Patents Assigned to Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
  • Publication number: 20200118570
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of reliably delivering a message to a third party desired by a user. Provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information including a sound message, and a recognition unit configured to recognize a sender of the sound message, a destination of a message included is the sound message, and content of the message from the information acquired by the acquisition unit, in which the recognition unit generates information for inputting the destination of the message is a case where the destination cannot be uniquely specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu KII, Hidehiro KOMATSU, Atsushi ISHIHARA, Yu SHIGETA, Junji ITOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10623164
    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: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Anders Berggren, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Publication number: 20200106994
    Abstract: To provide a solid-state imaging device capable of generating image data exposed by light of different wavelengths in a single imaging. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a plurality of lenses configured to condense light; a filter unit having a plurality of regions respectively irradiated by light passing through the plurality of lenses, the plurality of regions including transmission patterns configured to transmit different wavelength bands of the light; and an image sensor in which pixels configured to convert light transmitted through the filter unit into electric signals are arranged in a matrix, the image sensor being provided with color filters that correspond to the transmission patterns on a filter-unit side of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Masaaki HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 10606950
    Abstract: A control method improves a user's ability to navigate in speech-containing audio data during playback of the audio data on a computing device. The control method is executed by a processor in the computing device and comprises operating (51) a media player on the computing device to play the audio data, detecting (52) a user-initiated time-shift command to step forward or backward in the audio data, and, after detecting the time-shift command at a current time in the audio data, identifying (55) a starting point of a sentence in the audio data and operating (56) the media player to play the audio data from the starting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Ola Thörn
  • Publication number: 20200098373
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a talk control unit that controls proxy utterance processing in voice talk processing on the basis of environment information regarding a user terminal acquired from the user terminal. Furthermore, there is provided an information processing method performed by a processor, including: acquiring environment information regarding a user terminal from the user terminal; and controlling proxy utterance processing in voice talk processing on the basis of the acquired environment information. Furthermore, there is provided an information processing system including: a user terminal that is able to acquire environment information regarding the user terminal; and a server that includes a talk control unit controlling proxy utterance processing in voice talk processing on the basis of the environment information regarding the user terminal acquired from the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi FUJITA, Hiroaki ADACHI, Yoji HIROSE, Fumiaki TOKUHISA, Ryu AOYAMA, Izumi YAGI, Akihiro ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20200092808
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device configured to attempt to receive or to transmit a first signal during one or more of a plurality of predetermined time periods in response to determining that one or more second signals indicating, respectively, that the one or more of the plurality of predetermined time periods should be used for the attempted reception or transmission of a first signal have been received by the transceiver; determine a characteristic associated with the one or more second signals; and to control the transceiver to receive a third signal from the infrastructure equipment or to transmit a third signal to the infrastructure equipment, the third signal comprising information on the basis of which it is determinable whether or not a predetermined condition associated with the characteristic associated with the one or more second signals has been met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Basuki PRIYANTO, Nafiseh MAZLOUM
  • Publication number: 20200084253
    Abstract: A streaming client (100) receives or sends information on a type of node of a node (110, 120, 130) for assisting streaming of data. Based on the information on the type of node, the streaming client selects the node to assist in streaming of data to the streaming client (100). The information on the type of node may be conveyed in a message transmitted from the streaming client (100) or in a message to the streaming client (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Rickard LJUNG, Peter ISBERG
  • Publication number: 20200059862
    Abstract: A method of operating a network access node in a wireless telecommunications system comprising the network access node and a terminal device, wherein the method comprises: establishing that a downlink message, e.g. a paging message, for the terminal device to decode is going to be transmitted by the network access node; and transmitting wake-up signalling to the terminal device in advance of transmitting the downlink message to provide the terminal device with an indication the downlink message for the terminal device is going to be transmitted, wherein the wake-up signalling comprises an indication of an amount of synchronisation signalling for use by the terminal device to achieve radio synchronisation with the network access node, wherein the amount of synchronisation signalling depends on an amount of time elapsed since the terminal device was previously radio synchronised to the network access node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Basuki PRIYANTO, Nafiseh MAZLOUM
  • Publication number: 20200054266
