Patents Assigned to Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
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Patent number: 11632806Abstract: A communications device transmits data in preconfigured resources of an uplink of a wireless communications network by performing a procedure to determine whether the communications device can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources of the uplink, and if the communications device determines that it can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources, transmitting signals representing the data in the preconfigured resources. The procedure to determine whether the communications device can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources of the uplink includes a transmission parameter confirmation procedure which confirms that a value of one or more transmission parameters to be used for transmitting the signals representing the data can be used for the signals representing the data to be detected by an infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INCInventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Basuki Priyanto
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Patent number: 11632825Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Basuki Priyanto, Nafiseh Mazloum
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Patent number: 11627509Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system including a terminal device; first infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a first radio access technology (RAT) and second infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a second RAT. During a handover procedure for handover from the first infrastructure equipment as a source master infrastructure equipment to a third infrastructure equipment as a target master infrastructure equipment, the second infrastructure equipment is operable to communicate with the third infrastructure equipment using an interface associated with the second RAT so as to allow information necessary for completing the handover to be exchanged between the first infrastructure equipment and the third infrastructure equipment via the second infrastructure equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Brian Alexander Martin, Anders Berggren, Lars Nord
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Publication number: 20230098489Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to communicate with a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system using radio resources comprising a narrowband carrier supported within a wider system frequency bandwidth of the wireless telecommunications system, wherein the method comprises: establishing initial frequencies for radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; receiving configuration signalling from the network infrastructure equipment providing an indication of a frequency shift to apply to the initial frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; establishing shifted frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier by applying the indicated frequency shift to the initial frequencies; and communicating with the network infrastructure equipment using the radio resources for the narrowband carrier with the shifted frequenciesType: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Basuki PRIYANTO
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Publication number: 20230086209Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to establish a radio resource control connection with network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network, wherein the terminal device is associated with a previously-allocated temporary identifier that identifies the terminal device within the wireless telecommunications network; the method comprising: transmitting a first message to the network infrastructure equipment comprising an indication of a first portion of the temporary identifier; and transmitting a second message, which is separate from the first message, to the network infrastructure equipment comprising an indication of a second portion of the temporary identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Svante ALNÅS, Lars NORD, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI
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Patent number: 11609621Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program with which it is easy for a user to predict a future remaining battery amount. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control to calculate a future prediction value of remaining battery amount on the basis of a use history of an information processing apparatus by a user and to present prediction value related information related to the prediction value to the user. According to the present disclosure, the user can easily predict the future remaining battery amount. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignees: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoo Mizukami, Noriaki Sakamoto, Tomonobu Tsujikawa, Shota Kawarazaki, Ryo Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11581920Abstract: A method of configuring a multichannel uplink transmission (199) comprising multiple channels (151, 152, 159, 451, 452) between a wireless communication device (102) and multiple receive panels (1013-1, 1013-2) of at least one network node (101) is provided. The multiple receive panels (1013-1, 1013-2) and the at least one network node (101) are connected via backhaul links (1018-1, 1018-2). The method is carried out by the wireless communication device (102). The method comprises receiving, from the at least one network node (101), a downlink message encoding control data (4001) for the multichannel uplink transmission (199), the control data (4001) being associated with the backhaul links. The method further comprises configuring the multichannel uplink transmission (199) based on the control data (4001).Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Fredrik Rusek, Erik Bengtsson, Olof Zander
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Publication number: 20230044137Abstract: Embodiments of the present technique can provide a mobile device and a method of establishing a connection via a core network by a mobile terminal. The method comprises receiving by the mobile terminal in a first cell an identifier assigned by a node in a first core network of a first type, the identifier comprising an identifier of the node or a group of nodes in the first core network, selecting a second cell in which service via a core network of a second type is available, and determining whether service via a core network of the first type is available from the second cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Svante ALNÅS, Lars NORD, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI
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Patent number: 11523392Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to communicate with a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system using radio resources comprising a narrowband carrier supported within a wider system frequency bandwidth of the wireless telecommunications system, wherein the method comprises: establishing initial frequencies for radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; receiving configuration signalling from the network infrastructure equipment providing an indication of a frequency shift to apply to the initial frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; establishing shifted frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier by applying the indicated frequency shift to the initial frequencies; and communicating with the network infrastructure equipment using the radio resources for the narrowband carrier with the shifted frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Basuki Priyanto
