Patents Assigned to Sony Côrporation
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Patent number: 11956089Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method that can achieve communication that has high reliability and low delay. Provided is a communication device that constitutes a base station, the communication device including a control unit that performs a control that generates redundancy information regarding a provision of redundancy for transmission data transmitted by a terminal station or the base station, and multiplexing information regarding multiplexing of the transmission data, and transmits the redundancy information and the multiplexing information that have been generated to the terminal station.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi Morioka
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Patent number: 11956675Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a communication unit that performs radio communication; a control unit that controls an operation of sensing resources to be used in a communication scheme used for performing inter-device communication with other devices, in which the control unit controls to sense the resource in a predetermined minimum unit on a time axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yifu Tang, Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda
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Patent number: 11954685Abstract: Training a machine learning model includes selecting a subset of training transactions from a plurality of training transactions to be used for classifying transactions as either fraudulent or genuine, and classifying transactions as either fraudulent or genuine. Additionally, selecting the subset of training transactions includes clustering the plurality of training transactions into a plurality of clusters based on a similarity measure. Each training transaction includes an indication whether the training transaction is fraudulent or genuine. Further, selecting the subset of training transactions includes selecting a first proportion of the training transactions of a cluster of training transactions for the subset of training transactions if the cluster comprises at least one fraudulent training transaction, and selecting a second proportion of the training transactions of a cluster of training transactions for the subset of training transactions if the cluster is free of fraudulent training transactions.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Francesco Cartella, Gert Ceulemans, Orlando Anunciacao, Gabriel Armelin, Ales Novak, Cristian Traum
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Patent number: 11951399Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing footprints in a computer system that provides a virtual environment, including: accessing an avatar record, where the avatar record indicates an avatar representation that includes data to provide a visual representation of an avatar; receiving a selection of a footprint; accessing a footprint record, where the footprint record includes footprint representations that include data to provide a visual representation of the selected footprint as a footprint representation; associating the footprint representation with the avatar representation; receiving avatar movement input that indicates movement of the avatar within the virtual environment; and generating visual data representing the movement of the avatar and footprints in the virtual environment using the avatar representation and the footprint representation, where the footprints are placed in the virtual environment following the avatar as the avatar moves in the virtual environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Corporation of AmericaInventors: Thomas Sachson, James Marcus, Eric Benjamin Fruchter
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Patent number: 11956568Abstract: [Object] To contribute to the achievement of a workflow in which an HDR video and an SDR video are compatible with each other. [Solving Means] This video signal processing apparatus includes an HDR video generation unit including a first converter unit that performs OOTF conversion on an HDR video by using an exponentiation function for calculating an exponentiation of 1.2, where 100% is 1, to an input signal level of the HDR video having a range from a point of 0%, where an expression range of an input signal level of an SDR video is 100%, to a change point optionally determined within a range of 100% to 500%, and by using a linear function for multiplying an input signal level of the HDR video having a range higher than the change point by a predetermined coefficient to maintain a change rate of a calculation result in a portion of the change point calculated by using the exponentiation function.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Endo, Koji Kamiya
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Patent number: 11954816Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to place a virtual object within an augmented reality space corresponding to a real space in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in an image captured by an imaging part, and an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation. When the user operation is a first operation, the display controller causes the virtual object to move within the augmented reality space.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Shingo Tsurumi
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Patent number: 11948337Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image processing apparatus and method that can prevent a reduction in image quality. Geometry data that is a frame image having arranged thereon a projected image obtained by projecting 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure on a two-dimensional plane and includes a special value indicating occupancy map information in a range is generated. The generated geometry data is encoded. Further, the encoded data on the geometry data is decoded, and a depth value indicating a position of the 3D data and the occupancy map information are extracted from the decoded geometry data. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, or a program.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Kuma, Ohji Nakagami, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Koji Yano, Tsuyoshi Kato
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Patent number: 11950103Abstract: A communication control device (40) includes: an acquisition unit (441) that acquires a spectrum grant request following a certain scheme from a plurality of second radio systems that perform a wireless communication using a radio wave of a frequency band used by a first radio system; a classification unit (442) that groups the second radio systems into a plurality of groups according to a scheme of the spectrum grant request; and a calculation unit (443) that calculates a communication parameter of the second radio system for each of the groups.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Sho Furuichi
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Patent number: 11948564Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a response control unit that controls a response to a user's utterance based on a first utterance interpretation result and a second utterance interpretation result. The first utterance interpretation result is a result of natural language understanding processing for an utterance text generated by automatic speech recognition processing based on the user's utterance and the second utterance interpretation result is an interpretation result acquired based on learning data in which the first utterance interpretation result and the utterance text used to acquire the first utterance interpretation result are associated with each other. The response control unit further controls the response to the user's utterance based on the second utterance interpretation result in a case where the second utterance interpretation result is acquired based on the user's utterance before acquisition of the first utterance interpretation result.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
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Patent number: 11944887Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: a control unit that performs position detection of an object, on which a light emitting unit or a reflective material is provided, on the basis of a captured image acquired by imaging of emitted light or reflected light of the object in a direction facing a side, on which the light emitting unit or the reflective material is provided, of the object, wherein the control unit adjusts algorithm for the position detection of the object according to an illuminance detection result of external light including at least a wavelength of the emitted light or the reflected light.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiko Iida, Kentaro Ida, Takuya Ikeda
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Patent number: 11944905Abstract: A method for regulating falls of a user-controlled character through gaps between surfaces in an extended reality (XR) space in which the user is playing a game includes compiling a record from a previously generated spatial mapping mesh (SMM) of the XR space of surfaces of real elements present in that space, with corresponding positions and dimensions; and, after the game begins, determining whether, if the character approaches a substantially vertical gap between an edge of a first surface at a first level and a second surface, at a second level lower than the first level, continuing motion of the character to fall through the vertical gap will be permitted or prevented. A similar method for regulating jumps rather than falls of a user-controlled character through gaps between surfaces in an extended reality (XR) space in which the user is playing a game is also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Robert M. McCain, Tsubasa Tsukahara
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Patent number: 11950243Abstract: A terminal device in a wireless telecommunication system which transmits a master information block and a first and a second system information block the first and second system information block comprising first and second scheduling information relating to the timing of at least one additional block of system information. The terminal device configured to receive the master information block of system information that comprises a marker instructing the terminal device to ignore the first scheduling information and process only the second scheduling information.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Martin Warwick Beale
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Patent number: 11949959Abstract: It is made possible to perform data transmission through a cable satisfactorily. A cable is connected between first electronic equipment and second electronic equipment. The cable includes a current consumption unit that receives supply of current from the first electronic equipment through a power supply line, a current monitor unit that observes a current amount the first electronic equipment is capable of supplying to the power supply line, and an information transmission unit that transmits control information according to the observed current amount to the first electronic equipment. The first electronic equipment controls the state of data to be supplied to the cable, on the basis of the control information transmitted thereto from the cable.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Morita, Kazuaki Toba, Kazuo Yamamoto, Masanari Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11947929Abstract: An arithmetic device includes a comparison unit comparing voltage generated with charge stored in a storage unit with a threshold, and outputting an output signal at a timing when the voltage exceeds the threshold, and a timing extension unit extending an interval between timings at each of which the output signal is output.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Yamagishi
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Patent number: 11948371Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a mobile body which enable accuracy of detection processing related to a passage around a mobile body to be improved. The information processing apparatus includes: a transforming unit configured to respectively transform a plurality of photographed images with partially overlapping photographing ranges into bird's eye images; a compositing unit configured to generate a composite image by compositing a plurality of the bird's eye images; and a detecting unit configured to perform detection processing related to a passage around a mobile body based on the composite image. For example, the present technique can be applied to an apparatus that detects a lane marking of a road.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiko Toyoshi
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Patent number: 11950301Abstract: A method of operating a first terminal device to transmit data to a second terminal device by performing device-to-device communication includes selecting radio resources, on which to transmit the data based on a priority status associated with the data, whereby certain radio resource are reserved for use in association with data classified as high priority. A method of operating the second terminal device to receive data from the first terminal device includes: receiving data from the first terminal device using the selected radio resources; determining if another terminal device is transmitting data on a radio resource which is not selected for transmitting data by the first terminal device and which is reserved for transmitting data classified as having a high priority; and, if so, stopping reception of data from the first terminal device on the selected radio resources and instead seeking to receive further transmissions from the other terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Brian Alexander Martin
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Patent number: 11946754Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program which enable a prediction result that contributes toward improving a pick-up ratio to be presented. The information processing apparatus includes: a display control portion configured to divide a business area of a business vehicle into a plurality of areas and cause a display portion to display, as a prediction result, a movement direction and a movement distance of passengers in an attention area being the area of attention among the plurality of areas for which a pick-up demand has been predicted per area. For example, the present technique can be applied to an information processing apparatus or the like for displaying a prediction result of a pick-up demand of a taxi.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takahito Migita, Katsutoshi Kanamori
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Patent number: 11943942Abstract: An electronic device is provided and includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a photoelectric conversion layer sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode including an amorphous oxide including a quaternary compound including one or more of indium, gallium and aluminum and further including zinc and oxygen, the first electrode having a laminated structure including a first B layer and a first A layer from a photoelectric conversion layer side, and a work function value of the first A layer of the first electrode being lower than a work function of the first B layer of the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiki Moriwaki, Toru Udaka
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Patent number: 11940303Abstract: There is provided a position detection device to suppress an influence of a signal distortion due to a processing error or the like, the position detection device including: a reference position calculation unit that calculates a reference position of a moving body on the basis of a first signal and a second signal, the first signal being detected from a first track provided on the moving body and having a scale of predetermined cycles, and the second signal being detected from a second track provided on the moving body and having a scale of cycles less than the predetermined cycles; a slit specifying unit that specifies a slit corresponding to a position of the moving body; an in-slit position calculation unit that calculates an in-slit position of the moving body in the specified slit; and a correction unit that corrects an absolute position of the moving body.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Narita, Masahiro Fujita
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Patent number: 11943774Abstract: A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: indicate use of a first set of uplink channel transmission parameters and a second set of uplink channel transmission parameter for use the at least one user equipment for a data transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Yassin Aden Awad