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing method, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing terminal that can enhance care prevention. [Solution] Provided is an information processing method including: acquiring, by an acquisition unit, measurement results of physical fitness measurement and a cognition function, life information, and a social participation score; learning, by a learning unit, correlation between a physical fitness value and a cognition function value that are based on the measurement results, and life information and a social participation score; and predicting, by a prediction unit, future physical fitness value and cognition function value of a user using the learned correlation on the basis of life information and a social participation score of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Keisuke HIROBE
  • Publication number: 20200050343
    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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya HAMA, Shoichiro MORIYA, Takahiro KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200045690
    Abstract: A method of operating network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network comprising the network infrastructure equipment and a terminal device, wherein the terminal device is operable to transmit uplink reference signalling to support measurements of radio channel conditions between the terminal device and the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the method comprises: receiving, from the terminal device, uplink reference signalling in accordance with a first uplink reference signalling configuration; determining the terminal device should be configured to transmit uplink reference signalling in accordance with a second uplink reference signalling configuration; and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device, wherein the paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of the second uplink reference signalling configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 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: 20200042064
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program with which it is easy for a user to predict a future remaining battery amount. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control to calculate a future prediction value of remaining battery amount on the basis of a use history of an information processing apparatus by a user and to present prediction value related information related to the prediction value to the user. According to the present disclosure, the user can easily predict the future remaining battery amount. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo MIZUKAMI, Noriaki SAKAMOTO, Tomonobu TSUJIKAWA, Shota KAWARAZAKI, Ryo NAKAGAWA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200028726
    Abstract: A wireless communication device identifies a set of multiple different subcarrier spacings which are supported for transmission of synchronization signals. From the set of different subcarrier spacings, the wireless communication device selects a subset of one or more subcarrier spacings. Further, the wireless communication device receives signals from the wireless communication network. On the basis of the subcarrier spacings of the subset, the wireless communication device monitors the received signals for synchronization signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Peter C. KARLSSON, Rickard LJUNG, Basuki PRIYANTO
  • Patent number: 10536896
    Abstract: A method performed in an electronic device for establishing, in an energy-efficient way, a wireless connection to a cellular network, where the electronic device is configured to support wireless connection to a plurality of cellular networks. The method includes obtaining a current position of the electronic device; determining, as a function of the current position, a set of available cellular networks, said set being a subset of the plurality of cellular networks that are supported by the electronic device; and scanning the set of available cellular networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Magnus Tillgren, Magnus Johansson, Henrik Sundström
  • Publication number: 20190394685
    Abstract: A communications system is provided, comprising one or more infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network, and a communications device. The communications device is configured to transmit or receive signals via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network to or from a peer terminal in the wireless communications network with one or more pre-authorised quality of service, PAQ, flows, at least one of the PAQ flows currently being inactive. One or more of the infrastructure equipment are configured to receive an indication that the communications device is preparing to transmit or receive data with the PAQ flows to or from the one or more of the infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Anders BERGGREN, Lars NORD
  • Publication number: 20190380154
    Abstract: A communications device that, when in an inactive state, transmits a first signal comprising a random access preamble and a first portion of data to infrastructure equipment, receives a random access response message from the infrastructure equipment, and transmits a second signal comprising a second portion of the data to the infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Anders BERGGREN, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190375609
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing system capable of improving convenience of use of a moving object on a route according to schedule information of a user. An information processing device includes a control unit that determines whether or not a moving object is used on a route to a destination calculated on the basis of a current position and closest schedule information of a user and performs control to move the moving object used on the route to a riding place of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi HOSOKAWA, Takanori KUBOTA, Noriaki TAIRA, Takuro JOJU
  • Patent number: D873798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Keita Hibi
  • Patent number: D879080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Yuto Ishizu
  • Patent number: D878406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Tomoko Takahashi