, or a higher-power consumption fast switching (video-rate) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Lesley Parry-Jones, Alexandra Baum
  • Patent number: 8548362
    Abstract: A toner stirring member includes a stirring blade made of a flexible sheet having a first insertion hole, and a rotation shaft having a nipping section for nipping an edge the flexible sheet such that the flexible sheet can be inserted into and pulled out from the nipping section. An inclining projection on the rotation shaft is inserted into the first insertion hole. The flexible sheet is nipped by the nipping section, and the inclining projection is inserted into the first insertion hole, so that the stirring blade is fixed to the rotation shaft. The inclining projection has a first inclining surface that inclines in a direction in which the flexible sheet is pulled out from the nipping section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Okuda
  • Patent number: 8547013
    Abstract: A display device of the present invention includes a red-light-emitting element (1), a green-light-emitting element (2), and a blue-light-emitting element (3). The red-light-emitting element (1) and the green-light-emitting element (2) each include an organic EL section (20) and a color converting layer (15). The color converting layer (15) has an optical distance that extends from (i) a position of the color converting layer from which position light is emitted to (ii) an extraction surface of the color converting layer, the optical distance being varied between the red-light-emitting element (1) and (2). The blue-light-emitting element (3) may include a film-thickness adjusting layer (19) instead of the color converting layer (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ken Okamoto, Yoshimasa Fujita, Hidenori Ogata, Yuhki Kobayashi, Makoto Yamada, Katsumi Kondoh
  • Patent number: 8547404
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus enables image display with optimum quality corresponding to the genre of an image to be displayed. The liquid crystal display apparatus controls the emission luminance of a backlight according to the APL of an image signal measured at an APL measuring portion 14. Upon emission luminance control, the display apparatus sets the follow performance of a change of the backlight emission luminance in following a change in a characteristic quantity of the image signal according to a genre so that the display image can be viewed without an odd feeling. Specifically, the APL of the image signal measured at the APL measuring portion 14 is put into a filter 15, and the rate of a change in the APL on the time axis is controlled through weighted averaging to control the follow performance of the emission luminance control on the backlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujine, Seiji Kohashikawa
  • Patent number: 8547421
    Abstract: A display includes an integrated imaging sensor and a plurality of pixels. The imaging sensor integrated within the display includes a plurality of individual sensors each of which provides an output. The content of the display is modified based upon the sensed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Yuan, Scott J. Daly
  • Patent number: 8548019
    Abstract: In a GaN-based laser device having a GaN-based semiconductor stacked-layered structure including a light emitting layer, the semiconductor stacked-layered structure includes a ridge stripe structure causing a stripe-shaped waveguide, and has side surfaces opposite to each other to sandwich the stripe-shaped waveguide in its width direction therebetween. At least part of at least one of the side surfaces is processed to prevent the stripe-shaped waveguide from functioning as a Fabry-Perot resonator in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kawakami, Tomoki Ono, Shigetoshi Ito, Susumu Omi
  • Patent number: 8547130
    Abstract: A method for detecting a foreign particle trapped between substrates of a liquid crystal display panel, by which a potential short caused by the particle can be made into a short with reliability, and thus it is possible to make a display defect manifest itself that is caused by the particle. The method is for detecting the presence of a foreign particle trapped between flexible substrates (21, 26) of a liquid crystal display panel (20), between the substrates liquid crystals filled, and the method includes making the panel pass between supporting rollers (3) arranged to support one surface of the panel, and a pressing roller (4) disposed at a position opposed to a space between the supporting units and arranged to press the other surface of the panel, bending the panel, and displacing the substrates with respect to each other in their surface directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sumi, Manabu Hashimoto, Masashi Inoue, Yoshihiro Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8544843
    Abstract: A first resist roller (72) and a second resist roller (75) are disposed in a transport path of paper on an upstream side and a downstream side in the transport direction of the paper, and the rotational speeds of the first resist roller (72) and the second resist roller (75) are controlled so that the leading edge of the paper butts against and stops at the first resist roller (72) and the second resist roller (75), after which the paper is transported by the first and second resist rollers (72, 75) and the angled travel of the paper is corrected. An angled travel detection unit (81, 82) that detects angled travel in the paper is disposed upstream from the first resist roller (72) in the transport direction of the paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazutaka Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8549374
    Abstract: A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) on a user equipment (UE) is described. It is determined a number of bits in a sequence of bits for transmission is greater than 11 and less than or equal to 21. The sequence of bits for transmission is segmented into a first segment and a second segment using a floor function. The first segment is encoded using a first Reed-Muller encoder. The second segment is encoded using a second Reed-Muller encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 8547368
    Abstract: A display driving circuit of the present invention includes: a source driver (20) which outputs a source signal; a gate driver (30) which outputs a gate signal for turning on a switching element on a row; and a CS driver (40) which outputs a CS signal (CSOUT) whose electric potential is switched in a predetermined direction (low to high or high to low) in accordance with a polarity of the source signal. A CS driver (CSn) on an n-th row outputs a CS signal (CSOUT) to the n-th row in accordance with a gate signal (GLn) for the n-th row outputted from a gate driver (Gn) provided on the n-th row. This makes it possible to provide a display driving circuit which enables CC driving with a simple configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Yokoyama, Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami
  • Patent number: 8548062
    Abstract: A system for encoding and decoding video that uses power reduction techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhan Ma, Christopher A. Segall
  • Patent number: 8546404
    Abstract: Disclosed are the ERK inhibitors of formula 1.0: and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and solvates thereof. Q is a piperidine or piperazine ring that can have a bridge or a fused ring. The piperidine ring can have a double bond in the ring. All other substitutents are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of treating cancer using the compounds of formula 1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme
    Inventors: Alan B. Cooper, Yongqi Deng, Gerald W. Shipps, Jr., Neng-Yang Shih, Hugh Y. Zhu, Robert Sun, Joseph M. Kelly, Ronald J. Doll, Yang Nan, Tong Wang, Jagdish A. Desai, James J-S Wang, Youhao Dong, Vincent S. Madison, Li Xiao, Alan W. Hruza, M. Arshad Siddiqui, Ahmed A. Samatar, Sunil Paliwal, Hon-Chung Tsui, Azim Alan Celebi, Yiji Wu, Sobhana Babu Boga, Abdul-Basit Alhassan, Xiaolei Gao, Liang Zhu, Mehul Patel
  • Patent number: 8549598
    Abstract: A multifunction apparatus 21 of the present invention communicates with an information processing apparatus 51 via a communication network 50. The multifunction apparatus 21 includes an apparatus control section 7, a second web server section 8, and a web browser section 5 which communicates with a first web server section 53 or the second web server section 8. The apparatus control section 7 transmits login information entered by a user to an authentication server 91. The web browser section 5 (i) accepts, from the first web server section 53, control information for informing the second web server section 8 of a control instruction to obtain user related information from the authentication server 91 and (ii) carries out an informing process in which the second web server section 8 is informed of the control instruction. The apparatus control section 7 obtains the user related information from the authentication server 91 in accordance with the control instruction received by the second web server section 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 8547470
    Abstract: An optical element according to the present invention includes: an optical surface at a center portion thereof; and a spacer section having a predetermined thickness on an outer circumference side of the optical surface, wherein a bottom portion for positioning an adhesive is provided on a further outer circumference side of the spacer section with a tapered portion interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Yano, Kenji Hirano