Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
  • Patent number: 9665422
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus and a method, and a program, capable of reducing a delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Chihiro Fujita, Osamu Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 9666121
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including: a display control unit configured to distribute brightness information to a plurality of display devices in accordance with external light amount information from a sensor; and a plurality of drive units configured to drive the plurality of display devices on a basis of the brightness information distributed by the display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Aoyama
  • Patent number: 9666617
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: a photodiode configured to perform photoelectric conversion and to generate electric charge in accordance with an amount of received light; a floating diffusion section configured to accumulate the electric charge generated in the photodiode; a reading circuit configured to output a pixel signal having a voltage in accordance with a level of the electric charge accumulated in the floating diffusion section, the reading circuit including one or a plurality of transistors each having a gate that is electrically connected to a wiring used for selecting a pixel; and an insulating section extending into part or whole of a bottom surface of the floating diffusion section, part or whole of bottom surfaces of source-drain regions in the one or the plurality of transistors, or both. The photodiode, the floating diffusion section, the reading circuit, and the insulating section are provided in a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Harumi Ikeda, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Yoshiki Ebiko, Takeshi Yanagita
  • Patent number: 9667894
    Abstract: A solid state imaging element including a drive circuit and a pixel unit with pixels arranged in a matrix form. The pixels include a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert light incident thereupon into a charge and to accumulate the charge, a charge holding unit connected to the photoelectric conversion element, and a floating diffusion region. The drive circuit transfers a first portion of the charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element to the charge holding unit and concurrently transfers a second portion of the charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element to the floating diffusion region. Electronic global shutter is realized by transferring charge from the photoelectric conversion elements of each of the pixels at substantially the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiji Mabuchi
  • Patent number: 9665252
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a screen recognition unit configured to recognize an input element included in a screen, an input information generating unit configured to generate a piece of input information corresponding to the input element, a transition destination information acquiring unit configured to acquire a piece of information about a transition destination of the screen, the piece of information about the transition destination corresponding to the piece of input information, and a transition destination information outputting unit configured to output the piece of information about the transition destination to display the piece of information about the transition destination separately from the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Kawano
  • Patent number: 9667970
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including a selection section configured to select, from a plurality of transform units with different sizes, a transform unit used for inverse orthogonal transformation of image data to be decoded, a generation section configured to generate, from a first quantization matrix corresponding to a transform unit for a first size, a second quantization matrix corresponding to a transform unit for a second size from a first quantization matrix corresponding to a transform unit for a first size, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize transform coefficient data for the image data using the second quantization matrix generated by the generation section when the selection section selects the transform unit for the second size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazushi Sato
  • Patent number: 9667945
    Abstract: An image processing device, method and computer program product cooperate to make adjustments in detection area for image adjustment processing to when displacement adjustments have been made to a first or second imaging area. A detection area setting device sets a first detection area within a first imaging area and sets a second detection area in a second imaging area after a displacement adjustment is applied to at least one of the first imaging area and the second imaging area. The first detection area is an area used in image adjustment processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenori Kushida
  • Patent number: 9668017
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus including a first signal receiving unit that receives a non-compressed video signal from an external device via a first transmission path through a plurality of channels by means of a differential signal, an image display unit that displays images by processing the video signal received by the first signal receiving unit, a second signal receiving unit that receives a compressed video signal of a same video source as the non-compressed video signal by using a bi-directional communication path configured by predetermined lines of the first transmission path, and a signal transmitting unit that transmits a compressed video signal corresponding to the compressed video signal received by the second signal receiving unit to another external device different from the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Europe Limited
    Inventors: Ichiro Sato, Yasuhisa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9662583
    Abstract: Provided are a portable game device and a method of controlling the portable game device capable of making improved use of an image generated by image pickup unit. A pickup object image generating unit (52) picks up an image of a pickup object and generates a pickup object image. A pickup object distance measuring unit (54) measures a distance to the pickup object. An information processing execution unit (56) executes information processing based on the pickup object image and the distance measured by the pickup object distance measuring unit (54).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Akihiko Sugawara, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Koji Kageyama
  • Patent number: 9667941
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, and a decoding method capable of encoding and decoding multi-viewpoint images in accordance with a mode that is compatible with an existing mode. A compatible encoder generates a compatible stream by encoding an image A1 that is a compatible image in units of access units. An auxiliary encoder generates an encoded stream of a multiplexed image of auxiliary images by encoding a multiplexed image of images B1 and C1 that are auxiliary images used when multi-viewpoint images are generated from the compatible image in units of access units. A multiplexing unit transmits the compatible stream, a 3DV Representation Delimiter representing a boundary of a unit, and an encoded stream of the multiplexed image of the auxiliary images. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an encoding device that encodes a 3D image of the multi-viewpoint mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Yoshitomo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9665273
