Patents Assigned to Sony Group Corporation
  • Patent number: 11979896
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: determine a first resource application system and a second application system which interfere with each other in management ranges of spectrum management apparatuses and respectively use different wireless access technologies; and determine, according to the interference situation between the first resource application system and the second resource application system, the width of a guard band between spectrum resources allocated for the first resource application system and the second resource application system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youping Zhao, Yu Zhao, Chen Sun, Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 11977143
    Abstract: A radio communication terminal (UE2) configured to act as a radar receiver, comprising: —a radio transceiver (323), —logic (320) configured to communicate data, via the radio transceiver, on a radio channel (101), wherein the logic is further configured to obtain (233), via the radio transceiver, a radar probing request (230) to detect radio signal echoes; determine (235) a receive direction (Dir2) based on the request; control the radio transceiver to detect (242) a receive property of the radio signal echoes in said direction; and transmit (261), via the radio transceiver, data (260) associated with the detected receive property to a radio communication device (BS1, UE1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Erik Bengtsson, Rickard Ljung, Fredrik Rusek, Olof Zander, Zhinong Ying
  • Patent number: 11979915
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data by an infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network to a communications device, the method comprising transmitting by the infrastructure equipment a paging message; receiving by the infrastructure equipment a random access request, the random access request transmitted by the communications device in response to the paging message; in response to receiving the random access request, transmitting by the infrastructure equipment an indication of communications resources allocated for a transmission by the infrastructure equipment and transmitting by the infrastructure equipment an indication that the transmission by the infrastructure equipment comprises data to be transmitted while no radio connection is established between the communications device and the infrastructure equipment; and transmitting by the infrastructure equipment the data using the allocated communications resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Vivek Sharma, Yassin Aden Awad
  • Patent number: 11979344
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device that determines a first wireless resource including a frequency for transmission of a same frame that is a frame of same data, a code of the same frame, and a time for transmission of the same frame on the basis of pattern information indicating a unique relationship between a frame number of the same frame and at least one of the frequency or the code. Further, the communication device repeatedly transmits the same frame by using the first wireless resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sawako Kiriyama, Masanori Sato
  • Patent number: 11979735
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an apparatus, which has circuitry configured to control a loud-speaker arrangement including at least one virtual loudspeaker and at least one real loudspeaker to generate at least one virtual sound source, wherein the at least one virtual sound source is generated based on contributions of the at least one virtual loudspeaker and the at least one real loudspeaker, and wherein a soundfield modulation function configured to generate an acoustic impression for a user is used to modulate a soundfield emitted by the virtual sound source, such that the acoustic impression is generated at a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Franck Giron
  • Patent number: 11979670
    Abstract: An image capable of confirming a focus position is generated without superimposing a peaking signal on a captured image. Therefore, an image processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an image signal generation unit that generates a plurality of image signals having frequency characteristics different from each other from one captured image signal, and a blending processing unit that blends the plurality of image signals on the basis of a blend ratio determined on the basis of a peaking signal for the one captured image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Sohhei Okada
  • Patent number: 11979774
    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is configured to act as a first relay node by determining an allocation of a first set of communications resources by the infrastructure equipment acting as a first relay node for another infrastructure equipment acting as a second relay node, the communications resources for transmitting uplink data from a first communications device to an infrastructure equipment connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network acting as a donor node, the allocation of the first set of communications resources for the other infrastructure equipment acting as the second relay node being based upon a donor set of communications resources allocated by the donor node for communicating the uplink data from the first communications device to the donor node via the infrastructure equipment acting as the first relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 11979948
    Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, at a first infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of a wireless communications network, signals representing data from one or more others of infrastructure equipment, the data having been received at the one or more others of the infrastructure equipment from one or more communications devices or from other infrastructure equipment, and transmitting, by the first infrastructure equipment, the data from the one or more others of the infrastructure equipment to the core network part of the wireless communications network. At least one of the infrastructure equipment uses at least one spectral efficiency enhancing technique to receive the signals, the at least one spectral efficiency enhancing technique allowing the at least one infrastructure equipment to receive the signals in the backhaul communications link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 11979545
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an image obtaining unit and a display control unit. The image obtaining unit obtains a plurality of first divided images obtained by dividing a first image showing a first location along a second direction substantially perpendicular to a first direction, and a plurality of second divided images obtained by dividing a second image showing a second location along the second direction. The display control unit arranges and simultaneously displays the plurality of first divided images and the plurality of second divided images along the first direction on a display device of a user at a third location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari Saito, Kenji Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11979922
