Patents Assigned to Sony Corporations
  • Publication number: 20140043356
    Abstract: The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality of source images that are separate from the plurality of template designs are provided on the visual display. A selection of a color from one of the plurality of source images is received from the user. Colors of the selected template design are automatically adjusted to match the selected the color from the source image. The selected template design may include framing, mat, background, and foreground portions, at least one of which is adjusted. After automatically adjusting the colors, the selected template design may be displayed and/or stored for use as a template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicants: SONY ELECTRONICS, INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric Edwards, Clay Harvey Fisher
  • Publication number: 20140044075
    Abstract: A method of signaling in a wireless communication system (300) comprising a first network element (310) serving a wireless communication unit (325) with at least one packet data network (PDN) connection. The method comprises transmitting, by the first network element (310) to the wireless communication unit (325), a signaling message relating to a wireless communication unit (325) uplink (UL) PDN transmission, where the signaling message comprises a parameter indicative of at least one aggregate maximum bit rate (AMBR) value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haris Zisimopoulos, Chandrika Worrall
  • Publication number: 20140045466
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an information processing apparatus may include a receiving unit configured to receive, from a first communications device, a request for information identifying at least one second communications device. In such implementations, the second communications device may be associated with the first communications device, and the first and second communications devices may share at least one connection right. The information processing apparatus may also include a control unit configured to obtain the information, based on the received request, and generate an instruction to transmit the information to the first communications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Naito, Katsutoshi Itoh, Masanori Sato
  • Publication number: 20140044200
    Abstract: A power control server outputs power through a power line, outputs a high-frequency signal and communicates with an electronic device to which the power is output, through the power line, and reads out device information including at least identification information that identifies the electronic device, obtains user information related to a user who uses the electronic device, and transmits the obtained user information and the read out device information to an information management server. The information management server receives the user information and the device information transmitted from the power control server, and performs user registration related to the electronic device identified by the identification information included in the device information, based on the received user information. The present technology can be applied to a power supply control system that supplies the power to an electronic device, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Soma, Kazuyoshi Takemura, Takanori Washiro
  • Publication number: 20140045542
    Abstract: There is provided a method for controlling a transmission power in a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, with use of any node of one or more secondary usage node that transmits a radio signal of the second communication service, comprising the steps of: acquiring an acceptable interference power allocated to the second communication service; calculating a total sum of interference power levels on the first communication service based on transmission powers respectively required for the one or more secondary usage node; and excluding any secondary usage node of the one or more secondary usage node from allocation of the transmission power when the calculated total sum of interference power levels is larger than the acceptable interference power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Sawai
  • Publication number: 20140047466
    Abstract: An imaged image data processing apparatus includes obtaining means for obtaining imaged image data, which is imaged by an imaging section that images the sight of a user, extracting means for extracting identification data for identifying a viewed program from the imaged image data obtained by the obtaining means, and transmitting means for transmitting the identification data extracted by the extracting means to an external viewing information creating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masaaki Tsuruta, Nozomu Ozaki, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Akane Sano
  • Publication number: 20140044277
    Abstract: A wireless audio transmission system includes: a transmitter having a microphone and a modulator-transmitter transmitting a radio wave modulated by an audio signal from the microphone; a receiver having a receiver-demodulator demodulating the audio signal after receiving the radio wave transmitted from the transmitter, output ting the audio signal demodulated by the receiver-demodulator to the outside of the receiver; and a video camera into which the audio signal output from the receiver is input, wherein the receiver has a detector detecting frequencies of a radio wave not being used by other devices based on a reception level of the radio wave received by the receiver-demodulator and outputs available frequency information indicating the frequencies detected by the detector to the video camera, and the video camera has a controller causing the available frequency information input from the receiver to be displayed on a display unit attached to the video camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki YAHAGI
  • Publication number: 20140042573
    Abstract: There is disclosed a memory element including a layered structure including a memory layer that has a magnetization perpendicular to a film face; a magnetization-fixed layer; and an insulating layer provided between the memory layer. An electron that is spin-polarized is injected in a lamination direction of a layered structure, a magnitude of an effective diamagnetic field which the memory layer receives is smaller than a saturated magnetization amount of the memory layer, in regard to the insulating layer that comes into contact with the memory layer, and the other side layer with which the memory layer comes into contact at a side opposite to the insulating layer, at least an interface that comes into contact with the memory layer is formed of an oxide film, and the memory layer includes at least one of non-magnetic metal and oxide in addition to a Co—Fe—B magnetic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Yamane, Masanori Hosomi, Hiroyuki Ohmori, Kazuhiro Bessho, Yutaka Higo, Hiroyuki Uchida
  • Publication number: 20140044366
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including a recorded image signal exposure information corrector that, on the basis of information related to different exposure times, corrects a recorded image signal recorded with the different exposure times, a mixing coefficient calculator that calculates a mixing coefficient used for mixing the corrected recorded image signal with a mixed image signal, in which recorded image signals recorded with the different exposure times are mixed, retrieved from a storage unit that saves the mixed image signal, and a mixer that outputs the mixed image signal in which the mixed image signal retrieved from the storage unit and the corrected recorded image signal are mixed on the basis of the mixing coefficients, and writes the mixed image signal to the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Yamaguchi, Katsuhisa Shinmei
  • Publication number: 20140044219
