Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
  • Patent number: 12225584
    Abstract: A wireless protocol performing Restricted Target Wait Time (R-TWT) signaling and its parameters to reduce latency, such as for real-time application traffic. Further control of traffic flow is provided during the R-TWT Service Period (SP), including whether: R-TWT SP can be extended, multiple overlapped R-TWT SPs on different links can be started, spatial reuse is required during R-TWT SP, allowance of transmission outside R-TWT SP, or use of Quiet element to protect R-TWT SP, whereby R-TWT operation (mode) is described with enhanced operations. Protocol is applicable to Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), and is especially well suited for 802.11be 802.11ax, Real-Time Application (RTA) traffic such as on time sensitive networks, Wi-Fi and on Multi-Link Devices (MLDs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Liangxiao Xin, Mohamed Abouelseoud, Li-Hsiang Sun, Qing Xia
  • Patent number: 12222029
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a flexible gear and a method of manufacturing a flexible gear unit that can achieve a further improvement in productivity and a further reduction in production cost, and a gear that allows a further improvement in productivity and a further reduction in production cost are provided. A method of manufacturing a flexible gear is provided which includes preparing a matrix with a flexible gear shape, and forming, by an electroforming method using the matrix, a flexible gear shape with predetermined thickness and releasing the flexible gear shape from the matrix. A method of manufacturing a flexible gear unit is provided which includes the method of manufacturing the flexible gear according to the present technology, and joining a shaft and/or a hub to the flexible gear. Further, a gear is provided which includes a gear part, a body part, and a diaphragm part, is made from a material suitable for an electroforming method, and has flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Aki
  • Publication number: 20250044076
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to measure a distance in a real space with a simpler operation. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition section that acquires an image captured by a predetermined imaging section, and position information based on at least any of a position and a direction of the imaging section; an estimation section that estimates a first position and a second position in a real space, on a basis of a first image and a second image which are the image captured at each of a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint, and first position information and second position information which are the position information about each of the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint; and a measurement section that measures a distance between the first position and the second position on a basis of the estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Publication number: 20250044935
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a display control unit configured to display a plurality of lists including a first list and a second list each having list items; and perform display of coupling to the first list a list item of the second list that is a sub-list of the first list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu MURATA
  • Patent number: 12219555
    Abstract: A wireless communications protocol for enabling legacy (non-EHT) stations (STAs) to operate on the conditional link of the Soft AP MLD. Legacy devices can connect and setup link connections on the conditional link, and the scheduler is configured to allow legacy STAs to use the conditional link if there is no IDC interference issue at the soft AP MLD. This enhanced protocol utilizes either a cooperative HCCA schedule created for simultaneous transmission and reception over the basic link and conditional link, or an adaptive polling-based scheduling performed for the conditional link in response to the link status of the basic link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Qing Xia, Mohamed Abouelseoud, Li-Hsiang Sun, Liangxiao Xin
  • Patent number: 12219663
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system transmission and reception point has circuitry configured to receive a status indicator, and to switch between an active state and an inactive state in response to the received status indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 12217138
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire first input data input when first output data is obtained in predetermined processing of obtaining output data with respect to input data, an extraction unit configured to extract second input data related to the first input data acquired by the acquisition unit based on a similarity degree between the first input data and each input history data, which is a history of input data of a case of past execution of the predetermined processing, from the input history data, and a presentation unit configured to present the second input data extracted by the extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20250039333
    Abstract: This technology is to enable high quality audio reproduction on the reception side without supplying a transmission clock using a clock signal line from the reception side to the transmission side. The transmission apparatus receives encoded data capable of clock recovery from a reception apparatus (external device), generates an audio clock on the basis of a carrier clock recovered from the encoded data, and transmits audio data to the reception apparatus in synchronization with the audio clock. The reception apparatus transmits the encoded data capable of clock recovery to the external device in synchronization with the carrier clock generated on the basis of an self-generating audio clock, receives the audio data from the transmission apparatus (external device), and processes the audio data on the basis of the self-generating audio clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki TOBA, Toshihisa HYAKUDAI
  • Patent number: 12211142
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for generation of reflectance maps for relightable 3D models is disclosed. The electronic device acquires multi-view image data that includes a set of images of an object and generates a 3D mesh of the object based on the multi-view image data. The electronic device obtains a set of motion-corrected images based on a minimization of a rigid motion associated with the object between images of the set of images and generates texture maps in a UV space based on the set of motion-corrected images and the 3D mesh. The electronic device obtains specular and diffuse reflectance maps based on a separation of specular and diffuse reflectance components from the texture maps, and obtains a relightable 3D model of the object based on the specular and diffuse reflectance maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Chen Fu, Mohammad Gharavi-Alkhansari
  • Patent number: 12211048
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an apparatus and a computer program for providing a machine-learning system to be used for classifying transactions as either fraudulent or genuine, and a method, an apparatus and a computer program for classifying transactions as either fraudulent or genuine. The method for generating a machine-learning system for classifying transactions as either fraudulent or genuine based on a plurality of training transactions, each training transaction being associated with labelling information that indicates whether the training transaction is either genuine or fraudulent, comprises clustering the plurality of training transactions into a plurality of clusters based on a similarity measure. The method comprises determining, for each of the plurality of clusters, whether the cluster is homogeneous or heterogeneous. A heterogeneous cluster includes both fraudulent and genuine training transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Orlando Anunciacao, Francesco Cartella, Olivier Elshocht, Francisco Fatore, Barbara Jochems, Erbin Lim
  • Patent number: 12204338
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoo Mizukami, Naoki Fujiwara, Takuma Morita
  • Patent number: 12204176
    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: March 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Amano, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Naofumi Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20250021057
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication unit that performs communication with an external apparatus; a timekeeping unit that performs timekeeping of time; and a control unit, after completion of a connection with the external apparatus using the communication unit, updates time of the timekeeping unit using time information when being in a state where time can be set by obtaining the time information from the external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryogo ITO, Kazuma AKAMATSU, Megumi TAKAGI, Shunsuke KATSUMATA
  • Patent number: 12200258
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including circuitry configured to skip, 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, encoding of first information relating to skip of secondary transform that is a transform process for a primary transform coefficient obtained by the primary transform of the prediction residual, and skip encoding of inverse primary transform skip information relating to skip of an inverse primary transform based on a size in a horizontal direction and a size in a vertical direction of a transform block of the inverse primary transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Patent number: 12198014
    Abstract: There is provided a providing device including a processing unit that enables acquisition of one or both of control information for causing artificial intelligence to function in a device and information for specifying the control information from a distributed network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kitano
  • Publication number: 20250016319
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image encoding device and method and an image decoding device and method, which are capable of suppressing an increase in encoding or decoding workload. A current layer of image data including a plurality of layers is encoded and/or decoded with reference to encoding-related information of some areas, of another layer encoded for each of a plurality of certain areas obtained by dividing a picture, according to control of control information used to control the certain area in which the encoding-related information of the other layer is referred to regarding the current layer of the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazushi SATO
  • Patent number: 12192975
    Abstract: A method, base station, terminal and communication system for updating component carriers are provided. Wherein, status information of the terminal, base station and/or component carrier is acquired; whether the status information accords with the predetermined condition is determined; an old component carrier is replaced by a new component carrier, or a new component carrier is added in the even that the predetermined condition is met. With the embodiments of the present invention, the component carrier which the terminal would use is updated more effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuxin Wei
  • Patent number: D1059503
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinao Sodeyama
  • Patent number: D1061465
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeya Kuwao, Ryota Uchida
  • Patent number: D1061668
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takumi Suzuki