Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Hiroi
Toshiyuki Hiroi 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).
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Publication number: 20240085348Abstract: Provided are a measurement device and a measurement method that enable calibration in the event of error variations. A measurement device configured to measure an amount of moisture contained in a medium, the measurement device including: a first probe in which a first cable electrically connectable to a first connection cable is embedded; a second probe in which a second cable electrically connectable to a second connection cable is embedded; and a standard that is fixed at a predetermined positional relationship with the first probe and the second probe even during the measurement, is electrically connectable to the first connection cable and the second connection cable when the measurement is not conducted, and is used for calibration of the measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Sachio IIDA, Atsushi YAMADA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Takahiro OISHI, Toshiyuki HIROI
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Publication number: 20230003668Abstract: A sensor apparatus includes a sensor head and a measurement unit. The sensor head includes a first probe and a second probe. The first probe includes a first tiny antenna section for transmission and a second tiny antenna section for transmission. The second probe is arranged at a predetermined distance from the first probe, and includes a first tiny antenna section for reception and a second tiny antenna section for reception. The measurement unit generates a measurement signal that includes information regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first tiny antenna section for transmission and the first tiny antenna section for reception, and information regarding characteristics of the propagation of the electromagnetic wave in the medium between the second tiny antenna section for transmission and the second tiny antenna section for reception.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Atsushi YAMADA, Sachio IIDA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Toshiyuki HIROI
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Patent number: 11428714Abstract: A sensor device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor head and a measurement unit. The sensor head includes a first probe and a second probe, the first probe including a first antenna section used for transmission, the second probe including a second antenna section used for reception, the second probe being situated at a specified distance from the first probe and facing the first probe. The measurement unit includes a signal generator that generates a measurement signal that includes information regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first and second antenna sections.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Atsushi Yamada, Kyohei Yoshimitsu, Hiroyuki Mita, Sachio Iida, Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi
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Publication number: 20220205931Abstract: A measurement device that measures an amount of moisture in a medium. The device includes a transmitter that transmits an electrical signal including an incident wave to one of a pair of probes in which a cable has been embedded through the cable. A receiver receives a reflected wave obtained from reflection of the incident wave by the one of the pairs of probes and a transmitted wave that has been transmitted through a medium between the pair of probes through the cable. A processing unit obtains a reciprocating delay time corresponding to a time over which the electrical signal reciprocates through the cable and measures an amount of moisture contained in the medium on the basis of the reciprocating delay time and a propagation transmission time corresponding to a time over which electromagnetic waves propagate and the electrical signal is transmitted through the medium and the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Sachio IIDA, Atsushi YAMADA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Toshiyuki HIROI
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Publication number: 20220057435Abstract: A sensor device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor head and a measurement unit. The sensor head includes a first probe and a second probe, the first probe including a first antenna section used for transmission, the second probe including a second antenna section used for reception, the second probe being situated at a specified distance from the first probe and facing the first probe. The measurement unit includes a signal generator that generates a measurement signal that includes information regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first and second antenna sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi YAMADA, Kyohei YOSHIMITSU, Hiroyuki MITA, Sachio IIDA, Seiji KOBAYASHI, Toshiyuki HIROI
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Patent number: 11086969Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to reduce a processing load associated with inner product operations while also guaranteeing the quantization granularity of weight coefficients, the information processing device including: a multiply-accumulate operation circuit configured to execute a multiply-accumulate operation on the basis of multiple input values and multiple weight coefficients that are quantized by an exponential representation and that correspond to each of the input values. Exponents of the quantized weight coefficients are expressed by fractions taking a predetermined divisor as a denominator, and the multiply-accumulate operation circuit performs the multiply-accumulate operation using different addition multipliers on the basis of a remainder determined from the divisor.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATiONInventors: Toshiyuki Hiroi, Akira Nakamura, Makiko Yamamoto, Ryoji Ikegaya
