Patents by Inventor Olivier Demarto

Olivier Demarto 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: 11849312
    Abstract: An agent device for assisting one or more users is provided. The agent device supports a first operation mode in which the agent device is configured to identify individual users. Further, the agent device supports a second operation mode in which the agent device is configured to not identify individual users. The agent device includes a receiver circuit configured to receive, from an external device, a signal indicating that a person in the vicinity of the agent device does not want to be identified. Additionally, the agent device includes a control circuit configured to set an operation mode of the agent device to the second operation mode in response to receiving the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip Marivoet, Olivier Demarto, Tom Cool
  • Patent number: 11748507
    Abstract: A method of providing information about a device is proposed. According to the method, user-specific information of a first user is provided to the device. The user-specific information is related to a user experience of the device used by the first user. The user-specific information is stored in a non-volatile memory of the device. Upon a request of a second user, device-specific information based on the stored user-specific feedback information from the non-volatile memory of the device is outputted to the second user. A device with an electrical circuit, non-volatile memory, and an output circuit is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tom Cool, Daavid Hentunen, Olivier Demarto, Fabien Cardinaux
  • Publication number: 20220397425
    Abstract: A denoising apparatus, including a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System, MEMS, sensor circuit, which is configured to generate a measurement signal in response to a physical quantity. The measurement signal includes a useful signal component indicative of the physical quantity and an attack signal component due to an attack on the MEMS sensor circuit. The denoising apparatus further includes a machine learning circuitry, which is configured to estimate the useful signal component based on the measurement signal. The machine learning circuitry is trained based on training signals comprising known useful signal components and known attack signal components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel ARMELIN, Olivier DEMARTO
  • Publication number: 20210058775
    Abstract: An agent device for assisting one or more users is provided. The agent device supports a first operation mode in which the agent device is configured to identify individual users. Further, the agent device supports a second operation mode in which the agent device is configured to not identify individual users. The agent device includes a receiver circuit configured to receive, from an external device, a signal indicating that a person in the vicinity of the agent device does not want to be identified. Additionally, the agent device includes a control circuit configured to set an operation mode of the agent device to the second operation mode in response to receiving the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Philip MARIVOET, Olivier DEMARTO, Tom COOL
  • Patent number: 10708717
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a tracking unit that tracks a movement of a first mobile device and a movement of a second mobile device, based on a position of the first mobile device and a position of the second mobile device received from a position estimation unit; a determination unit that determines a probability distribution of a distance between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, based on a probabilistic model, and the position of the first mobile device and the position of the second mobile device; and an action unit that performs action, based on the determined probability distribution of the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tom Hostyn, Jeroen Ost, Anatoliy Lubashevskiy, Olivier Demarto, Masatomo Kurata, Sota Matsuzawa, Serkan Eryilmaz, Paulius Sarka
  • Publication number: 20190303612
    Abstract: A method of providing information about a device is proposed. According to the method, user-specific information of a first user is provided to the device. The user-specific information is related to a user experience of the device used by the first user. The user-specific information is stored in a non-volatile memory of the device. Upon a request of a second user, device-specific information based on the stored user-specific feedback information from the non-volatile memory of the device is outputted to the second user. A device with an electrical circuit, non-volatile memory, and an output circuit is proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tom Cool, Daavid Hentunen, Olivier Demarto, Fabien Cardinaux
  • Publication number: 20190239029
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a tracking unit that tracks a movement of a first mobile device and a movement of a second mobile device, based on a position of the first mobile device and a position of the second mobile device received from a position estimation unit; a determination unit that determines a probability distribution of a distance between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, based on a probabilistic model, and the position of the first mobile device and the position of the second mobile device; and an action unit that performs action, based on the determined probability distribution of the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tom Hostyn, Jeroen Ost, Anatoliy Lubashevskiy, Olivier Demarto, Masatomo Kurata, Sota Matsuzawa, Serkan Eryilmaz, Paulius Sarka
  • Patent number: 9866709
    Abstract: It is described an apparatus for determining trends in picture taking activity. The apparatus comprises a meta information accessing unit for accessing a set of meta information, each meta information in the set of meta information being associated with a picture having been taken with a camera device at a respective geographic location and at a respective time. The apparatus further comprises a processing unit for determining trends in picture taking activity based on the set of meta information accessible by the meta information accessing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tom Hostyn, Olivier Demarto, Kenny Helsens, Jan Spooren, Philip Marivoet, Teemu Veikko Tapani Pohjola, Magdalena Wasowska, Conor Aylward, Gaetan De Brucker, Joachim Giard, Chris Minnoy
  • Publication number: 20150242405
    Abstract: It is described a method determining context information of at least one media file stored in a media storage, and matching reference context information with the context information to determine at least one context-matching media file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tom HOSTYN, Chris MINNOY, Kenny HELSENS, Gerard MAAS, Murat Burak MIGDISOGLU, Michel TILMAN, Jan SPOOREN, Philip MARIVOET, Teemu Veikko Tapani POHJOLA, Magdalena WASOWSKA, Conor AYLWARD, Olivier DEMARTO, Gaetan DE BRUCKER, Joachim GIARD
  • Publication number: 20150170039
    Abstract: It is described an apparatus for determining trends in picture taking activity. The apparatus comprises a meta information accessing unit for accessing a set of meta information, each meta information in the set of meta information being associated with a picture having been taken with a camera device at a respective geographic location and at a respective time. The apparatus further comprises a processing unit for determining trends in picture taking activity based on the set of meta information accessible by the meta information accessing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tom Hostyn, Olivier Demarto, Kenny Helsens, Jan Spooren, Philip Marivoet, Teemu Veikko Tapani Pohjola, Magdalena Wasowska, Conor Aylward, Gaetan De Brucker, Joachim Giard, Chris Minnoy