SONY GROUP CORPORATION patent applications on August 22nd, 2024
Patent Applications by SONY GROUP CORPORATION on August 22nd, 2024
SONY GROUP CORPORATION: 27 patent applications
SONY GROUP CORPORATION has applied for patents in the areas of H04N23/60 (2), H05K7/20 (2), G06F3/01 (2), H04L9/32 (2), G06F3/16 (2) H04N23/64 (2), G06F3/165 (2), B25J9/163 (1), H03M13/096 (1), H05K7/20181 (1)
With keywords such as: information, unit, processing, data, control, device, display, user, network, and present in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Inventor(s): ATSUSHI SAKAMOTO of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, TOSHIMITSU KAI of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): B25J9/16, B62D57/032, G06V10/762, G06V10/764, G06V20/50
CPC Code(s): B25J9/163
Abstract: a suitable posture according to a shape of a traveling surface of a robot can be stored in a storage, the suitable posture according to the shape of the traveling surface can be acquired from the storage when the robot is to be stopped, and posture control can be performed to stop the robot. a suitable stop posture analyzer that analyzes the suitable stop posture of a walking robot executes processing of analyzing the shape of the traveling surface of the walking robot, stop posture analysis processing of analyzing stop postures according to the shape of the traveling surface, stop posture evaluation value calculation processing of calculating evaluation values of the stop postures, and processing of recording, in the storage, a stop posture having a highest evaluation value among the stop postures according to the traveling surface shape. furthermore, a stop control unit acquires the suitable stop posture corresponding to a traveling surface shape clustering group from the storage, and performs posture control to match a posture of the robot to the suitable stop posture and stop the robot.
Inventor(s): Yoshikazu FURUYAMA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): B25J13/08, G01S5/30, G01S15/08
CPC Code(s): B25J13/084
Abstract: the present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a program which enable easy detection of contact of an object with a predetermined surface in a case where the object is gripped and arranged on the predetermined surface.
Inventor(s): Yoshikazu FURUYAMA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): B25J13/08, G01S5/30, G01S15/08
CPC Code(s): B25J13/084
Abstract: in a case where a target object gripped by a finger portion including an ultrasonic transmitting element that generates an ultrasonic wave and a finger portion including an ultrasonic receiving element that receives the ultrasonic wave output from the ultrasonic transmitting element is to be arranged on an arrangement surface, a detection unit detects contact of the target object with the arrangement surface on the basis of a sound pressure of the ultrasonic wave received by the ultrasonic receiving element. the present technology can be applied to, for example, a control device for a robot and the like.
Inventor(s): Shin Masuhara of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Tsutomu Maruyama of Kanagawa (JP) for sony group corporation, Isao Hidaka of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Tomoyuki Umetsu of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G01N15/1404
CPC Code(s): G01N15/1404
Abstract: to provide a technology capable of stabilizing droplets.
Inventor(s): Shin Masuhara of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Tsutomu Maruyama of Kanagawa (JP) for sony group corporation, Isao Hidaka of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Tomoyuki Umetsu of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G01N15/1404
CPC Code(s): G01N15/1404
Abstract: provided is a particle isolation device or the like including: a vibration unit that applies vibration to a fluid containing sheath liquid by supplying a driving voltage based on each of a plurality of frequencies; an imaging unit that acquires, at a position where the fluid is formed into droplets through the vibration, an image of the fluid and each of the droplets; a liquid temperature control unit that controls a liquid temperature of the sheath liquid; and a frequency control unit that acquires data regarding a state of the droplet at each of the frequencies per liquid temperature of the sheath liquid from the image captured by the imaging unit, and controls the frequency of the driving voltage on the basis of a variation in the data accompanying a change in the liquid temperature of the sheath liquid.
20240280468. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE ANALYZER_simplified_abstract_(sony group corporation)
Inventor(s): Katsutoshi Tahara of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G01N15/1434, G01N15/01, G01N15/10, G01N15/1429, G01N15/149
CPC Code(s): G01N15/1434
Abstract: an object of the present technology is to provide a technique for improving detection accuracy in a biological sample analyzer.
