Patents Assigned to Sony
  • Sensor module
    Patent number: 12177987
    Abstract: A sensor module includes a housing, a board unit, an external connector, and a joining member. The housing includes a first case, and a second case that is welded to the first case. The board unit includes a sensor element, and is arranged in the housing. The external connector is provided to the second case, and includes an elastically deformable terminal that is electrically connected to the board unit. The joining member is mounted on the board unit and welded to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutaro Yamashita
  • Photoelectric conversion element and imaging device
    Patent number: 12178128
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode that is opposed to the first electrode; and an organic photoelectric conversion layer that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and includes, as a first organic semiconductor material, a benzothienobenzothiophene-based compound represented by a general formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kanno, Yosuke Saito
  • Current assisted photonic demodulator (CAPD) indirect time of flight (ToF) light-receiving element
    Patent number: 12176371
    Abstract: Distance measurement accuracy is improved. A light-receiving element according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor substrate, and lattice-shaped pixel separating parts that divide the semiconductor substrate into a plurality of pixel regions arranged in a matrix form, wherein each of the pixel regions includes: a first semiconductor region disposed on a first surface side in the semiconductor substrate; a second semiconductor region disposed on the first surface side in the semiconductor substrate separately from the first semiconductor region; and a first blocking region disposed between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region on the first surface side in the semiconductor substrate and having a dielectric constant different from that of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Yamazaki
  • Information processing device, information processing method, and distributed component
    Patent number: 12174976
    Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a processor. The processor is configured to generate a distributed component aimed at a three dimensional printing task. The distributed component is used for controlling, independent of the information processing device, execution of the three dimensional printing task after establishing a connection with a user equipment, and comprises decryption information of three dimensional model data used for the three dimensional printing task. The processor is further configured to control the arrangement of the distributed component to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhihui Zhang, Weibin Shi
  • Output control device, output control method, and program
    Patent number: 12171586
    Abstract: There is provided an output control device, an output control method, and a program to provide technologies for enabling users to control their internal states more easily. The output control device including: an output control unit configured to control output of output information in accordance with a change in a state point in a physiological index space corresponding to a physiological index value based on biosensors. The output control unit controls the output of the output information in accordance with distribution density of previous state points for which a current state point serves as a standard in the physiological index space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Wakita, Naoya Sazuka
  • Diode
    Patent number: 12176441
    Abstract: A diode of the present disclosure includes a stacked structure, and a first connection section and a second connection section provided at respective ends of the stacked structure in a length direction. The stacked structure includes a first structure and a second structure each having a nanowire structure or a nanosheet structure and stacked alternately in a thickness direction. The first connection section has a first conductivity type, and the second connection section has a second conductivity type. The diode further includes a control electrode section formed to extend at least from a top portion to a side surface of the stacked structure and spaced apart from the first connection section and the second connection section. The first connection section and the control electrode section or the second connection section and the control electrode section are connected electrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Fukasaku
  • Methods and devices for establishing a streaming session in a framework for live uplink streaming
    Patent number: 12177267
    Abstract: A Framework for Live Uplink Streaming (PLUS) session between a PLUS source (100) and a PLUS sink (200) is initiated and controlled by the PLUS sink. The PLUS source registers with the PLUS sink and indicates its capabilities. The PLUS sink requests establishment of the session and further controls the session once established. The PLUS sink sends control requests that include control information to the PLUS source, thereby controlling media streaming at the PLUS source remotely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Rickard Ljung, Paul Szucs
  • Cooking robot, cooking robot control device, and control method
    Patent number: 12171365
    Abstract: There is provided a cooking robot, a cooking robot control device, and a control method that enable a cooking robot to customize a dish prepared according to a preference of an eater. The cooking robot (1) according to one aspect of the present technology controls a cooking operation performed by a cooking arm (321), using recipe data including a data set in which cooking operation data and cook biological data are linked, the cooking operation data describing information regarding an ingredient of a dish and information regarding an operation of a cook in a cooking process using the ingredient, and the cook biological data indicating a biological reaction of the cook measured in conjunction with a progress of the cooking process. The present technology can be applied to a cooking robot that operates an arm to cook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Fujita, Kaoru Yoshida, Michael Siegfried Spranger, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method
    Patent number: 12175624
    Abstract: A pixel is appropriately interpolated regarding a histogram image in which a distance histogram is allocated to each pixel position. A signal processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a histogram generation unit that inputs a histogram image in which a distance histogram indicating results of a plurality of times of distance measurement as frequency information for each distance is allocated to each pixel position and generates a distance histogram of an interpolation target position in the histogram image on the basis of distance histograms of a plurality of pixel positions near the interpolation target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensei Jo, Tomohiro Matsukawa, Mitsuharu Ohki, Masahiro Watanabe, Kenichi Tayu, Keitarou Amagawa, Kumiko Mahara, Takahisa Ueno
  • Image processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 12177480
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method that enable linking between a 3D spatial region and an atlas tile group. Link information is generated and signaled, in which the link information is stored in a file together with a bitstream of a point cloud expressing an object having a three-dimensional shape as a set of points, and the link information links a 3D spatial region of the point cloud with an atlas tile group. On the basis of the link information, the 3D spatial region and the atlas tile group that correspond to a desired three-dimensional space are selected. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus, an image processing method, an information processing method, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Takahashi, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi