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Patent number: 11030524Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to reduce a processing load associated with inner product operations while also guaranteeing the quantization granularity of weight coefficients, the information processing device including: a computational unit configured to compute an output value by performing an inner product operation based on multiple input values and multiple weight coefficients corresponding to each of the input values. The computational unit computes the output value on the basis of the weight coefficients quantized on the basis of a granularity of a vector direction on an N-dimensional hypersphere surface. Moreover, provided is an information processing device including: a multiply-accumulate operation circuit configured to execute a multiply-accumulate operation based on multiple input values and multiple weight coefficients corresponding to each of the input values.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Hiroi, Makiko Yamamoto, Akira Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200387781Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to reduce a processing load associated with inner product operations while also guaranteeing the quantization granularity of weight coefficients, the information processing device including: a computational unit configured to compute an output value by performing an inner product operation based on multiple input values and multiple weight coefficients corresponding to each of the input values. The computational unit computes the output value on the basis of the weight coefficients quantized on the basis of a granularity of a vector direction on an N-dimensional hypersphere surface. Moreover, provided is an information processing device including: a multiply-accumulate operation circuit configured to execute a multiply-accumulate operation based on multiple input values and multiple weight coefficients corresponding to each of the input values.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki HIROI, Makiko YAMAMOTO, Akira NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 10797747Abstract: A signal processing method comprising rearranging transmission data so that a predictable portion of the transmission data is spread more uniformly in the transmission data, the predictable portion including information that is predictable by a receiver side. The phase of a carrier signal can be modulated based on the rearranged transmission data, and the modulated signal may be transmitted. The transmitted signal is received by the receiver side. A header position of each frame of the received signal is detected based on the information predictable to the receiver side. Once detected, the frames of the received signal are integrated, and the transmission data is decoded based on the integration. A signal processing device, a transmitter, and/or a receiver may utilizes these methods to transmit, receive, and/or process signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Takehiro Sugita
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Publication number: 20200182906Abstract: A sensor device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor head and a measurement unit. The sensor head includes a first probe and a second probe, the first probe including a first antenna section used for transmission, the second probe including a second antenna section used for reception, the second probe being situated at a specified distance from the first probe and facing the first probe. The measurement unit includes a signal generator that generates a measurement signal that includes information regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first and second antenna sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi YAMADA, Kyohei YOSHIMITSU, Hiroyuki MITA, Sachio IIDA, Seiji KOBAYASHI, Toshiyuki HIROI
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Publication number: 20200073912Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to reduce a processing load associated with inner product operations while also guaranteeing the quantization granularity of weight coefficients, the information processing device including: a multiply-accumulate operation circuit configured to execute a multiply-accumulate operation on the basis of multiple input values and multiple weight coefficients that are quantized by an exponential representation and that correspond to each of the input values. Exponents of the quantized weight coefficients are expressed by fractions taking a predetermined divisor as a denominator, and the multiply-accumulate operation circuit performs the multiply-accumulate operation using different addition multipliers on the basis of a remainder determined from the divisor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki HIROI, Akira NAKAMURA, Makiko YAMAMOTO, Ryoji IKEGAYA
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Publication number: 20190288738Abstract: A signal processing method comprising rearranging transmission data so that a predictable portion of the transmission data is spread more uniformly in the transmission data, the predictable portion including information that is predictable by a receiver side. The phase of a carrier signal can be modulated based on the rearranged transmission data, and the modulated signal may be transmitted. The transmitted signal is received by the receiver side. A header position of each frame of the received signal is detected based on the information predictable to the receiver side. Once detected, the frames of the received signal are integrated, and the transmission data is decoded based on the integration. A signal processing device, a transmitter, and/or a receiver may utilizes these methods to transmit, receive, and/or process signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Takehiro Sugita
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Patent number: 10374849Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method which can suppress increase in power consumption. In an aspect of the present technology, control data, which is for controlling frequency modulation to a carrier signal using digital data to be transmitted, and for suppressing a time average of a fluctuation amount of a frequency modulation amount more than a case of controlling the frequency modulation to the carrier signal using the digital data is generated, the frequency modulation is performed to the carrier signal on the basis of the generated control data, and the carrier signal to which the frequency modulation is performed is transmitted as a transmission signal. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a signal processing apparatus, a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication apparatus, or an electronic apparatus having a transmission function, a reception function, or a communication function, or a computer which controls these.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Tamotsu Ikeda, Hitoshi Tomiyama, Makoto Sato, Hiroyuki Mita
