Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
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Patent number: 12217138Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoya Kimura
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Publication number: 20250039333Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki TOBA, Toshihisa HYAKUDAI
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Patent number: 12211048Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Orlando Anunciacao, Francesco Cartella, Olivier Elshocht, Francisco Fatore, Barbara Jochems, Erbin Lim
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Patent number: 12211142Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Chen Fu, Mohammad Gharavi-Alkhansari
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Patent number: 12204338Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoo Mizukami, Naoki Fujiwara, Takuma Morita
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Patent number: 12204176Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 2024Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Amano, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Naofumi Fukasawa
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Publication number: 20250021057Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryogo ITO, Kazuma AKAMATSU, Megumi TAKAGI, Shunsuke KATSUMATA
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Patent number: 12200258Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Tsukuba
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Patent number: 12198014Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Kitano
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Publication number: 20250016319Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kazushi SATO
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Patent number: 12192975Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuxin Wei
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Patent number: 12192708Abstract: A bone conduction acoustic transmission device according to the present invention is provided with a first magnetic body to be placed in contact with or to be embedded in the head of a living body beforehand, and a coil unit provided separately from the first magnetic body. The coil unit has a coil configured using a predetermined casing that can be mounted on the first magnetic body and a second magnetic body which is provided in a predetermined position of the casing and does not vibrate due to the coil, and the first magnetic body vibrates as a result of applying an acoustic signal to the coil with the coil unit mounted on the head.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Junichi Rekimto
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Patent number: 12193112Abstract: Devices and methods in a wireless communication system (40) applicable to UE (1), an access node (20) and a core network node (120), for handling UE capability information. For the UE, the method comprises storing (602) the UE capabilities information (50) divided into a plurality of data blocks (51-54), wherein each data block includes a subset of the UE capability information; determining (603), for each data block, a corresponding capability ID (512,522,532,542); transmitting a capability message (61) to the access network (200), comprising at least one of the determined capability IDs.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Svante Alnås
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Patent number: 12180440Abstract: A technology capable of preventing a sample from being retained is to be provided. Provided are a microchip that includes at least a sample inlet into which a sample is introduced, a sample flow path through which the sample introduced from the sample inlet flows, and a sorting flow path in which a target sample is sorted out from the sample, in which a first tube is inserted into and fixed to the sample inlet, and a sample sorting kit that includes at least the microchip.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Takahashi, Yoichi Katsumoto
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Patent number: 12179116Abstract: Providing an online music experience, including: a music venue system; a game device; wherein a game processor uses game data to provide a mini-game experience and present the mini-game experience through a display, wherein the game processor uses venue data to modify the mini-game experience and present the modified mini-game experience through the display, wherein the game processor receives user input and sends gameplay, wherein a system processor uses music data, video data, and the gameplay data to create a data representation of a music performance, wherein the system processor sends the data representation of the music performance to the game device, and wherein the game processor uses the data representation of the music performance to present the music performance through the display.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Corporation of AmericaInventor: Thomas Sachson
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Patent number: 12183045Abstract: Ways to simplify connectivity data for patches are described herein. The patches are generated considering the high-resolution mesh information. The connectivity data is simplified at the patch level, while the geometry image is still preserved. For the connectivity simplification, only triangles inside the patch are simplified. If the border is still preserved, the reconstruction in 3D will not suffer from artifacts. The high-resolution geometry image can be used to reverse the simplification and improve the connectivity at the decoder side. Three embodiments of patch mesh simplification are described: quadric error edge collapse, border distance edge collapse, and border triangles only.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: Sony Group Corporatiom, Sony Corporation of AmericaInventors: Danillo Graziosi, Alexandre Zaghetto, Ali Tabatabai
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Patent number: 12182393Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yu Murata
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Patent number: 12181729Abstract: An imaging optical system according to the present disclosure includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The first lens includes an image-plane-side lens surface having an aspherical shape with an inflection point. The second lens has a meniscus shape including a concave surface toward object side. The third lens has a meniscus shape including a concave surface toward image plane side. The first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are disposed in order from the object side toward the image plane side. The imaging optical system is provided as a bi-telecentric optical system.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kazumasa Kaneda
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Patent number: 12178558Abstract: To provide a biometric information processing apparatus capable of reducing noise caused by body motion in measuring blood flow velocity. To provide a biometric information processing apparatus including: a first filter unit that selects a first frequency band on the basis of a beat interval, causes a signal of the first frequency band from a blood flow velocity signal to pass through, and extracts a beat component signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhide Hyodo
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Patent number: D1059503Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshinao Sodeyama