    Abstract: A device comprising: a display unit displays display screens; an input unit receives a gesture input; a controller detects whether a gesture, input on said input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on one of the display screens of the display unit, and displays gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuichi Konami
  • Patent number: 9667939
    Abstract: A depth map generating unit generates depth information indicating the depth of a subject in each pixel of frames of a moving image. An additional information generating unit generates additional information regarding a change between continuous frames. A reading and writing unit writes a depth map and the additional information on the recording medium and reads the depth map and the additional information from the recording medium. A depth map correcting unit corrects the depth map read by the reading and writing unit based on the additional information read by the reading and writing unit. The reading and writing unit performs overwriting with the depth map corrected by the depth map correcting unit on the recording medium. The present technology is applicable to an image processing apparatus that generates depth information indicating a sense of depth of a stereoscopic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masaharu Matsudo
  • Patent number: 9665167
    Abstract: An imaging display apparatus, includes: display means for image display; first image signal generation means for generating a display image signal based on a captured image signal captured by an imaging section with a field of view direction of a user being a direction of an object; second image signal generation means for generating a display image signal of an image different from an image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means; and control means for allowing, simultaneously on the display means, display of the image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means and display of the image of the display image signal generated by the second image signal generation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masaaki Tsuruta, Taiji Ito, Masamichi Asukai
  • Patent number: 9667369
    Abstract: A video signal and an audio signal are TMDS transmitted from a source device to a sink device. Through a reserved line and a HPD line provided separately from a TMDS transmission line, an Ethernetâ„¢ signal is bidirectionally transmitted, and also, a SPDIF signal is transmitted from the sink device to the source device. The Ethernetâ„¢ signal bidirectionally transmitted between Ethernetâ„¢ transmitter/receiver circuits is differentially transmitted by an amplifier and is received by the amplifier. The SPDIF signal from a SPDIF transmitter circuit is common-mode transmitted from an adder and is received by the adder to be supplied to the SPDIF receiver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Ichimura, Hidekazu Kikuchi, Yasuhisa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9666113
    Abstract: A display includes: a gain calculation section obtaining, according to an area of a high luminance region in a frame image, a first gain for each pixel in the region; a determination section determining, based on first luminance information for each pixel in the high luminance region and the first gain, second luminance information for each pixel in the high luminance region; and a display section performing display based on the second luminance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Nakagawa, Tomoya Yano, Mitsuyasu Asano, Yasuo Inoue, Yohei Funatsu
  • Patent number: 9666211
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information acquiring unit that acquires information to identify an editing point of content including a voice, on the basis of language analysis of the content, and an information output unit that outputs the acquired information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 9666130
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving a pixel circuit enabling source-follower output with no deterioration of luminance even with a change of the current-voltage characteristic of the light emitting element along with elapse, enabling a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors, and able to use an n-channel transistor as an EL drive transistor while using current anode-cathode electrodes, wherein a source of a TFT 111 as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element 114, a drain is connected to a power source potential VCC, a capacitor C111 is connected between a gate and source of the TFT 111, and a source potential of the TFT 111 is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT 113 as a switching transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9666628
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a light-receiving pixel part configured to be formed on a semiconductor substrate; a black-level reference pixel part configured to be formed on the semiconductor substrate; and a multilayer interconnect part configured to be provided over the semiconductor substrate. The multilayer interconnect part includes an insulating layer formed over the semiconductor substrate and metal interconnect layers formed as a plurality of layers in the insulating layer. The multilayer interconnect part has a first light-blocking film formed above an area between first metal interconnects of a first metal interconnect layer as one of the metal interconnect layers above the black-level reference pixel part, and a second light-blocking film that is connected to the first light-blocking film and is formed of a second metal interconnect layer over the first metal interconnect layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Hayashi, Yoshiharu Kudoh
  • Patent number: 9668272
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device that controls radio communication conducted by a terminal device according to a time-division duplex (TDD) scheme on a radio communication network, the communication control device including a configuration section that configures, for each frame that includes a plurality of subframes, a link direction configuration expressing a link direction per subframe for the radio communication. The configuration section configures a timing of control signaling in a second link direction which is associated with data transmission in a first link direction in the radio communication, and which is opposite to the first link direction, independently of the configured link direction configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 9667767
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for initiating execution of actions and for communicating information to a user, and more particularly, to initiating execution of predefined actions in wearable devices and communication devices based on gestures made with the wearable devices and/or heat applied to a surface of the wearable devices. According to an aspect, the method relates to, in the wearable device, detecting a first, in the first wearable device predefined, gesture of the first wearable device, broadcasting a first signal comprising information associated with the first gesture, receiving, from a second wearable device, a second signal comprising information associated with a second gesture and initiating execution of a, in the first wearable device predefined, first action based on the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Ohki, Kae Okazawa, Masafumi Hamada, Kenny Lovrin, Billy Moren