公开(公告)号：US20210329397A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-21

申请号：US17269242

申请日：2019-08-16

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Minoru Tsuji ,  Toru Chinen ,  Mitsuyuki Hatanaka ,  Yuki Yamamoto

IPC: H04S7/00 ,  H04S3/00

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and method, and a program that enable more efficient edit.
The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that selects and groups a plurality of objects existing in a predetermined space, and changes the positions of the plurality of the objects while maintaining the relative positional relationship of the plurality of the grouped objects in the space. The present technology can be applied to information processing apparatuses.

公开(公告)号：US11074921B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-27

申请号：US16488136

申请日：2018-03-15

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Toru Chinen ,  Minoru Tsuji ,  Yuki Yamamoto

IPC: G10L19/008 ,  H04S3/00 ,  H04S7/00

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that enable reduction of an amount of data to be transmitted in transmission of data of a plurality of audio objects. An information processing device according to one aspect of the present technology combines audio objects with sounds that are undistinguishable at a predetermined supposed listening position among a plurality of audio objects for the predetermined supposed listening position among a plurality of supposed listening positions and transmits data of a combined audio object obtained by the combination, along with data of other audio objects with sounds that are distinguishable at the predetermined supposed listening position. The present technology can be applied to a device that can process object-based audio data.

公开(公告)号：US20210150322A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

申请号：US16962830

申请日：2019-01-09

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Yuki Yamamoto

IPC: G06N3/063 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06F9/50

Abstract: The present technology relates to a neural network processing apparatus, a neural network processing method, and a program that make it possible to reduce a memory amount.
A neural network processing apparatus includes an operation processor that configures a neural network and performs operation processing on each frame of input data, the operation processing being processing in which a processing boundary of a specified frame of the input data for the operation processing and a processing boundary of another frame of the input data for the operation processing coincide, the other frame being different from the specified frame. The present technology is applicable to the neural network processing apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US10757337B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-25

申请号：US16097683

申请日：2017-03-08

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Eisuke Nomura ,  Yoshiaki Iwai ,  Yuki Yamamoto ,  Takuro Noda

IPC: H04N5/235 ,  G02B27/02 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G03B7/097 ,  G03B15/02 ,  G03B17/00 ,  G03B15/05 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: An information processing device including a light source control unit that controls a light source that irradiates an eye with light; and an exposure control unit that controls exposure for imaging the eye. The light source control unit sets a state of the light source to an on state or an off state at a time when the exposure is not performed.

公开(公告)号：US20200265845A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16867730

申请日：2020-05-06

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Yuki Yamamoto ,  Toru Chinen ,  Hiroyuki Honma ,  Runyu Shi

IPC: G10L19/02 ,  G10L19/26 ,  H03G9/00 ,  H03G11/00 ,  H03G7/00

Abstract: The present technology relates to a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a program which make it possible to obtain sound with higher quality.A demultiplexing circuit demultiplexes an input code string into a gain code string and a signal code string. A signal decoding circuit decodes the signal code string to output a time series signal. A gain decoding circuit decodes the gain code string. That is, the gain decoding circuit reads out gain values and gain inclination values at predetermined gain sample positions of the time series signal and interpolation mode information. An interpolation processing unit obtains a gain value at each sample position between two gain sample positions through linear interpolation or non-linear interpolation according to the interpolation mode based on the gain values and the gain inclination values. A gain applying circuit adjusts a gain of the time series signal based on the gain values. The present technology can be applied to a decoding apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US20200100028A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-26

申请号：US16496121

申请日：2018-03-15

Applicant: Sony Corporation ,  Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Inventor： Hirokazu Hashimoto ,  Ryosuke Tanaka ,  Yuki Yamamoto ,  Toru Chinen

IPC: H04R3/12 ,  G08G1/16 ,  H04R1/40 ,  H04R1/02

Abstract: This technology relates to an information processing apparatus for accurately notifying a mobile object of a position of a moving body nearby, and to an information processing method, a program, and a mobile object for use with the information processing apparatus.The information processing apparatus includes a moving body detection section that detects the moving body near the mobile object on the basis of information input from sensors, and a sound output control section that shifts the position of a sound image of a notification sound giving notification of the position of the moving body in keeping with a detected position thereof in motion. This technology can be applied to apparatuses, systems, or vehicles that provide driver assistance for preventing collision or contact with the moving body, for example.

公开(公告)号：US10587976B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US16248739

申请日：2019-01-15

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Yuki Yamamoto ,  Toru Chinen ,  Runyu Shi ,  Mitsuyuki Hatanaka

IPC: H04R5/02 ,  H03G1/02 ,  H03G3/20 ,  H04S5/00 ,  H04S7/00 ,  H03G3/30

Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and method, and a program for enabling more stable localization of a sound image.A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker. The values obtained by multiplying these gains by the gain of the virtual speaker are set as the gains of the lower right and lower left speakers for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. The present technology can be applied to sound processing apparatuses.

公开(公告)号：US10567903B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-18

申请号：US15737026

申请日：2016-06-09

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Yuki Yamamoto ,  Toru Chinen ,  Minoru Tsuji

IPC: H04S7/00 ,  H04S3/00

Abstract: The present technology relates to an audio processing apparatus and method and a program that make it possible to obtain sound of higher quality.An acquisition unit acquires an audio signal and metadata of an object. A vector calculation unit calculates, based on a horizontal direction angle and a vertical direction angle included in the metadata of the object and indicative of an extent of a sound image, a spread vector indicative of a position in a region indicative of the extent of the sound image. A gain calculation unit calculates, based on the spread vector, a VBAP gain of the audio signal in regard to each speaker by VBAP. The present technology can be applied to an audio processing apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US10546594B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-28

申请号：US16276936

申请日：2019-02-15

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Yuki Yamamoto ,  Toru Chinen ,  Hiroyuki Honma ,  Yuhki Mitsufuji

IPC: G10L21/0388 ,  G10L19/16 ,  G10L19/02 ,  G10L21/038

Abstract: The present invention relates to a signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method, an encoder and an encoding method, a decoder and a decoding method, and a program capable of reproducing music signal having a better sound quality by expansion of frequency band.An encoder sets an interval including 16 frames as interval section to be processed, outputs high band encoded data for obtaining the high band component of an input signal and low band encoded data obtained by encoding the low band signal of the input signal for each section to be processed. In this case, for each frame, a coefficient used in estimation of the high band component is selected and the section to be processed is divided into continuous frame segments including continuous frames from which the coefficient with the same section to be processed is selected. In addition, high band encoded data is produced which includes data including information indicating a length of each continuous frame segment, information indicating the number of continuous frame segments included in the section to be processed and a coefficient index indicating the coefficient selected in each continuous frame segment. The present invention is applicable to the encoder.

公开(公告)号：US10523975B2

公开(公告)日：2019-12-31

申请号：US14904232

申请日：2014-07-01

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Shinobu Hattori ,  Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi ,  Ohji Nakagami ,  Toru Chinen ,  Runyu Shi ,  Minoru Tsuji ,  Yuki Yamamoto

IPC: H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/4728 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/854 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/236 ,  H04N21/2368

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and information processing method capable of recognizing an acquisition position of voice data on an image. A web server transmits image frame size information indicating image frame size of image data and audio position information indicating acquisition position of voice data. The present disclosure is applicable to an information processing system or other like system including file generation device, web server, and video playback terminal to perform tiled streaming using a manner compliant with moving picture experts group phase-dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH).