Patents Assigned to Sony
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Publication number: 20240420808Abstract: A synthetic material selection method according to the present disclosure performs material selection for selecting synthesis target materials based on material physical property information and execution possibility information of a database, instructs a control device to perform synthesis processing for the selected materials, and updates the execution possibility information of the database based on a result of the synthesis processing from the control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Raku SHIRASAWA, Hiroki TETSUKAWA, Chisato NUMAOKA
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Publication number: 20240422033Abstract: An apparatus including: a communication unit configured to perform radio communication; and a control unit configured to perform control such that control information for adjusting a symbol interval in a complex symbol sequence into which a bit sequence is converted is transmitted from the communication unit to a terminal, the control information being set on a basis of a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ryota KIMURA, Ryo SAWAI
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Publication number: 20240420416Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for three-dimensional reconstruction, and a storage medium. Embodiments regarding three-dimensional reconstruction are described. In an embodiment, the method for three-dimensional reconstruction comprises: obtaining a composite image obtained by photographing a body of a target object and a mirror image of the target object; and performing three-dimensional reconstruction on the target object by using the composite image and relative position and posture information representing a position and posture of a mirror for generating the mirror image relative to a camera for the photography.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hong SHANG, Xiang LI, Zhan SHI, Kuanhong XU
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Publication number: 20240422574Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system anchor base station for a mobile telecommunications system is provided. The mobile telecommunications system has at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell which is associated with the anchor cell. The anchor base station has circuitry which is configured to broadcast slave cell system information being specific for the at least one slave cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
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Publication number: 20240420366Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to more easily estimate a position and a posture of an imaging camera. The information processing apparatus includes: a position estimation unit configured to estimate a position and a posture of an imaging camera configured to image an image displayed on a display device as a background by using a plurality of markers existing on a display surface of the display device; and a marker control unit configured to control display or non-display of each of the markers on the basis of a viewing angle of the imaging camera determined from the position and the posture of the imaging camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Takaaki KATO, Tatsuki KASHITANI, Masaya KANEKO, Takashi KONNO, Yuki ONO
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Publication number: 20240422420Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a control unit that controls automatic following with respect to a target in a shooting region for a visible image to cause the target located in a position corresponding to a characteristic temperature distribution included in thermographic image data to be included in the shooting region. The thermographic image data is data obtained by shooting an image in response to a command to start the automatic following.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hirotaka TANAKA, Ryota SAWAHASHI, Daisuke ISHII, Taku YAEGASHI
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Publication number: 20240422467Abstract: A charge output to an energy storage device is generated while an electronic device is worn. The electronic device includes a rectifier circuit that receives electric field energy of a radio wave or a quasi-electrostatic field in space and rectifies an alternating current (AC) signal into a direct current (DC). An antenna part includes a first antenna element that is a conductor used in contact with a human body where the human body is not grounded to a ground that is an earth; and a second antenna element that is a conductor different from the first antenna element and not in contact with the human body. An input carries an AC signal output from the first antenna element to the rectifier circuit. An energy storage device stores an output of the rectifier circuit. A contact surface of the first antenna element with the human body includes an electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicants: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi IMAI, Fumitaka KONDO, Yoshitaka YOSHINO, Fumiko SHIGA
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Patent number: 12169175Abstract: An imaging system includes a light source emitting light at least a first excitation wavelength band to excite a first fluorescence material emitting a first fluorescence in a near-infrared wavelength band and light a second excitation wavelength band to excite a second fluorescence material emitting a second fluorescence in a visible wavelength band, a first image sensor receiving light including the first fluorescence and outputs a first imaging signal, a second image sensor receives light including the second fluorescence and output a second imaging signal, an optical element that separates the first fluorescence into a first optical branch and the second fluorescence into a second optical branch; and a pass filter in the first optical branch transmitting light having a near-infrared wavelength band and block light having a wavelength equal to or less than a predetermined wavelength belonging the visible wavelength band.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Ikenaga, Satoshi Nagae, Yuuichirou Kita
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Patent number: 12170560Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a network entity for a mobile telecommunications system having circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit, to the at least one user equipment, time information for indicating a beam which will cover the at least one user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 12170306Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging device and an electronic device that make it possible to obtain a better pixel signal. A photoelectric conversion part that converts received light into a charge; a holding part that holds a charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion part; and a light shielding part that shields light between the photoelectric conversion part and the holding part are provided. The photoelectric conversion part, the holding part, and the light shielding part are formed in a semiconductor substrate. The light shielding part of a transfer region that transfers the charge from the photoelectric conversion part to the holding part is formed as a non-penetrating light shielding part that does not penetrate the semiconductor substrate. The light shielding part other than the transfer region is formed as a penetrating light shielding part that penetrates the semiconductor substrate. The present technology is applicable to an imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Yoshimichi Kumagai, Takashi Abe, Ryoto Yoshita
