Patents Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 12687803Abstract: An image forming device includes a toner image former forming, on a paper sheet, a toner image based on image information; a fixer including at least a pair of rollers and fixing the toner image by nipping, with a pressing member formed by the pair of rollers, the paper sheet on which the toner image is formed; an adjuster adjusting a pressure contact force applied by the pressing member to either a first pressure contact force or a second pressure contact force that is weaker than the first pressure contact force; and a controller controlling execution of a job related to image formation via the fixer, in which the controller provides a user with a notification that prompts the user to operate the adjuster for adjusting the pressure contact force to either the first pressure contact force or the second pressure contact force in accordance with the previously executed job.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2024Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyasu Yamada, Atsushi Ogo
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Patent number: 12690039Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine that joint reporting of uplink control information (UCI) with different priorities is configured and a multiplexing timeline is satisfied. The processor is also configured to multiplex more than two bits of a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and a scheduling request (SR) using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 2, PUCCH format 3 or PUCCH format 4. The HARQ-ACK and the SR have different priorities. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the multiplexed HARQ-ACK and SR on a PUCCH.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Zhanping Yin, Kazunari Yokomakura, Kai Ying
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Patent number: 12690043Abstract: A terminal apparatus including a higher layer configured to configure a configuration related to a search space set and a configuration related to a PDCCH, and a receiver configured to monitor the PDCCH based on the search space set. In a case that one or multiple group indexes are allocated to the search space set and that neither monitoring of the PDCCH corresponding to the search space set with a group index of 0 among the one or multiple group indexes nor monitoring of the PDCCH corresponding to the search space set with a group index of 1 among the one or multiple group indexes is performed, the receiver initiates monitoring of the PDCCH corresponding to the search space set with a group index of 0 among the one or multiple group indexes.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru Ouchi, Toshizo Nogami, Taewoo Lee, Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Huifa Lin, Daiichiro Nakashima
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Patent number: 12690378Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device includes: applying a first solution containing (a) and (b) to a substrate containing an oxide, (a) a first functional group capable of being coordinated to the oxide, (b) a second functional group that is cleaved by being irradiated with ultraviolet light to generate any one of an amino group, a carboxyl group, a thiol group, and a selenol group; irradiating at least a part of the first solution applied to the substrate with first ultraviolet light; and applying a solution containing halogenated first quantum dots to a portion irradiated with the first ultraviolet light in the irradiating at least a part of the first solution applied to the substrate to form a first quantum dot layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukio Takenaka
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Patent number: 12688137Abstract: A display apparatus comprises a peripheral device signal switcher that selects and switches a data communication destination of a peripheral device connector between an internal computer and an external computer device in conjunction with switching of an input source of a video signal by a video signal switcher in such a way that a data communication destination of the peripheral device connector becomes identical to the input source of the video signal, in a case where switching of the input source of the video signal by the video signal switcher is performed, wherein the peripheral device signal switcher suspends switching of the data communication destination of the peripheral device connector without switching the data communication destination of the peripheral device connector in conjunction with switching by the peripheral device signal switcher, in a case where a discriminator discriminates that a peripheral device connection port is in data communication.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2024Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Seiji Tada
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Patent number: 12689985Abstract: A method for a User Equipment (UE) for performing a dormant operation is provided. The method receives, from a Base Station (BS), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration indicating a set of one or more dormancy cell groups, where a group of serving cells belongs to a specific dormancy cell group in the set of one or more dormancy cell groups. The method receives, from the BS, a signal including a bitmap when the UE is not in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) active time, and switches, based on a bit in the bitmap that is associated with the specific dormancy cell group, active Bandwidth Parts (BWPs) of all activated serving cells included in the group of serving cells to a dormant BWP or to a non-dormant BWP.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Chia-Hung Wei, Yu-Hsin Cheng, Wan-Chen Lin, Chie-Ming Chou
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Patent number: 12689580Abstract: A Multi-Link access point apparatus uses multiple combinations of link offset information and information of the number of links to notify, by using only a small amount of information, whether a frame is buffered that is addressed to a Multi-Link station apparatus operating in a Power Management mode and information of a link, the use of which is indicated or recommended.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Shirakawa, Ryota Yamada, Takuhiro Sato, Hideo Namba
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Patent number: 12690070Abstract: A first PRACH resource type is selected in a case that a value related to a received power of a downlink signal is lower than a threshold, a second PRACH resource type is selected in a case that the value related to the received power is larger than or equal to the threshold, an uplink grant included in a PDSCH is interpreted using a first rule in a case that the PRACH is transmitted in the first PRACH resource type, the uplink grant included in the PDSCH is interpreted using a second rule in a case that the PRACH is transmitted in the second PRACH resource type, and the uplink grant included in the PDSCH is interpreted using the second rule in a case that the threshold is not configured in an RRC layer processing circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Toshizo Nogami, Takahisa Fukui, Shoichi Suzuki, Daiichiro Nakashima, Wataru Ouchi, Huifa Lin
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Patent number: 12678530Abstract: The air purifier is provided with a housing having an air intake port and an exhaust port, a filter unit including a photocatalytic filter and housed in a unit housing section within the housing, a light source that irradiates the photocatalytic filter with light, an air blowing fan that generates an air flow passing through the unit housing section, and a contamination sensor provided between the photocatalytic filter and the air blowing fan. In a case where a controller determines that organic substances excessively adheres to the photocatalytic filter on the basis of detection values of the contamination sensor, it drives the light source at the maximum light quantity and drives the air blowing fan at the minimum air speed to refresh the photocatalytic filter.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masafumi Sakamoto, Tatsufumi Atsumi, Noriaki Taguchi
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Patent number: 12684623Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method for small data transmission (SDT) are provided. The method includes initiating an SDT procedure while the UE is in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Inactive (RRC_INACTIVE) state; initiating a random access (RA) procedure before the SDT procedure is terminated; and determining whether to include a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) in an uplink (UL) message during the RA procedure based on at least one condition. The at least one condition includes whether the SDT procedure corresponds to a Configured Grant (CG)-SDT procedure. The UL message is a message 3 (Msg3) in a case that the RA procedure is a 4-step RA procedure. The UL message is a message A (MsgA) in a case that the RA procedure is a 2-step RA procedure.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Heng-Li Chin, Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Yung-Lan Tseng, Hai-Han Wang, Chia-Hung Wei
