Patents by Inventor Fritz Hohl
Fritz Hohl has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11481087Abstract: An electronic device, including an input interface configured to receive an input signal, a command determination unit configured to determine a plurality of possible commands based on the input signal, and an output interface configured to provide a plurality of output information corresponding to effects associated with each of the plurality of determined possible commands.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fritz Hohl, Stefan Uhlich, Wilhelm Hagg, Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 10334285Abstract: An apparatus comprising a watermark decoder arranged for decoding a watermark signal from a transmission video signal, the watermark signal defining a content area within the transmission video signal for inserting new content within the transmission video signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fritz Hohl, Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 10224026Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to record sensor data that is obtained from data sources and to retrieve information from the recorded sensor data using concepts that are defined by a user.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Aurel Bordewieck, Fabien Cardinaux, Wilhelm Hagg, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich, Fritz Hohl
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Patent number: 9959089Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile audio player, comprising memory means adapted to store music data and non-music data, input means adapted to receive a user input with user preferences, radio program generating means adapted to generate, without a connection to an external entity, an individualized radio program from stored music data and non-music data depending on user preferences input via the input means, and audio output means adapted to output audio signals representing a generated radio program.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fritz Hohl, Shin Saito
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Publication number: 20170270915Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to record sensor data that is obtained from data sources and to retrieve information from the recorded sensor data using concepts that are defined by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Aurel BORDEWIECK, Fabien CARDINAUX, Wilhelm HAGG, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH, Fritz HOHL
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Publication number: 20170075653Abstract: An electronic device including: a display; and a processor configured to: detect a speech command, and generate a first command menu with a first list of speech commands on detection of a first movement detected by a movement sensor and a second command menu with a second list of speech commands on detection of a second movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Frank DAWIDOWSKY, Michael ENENKL, Wilhelm HAGG, Fritz HOHL, Thomas KEMP
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Publication number: 20170017357Abstract: An electronic device, including an input interface configured to receive an input signal, a command determination unit configured to determine a plurality of possible commands based on the input signal, and an output interface configured to provide a plurality of output information corresponding to effects associated with each of the plurality of determined possible commands.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fritz HOHL, Stefan UHLICH, Wilhelm HAGG, Thomas KEMP
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Patent number: 9472189Abstract: A parse unit parses an input sequence of token elements for an input string, wherein each token element contains a token and/or at least one corresponding token classifier. In a first mode the parse unit applies regular production rules on the token elements and on multi-token classifiers for phrases obtained from the token classifiers. If the first mode parsing does not result in a multi-token classifier encompassing all tokens of the input string, a control unit controls the parse unit to parse the input sequence in a second mode that applies both the regular and artificial production rules. A rule generator unit generates the artificial production rules based on the input sequence and/or intermediate results of the parsing. The parser unit provides a complete parse tree for ungrammatical sentences and a solution where the regular production rules do not cover the complete grammar of the respective natural language.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: SONY CorporationInventors: Wilhelm Hagg, Thomas Kemp, Fritz Hohl
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Publication number: 20160247423Abstract: An apparatus comprising a watermark decoder arranged for decoding a watermark signal from a transmission video signal, the watermark signal defining a content area within the transmission video signal for inserting new content within the transmission video signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Fritz HOHL, Thomas KEMP
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Publication number: 20160117145Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile audio player, comprising memory means adapted to store music data and non-music data, input means adapted to receive a user input with user preferences, radio program generating means adapted to generate, without a connection to an external entity, an individualized radio program from stored music data and non-music data depending on user preferences input via the input means, and audio output means adapted to output audio signals representing a generated radio program.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fritz Hohl, Shin Saito
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Patent number: 9230018Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile audio player, comprising memory means adapted to store music data and non-music data, input means adapted to receive a user input with user preferences, radio program generating means adapted to generate, without a connection to an external entity, an individualized radio program from stored music data and non-music data depending on user preferences input via the input means, and audio output means adapted to output audio signals representing a generated radio program.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fritz Hohl, Shin Saito
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Patent number: 9165066Abstract: Generating a user music taste database, comprising determining, as a first count, a number of appearances of a selected classification identifier of classification identifiers in a user specific first set of music identifiers, wherein the classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the first set of music identifiers and determining, by the circuitry, as a second count, a number of appearances of the selected classification identifier in a second set of music identifiers, wherein classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the second set of music identifiers. A classification identifier related to the selected classification identifier is stored in an expertise list in the user music taste database, if a value determined from setting the first count and the second count in relation to each other is equal to or larger than a predetermined expertise level threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fritz Hohl, Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 9111434Abstract: A system and a corresponding method for monitoring the presence of a person in a monitored area, includes a passive radiometer that detects radiation emitted from a predetermined monitored area in a predetermined frequency range between 1 GHz and 100 THz and that generates a radiation signal from the detected radiation, a radiation signal processor that processes the radiation signal and that generates, based on the processed radiation signal, a monitoring signal indicating the presence or absence of a person in the monitored area, and an application controller that controls an application based on the monitoring signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fritz Hohl, Ralf Boehnke