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a receiving device that can promptly present receivable one-segment broadcasts, a receiving method, and a program. Station information acquiring units (111 through 113) acquire area broadcast information about stations that transmit broadcast waves of arbitrary one-segment broadcasting through arbitrary segments. Using the area broadcast information, a station selecting unit (117) selects stations of one-segment broadcasts receivable at a predetermined location as selectable stations that can be selected by tuning. A tuning control unit (118) performs tuning control to select a one-segment broadcast of a selectable station. The present invention can be applied to mobile one-segment broadcast receiving terminals, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Izumi Hatakeyama, Masayuki Obayashi, Tooru Hiraga
  • Publication number: 20140043540
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception block configured to receive AV content; a trigger information capture block configured to capture trigger information for controlling an operation of an application program to be executed in coordination with said AV content; and a control block configured to control an operation of said application program in accordance with an operation mode specified in said trigger information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naohisa KITAZATO, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Yoshiharu Dewa, Jun Kitahara, Mark Eyer
  • Publication number: 20140043335
    Abstract: This technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of realizing motion parallax closely related to that of the real world. An image processing unit corrects a depth image formed of a depth value indicating a position in a depth direction of each pixel of a color image of a predetermined viewpoint externally input as an input image based on positional information indicating a position of a viewer and the like. This technology is applicable to an image processing device, which performs a process to correct the depth image based on the positional information as an image process, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goh Kobayashi, Takuro Kawai, Toshinori Ihara, Keisuke Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20140043509
    Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device including a pixel section arranged with multiple pixel circuits in A matrix having functions for converting an optical signal to an electrical signal and for accumulating the electrical signal depending on an exposure time, and a pixel driving section capable of driving through a control line to reset, accumulate, transfer, and output signal electric charge of the pixel section. The pixel section may have a pixel shared structure arranged with one selection control line, one reset control line, and multiple transfer control lines, including a readout-pixel section and an unread-pixel section in its entirety. The pixel driving section includes a pixel control section where an unread-pixel is normally fixed in a reset state. When reading a readout-pixel in a shared relationship, if its address is selected or a selection signal becomes active, the unread-pixel reset-state is cancelled to turn into an unread state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Ui, Tomohiro Takahashi, Hirofumi Kikutsugi
  • Publication number: 20140043494
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus and an imaging method supply an optimum amount of image data to another apparatus. When a PDA has a maximum transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps, a mobile phone determines that the maximum speed of communication with the PDA is low, reduces the amount of moving image data captured by a CCD of the mobile phone accordingly, and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA. The PDA therefore displays a low-quality moving image on its display unit. When the PDA has a maximum transfer rate of 480 Mbps, the CPU of the mobile phone leaves unchanged the amount of moving picture data captured by the CCD and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA. The PDA then displays a high-quality moving image on its display unit. The foregoing may be advantageously applied to digital cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chisato Yoshida, Osamu Date
  • Publication number: 20140047469
    Abstract: A device is enabled to display Internet TV by accessing a management server and receiving back from the server a user token and a service list of predefined content servers. A user can select a content server on the service list which causes the device to upload its user token to the management server, which in turn sends back the network path to the content server along with a content server-user-unique service token (SUIT) that the device uses to access the content on the content server, in some embodiments on per-title PPV access, per-content category PPV access, or per-service PPV access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: TRUE XIONG, Charles David McCoy, Viral Mehta, Leo Pedlow, Aran Sadja
  • Publication number: 20140044940
    Abstract: An optical recording medium includes a first transparent film layer, a second transparent film layer, and a recording material layer sandwiched between the first transparent film layer and the second transparent film layer. The recording material layer includes a hologram recording material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Ikuta, Fumisada Maeda, Kimihiro Saito, Takashi Nakao, Takahiro Miura, Yoshiaki Sakakura, Yojiro Sumi
  • Publication number: 20140043451
    Abstract: A plurality of parallax images which are time-divisionally displayed are processed so that correct parallax can be displayed even during motion picture display. When a plurality of image streams of input signals to the video signal processing unit 120 are captured or generated with the same timing, interpolation processing for generating an interpolated image in terms of time is performed on at least one of the plurality of image streams, and the change of the apparent parallax is suppressed. More specifically, interpolation processing in terms of time is performed, so that a time difference of a time at which interpolation images of a plurality of image streams are generated is the same as a time difference of operation for separating the corresponding parallax images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Nakagawa, Yuji Nakahata
  • Publication number: 20140045064
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material includes: a particle containing a positive electrode material capable of intercalating and deintercalating an electrode reactant; and a film provided in at least a part of the particle and having a peak of C2H5S+, C3H7S+ or C4H9S+ obtained by cation analysis by time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Nakai, Toru Odani
  • Patent number: 8649416
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device that includes a circuitry configured to acquire synchronization with a spreading code of an intermediate frequency signal that is obtained by converting a frequency of a received signal from a satellite in a global positioning system into a predetermined intermediate frequency, demodulate a message included in the intermediate frequency signal, output a primary signal to a predetermined signal line, and attach a predetermined header to a secondary signal and output the result to the predetermined signal line, and includes a display unit configured to display data corresponding to the primary signal and the secondary signal, such that the primary signal includes results of measuring one of position, velocity, and time of the mobile electronic device based on the message that is demodulated by the circuitry, and that the secondary signal includes the intermediate frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Tanaka, Manabu Nitta
  • Patent number: 8649893
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a semiconductor manufacturing device including, a chamber, a sensor, a sticking probability calculating section, an acting section, and a control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kuboi, Tetsuya Tatsumi