Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
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Publication number: 20250150244Abstract: A signal is transmitted at a high speed in a direction opposite to a transmitting direction of a main large-capacity channel. A first transmitting unit transmits a first signal including a clock component to an external device through a transmission path as a differential signal. A second transmitting unit superimposes a second signal including a clock component on the transmission path as an in-phase signal to transmit to the external device. A state notifying unit communicates with the external device through a pair of differential transmission paths included in the transmission path and notifies the external device of a connection state of its own device by a DC bias potential of at least one of the pair of differential transmission paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki TOBA, Gen ICHIMURA
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Patent number: 12295157Abstract: A semiconductor device including a gate electrode disposed on a semiconductor substrate and source/drain regions disposed at both sides of the gate electrode, the source/drain regions being formed by implanting impurities. The source/drain regions include an epitaxial layer formed by epitaxially growing a semiconductor material having a different lattice constant from that of the semiconductor substrate in a recessed position at a side of the gate electrode, and a diffusion layer disposed in a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takuji Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12292962Abstract: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of improving convenience of a device in which a virtual machine is able to operate are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a processing unit having a function for controlling execution of processing regarding a virtual machine, in which a virtual machine program that operates the virtual machine is associated with condition information that includes information indicating a region of a recording medium and indicates a condition under which the virtual machine is operated, a code of the virtual machine program, and a first electronic signature generated on the basis of the condition information, and the processing unit controls the execution of the processing regarding the virtual machine on the basis of a confirmation result of the first electronic signature associated with the virtual machine program.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tadayuki Misaizu, Norihiro Fujita, Tsutomu Nakatsuru
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Patent number: 12294526Abstract: Techniques for wireless transmission of data are provided, in which data representing a plurality of frames of a time-sequential signal are encoded. The encoded data are temporarily retained in a memory buffer before wireless transmission. A current number of frames of the encoded data awaiting transmission is determined, and a compression rate is selected for encoding the next frame of data of the time-sequential signal based on the determined number of stored frames in the memory buffer. The selected compression rate is used to encode the next frame of the time-sequential signal, which is added to the encoded data stored in the memory buffer and wirelessly transmitted from the memory buffer. The present disclosure is applicable to a smartphone and a portable player, for example.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Chisato Kemmochi
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Publication number: 20250142619Abstract: Providing conflict resolution between beacon transmission and Restricted-Target Wake Time (R-TWT) Service Periods (SPs) to enhance IEEE 802.11 protocols, especially for Extra High Throughput (EHT) Access Points (APs). After determining if a beacon will overlap the start of a TXOP and whether the beacon or R-TWT SP transmission has higher priority; the AP resolves the conflict such as to start or continue the R-TWT TID and embed the beacon frame within the transmitted frame, or to limit the TXOP to provide for transmitting the beacon frame at the proper timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Qing Xia, Salvatore Talarico
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Patent number: 12284387Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for enabling suppression of an increase in a memory capacity required for orthogonal transform and inverse orthogonal transform. A second transformation matrix is derived using a first transformation matrix, a prediction residual of an image is orthogonally transformed using the derived second transformation matrix, and coefficient data obtained by orthogonally transforming the prediction residual is encoded to generate a bit stream. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Tsukuba
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Publication number: 20250123622Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that can provide more useful information for an action plan of an autonomous mobile body, the information processing apparatus including an action recommendation unit configured to present a recommended action recommended to an autonomous mobile body, to the autonomous mobile body that performs an action plan based on situation estimation. The action recommendation unit determines the recommended action on the basis of an action history collected from a plurality of the autonomous mobile bodies, and on the basis of a situation summary received from a target autonomous mobile body that is a target of recommendation. The information processing method includes presenting, by a processor, a recommended action recommended to an autonomous mobile body, to the autonomous mobile body that performs an action plan based on situation estimation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoo MIZUKAMI, Naoki FUJIWARA, Takuma MORITA
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Publication number: 20250126294Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
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Patent number: 12276591Abstract: Provided is a spectrum analysis apparatus including a processing unit configured to generate analysis data using an analysis function in which a linear function and a logarithmic function are included as function elements and an intensity value is set as a variable from measurement data including the intensity value of light acquired by detecting the light from a measurement target object using a plurality of light-receiving elements having different detection wavelength bands.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Nao Nitta
