Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
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Patent number: 11846951Abstract: There is provided a control system that manages running of an automatic driving home delivery locker going around in a specified region by automatic driving. The control system includes a communication unit that receives notification showing that the automatic driving home delivery locker has received a home delivery article, and a control unit that makes control such that an inquiry is made to a terminal device of a consignee of the home delivery article via the communication unit in accordance with reception of the notification so as to estimate a current position of the consignee, and when the consignee is in the specified region, a new running path on which the automatic driving home delivery locker travels a vicinity of the current position of the consignee or a sending destination of the home delivery article is generated and is transmitted to the automatic driving home delivery locker via the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hideyuki Ono
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Patent number: 11847762Abstract: A polarization imaging unit generates, as polarization information, a polarization image including pixels in a plurality of polarization directions. An interpolation processing unit of an information processor performs interpolation processing using the polarization image obtained from the polarization imaging unit, and generates a polarization image for each polarization method. A polarization degree calculation unit calculates, for example, a polarization degree for each pixel as object surface information on the basis of the polarization image for each polarization method. A noise amount calculation unit calculates a noise amount for each pixel on the basis of the polarization image for each polarization method and the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Teppei Kurita, Shun Kaizu, Yasutaka Hirasawa, Yuhi Kondo
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Patent number: 11849312Abstract: An agent device for assisting one or more users is provided. The agent device supports a first operation mode in which the agent device is configured to identify individual users. Further, the agent device supports a second operation mode in which the agent device is configured to not identify individual users. The agent device includes a receiver circuit configured to receive, from an external device, a signal indicating that a person in the vicinity of the agent device does not want to be identified. Additionally, the agent device includes a control circuit configured to set an operation mode of the agent device to the second operation mode in response to receiving the signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Philip Marivoet, Olivier Demarto, Tom Cool
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Patent number: 11847249Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication network node for providing data to a distributed ledger, wherein the node has circuitry configured to: provide a user data management part for separating sensitive user data and non-sensitive user data, and provide the non-sensitive user data to the distributed ledger.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11847822Abstract: An information processing device is provided that includes an operation control unit which controls the operations of an autonomous mobile object that performs an action according to a recognition operation. Based on the detection of the start of teaching related to pattern recognition learning, the operation control unit instructs the autonomous mobile object to obtain information regarding the learning target that is to be learnt in a corresponding manner to a taught label. Moreover, an information processing method is provided that is implemented in a processor and that includes controlling the operations of an autonomous mobile object which performs an action according to a recognition operation. Based on the detection of the start of teaching related to pattern recognition learning, the controlling of the operations includes instructing the autonomous mobile object to obtain information regarding the learning target that is to be learnt in a corresponding manner to a taught label.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Nishio, Yuhei Yabe, Tomoo Mizukami
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Publication number: 20230403741Abstract: An enhanced protocol for addressing communication issues arising from using a Remote Radio Head (RRH). An Access Point (AP), denoted as Remote Radio Head (RRH) AP, consists of a Central Unit (CU) and at least one RRH that can be located remotely. The functionalities of the Medium Access Control (MAC) and the Physical (PHY) layers of the RRH AP are split between the CU and RRH; with the CU exchanging frames between the MAC layers, and the RRH transmitting and receiving the physical signals through the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Liangxiao Xin, Li-Hsiang Sun, Qing Xia
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Patent number: 11841451Abstract: A communication device for RF based communication with another communication device, said communication device comprising circuitry configured to apply a fine timing measurement, FTM, procedure. The circuitry is configured to determine an FTM mode out of at least two different FTM modes, and to perform an FTM procedure to determine the round trip time, RTT, between the communication device and the other communication device, wherein the RTT is determined by evaluating a time information of a tap of the channel impulse response, wherein the tap used for the evaluation depends on the determined FTM mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Felix Fellhauer, Thomas Handte, Dana Ciochina, Nabil Sven Loghin
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Publication number: 20230396831Abstract: A transmitting apparatus including circuitry configured to generate caption data corresponding to content data and having elements defined in Extensible Markup Language (XML), and output the content data and the generated caption data to a reproducing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kouichi UCHIMURA
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Patent number: 11835702Abstract: A medical observation system including a medical imaging device that captures a plurality of images of a living body while changing a focus position, and circuitry that generates a composite image by compositing the plurality of images captured by the medical imaging device, and switches output between the generated composite image and one of the plurality of images based on a result of analysis performed on at least one of the plurality of images.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Sugie, Hisakazu Shiraki
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Patent number: 11838957Abstract: Enhanced Multi-Link Operation (MLO) is performed in this protocol in which non-simultaneous transmit/receive (NSTR) Multi-Link Devices (MLDs) cooperate with each other in sharing a portion of their available Transmit Opportunity (TXOP) toward reducing contention and competition for channel access across the group of cooperating MLDs. The shared TXOP is performed at an MLD level after all links for an NSTR MLD are obtained by stations which do not need to be in part of the same NSTR MLD, thus synchronized transmissions and receptions are performed which eliminate in-device coexistence (IDC) interference in any single NSTR MLD. The time gap while awaiting for all links to be obtained, is also made use of for performing transmission(s) toward increasing data throughput.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Qing Xia, Mohamed Abouelseoud, Liangxiao Xin