20240280468. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE ANALYZER_simplified_abstract_(sony group corporation)
Inventor(s): Katsutoshi Tahara of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G01N15/1434, G01N15/01, G01N15/10, G01N15/1429, G01N15/149
CPC Code(s): G01N15/1434
Abstract: the present disclosure relates to a biological sample analyzer including a light irradiation unit that irradiates a particle with light, a detection unit that detects light generated by the light irradiation, and an information processing unit that controls the light irradiation unit and the detection unit. in an embodiment, the information processing unit corrects signal intensity measurement value of light detected by the detection unit on the basis of a relationship between a light irradiation output value of the light irradiation unit and a signal intensity measurement value of the light detected by the detection unit. furthermore, in an embodiment, the information processing unit is configured to execute a removal process of removing signal intensity data related to a particle group not belonging to a particle population including a plurality of kinds of particle groups having stepwise different fluorescence intensity levels, from signal intensity data of light generated by irradiating a sample including the particle population with light.
Inventor(s): Keijiroh NAGANO of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Tsuyoshi ISHIKAWA of Kanagawa (JP) for sony group corporation, Shin SHIROMA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Daisuke TAJIMA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06F3/01
CPC Code(s): G06F3/017
Abstract: an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a hold determination unit. the hold determination unit determines, in a case where a rate of decrease of a distance between a first hold-side object and a second hold-side object that set a virtual object as a pinch-and-hold target becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value, that the virtual object has been held by the first hold-side object and the second hold-side object. accordingly, a high-quality virtual experience can be achieved.
Inventor(s): MAKOTO WADA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, ERI UENO of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06F3/0488, G09G5/00
CPC Code(s): G06F3/0488
Abstract: a display device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: a first display unit; a determination unit; a virtual display region setting unit; a transmission unit; and a reception unit. the first display unit is capable of displaying an image. the determination unit determines a connection with a different display device that includes a second display unit that is capable of displaying an image. the virtual display region setting unit sets, in a case where it is determined that a connection with the different display device has been made, a second virtual display region with which each position of the second display unit is associated, in association with a first virtual display region with which each position of the first display unit is associated. the transmission unit transmits information regarding a first contact position generated in accordance with a first contact on the first display unit to the different display device determined to be connected. the reception unit receives information regarding a second contact position generated in accordance with a second contact on the second display unit from the different display device determined to be connected.
Inventor(s): Graham Clift of San Diego CA (US) for sony group corporation, Luke Fay of San Diego CA (US) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06F3/06
CPC Code(s): G06F3/0644
Abstract: techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the advanced television systems committee (atsc) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. to improve robustness for datacast files to limited memory platforms, each file is divided into partitions and then the packets in a partition are arranged out of order (ooo), with the partitions then being sent in order with their respective packets ooo.
Inventor(s): Kenichi Makino of Kanagawa (JP) for sony group corporation, Kyosuke Matsumoto of Kanagawa (JP) for sony group corporation, Osamu Nakamura of Saitama (JP) for sony group corporation, Shinpei Tsuchiya of Saitama (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06F3/16, A61B5/12, G08B21/18, H04R1/10, H04R3/00
CPC Code(s): G06F3/165
Abstract: an information processing method of an information processing system () according to the present disclosure includes an adjustment manipulation accepting step and a feedback output step. the adjustment manipulation accepting step accepts adjustment manipulation of the sound output from the sound output unit. the feedback output step estimates the auditory capacity of the user corresponding to the adjustment manipulation from the adjustment manipulation and the signal data of the sound corresponding to the adjustment manipulation, and outputs the feedback.
Inventor(s): Takayoshi SHIMIZU of Chiba (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06F3/16, G06F3/01, G06T15/00, G10L15/26
CPC Code(s): G06F3/165
Abstract: an information processing device includes an emphasis information generation unit that generates control information for performing emphasis control on audio including an environmental sound in a virtual space and an utterance voice of a second user associated with a second avatar arranged in the virtual space on the basis of interest information of a first user associated with a first avatar arranged in the virtual space.
Inventor(s): Yuki HIRANO of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Yutaro MARUYAMA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Tadashi KAMOHARA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06F21/31, G06F21/44
CPC Code(s): G06F21/316
Abstract: an information processing apparatus includes a behavior estimation library and an authentication method switching unit. the behavior estimation library estimates a behavior of a user. the authentication method switching unit switches, based on an estimation result of the behavior, an authentication method of personal authentication among a gait authentication method, an authentication method other than the gait authentication method, and no lock.
