Patents Assigned to Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
  • Patent number: 11968751
    Abstract: A base station for transmitting system related information in a mobile telecommunications network. The base station is configured to transmit system information for the cell provided by the base station and to broadcast a version synchronisation signal, wherein the version synchronisation signal provides version information regarding the current version of the system information for the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Basuki Priyanto, Nafiseh Mazloum
  • Publication number: 20240107505
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to perform a transport channel processing chain, the transport channel processing chain comprising a sub-carrier puncturing function, the sub-carrier puncturing function comprising puncturing, in each subframe of a composite transmission time interval, a set of subcarriers from at least one mapped physical resource block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Basuki PRIYANTO
  • Publication number: 20240107590
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: storage configured to store ancillary information not essential to every connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network; a controller configured to produce data indicative of the stored ancillary information; a transmitter configured to transmit the produced data to the wireless telecommunication network; and a receiver configured to receive an indication from the wireless telecommunication network to transmit the ancillary information to the wireless telecommunication network, wherein in response to the indication, the transmitter is configured to transmit the ancillary information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Anders BERGGREN
  • Publication number: 20240107589
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: storage configured to store ancillary information not essential to every connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network; a controller configured to produce data indicative of the stored ancillary information; a transmitter configured to transmit the produced data to the wireless telecommunication network; and a receiver configured to receive an indication from the wireless telecommunication network to transmit the ancillary information to the wireless telecommunication network, wherein in response to the indication, the transmitter is configured to transmit the ancillary information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Anders BERGGREN
  • Patent number: 11917693
    Abstract: Infrastructure equipment for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the infrastructure equipment including: receiver circuitry configured to receive a second signal from a terminal device of the wireless telecommunications network; and transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a third signal to the terminal device, the third signal being transmitted in response to the reception of the second signal, the third signal being for the terminal device to determine, in combination with a first signal received by the terminal device, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a system information block (SIB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11915334
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a presence/absence prediction unit that performs prediction of presence/absence of a user at a visit destination on a basis of sensed data, and a providing unit that provides a result of the prediction to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Reiko Kirihara, Norihiro Takahashi, Saki Yokoyama, Satoshi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11899456
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to realize a rich motion expression of an autonomous mobile object by easier attitude control. The information processing device includes: a motion control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile object, wherein the autonomous mobile object includes a wheel that can be stored inside a main body and that can be protruded to an outside of the main body, and the motion control unit keeps a standing state by making the wheel protruded to the outside of the main body and performs driving control of the wheel and attitude control of the autonomous mobile object in movement of the autonomous mobile object, and makes the autonomous mobile object remain still in a seated state during a stop thereof by storing the wheel inside the main body is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC
    Inventors: Noriaki Takagi, Masahiro Shimase, Tomoyuki Sonoda, Daisuke Watanabe, Kohei Takada
  • Publication number: 20240049167
    Abstract: A terminal device comprising circuitry configured to detect a value of a parameter which is variable in response to a variation in vertical position of the terminal device; receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a reference value of the parameter, a reference value of a vertical position at which the reference value of the parameter is associated, and a valid duration information of the reference value of the parameter, the reference value of the parameter being defined relative to a first reference vertical position; and determine a value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to the first reference vertical position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichiro TSUDA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN
  • Patent number: 11894604
    Abstract: To realize polarization MIMO in a more suitable form in a mobile communication apparatus. A communication apparatus includes a plurality of antenna parts configured to receive or transmit a wireless signal, a communication control part configured to control transmitting or receiving the wireless signal via at least any of the plurality of antenna parts, and a casing housing the communication control part, in which each of the plurality of antenna parts is held near each of a plurality of partial regions normal directions of which cross each other or the normal directions of which are mutually twisted in outer faces of the casing, and transmit or receive a first wireless signal and a second wireless signal propagating in directions substantially orthogonal to the partial regions and having mutually different polarization directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Suzuki, Shen Wang, Toru Ozone, Jin Sato
  • Patent number: 11871368
    Abstract: A method of operating a communications device comprises detecting a plurality of beams of radio signals each being transmitted periodically according to a time divided structure of a wireless access interface provided by a wireless communications network, selecting a first of the plurality of beams of radio signals for detecting a first version of a synchronisation signal transmitted with the first beam of radio signals, selecting a second of the plurality of beams of radio signals for detecting a second version of the synchronisation signal transmitted with the second beam of radio signals, and synchronising with the time divided structure of the wireless access interface from at least one of the first version of the synchronisation signal and the second version of the synchronisation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11838954
