Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
  • Patent number: 11973559
    Abstract: A method of operating a communication device (102) comprises: receiving, from a base station (101) of a wireless network (100), a control message indicative of at least one retransmission parameter for a random access message (6001) which comprises random access preamble; and transmitting, on a plurality of beams (310-313) selected in accordance with the at least one retransmission parameter, a plurality of retransmissions (701) of the random access message (6001).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Basuki Priyanto, Rickard Ljung, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Beale
  • Patent number: 11973928
    Abstract: An image display device according to the present disclosure includes: one or more image sources that output a two-dimensional projection image; and one or more image deflection sections that generate a plurality of area images by dividing the projection image from the image source into a plurality of areas at least in a horizontal direction, and deflects and projects, toward a screen having anisotropic diffusion properties, the plurality of area images at respective angles different from each other to partially overlap the plurality of area images with each other on the screen and thereby display images from a plurality of viewpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Mitani, Tomoya Yano, Yutaka Imai
  • Patent number: 11974444
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image sensor, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor capable of improving characteristics. There is provided a solid-state image sensor including a stacked structure that includes a semiconductor substrate, a first photoelectric converter provided above the semiconductor substrate and converting light into charges, and a second photoelectric converter provided above the first photoelectric converter and converting light into charges, where the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter include a photoelectric conversion stacked structure in which a common electrode, a photoelectric conversion film, and a readout electrode are stacked so that the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter are in a line-symmetrical relationship with each other with a vertical plane perpendicular to a stacking direction of the stacked structure as an axis of symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Togashi, Iwao Yagi, Masahiro Joei, Fumihiko Koga, Kenichi Murata, Shintarou Hirata, Yosuke Saito, Akira Furukawa
  • Patent number: 11972334
    Abstract: A method for generating a combined Isolation Forest model for detecting anomalies in data is provided. The method includes receiving a first Isolation Forest model for detecting anomalies in data from a first electronic device. The first Isolation Forest model is trained at the first electronic device. Further, the method includes receiving a second Isolation Forest model for detecting anomalies in data from a second electronic device. The second Isolation Forest model is trained at the second electronic device. The method additionally includes combining the first Isolation Forest model and the second Isolation Forest model to obtain the combined Isolation Forest model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gabriel Armelin, Erbin Lim, Francesco Cartella, Gert Ceulemans
  • Patent number: 11974038
    Abstract: An information processing system that acquires a first captured image; acquires a plurality of second images; and generates display data including the first captured image and at least a subset of the plurality of second images based on an evaluation parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of second images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiki Saito
  • Patent number: 11973316
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a vertical cavity surface emitting laser element and an electronic apparatus that have high light emission efficiency. [Solving Means] A vertical cavity surface emitting laser element according to the present technology includes: an active layer; a first cladding layer; and an intermediate layer. The first cladding layer is provided on the active layer. The intermediate layer is provided on the first cladding layer, electrons in the intermediate layer having potential higher than potential of electrons in the first cladding layer, holes in the intermediate layer having potential higher than potential of holes in the first cladding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mikihiro Yokozeki, Rintaro Koda, Shunsuke Kono, Katsunori Yanashima, Kota Tokuda
  • Patent number: 11969662
    Abstract: There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenori Ishibashi, Tomoo Mizukami, Takuma Araki, Masato Muraki, Tomoyuki Arai, Goushi Koike, Takayuki Ito, Kouta Katsumura, Yohei Watanabe, Muneyuki Horiguchi, Takashi Maeda, Satoshi Muto, Hideo Miyano
  • Patent number: 11970238
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including a handle part that includes a handle, what is connected to be steerable by the handle, a rear wheel connected to a pedal, and a frame part that connects what is described above and the rear wheel, in which the frame part is expandable and contractible between a first position in which a movement of what is described above is permitted, and a second position in which a movement of what is described above is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Shintani, Shigeki Ohno, Yasuyuki Kato, Thomas Waldner, Simon Henning
  • Patent number: 11969144
    Abstract: A three-dimensional information generation unit generates a three-dimensional map (D(X, Y, Z)) (three-dimensional information) regarding a surgical field, based on a surgical field image (K(x, y)) captured by an imaging device. A region-of-interest setting unit (setting unit) then sets at least one region-of-interest in the surgical field image (K(x, y)) captured at a predetermined timing. Based on the three-dimensional map (D(X, Y, Z)) and the position of the region-of-interest set by the region-of-interest setting unit, a region-of-interest estimation unit (estimation unit) estimates an existence position of the region-of-interest from within the surgical field image (K(x, y)) captured at a timing different from the predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Uyama, Tsuneo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11973091
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reducing the size of a solid-state imaging apparatus. The solid-state imaging apparatus is configured by laminating a first structure body, comprising a pixel array unit in which pixels for performing photoelectric conversion are two-dimensionally aligned, and a second structure body, comprising an output circuit unit for outputting a pixel signal. The output circuit unit, including a through via which penetrates a semiconductor substrate constituting a part of the second structure body, and a signal output external terminal connected to the outside of the apparatus are arranged under the first structure body, the output circuit unit is connected to the signal output external terminal via the through via, and the outermost surface of the apparatus is a resin layer formed on an upper layer of an on-chip lens of the pixel array unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Harumi Tanaka, Yoshiaki Masuda, Shinji Miyazawa, Minoru Ishida
  • Patent number: 11971266