Inventor(s): Thomas CARETTE of Stuttgart (DE) for sony group corporation, Michele MINELLI of Stuttgart (DE) for sony group corporation, Alexandru SERBANATI of Stuttgart (DE) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06F21/62
CPC Code(s): G06F21/6245
Abstract: an apparatus for privacy control is provided. the apparatus includes first interface circuitry configured to receive, from a data consumer, a request for accessing data of a user. the apparatus further includes processing circuitry configured to define an access policy for the data consumer for accessing the data based on the request and a global privacy policy of the user. the access policy defines to what extent the data consumer is allowed to access the data. the processing circuitry is further configured to generate an access key for accessing the data. the access key encodes the determined access policy. the apparatus further includes second interface circuitry configured to send the access key to the data consumer.
Inventor(s): EIJI KAMINO of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, TAKUMA SUZUKI of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06Q50/00, H04L9/32
CPC Code(s): G06Q50/01
Abstract: the present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of presenting a highly reliable profile in an sns by using a token having uniqueness. information of one or more tokens having uniqueness and owned by a user having an account of a social network service is acquired from a blockchain, and setting data to be used for page setting of a page of the user of the social network service is generated, the setting data being setting data for setting the token to be presented on the page of the user of the social network service, among the tokens owned by the user.
Inventor(s): KEISUKE CHIDA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06T3/4046, G06T3/4053, G06V10/82, G06V40/16
CPC Code(s): G06T3/4046
Abstract: the information processing device (ip) includes a human face determination network (pn) and a super-resolution network (srn). the human face determination network (pn) calculates a human face matching degree between an input image (im) before being subjected to super-resolution processing and an input image (im) after being subjected to the super-resolution processing. the super-resolution network (srn) adjusts a generation force of the super-resolution processing based on the human face matching degree.
Inventor(s): RYOTA YAMADA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, JUNICHIRO ENOKI of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G06T7/00, G02B21/36
CPC Code(s): G06T7/0014
Abstract: there are provided an information processing program, an information processing device, an information processing method, and a microscope system capable of more efficiently performing parameter adjustment. the information processing program is an information processing program for causing a computer to execute an acquisition step of acquiring a first image obtained by imaging a specimen tissue, an analysis processing step of performing analysis processing on the first image using a predetermined parameter, and a determination step of determining whether to allow the analysis processing to be performed with the predetermined parameter on the basis of first characteristic information of a tissue form present in the first image and second characteristic information of a tissue form corresponding to the predetermined parameter.
Inventor(s): Keiichi OSAKO of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Yuhki MITSUFUJI of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Ryosuke SAWATA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G10L21/0272, G10L25/30
CPC Code(s): G10L21/0272
Abstract: for example, the number of operations is reduced without a deterioration in sound source separation performance.
Inventor(s): Keiichi OSAKO of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Yuhki MITSUFUJI of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Ryosuke SAWATA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): G10L21/0272, G10L25/30
CPC Code(s): G10L21/0272
Abstract: a program according to the present disclosure causes a computer to execute an information processing method, the information processing method including generating, by a neural network unit, sound source separation information for separating a predetermined sound source signal from a mixed sound signal containing a plurality of sound source signals, transforming, by an encoder included in the neural network unit, a feature extracted from the mixed sound signal, inputting a process result from the encoder to each of a plurality of sub-neural network units included in the neural network unit, and inputting the process result from the encoder and a process result from each of the plurality of sub-neural network units to a decoder included in the neural network unit.
Inventor(s): Graham Clift of San Diego CA (US) for sony group corporation, Luke Fay of San Diego CA (US) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H03M13/09
CPC Code(s): H03M13/096
Abstract: techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the advanced television systems committee (atsc) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. to improve robustness for datacast files, a checksum is provided for each source block in the file, allowing the receiver to discard only a portion of the data as defined by the length of a corrupted block in the al-fec parameters. a list of checksums for each source block can be included in the repairflow element of the service transport session instance description (s-tsid) since repairflow element and al-fec provide the breakdown of the data into source blocks.
Inventor(s): MITSUKI TAKAHASHI of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, HIROKI MATSUDA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, RYOTA KIMURA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H03M13/37, H03M13/35, H04L1/00
CPC Code(s): H03M13/3761
Abstract: a communication device includes: a generation unit that generates error detection data; and an addition unit that adds redundant data including the error detection data to one or a plurality of encoded sequences generated by encoding processing, in which the error detection data is used for error detection of the one or the plurality of encoded sequences, and the generation unit generates the error detection data having different lengths according to a predetermined condition.
