公开(公告)号：US11823557B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-21

申请号：US17255537

申请日：2019-04-25

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Shiro Suzuki ,  Shuichiro Nishigori ,  Hirofumi Takeda ,  Jun Matsumoto

IPC: G08B6/00 ,  H03M5/22

CPC classification number: G08B6/00 ,  H03M5/22

Abstract: A system related to tactile reproduction is made more efficient by achieving a data amount reduction of a tactile signal while ensuring reproducibility of a tactile sense. An encoding apparatus includes an encoding unit configured to encode tactile signals using different data formats between different regions of a human body. Therefore, for example, a data amount reduction of a tactile signal can be performed considering difficulty in perceiving tactile stimulation of a region, by reducing a data distribution of a tactile signal for a region with low tactile sensitivity using a difference in tactile sensitivity between regions of a human body, and the like.

公开(公告)号：US11496152B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US17265171

申请日：2019-06-05

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Shiro Suzuki ,  Shuichiro Nishigori ,  Hirofumi Takeda ,  Jun Matsumoto

IPC: H03M7/34 ,  H03M7/30 ,  G06F3/01 ,  H03M7/40

Abstract: A decoding device comprising a decoding unit configured to decode a tactile signal encoded for each of frequency bands. A decoding method comprising decoding a tactile signal encoded for each of frequency bands. A non-transitory storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, execute processing comprising decoding a tactile signal encoded for each of frequency bands.

公开(公告)号：US20210366248A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-25

申请号：US17255537

申请日：2019-04-25

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Shiro Suzuki ,  Shuichiro Nishigori ,  Hirofumi Takeda ,  Jun Matsumoto

IPC: G08B6/00 ,  H03M7/30

Abstract: A system related to tactile reproduction is made more efficient by achieving a data amount reduction of a tactile signal while ensuring reproducibility of a tactile sense.
An encoding apparatus according to the present technology includes an encoding unit configured to encode tactile signals using different data formats between different regions of a human body. Therefore, for example, a data amount reduction of a tactile signal can be performed considering difficulty in perceiving tactile stimulation of a region, by reducing a data distribution of a tactile signal for a region with low tactile sensitivity using a difference in tactile sensitivity between regions of a human body, and the like.

公开(公告)号：US20210359703A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-18

申请号：US17265171

申请日：2019-06-05

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Shiro Suzuki ,  Shuichiro Nishigori ,  Hirofumi Takeda ,  Jun Matsumoto

IPC: H03M7/30

Abstract: The present technology relates to a technology for improving the efficiency of a tactile reproduction system by reducing the amount of data for a tactile signal while tactile reproducibility is ensured.
A decoding device according to the present technology includes a decoding unit configured to decode a tactile signal encoded for each of frequency bands. This enables efficient encoding in which bit distribution for a tactile signal which is difficult for humans to perceive due to the tactile properties is reduced.

公开(公告)号：US10049677B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-14

申请号：US15500253

申请日：2015-07-23

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Shuichiro Nishigori ,  Shiro Suzuki

IPC: G10L19/02

Abstract: The present technology relates to an encoding device and a method, a decoding device and a method, and a program that enables acquisitions of high-quality sound even in a resource-poor setting.A demultiplexer demultiplexes a supplied code string, to obtain the quantized low-band spectrum, the spectral characteristic code, and the quantized expansion coefficient(s). At this point, the code string includes a single quantized expansion coefficient or quantized expansion coefficients of the respective bands in the high band depending on the spectral characteristic code. A spectral inverse quantization unit obtains the low-band spectrum by inversely quantizing the quantized low-band spectrum. An expansion coefficient inverse quantization unit obtains the expansion coefficient(s) by inversely quantizing the quantized expansion coefficient(s). An expanded spectrum generation unit generates an expanded spectrum, in accordance with the low-band spectrum and the expansion coefficient(s) depending on the spectral characteristic code. An IMDCT unit generates a band-expanded time-series signal from the low-band spectrum and the expanded spectrum. The present technology can be applied to decoding devices.

公开(公告)号：US11561618B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-24

申请号：US17262321

申请日：2019-07-17

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Hirofumi Takeda ,  Shuichiro Nishigori ,  Shiro Suzuki ,  Jun Matsumoto ,  Ikuo Yamano ,  Toshiyuki Nakagawa

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G10K11/178 ,  G06F9/54

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can suppress hindrance to viewing/listening to content. A control unit controls output of a tactile stimulus in a case where notification information is received during output of content including sound. Further, the control unit performs a process of controlling the tactile stimulus in response to the content or a process of controlling the content in response to the tactile stimulus. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a mobile device such as a smartphone and the like capable of reproducing content including sound.

公开(公告)号：US11284299B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-22

申请号：US16938872

申请日：2020-07-24

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Shiro Suzuki ,  Jun Matsumoto ,  Takahiro Watanabe ,  Yuuki Matsumura ,  Chisato Kemmochi

IPC: H04W28/06 ,  G10L19/00 ,  H04L13/08 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04M1/253 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04Q11/00 ,  H04L12/835 ,  H04N19/152 ,  H04W28/10 ,  H04L65/40 ,  H04L67/61 ,  H04L47/30

Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus, a data processing method, and a program that are capable of preventing output of data from being interrupted on a reception side, the data being wirelessly transmitted and received by the reception side.
Control information for controlling a method of using data is generated by a reception side, the data being wirelessly transmitted and received by the reception side, and the control information is added to data to generate data-with-control-information. A method of using data is controlled on the basis of control information included in data-with-control-information for controlling the method of using data, the data-with-control-information being acquired by adding the control information to data, the data-with-control-information being wirelessly transmitted, and data whose use method is controlled is output on the basis of the control information.

公开(公告)号：US20210272426A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-02

申请号：US17254566

申请日：2019-04-25

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Hirofumi Takeda ,  Shiro Suzuki ,  Shuichiro Nishigori ,  Jun Matsumoto

IPC: G08B6/00

Abstract: To reduce a data amount required for tactile presentation while enabling driving of different types of tactile presentation devices corresponding to different physical amounts.
An encoding device according to the present technology is provided with an encoding unit that generates coded data by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts. This makes it possible to obtain the tactile signals representing desired physical amounts within a range in which interconversion may be performed while compressing the information amount by utilizing the interconversion property between the physical amounts.

公开(公告)号：USRE48272E1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-20

申请号：US15434964

申请日：2017-02-16

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Yuuki Matsumura ,  Shiro Suzuki ,  Keisuke Toyama ,  Mitsuyuki Hatanaka ,  Yuhki Mitsufuji

IPC: H04B14/06 ,  G10L19/032

Abstract: There is provided an audio coding device which appropriately sets the quantization bit number by a small calculation amount in each stage when coding an input audio signal by performing multi-stage normalization/quantization. A quantization information calculation section determines total quantization information idwl0, based on normalization information idsf, and allocates the total quantization information idwl0 for quantization information idwl1 and quantization information idwl2. At this time, the quantization information calculation section limits the quantization information idwl1 by a limiter lim1, and allocates the total quantization information idwl0 for quantization information idwl1. If the quantization information idwl1 exceeds the limiter lim1, the excess is allocated for the quantization information idwl2. A first normalization section and a first quantization section normalizes and quantizes a frequency spectrum mdspec1 in the first stage. A second normalization section and a second quantization section normalizes and quantizes a differential frequency spectrum mdspec2 in the second stage.

公开(公告)号：US10244338B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-26

申请号：US15557033

申请日：2016-01-25

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryuichi Namba ,  Masayuki Nishiguchi ,  Kaneaki Fujishita ,  Shiro Suzuki ,  Toru Chinen ,  Mitsuyuki Hatanaka ,  Yuki Yamamoto ,  Hiroharu Kato

IPC: H04R1/40 ,  H04R3/00 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G10L25/51 ,  G10L25/54 ,  H04R29/00 ,  G10L21/0208

Abstract: The information processing device includes: a feature amount extraction unit configured to extract a feature amount from sounds in a predetermined space; an identification unit configured to identify a type of a sound included in the sounds from the feature amount; an information combining unit configured to generate sound statistic information in which the feature amount, the type of the sound, and spatiotemporal information of the predetermined space at a time of acquisition of the sound are associated with each other; and a database establishing unit configured to establish a sound statistic database by using the sound statistic information.