Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 8549598Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
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Patent number: 8545708Abstract: A mold of the present invention includes: a flexible polymer film; a curable resin layer provided on a surface of the polymer film; and a porous alumina layer provided on the curable resin layer, the porous alumina layer having an inverted moth-eye structure in its surface, the inverted moth-eye structure having a plurality of recessed portions whose two-dimensional size viewed in a direction normal to the surface is not less than 10 nm and less than 500 nm. According to the present invention, a method for easily forming a flexible moth-eye mold which can be deformed into the form of a roll is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akiyoshi Fujii, Kiyoshi Minoura, Akinobu Isurugi, Hidekazu Hayashi
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Patent number: 8549408Abstract: A multi-functional peripheral 21 according to this invention operates in accordance with a web browser software, and includes: a web browser section 5 configured to store cookie information received from a web server section 53 into a setting information database 6; and an apparatus control section 7 configured to manage the cookie information in accordance with a mode set by a verification mode setting section 13. In a case where the mode set by the verification mode setting section 13 is a user verification inactive mode, the apparatus control section 7 discards the cookie information from the setting information database 6 after operation of the web browser section is terminated.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
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Patent number: 8547499Abstract: The present invention provides an art of properly fixing a light source board without using any screw. A backlight unit 12 according to the present invention includes an LED board 18 with an LED 17 as a light source, a chassis 14, an optical member 15, and a supporting member 20. The chassis 14 stores the LED board 18 therein and has an opening 14b through which light from the LED 17 exits. The optical member 15 is arranged so as to face the LED board 18 and to cover the opening 14b. The supporting member 20 supports the optical member 15 from the side of the LED board 18. The supporting member 20 is fixed to the chassis 14 such that the LED board 18 is sandwiched between the supporting member 20 and the chassis 14.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takahiro Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20130249386Abstract: An electron emission element (1) includes an electrode substrate (2) and a thin film electrode (3), and emits electrons from the thin film electrode (3) by voltage application across the electrode substrate (2) and the thin film electrode (3). An electron accelerating layer (4) containing at least insulating fine particles (5) is provided between the electrode substrate (2) and the thin film electrode (3). The electrode substrate (2) has a convexoconcave surface. The thin film electrode (3) has openings (6) above convex parts of the electrode substrate (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro Kaneko, Tadashi Iwamatsu, Ayae Nagaoka
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Publication number: 20130250225Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to ensure uniformity among pixels when an electrode for a touch sensor also acts as an electrode for image display at the same time. This display device includes: a circuit substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes (12) that are arranged in a matrix on a plane that is parallel to the circuit substrate; a liquid crystal layer that can exhibit an image display function on the basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes (12), a plurality of driver electrodes (14) arranged in the same layer with gaps therebetween, which can generate an electric field with the pixel electrodes (12) to alter the state of the liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of detection electrodes in the same layer that can be capacitively coupled to the plurality of driver electrodes, respectively, in which at least one of the plurality of driver electrodes (14) is provided with slits (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro Maeda, Yousuke Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20130251277Abstract: An image processing device that reduces influence by a compressibility error of image data generated by a previous frame on output image data is disclosed. The image processing device generates a compressibility error prediction value, based on an input image data, generates substitute image data of the input image data, based on an emergence tendency of the compressibility error, selects the input image data or the substitute image data to set a result as current image data, generates next state image data, compresses the next state image data to generate compressed state image data, stores the compressed state image data in a frame memory, generates the state image data by reading the compressed state image data from the frame memory and decompressing the same, and generates output image data, based on the current image data and the state image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Yamaguchi, Shinji Shinjo
