Patents Assigned to Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
  • Patent number: 10965337
    Abstract: A radio device transmits outgoing radio signals on a carrier frequency to a further radio device and receives incoming radio signals on the same carrier frequency from the further radio device. The radio device switches at least between a first antenna configuration and a second antenna configuration, e.g., by using a switch. In the first antenna configuration, the outgoing radio signals are transmitted via at least one first antenna while simultaneously the incoming radio signals are received via at least one second antenna. In the second antenna configuration, the outgoing radio signals are transmitted via the at least one second antenna while simultaneously the incoming radio signals are received via the at least one first antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Erik Bengtsson
  • Patent number: 10958399
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: transceiver circuitry configured to receive data from the wireless telecommunications network, and a controller configured: to control the transceiver circuitry to receive control information, a control channel and a data channel wherein, the control information defines the period of time between the control channel and the data channel, and to ignore a subsequent control channel received during the period of time following the control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Basuki Priyanto
  • Publication number: 20210084577
    Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment, a location server, a contents server and the communications device is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry. The transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry are configured in combination to receive assistance information comprising a communication trigger from the location server via the infrastructure equipment, to estimate a current geographical location of the communications device, and to select, dependent on the current geographical location of the communications device and/or on the communication trigger, one of a plurality of wireless communications technologies to be used by the communications device for communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 10939499
    Abstract: A base station for transmitting system related information in a mobile telecommunications network. The base station is configured to transmit system information for the cell provided by the base station and to broadcast a version synchronisation signal, wherein the version synchronisation signal provides version information regarding the current version of the system information for the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Basuki Priyanto, Nafiseh Mazloum
  • Publication number: 20210058831
    Abstract: A terminal device and a method of operating a terminal device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises establishing, by the terminal device, a first radio connection with a first network access node for transmission of data via a first bearer and a second radio connection with the first network access node for transmission of data via a second bearer. Based on a difference between quality of service for the data transmission via the first bearer and the second bearer, a third radio connection is established between the terminal device and a second network access node for transmission of the data via the first bearer; and the third radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node, a fourth radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node for transmission of the data via the second bearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN
  • Patent number: 10931423
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network comprising the terminal device and a plurality of base stations arranged into groups of one or more base stations supporting communications over different areas. The method including establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with an initially selected base station and entering an RRC connected mode of operation with respect to the initially selected base station and suspending the RRC connection with the initially selected base station and entering an RRC suspended mode of operation. The method includes subsequently transmitting a message to request a resumed RRC connection to a subsequently selected base station, wherein the subsequently selected base station is selected in accordance with a cell (re)selection procedure for the terminal device performed while in the RRC suspended mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Anders Berggren, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Publication number: 20200409365
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to realize a rich motion expression of an autonomous mobile object by easier attitude control. The information processing device includes: a motion control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile object, wherein the autonomous mobile object includes a wheel that can be stored inside a main body and that can be protruded to an outside of the main body, and the motion control unit keeps a standing state by making the wheel protruded to the outside of the main body and performs driving control of the wheel and attitude control of the autonomous mobile object in movement of the autonomous mobile object, and makes the autonomous mobile object remain still in a seated state during a stop thereof by storing the wheel inside the main body is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Noriaki TAKAGI, Masahiro SHIMASE, Tomoyuki SONODA, Daisuke WATANABE, Kohei TAKADA
  • Patent number: 10878533
    Abstract: Techniques for demosaicing of digital color images are improved by estimating and using the structural instability in the neighborhood of the respective pixel. The structural instability for a color is given by the range of the color values for this color in a first local region around each current pixel. A method is executed by a device for interpolating a missing color at the current pixel in a color image produced by a digital image sensor having a color filter array, the current pixel having a current color that differs from the missing color. The method comprises: computing (51) a range value for one of: pixels having the missing color and pixels having the current color; computing (52) an interpolation value at the current pixel as a function of the range value and color values for pixels having the missing color within a second local region around the current pixel; and setting the missing color at the current pixel to the interpolation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Jim Rasmusson, Stefan Petersson, Håkan Grahn
  • Patent number: 10879592
    Abstract: A multi-layer circuit structure (110) has multiple layers stacked along a vertical direction. Further, at least one cavity region (120) is formed at an edge of the multi-layer circuit structure (110). The at least one cavity region (120) is formed of multiple non-conductive vias from which a dielectric substrate material of the multi-layer circuit structure (120) is removed. Further, the device comprises at least one vertical antenna patch (130) arranged in the at least one cavity region (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Zhinong Ying, Kun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200404562
    Abstract: Determining whether service via a core network of the first type is available from the second cell. The method further comprises establishing a connection via the second cell by transmitting a message including a first indication, the first indication based on at least a portion of the identifier, and when service via a core network of the first type is not available from the second cell, transmitting in the message a second indication, the second indication indicating that the identifier was received from a core network different from the second type, without identifying the first type of core network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Svante ALNÅS, Lars NORD, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI
  • Patent number: 10866689
    Abstract: To indirectly express a state change of an information processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that generates a display screen including a background object, and the display control unit moves the background object in accordance with a state change of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hama, Shoichiro Moriya, Takahiro Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200389868
    Abstract: A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren
  • Publication number: 20200374464
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that includes a camera unit including an imaging sensor that captures an image; a display that displays an image; and a processor that: clips an image region having a size corresponding to a photography zoom power from an image captured by the camera unit; adjusts a clipping position at a time of clipping the image region from the image; and controls the display to display the clipped image region on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Junichi KOSAKA
  • Patent number: 10845881
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an information acquisition unit and a signal output unit. The information acquisition unit acquires electronic information. The signal output unit outputs a first haptic signal for presenting haptic feedback with respect to an object, the haptic feedback with respect to the object being set corresponding to the acquired electronic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Takenaka, Ryosuke Murakami, Hideaki Hayashi, Akira Ono, Ryo Yokoyama, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Seiji Muramatsu, Mioko Ambe, Kazutoshi Ohno, Tetsuya Naruse, Tetsuya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10837799
    Abstract: There is provided a driving apparatus including: a rotation unit configured to be rotated about a center shaft by driving of a motor; a rotation angle acquisition unit configured to acquire information of a rotation angle of the rotation unit, as information proportional to the rotation angle; and a control unit configured to control the driving of the motor on the basis of the information of the rotation angle acquired by the rotation angle acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yu Shigeta, Masahiro Shimase, Kazuaki Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20200351142
    Abstract: [Object] To realize IQ imbalance correction in a more preferable aspect. [Solution] An information processing device including: a calculation unit configured to calculate an error between predetermined reference coordinates on an IQ plane and a signal point of a received predetermined reference signal on a basis of a reception result of the reference signal on which phase modulation or quadrature amplitude modulation is implemented and mapping information of the reference signal; and a generation unit configured to generate correction data for correcting a deviation of a signal point of a received signal on a basis of a calculation result of the error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200344572
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device supporting a plurality of positioning techniques which use positioning measurements made by the terminal device and positioning assistance information received from a location server to determine the location of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 10810296
    Abstract: A communication apparatus of the disclosure includes: an authentication section that performs personal authentication of a user through BAN (Body Area Network) communication prior to data exchange with a communication peer for predetermined processing; and a communication section that performs the data exchange with the communication peer for the predetermined processing in a case of success of the personal authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Tanaka, Shigeki Teramoto, Yoshihito Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20200314795
    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: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: D910010
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Pietro Russomanno, Jake Rich, Arinobu Ueda