Patents by Inventor Naoki Miyabayashi

Naoki Miyabayashi 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).

  • Publication number: 20150200716
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes a communication unit that transmits a power capability information transmission request, receives power capability information in response to the power capability information transmission request, and transmits randomized parameter information by a communication channel. The power transmission device also includes a processing unit that produces the randomized parameter information, based on the power capability information. Further, the power transmission device includes a power transmission unit that wirelessly transmits power based on the randomized parameter information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki MIYABAYASHI, Yasuharu ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9054746
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes a communication unit that transmits a power capability information transmission request, receives power capability information in response to the power capability information transmission request, and transmits randomized parameter information by a communication channel. The power transmission device also includes a processing unit that produces the randomized parameter information, based on the power capability information. Further, the power transmission device includes a power transmission unit that wirelessly transmits power based on the randomized parameter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yasuharu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20150126124
    Abstract: A communication method includes: a first transmission step of transmitting first setting information and first network organization information regarding one information processing apparatus of a second network via a first communication path; a first determination step of determining a role of communication with a first master apparatus via a second communication path on the basis of the first network organization information and role adjustment information; a second transmission step of transmitting second setting information and second network organization information to the first master apparatus via the first communication path; a second determination step of determining a role of the communication with a second master apparatus via the second communication path on the basis of the second network organization information and role adjustment information by the first master apparatus; and a first communication start step of starting the communication via the second communication path with another informatio
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 9002369
    Abstract: A management device includes a management table generation section that generates a management table in which location information showing the present location of a relay device is held in each relay device that relays the connection to a first network, a first receiving section that receives a location information showing the present location of a communication device from the communication device via a second network different from the first network, the communication device being connected to the first network via a relay device, a list generation section that generates a candidate list showing relay device candidates that relay a connection to the first network by communicating with the communication device with reference to the management table based on the location information of the communication device, and a transmission section that transmits the candidate list to the communication device via a second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Itoh, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Patent number: 8990339
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a notification reception unit that receives information from a first terminal device when the first communication is performed between the first terminal device related to a provider of a product or a service and a second terminal device related to an evaluator, a sorting specification unit that specifies at least one of reliability sorting, security sorting of the first terminal device, and security sorting of the second terminal device, a link authentication unit that specifies a link authentication method of confirming a state of a second communication performed between the first terminal device and the second terminal device based on the specified result, and performs a process related to the link authentication using the specified method, and an evaluation information reception unit that receives evaluation information from the first terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 8959170
    Abstract: A communication method includes: a first transmission step of transmitting first setting information and first network organization information regarding one information processing apparatus of a second network via a first communication path; a first determination step of determining a role of communication with a first master apparatus via a second communication path on the basis of the first network organization information and role adjustment information; a second transmission step of transmitting second setting information and second network organization information to the first master apparatus via the first communication path; a second determination step of determining a role of the communication with a second master apparatus via the second communication path on the basis of the second network organization information and role adjustment information by the first master apparatus; and a first communication start step of starting the communication via the second communication path with another informatio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 8924716
    Abstract: A communication device for performing communication by employing first and second communication units, includes: a reception unit for receiving a communication packet including a random number generated for every connection with another communication device, a certificate calculated with the random number, and authentication method information indicating whether or not an authentication method at the second communication unit is compatible with the public key system, through the first communication unit; and a method determining unit for determining whether or not an originator of the communication packet accepts public key encryption based on the authentication method information included in the communication packet; wherein in a case of the method determining unit determining that the originator of the communication packet does not accept the public key system, the random number included in the communication packet is replied to the originator as the identification information of the device itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 8792825
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a scan processing unit that scans for wireless communication apparatuses that are present in a range within which wireless communication is possible; a list generation unit that generates a list of the wireless communication apparatuses that are detected by the scan by the scan processing unit; a transmission unit that transmits the list that is generated by the list generation unit to an information processing apparatus; and a reception unit that receives connection destination related information that relates to a connection destination, which is transmitted from the information processing apparatus based on a comparison result of the list and the list from another terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Tsutomu Nakatsuru, Daisuke Itoh
  • Publication number: 20140171031
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a first communication unit having a first communication range; a second communication unit having a second communication range wider than the first communication range; a control unit which transmits a request signal for starting communication via the second communication unit from the first communication unit to another communication apparatus, and transmits authentication information from the second communication unit to the another communication apparatus in the case where it is determined that communication with the another communication apparatus via the second communication unit is possible based on a response signal after the first communication unit receives the response signal in response to the request signal; and a notification unit which notifies a user after the second communication unit receives a result of authentication based on the authentication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Takada, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Patent number: 8718700
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a first communication unit having a first communication range; a second communication unit having a second communication range wider than the first communication range; a control unit which transmits a request signal for starting communication via the second communication unit from the first communication unit to another communication apparatus, and transmits authentication information from the second communication unit to the another communication apparatus in the case where it is determined that communication with the another communication apparatus via the second communication unit is possible based on a response signal after the first communication unit receives the response signal in response to the request signal; and a notification unit which notifies a user after the second communication unit receives a result of authentication based on the authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Takada, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Publication number: 20140096218
