Patents by Inventor Stefan UHLICH

Stefan UHLICH 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).

  • Electronic device, method and computer program
    Patent number: 11935552
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to perform (402; 702; 1204) source separation (201) based on a received audio input to obtain a separated source, to perform onset detection (202) on the separated source to obtain an onset detection signal and to mix (405; 706; 1207) the audio signal with the separated source based on the onset detection signal to obtain an enhanced separated source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stefan Uhlich, Michael Enenkl
  • METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230274758
    Abstract: A method comprising determining at least one audio event based on an audio waveform and determining a deepfake probability for the audio event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Lev MARKHASIN, Stephen TIEDEMANN, Stefan UHLICH, Bi WANG, Wei-Hsiang LIAO, Yuhki MITSUFUJI
  • IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUITRY AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230276146
    Abstract: An image processing circuitry configured to: store, based on an obtained command, a first image identifier of first image data or the first image data on a write-once-read-many memory, wherein the first image identifier is generated based on the first image data such that it is unique for the first image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Lev MARKHASIN, Stephen TIEDEMANN, Stefan UHLICH, Bi WANG
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20230269552
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to receive an audio mixture signal and side information related to sources present in the audio mixture signal, perform audio source separation on the audio mixture to obtain separated sources, and generate respective virtual audio objects based on the separated sources and the side information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Michael ENENKL, Stefan UHLICH, Giorgio FABBRO
  • IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUITRY AND METHOD USING AN IMAGE SIGNATURE
    Publication number: 20230252808
    Abstract: Abstract: An image processing circuitry configured to: generate, based on obtained image data, a visual content word sequence indicative for a visual content of an image represented by the obtained image data; and generate, based on the generated visual content word sequence, an image signature for the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Lev MARKHASIN, Stephen TIEDEMANN, Stefan UHLICH, Bi WANG
  • AUDIO TRANSPOSITION
    Publication number: 20230215454
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to separate by audio source separation a first audio input signal into a first vocal signal and an accompaniment, and to transpose an audio output signal by a transposition value based on a pitch ratio, wherein the pitch ratio is based on comparing a first pitch range of the first vocal signal and a second pitch range of the second vocal signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Marc FERRAS FONT, Giorgio FABBRO, Falk-Martin HOFFMANN, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICES AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS
    Publication number: 20230195906
    Abstract: An information processing device, wherein the information processing device includes circuitry configured to: copy, in response to an instruction for play back of a content, encrypted content data; decrypt the copied encrypted content data for obtaining the content data representing the content; and apply a data protection algorithm on the content data to generate protected content data representing protected content, wherein the protected content is played back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Technische Universität München - TUM
    Inventors: Shivangi ANEJA, Lev MARKHASIN, Matthias NIEßNER, Stefan UHLICH, Bi WANG
  • AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION AND AUDIO DUBBING
    Publication number: 20230186937
    Abstract: An electronic device having a circuitry configured to perform audio source separation on an audio input signal to obtain a separated source and configured to perform audio dubbing on the separated source based on replacement conditions to obtain a personalized separated source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan UHLICH, Giorgio FABBRO, Marc FERRAS FONT, Falk-Martin HOFFMANN, Thomas KEMP
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20230186782
    Abstract: An electronic device having a circuitry configured to perform audio source separation on an audio input signal to obtain a vocals signal and an accompaniment signal and to perform a confidence analysis on a user's voice signal based on the vocals signal to provide guidance to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Falk-Martin HOFFMANN, Giorgio FABBRO, Marc FERRAS FONT, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH
  • Beamforming device for antenna arrays
    Patent number: 11652535
    Abstract: The improved beamforming devices for communication systems operating in the mm-wave spectrum are particularly designed for antenna architectures consisting of antenna arrays, comprising multiple antenna array elements. The disclosed approaches comprise intelligent two stage searches, wherein information from the first stage is used in the second stage. This significantly reduces the computational complexity compared to the known approaches, with minimal loss in performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nabil Sven Loghin, Dana Ciochina, Thomas Handte, Felix Fellhauer, Fares Zenaidi, Stefan Uhlich
  • COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20230140226
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure there is provided a communication device comprising circuitry configured to modulate a four-dimensional input signal by combining the four real-valued signal components of the input signal into a transformed signal and multiplying the transformed signal by carrier signals using two different carrier frequencies to obtain a transmit signal, and transmit the transmit signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Nabil Sven LOGHIN, Stefan UHLICH, Kit Lam LEE
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20230057082
    Abstract: An electronic device having circuitry configured to perform source separation on an audio signal to obtain a separated source and a residual signal, to perform feature extraction on the separated source to obtain one or more processing parameters, and to perform audio processing on a captured audio signal based on the one or more processing parameters to obtain an adjusted separated source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Giorgio FABBRO, Stefan UHLICH, Michael ENENKL, Thomas KEMP
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220408212
    Abstract: An electronic device for a vehicle comprising circuitry configured to obtain information about a planned maneuver of the vehicle; and circuitry configured to determine the position and/or orientation of a sound field based on the information about the planned maneuver of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Franck GIRON, Fabien CARDINAUX, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH, Marc FERRAS FONT, Andreas SCHWAGER, Patrick PUTZOLU, Michael ENENKL
  • Electronic device and method for identifying input commands of a user
    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
  • Electronic device, method and computer program
    Patent number: 11457328
    Abstract: An electronic device for a vehicle comprising circuitry configured to obtain information about a planned maneuver of the vehicle; and circuitry configured to determine the position and/or orientation of a sound field based on the information about the planned maneuver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Franck Giron, Fabien Cardinaux, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich, Marc Ferras Font, Andreas Schwager, Patrick Putzolu, Michael Enenkl
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220284196
    Abstract: A method comprising a deep learning based translation system translating a source sentence from language A to a target sentence in language B, placing constraints on the target sentence in language B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Javier ALONSO GARCIA, Fabien CARDINAUX, Thomas KEMP, Lukas MAUCH, Stefan UHLICH, Stephen TIEDEMANN
  • DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION AND REMIXING
    Publication number: 20220101821
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a circuitry configured to perform (402; 602; 902; 1002) blind source separation (201) based on a received input signal (1) to obtain separated sources; to perform (403; 605; 906; 1005) time-domain filtering (202) on at least one of the separated sources to obtain at least one filtered separated source; and to perform (404; 606; 907; 1006) remixing or upmixing (203) based on the at least one filtered separated source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan UHLICH, Michael ENENKL
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220076687
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to perform (402; 702; 1204) source separation (201) based on a received audio input to obtain a separated source, to perform onset detection (202) on the separated source to obtain an onset detection signal and to mix (405; 706; 1207) the audio signal with the separated source based on the onset detection signal to obtain an enhanced separated source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan UHLICH, Michael ENENKL
  • Electronic device, method and computer program
    Patent number: 11265669
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to obtain an audio signal of a first passenger of a vehicle and to control a loudspeaker array to generate at least one virtual sound source that reproduces the audio signal obtained from the first passenger, the virtual sound source being provided for a second passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Marc Ferras Font, Franck Giron, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Andreas Schwager, Stefan Uhlich
  • BEAMFORMING DEVICE FOR ANTENNA ARRAYS
    Publication number: 20220045737
    Abstract: The improved beamforming devices for communication systems operating in the mm-wave spectrum are particularly designed for antenna architectures consisting of antenna arrays, comprising multiple antenna array elements. The disclosed approaches comprise intelligent two stage searches, wherein information from the first stage is used in the second stage. This significantly reduces the computational complexity compared to the known approaches, with minimal loss in performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Nabil Sven LOGHIN, Dana CIOCHINA, Thomas HANDTE, Felix FELLHAUER, Fares ZENAIDI, Stefan UHLICH