Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
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Patent number: 11889177Abstract: The present invention suppresses an increase in processing time and power consumption that is associated with function implementation. An electronic device according to an embodiment comprises: an imaging unit (11) that generates image data; a processing unit (14) that executes neural network calculation model-based processing with respect to image data-based data that is read out from the imaging unit; a function execution unit (12) that performs a predetermined function on the basis of the results of the processing; and a detection unit (32) that detects displacement, wherein the processing unit executes the processing when the detection unit detects displacement.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoji Eki, Suguru Aoki, Ryuta Satoh
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Patent number: 11883120Abstract: Provided is a medical observation system that includes a first medical signal processing device including a first signal processing unit that acquires first image data corresponding to a result of image capturing of an affected part by a medical observation device and provides first signal processing to the first image data, and a second medical signal processing device including a second signal processing unit that acquires second image data corresponding to the result of image capturing from the first medical signal processing device through a predetermined network and provides second signal processing to the second image data. The second signal processing unit transmits information related to the second signal processing to the first medical signal processing device. The first signal processing unit controls the first signal processing based on the second signal processing.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki Takahashi, Kenji Takahashi, Hisakazu Shiraki, Masahito Yamane, Masaya Takemoto
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Patent number: 11889556Abstract: A communication circuit and protocol for a wireless local area network (WLAN) using CSMA/CA and single EDCA and/or Multiple-User (MU) EDCA. EDCA functions are configured to operate with multiple sets of operating parameters providing a range of priority levels for altering on the fly the nominal access time for a STA sending prioritized packets. The STA then must switch to a lower-priority set of parameters as recompense so that channel usage remains fair.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Liangxiao Xin, Mohamed Abouelseoud
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Patent number: 11887508Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that generates an encrypted bit string in which a hash value calculated by using keyed hashing from a keyword for an information search is mapped into a bit string having a predetermined length, selects a predetermined number of bits from the encrypted bit string on the basis of a dynamically generated random number, inverts the predetermined number of selected bits, and sends the encrypted bit string and inverted-bit-number information to an external apparatus. The inverted-bit-number information indicates a number of bits inverted by a bit inverting unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Uchida, Shinya Maruyama
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Patent number: 11889445Abstract: An infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network is provided. The infrastructure equipment comprises transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals to and to receive signals from communications devices via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry to determine a delay time for each of a plurality of communications devices, the delay time being a time taken for the each of the communications devices to receive signals transmitted by the infrastructure equipment, to set a playback time dependent on a longest of the delay times among the plurality of communications devices, the playback time being a time at which one or more of the communications devices should transmit a signal, and to transmit signals to each of the communications devices, the signals comprising an indication of the playback time.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11889145Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Satoshi Okada, Takeshi Ohno
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Publication number: 20240027774Abstract: An information processing device including a display unit, a detector, and a first control unit and a method of using same. The display unit may be a head-mounted display. The display unit is capable of providing the user with a field of view of a real space and a virtual object. The detector detects an azimuth of the display unit around at least one axis and display of the virtual object is controlled based in the detected azimuth.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka ISHIKAWA, Takeshi IWATSU
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Publication number: 20240031670Abstract: An apparatus includes one or more processors and logic encoded in one or more non-transitory media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to receive sensor data from a drone that travels around a target object. The logic is further operable to generate, based on the sensor data, a first three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of the target object. The logic is further operable to estimate a direction of sunlight and a direction of spectral reflection. The logic is further operable to plan a trajectory of sensor capturing positions for the drone to capture images of the target object that reduce an amount of sunlight and an amount of specular reflection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Corporation of AmericaInventor: Cheng-Yi Liu
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Patent number: 11881913Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic devices, methods, and storage medium for wireless communication system. Various embodiments are described with respect to beam management. In one embodiment, an electronic device for a base station side in a wireless communication system can comprise a processing circuitry configured to repetitively transmit a synchronization signal (SS) to a terminal device by using different transmit (TX) beams based on a TX beam configuration; the SS can indicate information of the TX beam used to transmit the SS. The processing circuitry can be configured to obtain feedback from the terminal device; the feedback can comprise information of the TX beam for being used in TX beam management.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Jianfei Cao
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Patent number: 11882320Abstract: A transmission device including circuitry is provided. The circuitry is configured to apply photoelectric conversion characteristics to high dynamic range video data to obtain transmission video data. The circuitry is configured to transmit a container including a video stream obtained by encoding the transmission video data. The circuitry is configured to insert type information to designate the type of conversion characteristics corresponding to the applied photoelectric conversion characteristics for photoelectric conversion of the transmission video data into a layer of the video stream and/or a layer of the container. The type of the conversion characteristics designated by the type information is determined regardless of luminance of a display.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