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Patent number: 12274935Abstract: A haptic presentation apparatus includes a base material, an elastic layer, and a fluid transport apparatus. The base material forms a first space and includes a first through hole. The elastic layer covers a surface of the base material including the first through hole. The fluid transport apparatus injects fluid between the elastic layer and the base material via the first through hole. The elastic layer is expanded by injecting the fluid from the fluid transport apparatus such that an internal pressure of a second space between the elastic layer and the base material is higher than an internal pressure of the first space, and the fluid injected into the second space is vented to outside of the second space via a second through hole by stopping driving of the fluid transport apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroto Kawaguchi, Hironobu Abe, Hiroshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20250119802Abstract: The present technique provides a terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device comprising a receiver, a transmitter and a controller, wherein the controller is configured: to conduct a first measurement of a parameter associated with a radio signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network and received by the receiver; to determine whether the measured parameter meets a predetermined criteria; and when the measured parameter is determined to meet the predetermined criteria, to conduct a second measurement of a parameter associated with a radio signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network and received by the receiver. The present technique also provides an associated method and circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Patent number: 12271344Abstract: A communication network for providing a distributed ledger has at least one node configured to provide a distributed ledger function to other nodes.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 12273545Abstract: Methods, systems and devices described herein implement a task-driven machine learning-based compression scheme for point cloud geometry implicit representation. The machine learning-based codec is able to be optimized for a task to achieve better compression rates by being conditioned to what the reconstructed signal will be used for. The latent representation of the point cloud or the neural network that implicitly represents the point cloud itself are able to be compressed. The methods described herein perform efficient compression of the implicit representation of a point cloud given a target task.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Danillo Graziosi, Alexandre Zaghetto, Ali Tabatabai
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Patent number: 12273919Abstract: A method, performed at a first wireless node, for determining a channel occupancy time, COT, of the first wireless node on a radio channel is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a radio condition parameter indicative of a condition of the radio channel; and determining the channel occupancy time based on the radio condition parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Rickard Ljung
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Patent number: 12273920Abstract: A preamble-based collision detection mechanism for use in wireless local area networks (WLANS), having one or more full-duplex (FD) stations. In addition, a new collision resolution estimation and scheduling mechanism is described for prioritized communication. These techniques can allow for more rapid collision detection and resolution, without the need of performing self-interference (SI) estimation. The techniques includes use of orthogonal preambles, in the time domain and/or frequency domain, into which FD stations embed priority information.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Qing Xia, Li-Hsiang Sun, Mohamed Abouelseoud, Liangxiao Xin
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Publication number: 20250113080Abstract: A transmitting apparatus including circuitry configured to generate caption data corresponding to content data and having elements defined in Extensible Markup Language (XML), and output the content data and the generated caption data to a reproducing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kouichi UCHIMURA
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Patent number: 12265392Abstract: Influence of risks, such as sound and light generated by the host device, on surroundings is reduced. An information processing device (100) according to an embodiment includes a planning unit (105) configured to plan behavior executed by a drive unit (107) based on an influence target existing in a predetermined area and affected by a risk propagating in space.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Keisuke Maeda
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Patent number: 12265015Abstract: The present technology is to provide a technique for further optimizing microparticle suction conditions, using a microparticle sorting microchip. The present technology provides a method for optimizing microparticle suction conditions, using a microparticle sorting microchip including: a main flow channel in which a sheath solution and a microparticle-containing sample solution flow; and a pressure chamber that sucks microparticles. The method includes: the step of acquiring data of a velocity V of each microparticle, by introducing the sheath solution and the microparticle-containing sample solution into the main flow channel, and detecting the point of time at which the microparticle passes through a predetermined position in the main flow channel; and the step of controlling the pressure for sucking the microparticles, on the basis of the data of the velocity V of each microparticle.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Gakuji Hashimoto
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Patent number: 12268049Abstract: A display unit includes a plurality of pixels, a reflector layer, and an auxiliary electrode. Each of the plurality of pixels has a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode in this order. The organic layer and the second electrode are provided on the first electrode. The organic layer includes a light-emitting layer. The reflector layer has a light-reflecting surface around each of the pixels. The auxiliary electrode is provided on the reflector layer and is projected from an upper end of the light-reflecting surface. The auxiliary electrode has a portion which is exposed from the organic layer, and the exposed portion is covered with the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Daisuke Ueda
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Patent number: 12262192Abstract: An information processing device includes circuitry that estimates an attribute of a first person located in at least one of a plurality of areas, and sets a first content corresponding to the attribute of the first person and outputs a sound through wave field synthesis so that a sound field of the set first content is spatially transmitted to at least the one of the plurality of areas via a plurality of speakers.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Eisaburo Itakura, Takeshi Yamaguchi