Patents by Inventor Kenzoh Nishikawa

Kenzoh Nishikawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230269127
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing system that enable efficient detection of a failure in a sensor terminal. The information processing device according to the present technology includes a detection unit configured to detect the failure in the terminal on the basis of a result of comparison between a first value and a second value, the first value indicating a relation between a plurality of the terminals each communicating with another terminal, the relation being obtained on the basis of sensor data acquired by a sensor mounted on each of the terminals, the second value indicating a relation between the terminals obtained on the basis of a communication status between the terminals. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an IoT system that collects information from a large number of sensor terminals connected to the Internet to grasp a change in environmental.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: KENZOH NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220150996
    Abstract: A communication apparatus for connecting to the Internet without using an input/output apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes: a first connecting unit configured to connect to a first device; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, via the first device, setup information for connecting to a second device that operates as a router; and a second connecting unit configured to connect to the second device based on the setup information. A code sequence is generated using a code generator that is in common with the first device from an initial value that is shared with the first device. In addition, network identification information extracted from a signal received from the first device is searched for in the code sequence, and network authentication information is segmented from a predetermined offset position using a matching location as a reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: KENZOH NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11140549
    Abstract: To keep safety of a network and to facilitate connection to the network. An information processing apparatus comprises a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit is directed for receiving a connection authentication request from a new device other than a plurality of devices configuring a network in which the plurality of devices make wireless communication on a one-to-one basis to be mutually connected. Further, the control unit is directed for transferring the connection authentication request to the plurality of devices in a case of receiving the connection authentication request, and for performing control to permit the new device to connect to the network on the basis of the responses to the connection authentication request from the plurality of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natsuki Itaya, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Erika Saito, Kenzoh Nishikawa, Chihiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 10749617
    Abstract: A system that acquires information from at least first and second electronic devices, the information indicating a quality of a wireless link between the at least first and second electronic devices; generates adjustment information indicating an adjustment of at least one of a position, orientation, antenna position or antenna direction of at least one of the first or second electronic devices to improve the quality of the wireless link between the first and second electronic devices; and controls outputting the adjustment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erika Saito, Natsuki Itaya, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kenzoh Nishikawa, Chihiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 10608731
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes circuitry that stores first function information indicating at least a function of the information processing device; receives second function information indicating at least a function of another information processing device, and second positional information indicating a second positional of the another information processing device; determines a function to be performed from among the function of the information processing device and the function of the another information processing device, based on the first function information, the second function information, and the second positional information; performs the determined function in a case that the determined function is a function of the information processing device; and transmits a request to perform the determined function in a case that the determined function is a function of the another information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erika Saito, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Natsuki Itaya, Kenzoh Nishikawa, Chihiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20190379466
    Abstract: A system that acquires information from at least first and second electronic devices, the information indicating a quality of a wireless link between the at least first and second electronic devices; generates adjustment information indicating an adjustment of at least one of a position, orientation, antenna position or antenna direction of at least one of the first or second electronic devices to improve the quality of the wireless link between the first and second electronic devices; and controls outputting the adjustment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: ERIKA SAITO, NATSUKI ITAYA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, KENZOH NISHIKAWA, CHIHIRO FUJITA
  • Patent number: 10425174
    Abstract: A system that acquires information from at least first and second electronic devices, the information indicating a quality of a wireless link between the at least first and second electronic devices; generates adjustment information indicating an adjustment of at least one of a position, orientation, antenna position or antenna direction of at least one of the first or second electronic devices to improve the quality of the wireless link between the first and second electronic devices; and controls outputting the adjustment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erika Saito, Natsuki Itaya, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kenzoh Nishikawa, Chihiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20190149222
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes circuitry that stores first function information indicating at least a function of the information processing device; receives second function information indicating at least a function of another information processing device, and second positional information indicating a second positional of the another information processing device; determines a function to be performed from among the function of the information processing device and the function of the another information processing device, based on the first function information, the second function information, and the second positional information; performs the determined function in a case that the determined function is a function of the information processing device; and transmits a request to perform the determined function in a case that the determined function is a function of the another information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: ERIKA SAITO, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, NATSUKI ITAYA, KENZOH NISHIKAWA, CHIHIRO FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20190123838
    Abstract: A system that acquires information from at least first and second electronic devices, the information indicating a quality of a wireless link between the at least first and second electronic devices; generates adjustment information indicating an adjustment of at least one of a position, orientation, antenna position or antenna direction of at least one of the first or second electronic devices to improve the quality of the wireless link between the first and second electronic devices; and controls outputting the adjustment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: ERIKA SAITO, NATSUKI ITAYA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, KENZOH NISHIKAWA, CHIHIRO FUJITA
  • Patent number: 10218429
