Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
  • Patent number: 11863969
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus (200) including: an acquisition unit (241) that acquires, from a base station apparatus (100), information for operating as a master for controlling a sidelink communication between other apparatuses; and a control unit (240) that performs a process for operating as the master on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 11860640
    Abstract: On the basis of semantic labeling information in an image captured by a camera an area in which a boundary of a movable area of a mobile body exists in the image is estimated as an image movable area boundary, on the basis of a distance image detected by a depth sensor an area in which the boundary of the movable area of the mobile body exists in the distance image is estimated as a distance image movable area boundary, the boundary of the movable area is determined on the basis of the image movable area boundary and of the distance image movable area boundary, and an environment map is generated on the basis of the determined boundary of the movable area. The present disclosure can be applied to an in-vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuto Motoyama
  • Patent number: 11863970
    Abstract: A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment. The circuitry is further configured to transmit minimum system information having a bitmap indicating at least one service provided by a cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20230417538
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to measure a distance in a real space with a simpler operation, the information processing apparatus including: 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: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Publication number: 20230418463
    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: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu MURATA
  • Patent number: 11850741
    Abstract: A control device and a control method of a master-slave system and the master-slave system are provided. A control device, which controls an operation of a master-slave system, includes a control unit that applies, to a control system of the master-slave system, a restraint force corresponding to an operation in a desired translational or rotational direction by the master. The control unit applies, to the control system, the restraint force according to a difference between a current position or posture of the master and a reference value of a position or posture to be restrained. The control system controls the master-slave system, for example, by a bilateral control method or a unilateral control method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Masuda, Yuki Itotani
  • Patent number: 11853695
    Abstract: Data processing apparatus comprises a data memory; a selection controller comprising a computer processor; and a digital interface between a control process implemented by the selection controller and a text handling process implemented by the computer processor or another processor; in which: the selection controller is configured to provide a text document from the data memory to the text handling process to identify one or more characteristics of words in the text document; the selection controller is configured to provide user selection of one or more of the words in the text document to be substituted and of one or more target characteristics; and the selection controller is configured to request from the text handling process a set of one or more substitute words for the selected words such that the substitute words comply with the selected one or more of the target characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael Anslow
  • Patent number: 11856583
    Abstract: To provide a wireless communication device which enables reliable detection of a downlink without using a CRS. There is provided a wireless communication device including a communication unit (220) configured to perform wireless communication using an unlicensed band, and a detecting unit (241) configured to detect a downlink on the basis of a second downlink signal different from a first downlink signal which is periodically transmitted, in which the detecting unit starts PDCCH monitoring after detecting a downlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 11856802
    Abstract: A first photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure incudes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a chromophore, fullerene or a fullerene derivative, and a hole-transporting material, in which the chromophore and the fullerene or the fullerene derivative are bonded to each other at least partially via a crosslinking group in the photoelectric conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Saito, Sae Miyaji, Masato Kanno, Yasuharu Ujiie, Yuta Hasegawa, Osamu Enoki, Yuki Negishi
  • Patent number: 11850000
    Abstract: The stereoscopic effect of an image presented in accordance with an additional optical system is compensated for. There is provided an ophthalmic surgery microscope system including: a surgical microscope that observes an inside of an eye from a pupil, and magnifies and presents a real image; an additional optical system selectively arranged between the surgical microscope and the pupil; an imaging unit that acquires the real image presented by the surgical microscope as an image; a presentation unit that stereoscopically presents the image; and a control unit that changes a vertical magnification control value for adjusting a vertical magnification of the real image in accordance with a detection result of the additional optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro Enoki, Yoshio Soma, Tomoyuki Ootsuki
  • Patent number: 11852538
    Abstract: A temperature estimation device (100) is provided with: an acquiring section (131) that acquires a photographed image photographed by a photographing section (110) including an infrared light sensor and a housing; a generating section (132) that corrects the photographed image with use of a correction parameter and a temporarily set temperature of the housing to generate a corrected image of the photographed image, the correction parameter that is calculated by prior temperature calibration with respect to the photographing section (110); and an estimating section (135) that estimates a temperature of the housing on the basis of non-uniformity of luminance values of pixels included in the corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Oyaizu
