Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
  • Patent number: 12044956
    Abstract: A light-emitting device including: a package including a light-emitting element, a reflection member that reflects light outputted from the light-emitting element, and a sealed space that accommodates the light-emitting element and the reflection member; a base plate on which a plurality of the packages is mounted; and lenses opposed to the base plate with the plurality of packages interposed therebetween, the lenses being opposed to the respective packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayoshi Motobayashi, Hidekazu Kawanishi, Yoshiro Takiguchi, Masahiro Murayama, Hiroyuki Miyahara, Hitoshi Domon
  • Patent number: 12047597
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that are capable of improving coding efficiency at the time when a prediction using a correlation within a screen is performed. A predicted vector generation section sets, at a time of encoding of a current motion vector of a current block for a prediction using a correlation within a screen, a candidate block to not available and generates a predicted vector of the current motion vector by using a reference motion vector, the reference motion vector being referred to when the predicted vector of the current motion vector is generated. A difference vector generation section generates a difference vector between the current motion vector and the predicted vector generated by the predicted vector generation section. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an encoding apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ohji Nakagami
  • Patent number: 12047660
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of analyzing a user evaluation on a part of a content, and generating preference information capable of realizing satisfying content recommendation. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to generate a user evaluation on a chronologically-separated part of a media content, on the basis of sensor data on a user, the sensor data being acquired in relation to listening and viewing of the media content, and store media preference information including at least the generated user evaluation in a storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Sasaki, Hiroaki Kitano
  • Patent number: 12046619
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a first substrate having a pixel circuit including a pixel array unit formed thereon, and a second substrate having a plurality of signal processing circuits formed thereon so as to be arranged through a scribe region. The first substrate and the second substrate are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kunihiko Izuhara
  • Patent number: 12045715
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of training an artificial neural network (ANN) by generating a first learned parameter for use in normalising input data values during a subsequent inference phase of the trained ANN. The method includes, for each of a series of batches of training data values, deriving a batch variance of the batch of training data values and a running variance of all training data values already processed in the training phase; generating an approximation of a current value of the first learned parameter so that a first scaling factor dependent upon the approximation of the first learned parameter and the running variance, is constrained to be equal to a power of two; and normalizing the batch of input data values by a second scaling factor dependent upon the approximation of the current value of the first learned parameter and the batch variance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Javier Alonso Garcia, Fabien Cardinaux, Kazuki Yoshiyama, Thomas Kemp, Stephen Tiedemann, Stefan Uhlich
  • Patent number: 12039753
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a first acquisition section, a second acquisition section, and a determination section. The first acquisition section acquires a camera-based position indicating a position of a real object, the camera-based position being determined on the basis of a captured image of a real space in which there exists the real object. The second acquisition section acquires an output-wave-based estimation position indicating the position of the real object, the output-wave-based estimation position being determined on the basis of an output wave that is output to the real space from a position that corresponds to the real object. The determination section determines a reference position used to represent virtual content related to the real object, on the basis of the camera-based position and the output-wave-based estimation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenori Aoki, Fujio Arai, Keijiroh Nagano, Shintaro Tsutsui, Naoyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 12038597
    Abstract: A light-guide type display device that includes a light guide plate that optically guides an image to a pupil of a viewer, and a support member that supports the light guide plate and is provided with two fixing members. The light guide plate includes a first opening section that has a first opening having a long axis and a short axis, and a second opening section that has a second opening having a shape different from that of the first opening and located on a line that passes through the first opening section and that is parallel to a long-axis direction of the first opening section. Each of the two fixing members is inserted into a corresponding one of the first opening section and the second opening section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wenxiao Guo
  • Patent number: 12038750
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a program that enable the action of a movable body to be planned in accordance with the value of a peripheral object. The control device according to an embodiment of the present technology estimates a value of an object at the periphery of a movable body on the basis of sensor data detected by the movable body, and plans an action of the movable body on the basis of the value of the object estimated. The present technology is applicable to robots capable of acting autonomously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Mihara, Andrew Shin, Tetsuya Narita, Kazuo Hongo, Masanobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12040340