Inventor(s): Takashi KAWAMURA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Takuma MATSUSHITA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Toshinori KONDO of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Futoshi TAKEUCHI of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H04B13/02
CPC Code(s): H04B13/02
Abstract: the present technology relates to a communication device and a communication system that enable favorable communication in a liquid.
Inventor(s): Takashi KAWAMURA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Takuma MATSUSHITA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Toshinori KONDO of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Futoshi TAKEUCHI of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H04B13/02
CPC Code(s): H04B13/02
Abstract: a communication device includes a first antenna connected to a communication network in a liquid, and a first signal processing unit that processes at least one of a signal received by the first antenna or a signal transmitted by the first antenna, in which the first antenna is a circularly polarized antenna. a second antenna connected to a communication network in gas, and a second signal processing unit that processes at least one of a signal received by the second antenna or a signal transmitted by the second antenna are further included. the present technology can be applied to, for example, a communication device installed in sea water.
Inventor(s): TAKUMA SUZUKI of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, EIJI KAMINO of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H04L9/32, G06Q30/0241
CPC Code(s): H04L9/3213
Abstract: the present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program, in which it is possible to provide highly beneficial information to a user who owns a unique token such as an nft. information regarding a unique token owned by the user is acquired from a terminal used by a user, and notification information of which the user is notified by the terminal is determined on the basis of the token owned by the user.
Inventor(s): SHUICHI GOTO of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H04N23/60, G06T7/11, G06T7/50, H04N23/611, H04N23/67, H04N23/743
CPC Code(s): H04N23/64
Abstract: the present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a program that are capable of efficiently performing continuous imaging on main subjects as targets. the control device according to the present technology determines, on the basis of distances to respective main subjects included in an imaging range, the main subjects away from each other by a distance equal to or larger than a threshold distance to be the main subjects different from each other and controls continuous imaging on each of the main subjects, as targets, determined to be the main subjects that are different. the present technology is applicable to a device having an imaging function such as a digital still camera or a smartphone.
Inventor(s): Masashi KOKUBO of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Kimitaka BENISE of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Ryouhei KIMURA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Yuichi SHIRAI of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H04N23/60, H04N23/61, H04N23/63
CPC Code(s): H04N23/64
Abstract: an information processing apparatus includes an assist information acquisition unit that obtains assist information related to a target image displayed on a display unit, and a user interface control unit that performs control to display an image based on the assist information in a state where the image can be simultaneously checked with the target image.
Inventor(s): Yuxin WEI of Basingstoke (GB) for sony group corporation, Vivek SHARMA of Basingstoke (GB) for sony group corporation, Hideji WAKABAYASHI of Basingstoke (GB) for sony group corporation, Yassin Aden AWAD of Basingstoke (GB) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H04W40/02, H04L45/12, H04W28/02
CPC Code(s): H04W40/02
Abstract: methods and communications nodes for communications between communications devices, various communications nodes in a wireless backhaul network and a core network.
Inventor(s): Kun ZHAO of Malmo (SE) for sony group corporation, Olof ZANDER of Sodra Sandby (SE) for sony group corporation, Rickard LJUNG of Helsingborg (SE) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H04W52/14, H04W52/36
CPC Code(s): H04W52/146
Abstract: method, carried out in a radio terminal, for configuring uplink output power of radio transmission from the radio terminal, comprising determining a demand power reduction (p-mpr) based on a maximum power level associated with a first uplink duty cycle (udc); transmitting, to a radio network node, an indication of the demand power reduction; receiving, from the network node, an indication of a target power reduction (p-mpr) associated with an actual uplink duty cycle (udc); and configuring the output power based on the target power reduction.
Inventor(s): SHINICHIRO TSUDA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H04W76/11, H04W84/04, H04W88/08
CPC Code(s): H04W76/11
Abstract: a private network is flexibly built while ensuring physical or logical separation from a public network. a base station device notifies system information including a first identifier corresponding to a communication network (for example, plmn) in an identifier list. in that state, a second identifier used locally is added to the identifier list of the system information according to control information from a control device. thereafter, notification of the system information including the first and second identifiers in the identifier list is started. therefore, the private network is built.
