Patents Assigned to Sony Group Corporation
  • Patent number: 11665667
    Abstract: A method includes determining a parameter of a coverage enhancement policy employed by a communication system. The method also includes setting a timing configuration (371-373, 391-393, 605, 606) of a discontinuous reception cycle (370-2, 370-3) employed by a terminal (101) of the communication system depending on the parameter. The method also includes communicating a paging signal in accordance with the timing configuration (371-373, 391-393, 605, 606) of the discontinuous reception cycle (370-2, 370-3) and the coverage enhancement policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Anders Berggren, Rickard Ljung, Basuki Priyanto, Nafiseh Mazloum
  • Patent number: 11662629
    Abstract: Liquid crystal is prevented from leaking out into a terminal hole in a liquid crystal injection process, and the productivity of a liquid crystal light control device is improved. A liquid crystal light control device according to the present technology includes a plurality of liquid crystal layers, terminals provided for respective electrodes disposed to face each other across the liquid crystal layers, and terminal holes formed above the terminals, and an injection mark of a liquid crystal for the liquid crystal layer is formed on a back face side which is a face on a side opposite to a face that has been opened by the terminal hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toyokazu Takahashi, Shinya Ootani
  • Patent number: 11664376
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including, in cross section, a semiconductor substrate; a gate insulating film on the semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode on the gate insulating film, the gate electrode including a metal, a side wall insulating film at opposite sides of the gate electrode, the side wall insulating film contacting the substrate; a stress applying film at the opposite sides of the gate electrode and over at least a portion of the semiconductor substrate, at least portion of the side wall insulating film being between the gate insulating film and the stress applying film and in contact with both of them; source/drain regions in the semiconductor substrate at the opposite sides of the gate electrode, and silicide regions at surfaces of the source/drain regions at the opposite sides of the gate electrode, the silicide regions being between the source/drain regions and the stress applying layer and in contact with the stress applying layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Yamakawa, Yasushi Tateshita
  • Patent number: 11664682
    Abstract: An electronic unit includes: a power receiving section configured to receive electric power fed from a feed unit by using a magnetic field; and a control section configured to perform, when a receiving current supplied from the power receiving section is less than a predetermined threshold current at a time of a light load, current increasing control to increase the receiving current to the threshold current or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Toru Terashima, Keigo Bunsen, Shinichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11665666
    Abstract: A method of paging a terminal, by a base station and via a relay node, wherein the terminal is configured to communicate with the base station via the relay node. The method comprises notifying the relay node of a paging identifier for identifying the terminal at least in paging messages; and the base station transmitting a paging message for the terminal. The paging message comprises the paging identifier; the paging message is transmitted at a paging time for a destination identifier; and the method further comprises the relay node monitoring the paging time for the destination identifier for paging messages comprising the paging identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma
  • Patent number: 11665570
    Abstract: An electronic device (14) detects when a downlink reference signal has not been received from a base station (12), and initiates transmission of an uplink reference signal (64) in response to determining that certain trigger criteria have been satisfied. Upon receiving the uplink reference signal (64) or a notification signal (60) from the electronic device (14), the base station (12) can perform various actions to maintain network mobility and handover performance. In this manner, the disclosed approach allows a network to maintain mobility and handover performance even when a base station (12) is unable to transmit downlink reference signals due to an occupied communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Rickard Ljung, Anders Berggren
  • Patent number: 11664943
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. [Solution] A terminal device that communicates with a base station device includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to set an STTI channel setting through signaling of a higher layer from the base station device; and a receiving unit configured to receive a first PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is not set and receive a second PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is set. The first PDCCH is mapped to one or more resource blocks, and the second PDCCH is mapped to one or more sub resource blocks defined in accordance with a smaller number of symbols than a number of symbols corresponding to a resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 11664865
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for operating a device (30) of a wireless multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) system (10) providing wireless communication. An interfering signal interfering the wireless communication is detected (107) and a transmit beamforming parameter is determined (108) based on the detected interfering signal. A beamformed pilot signal using the transmit beamforming parameter is transmitted (111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Erik Bengtsson
  • Patent number: 11665348
    Abstract: Video coding systems or apparatus utilizing context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) during encoding and/or decoding, are configured according to the invention with an enhanced binarization of non-zero Delta-QP (dQP). During binarization the value of dQP and the sign are separately encoded using unary coding and then combined into a binary string which also contains the dQP non-zero flag. This invention capitalizes on the statistical symmetry of positive and negative values of dQP and results in saving bits and thus a higher coding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 11665460
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that controls and presents sound information in an appropriate form to a user who acts in an environment on the basis of situation recognition including recognition of the environment and recognition of the actions of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Go Igarashi, Junya Suzuki, Chisato Numaoka
  • Patent number: 11665626
