Patents Assigned to Sony Group Corporation
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Patent number: 11973103Abstract: An imaging device and an electronic apparatus including an imaging device are provided. The imaging device includes a substrate and a photoelectric conversion film disposed above the substrate. A first pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion film region, first and second photoelectric conversion regions formed in the substrate, and a vertical transistor for the first photoelectric conversion element. A second pixel includes a second photoelectric conversion film region, first and second photoelectric conversion regions formed in the substrate, and a vertical transistor for the first photoelectric conversion element. The imaging device also includes a first floating diffusion. The first floating diffusion is shared by the first photoelectric conversion regions of the first and second pixels. A portion of the first photoelectric conversion regions of the respective pixels is between a light incident surface of the substrate and the vertical transistor for the respective pixel.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Kyosuke Ito
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Patent number: 11972547Abstract: There is provided a video distribution system, a video distribution method, and a display terminal enabling more reliable video distribution, the video distribution system including: an image acquisition unit that acquires a low-resolution image from a low-resolution camera while acquiring a high-resolution image from a high-resolution camera; an abnormality determination unit that determines whether or not there is an abnormality in any one of a first signal representing the low-resolution image and a second signal representing the high-resolution image; and a transmission control unit that transmits first synthetic images to a display terminal in a case where it is determined that there is no abnormality, the first synthetic images having continuity between the low-resolution image and the high-resolution image, and transmits second synthetic images to the display terminal in a case where it is determined that there is an abnormality, the second synthetic images substantially reproducing continuity by replaType: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Junji Oi, Tomohiro Ooi, Hiroki Gohara
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Patent number: 11973562Abstract: A preprocessing arrangement is configured for installation in a multiple-antenna communication system, e.g. a MI-MO-enabled device, to improve internal data transfer of the system. The arrangement is interposed between an antenna array and a computer device. In operation, the arrangement obtains (301) a diagonal matrix W of multiplicator values, the diagonal matrix W being given by H=WAX, wherein H is a channel transmission matrix for the system, A is a predefined filter matrix, and X is a matrix that depends on H. The arrangement further extracts (302) an input vector Y of signal values from the antenna array, generates (303) an output vector ? of output values by forming AHWHY, wherein superscript indicates Hermitian transpose, and provides the output values in the output vector ? to the computer device. By providing the output vector ?, the number of signal values to be received and jointly processed by the computer device is reduced relative to the number of antennas in the antenna array.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Fredrik Rusek
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Patent number: 11973711Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable medium. The electronic apparatus for wireless communication according to one embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform control to send or receive configuration information. The configuration information is related to configuration of a reference signal used in a discovery process of an integrated access backhaul (IAB) link node.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaodong Xu, Mengying Sun, Guanyu Chen, Yingting Yuan, Wenbo Zhang
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Publication number: 20240135889Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving controlling device and a driving controlling method as well as an information processing system by which a display (backlight) with a high luminance and a high gradation can be implemented inexpensively and easily. Light emission of an LED is controlled by control of a current value of current for energizing the LED in addition to control of energization time for energizing the LED with current, to control the light emission luminance of the LED. The present disclosure can be applied to a large-sized video wall in which multiple display units having an HDR function are arranged in tile-like arrangement, an LED backlight of an LCD display, and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Hisao Sakurai
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Publication number: 20240137775Abstract: [Problem] Provided are a communication control device, a network device, a communication control system, a communication control method, and an information communication method that make it possible to increase a usage efficiency of a frequency band. [Solution] A communication control device according to the present disclosure includes: a receiving unit that receives a request for radio wave use pertaining to a first wireless communication device; a transmitting unit that, when the request is received, transmits an obtainment request for communication status information indicating a communication status of a second wireless communication device; and a control unit that receives the communication status information of the second wireless communication device after the obtainment request has been transmitted, and determines a condition of the radio wave use by the first wireless communication device based on the communication status information of the second wireless communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hirofumi KASAI, Sho FURUICHI, Hiroaki TAKANO
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Publication number: 20240137078Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic devices, methods, and storage medium for a wireless communication system. Various embodiments are described with respect to beam management. In one embodiment, an electronic device for a base station side in a wireless communication system can comprise a processing circuitry configured to repetitively transmit a synchronization signal (SS) to a terminal device by using different transmit (TX) beams based on a TX beam configuration; the SS can indicate information of the TX beam used to transmit the SS. The processing circuitry can be configured to obtain feedback from the terminal device; the feedback can comprise information of the TX beam for being used in TX beam management.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Jianfei CAO
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Publication number: 20240137798Abstract: User equipment includes a processing circuit, which is configured to: generate characteristics information of a QoS flow for D2D communication between the user equipment and other user equipments, wherein the characteristics information comprises periodicity information and transmission time information of a data service carried by the QoS flow; and transmitting the characteristics information to a network-side device, such that the network-side device allocates, to the user equipment and according to the characteristics information, resources for the D2D communication. By using the user equipment, the electronic device, the wireless communication method, and the computer-readable storage medium, a base station can allocate resources to a user equipment according to the characteristics of a QoS flow, thereby optimizing the process of a base station allocating resources to a user equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Lantao LI, Chen SUN