  • Image recognition device and image recognition method
    Patent number: 12174687
    Abstract: An image recognition device capable of reducing power, a calculation amount, a memory occupancy amount, and a bus band occupancy amount and maintaining high recognition accuracy is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noribumi Shibayama, Takaki Ueno, Kazuyuki Okuike, Satomi Kawase, Suguru Kobayashi, Toshihisa Miyake, Goshi Watanabe, Takafumi Asahara
  • Decoding apparatus, decoding method, and program
    Patent number: 12176927
    Abstract: A tactile reproduction system achieves a data amount reduction of a tactile signal while ensuring reproducibility of a tactile sense. A decoding apparatus includes a decoding unit configured to decode tactile coded data obtained by performing encoding of compressing an information amount, on a tactile signal using higher-order perception in a tactile sense. Therefore, a data amount reduction of a tactile signal can be performed in accordance with a tactile characteristic of a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichiro Nishigori, Shiro Suzuki, Hirofumi Takeda, Jun Matsumoto
  • Imaging apparatus for endoscope and imaging system
    Patent number: 12174365
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for endoscope includes: a coupler; an exterior casing connected to the coupler and extending along a first axis crossing an optical axis of an endoscope, the exterior casing having outer dimensions in a direction along the first axis greater than outer dimensions in a direction along the optical axis of the endoscope; an optical system; and an imaging unit. The exterior casing includes a first exterior part, a second exterior part, and a connector part. The optical system and the imaging unit are housed, in the exterior casing, side by side on the optical axis of the endoscope such that light of an image of a subject guided by the optical system is captured by the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Fuminori Tanahashi
  • Display apparatus and initial setting method for display apparatus
    Patent number: 12174366
    Abstract: A display device, a method, and a computer-readable medium. The display device includes a layer including a first region and a second region, wherein the first region and the second region are configured to be visible to a user of the display device; and circuitry configured: to control displaying a computer generated image on an optical device overlapping the layer and to control a first transmittance of the first region of the layer to be lower than a second transmittance of the second region of the layer such that: a visibility, through the first region, of the computer generated image is increased and a visibility, through the second region, of an environment opposite the user relative to the display device is higher than a visibility, through the first region, of the environment opposite the user relative to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Akio Machida
  • Distance measurement device, method of controlling distance measurement device, and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 12174297
    Abstract: A distance measurement device according to the present disclosure includes: a light detection unit that receives light from a subject; a depth calculation section that calculates depth information of the subject on the basis of an output of the light detection unit; and an artifact removal section that divides an image into respective segments on the basis of the depth information and validates a segment of the respective segments in which a number of pixels exceeds a predetermined threshold and invalidates a segment in which the number of pixels is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Ohashi
  • Light receiving element, ranging module, and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 12176373
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light receiving element including an on-chip lens, a wiring layer, and a semiconductor layer disposed between the on-chip lens and the wiring layer. The semiconductor layer includes a photodiode, a first transfer transistor that transfers electric charge generated in the photodiode to a first charge storage portion, a second transfer transistor that transfers electric charge generated in the photodiode to a second charge storage portion, and an interpixel separation portion that separates the semiconductor layers of adjacent pixels from each other, for at least part of the semiconductor layer in the depth direction. The wiring layer has at least one layer including a light blocking member. The light blocking member is disposed to overlap with the photodiode in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ebiko, Koji Neya, Takuya Sano
  • Image display device and image display system
    Patent number: 12175016
    Abstract: Provided is a head-mounted image display device 100 including an image acquisition unit 104 that acquires a positional relationship image from which a positional relationship between a pupil position of an eyeball of a user and a visually recognizable region of the user can be estimated and a projection system 103 onto which incident light is projected, and the visually recognizable region is a focal position of the projection system 103. Further, the image display device 100 includes an imaging element, and the imaging element acquires the three-dimensional positional relationship image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Teppei Imamura, Ryo Ogawa
  • Performing geometry analysis before multi-GPU rendering of geometry
    Patent number: 12175585
    Abstract: A method including rendering graphics for an application using graphics processing units (GPUs). The method including dividing responsibility for processing pieces of geometry of an image frame during an analysis pre-pass phase of rendering between the plurality of GPUs, wherein each of the pieces of geometry is assigned to a corresponding GPU. The method including determining in the analysis pre-pass phase overlap of each of the pieces of geometry with each screen regions. The method including generating information at the GPUs regarding the pieces of geometry and their relations to the screen regions based on the overlap of each of the pieces of geometry with each of the screen regions. The method including assigning the screen regions to the GPUs based on the information for purposes of rendering the pieces of geometry during a subsequent phase of rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Cerny, Tobias Berghoff, David Simpson
  • Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 12175702
    Abstract: An information processing device including a control unit that controls a display terminal that arranges a virtual object in a real space by using a coordinate system associated with the real space, in which the control unit determines whether to update first spatial information of a first display terminal and second spatial information of a second display terminal, which are used for determining a position of the virtual object, based on a first operation state of the first display terminal and a second operation state of the second display terminal that shares the virtual object with the first display terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruka Fujisawa, Fujio Arai, Hidenori Aoki, Ryo Fukazawa, Keijiroh Nagano, Tomohiko Gotoh
  • Display panel or screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D1055083
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshioka, Hiroshi Ikeda, Naoki Nomura, Takashi Ito