Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
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Publication number: 20240129533Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to suppress degradation of the encoding efficiency. In the case where primary transform that is a transform process for a prediction residual that is a difference between an image and a prediction image of the image is to be skipped, also secondary transform, which is a transform process for a primary transform coefficient obtained by the primary transform of the prediction residual, is skipped. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
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Patent number: 11961297Abstract: A device, apparatus, and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a device may include an image acquisition Linn configured to acquire a image, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information associated with the image to an information processing apparatus, such as a server, The server may be associated with a first feature quantity dictionary. The device also may include a receiving unit configured to receive a second feature quantity dictionary from the server in response to the transmission. The second feature quantity dictionary may include less information than the first feature quantity dictionary, and the server may generate the second feature quantity dictionary based on the image information and the first feature quantity dictionary. The device may include an identification unit configured to identify an object within the image using the second feature quantity dictionary.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Yoshigahara, Masaki Fukuchi
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Patent number: 11962126Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology capable of appropriately determining whether overcurrent has flowed in a light emitting element even in a case where the light emitting element is driven by the pulse driving method. [Solving Means] An overcurrent determination circuit according to the present technology includes: a sample-and-hold circuit that obtains a driving current value of a light emitting element in accordance with a timing of a light emitting interval of the light emitting element that emits pulsed light; and a comparator circuit that compares the obtained driving current value with a value of a predetermined determination level and determines whether overcurrent has flowed in the light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiki Udagawa
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Patent number: 11961266Abstract: A neural human performance capture framework (MVS-PERF) captures the skeleton, body shape and clothes displacement, and appearance of a person from a set of calibrated multiview images. It addresses the ambiguity of predicting the absolute position in monocular human mesh recovery, and bridges the volumetric representation from NeRF to animation-friendly performance capture. MVS-PERF includes three modules to extract feature maps from multiview images and fuse them to a feature volume, regress the feature volume to a naked human parameters vector, generating an SMPL-X skin-tight body mesh with a skeletal pose, body shape, and expression, and leverage a neural radiance field and a deformation field to infer the clothes as the displacement on the naked body using differentiable rendering. Clothed body mesh is obtained by adding the interpolated displacement vectors to the SMPL-X skin-tight body mesh vertices. The obtained radiance field is used for free-view volumetric rendering of the input subject.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Qing Zhang, Hanyuan Xiao
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Patent number: 11963224Abstract: A wireless local area network (WLAN) protocol having a non-zero backoff procedure which is bounded by setting a backoff counter to a random value greater than or equal to at least one backoff slot in starting to contend for a channel. This is preferably utilized in combination with setting the Arbitration Inter-Frame Spacing (AIFS) time to an amount less than that utilized for a legacy backoff. The parameters controlling the non-zero backoff may be set by the station performing the contention, or by an associated Access Point (AP), or in response to negotiation between the station and the AP. In some cases the station can switch between enabling and disabling the non-zero backoff procedure during different periods of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Liangxiao Xin, Mohamed Abouelseoud, Li-Hsiang Sun, Qing Xia
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Patent number: 11962254Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to reduce power consumption in a drive circuit that drives a capacitive load. A drive circuit includes: a positive-side circuit; and a negative-side circuit. The positive-side circuit causes current supplied from a power source to a predetermined node to flow to a positive-side terminal of a capacitive load in a first drive mode and causes current from the capacitive load to flow from the positive-side terminal to the predetermined node in a second drive mode. The negative-side circuit causes current from a negative-side terminal of the capacitive load to flow to the predetermined node in the first drive mode and causes current supplied from the power supply to the predetermined node to flow to the negative-side terminal in the second drive mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masahiro Sato
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Patent number: 11956089Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method that can achieve communication that has high reliability and low delay. Provided is a communication device that constitutes a base station, the communication device including a control unit that performs a control that generates redundancy information regarding a provision of redundancy for transmission data transmitted by a terminal station or the base station, and multiplexing information regarding multiplexing of the transmission data, and transmits the redundancy information and the multiplexing information that have been generated to the terminal station.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi Morioka
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Patent number: 11956675Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a communication unit that performs radio communication; a control unit that controls an operation of sensing resources to be used in a communication scheme used for performing inter-device communication with other devices, in which the control unit controls to sense the resource in a predetermined minimum unit on a time axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yifu Tang, Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda
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Patent number: 11956688Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system comprising the terminal device and a non-terrestrial network access node, wherein the method comprises the terminal device performing the steps of: determining a first location for the terminal device transmitting signalling indicating the first location; determining a second location for the terminal device; determining whether or not a distance between the first location and the second location is more than a predefined threshold distance, and if so transmitting signalling indicating the second location.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma
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Patent number: 11954804Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that enables a virtual object to be displayed at an appropriate position in the real world. The information processing device includes a position estimation unit that estimates a current position in a first coordinate system, a display position setting unit that sets a display position of a virtual object in a third coordinate system on the basis of an environment database, virtual object information including the display position of the virtual object in a second coordinate system, and an observed image captured near the current position, a meta information generation unit that generates observation meta information, and an environment database management unit that compares observation data with environment data of the environment database to determine whether to add the observation data to the environment database.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hajime Wakabayashi, Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Watanabe