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Publication number: 20240133452Abstract: A spring expansion/compression mechanism (SM) includes an outer ring (OR), a wire (WR), a spring (SP), and an outer-ring drive mechanism (RPT). The wire (WR) is connected to the outer surface of the outer ring (OR). The spring (SP) is connected to the outer ring (OR) via the wire (WR). The spring (SP) is compressed when the wire (WR) is wound around the outer ring (OR). The outer-ring drive mechanism (RPT) comes into close contact with the outer ring (OR) to transmit rotary power to the outer ring (OR). The outer-ring drive mechanism (RPT) releases the outer ring (OR) from the close contact to cause the outer ring (OR) to freely rotate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kanako KUROKAWA, Nobuki OSHIMA
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Publication number: 20240137724Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of appropriately reproducing a sense of distance from a user to a virtual sound source and an apparent size of the virtual sound source in spatial sound representation. The present technology includes a sound source setting unit that sets a first sound source, and a plurality of second sound sources at positions corresponding to a size of a sound image of a first sound that is a sound of the first sound source; and an output control unit that outputs first sound data obtained by convolution processing using HRTF information corresponding to a position of the first sound source and a plurality of pieces of second sound data obtained by convolution processing using HRTF information corresponding to the positions of the second sound sources. The second sound sources are set to be positioned around the first sound source.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Junya Suzuki, Kentaro Kimura
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Publication number: 20240130655Abstract: An electrode of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate on which an electrical circuit is mounted; a first electrode unit disposed on the substrate and electrically coupled to the electrical circuit; and a second electrode unit having conductivity and elasticity and in which at least a part of the first electrode unit is embedded, the second electrode unit being to be brought into contact with a living body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Mao KATSUHARA, Ryo SASAKI
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Publication number: 20240137240Abstract: [Object] To improve the reliability by using an acknowledgement response while using radio resources efficiently in multicast transmission over wireless transmission. [Solution] A plurality of wireless communication devices included in a multicast group, when receiving a data frame, transmit simultaneously an acknowledgement response of multicast using spatial multiplexing in response to an acknowledgement request from a transmission source. On the other hand, a wireless communication device of the transmission source decomposes the acknowledgement responses simultaneously received into the original individual acknowledgement responses and restores them using signal processing based on information on a channel with each wireless communication device of a transmission destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Takeshi ITAGAKI, Tomoya YAMAURA, Masanori SATO
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Publication number: 20240135945Abstract: For example, an effective voice quality conversion process is performed. An information processing apparatus includes: a voice quality conversion unit that performs sound source separation of a vocal signal and an accompaniment signal from a mixed sound signal and performs voice quality conversion using a result of the sound source separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Naoya TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240135036Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication network node for providing data to a distributed ledger, wherein the node has circuitry configured to: provide a user data management part for separating sensitive user data and non-sensitive user data, and provide the non-sensitive user data to the distributed ledger.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240138003Abstract: A first communication device, e.g. an AP (10), that is configured to communicate with one or more second communication devices, e.g. STAs (20, 30), comprising circuitry configured to transmit channel access information (101) indicating to one or more of the second communication devices (20) if and which of one or more channel access parameters are individually set (102) for said one or more second communication devices and shall be used by said one or more second communication devices instead of corresponding common channel access parameters, and transmit one or more individually set channel access parameters indicated by said channel access information as individually set to said one or more second communication devices (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Thomas HANDTE, Dana CIOCHINA-KAR, Daniel VERENZUELA
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Publication number: 20240138015Abstract: A method of communicating data by a terminal device in a wireless telecommunication system comprising a first radio access node and a second radio access node, the method comprising establishing an RRC connection with the first radio access node, entering a dual connectivity mode of operation for the terminal device in which the first radio access node acts as a master radio access node and the second radio access node acts as a secondary radio access node, communicating the same first data between the terminal device and the first radio access node and between the terminal device and the second radio access node, determining that radio link failure criteria are satisfied in respect of at least the first radio access node, and communicating second data between the terminal device and the second radio access node.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Vivek SHARMA, Yassin Aden AWAD, Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Patent number: 11967153Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, a reproduction processing apparatus, and an information processing method that improve data transmission efficiency. A preprocessing unit (102) generates, as scene configuration information indicating a configuration of a scene of 6DoF content including a three-dimensional object in a three-dimensional space, dynamic scene configuration information that changes over time and static scene configuration information that does not change over time, the static scene configuration information being scene configuration information different from the dynamic scene configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuru Katsumata, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi, Ryohei Takahashi
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Patent number: 11968516Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image. A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Toru Chinen, Runyu Shi, Mitsuyuki Hatanaka
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Patent number: 11968684Abstract: A method for transmitting data by a communications device in a cell of a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving an indication of a plurality of configured grants, each of the configured grants allocating a sequence of communications resources for the transmission of the data in the cell by the communications device, receiving an indication of a mapping between each of a plurality of logical channels and one or more of the plurality of configured grants, and transmitting a first portion of the data associated with a first logical channel of the plurality of logical channels using communications resources allocated by one of the plurality of configured grants, in accordance with the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Vivek Sharma, Yassin Aden Awad, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: D1024000Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Akio Suzuki