Patents Assigned to Sony Group Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240249495
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program enabling follow-up by autonomous movement while appropriately capturing a follow-up target. It is driven for following a follow-up target, it recognizes the follow-up target, and a recognition algorithm for recognizing the follow-up target is changed on the basis of a distance to the follow-up target or recognition accuracy of the follow-up target based on the distance to the follow-up target, and the drive is controlled on the basis of a position of the recognized follow-up target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Kie HORIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240251219
    Abstract: A method of configuring communications in a mobile telecommunications system, the mobile telecommunications system comprising a radio node and at least a terminal, wherein the radio node is configured to provide an air interface to the terminal for communicating with the terminal. The method comprises: the terminal determining position information for the terminal; the terminal transmitting a control message to the radio node, the control message notifying the radio node of the position information for the terminal; and the radio node determining one or more configuration for communicating with at least the terminal based on the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
  • Publication number: 20240251319
    Abstract: A communication device determines a communication quality with a base station, requests a neighboring base station for a transition judgment information to transmit information to become a judgment criterion of the communication quality to be included in a Beacon signal at a stage before the communication quality degrades to an extent that the base station is immediately switched, and selects a base station with which a communication connection should be established on the basis of the transition judgment information included in the Beacon signal transmitted in response to the transition judgment request. The communication device is applicable to a communication system in the wireless LAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke AIO
  • Publication number: 20240251277
    Abstract: A station device including: a reception unit configured to receive a signal transmitted from another network other than a BSS to which the own device belongs; an acquisition unit configured to acquire parameter information regarding the signal; and a reporting unit configured to report the parameter information to an access point device that performs interference control in the BSS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru SUGAYA, Yuichi MORIOKA, Tomoya YAMAURA
  • Publication number: 20240249496
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition means that acquires first information which is part of information among information regarding a target region; and a generation means that generates, based on the first information acquired by the acquisition means, second information corresponding to a second time which is a time later than a first time which is a time corresponding to the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke SAITO, Masaki SAKAKIBARA, Yusuke OIKE
  • Publication number: 20240250720
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a processing circuit, which is configured to determine a base-station-side first beam transmitting direction of a base station for a direct link of a user equipment and a base-station-side second beam transmitting direction of the base station for a reflection link of a large intelligent surface (LIS). On the basis of the base-station-side first beam transmitting direction and the base-station-side second beam transmitting direction, the processing circuit determines a first scanning range of the LIS for a reflected beam of a reflection link of the user equipment and a second scanning range of the LIS for a received beam of the user equipment. Additionally, the processing circuit executes control to perform beam training on the reflection link between the LIS and the user equipment on the basis of the first scanning range and the second scanning range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hong SHEN, Zhikun WU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20240251218
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes processing circuitry configured to: obtain a sound field in a virtual space, by using a sound field synthesis model, based on sound source information about a sound source in a real space and virtual space information indicating an object present in a virtual space. The sound field synthesis model is pre-obtained through machine learning by using a sound field in a virtual space obtained from high-precision calculation as learning data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: Sony (China) Limited, Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Linghao SHEN
  • Patent number: 12045388
    Abstract: Provided are a detection device and a detection method that more reliably detect attitudes of fingers of a user. The detection device of the present disclosure includes: a first sensor that is disposed in a space between a thumb and an index finger and detects first information obtained by sensing a first finger that is a finger included in a first detection area; and a second sensor that is disposed on a palm and detects second information obtained by sensing a second finger that is a finger included in a second detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunihito Sawai, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 12045141
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a file processing device, a file processing method, and a program capable of reducing the number of images that the user loses. Restoration data for restoring a high efficiency image file format (HEIF) file storing a still image is written into the HEIF file. The HEIF file is restored using the restoration data. The present technology can be applied to processing of a HEIF file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Shiina
  • Patent number: 12042583
    Abstract: To provide an aroma diffusing device and a method of controlling an aroma diffusing device that can enable a plurality of functions to be achieved by operation inputs to one operation input part. Provided is an aroma diffusing device including: a perfume holding part in which a perfume is held; an air blowing source configured to supply air to the perfume holding part; an aroma discharge part through which the air having passed through the perfume holding part is discharged; an operation input part on which an operation input for the air blowing source is performed by a user; and an air blowing source control part configured to control a supply state of the air on the basis of an operation input on the one operation input part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Konya, Shuji Fujita
  • Patent number: 12046770
    Abstract: A battery includes: a casing that includes a plurality of exterior faces having outer faces facing mutually-different directions and has an arrangement concave part formed; a cell that is housed inside the casing; and a connector that includes a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus and is arranged in the arrangement concave part, in which a face forming the arrangement concave part of the casing is formed as a concave part forming face, and the concave part forming face is present between the exterior faces and the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