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Publication number: 20130250226Abstract: A storage capacitor counter electrode (22) provided on an active matrix substrate (100) includes a first portion (22b) creating a storage capacitance with a storage capacitor bus line (12), a second portion (22a) interposed between the first portion (22b) and a drain electrode (24), and a third portion (22c) being provided opposite from the second portion (22a) with the first portion (22b) sandwiched therebetween and protruding from the first portion (22b). The third portion (22c) is disposed so as not to overlie any pixel electrode other than a pixel electrode (30) that is electrically connected to the drain electrode (24).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Takaharu Yamada
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Publication number: 20130250200Abstract: An array substrate 20 is provided with a main array substrate body 21, and wiring lines 51 (42) including thin film transistors 50 formed on one panel surface 22 of the main array substrate body. In the surface 23 of the main array substrate body on the side opposite to the panel surface 22 having the wiring lines formed thereon, a plurality of concavities 25 recessed from the surface of the main array substrate body are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryoh Ohue
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Publication number: 20130248809Abstract: As for a variable resistive element including first and second electrodes, and a variable resistor containing a metal oxide between the first and second electrodes, in a case where a current path having a locally high current density of a current flowing between the both electrodes is formed in the metal oxide, and resistivity of at least one specific electrode having higher resistivity of the both electrodes is 100 ??cm or more, a dimension of a contact region of the specific electrode with the variable resistor in a short side or short axis direction is set to be more than 1.4 times as long as a film thickness of the specific electrode, which reduces variation in parasitic resistance generated in an electrode part due to process variation of the electrode, and prevents variation in resistance change characteristics of the variable resistive element generated due to the variation in parasitic resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicants: ELPIDA MEMORY, INC., SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukio TAMAI, Takashi NAKANO, Nobuyoshi AWAYA, Kazuo AIZAWA, Isamu ASANO, Naoya HIGANO, Tsuyoshi KAWAGOE
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Publication number: 20130248856Abstract: A semiconductor device (100) according to the present invention is a semiconductor device having a thin film transistor (10), including: a gate electrode (12) of a thin film transistor (10); a gate insulating layer (13) formed on the gate electrode (12); an oxide semiconductor layer (15) disposed on the gate insulating layer (13); and a source electrode (17) and a drain electrode (18) formed on the oxide semiconductor layer (15). When viewed from a direction perpendicular to the substrate plane the semiconductor device (100), the source electrode (17) or the drain electrode (18) covers at least one of a plurality of sites at which the perimeter of the gate electrode (12) and the perimeter of the oxide semiconductor layer (15) intersect.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Makoto Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20130248857Abstract: A TFT substrate (10A), which is semiconductor device of the present invention, has a first substrate (11), and a plurality of TFTs supported by the first substrate (11). Each TFT has an oxide semiconductor layer (22A) supported by the first substrate (11), an insulating layer (32A) formed on the oxide semiconductor layer (22A), a first electrode (12A) formed on the insulating layer (32A), and a second electrode (14A) and a third electrode (13A) connected to the oxide semiconductor layer (22A). The second electrode (14A) and the third electrode (13A) are formed of an oxide conductive layer in which the same oxide semiconductor film as the oxide semiconductor layer (22A) is given a reduced resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Seiichi Uchida
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Publication number: 20130250187Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a display device having excellent display quality by appropriately modifying the chromaticity of images. In this display device, a correction processing part (CPU 30) determines a first chromaticity change amount stored in memory (31) on the basis of a first cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of an LED (17) up to a present time, the cumulative value having been measured by a counter (32), and the correction processing part also determines a second chromaticity change amount stored in the memory (31) on the basis of a second cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of the LED (17) up to a time when the chromaticity of a pixel is adjusted by a chromaticity adjusting part (CPU 30), the cumulative value having been measured by the counter (32).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Hanaoka, Fumio Kokubo, Eiji Kurimoto, Ryoji Ishimura, Shota Inoue, Fumiaki Yamada