Inventor(s): SHIGERU SUGAYA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, KOSUKE AIO of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, YUSUKE TANAKA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H04W76/15, H04L5/00, H04W72/541, H04W74/04
CPC Code(s): H04W76/15
Abstract: to provide a communication apparatus that realizes data sharing and coordinate transmit of shared data. a communication apparatus that operates as an access point includes: a communicating unit configured to transmit and receive wireless signals; and a control unit configured to control communication operations in the communicating unit, the communication operations including a communication operation for sharing data to be simultaneously transmitted to a single communication terminal between adjacent access points and a communication operation for recognizing that sharing of the data has been completed. the control unit is configured to perform control when transmitting the shared data simultaneously with the adjacent access points so as to multiplex the shared data with a transmission stream addressed to another communication apparatus and transmit the shared data as a multi-user multiplexed stream.
20240284630. MEDICAL DEVICE_simplified_abstract_(sony group corporation)
Inventor(s): TOMOYUKI KUBOTERA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation, NOBUHISA TOKUNAGA of TOKYO (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H05K7/20
CPC Code(s): H05K7/20181
Abstract: the present technology relates to a medical device that improves a drip-proof property of a ventilation portion for cooling an inside of a housing with a simple structure. an outside and the inside of the housing are ventilated by a ventilation path in which a plurality of ventilation paths having a longitudinal cross-sectional shape with a predetermined first direction as a longitudinal direction is arranged along a second direction different from the first direction. the ventilation path is covered with the covering member from the outer side of the housing, and is ventilated to the outside of the housing by the plurality of ventilation paths included in the covering member. the present technology can be applied to a medical monitor or the like.
Inventor(s): Kimitaka BENISE of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation, Keisuke OKADA of Tokyo (JP) for sony group corporation
IPC Code(s): H05K7/20, H05K7/14
CPC Code(s): H05K7/20836
Abstract: an information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a reception unit () configured to receive temperature information from an apparatus including a temperature adjustment unit configured to adjust a temperature by cooling or heating; a storage unit () configured to store log information in which pieces of the temperature information are arranged in time series; an acquisition unit () configured to obtain a temperature change degree based on the log information; a generation unit () configured to generate temperature control information for controlling the temperature based on the temperature change degree; and a transmission unit () configured to transmit the temperature control information to the apparatus.
SONY GROUP CORPORATION patent applications on August 22nd, 2024
- SONY GROUP CORPORATION
- B25J9/16
- B62D57/032
- G06V10/762
- G06V10/764
- G06V20/50
- CPC B25J9/163
- Sony group corporation
- B25J13/08
- G01S5/30
- G01S15/08
- CPC B25J13/084
- G01N15/1404
- CPC G01N15/1404
- G01N15/1434
- G01N15/01
- G01N15/10
- G01N15/1429
- G01N15/149
- CPC G01N15/1434
- G06F3/01
- CPC G06F3/017
- G06F3/0488
- G09G5/00
- CPC G06F3/0488
- G06F3/06
- CPC G06F3/0644
- G06F3/16
- A61B5/12
- G08B21/18
- H04R1/10
- H04R3/00
- CPC G06F3/165
- G06T15/00
- G10L15/26
- G06F21/31
- G06F21/44
- CPC G06F21/316
- G06F21/62
- CPC G06F21/6245
- G06Q50/00
- H04L9/32
- CPC G06Q50/01
- G06T3/4046
- G06T3/4053
- G06V10/82
- G06V40/16
- CPC G06T3/4046
- G06T7/00
- G02B21/36
- CPC G06T7/0014
- G10L21/0272
- G10L25/30
- CPC G10L21/0272
- H03M13/09
- CPC H03M13/096
- H03M13/37
- H03M13/35
- H04L1/00
- CPC H03M13/3761
- H04B13/02
- CPC H04B13/02
- G06Q30/0241
- CPC H04L9/3213
- H04N23/60
- G06T7/11
- G06T7/50
- H04N23/611
- H04N23/67
- H04N23/743
- CPC H04N23/64
- H04N23/61
- H04N23/63
- H04W40/02
- H04L45/12
- H04W28/02
- CPC H04W40/02
- H04W52/14
- H04W52/36
- CPC H04W52/146
- H04W76/11
- H04W84/04
- H04W88/08
- CPC H04W76/11
- H04W76/15
- H04L5/00
- H04W72/541
- H04W74/04
- CPC H04W76/15
- H05K7/20
- CPC H05K7/20181
- H05K7/14
- CPC H05K7/20836