  • Patent number: 12047153
    Abstract: A method of operating a communications device for communicating data via a wireless communications network comprises detecting one or more of a plurality of beams of radio signals transmitted by the wireless communications network. The method comprises determining whether a received signal strength of the radio signals of each of the one or more beams exceeds a first evaluation threshold, identifying a sub-set of the set of detected beams of radio signals which can be used to receive data carried by the radio signals of the beam for which the received signal strength exceeds the first evaluation threshold, and entering a relaxed radio measurement state in which the communications device reduces an amount of attempted measurements of the plurality of beams of radio signals compared with a normal state according to one or more relaxed measurement state criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Martin Warwick Beale, Yuxin Wei, Shin Horng Wong, Yassin Aden Awad
  • Patent number: 12046621
    Abstract: This technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus by which image quality can be enhanced. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, a first wiring, a second wiring, and a shield layer. The second wiring is formed in a layer lower than that of the first wiring, and the shield layer is formed in a layer lower at least than that of the first wiring. This technology is applicable to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Yamagishi, Kiyotaka Tabuchi, Masaki Okamoto, Takashi Oinoue, Minoru Ishida, Shota Hida, Kazutaka Yamane
  • Patent number: 12045315
    Abstract: A system and method for neural-network based image-to-image translation is provided. The system includes a generator network which receives an image and generates a first synthetic image based on the received image. The first synthetic image is different from the image in appearance, style, or domain. The system includes a feature-to-image generator that extracts a feature map from an intermediate layer of the generator network and generates a second synthetic image. The system further includes a first discriminator network that generates a result indicative of whether the first synthetic image is real or fake in comparison to a first reference image and a second discriminator network that generates a result indicative of whether the second synthetic image is real or fake in comparison to a second reference image. The system further includes a processor which trains the first generator network in adversarial manner based on losses associated with the results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takeda, Mohammad Gharavi-Alkhansari
  • Patent number: 12046637
    Abstract: A nanowire device of the present description may be produced with the incorporation of at least one hardmask during the fabrication of at least one nanowire transistor in order to assist in protecting an uppermost channel nanowire from damage that may result from fabrication processes, such as those used in a replacement metal gate process and/or the nanowire release process. The use of at least one hardmask may result in a substantially damage free uppermost channel nanowire in a multi-stacked nanowire transistor, which may improve the uniformity of the channel nanowires and the reliability of the overall multi-stacked nanowire transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Hoon Sung, Seiyon Kim, Kelin J. Kuhn, Willy Rachmady, Jack T. Kavalieros
  • Patent number: 12047671
    Abstract: Provided is an optimal user interface for curbing sound generated by an imaging device. For this purpose, the imaging device includes a user interface control unit that performs user interface processing of enabling selection of whether or not to curb at least a part of sound generated in a first period from a power-on state until issuance of a transition instruction to a power-off state and a second period from the issuance of the transition instruction until the power-on state, and a switching control unit that changes control related to sound according to a selection result of the user interface processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoe Sakanaka, Asuka Suzuki, Kazuki Komoriya, Go Fukushi, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 12047698
    Abstract: The memory control unit 12 causes a memory unit 13 to store input image data divided into a first block having pixel data of a predetermined number of pixels in a line direction for a plurality of lines, a second block having pixel data of a predetermined number of pixels following the first block in the line direction for a plurality of lines including a part of the lines of the first block, and a third block having pixel data of a predetermined number of pixels following in the line direction for a plurality of lines including a line different from the line included in the second block in the first block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryuichiro Nitta
  • Patent number: 12047151
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data to a communications device from a wireless communications network comprising one or more infrastructure equipment, the method comprises configuring one or more of the infrastructure equipment for transmitting one or more candidate beams of signals which can be used to transmit the data to the communications device from each of one or more cells of the wireless communications device formed by the infrastructure equipment. Each of the candidate beams is configured with a different directional bias with respect to a location of the one or more cells from which the signals of the candidate beam can be received when transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Vivek Sharma
  • Patent number: 12048007
    Abstract: To provide a communication apparatus that achieves a high efficiency in carrier aggregation. A communication apparatus includes a communication section that transmits and receives a radio signal using a first communication band and a second communication band, and a controller that controls an operation of communication performed by the communication section, and the controller performs control such that a signal that includes information regarding a clear channel of the second communication band is transmitted using a channel of the first communication band. Further, the controller performs control such that data is transmitted to a transmission destination of the signal using one of a plurality of the clear channels of the second communication band, the plurality of the clear channels of the second communication band being included in the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Aio, Ryuichi Hirata, Shigeru Sugaya
  • Patent number: 12047699
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel region in which shared pixels which share pixel transistors in a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions are two-dimensionally arranged. The shared pixel transistors are divisionally arranged in a column direction of the shared pixels, the pixel transistors shared between neighboring shared pixels are arranged so as to be horizontally reversed or/and vertically crossed, and connection wirings connected to a floating diffusion portion, a source of a reset transistor and a gate of an amplification transistor in the shared pixels are arranged along the column direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kido, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Yamada