Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation
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Patent number: 11984038Abstract: Examples relate to a method for generating an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) controller model for controlling an UAV, a system including an UAV, a wind generator, a motion-tracking system and a control module, and to an UAV. The method for training the UAV controller model includes providing a wind generator control signal to a wind generator, to cause the wind generator to emit a wind current towards the UAV. The method includes operating the UAV using the UAV controller model. A flight of the UAV is influenced by the wind generated by the wind generator. The method includes monitoring the flight of the UAV using a motion-tracking system to determine motion-tracking data. The method includes training the UAV controller model using a machine-learning algorithm based on the motion-tracking data.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Peter Dürr
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Patent number: 11980436Abstract: A medical system is described in which, the system includes a control device having processing circuitry configured to: receive positional information relating to the position of at least a part of a surgical robot; determine a boundary around the surgical robot based on the positional information; and control the generation of a haptic sensation at the boundary.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Christopher Wright, Akinori Kamoda
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Patent number: 11985587Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment, a location server, a contents server and the communications device is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry. The transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry are configured in combination to receive assistance information comprising a communication trigger from the location server via the infrastructure equipment, to estimate a current geographical location of the communications device, and to select, dependent on the current geographical location of the communications device and/or on the communication trigger, one of a plurality of wireless communications technologies to be used by the communications device for communication.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 11985568Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to reduce human burdens in setting work for a watch-over system, the information processing apparatus including: a determination unit that determines whether or not a position of a target is within a reference region, the reference region being a geographic region; an extraction unit that extracts a reference region candidate as a candidate for the reference region; and an output unit that outputs information related to the extracted reference region candidate in association with a reference condition.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Miyahara, Yuji Kitazawa, Satoshi Suzuno
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Patent number: 11985837Abstract: To provide a photoelectric conversion element capable of further improving performance in a photoelectric conversion element using an organic semiconductor material. The photoelectric conversion element includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged to face each other, and a photoelectric conversion layer 17 provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion layer 17 includes a first organic semiconductor material and a second organic semiconductor material, and at least one of the first organic semiconductor material or the second organic semiconductor material is an organic molecule having a HOMO volume fraction of 0.15 or less or a LUMO volume fraction of 0.15 or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Shinnosuke Hattori, Hajime Kobayashi, Sae Miyaji, Masato Kanno, Miki Kimijima, Yuta Hasegawa, Toshio Nishi, Takashi Kawashima, Yosuke Saito, Yuta Inaba
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Patent number: 11985390Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus and an information processing method, and an information processing system, each of which provides a service related to a broadcast-type moving picture content. An information processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives, from a first device, a notice of data including a location or acquisition method of information suggesting an action of a virtual character, the action corresponding to an event that occurs in a broadcast-type moving picture content; an acquisition unit that acquires the information on the basis of the data issued as a notice from the first device; a display unit capable of two-dimensional or three-dimensional display; and a control unit that controls driving of the virtual character, which is to be displayed using the display unit, on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshiharu Dewa
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Patent number: 11981026Abstract: A slip detecting device according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of contact parts having different slipping characteristics when an object (600) in contact with the plurality of regions is slipping; and a sensor that detects a pressure distribution of each of the plurality of contact parts. By employing the plurality of contact parts having different slipping characteristics when the object (600) in contact with the plurality of regions, a timing at which a whole slip occurs is different between the plurality of contact parts, and thus a state of a partial slip in which a part of the object (600) is slipping is able to be detected, so that it is possible to detect a slip of the object (600) with high accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoko Nagakari, Tetsuya Narita, Kazuhito Wakana, Kazuo Hongo, Wataru Kokubo, Yoshinao Sodeyama
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Patent number: 11984533Abstract: A light emitting device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first layer including Alx2Inx1Ga(1-x1-x2) N (0<x1<1, 0?x2<1); a second layer that is provided on the first layer and includes Aly2Iny1Ga(1-y1-y2) N (0<y1<1, 0?y2<1) that is lattice relaxed with respect to the first layer; and a third layer that is provided on the second layer, includes Alz2Inz1Ga(1-z1-z2) N (0<z1<1, 0?z2<1) that is lattice relaxed with respect to the second layer, and includes an active layer. A lattice constant aGAN of GaN in an in-plane direction, a lattice constant al of the first layer in an in-plane direction, a lattice constant a2 of the second layer in an in-plane direction, and a lattice constant a3 of the third layer in an in-plane direction have a relationship of aGAN<a2<a1, a3.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kunihiko Tasai, Hiroshi Nakajima, Hidekazu Kawanishi, Katsunori Yanashima
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Patent number: 11982667Abstract: Provided is a platelet aggregation capacity analyzer including a blood coagulation system-analyzing unit that analyzes a platelet aggregation capacity based on measurement data during a coagulation process of a platelet-containing sample, and an output control unit that controls an output of results analyzed by the blood coagulation system-analyzing unit, in which the blood coagulation system-analyzing unit analyzes the platelet aggregation capacity of the platelet-containing sample based on the barb of measurement data during the coagulation process with a platelet aggregation inhibitor added to the platelet-containing sample and measurement data during the coagulation process without a platelet agonist or the platelet aggregation inhibitor added to the platelet-containing sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Aya Fuchigami, Seungmin Lee, Yoshihito Hayashi, Kenzo Machida