    Abstract: Multi-band signaling is described for reducing signaling overhead in an apparatus and method for communications within a mesh network. The communications involve using two different beacon signals on two different communication channels. Peer beacons are sent using directional millimeter-wave (mmW) communications to provide time synchronization and resource management information to maintain existing links among one or more neighboring peer stations. A separate network discovery beacon is sent over a sub-6 GHz communication channel, to provide mesh network profile information that identifies the mesh network to aid network discovery for wireless communication stations wanting to join the mesh network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohamed Abouelseoud, Ramy Abdallah, Kazuyuki Sakoda
  • Patent number: 11665331
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques related to matching features between a dynamic vision sensor and one or both of a dynamic projector or another dynamic vision sensor are discussed. Such techniques include casting a light pattern with projected features having differing temporal characteristics onto a scene and determining the correspondence(s) based on matching changes in detected luminance and temporal characteristics of the projected features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Richmond Hicks
  • Patent number: 11665669
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (100, 100?) receives resource allocation information from a wireless communication network. The resource allocation information indicates at least one condition for utilization of a set of resources allocated to device-to-device communication. Depending on the at least one condition, the wireless communication device (100, 100?) controls utilization of the set of resources for device-to-device communication between the wireless communication device (100, 100?) and a further wireless communication device (100, 100?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Erik Bengtsson, Rickard Ljung
  • Publication number: 20230161238
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a light source, an optical member, and an integrator. The optical member is rotatable around a rotation axis AR. A planar shape of the optical member is annular around the rotation axis AR. A first surface of the optical member is provided with a recessed and protruding portion. Multiple recessed and protruding structure units are consecutively formed on the optical member . Adjacent recessed and protruding structure units are in a mirror symmetry relation, and the recessed and protruding portions of the adjacent recessed and protruding structure units are smoothly connected together. Recessed portions and protruding portions of the recessed and protruding portion of each recessed and protruding structure unit are smoothly connected together. An area occupied by the recessed and protruding portion of each recessed and protruding structure unit is larger in size than incident light from the light surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshifumi YASUI, Yusuke KONO
  • Publication number: 20230161026
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a circuitry for radar detection data disambiguation for a mobile platform. The circuitry is configured to obtain radar detection data from a radar sensor mounted on the mobile platform, wherein the radar detection data indicate, for each of a plurality of targets, a radial velocity and an angle of arrival; estimate, based on the radar detection data, an ego-motion of the mobile platform; and determine an unambiguous radial velocity value of a target of the plurality of targets based on the ego-motion and the radar detection data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Timo GREBNER, Christian WALDSCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20230157600
    Abstract: An information processor according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a deriving unit that derives a cognitive capacity of a user on a basis of dispersion of reaction times of the user for a plurality of requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya SAZUKA, Koki KATSUMATA
  • Patent number: 11658747
    Abstract: There is provided an optical waveguide that performs propagation only in a reference mode at a first wavelength. Communication is performed using light of a second wavelength that enables the optical waveguide to perform propagation in at least a first order mode in addition to the reference mode. When light entering the optical waveguide deviates with respect to an optical axis or deviates angularly, propagation is performed in at least the first order mode in addition to the reference mode, the first order mode being generated due to the deviation with respect to the optical axis or the angular deviation. This results in a reduction in a loss of coupling of optical power. This makes it possible to relax the accuracy with respect to a deviation with respect to an optical axis or an angular deviation, and thus to reduce costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morita, Kazuaki Toba, Masanari Yamamoto, Yusuke Oyama
  • Patent number: 11657573
    Abstract: The mesh tracking described herein involves mesh tracking on 3D face models. In contrast to existing mesh tracking algorithms which generally require user intervention and manipulation, the mesh tracking algorithm is fully automatic once a template mesh is provided. In addition, an eye and mouth boundary detection algorithm is able to better reconstruct the shape of eyes and mouths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuelong Li, Mohammad Gharavi-Alkhansari
  • Patent number: 11656540
    Abstract: An illumination device of the present disclosure includes: a first light source unit that emits first light of a first wavelength band; a first spatial light modulator where the first light from the first light source unit enters; a second light source unit that emits second light of a second wavelength band; an integrator optical system including a first fly-eye lens where the second light from the second light source unit enters and generating illumination light for an illumination target on a basis of the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator and the second light from the second light source unit; and a multiplexing optical system that multiplexes the second light having entered the first fly-eye lens and the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator, in an optical path between the first fly-eye lens and the illumination target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masa Tanaka, Ryo Miyao
  • Patent number: 11659132
    Abstract: An electronic device including circuitry is provided. The circuitry generates a synchronization signal. The circuitry controls drive of one or more light-emitting devices based on the synchronization signal to generate a pattern of alternating light pulses. The circuitry further acquires a plurality of videos of the pattern of alternating light pulses from a plurality of imaging devices. The one or more light-emitting devices are positioned in a field of view of each of the plurality of imaging devices. The circuitry determines a frame in each video of the plurality of videos that includes a specific portion of the pattern of alternating light pulses. The determined frame in each of the plurality of videos corresponds to the same time instant. The circuitry synchronizes the plurality of videos based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brent Faust, Edward Theodore Winter, Jianfei Max Chen