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes circuitry that: receives a signal from a first device; measures a signal strength of the signal received from the first device; determines whether the signal strength is less than a threshold; and in a case that the signal strength is determined to be less than the predetermined threshold, transmits to an second device an instruction signal such that, in response to the instruction signal, the second device moves to a position to relay the signal from the first device to the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erika Saito, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Natsuki Itaya, Kenzoh Nishikawa, Chihiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 10205543
    Abstract: A system that acquires information from at least first and second electronic devices, the information indicating a quality of a wireless link between the at least first and second electronic devices; generates adjustment information indicating an adjustment of at least one of a position, orientation, antenna position or antenna direction of at least one of the first or second electronic devices to improve the quality of the wireless link between the first and second electronic devices; and controls outputting the adjustment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erika Saito, Natsuki Itaya, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kenzoh Nishikawa, Chihiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20180367993
    Abstract: To keep safety of a network and to facilitate connection to the network. An information processing apparatus comprises a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit is directed for receiving a connection authentication request from a new device other than a plurality of devices configuring a network in which the plurality of devices make wireless communication on a one-to-one basis to be mutually connected. Further, the control unit is directed for transferring the connection authentication request to the plurality of devices in a case of receiving the connection authentication request, and for performing control to permit the new device to connect to the network on the basis of the responses to the connection authentication request from the plurality of devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: NATSUKI ITAYA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, ERIKA SAITO, KENZOH NISHIKAWA, CHIHIRO FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20170359129
    Abstract: A system that acquires information from at least first and second electronic devices, the information indicating a quality of a wireless link between the at least first and second electronic devices; generates adjustment information indicating an adjustment of at least one of a position, orientation, antenna position or antenna direction of at least one of the first or second electronic devices to improve the quality of the wireless link between the first and second electronic devices; and controls outputting the adjustment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: ERIKA SAITO, NATSUKI ITAYA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, KENZOH NISHIKAWA, CHIHIRO FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20170244472
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes circuitry that: receives a signal from a first device; measures a signal strength of the signal received from the first device; determines whether the signal strength is less than a threshold; and in a case that the signal strength is determined to be less than the predetermined threshold, transmits to an second device an instruction signal such that, in response to the instruction signal, the second device moves to a position to relay the signal from the first device to the information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: ERIKA SAITO, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, NATSUKI ITAYA, KENZOH NISHIKAWA, CHIHIRO FUJITA
  • Patent number: 8385203
    Abstract: A resending control circuit for controlling resending of data to be sent to a sending destination, includes: a writing unit for writing resending information generated corresponding to each of data to be resent and including the resending point-in-time of the data in memory; a reading unit for reading out the resending information from the memory; and a control unit for comparing resending point-in-time included in the oldest resending information of resending information stored in the memory with current point-in-time, and executing resending processing of data corresponding to the resending information according to the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenzoh Nishikawa, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Chihiro Fujita, Erika Saito
  • Patent number: 8299868
    Abstract: A high frequency coupler includes a ground, a first coupling electrode connected via a first resonator unit to an input and output terminal of a communication circuit, and one or more second coupling electrodes connected via a second resonator unit designed utilizing a ground to a ground terminal of the communication circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kato, Kenzoh Nishikawa, Takanori Washiro, Satoshi Konya
  • Patent number: 7961658
    Abstract: A communication system includes a transmission device and a reception device. The transmission device includes a first software processor that performs, if a first information portion has been updated, software processing on the first information portion, a first hardware processor that performs hardware processing on a second information portion, a generation unit that generates a beacon signal, and a transmitter that transmits the generated beacon signal. The reception device includes a reception unit that receives the beacon signal, a separator that separates the first information portion from the second information portion, a second hardware processor that performs hardware processing on the separated second information portion, a determination unit that determines whether the separated first information portion has been updated, and a second software processor that performs, if the first information portion has been updated, software processing on the updated first information portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kenzoh Nishikawa, Chihiro Fujita, Mitsuhiro Suzuki, Erika Saito
  • Publication number: 20110126070
    Abstract: A resending control circuit for controlling resending of data to be sent to a sending destination, includes: a writing unit for writing resending information generated corresponding to each of data to be resent and including the resending point-in-time of the data in memory; a reading unit for reading out the resending information from the memory; and a control unit for comparing resending point-in-time included in the oldest resending information of resending information stored in the memory with current point-in-time, and executing resending processing of data corresponding to the resending information according to the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenzoh Nishikawa, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Chihiro Fujita, Erika Saito
  • Patent number: 7924721
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a storage unit having a plurality of storage areas corresponding to a plurality of candidates of a destination of data to be transmitted, a detecting unit for detecting the amount of data stored in each of the storage areas, a destination selecting unit for selecting one destination from among the destination candidates on the basis of at least the amount of data detected by the detecting unit, and a transmission signal generating unit for reading out a predetermined amount of data to be transmitted to the destination selected by the destination selecting unit, from the corresponding storage area, and generating a transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenzoh Nishikawa, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Yuichi Morioka, Chihiro Fujita, Erika Saito
  • Patent number: 7881201
    Abstract: A resending control circuit for controlling resending of data to be sent to a sending destination, includes: a writing unit for writing resending information generated corresponding to each of data to be resent and including the resending point-in-time of the data in memory; a reading unit for reading out the resending information from the memory; and a control unit for comparing resending point-in-time included in the oldest resending information of resending information stored in the memory with current point-in-time, and executing resending processing of data corresponding to the resending information according to the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenzoh Nishikawa, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Chihiro Fujita, Erika Saito