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Patent number: 11836883Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to place a virtual object within an augmented reality space corresponding to a real space in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in an image captured by an imaging part, and an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation. When the user operation is a first operation, the display controller causes the virtual object to move within the augmented reality space.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Shingo Tsurumi
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Patent number: 11835696Abstract: An optical system of the present disclosure includes a projection optical system, an optical path splitting unit, and a detection optical system. The projection optical system includes a plurality of lenses and projects, on a projection surface, an image generated by a light valve. A detection object is on side of the projection surface, and object light is incident from the side of the projection surface. The optical path splitting unit is on the side of the projection surface relative to one of the plurality of lenses most adjacent to the light valve. The detection optical system includes at least one lens between an imaging device and the optical path splitting unit. The object light is incident through the optical path splitting unit on the detection optical system.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Toshifumi Yasui
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Patent number: 11838945Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic device, communication method and storage medium in a wireless communication system. An electronic device on control device side is provided, the electronic device comprises a processing circuitry configured to: group a plurality of terminal devices based on data configuration characteristics of the plurality of terminal devices; determine a contention window for each group; and notify each of the plurality of terminal devices of the contention window associated therewith, such that each of the terminal devices is able to perform data transmission within the respective contention window in a contention-based manner.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Wei Chen, Xiaoyu Zhao, Xin Guo, Chen Sun
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Patent number: 11838099Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a demodulation circuit configured to demodulate packets obtained with respect to each of multiple PLPs included in a broadcast signal; and a processing circuit configured to process the packets demodulated by the demodulation circuit. The demodulation circuit and the processing circuit are connected with each other via a single interface or interfaces fewer than the number of the PLPs. The demodulation circuit adds identification information to a specific packet among the packets obtained with respect to each of the PLP, the identification information identifying the PLP to which each of the packets belongs. The processing circuit identifies the PLP to which belongs each of the packets input from the demodulation circuit via the single interface or the interfaces fewer than the number of the PLPs, based on the identification information obtained from the specific packet.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Okada, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Takeshi Ohno
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Patent number: 11837233Abstract: The situation of a conversation can be allowed to be grasped in more detail. A statement of each participant participating in a conversation is detected by processing a voice signal. The state of each participant participating in the conversation, for example, a direction in which each participant is looking is detected by processing an image signal. The state and existence of a conversation are determined on the basis of the statement of each participant and the state of each participant. The state and existence of a conversation can be determined with higher accuracy than in a technology that determines the state and existence of a conversation only by statements of participants.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuhiro Tsunashima
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Patent number: 11839163Abstract: A storage element including a storage layer configured to hold information by use of a magnetization state of a magnetic material, with a pinned magnetization layer being provided on one side of the storage layer, with a tunnel insulation layer, and with the direction of magnetization of the storage layer being changed through injection of spin polarized electrons by passing a current in the lamination direction, so as to record information in the storage layer, wherein a spin barrier layer configured to restrain diffusion of the spin polarized electrons is provided on the side, opposite to the pinned magnetization layer, of the storage layer; and the spin barrier layer includes at least one material selected from the group composing of oxides, nitrides, and fluorides.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Higo, Masanori Hosomi, Kazuhiro Bessho, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ohmori, Kazutaka Yamane, Yuki Oishi, Hiroshi Kano
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Patent number: 11835931Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of enhancing an illegal action prevention effect by restricting an operation leading to an illegal action, an information processing method, and a storage medium. An information processing apparatus including a sensor data acquisition part configured to acquire sensor data output from a sensor, and a control part configured to restrict an operation on an object of interest when detecting a person who is likely to violate a predetermined rule after operating the object of interest on the basis of the sensor data, and to remove the restriction of the operation on the object of interest after giving a warning on the basis of the predetermined rule via a notification part.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroshi Iwanami
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Publication number: 20230385309Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users arc in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local map.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OI, Quan WANG, Kouichi MATSUDA, Takayuki YOSHIGAHARA
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Publication number: 20230388525Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device capable of recognizing performance necessary for decoding more accurately and a method. Coded data of image data and decoding load definition information for defining a magnitude of a load of a decoding process of a partial region of an image of the image data are acquired; decoding of the acquired coded data is controlled based on the acquired decoding load definition information; and the acquired coded data is decoded according to the controlling. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing device such as an image coding device that scalably codes image data or an image decoding device that decodes encoded data obtained by scalably coding image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shinobu HATTORI, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Mitsuhiro HIRABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230388524Abstract: To perform favorable decoding processing on the receiver side. By an image coding unit, image data of each picture constituting moving image data is classified into a plurality of hierarchies, the image data of the picture in each of the classified hierarchies is coded, the plurality of hierarchies is divided into a predetermined number of hierarchy sets, and a predetermined number of video streams having the coded image data of the picture in each of the divided hierarchy sets is generated. In this case, coding is performed so that a decoding interval of at least the coded image data of the picture in the lowest hierarchy set is a regural interval. By a transmission unit, a container including the generated predetermined number of video streams in a predetermined format is transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Ikuo TSUKAGOSHI