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging element that includes a semiconductor substrate, a first photoelectric converter, a through electrode, a first dielectric film, and a second dielectric film. The semiconductor substrate has one surface and another surface that are opposed to each other. The semiconductor substrate has a through hole penetrating between the one surface and the other surface. The first photoelectric converter is provided above the one surface of the semiconductor substrate. The through electrode is electrically coupled to the first photoelectric converter and penetrates the semiconductor substrate inside the through hole. The first dielectric film is provided on the one surface of the semiconductor substrate and has a first film thickness. The second dielectric film is provided on a side surface of the through hole and has a second film thickness. The second film thickness is less than the first film thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Togashi, Moe Takeo, Sho Nishida, Junpei Yamamoto, Shinpei Fukuoka, Takushi Shigetoshi
  • Patent number: 12040435
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device that includes a solid-state light source emitting excitation light and a phosphor layer having a first refractive index, provided on a light-emitting surface side of the solid-state light source, and having a first reflection film on its side surface. The light-emitting device further includes a low refractive layer provided on the phosphor layer and having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index, and a sealing member encapsulating the phosphor layer and the low refractive layer and having a third refractive index greater than or equal to the second refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Koyama, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Patent number: 12039720
    Abstract: A method for automatically estimating cellularity in a digital pathology slide image includes: extracting patches of interest from the digital pathology slide image; operating on each patch using a trained first deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) to classify that patch as either normal, having an estimated cellularity of 0%, or suspect, having a cellularity roughly estimated to be greater than 0%; operating on each suspect patch using a second DCNN, trained using a deep ordinal regression model, to determine an estimated cellularity score for that suspect patch; and combining the estimated cellularity scores of the patches of interest to provide an estimated cellularity for the digital pathology slide image at a patch-by-patch level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Bi Song, Ko-Kai Albert Huang, Ming-Chang Liu
  • Publication number: 20240236406
    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: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKADA, Takeshi OHNO
  • Publication number: 20240237097
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Brian Alexander MARTIN
  • Patent number: 12035547
    Abstract: An image pickup element 10 includes a first electrode 21, a charge accumulation electrode 24 that is arranged apart from the first electrode 21, a photoelectric conversion unit 23 that contacts the first electrode 21 and is formed above the charge accumulation electrode 24 via an insulation layer 82, and a second electrode 22 formed on the photoelectric conversion unit 23. The photoelectric conversion unit 23 includes, from the second-electrode side, a photoelectric conversion layer 23A, and an inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer 23B including InaGabSncOd, and 0.30?b/(a+b+c)?0.50 and b?c are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Iino, Hiroshi Nakano, Toshiki Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 12032818
    Abstract: A method is provided for modifying an image. The method comprises displaying an image, the image comprising a portion of an object; and determining if an edge of the object is in a location within the portion. The method further comprises detecting movement, in a member direction, of an operating member with respect to the edge. The method still further comprises moving, if the edge is not in the location, the object in an object direction corresponding to the detected movement; and modifying, if the edge is in the location, the image in response to the detected movement, the modified image comprising the edge in the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Miyazawa, Tetsuo Ikeda, Fuminori Homma, Reiko Miyazaki, Ken Miyashita, Shoichiro Moriya
  • Patent number: 12029567
    Abstract: To achieve both user convenience and measurement accuracy without degrading reliability. A biopotential measuring electrode according to the present disclosure includes at least a portion in contact with a living body, the portion including: a base material resin layer containing a predetermined resin material, rubber, or an elastomer, as a main component; and a conductive particle contained in the base material resin layer, in which the conductive particle includes a predetermined base material particle, and a surface-treated region in which at least a part of a surface of the base material particle is coated or substituted with a predetermined material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mao Katsuhara, Ryo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12033624
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a determination unit (250) that, in a case where the determination unit (250) has recognized a user's phrase related to execution of a macro including at least one function execution instruction, determines a degree of security risk of the macro based on at least one of a matching rate, at the time of execution of the macro, of a context indicating a status of the user, or frequency of occurrence of the phrase; and a response control unit (270) that changes control of the execution of the macro based on a determination result of the determination unit (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Yuhei Taki, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: D1035736
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Hakoda, Hisayoshi Otaki
  • Patent number: D1035748
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kirio Masui, Kentaro Shibukawa
  • Patent number: D1036527
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Iseki, Masataka Kado, Gakuji Higuchi