Patents Assigned to Sony Group Corporation
  • Patent number: 11756158
    Abstract: An information processing device configured to: acquire an image captured according to an imaging instruction by a mobile object; acquire sensor information including position information about the mobile object according to an exposure notification signal transmitted at a fixed timing that is relative to an exposure end timing of the captured image, the exposure notification signal being transmitted in response to the imaging instruction; and store the position information included in the acquired sensor information in association with the acquired image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mori, Hiroyuki Sano, Hideo Miyamaki, Masato Tsujie, Yoichiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11756974
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a focus detecting device and an electronic device that can adjust the maximum value and the minimum value of sensitivity in phase detection pixels. The focus detecting device and an electronic device each include a microlens, a photoreceptor configured to receive light entering through the microlens, a light shield film provided between the microlens and the photoreceptor and configured to limit an amount of light on the photoreceptor, and a light shield wall provided vertical to the light shield film. The light shield wall or the light shield walls having a predetermined height are provided on any one or both of surfaces of the light shield film facing the photoreceptor and the microlens. The present technology can be applied to an imaging device configured to detect a focus by detection of phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironari Otsuji
  • Patent number: 11758479
    Abstract: A method, performed by a network node, is disclosed, for configuring resources to be used for Wake-Up Signal, WUS, transmission to a plurality of wireless device groups in the communications network. The method comprises obtaining a number of wireless device groups supported by the communications network. The method comprises allocating, based on the obtained number of wireless device groups supported by the communications network, one or more active resources, out of a set of available resources, for WUS for the number of wireless device groups. The method comprises determining, based on a set of resource configuration criteria, a WUS resource configuration defining a mapping of the wireless device groups to the determined one or more active resources. The method comprises providing, to the wireless device, a set of resource configuration parameters indicative of the determined WUS configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Basuki Priyanto, Anders Berggren, Nafiseh Mazloum
  • Patent number: 11758471
    Abstract: Stations (STAs) in the network transmit broadcast frames which incorporate sharing information about specific parameter settings in the basic service set (BSS). Updates are transmitted to the other STAs when parameter settings change, which include version information about the parameter settings. A STA receiving an update records version information, which is incorporated in any response or broadcast back to the transmitting station to indicate that the specific update was properly received. The transmitting STA can indicate which other STAs are to provide feedback to the update information. The sharing information, or indicated portions thereof, may be shared with overlapping BSS STAs as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Liangxiao Xin, Mohamed Abouelseoud
  • Patent number: 11758510
    Abstract: A terminal device configured to receive a radio signal from which measurements can be used to assist in determining a position of the terminal device. The terminal device detects one or more system information blocks carrying position assistance information transmitted from the infrastructure equipment and estimates the position of the terminal device by combining the identified position assistance information with the radio signal received by the position detection receiver circuitry. Furthermore the terminal device receives from the infrastructure equipment an indication of relative risk that the position assistance information will change, and in response to the indication of the relative risk that the position assistance information will change to adapt the receiving of the one or more system information blocks to receive an updated version of the position assistance information in accordance with the relative risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11758305
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a comparator, an AD converter, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a comparator control method that can reduce power consumption while increasing the determination speed of the comparator. The comparator includes a comparison unit, a positive feedback circuit, and a current limiting unit. The comparison unit compares the voltage of an input signal and the voltage of a reference signal, and outputs a comparison result signal. The positive feedback circuit increases the transition speed at the time when the comparison result signal is inverted. The current limiting unit limits the current flowing in the comparison unit after the inversion of the comparison result signal. The present disclosure can be applied to comparators, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Sakakibara, Kenichi Aoyagi, Seiji Yamada
  • Patent number: 11757970
    Abstract: Streaming content with an electronic device includes incrementally downloading content data at a first quality level from a content server over a network. Triggered by receipt of a notification indicative of predicted network congestion, the electronic device requests and downloads a next increment of the content data at a second quality level lower than the first quality level from the content server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Rickard Ljung, Samir Drincic
  • Patent number: 11757504
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a network entity for a mobile telecommunications system having circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit, to the at least one user equipment, time information for indicating a beam which will cover the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11754882
    Abstract: An improvement in image quality is achieved by compensating for a phase difference occurring in tilted light to achieve an improvement in contrast while suppressing luminance irregularity when in black display. An optical compensation device includes: a first optical compensation unit configured to generate a phase difference that has a substantially equal amount and a reverse sign in light with each incidence angle within a predetermined incidence angle range on a vertical alignment type liquid crystal panel with respect to a phase difference occurring from the liquid crystal panel; and a second optical compensation unit configured to generate a phase difference in an in-plane direction. The first optical compensation unit can appropriately compensate for a phase difference occurring in tilted light passing through a liquid crystal panel and the second optical compensation unit can suppress luminance irregularity when in black display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoko Horikoshi, Keigo Inoue
  • Patent number: 11757598
    Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment and the communications device is provided. The communications device is configured to transmit an uplink channel to the infrastructure equipment in a plurality of allocated subcarriers. The communications device comprises circuitry for one or more modulation symbol repetition blocks, each configured to receive modulated symbols mapped to one of a plurality of modulated symbol sets and to repeat each of the received modulated symbols within each of the plurality of modulated symbol sets, and circuitry for a precoder block configured to carry out a precoder function on the repeated modulation symbols, the precoder function comprising multiplying each of the repeated modulation symbols by an element of a precoder vector to produce precoded symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 11755153
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for enabling improvement of operability in a case of performing a user operation on surfaces of various real objects. The information processing apparatus includes an operation pattern control unit configured to control an operation pattern in an operation area on a surface of a real object on the basis of information indicating a characteristic of the operation area. The operation pattern includes, for example, at least one of a method of inputting operation data in the operation area or a method of detecting the operation data. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a system using augmented reality (AR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke Fujinawa, Tetsuo Ikeda, Seishi Tomonaga, Junji Otsuka, Atsushi Irie, Yugo Sato, Kenji Gotoh
  • Patent number: 11758290
    Abstract: The invalid pixel detection unit 32 detects an invalid pixel from a non-polarized image and a plurality of polarized images for different polarization directions obtained by performing image pickup using the polarization image pickup unit 20. For example, the invalid pixel detection unit 32 detects a saturated pixel having a pixel value larger than a preset saturation detection threshold and a black-crushed pixel having a pixel value smaller than a preset black crushing detection threshold as invalid pixels from a non-polarized image. The polarization information generation unit 33 performs processing of generating polarization information on the basis of the non-polarized image and polarized images and switches the processing of generating the polarization information depending on the detection result of the invalid pixels in the invalid pixel detection unit 32, so as to generate the polarization information without using the invalid pixels. Correct polarization information can be acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Hirasawa, Yuhi Kondo, Legong Sun, Taishi Ono
  • Patent number: 11755117
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a server device capable of presenting haptic information by using an existing data format. A smartphone includes a data processing unit that supplies a haptic control signal to a haptic presentation device on the basis of haptic control information embedded in image data in a predetermined file format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11757496
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a base station (10) of a wireless communication network. Precoding information for concentrating a radio-frequency power of a transmitted radio-frequency signal to a group of terminal devices (41 to 43) arranged in a sub area (37) of a coverage area (30) of the base station (10) is determined and applied to an antenna array (11) of the base station (10). A synchronization signal is transmitted from the base station (10) to the group of terminal devices (41 to 43) using the precoding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erik Bengtsson, Basuki Priyanto, Olof Zander
  • Patent number: 11756218
    Abstract: Distributing different resolution point clouds of a full resolution point cloud, including: applying a plurality of sieve functions to the full resolution point cloud (PC) to generate a plurality of partial point clouds (PCs), wherein the partial PCs are disjointed elements of the full resolution PC; scrambling each partial PC of the plurality of partial PCs using a respective one of a plurality of secret keys; and distributing at least one scrambled PC and a selected secret key to an intended recipient, wherein the selected secret key is selected based on an appropriate resolution determined for the intended recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Diehl
  • Patent number: 11756282
    Abstract: A system including circuitry configured to process image data of a meal to obtain information on the contents of the meal; generate, based on the obtained information, a query with guidance to change image capture settings: and guide a user to pick up at least a part of the meal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Gatto, Piergiorgio Sartor, Ralf Müller, Mori Hironori, Oliver Erdler
  • Patent number: 11757510
    Abstract: Disclosed are electronic devices and communication methods. An electronic device comprises a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: receive an RRC signaling and/or a MAC CE signaling from a control-side electronic device; determine, based on a first beam indication information of control channel in the RRC signaling and/or the MAC CE signaling, an activated beam for performing a transmission in the physical control channel with the control-side electronic device; rewrite the activated beam based on a second beam indication information of control channel included in a downlink control information (DCI) carried by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and use the rewritten activated beam to perform the transmission in the physical control channel with the control-side electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 11758611
    Abstract: A discontinuous reception method in a wireless communication system, including: determining to employ a consecutive carrier aggregation or a non-consecutive carrier aggregation; in case of the consecutive carrier aggregation, for a primary cell and each of the secondary cells, setting a common on-duration timer and/or a common discontinuous reception inactivity timer; and in case of the non-consecutive carrier aggregation, for a primary cell and each of the secondary cells, setting separate on-duration timers and/or separate discontinuous reception inactivity timers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuxin Wei
  • Patent number: 11758457
    Abstract: A method of operating a source edge computing server (201) of an edge-computing system (200), comprising: based on a first user context (861) of a first user, a second user context (862) of a second user, and a group context (865) of the first user and the second user available to the source edge computing server (201): executing a multi-user edge computing application for the first user and the second user; and relocating the first user context (861) from the source edge computing server (201) to a target edge computing server (202); and providing the group context (865) from the source edge computing server (201) to the target edge computing server (202).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Svante Alnås, Linh Trang
  • Publication number: 20230280473
    Abstract: An apparatus includes one or more processors and logic encoded in one or more non-transitory media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to receive a request from a user for one or more services associated with satellites. The logic is further operable to while performing an initialization process, provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes information about one or more of the satellites. The logic is further operable to determine that the initialization process is complete. The logic is further operable to update the GUI to include an option to provide the one or more services associated with the satellites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jignesh Doshi, Andrew Estrada