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Patent number: 11880748Abstract: An information processing apparatus (100) according to the present disclosure includes an acquiring unit (132) that uses a trained encoder to acquire a feature value of each set of partial data forming first content; a calculating unit (133) that calculates a relative feature value that is a relative feature value between sets of partial data from the acquired feature values of the sets of partial data to calculate a relative feature value sequence indicating a feature of a structure of the first content; and a generating unit (134) that generates second content based on the relative feature value sequence of the first content and a feature value of optional data.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Taketo Akama
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Patent number: 11880486Abstract: A device for authenticating an organisation requesting access to user data, comprising: network interface circuitry configured to communicate over a network, and processing circuitry configured to: receive, via the network interface circuitry, encrypted user data from an information processing apparatus; generate a unique identifier to associate with a decryption key used for decrypting the encrypted user data; provide the encrypted user data and the unique identifier to a publically available database for storage immutably therein or thereon; store the decryption key in association with the unique identifier; receive, via the network interface circuitry, a request to access the user data from an organisation; establish that the requesting organisation is an approved organisation; and in the event that the requesting organisation is an approved organisation; transmit, via the network interface circuitry, the decryption key to the requesting organisation.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Huw Hopkins, Nigel Stuart Moore
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Publication number: 20240021937Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
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Patent number: 11877279Abstract: A communication apparatus and a communication apparatus that perform wireless communication by a multi-user method are provided. The communication apparatus includes a communication section configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal and a control section configured to control operation as a base station, and transmits a frame that includes schedule information relating to scheduled communication of the own station and can be received by a different wireless terminal and receives schedule information relating to scheduled information of a different base station. The scheduled communication includes multi-user communication of an uplink, and the schedule information includes information relating to a transmission schedule of a frame for inducing multi-user communication of an uplink.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Yuichi Morioka, Tomoya Yamaura
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Patent number: 11874138Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, the information processing apparatus and the information processing method appropriately combining observation values of a plurality of sensors according to noise characteristics of the plurality of sensors and a condition for the observation values. An Allan variance is calculated as the characteristics of each of the plurality of sensors. A time window length for an Allan variance is specified as a condition used when the observation values of the plurality of sensors are combined. A weight for each of the plurality of sensors is calculated such that a sum of the Allan variances for the specified time window length is smallest. The respective observation values of the plurality of sensors are combined using a sum of products of the observation values of the plurality of sensors and the weights calculated for each corresponding sensor of the plurality of sensors.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Haruto Takeda, Kosei Yamashita, Hiroyuki Kamata
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Patent number: 11877180Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises communicating, with a first infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node, signals representing data by a second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more others of infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, the second infrastructure equipment being a child node and one of the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes or the donor node being a parent node, the parent node being connected to the child node via a backhaul communications link and configured to allocate uplink communications resources to the child node.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yassin Aden Awad
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Patent number: 11877101Abstract: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a light source section, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a light source control section. The light source section is capable of emitting emitted light. The first sensor is capable of detecting a state of the emitted light. The second sensor is capable of detecting a temperature of the light source section. The light source control section is capable of controlling the light source section according to a first detection result of detection performed by the first sensor, and a second detection result of detection performed by the second sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Keiko Fujita
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Patent number: 11877008Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Tsukuba
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Patent number: 11877277Abstract: Provided is a terminal device including a measuring unit that performs downlink measurement on the basis of a downlink reference signal, and a transmitting unit that transmits a first uplink reference signal on the basis of first setting related to measurement for radio resource management. The transmitting unit transmits the first uplink reference signal in a case in which a first condition is satisfied, and the measuring unit performs the downlink measurement in a case in which a second condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Ryota Kimura, Hiroki Matsuda
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Publication number: 20240012521Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus is used for processing a first image projected toward a target. The apparatus includes a processing unit for detecting that an object exists between a projector unit and the target, wherein when an object exists between the projector unit and the target, the apparatus determines an area of the object and generates a modified first image, based on the area of the object, for projection toward the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Ikuo Yamano, Shunichi Kasahara, Ken Miyashita, Kazuyuki Yamamoto