Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 11588817
    Abstract: Provided is a user authentication management device including a login request receiver that receives a login request from a user from a plurality of inputters via a path corresponding to each of the plurality of inputters, an authentication scheme selector that selects any one of a plurality of authentication schemes and provides identification information of a user related to the received login request to the selected authentication scheme to perform user authentication, and a user information storage that stores a user authentication result received from the selected authentication scheme as user information related to the user, in which the authentication scheme selector selects an authentication scheme predetermined corresponding to a path through which the login request is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 11587463
    Abstract: A reusable safety syringe training device is provided. The device comprises a syringe contained within a syringe protective member. The syringe protective member is movable vertically within an outer protective sheath from a first position to a second position and back to the first position. In the first position, the device is in an injection-ready position with the needle exposed and the syringe protective member in a locked vertical position with respect to the outer protective sheath. In the second position, the device is in a post-injection position such that the syringe protective member is no longer vertically locked with respect to the outer protective sheath and has moved vertically upward thereby rendering the needle within the outer protective sheath. The plunger carries a release flange sufficient to engage release latches that otherwise retain the syringe protective member in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
    Inventors: Peter A. Basile, Michael M. Maia
  • Patent number: 11589056
    Abstract: A video decoding apparatus includes matrix reference pixel derivation circuitry that derives reference samples by using top neighboring samples and left neighboring samples of a current block, weight matrix derivation circuitry that derives a weight matrix, matrix prediction image derivation circuitry that derives a prediction image, and matrix prediction image interpolation circuitry that derives a predicted image by using the prediction image. A size index is derived according to a value of a target block width and a value of a target block height. A prediction size is derived using the size index. In a case that a first condition, that both the value of the transform block width and the value of the transform block height are equal to 4, is true, the size index is set equal to 0 and the prediction size is set equal to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
  • Patent number: 11587631
    Abstract: A circuit includes a first transistor whose gate is connected to a set terminal and whose source or drain is connected to an internal node, a second transistor connected such that one of a source and a drain is electrically connected to the internal node and the other one of the source and the drain is electrically connected to a reference voltage source, a third transistor connected such that a gate is connected to the internal node, one of a source and a drain is connected to a clock terminal, and the other one of the source and the drain is connected to a first output terminal, a bootstrap capacitor which is connected to the internal node and the first output terminal, and a stabilization circuit that suppresses a drop in potential at the internal node in a charging period of the bootstrap capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230050449
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of treating cancer (e.g., NSCLC), which comprise administering to a human patient in need thereof: (a) a PD-1 antagonist; (b) an ILT4 antagonist; and (c) one or more chemotherapeutic agents. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and kits containing such agents for the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Philip E. Brandish, Rachel A. Altura, Bilal Piperdi
  • Publication number: 20230048144
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, among other things, a single-dose vaccine composition that includes a chitosan adjuvant and HPV virus-like particles (VLPs) of at least one type of human papillomavirus (HPV) selected from the group consisting of HPV types: 6, 11, 16, 18, 26, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 59, 66, 68, 73, and 82, where the single-dose vaccine composition provides enhanced or comparable HPV vaccine response in comparison to a similar multiple-dose vaccine formulated without such chitosan adjuvant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Bett, Colleen M. Barr, John P. Bilello, Pedro J. Cejas, Amy S. Espeseth, Tong-Ming Fu, Erica L. Strable, Sara Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11576996
    Abstract: Provided is a discharge device that can improve the efficiency of generating reactive species. A discharging unit that discharges in response to an application of a voltage protrudes from a housing. The discharging unit is disposed in a duct through which gas flows. An upstream support is disposed upstream of the discharging unit in a direction of gas flow without overlapping the discharging unit. The upstream support protrudes further from the housing than the discharging unit. The upstream support includes a root portion joined to the housing. The root portion includes a widened portion that is disposed in the duct and that protrudes toward the discharging unit when viewed in the direction of gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ohe, Tetsuya Ezaki, Satoshi Okano
  • Patent number: 11577244
    Abstract: A microfluidic device comprises upper and lower spaced apart substrates defining a fluid chamber therebetween; an aperture for introducing fluid into the fluid chamber; and a fluid input structure disposed over the upper substrate and having a fluid well for receiving fluid from a fluid applicator inserted into the fluid well. The fluid well communicates with a fluid exit provided in a base of the fluid input structure, the fluid exit being adjacent the aperture. The fluid well comprises first, second and third portions, with the first portion of the well forming a reservoir for a filler fluid; and the second portion of the well being configured to sealingly engage against an outer surface of a fluid applicator inserted into the fluid well. The third portion of the well communicates with the fluid exit and has a diameter at the interface between the third portion and the second portion that is greater than the diameter of the second portion at the interface between the third portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp Life Science (EU) Limited
    Inventors: Lesley Anne Parry-Jones, Emma Jayne Walton
  • Patent number: 11581642
    Abstract: The sealing material composition of the disclosure includes an unsaturated carbonyl compound having at least two unsaturated carbonyl groups and a curing agent that is thermally reactive with the unsaturated carbonyl compound and contains a compound having at least two of one or more kinds of functional groups selected from the group consisting of a mercaptan group, a hydroxyl group, and a secondary amine group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 11580932
    Abstract: A display device, includes: a first processor configured to increase or decrease values of color components representing three colors and included in a first video signal, in accordance with values corresponding to the values of the color components representing three colors; a second processor configured to convert a second video signal into a third video signal, the second video signal including the color components representing three colors and having the values increased or decreased by the first processor, and the third video signal including color components representing four colors; and a display configured to display the third video signal including the color components representing four colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Niizuma, Hironori Shimoda
  • Patent number: 11582680