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Publication number: 20150161869Abstract: A system and a corresponding method for monitoring the presence of a person in a monitored area, includes a passive radiometer that detects radiation emitted from a predetermined monitored area in a predetermined frequency range between 1 GHz and 100 THz and that generates a radiation signal from the detected radiation, a radiation signal processor that processes the radiation signal and that generates, based on the processed radiation signal, a monitoring signal indicating the presence or absence of a person in the monitored area, and an application controller that controls an application based on the monitoring signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Fritz HOHL, Ralf Boehnke
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Patent number: 8963722Abstract: An apparatus for at least one of playing and generating audio content for an audience includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive sensor data from one or more sensors monitoring the audience. The circuitry is configured to analyze said sensor data to identify characteristic movement patterns of one or more members of the audience. The circuitry is configured to select music and generate verbal communication other than music to address the audience, based on the identified characteristic movement patterns. The circuitry is further configured to output said selected music and said verbal communication. A corresponding method for at least one of playing and generating audio content for an audience is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Fritz Hohl
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Publication number: 20140191968Abstract: A receiving and transmitting node for a wireless data network, and a wireless data network based on magnetic induction. The receiving node includes an antenna receive module for receiving one or more data signals emitted from the transmitting node and a calculation module adapted to calculate one or more distances between the receiving node and the transmitting node, and/or adapted to calculate the position of the transmitting node in relation to the position of the receiving node, and/or adapted to calculate the orientation of the transmitting node in relation to the orientation of the receiving node. The reception of the data signal is based on magnetic induction and the calculation of the one or more distances, and the position of the transmitting node and/or the orientation of the transmitting node is based on the one or more data signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Sony Deutschland GmbHInventors: Fritz HOHL, Matthias RIEDEL, Juan NOGUEIRA-NINE
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Patent number: 8732839Abstract: A first method for automatically protecting a computer system from attacks that exploit security vulnerabilities detects requests for execution of code portions, determines vulnerabilities of a code portion for which an execution request is detected, evaluates whether or not the execution of the code portion shall be prevented in a case at least one vulnerability concerning the code portion is determined, and prevents execution of the code portion if determined to do so in the evaluation. A second method for automatically protecting a computer system from attacks that exploit security vulnerabilities detects code portions which are currently executed, determines vulnerabilities of a code portion that is currently executed, evaluates whether or not the execution of the code portion shall be aborted in a case at least one vulnerability concerning the code portion is determined, and aborts execution of the code portion if determined to do so in the evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2007Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Fritz Hohl
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Publication number: 20140129227Abstract: A parse unit parses an input sequence of token elements for an input string, wherein each token element contains a token and/or at least one corresponding token classifier. In a first mode the parse unit applies regular production rules on the token elements and on multi-token classifiers for phrases obtained from the token classifiers. If the first mode parsing does not result in a multi-token classifier encompassing all tokens of the input string, a control unit controls the parse unit to parse the input sequence in a second mode that applies both the regular and artificial production rules. A rule generator unit generates the artificial production rules based on the input sequence and/or intermediate results of the parsing. The parser unit provides a complete parse tree for ungrammatical sentences and a solution where the regular production rules do not cover the complete grammar of the respective natural language.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Wilhelm HAGG, Thomas KEMP, Fritz HOHL
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Patent number: 8665840Abstract: A receiving and transmitting node for a wireless data network, and a wireless data network based on magnetic induction. The receiving node includes an antenna receive module for receiving one or more data signals emitted from the transmitting node and a calculation module adapted to calculate one or more distances between the receiving node and the transmitting node, and/or adapted to calculate the position of the transmitting node in relation to the position of the receiving node, and/or adapted to calculate the orientation of the transmitting node in relation to the orientation of the receiving node. The reception of the data signal is based on magnetic induction and the calculation of the one or more distances, and the position of the transmitting node and/or the orientation of the transmitting node is based on the one or more data signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbHInventors: Fritz Hohl, Matthias Riedel, Juan Nogueira-Nine
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Publication number: 20130332471Abstract: Generating a user music taste database, comprising determining, as a first count, a number of appearances of a selected classification identifier of classification identifiers in a user specific first set of music identifiers, wherein the classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the first set of music identifiers and determining, by the circuitry, as a second count, a number of appearances of the selected classification identifier in a second set of music identifiers, wherein classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the second set of music identifiers. A classification identifier related to the selected classification identifier is stored in an expertise list in the user music taste database, if a value determined from setting the first count and the second count in relation to each other is equal to or larger than a predetermined expertise level threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: Fritz HOHL, Thomas Kemp