Patents by Inventor Hideki Iwami

Hideki Iwami 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: 11068148
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device capable of operating in accessibility mode of guaranteeing browsing corresponding to disability or functional degeneration of a body of an operator. A source device checks whether each sink device is in accessibility mode at the time of connection, and determines whether or not metadata for supporting disability (for example, audios, videos, texts, vibration information, or the like) is added to the sink device in the accessibility mode at the time of transmission of original image/audio data. The source device changes a metadata transmission method in accordance with whether the accessibility mode of each sink device is turned on or off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Hideyuki Suzuki, Taketoshi Yamane
  • Patent number: 10979900
    Abstract: To appropriately wirelessly connect information processing devices. An information processing device includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs media transmission to another information processing device. Further, the control unit that performs control to exchange information in a device discovery process or a capability checking process in a case where the media transmission is newly performed to the second information processing device during the media transmission to the first information processing device. This information is used for deciding a communication path for performing the media transmission to a first information processing device and a second information processing device or a data transmission format used when the media transmission is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Hideyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10869069
    Abstract: To be able to perform proper scalability transmission rate control. An information processing device receives a stream for outputting image information from another information processing device by using wireless communication, the information processing device including a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs communication to exchange capability information regarding the information processing device and capability information regarding the other information processing device with the other information processing device. The control unit performs scalability transmission rate control of the stream related to the other information processing device based on the capability information regarding the other information processing device and a use of the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Osamu Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10849171
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism capable of maintaining the security level while simplifying the WPS protocol. A device includes a processing unit that notifies an access point of a message used to instruct the access point to establish a connection for infrastructure communication with another device on condition that a connection for P2P communication with the other device is established, a connection for infrastructure communication with the access point is established or there is a history in which the connection has been established, and a connection for infrastructure communication between the other device and the access point is not established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Hideyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10841165
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is appropriately connected wirelessly. The information processing apparatus has a wireless communication unit and a controller. The wireless communication unit performs data transmission with another information processing apparatus. It is assumed, while data transmission is being performed between the information processing apparatus and a first information processing apparatus which plays the role of a group owner of a network made up of at least the information processing apparatus and the first information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus is to newly perform data transmission with a second information processing apparatus. In such a situation, the controller performs a control process to exchange information to change roles for carrying out each data transmission to the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Hideyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10805672
    Abstract: To cause image information to be appropriately displayed among a plurality of information processing devices. An information processing device includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit is configured to perform real-time image transmission with another information processing device according to a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) Certified Miracast specification. The control unit is configured to perform control in a manner that second image information to be displayed on a non-display region included in first image information transmitted from the other information processing device is acquired, and a combined image in which the first image information is combined with the second image information is displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Osamu Yoshimura, Yasushi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20200322997
    Abstract: [Overview] [Problem to be Solved] To provide a wireless communication device that is able to easily switch to an existing system when a new system is constructed by employing a communication scheme using a millimeter wave. [Solution] There is provided a wireless communication device including a first communication controller that executes communication control through a first line using a radio wave of a millimeter waveband, a second communication controller that executes communication control through a second line using a radio wave of a band other than the millimeter waveband, and a connection controller that provides, via the first line, information regarding charging by using a command of a physical layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: HIDEKI IWAMI, JUN IWASAKI, TOMONARI YAMAGATA, FUMIHIRO NISHIYAMA, KEITAROU KONDOU
  • Patent number: 10795831
    Abstract: Provided is an image that is comfortably viewed and operated by a user. An electronic device acquires user information related to a relative position between a user and a display unit. Then, the electronic device transmits the user information to an information processing device. The information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit receives the user information related to the relative position of the user and a display unit which is acquired by the electronic device from the electronic device. Further, the control unit performs control to decide a display mode of an image transmitted from a source device on the display unit on the basis of the user information received from the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Ihara, Hideki Iwami, Sho Amano
  • Patent number: 10667206
    Abstract: Appropriate control is performed when communication is performed between a plurality of information processing devices. An information processing device performs real-time image transmission with another information processing device according to a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification. The information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit performs control such that setting request information for performing a setting related to the real-time image transmission is received from the other information processing device via an access point. The control unit performs control such that a setting request for performing the setting based on the setting request information is transmitted to the other information processing device through direct communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Katsutoshi Itoh, Yoshihiko Ikenaga
  • Patent number: 10582376
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus that receives image data through wireless communication. By newly providing an RTSP parameter having high affinity with Miracast Release1, resources on a wireless section are reduced and the communication sequence in which a user does not feel the waiting time is achieved in the communication sequence in which a medium setting value of a source apparatus is changed in response to a request from a sink apparatus. Further, in a multi-source topology environment in which a plurality of images based on image data transmitted from a plurality of source apparatuses are displayed on a display unit of the sink apparatus, it is possible to present a band control method in which a data transmission rate is assigned as much as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura
