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).

  • 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
  • Patent number: 11165486
    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: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nabil Sven Loghin, Dana Ciochina, Thomas Handte, Felix Fellhauer, Fares Zenaidi, Stefan Uhlich
  • Patent number: 11082792
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate one or more focused sound sources as virtual loudspeakers of an announcement system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Marc Ferras Font, Franck Giron, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Andreas Schwager, Stefan Uhlich
  • Patent number: 11012788
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system comprising a diaphragm (101) and an electrostatic foil (108) mounted on top of the diaphragm (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Enenkl, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Stefan Uhlich
  • Publication number: 20210110260
    Abstract: To reduce processing load of an operation and to realize learning with higher accuracy. There is provided an information processing device including a learning unit that optimizes parameters that determine a dynamic range by an error back propagation and a stochastic gradient descent in a quantization function of a neural network in which the parameters that determine the dynamic range are arguments. There is provided an information processing method, by a processor, including optimizing parameters that determine a dynamic range by an error back propagation and a stochastic gradient descent in a quantization function of a neural network in which the parameters that determine the dynamic range are arguments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUKI YOSHIYAMA, STEFAN UHLICH, FABIEN CARDINAUX
  • Patent number: 10924849
    Abstract: Provided is a sound source separation device that includes a combining unit that combines a first sound source separation signal of a predetermined sound source, the first sound source separation signal being separated from a mixed sound signal by a first sound source separation system, with a second sound source separation signal of the sound source, the second sound source separation signal being separated from the mixed sound signal by a second sound source separation system that differs in separation performance from the first sound source separation system in predetermined units of time, and that outputs a sound source separation signal obtained by the combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Takahashi, Yuhki Mitsufuji, Stefan Uhlich, Michael Enenkl, Thomas Kemp
  • Publication number: 20210006926
    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: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Franck GIRON, Fabien CARDINAUX, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH, Marc FERRAS FONT, Andreas SCHWAGER, Patrick PUTZOLU, Michael ENENKL
  • Publication number: 20200404443
    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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fabien CARDINAUX, Michael ENENKL, Marc FERRAS FONT, Franck GIRON, Thomas KEMP, Patrick PUTZOLU, Andreas SCHWAGER, Stefan UHLICH
  • Publication number: 20200295817
    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: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nabil Sven Loghin, Dana Ciochina, Thomas Handte,, Felix Fellhauer, Fares Zenaidi, Stefan Uhlich
  • Patent number: 10764703
    Abstract: A device for room geometry analysis comprising: a plurality of segments (101-106) built of acoustic metamaterials, each segment (?, ?) acting as a waveguide with a unique transfer function (B(?, ?, ?)); and a processor configured to calculate delays (?(?, ?)) and respective directions (c(?, ?)) of mirror sound sources (721-725) by decomposing a sound signal (?) obtained from a microphone (110) based on the transfer functions (B(?, ?, ?)) of the segments (101-106) and based on a calibration signal (tsp(t)) emitted by a speaker (420).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Franck Giron, Fabien Cardinaux, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich, Marc Ferras Font, Andreas Schwager, Patrick Putzolu
  • Publication number: 20200175959
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate artificial sound for an electric vehicle, the artificial sound being configured for being easily cancellable, reducible and/or modifiable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fabien CARDINAUX, Andreas SCHWAGER, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH, Marc FERRAS FONT, Franck GIRON, Patrick PUTZOLU
  • Patent number: 10664879
    Abstract: An electronic device has a display and a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to obtain location information of a specific item of multiple items located in an environment, wherein the location information of the specific item is obtained based on a correlation between location tracking information of electronic devices moving in the environment and item list data representing items of the multiple items being purchased by users of the electronic devices for which the location tracking information has been provided; and display an indication of the location of the specific item on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aurel Bordewieck, Fabien Cardinaux, Wilhelm Hagg, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich
  • Publication number: 20200159490
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method comprising obtaining a target spectrum, obtaining a set of non-target spectra, the set of non-target spectra comprising one or more non-target spectra, summing the target spectrum and the set of non-target spectra to obtain a mixture spectrum, and training an artificial neural network by using the mixture spectrum as input of the neural network and by using a spectrum which is based on the target spectrum as desired output of the artificial neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fabien CARDINAUX, Michael ENENKL, Franck GIRON, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH
  • Patent number: 10657973
    Abstract: A method including decomposing a magnitude part of a signal spectrum of a mixture signal into spectral components, each spectral component including a frequency part and a time activation part; and clustering the spectral components to obtain one or more clusters of spectral components, wherein the clustering of the spectral components is computed in the time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Guo, Stefan Uhlich, Yuhki Mitsufuji
  • Patent number: 10650798
    Abstract: A device for active noise control inside a vehicle, the device comprising a processor (7610) configured to determine a noise wavefield within the vehicle based on noise signals captured by a microphone array (M1-M10); determine the position of the ears of a passenger (P1) based on information obtained from a head tracking sensor (HTU1); capture a noise field inside the vehicle based on information obtained by the microphone array; obtain a noise level at the ears of the passenger (P1) from the noise field; and determine an anti-noise field based on the noise level at the position of the ears of the passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Marc Ferras Font, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Stefan Uhlich
  • Publication number: 20200145775
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate one or more focused sound sources as virtual loudspeakers of an announcement system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fabien CARDINAUX, Michael ENENKL, Marc Ferras Font, Franck GIRON, Thomas KEMP, Patrick PUTZOLU, Andreas SCHWAGER, Stefan UHLICH
  • Patent number: 10595144
    Abstract: In method the following is performed: receiving input audio content representing mixed audio sources; separating the mixed audio sources, thereby obtaining separated audio source signals and a residual signal; and generating output audio content by mixing the separated audio source signals and the residual signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Franck Giron, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich
  • Patent number: 10564923
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method comprising obtaining a target spectrum, obtaining a set of non-target spectra, the set of non-target spectra comprising one or more non-target spectra, summing the target spectrum and the set of non-target spectra to obtain a mixture spectrum, and training an artificial neural network by using the mixture spectrum as input of the neural network and by using a spectrum which is based on the target spectrum as desired output of the artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Franck Giron, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich
  • Publication number: 20190306631
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system comprising a diaphragm (101) and an electrostatic foil (108) mounted on top of the diaphragm (101)
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Enenkl, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Stefan Uhlich
  • Publication number: 20190304431
    Abstract: A device for active noise control inside a vehicle, the device comprising a processor (7610) configured to determine a noise wavefield within the vehicle based on noise signals captured by a microphone array (M1-M10); determine the position of the ears of a passenger (P1) based on information obtained from a head tracking sensor (HTU1); capture a noise field inside the vehicle based on information obtained by the microphone array; obtain a noise level at the ears of the passenger (P1) from the noise field; and determine an anti-noise field based on the noise level at the position of the ears of the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Marc Ferras Font, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Stefan Uhlich