Patents Assigned to Sony
  • Patent number: 9838626
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus, a solid-state image sensing apparatus, and a camera system capable of reducing interference between signals transmitted through adjacent via holes, preventing an increase in the number of the via holes, reducing the area of a chip having sensors thereon and the number of mounting steps thereof. First and second chips are bonded together to form a laminated structure, a wiring between the first chip and the second chip being connected through via holes, the first chip transmitting signals obtained by time-discretizing analog signals generated by respective sensors to the second chip through the corresponding via holes, the second chip sampling the signals transmitted from the first chip through the via holes at a timing different from a timing at which the signals are sampled by the first chip and quantizing the sampled signals to obtain digital signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Nagai, Ken Koseki, Yosuke Ueno, Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9836887
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include an apparatus comprising a recognition unit configured to recognize real object in an image. The apparatus may further comprise a determining unit configured to determine a stability indicator indicating a stability of the recognition, and a display control unit configured to modify a display of a virtual object according to the stability indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9838201
    Abstract: A root key of a computing device that is typically “burned” into the device hardware at time of manufacture is used to establish a master key and if desired a Transport Layer Security pre-shaped key, a WiFi configuration key, and application verification keys. The keys established from the root key are stored in a region of flash memory, and this region of flash memory is then encrypted using a random encryption code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: Bryan Cotta
  • Patent number: 9838777
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to further improve acoustic characteristics. [Solution] There is provided a headphone including: a driver unit including a vibration plate; a housing configured to house the driver unit, to form an air-tightened front air chamber of which a part except for an opening for sound output is spatially blocked from the outside on a front side on which the vibration plate of the driver unit is provided, and to form a rear air chamber that has a predetermined capacity on a rear side that is the opposite side to the front side; and an acoustic tube provided in a partial region of a partition wall of the housing that constitutes the rear air chamber and configured to spatially connect the rear air chamber and the outside of the housing through a tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Kuwahara, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9839019
    Abstract: A method of allocating radio resources for uplink transmissions in a wireless telecommunications system, the method including: a first terminal device communicating a request for an allocation of radio resources to a base station; the base station determining there is an association between the first terminal device and a second terminal device based on their having similar predicted traffic profiles for uplink data; and the base station establishing a radio resource allocation for the second terminal device based on the resources requested by the first terminal device, and consequently transmitting radio resource allocation messages to allocate radio resources to the first and the second terminal devices for respective uplink transmissions based on the request for an allocation of radio resources received from the first terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Webb, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 9836272
    Abstract: An audio signal processing apparatus that includes a band division section, an analysis section, a gain adjustment amount calculation section, and a gain adjustment section. The band division section is configured to generate a resonance in-band signal by band division on an audio input signal. The analysis section is configured to extract an amount of features from each of the resonance in-band signal and the input signal. The gain adjustment amount calculation section is configured to calculate a gain adjustment amount for a resonance frequency band in the input signal, the gain adjustment amount being calculated based on the amount of features of the resonance in-band signal and the amount of features of the input signal. The gain adjustment section is configured to perform a gain adjustment on the resonance frequency band in the input signal based on the gain adjustment amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akifumi Kono, Toru Chinen, Minoru Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9836153
    Abstract: A sensor device is provided which includes a pressure-sensitive sensor which changes shape in response to pressing of an operation tool and which detects change in capacitance due to the change in shape, and a barrier which covers at least a part of the pressure-sensitive sensor and which prevents change in capacitance of the pressure-sensitive sensor due to capacitive coupling that occurs with approach between the pressure-sensitive sensor and the operation tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 9833205
    Abstract: Provided is an X-ray output apparatus including an X-ray output unit including a plurality of X-ray sources and configured to output parallel X-ray beams, a shield on which positions that are capable of blocking the output parallel X-ray beams and positions that are capable of transmitting the parallel X-ray beams are variable, and a control unit configured to control the output of the parallel X-ray beams in the X-ray output unit and the positions through which the parallel X-ray beams are transmitted in the shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Sugie, Yoshinori Takagi, Hiromi Yoshinari, Hisakazu Shiraki
  • Patent number: 9835661
    Abstract: Information to be displayed on a display is generated in such a way that a gateway processes a measured value (with a time stamp) transmitted from a power meter, an appliance monitor, a solar module, and a battery center through a wireless LAN. In the gateway, information relating to the consumed electric energy is synchronized with each other by the time stamp. Further, an integrated value of the consumed electric energy is calculated with respect to time. The information can be secured by obtaining the integrated value of data even if breakdown of devices and the like occurs due to power failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kubota, Antonio Avitabile, Costantino Cristiano Mariella, Christopher Michael Rutherford, Edward Grellier Colby, Nicholas George Bailey, Alexander Charles Knill, Harshul Deepak Mehta
  • Patent number: 9837125
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a text acquisition mechanism acquiring texts to be used as keywords which will be subject to audio retrieval, the texts being related to contents corresponding to contents data including image data and audio data; a keyword acquisition mechanism acquiring the keywords from the texts; an audio retrieval mechanism retrieving utterance of the keywords from the audio data of the contents data and acquiring timing information representing the timing of the utterance of the keywords of which the utterance is retrieved; and a playback control mechanism generating, from image data around the time represented by the timing information, representation image data of a representation image which will be displayed together with the keywords and performing playback control of displaying the representation image corresponding to the representation image data together with the keywords which are uttered at the time represented by the timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu Asano, Kenichiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9835864