  • Patent number: 11855753
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunication system includes base stations for communicating with terminal devices. One or more base stations support a power boost operating mode in which a base station's available transmission power is concentrated in a subset of its available transmission resources to provide enhanced transmission powers as compared to transmission powers on these transmission resources when the base station is not operating in the power boost mode. A base station establishes an extent to which one or more base stations in the wireless telecommunications system support the power boost operating mode conveys an indication of this to a terminal device. The terminal device receives the indication and uses the corresponding information to control its acquisition of a base station of the wireless telecommunication system, for example by taking account of which base stations support power boosting and/or when power boosting is supported during a cell attach procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew William Webb, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11850990
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a photographing apparatus, a lighting apparatus, and a mobile body which enable accuracy of image recognition processing to be improved. The information processing apparatus includes: a recognizing portion configured to perform image recognition processing with respect to an image photographed by a photographing portion and calculate, for each recognized area being an area based on a recognition result of an object, a reliability of the recognition result; and an irradiation control portion configured to control an irradiation pattern of visible light in a photographing direction of the photographing portion so that the reliability with respect to at least a part of the recognized areas increases. For example, the present technique can be applied to a vehicle control apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keitaro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11850751
    Abstract: Provided is a control device capable of controlling the operation of a control target according to a detected external force. A control device (200) includes a control unit (210-1) that compares a first external force detected by a force sensor provided in a control target and a second external force estimated on the basis of a torque detected by a torque sensor provided in an a movable portion of the control target, the movable portion enabling the force sensor to be movable, and controls the operation of the control target by correcting a torque command value on the basis of a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Kenichiro Nagasaka, Hiromasa Masuda, Kazuo Hongo
  • Patent number: 11856427
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless communication electronic device and method, and a computer-readable storage medium. Said electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: determine whether there is a need to currently execute measurement of a first channel busy ratio (CBR) on a first resource pool of a sidelink in the long term evolution (LTE) and measurement of a second CBR on a second resource pool of a sidelink in the new radio (NR) radio access technology; and having determined that the first CBR measurement and the second CBR measurement need to be executed currently, executing the first CBR measurement and/or the second CBR measurement at least on the basis of CBR coexistence measurement configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Xiaofeng Tao, Min Zhu, Xin Guo, Zhaoqi Peng, Lei Gao
  • Patent number: 11856606
    Abstract: A wireless local area network (WLAN) protocol allowing a Transmit Opportunity (TXOP) holder to share the TXOP with other stations (STAs) residing in either the same Basic Service Set (BSS) of the TXOP holder, or in an other BSS (OBSS). An intent to share the TXOP is communicated to the Access Point (AP), and/or directly to other STAs. Scheduling information (time and duration) are shared with the STAs either directly, or through one or more APs. When the TXOP occurs, the STAs can access the channel at the time and for the duration specified, thus providing increased use of the TXOP to improve efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Qing Xia, Mohamed Abouelseoud, Liangxiao Xin
  • Patent number: 11852578
    Abstract: To provide a technique capable of handling quantitative data in a spectrum type microparticle measurement device without causing deterioration of the SNR. The present technology provides a microparticle measurement spectrometer including a spectroscopic element that disperses light emitted from microparticles flowing through a flow path, and a photoelectric conversion array that has a plurality of light receiving elements having different detection wavelength ranges and converts optical information obtained by the light receiving elements into electrical information, in which the photoelectric conversion array has a uniform output of all channels when light with which the amount of light per unit wavelength becomes same is incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Hara, Tomoyuki Umetsu, Yoshiki Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20230412859
    Abstract: Convenience is achieved in performing processing depending on decoding capability in a reception side. High-frame-rate ultra-high-definition image data is processed to obtain first image data for acquisition of a base-frame-rate high-definition image, second image data for acquisition of a high-frame-rate high-definition image by being used with the first image data, third image data for acquisition of a base-frame-rate ultra-high-definition image by being used with the first image data, and fourth image data for acquisition of a high-frame-rate ultra-high definition image by being used with the first to third image data. A container is transmitted including a predetermined number of video streams including encoded image data of the first to fourth image data. Information is inserted into the container, the information corresponding to information that is inserted into each of the predetermined number of video streams and associated with image data included in the video streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ikuo TSUKAGOSHI
  • Patent number: D1009842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Soichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: D1009884
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshimori, Shoichiro Moriya, Takamoto Tsuda