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Patent number: 11516693Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to establish a radio resource control connection with network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network, wherein the terminal device is associated with a previously-allocated temporary identifier that identifies the terminal device within the wireless telecommunications network; the method comprising: transmitting a first message to the network infrastructure equipment comprising an indication of a first portion of the temporary identifier; and transmitting a second message, which is separate from the first message, to the network infrastructure equipment comprising an indication of a second portion of the temporary identifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Svante Alnås, Lars Nord, Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei
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Publication number: 20220377735Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Basuki PRIYANTO
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Patent number: 11503519Abstract: Determining whether service via a core network of the first type is available from the second cell. The method further comprises establishing a connection via the second cell by transmitting a message including a first indication, the first indication based on at least a portion of the identifier, and when service via a core network of the first type is not available from the second cell, transmitting in the message a second indication, the second indication indicating that the identifier was received from a core network different from the second type, without identifying the first type of core network.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Svante Alnås, Lars Nord, Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei
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Publication number: 20220353753Abstract: A terminal device and a method of operating a terminal device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises establishing, by the terminal device, a first radio connection with a first network access node for transmission of data via a first bearer and a second radio connection with the first network access node for transmission of data via a second bearer. Based on a difference between quality of service for the data transmission via the first bearer and the second bearer, a third radio connection is established between the terminal device and a second network access node for transmission of the data via the first bearer; and the third radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node, a fourth radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node for transmission of the data via the second bearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN
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Patent number: 11485024Abstract: A device (10) is placed on an object (30). A reference feature of the object (30) is aligned with a reference feature of the device (10). Based on signals transmitted between at least one measurement point of the device (10) and a further device (20), a position of the at least one measurement point is measured. The position of the object (30) is then determined based on the measured position of the at least one measurement point and based on information on arrangement of the at least one measurement point in relation to the reference feature of the device (10).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Mattias Falk, Hannes Bergkvist, Ivar Bergkvist, Emil Hansson
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Publication number: 20220338269Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: first receiver circuitry configured to receive a first signal from each of one or more signal emitting devices located at respective spatial positions; transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a second signal to infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network; second receiver circuitry configured to receive a third signal from the infrastructure equipment, the third signal being transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in response to the infrastructure equipment receiving the second signal, the third signal being for determining, in combination with the first signal received from each of the one or more signal emitting devices, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a predetermined system information block (SIB); and control circuitry configured to determine a spatial position of the terminal device based on the received first and thirType: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA
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Publication number: 20220326707Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Noriaki TAKAGI, Masahiro SHIMASE, Tomoyuki SONODA, Daisuke WATANABE, Kohei TAKADA
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Patent number: 11418380Abstract: [Object] To realize IQ imbalance correction in a more preferable aspect. [Solution] An information processing device including: a calculation unit configured to calculate an error between predetermined reference coordinates on an IQ plane and a signal point of a received predetermined reference signal on a basis of a reception result of the reference signal on which phase modulation or quadrature amplitude modulation is implemented and mapping information of the reference signal; and a generation unit configured to generate correction data for correcting a deviation of a signal point of a received signal on a basis of a calculation result of the error.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventor: Takashi Nakayama
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Patent number: 11419150Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: first receiver circuitry configured to receive a first signal from each of one or more signal emitting devices located at respective spatial positions; transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a second signal to infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network; second receiver circuitry configured to receive a third signal from the infrastructure equipment, the third signal being transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in response to the infrastructure equipment receiving the second signal, the third signal being for determining, in combination with the first signal received from each of the one or more signal emitting devices, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a predetermined system information block (SIB); and control circuitry configured to determine a spatial position of the terminal device based on the received first and thirType: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 11409289Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS. INCInventors: Noriaki Takagi, Masahiro Shimase, Tomoyuki Sonoda, Daisuke Watanabe, Kohei Takada
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Patent number: 11405912Abstract: 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 sub-carriers from at least one mapped physical resource block.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basuki Priyanto