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Patent number: 12684994Abstract: A display device includes a base member, a thin film transistor, an organic insulation film, a light-emitting layer, and a sealing layer. The display device has an active area and a non-active area. The non-active area includes a notched portion and a protrusion portion surrounding the notched portion and having, on a notched portion side, a side face including a reverse-tapered face. The light-emitting layer is disconnected as a result of a step at the protrusion portion. A filling material is embedded in at least a part of a space located between the reverse-tapered face and a top face of the organic insulation film. The top face overlaps the reverse-tapered face in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Hirase, Kaoru Abe
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Patent number: 12681409Abstract: A development device includes a development tank that stores a developer, a first screw and a second screw that convey the developer, an exhaust port through which air inside the development tank is exhausted, and a filter provided at the exhaust port. The development tank includes a first holder provided with a first screw, a second holder provided with a second screw, a partition wall that partitions the first holder and the second holder, and a first flow port and a second flow port that open the partition wall and through which the developer flows between the first holder and the second holder. A shield partitions the first holder and the exhaust port, and the second holder is connected to the exhaust port.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2024Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shuichi Akedo
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Patent number: 12681677Abstract: A display system includes a determination processing unit that determines a type of an operating system installed in a user terminal when a transmitter is connected to the user terminal, and a configuration processing unit that configures a display format of each of the user terminal and a display in a selectable state based on the type of the operating system.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2025Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koichi Sugiyama
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Patent number: 12684650Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a Radio Resource Control (RRC) release message from the base station apparatus, and a processing unit. The processing unit establishes a radio bearer for a Multicast Broadcast service (MBS) for delivery mode 1. The processing unit determines whether or not a suspend configuration parameter is included in the RRC release message, and in a case that the processing unit determines that the suspend configuration parameter is included, the processing unit suspends the radio bearer for the MBS for the delivery mode 1, and in a case that the processing unit determines that the suspend configuration parameter is not included, the processing unit does not suspend the radio bearer for the MBS for the delivery mode 1. The suspend configuration parameter is a parameter indicating a configuration for an RRC_INACTIVE state.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Kyosuke Inoue
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Patent number: 12684935Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer provided between a first electrode and a second electrode and including quantum dots, and an interposition film interposed between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer, and the interposition film includes a halogen simple substance including first halogen atoms.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Kimoto
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Patent number: 12684113Abstract: A method of decoding video data is provided. The method includes: receiving the video data; determining, from an image frame of the video data, a block unit; determining a first intra prediction of the block unit based on a decoder-side intra mode derivation (DIMD) mode; determining a second intra prediction of the block unit based on an intra prediction mode other than the DIMD mode; generating a third intra prediction based on the first intra prediction and the second intra prediction; and reconstructing the block unit based on the third intra prediction. In addition, an electronic device using the method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2024Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chih-Yu Teng, Yu-Chiao Yang
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Patent number: 12682434Abstract: An image inputter and a controller are provided, and the controller acquires a multiple-value image via the image inputter, acquires a first image obtained by performing a correction process and a simple binarization process on the multiple-value image and a second image obtained by performing the correction process on the multiple-value image, uses a difference value of a pixel value of the second image with respect to the first image on a pixel-by-pixel basis to determine whether a jaggy occurs when the multiple-value image is output as a simple binary image, when a jaggy occurs, determines a conversion method for converting the multiple-value image in accordance with an amount of statistics calculated using the difference value, and outputs an image obtained by conversion using the determined conversion method.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Imaizumi, Teruhiko Matsuoka
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Patent number: 12684934Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; a light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a hole transport layer disposed between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer, wherein the light-emitting layer includes a first quantum dot including a first core with an emission peak in a visible light region, and a second quantum dot including a second core with an emission peak in a near-ultraviolet region or an ultraviolet region.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiro Ueta, Keisuke Kitano
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Patent number: 12684466Abstract: A UE receives, from a first base station apparatus, system information and/or a registration accept message including a first frequency band supported by the first base station apparatus, first S-NSSAI corresponding to a first frequency band, a second frequency band supported by a second base station apparatus, and second S-NSSAI corresponding to a second frequency band. The UE recognizes that a registration request message and/or a PDU session establishment request message including the second S-NSSAI is not transmittable via the first base station apparatus, and in a case of reselecting a cell of the second base station apparatus, recognizes that the registration request message and/or the PDU session establishment request message including the first S-NSSAI is not transmittable via the second base station apparatus. This prevents, in a 5GS, transmission of a registration request message and/or PDU session establishment request message which is unnecessary.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuo Sugawara, Masafumi Aramoto
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Patent number: 12684549Abstract: A wireless terminal comprises receiver circuitry and processor circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive, over the radio interface, information upon which determination of allocation type determination formula(e) is dependent. The processor circuitry configured to: (1) use the received information to determine which allocation type determination formula(e) is to be used to determine an allocation type; (2) use the allocation type determination formula(e) to determine the allocation type, a type of the allocation type being determined depending on location of an allocated resource block for the uplink channel relative to channel bandwidth; and (3) use the allocation type to determine a parameter for a configured maximum transmission power for an uplink channel upon which an uplink transmission is transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Zhanping Yin