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Patent number: 10348359Abstract: A signal processing method comprising rearranging transmission data so that a predictable portion of the transmission data is spread more uniformly in the transmission data, the predictable portion including information that is predictable by a receiver side. The phase of a carrier signal can be modulated based on the rearranged transmission data, and the modulated signal may be transmitted. The transmitted signal is received by the receiver side. A header position of each frame of the received signal is detected based on the information predictable to the receiver side. Once detected, the frames of the received signal are integrated, and the transmission data is decoded based on the integration. A signal processing device, a transmitter, and/or a receiver may utilizes these methods to transmit, receive, and/or process signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Takehiro Sugita
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Publication number: 20170237588Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method which can suppress increase in power consumption. In an aspect of the present technology, control data, which is for controlling frequency modulation to a carrier signal using digital data to be transmitted, and for suppressing a time average of a fluctuation amount of a frequency modulation amount more than a case of controlling the frequency modulation to the carrier signal using the digital data is generated, the frequency modulation is performed to the carrier signal on the basis of the generated control data, and the carrier signal to which the frequency modulation is performed is transmitted as a transmission signal. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a signal processing apparatus, a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication apparatus, or an electronic apparatus having a transmission function, a reception function, or a communication function, or a computer which controls these.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Tamotsu Ikeda, Hitoshi Tomiyama, Makoto Sato, Hiroyuki Mita
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Patent number: 9717987Abstract: A frame storage stores an image obtained by imaging a region of at least part of the body of a user. A vital sign signal detector detects a signal sequence of a vital sign that cyclically varies from plural imaged regions of the body of the user by using captured images of a predetermined number of frames stored in the frame storage. A correlation calculator obtains the correlation between the signal sequences of the vital sign detected from the respective imaged regions of the body. An identity determining section determines whether or not the respective imaged regions of the body belong to the same user based on the correlation between the signal sequences of the vital sign detected from the respective imaged regions of the body.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akihiko Sugawara, Akio Ohba, Toshiyuki Hiroi
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Publication number: 20170207814Abstract: A signal processing method comprising rearranging transmission data so that a predictable portion of the transmission data is spread more uniformly in the transmission data, the predictable portion including information that is predictable by a receiver side. The phase of a carrier signal can be modulated based on the rearranged transmission data, and the modulated signal may be transmitted. The transmitted signal is received by the receiver side. A header position of each frame of the received signal is detected based on the information predictable to the receiver side. Once detected, the frames of the received signal are integrated, and the transmission data is decoded based on the integration. A signal processing device, a transmitter, and/or a receiver may utilizes these methods to transmit, receive, and/or process signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2015Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Takehiro Sugita
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Patent number: 9662583Abstract: Provided are a portable game device and a method of controlling the portable game device capable of making improved use of an image generated by image pickup unit. A pickup object image generating unit (52) picks up an image of a pickup object and generates a pickup object image. A pickup object distance measuring unit (54) measures a distance to the pickup object. An information processing execution unit (56) executes information processing based on the pickup object image and the distance measured by the pickup object distance measuring unit (54).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Akihiko Sugawara, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Koji Kageyama
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Publication number: 20140254902Abstract: A frame storage stores an image obtained by imaging a region of at least part of the body of a user. A vital sign signal detector detects a signal sequence of a vital sign that cyclically varies from plural imaged regions of the body of the user by using captured images of a predetermined number of frames stored in the frame storage. A correlation calculator obtains the correlation between the signal sequences of the vital sign detected from the respective imaged regions of the body. An identity determining section determines whether or not the respective imaged regions of the body belong to the same user based on the correlation between the signal sequences of the vital sign detected from the respective imaged regions of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2012Publication date: September 11, 2014Inventors: Akihiko Sugawara, Akio Ohba, Toshiyuki Hiroi
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Patent number: 8730247Abstract: A first GPU is provided with a digital video output terminal (Vout terminal) for connection to an external source. A digital video signal output from the Vout terminal is provided to a display device via a HDMI. The first GPU and a second GPU are connected to each other via a data bus for bidirectional data exchange. The second GPU applies a predetermined rendering process on data provided from the first GPU via a data input and output interface. The rendered data is returned to the first GPU via the data input and output interface. The first GPU processes the data returned from the second GPU as necessary and outputs a digital video signal via the Vout terminal and the HDMI.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2006Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Toshiyuki Hiroi, Masaaki Oka