    Abstract: A communication device is a device in which a radio connection state with another communication device changes from an unconnected state to a predetermined connected state by performing a predetermined connection procedure. The communication device acquires predetermined information for transmitting data to the another communication device in the unconnected state. The communication device then transmits the data to the another communication device in the unconnected state based on the predetermined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 11975448
    Abstract: There is provided a control device including a control unit configured to control an operation offset that indicates a difference between a control reference point for a slave unit and a control reference point for a master unit on the basis of operation magnification indicating a ratio of a movement amount of the master unit to a movement amount of the slave unit, in which the control unit controls the operation offset for two pairs of master unit and slave unit according to a change in the operation magnification in a case where a designated position of a first pair of master unit and a slave unit of the two pairs of master units and the slave units is kept constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Itotani, Hiromasa Masuda, Noriaki Takasugi
  • Patent number: 11979223
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that determines whether or not a terminal device and an imaging device are associated with each other on the basis of first identification information received from the terminal device and second identification information received from the imaging device, and sets the terminal device as a destination of transmission of a return video image on the basis of a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Keita Shirane, Yuya Kihara, Ichiro Sudo
  • Patent number: 11977681
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first detection unit that detects contact of fingertips on the basis of an output waveform of an acceleration sensor; a second detection unit that detects the contact of the fingertips on the basis of a change in electrostatic capacitance; and an operation control unit that causes the first detection unit to operate in a case of detecting timing at which the fingertips come into contact with each other, and causes the second detection unit to operate in a case of detecting timing at which the fingertips are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Daisuke Tajima, Yohei Fukuma
  • Patent number: 11979240
    Abstract: A method of operating a device in a wireless network comprising transmitting a first uplink signal comprising control information in a set of uplink resources, transmitting a second uplink signal, wherein the second uplink signal is to be transmitted a plurality of times, each of the plurality of transmissions of the second uplink signal being a repetition of the second uplink signal, wherein each repetition of the second uplink signal is to be transmitted in a different set of uplink resources to the other repetitions of the second uplink signal, determining that the resources of the first uplink signal at least partially overlap in time with the resources of at least one of the repetitions of the second uplink signal, multiplexing the control information into the resources of a selected one or more of the repetitions of the second uplink signal, and transmitting the multiplexed signal to the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shin Horng Wong
  • Patent number: 11979215
    Abstract: A terminal device (200) includes a plurality of antenna panels, a reception unit (210), a selection unit (241), and a setting unit (244). The reception unit (210) receives one or more reference signals from a base station (100) via the plurality of antenna panels. The selection unit (241) selects one or more receiving beams from among the received one or more reference signals. The setting unit (244) sets a combination of a receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam to be used by the terminal device (200) when receiving one or more pieces of control information transmitted from the base station (100), based on a combination of the receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam used at the reception of the one or more reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11979511
    Abstract: A terminal device according to an embodiment includes: a microphone; a communication unit that performs communication via a network; a first sensor that obtains depth information; a first face detecting unit that detects a face and the distance to the face based on the depth information; and a processor. When a communication program, which is meant for making the processor perform transmission and reception of messages including voice messages and which has a sound input mode for enabling collection of sounds using the microphone and transmission of voice messages based on the collected sounds, is executed, and when a message is received by the communication unit under the control of the communication program being executed; the processor performs first-type face detection using the first face detecting unit and controls turning ON and turning OFF the sound input mode according to the result of the first-type face detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Ishimaru, Kenta Endo
  • Publication number: 20240146886
    Abstract: A projector apparatus or a light source device includes: a first light source; a second light source, a wavelength of primary color light of the second light source being different from a wavelength of primary color light of the first light source; a phase modulation element to convert light amount distribution of the second light source light; and an amplitude modulation element on which both the first light source light and the second light source light that has passed through the phase modulation element are incident. The signal processing unit generates a drive signal for the amplitude modulation element based on a gamma curve in accordance with a ratio between the first light source light and the second light source light incident on the amplitude modulation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keita MORI
  • Publication number: 20240138738
    Abstract: Provided is a biopotential electrode body having high mechanical strength and suitable for acquiring more bioinformation. The biopotential electrode body includes multiple electrically conductive portions each having a contact surface contactable with a biological body, and one or more electrically insulating portions that electrically insulate the multiple electrically conductive portions from each other. The electrically conductive portions each include a first elastic resin and a plurality of first particles buried in the first elastic resin. The electrically insulating portions each include a second elastic resin and a plurality of second particles buried in the second elastic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mao KATSUHARA, Ryo SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240139034
    Abstract: An earpad comprising one or more acoustic resonators coupled to a contact face of the earpad that is configured to interface with a user's head, the acoustic resonators being configured to attenuate leakage of parasitic sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Falk-Martin HOFFMANN
  • Patent number: D1026071
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Yoshida, Naoki Sugiyama