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Patent number: 11979001Abstract: A surface-emitting semiconductor laser including: an active layer including a nitride semiconductor; a first semiconductor layer of a first electrical conduction type and a second semiconductor layer of a second electrical conduction type that are opposed to each other with the active layer therebetween; and a current confinement layer that is opposed to the active layer with the second semiconductor layer therebetween and has an opening, in which a side surface of the current confinement layer is inclined at at least a portion of a peripheral edge of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Nakajima, Rintaro Koda, Tatsushi Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11979241Abstract: A terminal device comprising: transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a signal to infrastructure equipment of a wireless telecommunications network using a predetermined set of radio resources configured for use by a plurality of unidentified terminal devices; receiver circuitry configured to receive, from the infrastructure equipment, at least one of: a positive response signal indicating that the signal transmitted to the infrastructure equipment was successfully received by the infrastructure equipment and that the identifying feature of the terminal device was successfully determined by the infrastructure equipment using the signal transmitted to the infrastructure equipment; and a negative response signal indicating that the signal transmitted to the infrastructure equipment was not successfully received by the infrastructure equipment or that the identifying feature of the terminal device was not successfully determined by the infrastructure equipment using the signal transmitted to the infrastructType: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
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Patent number: 11970238Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including a handle part that includes a handle, what is connected to be steerable by the handle, a rear wheel connected to a pedal, and a frame part that connects what is described above and the rear wheel, in which the frame part is expandable and contractible between a first position in which a movement of what is described above is permitted, and a second position in which a movement of what is described above is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Shintani, Shigeki Ohno, Yasuyuki Kato, Thomas Waldner, Simon Henning
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Patent number: 11972334Abstract: A method for generating a combined Isolation Forest model for detecting anomalies in data is provided. The method includes receiving a first Isolation Forest model for detecting anomalies in data from a first electronic device. The first Isolation Forest model is trained at the first electronic device. Further, the method includes receiving a second Isolation Forest model for detecting anomalies in data from a second electronic device. The second Isolation Forest model is trained at the second electronic device. The method additionally includes combining the first Isolation Forest model and the second Isolation Forest model to obtain the combined Isolation Forest model.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Gabriel Armelin, Erbin Lim, Francesco Cartella, Gert Ceulemans
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Patent number: 11973316Abstract: [Object] To provide a vertical cavity surface emitting laser element and an electronic apparatus that have high light emission efficiency. [Solving Means] A vertical cavity surface emitting laser element according to the present technology includes: an active layer; a first cladding layer; and an intermediate layer. The first cladding layer is provided on the active layer. The intermediate layer is provided on the first cladding layer, electrons in the intermediate layer having potential higher than potential of electrons in the first cladding layer, holes in the intermediate layer having potential higher than potential of holes in the first cladding layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mikihiro Yokozeki, Rintaro Koda, Shunsuke Kono, Katsunori Yanashima, Kota Tokuda
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Patent number: 11969662Abstract: There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori Ishibashi, Tomoo Mizukami, Takuma Araki, Masato Muraki, Tomoyuki Arai, Goushi Koike, Takayuki Ito, Kouta Katsumura, Yohei Watanabe, Muneyuki Horiguchi, Takashi Maeda, Satoshi Muto, Hideo Miyano
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Patent number: 11973928Abstract: An image display device according to the present disclosure includes: one or more image sources that output a two-dimensional projection image; and one or more image deflection sections that generate a plurality of area images by dividing the projection image from the image source into a plurality of areas at least in a horizontal direction, and deflects and projects, toward a screen having anisotropic diffusion properties, the plurality of area images at respective angles different from each other to partially overlap the plurality of area images with each other on the screen and thereby display images from a plurality of viewpoints.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Mitani, Tomoya Yano, Yutaka Imai
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Patent number: 11969144Abstract: A three-dimensional information generation unit generates a three-dimensional map (D(X, Y, Z)) (three-dimensional information) regarding a surgical field, based on a surgical field image (K(x, y)) captured by an imaging device. A region-of-interest setting unit (setting unit) then sets at least one region-of-interest in the surgical field image (K(x, y)) captured at a predetermined timing. Based on the three-dimensional map (D(X, Y, Z)) and the position of the region-of-interest set by the region-of-interest setting unit, a region-of-interest estimation unit (estimation unit) estimates an existence position of the region-of-interest from within the surgical field image (K(x, y)) captured at a timing different from the predetermined timing.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Uyama, Tsuneo Hayashi
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Patent number: 11971266Abstract: There is provided a route guidance apparatus including a route search unit which searches for at least one route, to a predetermined destination, which is to be traveled by an electric vehicle propelled by electric power stored in a secondary battery provided within the vehicle, and a power consumption calculation unit which calculates power consumption of the electric vehicle when a route to a destination, which was searched for by the route search unit, is traveled by the electric vehicle, based on information on electric power to be consumed when the electric vehicle travels and geographical information relating to the route.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshihito Ishibashi
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Patent number: 11974038Abstract: An information processing system that acquires a first captured image; acquires a plurality of second images; and generates display data including the first captured image and at least a subset of the plurality of second images based on an evaluation parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of second images.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiki Saito
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Patent number: 11973091Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reducing the size of a solid-state imaging apparatus. The solid-state imaging apparatus is configured by laminating a first structure body, comprising a pixel array unit in which pixels for performing photoelectric conversion are two-dimensionally aligned, and a second structure body, comprising an output circuit unit for outputting a pixel signal. The output circuit unit, including a through via which penetrates a semiconductor substrate constituting a part of the second structure body, and a signal output external terminal connected to the outside of the apparatus are arranged under the first structure body, the output circuit unit is connected to the signal output external terminal via the through via, and the outermost surface of the apparatus is a resin layer formed on an upper layer of an on-chip lens of the pixel array unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Harumi Tanaka, Yoshiaki Masuda, Shinji Miyazawa, Minoru Ishida