    Abstract: There is provided a route guidance apparatus including a route search unit which searches for at least one route, to a predetermined destination, which is to be traveled by an electric vehicle propelled by electric power stored in a secondary battery provided within the vehicle, and a power consumption calculation unit which calculates power consumption of the electric vehicle when a route to a destination, which was searched for by the route search unit, is traveled by the electric vehicle, based on information on electric power to be consumed when the electric vehicle travels and geographical information relating to the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihito Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20240137603
    Abstract: This technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a data processing method for easily implementing circuits on the receiving side. There is provided a transmission apparatus including a processing section configured to process a stream with respect to each of multiple PLPs included in a broadcast signal, the stream being constituted by packets, the processing section further causing a header of each of the packets to include mapping information mapped to identification information identifying the PLP to which each of the packets belongs. This technology may be applied to data transmission methods such as the IP transmission method or the MPEG2-TS method, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKADA, Takeshi OHNO
  • Patent number: 11966054
    Abstract: A display device includes a frame that includes a front portion, temple portions, and a pad portion, and is mounted on head of an observer, and an image display device attached to the frame. The image display device includes an image forming device, and an optical device on which light emitted from the image forming device is incident and from which the light is emitted toward the observer. One end portion of the optical device is fixed to a temple portion side of the front portion. Other end portion of the optical device is on a pad portion side of the front portion. A light shielding member that prevents external light from being incident on the other end portion of the optical device from above the other end portion of the optical device is attached to the pad portion side of the front portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Machida, Misaki Shimizu, Mitsuru Akahori, Nobuhiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11968754
    Abstract: display unit of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of pixels configured to emit emission light different from one another; and an insulating film provided between the plurality of pixels and having a reflective surface with respect to the emission light, in which an angle of the reflective surface of the insulating film is set for each of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11966660
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method comprising obtaining a target spectrum, obtaining a set of non-target spectra, the set of non-target spectra comprising one or more non-target spectra, summing the target spectrum and the set of non-target spectra to obtain a mixture spectrum, and training an artificial neural network by using the mixture spectrum as input of the neural network and by using a spectrum which is based on the target spectrum as desired output of the artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Franck Giron, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich
  • Patent number: 11967976
    Abstract: To reduce data amount while ensuring tactile reproducibility of a two-dimensional tactile signal, and improve the efficiency of a system related to tactile reproduction. Coding is performed to compress information amount by orthogonally transforming a two-dimensional tactile signal based on a time signal. By orthogonally transforming a two-dimensional tactile signal based on a time signal, it is possible to compress information amount by removing frequency components that are difficult for humans to perceive, as in the case of an image signal, for example. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce data amount while ensuring tactile reproducibility of a two-dimensional tactile signal, and improve the efficiency of a system related to tactile reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Matsumoto, Shiro Suzuki, Shuichiro Nishigori, Hirofumi Takeda
  • Patent number: 11966101
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mounting tool that makes it possible to sense the position or the orientation of the head in a natural state without impairing the wearing feeling or the appearance. The nose pad of the glasses comes into contact with and fixes the nose, which is the frontal region of the user, an ear hook including an insertion portion that allows the temple of the glasses to be inserted and fixed comes into contact with and fixes an ear, the occipital region fixing unit configured integrally with the ear hook comes into contact with and fixes the occipital region while holding the sensor device that detects the position and the orientation of the head of the user, the occipital region upper portion fixing unit comes into contact with and fixes the occipital region, an insertion portion that allows the temple of the glasses to be inserted is provided, and the occipital region upper portion is fixed. The present disclosure can be applied to motion capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Amano, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Naofumi Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 11968389
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing device and method which can suppress an increase in an operation time. The image processing device has: an encoding control unit which, upon encoding independently performed per slice for dividing a picture into a plurality of pictures, controls whether or not to adopt for motion information a merge mode of merging a relevant region of an operation target with a surrounding region positioned in a surrounding of the relevant region, based on information of surrounding regions which belong to a relevant slice to which the relevant region belongs; and an encoding unit which encodes the relevant region in the merge mode or a mode other than the merge mode under control of the encoding control unit. The present disclosure is applicable to the image processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Kondow
  • Patent number: 11968895
    Abstract: The field of the DISCLOSURE lies in active materials for organic image sensors. The present disclosure relates to transparent N materials and/or to transparent P materials and their use in absorption layer(s), photoelectric conversion layer(s) and/or an organic image sensor and methods for their synthesis. The present disclosure also relates to photoelectric conversion layer(s) including an active material according to the present disclosure, to a device, including active material(s) according to the present disclosure or photoelectric conversion layer(s) according to the present disclosure. Moreover, the present disclosure relates to an organic image sensor including photoelectric conversion layer(s) according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Silvia Rosselli, David Danner, Tzenka Miteva, Gabriele Nelles, Vitor Deichmann, William E. Ford, Dennis Chercka, Vladimir Yakutkin, Lars Peter Scheller, Nikolaus Knorr
  • Publication number: 20240129533
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to suppress degradation of the encoding efficiency. In the case where primary transform that is a transform process for a prediction residual that is a difference between an image and a prediction image of the image is to be skipped, also secondary transform, which is a transform process for a primary transform coefficient obtained by the primary transform of the prediction residual, is skipped. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA