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).

  • Patent number: 11481087
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fritz Hohl, Stefan Uhlich, Wilhelm Hagg, Thomas Kemp
  • Patent number: 10334285
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fritz Hohl, Thomas Kemp
  • Patent number: 10224026
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aurel Bordewieck, Fabien Cardinaux, Wilhelm Hagg, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich, Fritz Hohl
  • Patent number: 9959089
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fritz Hohl, Shin Saito
  • Publication number: 20170270915
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Aurel BORDEWIECK, Fabien CARDINAUX, Wilhelm HAGG, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH, Fritz HOHL
  • Publication number: 20170075653
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank DAWIDOWSKY, Michael ENENKL, Wilhelm HAGG, Fritz HOHL, Thomas KEMP
  • Publication number: 20170017357
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fritz HOHL, Stefan UHLICH, Wilhelm HAGG, Thomas KEMP
  • Patent number: 9472189
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SONY Corporation
    Inventors: Wilhelm Hagg, Thomas Kemp, Fritz Hohl
  • Publication number: 20160247423
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fritz HOHL, Thomas KEMP
  • Publication number: 20160117145
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fritz Hohl, Shin Saito
  • Patent number: 9230018
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fritz Hohl, Shin Saito
  • Patent number: 9165066
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fritz Hohl, Thomas Kemp
  • Patent number: 9111434
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fritz Hohl, Ralf Boehnke
  • Publication number: 20150161869
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fritz HOHL, Ralf Boehnke
  • Patent number: 8963722
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Fritz Hohl
  • Publication number: 20140191968
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Fritz HOHL, Matthias RIEDEL, Juan NOGUEIRA-NINE
  • Patent number: 8732839
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Fritz Hohl
  • Publication number: 20140129227
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wilhelm HAGG, Thomas KEMP, Fritz HOHL
  • Patent number: 8665840
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Fritz Hohl, Matthias Riedel, Juan Nogueira-Nine
  • Publication number: 20130332471
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Fritz HOHL, Thomas Kemp