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Publication number: 20130250772Abstract: A wireless communication device for enabling half-duplex communication is described. The wireless communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The wireless communication device receives an indicator. The wireless communication device also determines a half-duplex frame structure with a regular uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) switching pattern based on the indicator. The half-duplex frame structure includes at least one UL subframe group including one or multiple consecutive UL subframes and at least one DL subframe group including one or multiple consecutive DL subframes. The wireless communication device further receives DL information in at least one of the DL subframes. The wireless communication device additionally sends UL information in at least one of the UL subframes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventor: Zhanping Yin
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Publication number: 20130250183Abstract: Disclosed is an edge-light type illumination device that saves space while increasing the heat dissipation efficiency of heat emitted from a light source. The disclosed illumination device is provided with: a light source (17); a light guide plate (18) having a light-receiving surface (18a) disposed facing the light source (17) and receiving light from the light source (17), and a light-emitting surface (18b) from which the light is emitted; a chassis (14) having a bottom plate (14a) arranged in parallel with the light emitting surface (18b), with the light source (17) arranged on an edge of the bottom plate (14a); and a heat dissipating member (30) having a mounting section (31) that faces the light-receiving surface (18a) and that has the light source (17) mounted thereon, and a heat-dissipating section (32) connected with the mounting section (31) so as to transfer heat and being in contact with the bottom plate (14a) of the chassis (14).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshitake Ishimoto
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Publication number: 20130252353Abstract: A coating film (90) is formed by causing vapor deposition particles (91) discharged from a vapor deposition source opening (61) of a vapor deposition source (60) to pass through a space (82) between a plurality of limiting plates (81) of a limiting plate unit (80) and a mask opening (71) of a vapor deposition mask in this order and adhere to a substrate while the substrate is moved relative to the vapor deposition mask in a state in which the substrate (10) and the vapor deposition mask (70) are spaced apart at a fixed interval. It is determined whether or not it is necessary to correct the position of at least one of the plurality of limiting plates in the X axis direction, and in the case where it is necessary to correct the position, the position of at least one of the plurality of limiting plates in the X axis direction is corrected. Accordingly, a coating film whose edge blur is suppressed can be stably formed at a desired position on a large-sized substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Kawato, Satoshi Inoue, Tohru Sonoda
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Publication number: 20130249846Abstract: A display device (100) of the present invention is configured in such a manner that a liquid crystal module (30) is inserted in the inside (of the inner faces) of a positioning frame (20) that is attached to a top window (10). This eliminates the need to consider a positioning tolerance for the attachment. As a result, the display device can be reduced in size and a narrow frame can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tazo Ikeguchi
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Publication number: 20130251051Abstract: A loop filter (16) includes a filter processing unit (162c) configured to generate an output image by acting on an input image made up of a plurality of unit regions, and a reference region setting unit (162b) configured to reduce a reference region to be referenced by the filter processing unit (162c) for calculating a pixel value of each target pixel to a size according to a position of this target pixel in a unit region including this target pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Ikai
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Publication number: 20130249863Abstract: An internal connecting terminal (33) includes a first interconnect layer (34A) formed of a same film as a first conductive pattern for touch position detection under an interlayer insulating film (23), and a second interconnect layer (34B) formed of a same film as a second conductive pattern for touch position detection on the interlayer insulating film (23). The first and the second interconnect layers are electrically connected to a lead line (31) at a portion overlapping the lead line (31), and electrically connected together at a portion outside the lead line (31).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsunori Misaki
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Publication number: 20130250198Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes: a plurality of pixels that are arranged in rows and columns so as to form a matrix pattern; and TFTs (TFT-A, TFT-B and TFT-C), source bus lines, gate bus lines and CS bus lines (CS-A and CS-B), which are associated with the respective pixels. Each pixel includes at least three subpixels (SP-A, SP-B and SP-C) with liquid crystal capacitors that are able to retain mutually different voltages. By supplying a signal (CS-A or CS-B) that makes two of the at least three subpixels display mutually different luminances at least at a certain grayscale tone from the source, gate and CS bus lines to each pixel, the at least three subpixels are able to display mutually different luminances.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumikazu SHIMOSHIKIRYOH, Toshihide TSUBATA, Masanori TAKEUCHI, Masae KITAYAMA, Ikumi ITSUMI, Akihiro SHOHRAKU