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Patent number: 11954685Abstract: Training a machine learning model includes selecting a subset of training transactions from a plurality of training transactions to be used for classifying transactions as either fraudulent or genuine, and classifying transactions as either fraudulent or genuine. Additionally, selecting the subset of training transactions includes clustering the plurality of training transactions into a plurality of clusters based on a similarity measure. Each training transaction includes an indication whether the training transaction is fraudulent or genuine. Further, selecting the subset of training transactions includes selecting a first proportion of the training transactions of a cluster of training transactions for the subset of training transactions if the cluster comprises at least one fraudulent training transaction, and selecting a second proportion of the training transactions of a cluster of training transactions for the subset of training transactions if the cluster is free of fraudulent training transactions.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Francesco Cartella, Gert Ceulemans, Orlando Anunciacao, Gabriel Armelin, Ales Novak, Cristian Traum
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Patent number: 11954240Abstract: An information processing device includes an identification unit that detects a hand region of a person who is in contact with an object included in an input image and identifies an object region that is a region of the object based on a result thereof, a specification unit that specifies an unknown object candidate region that is a candidate for a region of an unknown object from among the object regions identified by the identification unit, a determination unit that determines whether the object is an unknown object based on the unknown object candidate region, and a generation unit that generates, when the object is an unknown object, feedback information for changing an attitude of the unknown object with respect to the person.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Daiki Shimada
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Patent number: 11954816Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to place a virtual object within an augmented reality space corresponding to a real space in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in an image captured by an imaging part, and an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation. When the user operation is a first operation, the display controller causes the virtual object to move within the augmented reality space.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Shingo Tsurumi
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Patent number: 11955638Abstract: A sheet-shaped member is provided and includes a porous carbon material including a material obtained from carbonization of a raw material including rice husk, the raw material having a silicon content of at least 5 wt %, the raw material is heat treated before carbonization, and the raw material is treated by an alkali treatment after carbonization to reduce the silicon content, the porous carbon material having a specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by the BJH method and MP method, and an R value of 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichiro Tabata, Shinichiro Yamada, Masayoshi Kanno, Tsutomu Noguchi, Takeshi Horie
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Patent number: 11956568Abstract: [Object] To contribute to the achievement of a workflow in which an HDR video and an SDR video are compatible with each other. [Solving Means] This video signal processing apparatus includes an HDR video generation unit including a first converter unit that performs OOTF conversion on an HDR video by using an exponentiation function for calculating an exponentiation of 1.2, where 100% is 1, to an input signal level of the HDR video having a range from a point of 0%, where an expression range of an input signal level of an SDR video is 100%, to a change point optionally determined within a range of 100% to 500%, and by using a linear function for multiplying an input signal level of the HDR video having a range higher than the change point by a predetermined coefficient to maintain a change rate of a calculation result in a portion of the change point calculated by using the exponentiation function.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Endo, Koji Kamiya
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Patent number: 11956113Abstract: Methods and an apparatus for performing synchronization in New Radio (NR) systems are disclosed. A frequency band may be determined and may correspond to a WTRU. On a condition that the operational frequency band is a lower frequency, a synchronization signal block (SSB) index may be implicitly. On a condition that the operational frequency band is a higher frequency, an SSB index may be determined based on a hybrid method which includes determining the SSB index using both an implicit and an explicit method. A configuration of actually transmitted SSBs may be determined using a multi-level two stage compressed indication where SSB groups are determined based on a coarse indicator and actually transmitted SSBs with the SSB groups are determined based on a fine indicator.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Fengjun Xi, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz
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Patent number: 11951399Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing footprints in a computer system that provides a virtual environment, including: accessing an avatar record, where the avatar record indicates an avatar representation that includes data to provide a visual representation of an avatar; receiving a selection of a footprint; accessing a footprint record, where the footprint record includes footprint representations that include data to provide a visual representation of the selected footprint as a footprint representation; associating the footprint representation with the avatar representation; receiving avatar movement input that indicates movement of the avatar within the virtual environment; and generating visual data representing the movement of the avatar and footprints in the virtual environment using the avatar representation and the footprint representation, where the footprints are placed in the virtual environment following the avatar as the avatar moves in the virtual environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Corporation of AmericaInventors: Thomas Sachson, James Marcus, Eric Benjamin Fruchter
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Patent number: 11948337Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image processing apparatus and method that can prevent a reduction in image quality. Geometry data that is a frame image having arranged thereon a projected image obtained by projecting 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure on a two-dimensional plane and includes a special value indicating occupancy map information in a range is generated. The generated geometry data is encoded. Further, the encoded data on the geometry data is decoded, and a depth value indicating a position of the 3D data and the occupancy map information are extracted from the decoded geometry data. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, or a program.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Kuma, Ohji Nakagami, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Koji Yano, Tsuyoshi Kato
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Patent number: 11949959Abstract: It is made possible to perform data transmission through a cable satisfactorily. A cable is connected between first electronic equipment and second electronic equipment. The cable includes a current consumption unit that receives supply of current from the first electronic equipment through a power supply line, a current monitor unit that observes a current amount the first electronic equipment is capable of supplying to the power supply line, and an information transmission unit that transmits control information according to the observed current amount to the first electronic equipment. The first electronic equipment controls the state of data to be supplied to the cable, on the basis of the control information transmitted thereto from the cable.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Morita, Kazuaki Toba, Kazuo Yamamoto, Masanari Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11950103Abstract: A communication control device (40) includes: an acquisition unit (441) that acquires a spectrum grant request following a certain scheme from a plurality of second radio systems that perform a wireless communication using a radio wave of a frequency band used by a first radio system; a classification unit (442) that groups the second radio systems into a plurality of groups according to a scheme of the spectrum grant request; and a calculation unit (443) that calculates a communication parameter of the second radio system for each of the groups.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Sho Furuichi