  • Patent number: 10575047
    Abstract: There is provided a decoding apparatus that includes a wireless communication unit configured to establish a wireless connection with a plurality of encoding apparatuses, a decoding unit configured to decode pieces of content received from the plurality of encoding apparatuses via the wireless communication unit, a reproduction unit configured to reproduce the plurality of pieces of content decoded by the decoding unit, and a control unit configured to control an encoding condition of each of the plurality of encoding apparatuses for content in a manner that a required decoding capability required by a set of the pieces of content to be reproduced by the reproduction unit does not exceed an actual decoding capability of the decoding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Yoshimura, Hideki Iwami, Sho Amano
  • Patent number: 10547897
    Abstract: An information processing device receives a stream for outputting image information from another information processing device by using wireless communication, the information processing device including a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs communication to exchange capability information regarding the information processing device and capability information regarding the other information processing device with the other information processing device. The control unit performs control in a manner that multi-reception diversity of the stream related to the other information processing device is set based on the capability information regarding the other information processing device and a use of the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Osamu Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10499200
    Abstract: To perform a process related to group formation rapidly. An information processing device includes a wireless communication and a control unit. The wireless communication unit is a wireless communication unit configured to interchange a stream for outputting image information from a first information processing device by using wireless communication, the first information processing device belonging to a first group to which one or more information processing devices including the own device belong. In addition, The control unit is a control unit configured to perform control such that capability information regarding the one or more information processing devices is exchanged with a second information processing device belonging to a second group which is a new group other than the first group when the second group is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Daisuke Kawakami
  • Patent number: 10462517
    Abstract: An image that can be easily viewable for a user is provided. An information processing apparatus is an information processing apparatus including a control unit. The control unit included in this information processing apparatus controls performing displaying an image on the basis of image information transmitted from at least one first information processing apparatus by using radio communication in one area of a display unit for each first information processing apparatus. In addition, the control unit included in this information processing apparatus performs control of performing and determining a display form of the image corresponding to the first information processing apparatus in the display unit on the basis of a positional relation between a user associated with the first information processing apparatus and the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Yasushi Ihara, Sho Amano
  • Patent number: 10383098
    Abstract: To improve manipulability. An information processing device includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs real-time image transmission with at least one sink device according to a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification. The control unit performs control related to the real-time image transmission based on control information for controlling the information processing device according to the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification, the control information being received from the at least one sink device. The control unit performs control such that on-off switching of a UIBC for transmitting manipulation information in the sink device that has transmitted the control information is performed when a plurality of pieces of control information are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Iwami
  • Publication number: 20190090125
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus that receives image data through wireless communication. By newly providing an RTSP parameter having high affinity with Miracast Release1, resources on a wireless section are reduced and the communication sequence in which a user does not feel the waiting time is achieved in the communication sequence in which a medium setting value of a source apparatus is changed in response to a request from s sink apparatus. Further, in a multi-source topology environment in which a plurality of images based on image data transmitted from a plurality of source apparatuses are displayed on a display unit of the sink apparatus, it is possible to present a band control method in which a data transmission rate is assigned as much as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: HIDEKI IWAMI, TOMOYA YAMAURA
  • Publication number: 20190053149
    Abstract: Appropriate control is performed when communication is performed between a plurality of information processing devices. An information processing device performs real-time image transmission with another information processing device according to a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification. The information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit performs control such that setting request information for performing a setting related to the real-time image transmission is received from the other information processing device via an access point. The control unit performs control such that a setting request for performing the setting based on the setting request information is transmitted to the other information processing device through direct communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki IWAMI, Katsutoshi ITOH, Yoshihiko IKENAGA
  • Patent number: 10198986
    Abstract: An information processing device is an information processing device that receives a stream for outputting image information from another information processing device through wireless communication, and includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs communication with another information processing device so as to exchange the capability information about the information processing device and the capability information about the other information processing device. The control unit sets a power consumption mode in the other information processing device based on the capability information about the other information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Masanori Sato, Osamu Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10172080
    Abstract: Appropriate control is performed when communication is performed between a plurality of information processing devices. An information processing device performs real-time image transmission with another information processing device according to a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification. The information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit performs control such that setting request information for performing a setting related to the real-time image transmission is received from the other information processing device via an access point. The control unit performs control such that a setting request for performing the setting based on the setting request information is transmitted to the other information processing device through direct communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Katsutoshi Itoh, Yoshihiko Ikenaga
  • Publication number: 20180324876
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of maintaining the security level while simplifying the WPS protocol. [Solution] A device includes: a processing unit configured to notify an access point of a message used to instruct the access point to establish a connection for infrastructure communication with another device on condition that a connection for P2P communication with the other device is established, a connection for infrastructure communication with the access point is established or there is a history in which the connection has been established, and a connection for infrastructure communication between the other device and the access point is not established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: HIDEKI IWAMI, TOMOYA YAMAURA, HIDEYUKI SUZUKI