    Abstract: It is made possible to correct a positional gap between an optical system and an eye of an observer appropriately. Based on an eyeball position of the eye of the observer, a positional relationship between the optical system, which leads an image displayed on a display element to the eye of the observer, and the eye of the observer, that is, a positional gap therebetween is detected. Based on the positional relationship detected in such a manner, the positional relationship between the optical system and the eye of the observer is corrected. For example, the positional gap is electronically corrected by performing shift control of a position of the image displayed on the display element. Also, for example, the positional gap is mechanically corrected by performing shift control of the optical system including the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Masami Ogata
  • Patent number: 9836115
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a retrieval unit configured to retrieve a data record in which a marker detected in an image acquired by a terminal device is associated with a function of the terminal device, and a calling function determination unit configured to determine the function to be called in the terminal device based on the data record found through the retrieval. The data record includes information generated based on a calling history of the function in which the marker in the terminal device is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Tomohiro Ishii, Atsushi Izumihara, Takayuki Sakamoto, Masayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 9836312
    Abstract: A storage control device includes: a detection unit that determines whether a preliminary process of saving data from a first memory to a second memory is necessary, where the second memory includes a suspend area and a typical area; a preliminary processing unit that writes a first value to the suspend area when the detection unit has determined that the preliminary process is necessary; and a saving processing unit that writes a second value corresponding to the data. The first value is different from the second value when the detection unit has determined that the preliminary process is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Terada, Keiichi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 9836265
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a transmission processing section which performs short-range one-to-one communication with a communication partner device, a reception processing section, a received data processing section which acquires information obtained by communication with the communication partner device, a display section which displays the information, and a display processing section which executes processing of displaying the information based on a content of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Matsubara, Toyohide Isshi, Aramu Mine
  • Patent number: 9838092
    Abstract: A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication method and system for performing communication between N (N is an integer greater than or equal to 2) transmitting devices each having a transmit antenna and at least one receiving device having N receive antennas by using a multi-user MIMO scheme. The method includes dividing the N transmitting devices into a plurality of sets, and assigning an orthogonal code to each set of transmitting devices as a digital signal sequence to be transmitted by each of the transmitting devices, and arranging the digital signal sequences to be transmitted by the transmitting devices in a frequency axis direction in which an inverse fast Fourier transform is performed, and performing coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Shigeo Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 9837708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a small cobra antenna that has a high performance as an antenna gain, and minimizes the effect of the length of the coaxial wire. An antenna element and a coaxial wire are connected to a junction that is a feeding point. The antenna element has a length corresponding to the frequency of a broadcast wave to be received. Further, a ferrite core is positioned at a location a length identical to the length of the antenna element away from the junction. The coaxial wire is wound around the ferrite core about once to three times. A high frequency interrupting part for interrupting the high-frequency current from the coaxial wire is provided at the front side of a connecter of a receiver to which the other end of the coaxial wire is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Satoru Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 9838506
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling a visitor to access VR representations authored by different authors of images at different quality levels at various locations in a virtual universe via a computer network are provided. A plurality of data sets may be stored in memory. Each VR data set may define a VR representation of a location and may be independently authored by a respective author different from the other authors. In addition, each VR dataset may have a speed and quality metric to assist the visitors in an optimized experience. One or more VR data servers may access and transmit the VR data sets of various quality and speeds, each of which may be associated with a VR data server having access to the VR data set. A domain server may be adapted to access and transmit domain data comprising the location within the universe of each VR representation and the network address of the VR data server associated with the VR representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: John Cronin
  • Patent number: 9839003
    Abstract: The invention is directed to reducing paging overhead in a network. An exemplary method comprises: determining whether a user equipment (UE) is substantially stationary, wherein the UE is located in a first network cell associated with a network; in response to determining the UE is substantially stationary, transmitting an indicator to the network; determining whether the UE moves from the first network cell to a second network cell; and in response to determining the UE moves from the first network cell to the second network cell, transmitting updated location information associated with the UE to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Rickard Ljung, Linh Trang
  • Patent number: 9836816
    Abstract: In graphics processing data is received representing one or more vertices for a scene in a virtual space. A projection of the vertices onto a screen space of a display device is performed. The projection approximates a projection of the vertices onto a curved viewport. Primitive assembly is performed on the vertices to generate a one or more primitives in screen space from the projection of the vertices onto the screen space. Scan conversion is performed on the one or more primitives to determine which pixel or pixels of the plurality of pixels are part of corresponding primitives of the one or more primitives. A finished frame is then generated by performing pixel processing to assign pixel values to the pixel or pixels that are part of the corresponding primitives. In some implementations, the finished frame can be stored in the memory or displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: Mark Evan Cerny
  • Patent number: 9836263
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include a display control device comprising a determining unit configured to determine an orientation of a real object in a real space image. The device may also comprise a control unit configured to select between first and second orientations of a virtual object based on the real object orientation, one of the first or second virtual object orientations aligning the virtual object with the orientation of the real object, and output an image of the virtual object based on the selected orientation, for display on an associated display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichi Kasahara