Patents Assigned to Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
  • Patent number: 11632806
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC
    Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Basuki Priyanto
  • Patent number: 11632825
    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: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Basuki Priyanto, Nafiseh Mazloum
  • Patent number: 11627509
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Brian Alexander Martin, Anders Berggren, Lars Nord
  • Publication number: 20230098489
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Basuki PRIYANTO
  • Publication number: 20230086209
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Svante ALNÅS, Lars NORD, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI
  • Patent number: 11609621
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoo Mizukami, Noriaki Sakamoto, Tomonobu Tsujikawa, Shota Kawarazaki, Ryo Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11581920
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Fredrik Rusek, Erik Bengtsson, Olof Zander
  • Publication number: 20230044137
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Svante ALNÅS, Lars NORD, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI
  • Patent number: 11523392
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Basuki Priyanto
  • Patent number: 11516693
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Svante Alnås, Lars Nord, Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei
  • Publication number: 20220377735
    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: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Basuki PRIYANTO
  • Patent number: 11503519
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Svante Alnås, Lars Nord, Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei
  • Publication number: 20220353753
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN
  • Patent number: 11485024
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Mattias Falk, Hannes Bergkvist, Ivar Bergkvist, Emil Hansson
  • Publication number: 20220338269
    Abstract: 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 thir
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20220326707
    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: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Noriaki TAKAGI, Masahiro SHIMASE, Tomoyuki SONODA, Daisuke WATANABE, Kohei TAKADA
  • Patent number: 11418380
    Abstract: [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: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11419150
    Abstract: 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 thir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11409289
    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: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS. INC
    Inventors: Noriaki Takagi, Masahiro Shimase, Tomoyuki Sonoda, Daisuke Watanabe, Kohei Takada
  • Patent number: 11405912
    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 sub-carriers from at least one mapped physical resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basuki Priyanto