Patents Assigned to Sony
  • Publication number: 20220018932
    Abstract: A calibration unit 60 acquires detection signals each generated by one of a plurality of sensors in a sensor unit 40 and indicating detection results of a calibration target. A state detection unit 61 detects a state of the calibration target by using the detection signals. A time difference correction amount setting unit 65 calculates a time difference between the detection signals each generated by one of the sensors of the sensor unit 40 by using state detection results of the calibration target obtained by the state detection unit 61, and sets a time difference correction amount on the basis of a calculation result. Temporal misalignment between pieces of information acquired by the plurality of sensors of the sensor unit 40 can be corrected on the basis of the time difference correction amount set by the time difference correction amount setting unit 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Semicoductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Hideaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220021853
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a first pixel group including first photoelectric conversion regions, and at least one first color filter on the first photoelectric conversion regions. The imaging device includes a second pixel group including second photoelectric conversion regions, and at least one second color filter on the second photoelectric conversion regions. The imaging device includes a dummy region between the first pixel group and the second pixel group in a first direction so that a first side of the dummy region is adjacent to the first pixel group and a second side of the dummy region is adjacent to the second pixel group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryoji HASUMI
  • Publication number: 20220017093
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, a program, and a vehicle that enable automatic driving to safely bring a vehicle from a parking position to a vehicle traffic region. A vehicle control device includes a notification control unit that controls a notification to surroundings in a case where a vehicle moves from a parking position and an operation control unit that automatically moves the vehicle from the parking position to make the vehicle join a vehicle traffic region and temporarily stops the vehicle before the vehicle enters the vehicle traffic region. The present technology is applied to, for example, a vehicle that automatically drives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro TAMORI
  • Publication number: 20220020789
    Abstract: A sensor includes a first substrate including at least a first pixel. The first pixel includes an avalanche photodiode to convert incident light into electric charge and includes an anode and a cathode. The cathode is in a well region of the first substrate. The first pixel includes an isolation region that isolates the well region from at least a second pixel that is adjacent to the first pixel. The first pixel includes a hole accumulation region between the isolation region and the well region. The hole accumulation region is electrically connected to the anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke OTAKE, Akira MATSUMOTO, Junpei YAMAMOTO, Ryusei NAITO, Masahiko NAKAMIZO, Toshifumi WAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220019224
    Abstract: A mobile body controller according to the present disclosure includes circuitry configured to recognize an environment surrounding a mobile body to be controlled, and change parameters used for self-position estimation by the mobile body based on the recognized environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Ryo WATANABE, Yukihiro SAITO, Masaomi NABETA
  • Publication number: 20220022229
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunication system, the method comprising: determining a first preconfigured uplink resource configuration to use for a plurality of preconfigured uplink resource transmissions; transmitting data in accordance with the first preconfigured uplink resource configuration; determining the first preconfigured uplink resource configuration should be changed; determining a second preconfigured uplink resource configuration to use for a plurality of preconfigured uplink resource transmissions; and transmitting data in accordance with the second preconfigured uplink resource configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Basuki PRIYANTO
  • Publication number: 20220019074
    Abstract: A projector color wheel, including: a substrate; a first film for changing a wavelength of light, provided on the substrate, including a first material including a plurality of first quantum dots of a first quantum dot type, the plurality of first quantum dots being configured to emit light according to a first emission profile with at least a first emission peak at a first emission wavelength when light of a predetermined wavelength incidents; a second film for changing a wavelength of light, provided on the substrate, including a second material, the second material being configured to emit light according to a second emission profile with at least a second emission peak at a second emission wavelength when light of the predetermined wavelength incidents; wherein each of the first film and the second film includes a binding material; and wherein the first emission wavelength is larger than the second emission wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Tonino GRECO
  • Patent number: 11228395
    Abstract: LDPC coding is performed based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code with a code length N of 17280 bits and a coding rate r of 2/16, 3/16, or 4/16. The parity check matrix includes an A matrix of M1 rows and K columns expressed by a predetermined value M1 and an information length K=N×r of the LDPC code, a B matrix of M1 rows and M1 columns having a step structure, a Z matrix being a zero matrix of M1 rows and N?K?M1 columns, a C matrix of N?K?M1 rows and K+M1 columns, and a D matrix being an identity matrix of N?K?M1 rows and N?K?M1 columns. The A matrix and the C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial value table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makiko Yamamoto, Yuji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11227519
    Abstract: The present technology provides an image projection apparatus including a pupil information acquisition section that acquires a pupil area or size, and an output control section that controls an output of image display light being collected around the pupil and irradiated on a retina on the basis of the pupil area or size acquired by the pupil information acquisition section. In addition, the present technology provides an image projection method including a step of acquiring pupil information to acquire a pupil area or size, a step of controlling an output of the image display light collected around a pupil and irradiated to a retina on the basis of a pupil area or size acquired in the step of acquiring pupil information, and a step of outputting image display light that irradiates the retina with the image display light at the output controlled in the step of controlling the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Imamura, Katsuyuki Akutsu
  • Patent number: 11228804