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Patent number: 12171112Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a transparent substrate, an element substrate, a color filter layer, a metal electrode layer, and a transparent adhesive layer. The element substrate includes an opposing surface facing the transparent substrate, and an organic EL element that emits light from a display region of the opposing surface. The color filter layer is disposed on the opposing surface to avoid a bonding region provided in a peripheral region surrounding the display region of the opposing surface. The metal electrode layer is disposed on the element substrate to avoid at least a part of an overlapping region that overlaps with the bonding region when viewed from the transparent substrate. The transparent adhesive layer bonds the transparent substrate and the element substrate to each other via the bonding region.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Fujii, Yosuke Motoyama
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Patent number: 12169284Abstract: An image display apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an output section that outputs projection light along a predetermined axis; an irradiated member to be irradiated with the projection light; and a first optical member that is disposed downstream of the irradiated member on a light path of the projection light, and reflects or diffuses a portion of the projection light that has transmitted through the irradiated member.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoharu Nakamura, Akira Tanaka
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Patent number: 12170946Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises communicating, with a first infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network, signals representing data by a second infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, the second infrastructure equipment being a child node and one of the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes or the donor node being a parent node, the parent node being connected to the child node via a backhaul communications link and configured to allocate uplink communications resources to the child node.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yassin Aden Awad
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Patent number: 12168176Abstract: Generating audio assets by receiving a plurality of input audio assets, converting each input audio asset into an input graphical representation, generating an input multi-channel image by stacking each input graphical representation in a separate channel of the image, feeding the input multi-channel image into a generative model to train the generative model and generate one or more output multi-channel images, each output multi-channel image including an output graphical representation, extracting the output graphical representations from each output multi-channel image and converting each output graphical representation into an output audio asset.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe LimitedInventor: Adrian Barahona Rios
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Patent number: 12170282Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of making same. The semiconductor device includes: a first conductivity type transistor and a second conductivity type transistor, wherein each of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type includes a gate insulating film formed on a base, a metal gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, and side wall spacers formed at side walls of the metal gate electrode, wherein the gate insulating film is made of a high dielectric constant material, and wherein offset spacers are formed between the side walls of the metal gate electrode and the inner walls of the side wall spacers in any one of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor, or offset spacers having different thicknesses are formed in the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Koichi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12170092Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a method, and a program that can obtain a signal with higher sound quality. The signal processing device includes: a calculation unit that calculates a parameter for generating a difference signal corresponding to an input compressed sound source signal on the basis of a prediction coefficient and the input compressed sound source signal, the prediction coefficient being obtained by learning using, as training data, a difference signal between an original sound signal and a learning compressed sound source signal obtained by compressing and coding the original sound signal; a difference signal generation unit that generates the difference signal on the basis of the parameter and the input compressed sound source signal; and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the generated difference signal and the input compressed sound source signal. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Takao Fukui
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Patent number: 12170755Abstract: A method and system for synchronization of image data is provided. A plurality of image-capture devices is controlled to acquire a plurality of video clips of at least one object. Each video clip of the plurality of video clips is acquired by a corresponding image-capture device of the plurality of image-capture devices in a moving state. From the plurality of image-capture devices, a set of sensor data is acquired. Such data corresponds to the plurality of image-capture devices and is associated with a movement of the plurality of image-capture devices. Thereafter, relative offsets between the set of sensor data are determined by using cross-correlation and matching frames in each of the plurality of video clips is further determined, based on the relative offsets.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Nikolaos Georgis, James Kuch, Kiyoharu Sassa
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Patent number: 12169706Abstract: A method, system and non-transitory computer readable instructions for application patching comprising, concatenating compressed data or uncompressed data or a mixture of compressed and uncompressed data into a continuous data set into a continuous data set and dividing the continuous data set into variable sized data chunks. Compressing each of the variable sized data chunks and dividing each of the variable sized data chunks into fixed size data blocks. Encrypting the fixed size data blocks to generate encrypted fixed size data blocks and storing the encrypted fixed sized data blocks or sending the encrypted fixed size data blocks over a network.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLCInventors: Mark Evan Cerny, Simon Whittaker, Akiyuki Hatakeyama, Jeffrey Litz, Varun Bhadauria
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Patent number: 12169929Abstract: A configuration that analyzes reflection light of light emitted to a user face and executes both facial-expression analysis and biometric-signal analysis together is realized. The configuration has a light-receiving section that receives reflection light of light emitted to a user face, and a light-reception-signal analyzing section that analyzes a light-reception signal of the light-receiving section. The light-reception-signal analyzing section has a facial-expression analyzing section that analyzes user-skin-surface reflection light and generates facial-expression analysis information, and a biometric-signal analyzing section that analyzes subepidermal reflection light and generates bioanalysis information.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Sayaka Ogawa, Kota Aizawa
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Patent number: 12170303Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of realizing a capacitative element of which a capacitance value has low bias dependence and of which capacitance density is high without lowering operating voltage is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first capacitative element stacked on the semiconductor substrate; and a second capacitative element which is stacked on an opposite side to a side of the semiconductor substrate of the first capacitative element and of which a capacitance value has bias characteristics being opposite to bias characteristics of a capacitance value of the first capacitative element, wherein the first capacitative element and the second capacitative element are connected in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Masaaki Bairo