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: storage configured to store ancillary information not essential to every connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network; a controller configured to produce data indicative of the stored ancillary information; a transmitter configured to transmit the produced data to the wireless telecommunication network; and a receiver configured to receive an indication from the wireless telecommunication network to transmit the ancillary information to the wireless telecommunication network, wherein in response to the indication, the transmitter is configured to transmit the ancillary information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Anders Berggren
  • Patent number: 11832209
    Abstract: A terminal device comprising circuitry configured to detect a value of a parameter which is variable in response to a variation in vertical position of the terminal device; receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a reference value of the parameter, a reference value of a vertical position at which the reference value of the parameter is associated, and a valid duration information of the reference value of the parameter, the reference value of the parameter being defined relative to a first reference vertical position; and determine a value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to the first reference vertical position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren
  • Publication number: 20230379884
    Abstract: A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN
  • Patent number: 11825455
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to perform a transport channel processing chain, the transport channel processing chain comprising a sub-carrier puncturing function, the sub-carrier puncturing function comprising puncturing, in each subframe of a composite transmission time interval, a set of subcarriers from at least one mapped physical resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basuki Priyanto
  • Patent number: 11818613
    Abstract: A method of operating network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network comprising the network infrastructure equipment and a terminal device, wherein the terminal device is operable to transmit uplink reference signalling to support measurements of radio channel conditions between the terminal device and the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the method comprises: receiving, from the terminal device, uplink reference signalling in accordance with a first uplink reference signalling configuration; determining the terminal device should be configured to transmit uplink reference signalling in accordance with a second uplink reference signalling configuration; and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device, wherein the paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of the second uplink reference signalling configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren
  • Publication number: 20230363014
    Abstract: A communications device that, when in an inactive state, transmits a first signal comprising a random access preamble and a first portion of data to infrastructure equipment, receives a random access response message from the infrastructure equipment, and transmits a second signal comprising a second portion of the data to the infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Anders BERGGREN, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230353328
    Abstract: A communication device includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control circuit. The receiver is configured to receive, from an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network, downlink signals on a downlink via a wireless access interface of the mobile communications network. The transmitter is configured to transmit, to the infrastructure equipment, uplink signals on an uplink via the wireless access interface. The control circuit is configured to control the receiver to receive the downlink signals and control the transmitter to transmit the uplink signals. The control circuit is further configured to delay a reception period for the receiver to receive the downlink signals after a transmission period in which the transmitter transmits the uplink signals when a duration of the transmission period exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG, Basuki PRIYANTO
  • Publication number: 20230337214
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a new radio base station for a mobile telecommunications system. The new radio base station has a circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment and at least one LTE base station and to establish a new radio cell. The circuitry is further configured to transmit a time division duplexing configuration of the new radio cell to the LTE base station for identifying, based on the received time division duplexing configuration, a coexistence and intermodulation influence on an LTE receiver of the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11777690
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: transceiver circuitry configured to receive data from the wireless telecommunications network, and a controller configured: to control the transceiver circuitry to receive control information, a control channel and a data channel wherein, the control information defines the period of time between the control channel and the data channel, and to ignore a subsequent control channel received during the period of time following the control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Basuki Priyanto
  • Publication number: 20230305164
    Abstract: A receiver circuitry configured to receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a signal comprising positioning information for allowing a spatial position of the terminal device to be determined using the positioning information and a predetermined positioning scheme associated with the positioning information, the positioning scheme comprising one or more of instructions and additional information for determining the position of the terminal device using the positioning information, wherein the positioning information is comprised within a system information block (SIB) of the received signal; and processing circuitry configured: to determine, based on a characteristic of the SIB, a temporal validity of the received positioning information, and to determine, at a time at which the received positioning information is temporally valid, the spatial position of the terminal device using the received positioning information and the predetermined positioning scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA