Patents Assigned to Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
  • Patent number: 10810296
    Abstract: A communication apparatus of the disclosure includes: an authentication section that performs personal authentication of a user through BAN (Body Area Network) communication prior to data exchange with a communication peer for predetermined processing; and a communication section that performs the data exchange with the communication peer for the predetermined processing in a case of success of the personal authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Tanaka, Shigeki Teramoto, Yoshihito Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20200314795
    Abstract: A terminal device configured to receive a radio signal from which measurements can be used to assist in determining a position of the terminal device. The terminal device detects one or more system information blocks carrying position assistance information transmitted from the infrastructure equipment and estimates the position of the terminal device by combining the identified position assistance information with the radio signal received by the position detection receiver circuitry. Furthermore the terminal device receives from the infrastructure equipment an indication of relative risk that the position assistance information will change, and in response to the indication of the relative risk that the position assistance information will change to adapt the receiving of the one or more system information blocks to receive an updated version of the position assistance information in accordance with the relative risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 10786831
    Abstract: A vibrator assembly includes a housing defining a longitudinal central axis and a rotor in the housing and spaced apart from the central axis. The rotor defines a longitudinal rotational axis that is parallel to the central axis. The rotor is configured to rotate about the rotational axis and, in response, to rotate about the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Magnus Steijner, Stjepan Begic, Olof Simonsson, Martin Nystrom
  • Patent number: 10771165
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology is capable of executing electric field communication and includes an antenna, a medium side electrode, and a communication unit. The antenna is used for other communication different from the electric field communication. The communication unit is electrically connected to each of the antenna and the medium side electrode and executes the electric field communication by using the antenna and the medium side electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Uno, Takaaki Hashiguchi, Hideaki Shoji
  • Patent number: 10771164
    Abstract: A communication unit of the disclosure includes a human-body electrode and a space electrode that perform communication through a human body by means of an electric field method, and a first auxiliary conductor section that includes a first end and a second end, the first end causing electrostatic induction corresponding to a transmission signal with respect to the human body, the second end being disposed at a position closer to the human-body electrode than to the space electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Uno, Yoshihito Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 10765588
    Abstract: There is provided a processing unit that includes a direction decision unit and a guide information generation unit. The direction decision unit determines a direction in which a person who behaves without a sense of sight walks. The guide information generation unit generates guide information for the person who behaves without the sense of sight to walk in the determined direction. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a smartphone or the like used by the person who behaves without the sense of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Kumi Yashiro, Tetsuya Naruse, Junichi Kosaka, Yasumasa Suzuki, Hiroko Nishioka, Hitoshi Rikukawa, Kohei Takada, Masahiko Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200280951
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: sensor circuitry configured to detect a value of a parameter which is variable in response to a variation in vertical position of the terminal device; receiver circuitry configured to receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a reference value of the parameter and a reference value of the vertical position at which the reference value of the parameter is associated; processing circuitry configured to determine a value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to a second reference vertical position, wherein the determining comprises: determining the second reference vertical position based on a geographical position of the terminal device; determining a value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to the first reference vertical position based on the detected value of the parameter; determining the value of the vertical
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichiro TSUDA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN
  • Publication number: 20200278451
    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: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 10764106
    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: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20200275526
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, which has a circuitry configured to communicate with a new radio base station and a LTE base station. The circuitry is further configured to: perform simultaneous uplink communication with the LTE base station and the new radio base station; detect an overheating situation; and transmit capability information in response to detecting the overheating situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 10756827
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an electrode for intra-body communication that can enhance communication performance. [Solution] According to the present disclosure, the electrode for intra-body communication is used in an electrostatic coupling-type intra-body communication method with a carrier frequency of 40 MHz or less, the electrode including: a first electrode configured to be capacitatively coupled with a human body; and a second electrode having a capacitance of coupling with the human body that is five times or more and 11 times or less with respect to a capacitance at which the first electrode is coupled with the human body. A capacitance of coupling generated between the first electrode and the second electrode is 3 pF or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Shoji, Takaaki Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 10755499
    Abstract: An opening-closing control device of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode unit and a second electrode unit that perform communication with an authenticated communication device; an authentication processor that performs authentication processing on the authenticated communication device on a basis of a result of the communication with the authenticated communication device; an opening-closing operation unit that performs an operation on a lockable opening-closing unit; an operation detector that detects an operation state of the opening-closing operation unit; and a controller that locks or unlocks the opening-closing unit on a basis of a result of the authentication processing and a result of detection of the operation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communication Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Miyamoto, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Shinichi Fukuda, Yoshihito Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20200267665
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system includes circuitry including a receiver and a transmitter and which is configured to communicate with a new radio base station and a LTE base station. The circuitry is further configured to indicate a coexistence indication to the new radio base station or to the LTE base station; and receive a power control instruction for controlling power output of the transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Anders BERGGREN, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20200235890
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network comprising the terminal device and a plurality of base stations arranged into groups of one or more base stations supporting communications over different areas. The method including establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with an initially selected base station and entering an RRC connected mode of operation with respect to the initially selected base station and suspending the RRC connection with the initially selected base station and entering an RRC suspended mode of operation. The method includes subsequently transmitting a message to request a resumed RRC connection to a subsequently selected base station, wherein the subsequently selected base station is selected in accordance with a cell (re)selection procedure for the terminal device performed while in the RRC suspended mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Anders Berggen, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 10715222
    Abstract: A device controls each antenna to transmit at least one first UL pilot signal and to receive, for each first UL pilot signals DL data encoded according to the respective first UL pilot signal. The receive properties of the DL data are combined and a second UL pilot signal is determined based on the combined receive properties. The second UL pilot signal is repeatedly transmitted. The techniques may be applied in a massive multi-input multi-output scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Erik Bengtsson, Fredrik Rusek, Ove Edfors
  • Publication number: 20200221470
    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: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 10694504
    Abstract: Communication is implemented between at least one access node of a wireless network and a terminal attached to the wireless network. The communication is on at least one narrowband carrier (311-1, 311-2) comprising resources (308) in a first spectrum (301) and operating according to a first radio access technology, e.g., Narrowband Internet of Things, NB-IoT. The first spectrum (301) is arranged at least partly within a second spectrum (302) on which communication between the at least one access node and a second terminal is executed on a wideband carrier (312). The wideband carrier (312) comprises resources (308) in the second spectrum (302) and operates according to a second radio access technology different to the first radio access technology, e.g., Machine-Type Communication, MTC, or evolved UMTS radio access, E-UTRA. In some examples, the first spectrum (301) and the second spectrum (302) both may comprise a shared spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Rickard Ljung, Peter C. Karlsson, Basuki Priyanto
  • Publication number: 20200193338
    Abstract: [Problem] To make it possible to create more appropriate action plan of a plurality of users on the basis of a relationship among the plurality of users. [Solution] There is provided an information processing apparatus including a relationship estimation unit configured to estimate a relationship among a plurality of users on the basis of sensing data, and an action plan creation unit configured to create an action plan of the plurality of users on the basis of a result of the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Reiko KIRIHARA, Norihiro TAKAHASHI, Saki YOKOYAMA, Satoshi HOSOKAWA
  • Patent number: 10660047
    Abstract: A method, in a first subset of a sequence of transmission intervals, including communicating, on a radio link of a cellular network and according to a resource mapping, pilot signals having a non-zero first transmit power. The method includes, in a second subset of the sequence of transmission intervals, communicating, on the radio link and according to the resource mapping, the pilot signals having a non-zero second transmit power which is larger than the first transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Bo Larsson, Basuki Priyanto, Rickard Ljung, Peter Karlsson, Erik Bengtsson
  • Patent number: 10651557
    Abstract: An antenna comprises an antenna patch (121) and an extension patch (125). The extension patch (125) is conductively coupled to the antenna patch (121) and is arranged in plane offset from the antenna patch (121). The antenna patch (121) is formed of multiple conductive strips (122A, 122B) extending in a horizontal direction along an edge of a multi-layer circuit board having multiple layers stacked along a vertical direction. Each of the conductive strips (122A, 122B) of the antenna patch (121) is arranged on a different layer of the multi-layer circuit board. The conductive strips (122A, 122B) of the antenna patch (121) are electrically connected to each other by conductive vias (123) extending between two or more of the conductive strips (122A. 122B) of the antenna patch (121), which are arranged on different layers of the multi-layer circuit board. Similarly, the extension patch (125) is formed of multiple conductive strips extending in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Zhinong Ying, Kun Zhao