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing community driven content includes at least one sensor for recording sensor data, a network interface, a memory, and a processor connected to the sensor, the network interface, and the memory. The processor is configured to record usage history for engagement with the apparatus by a first user over a period of time and receive the sensor data from the at least one sensor for actions by the first user over the period of time. The processor determines user preferences for the first user based on the usage history and the sensor data, and determines whether a second user is available for interaction with the first user. The processor then outputs the suggested action, at a predetermined time, to at least one connected display device or audio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventor: Warren Benedetto
  • Patent number: 11227357
    Abstract: A master node acquires a point group, each point of which belongs to any one of a plurality of blocks into which a space has been divided, the point group representing an appearance of the space by a collection of a plurality of points. The master node determines a priority of each of the plurality of blocks on the basis of the number of points belonging to each of the plurality of blocks. The master node preferentially performs processing of higher priority blocks among the plurality of blocks than processing of lower priority blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakata, Takahiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11228855
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided to present a sensation to a user taking a delay occurring before sound is perceived by the user appropriately into consideration. The information processing device includes a generation section that generates, on the basis of a difference between a first timing at which a sound is to be outputted from an acoustic presentation section and a second timing at which the sound is to be perceived by a first user, first data to be used for presentation of a sensation to the first user by a sensation presentation section worn by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11229015
    Abstract: A communication apparatus including a communication unit that performs a wireless communication, and a control unit that performs a control to cause control information regarding allocation of a resource for a communication with a first apparatus via a first wireless link to be notified to a second apparatus via a second wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11228729
    Abstract: The need for miniaturizing camera modules is to be effectively satisfied. There are provided a pixel unit, an image processing unit that processes an image signal generated by the pixel unit, an encoding unit that encodes the image signal processed by the image processing unit, and an address assignment unit that assigns an address to a compressed signal encoded by the encoding unit. The pixel unit is provided on a first substrate. The image processing unit, the encoding unit, and the address assignment unit are provided on a second substrate to be stacked on the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noritaka Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11226712
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a processing unit that controls a display device to simultaneously display a plurality of objects on an output region of the display device, determines occurrence of competition of an output region on a basis of a user operation, and allows a notification of the occurrence of the competition depending on a determining result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotake Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Akihiko Izumi, Takuya Namae, Kenji Hisanaga
  • Patent number: 11226704
    Abstract: Techniques for providing a virtual touch screen are described. An example of a computing device with a virtual touch screen includes a projector to project a user interface image and a depth camera to detect objects in the vicinity of the user interface image. The computing device also includes a touch service that receives image data from the depth camera and analyzes the image data to generate touch event data. The computing device also includes a User Input (UI) device driver that receives the touch event data from the touch service and reports the touch event data to an operating system of the computing device. The touch service and UI device driver are system level software that is operable prior to a user logging onto the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Royce Fernald, Kedar A. Dongre
  • Patent number: 11224806
    Abstract: A method for identifying game events includes providing a spectator channel for a video game, detecting a tag selection in the game while it is being played, and identifying a screen location associated with the tag selection. The method includes examining the screen location to identify game action occurring proximate to the tag selection, and accessing a recording of the game including the game action. The recording includes a plurality of frames associated with state data and metadata, and the method includes examining this data to quantify the recording. The examining assigns a significance value using the state data and metadata. A video clip from the recording associated with the tag selection is stored when the significance value exceeds a predefined threshold. The video clip is viewable (watch mode) and playable (play mode), which uses state data to execute a portion of the game that relates to the clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nirmal Rajkumar, Jeff Stafford, Justice Adams
  • Patent number: 11228696
    Abstract: To reduce power consumption in an image pickup apparatus that captures a plurality of pieces of image data. An image pickup apparatus includes a signal processing unit and a control unit. The signal processing unit executes, in accordance with a predetermined control signal, either compound-eye processing for synthesizing a plurality of pieces of image data by carrying out signal processing on each of the plurality of pieces of image data or monocular processing for carrying out the signal processing on any one of the plurality of pieces of image data. The control unit supplies the predetermined control signal to the signal processing unit and causes one of the compound-eye processing and the monocular processing to be switched to the other one of the compound-eye processing and the monocular processing, on a basis of a result of a comparison between a measured predetermined physical amount and a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11228207
    Abstract: A power receiving device of the present disclosure includes a power generating unit and a control unit. The power generating unit generates direct-current power, on a basis of a power signal supplied from a power feeding device wirelessly. The control unit sets, on a basis of an output current of the power generating unit, an upper limit of the output current or an upper limit of output power of the power generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Keigo Bunsen
  • Patent number: D941258
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yokota, Shigeya Kuwao, Miho Yamada, Kirio Masui