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, the communication system disclosed herein includes an information processing apparatus that acquires address information from a memory device having a free area including the address information and a secure area including account information. The information processing apparatus connects to a resource of a server using the acquired address information. The information processing apparatus causes a security server to acquire the account information from the memory device and transmit the acquired account information to the server such that the server enables a user to access the resource of the server using the account information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Isao Soma, Takashi Abeno, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 8650626
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, the communication system disclosed herein includes an information processing apparatus that acquires address information from a memory device having a free area including the address information and a secure area including account information. The information processing apparatus connects to a resource of a server using the acquired address information. The information processing apparatus causes a security server to acquire the account information from the memory device and transmit the acquired account information to the server such that the server enables a user to access the resource of the server using the account information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Isao Soma, Takashi Abeno, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 8621126
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device including a first communication unit that is capable of sending a polling-signal in a specific polling cycle and receiving a response-signal sent from a counterpart device in response to the polling-signal, based on a first scheme, a second communication unit that is capable of sending a polling-signal in a longer polling cycle than the first communication unit and receiving a response-signal sent from the counterpart device in response to the polling-signal, based on a second scheme, and a scheme determination unit that waits for reception of the response-signal by the second or the first communication unit for a specific period of time longer than the polling cycle of the second communication unit with a time of the response-signal being received by the first or the second communication unit as a reference, and determines a scheme usable by the counterpart device based on the reception result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Sueyoshi, Hiroshi Okada, Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda
  • Patent number: 8565131
    Abstract: A communication device has a first communication section that supports a first communication mode having a low communication rate and a second communication section that supports a second communication mode having a higher communication rate than the first communication mode. The communication device includes a packet generation section and a communication control section. The packet generation section generates a first portion containing authentication information used for connection authentication for the second communication mode and a second portion other than the first portion. The communication control section performs control to cause the first communication section to transmit the first portion and to cause the second communication section to transmit the second portion after the connection authentication succeeds using the authentication information contained in the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Isao Soma, Kazuo Takada, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Publication number: 20130267205
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a first communication unit having a first communication range; a second communication unit having a second communication range wider than the first communication range; a control unit which transmits a request signal for starting communication via the second communication unit from the first communication unit to another communication apparatus, and transmits authentication information from the second communication unit to the another communication apparatus in the case where it is determined that communication with the another communication apparatus via the second communication unit is possible based on a response signal after the first communication unit receives the response signal in response to the request signal; and a notification unit which notifies a user after the second communication unit receives a result of authentication based on the authentication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuo Takada, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Patent number: 8483744
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a first communication unit having a first communication range; a second communication unit having a second communication range wider than the first communication range; a control unit which transmits a request signal for starting communication via the second communication unit from the first communication unit to another communication apparatus, and transmits authentication information from the second communication unit to the another communication apparatus in the case where it is determined that communication with the another communication apparatus via the second communication unit is possible based on a response signal after the first communication unit receives the response signal in response to the request signal; and a notification unit which notifies a user after the second communication unit receives a result of authentication based on the authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Takada, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Patent number: 8457675
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus that transmits and receives an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal to communicate with a communication counterpart, the wireless communication apparatus including measurement means for measuring the signal level of each subcarrier of the reception signal received from the communication counterpart, calculation means for calculating a predicted signal level of each subcarrier when the communication counterpart receives the signal based on the signal level of each subcarrier of the reception signal measured by the measurement means and calculating an increase/decrease rate of transmission power for each subcarrier such that the average amount of limited mutual information limited by the modulation method for the signal is maximized based on the predicted signal level, and transmission parameter control means for controlling transmission parameters including the increase/decrease rate of transmission power for each subcarrier calculated by the calculation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Patent number: 8396421
    Abstract: A communication processing apparatus, a computer program product, and a data processing method are provided. The communication processing apparatus includes a near-field communication unit configured to perform near-field communication; a control unit configured to acquire communication history data of near-field communication performed by using the near-field communication unit; and a storage unit configured to store the communication history data under control of the control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to acquire the communication history data stored in the storage unit and transmit the acquired communication history data to a server that performs information management, when issuing an information registration request to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kuroda, Isao Soma, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Patent number: 8396925
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first receiving unit to receive, from a first other information processing device, equipment information of a second other information processing device that differs from the first other information processing device, via a first communication and first connecting information useful for connecting with the second other information processing device by a second communication that differs from the first communication; a first transmitting unit to transmit second connection information that is useful for connecting with the device itself by the second communication to the first other information processing device, via the first communication; and a second receiving unit to receive content data transmitted from the second other information processing device by the second communication, based on the first connection information and the second connection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada
  • Patent number: 8380982
    Abstract: A communication device for performing communication by employing first and second communication units, includes: a reception unit for receiving a communication packet including a random number generated for every connection with another communication device, a certificate calculated with the random number, and authentication method information indicating whether or not an authentication method at the second communication unit is compatible with the public key system, through the first communication unit; and a method determining unit for determining whether or not an originator of the communication packet accepts public key encryption based on the authentication method information included in the communication packet; wherein in a case of the method determining unit determining that the originator of the communication packet does not accept the public key system, the random number included in the communication packet is replied to the originator as the identification information of the device itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada, Masahiro Sueyoshi