Patents Assigned to Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
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Patent number: 7589589Abstract: A power amplifying apparatus includes an input terminal configured to receive an input signal, a first power amplifier biased for class A or class AB operation which is configured to amplify the input signal, an output terminal connected to an output of the first power amplifier, a second power amplifier biased for class C operation which is configured to receive and amplify a part of the input signal, and a switch connected between an output of the second power amplifier and the output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2007Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventor: Shigeo Kusunoki
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Patent number: 7584379Abstract: A mobile terminal having a communication function. The apparatus includes: a nonvolatile memory including a memory area storing a main-unit program including an update engine for updating software and an alternative unit area for a unit area in the memory area; a working memory; and control means for accessing both of the memories. The control means downloads differential data between a version of the main-unit program and a version of a new main-unit program, expands the update engine into the working memory area, executes the update engine, updates the main-unit program for each unit area by the differential data, completes the update processing if the update has been successful, and performs the unit-area update processing on the alternative unit area and replaces the defective unit area by the alternative unit area if a defect of a unit area has been detected at the time of the update.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2007Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Katsumi Aoyagi, Tomohiro Ichikawa, Yoshinori Motoyama
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Patent number: 7577447Abstract: In a case when a wireless communication is carried out between a communication terminal apparatus and a wireless key apparatus in which one of the two apparatuses which carry out the communication becomes a master and the other one becomes a slave, the slave detects a signal from the master and the wireless communication is carried out by a wireless communication system executing the wireless connection between the two apparatuses, it is constituted such that each of the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus includes communication means for carrying out the wireless communication, and control means; and in a case when the wireless communication state between the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus is a non-connection state, the side which becomes the master is to transmit a signal asking for a “response from the slave” intermittently by changing the period into a plurality of steps in response to the non-connection time period and the side which becomes thType: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Katsutoshi Itoh, Mitsuyoshi Yasuda, Makoto Natori, Osamu Yoshimura, Minoru Yokoshi, Takeshi Itagaki
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Publication number: 20090201085Abstract: A power amplifying apparatus includes an input terminal configured to receive an input signal, a first power amplifier biased for class A or class AB operation which is configured to amplify the input signal, an output terminal connected to an output of the first power amplifier, a second power amplifier biased for class C operation which is configured to receive and amplify a part of the input signal, and a switch connected between an output of the second power amplifier and the output terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.Inventor: Shigeo KUSUNOKI
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Patent number: 7574270Abstract: A terminal control method includes device processing executed by using a device that a terminal includes, an application program installed on the terminal, a service definition file for storing user setting required when the application program is executed and a broker for judging the device processing, judging whether or not an item corresponding to user setting condition defined by the service definition file is executed by the device processing and executing processing defined to the application program if the corresponding item is executed by the device processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Hidehiko Takahashi, Atsushi Imai
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Patent number: 7559025Abstract: A display control program is proposed which displays data already stored in a memory on a display unit if an empty capacity of the memory is insufficient for an amount of write data to be written in the memory; displays an operator on the display unit in a first color, the operator being capable of moving by a user operation and being used for selecting data to be overwritten with the write data from the data displayed on the display unit; displays a gage on the display unit and display in a second color a range in the gage corresponding to an insufficient capacity for writing the write data in the memory; and displays a range in the gage corresponding to an empty capacity to be formed by deleting the data selected with the operator, in the first color same as a color of the operator.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignees: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc., Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Matsuzawa, Kazuhiro Kondo
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Publication number: 20090160813Abstract: A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Takashi Sawada, Yukiko Shimizu, Tsutomu Takahashi
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Publication number: 20090156272Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile terminal including a ring section having a plurality of operation devices provided on a substantially circular enclosure, a terminal body section having at least a display device,a pair of hinge sections which have a rotation axis substantially parallel to a tangent line of a ring circumference direction of the ring section and rotatably journal the terminal body section at a rotation angle of at least 90 degrees with respect to the ring section, and a body-ring interface section which performs at least signal transmission between the ring section and the terminal body section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.Inventors: Maki Ohuchi, Yuji Fukaya, Shin Takanashi
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Publication number: 20090146892Abstract: A non-contact wireless communication apparatus and a mobile terminal apparatus are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.Inventors: Kanjiro SHIMIZU, Toshiyuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20090140996Abstract: A press detection sensor contains a base member having predetermined length and width and also having a predetermined shape, a first conductor having predetermined length and being arranged on the base member, and a second conductor that is arranged on the base member with the second conductor being faced to the first conductor. The press detection sensor also contains a conductive contact body that is arranged between the first conductor and the second conductor. The conductive contact body connects the first and second conductors electrically in response to an external force. The press detection sensor further contains a covering member that includes the contact body on the inside thereof. The covering member covers a top of the base member which includes the first and second conductors. The covering member contains at least one of flexibility and elasticity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Tsutomu Takahashi
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Patent number: 7539468Abstract: Power consumed by a power-variable amplifying unit for amplifying and supplying data to an antenna in a mobile telephone carrying out data transmission by changing transmission power in accordance with a TPC bit transmitted from a base transceiver station is reduced. The power-variable amplifying unit is constituted with a variable gain amplifier (21) in which a gain is variably controlled with a control voltage corresponding to the above-described TPC bit, a driver amplifier (22) with a fixed gain, and a power amplifier (23) with a fixed gain. Then, a variable resistance 25 for bypassing a current flowing through a transistor (26) of the driver amplifier (22) is provided, and a resistance value of this variable resistance (25) is variably controlled with the control voltage corresponding to the above-described TPC bit. Accordingly, a current quantity of the current flowing through the transistor 26 can be controlled to be a current quantity according to the control voltage (=transmission power).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2004Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventor: Shinichiro Tsuda