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an access control method performed at user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a base station, multiple pieces of access control information corresponding to multiple network types; using the received multiple pieces of access control information to respectively perform an access control check for the multiple network types of networks; starting an access barring timer according to an access control check result; and if the access barring timer times out, informing an upper layer of the UE that barring of access is removed. The present disclosure also provides an access control configuration method for UE performed at a base station, corresponding UE, and a corresponding base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Fancying Xiao, Ningjuan Chang
  • Patent number: 11577245
    Abstract: An electrowetting device includes a first substrate, a plurality of first electrodes formed on the first substrate, a dielectric layer formed on the plurality of first electrodes, a first water-repellent layer formed on the dielectric layer, a second substrate, a second electrode formed on the second substrate, and a second water-repellent layer formed on the second electrode. The first substrate and the second substrate are arranged with a gap between the first water-repellent layer and the second water-repellent layer. The first electrode includes an indium oxide-zinc oxide layer, the dielectric layer includes a silicon nitride layer, and the silicon nitride layer is formed directly on the indium oxide-zinc oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chihiro Tachino, Kazuya Tsujino, Atsushi Hachiya
  • Patent number: 11581340
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate is provided with a plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs including a plurality of first TFTs. An oxide semiconductor layer of each oxide semiconductor TFT includes a channel region, a source contact region, and a drain contact region. In a view from a normal direction of the substrate, the channel region is a region located between the source contact region and the drain contact region and overlapping a gate electrode, and the channel region includes a first end portion and a second end portion that oppose each other and extend in a first direction from the source contact region side toward the drain contact region side, a source side end portion that is located on the source contact region side of the first and second end portions and extends in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a drain side end portion that is located on the drain contact region side of the first and second end portions and extends in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kengo Hara, Tohru Daitoh, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Masahiko Suzuki, Setsuji Nishimiya, Hitoshi Takahata
  • Patent number: 11582770
    Abstract: The present invention includes a receiver configured to receive first information, the first information including information for configuring whether transform precoding for a physical uplink shared channel is enabled, and a transmitter configured to transmit information indicating a first power headroom level for the physical uplink shared channel with the transform precoding enabled and information indicating a second power headroom level for the physical uplink shared channel with the transform precoding not enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11579497
    Abstract: A substrate for a display includes a substrate section on which a flexible substrate and a driver are mounted, a flexible substrate side terminal area, disposed in a mounting area on the substrate section for the flexible substrate, to which a signal is inputted from the flexible substrate, a driver side terminal area, disposed in a mounting area on the substrate section for the driver, through which at least a part of the signal is inputted and outputted to the driver, a wire, disposed to extend from the mounting area on the substrate section for the flexible substrate to the mounting area for the driver and connected to the flexible substrate side terminal area and the driver side terminal area, through which the signal is transmitted, and a shield section, disposed to overlap the wire via an insulating film on the substrate section, that is kept at a constant potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukio Shimizu, Shinzoh Murakami
  • Patent number: 11579560
    Abstract: A driving force transmission mechanism is a mechanism for transmitting rotational force of the second rotor having a driving-side coupling to a first rotor having a driven-side coupling. The driving-side coupling includes a body and a plurality of second engaging members engaging with first engaging members of the driven-side coupling, each of the plurality of second engaging members has at an abutting point on an abutting surface of a corresponding first engaging member a first inclined surface inclined so as to be away from a rotation axis of the body from a downstream side toward an upstream side in a rotation direction of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shohtaroh Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11582094
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communicating with one or more base station apparatuses, the terminal apparatus including: a receiver configured to receive an RRC reconfiguration message including a DRB configuration from the one or more base station apparatuses, the DRB configuration including a DRB identity and an EPS bearer identity; and a processing unit configured to associate a DRB established with the EPS identity in a case that the DRB identity is not part of a current configuration of the terminal apparatus, and the DRB was configured for the EPS bearer identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20230041441
    Abstract: The present invention provides capsular polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes identified using NMR. The present invention further provides polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which capsular polysaccharides from one or more of these serotypes are conjugated to a carrier protein such as CRM197. Polysaccharide-protein conjugates from one or more of these serotypes may be included in multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines having polysaccharides from multiple additional Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Porambo, Chitrananda Abeygunawardana, Luwy Kavuka Musey, Michael J. Kosinski, Yadong Adam Cui, Julie Marie Skinner
  • Patent number: 11574979
    Abstract: An opening, which is provided on the inner side of a first pixel electrode, which is a first electrode formed in a display region, is larger than an opening, which is provided on the inner side of a second pixel electrode, which is the first electrode formed in a dummy display region. Further, a light-emitting layer (a first light-emitting layer) formed in the display region has the same shape and the same size as a light-emitting layer (a second light-emitting layer) formed in the dummy display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaoru Abe, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Patent number: 11573417
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a light source, a beam detector that takes a main scanning start time of a light beam emitted from the light source and deflection-scanned in a predetermined main scanning direction by a deflection-scanning component, and a housing with a support portion that supports reflecting mirrors in different arrangement positions so arrangement angles are different from each other. The support portion includes a first support portion that supports a first side surface of the reflecting mirror in a plurality of arrangement positions. A second support portion supports the first side surface of the mirror with the first support portion, causing a first arrangement angle in the first arrangement position of the reflecting mirror. A third support portion supports the first side surface of the reflecting mirror with the first support portion, causing a second arrangement angle in a second arrangement position of the reflecting mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu Matsuo, Takaharu Motoyama