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Publication number: 20090124298Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile phone terminal with a battery pack containing a retraceable battery as power supply, and transmitting and receiving radio-signals to and from a mobile phone system base transceiver station. The mobile phone terminal includes a data communication terminal communicating data with the battery pack, an intermittent receiving processor periodically carrying out intermittent receiving processing via the base transceiver station when the mobile phone terminal is in a standby operation, and a battery status determining unit transmitting, while the intermittent receiving processor is carrying out intermittent receiving processing, an activating signal to the battery pack via the data communication terminal and reading battery status data from the activated battery pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicants: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC., MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuya Suzuki, Kuniharu Suzuki, Akira Ikeuchi, Yoshihide Majima, Hirotsugu Iijima, Kenichi Kasai, Takatoshi Itagaki
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Publication number: 20090124299Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile terminal incorporating a battery pack utilized as power supply. The mobile terminal includes a positive terminal connected to a battery pack positive electrode, a negative terminal connected to a battery pack negative electrode, a data communication terminal communicating with a circuit in the battery pack, a charge control unit controlling charging of the battery pack via the positive terminal, and a reference voltage output unit outputting reference voltage. The terminal further includes a dividing resistor and a thermistor connected in series between the reference voltage output unit and the negative terminal, a temperature detector detecting temperature, and stopping charging of the battery pack based on the detected temperature, and a switching device controlling the voltage at the predetermined portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicants: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC., MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuya SUZUKI, Kuniharu SUZUKI, Akira IKEUCHI, Yoshihide MAJIMA, Hirotsugu IIJIMA, Kenichi KASAI, Takatoshi ITAGAKI
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Patent number: 7526311Abstract: At a mobile terminal apparatus provided with a non-contact IC, flexible communication is carried out between the external reader/writer , non-contact IC and the internal application manager controller, and a program designated in the form of a push from the external reader/writer is activated and executed in a smooth manner at the mobile terminal apparatus. Normally, the non-contact IC cannot communicate with the application manager controller during communication with the external reader/writer, and cannot communicate with the external reader/writer during communication with the application manager controller. A specific command is transmitted from the external reader/writer together with information specifying a prescribed application during communication between the external reader/writer and the non-contact IC. When the specific command is received, the non-contact IC shifts to a communication state enabling communication with the application manager controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2006Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Takahisa Someya, Atsushi Imai, Hideaki Imai, Hidehiko Takahashi
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Patent number: 7526275Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus checks if a user is a proper user based on the operation of the user and, if the result of authentication is negative, uploads predetermined data, which is part of data stored in a memory, to a predetermined server. After the transmission is completed, the mobile terminal apparatus erases the uploaded data from the memory. It is also possible to instruct the mobile terminal apparatus to upload and erase data from an external source using an electronic mail or a telephone tone signal sequence. This may protect data contained in mobile terminal apparatus that has been lost, from a person who improperly attempts to access the data.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2004Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Inc.Inventor: Takeshi Kokubo
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Publication number: 20090103250Abstract: An input device that inputs information by a slide operation depending on an operation body contains a housing including an operation surface, a detection unit that is provided in the housing and detects a slide position inputted by a slide operation depending on the operation body, and an operation unit that covers at least a portion of the detection unit and is slide-operated along the operation surface of the housing. The operation unit has a convex shape which becomes thicker along the sliding direction from one portion of the operation surface of the housing and also which becomes thinner toward the other portion of the operation surface thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Seiji Muramatsu, Tsutomu Takahashi, Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Takashi Sawada, Satoshi Kushima, Yuuji Arataki, Hiroshi Yokoyama, Kazuhiko Takeda
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Publication number: 20090100355Abstract: Systems and methods are provided which can be used to control electrical household appliances connected to a home network by use of a GUI having an entertainment-oriented virtual space capability. A virtual space is arranged with a mascot dedicated to the user of an information processing apparatus. An icon can be clicked to control a real world device existing in the home of a user. A user can participate in a virtual space belonging to another user through sharing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Kenichi Takemura, Mamoru Tokashiki, Yoshihiro Wakita
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Publication number: 20090079698Abstract: An input device inputs information by a slide operation depending on an operation body. The device contains a housing having an operation surface, a detection unit that is provided in the housing and includes an electrostatic capacitance sheet member which detects a slide position of the operation body to output a position detection signal, and an operation unit that covers an entire surface of the detection unit and is slide-operated along the operation surface of the housing. The operation unit has a convex shape which becomes thicker along a sliding direction from one direction of the operation surface of the housing and also which becomes thinner toward the other direction of the operation surface thereof. The electrostatic capacitance sheet member includes a switch portion that is switched by a press-in operation of the operation body to the operation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Seiji Muramatsu, Tsutomu Takahashi, Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Takashi Sawada, Satoshi Kushima, Shinji Kanada, Minoru Tomita
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Publication number: 20090079387Abstract: A power transmission control device provided in a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls power transmission to a power receiving device, an actuator control circuit that controls the operation of an actuator that moves the position of a primary coil in an XY plane, a relative position detection signal generation circuit that generates a relative position detection signal relating to the primary coil and a secondary coil based on a coil end voltage or a coil current of the primary coil, and a primary coil position control circuit that causes the actuator control circuit to move the position of the primary coil in the XY plane so that the relative positional relationship between the primary coil and the secondary coil indicated by the relative position detection signal is within an allowable range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicants: Seiko Epson Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Mikimoto JIN, Kentaro YODA, Haruhiko SOGABE, Kota ONISHI, Yoichiro KONDO, Hiroshi KATO, Kuniharu SUZUKI, Katsuya SUZUKI, Manabu YAMAZAKI
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Patent number: D596630Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventor: Naoe Kaneta