Sony Corporation

Sony Deutschland Gmbh

Fritz Hohl

Thomas Kemp

Wilhelm Hagg

Shin Saito

Stefan Uhlich

Ralf Boehnke

Fabien Cardinaux

Juan Benigno Nogueira-Nine

Ernoe Kovacs

Aurel Bordewieck

Ernö Kovacs

Matthias Riedel

Amen Hamdan

An electronic device, including an input interface configured to receive an input signal, a command determination unit configured to determine a plurality of possible commands based on the input signal, and an output interface configured to provide a plurality of output information corresponding to effects associated with each of the plurality of determined possible commands.

Electronic device and method for identifying input commands of a user

An apparatus comprising a watermark decoder arranged for decoding a watermark signal from a transmission video signal, the watermark signal defining a content area within the transmission video signal for inserting new content within the transmission video signal.

Apparatus, system and method

An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to record sensor data that is obtained from data sources and to retrieve information from the recorded sensor data using concepts that are defined by a user.

Electronic device, system, method and computer program

The present invention relates to a mobile audio player, comprising

Mobile audio player with individualized radio program

A parse unit parses an input sequence of token elements for an input string, wherein each token element contains a token and/or at least one corresponding token classifier. In a first mode the parse unit applies regular production rules on the token elements and on multi-token classifiers for phrases obtained from the token classifiers. If the first mode parsing does not result in a multi-token classifier encompassing all tokens of the input string, a control unit controls the parse unit to parse the input sequence in a second mode that applies both the regular and artificial production rules. A rule generator unit generates the artificial production rules based on the input sequence and/or intermediate results of the parsing. The parser unit provides a complete parse tree for ungrammatical sentences and a solution where the regular production rules do not cover the complete grammar of the respective natural language.

Language processing method and integrated circuit

The present invention relates to a mobile audio player, comprising memory means adapted to store music data and non-music data, input means adapted to receive a user input with user preferences, radio program generating means adapted to generate, without a connection to an external entity, an individualized radio program from stored music data and non-music data depending on user preferences input via the input means, and audio output means adapted to output audio signals representing a generated radio program.

Generating a user music taste database, comprising determining, as a first count, a number of appearances of a selected classification identifier of classification identifiers in a user specific first set of music identifiers, wherein the classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the first set of music identifiers and determining, by the circuitry, as a second count, a number of appearances of the selected classification identifier in a second set of music identifiers, wherein classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the second set of music identifiers. A classification identifier related to the selected classification identifier is stored in an expertise list in the user music taste database, if a value determined from setting the first count and the second count in relation to each other is equal to or larger than a predetermined expertise level threshold value.

Method and system for generating a user music taste database, method for selecting a piece of music for recommendation, music piece selection system and data processing system

A system and a corresponding method for monitoring the presence of a person in a monitored area, includes a passive radiometer that detects radiation emitted from a predetermined monitored area in a predetermined frequency range between 1 GHz and 100 THz and that generates a radiation signal from the detected radiation, a radiation signal processor that processes the radiation signal and that generates, based on the processed radiation signal, a monitoring signal indicating the presence or absence of a person in the monitored area, and an application controller that controls an application based on the monitoring signal.

System and method for monitoring the presence of a person in a monitored area

An apparatus for at least one of playing and generating audio content for an audience includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive sensor data from one or more sensors monitoring the audience. The circuitry is configured to analyze said sensor data to identify characteristic movement patterns of one or more members of the audience. The circuitry is configured to select music and generate verbal communication other than music to address the audience, based on the identified characteristic movement patterns. The circuitry is further configured to output said selected music and said verbal communication. A corresponding method for at least one of playing and generating audio content for an audience is also provided.

Apparatus and method for playing and/or generating audio content for an audience

A first method for automatically protecting a computer system from attacks that exploit security vulnerabilities detects requests for execution of code portions, determines vulnerabilities of a code portion for which an execution request is detected, evaluates whether or not the execution of the code portion shall be prevented in a case at least one vulnerability concerning the code portion is determined, and prevents execution of the code portion if determined to do so in the evaluation. A second method for automatically protecting a computer system from attacks that exploit security vulnerabilities detects code portions which are currently executed, determines vulnerabilities of a code portion that is currently executed, evaluates whether or not the execution of the code portion shall be aborted in a case at least one vulnerability concerning the code portion is determined, and aborts execution of the code portion if determined to do so in the evaluation.

Automatically protecting computer systems from attacks that exploit security vulnerabilities

A receiving and transmitting node for a wireless data network, and a wireless data network based on magnetic induction. The receiving node includes an antenna receive module for receiving one or more data signals emitted from the transmitting node and a calculation module adapted to calculate one or more distances between the receiving node and the transmitting node, and/or adapted to calculate the position of the transmitting node in relation to the position of the receiving node, and/or adapted to calculate the orientation of the transmitting node in relation to the orientation of the receiving node. The reception of the data signal is based on magnetic induction and the calculation of the one or more distances, and the position of the transmitting node and/or the orientation of the transmitting node is based on the one or more data signals.

User interface based on magnetic induction

The present invention relates to a mobile device for recording data that includes recording unit that records data, a memory that stores the recorded data, a detecting unit that detects a server that receives the recorded data via a wireless communication system, and a transmitting unit that automatically transmits recorded data to a detected server via the wireless communication system without any user interaction when the detecting unit detects the server.

Wireless transfer of data from a mobile device to a server

A positioning apparatus for a wireless ad-hoc network that can measure distances between network nodes that are in range and connected to each other. The positioning apparatus can calculate 3D positions of some nodes using the distance values using a relative coordinate system, first by measuring distances to neighbored nodes, receiving and sending distance reports to/from neighbors, by second initially advantageously selecting the set of base nodes to which the coordinate system relates, and by calculating positions of the base nodes and other nodes in the network initially, and by third detecting movements in the network and by calculating positions of the moved nodes. The network can compensate for movements of the base nodes, select the base nodes in an advantageous way, and cope with sleeping nodes, with unreliable communication, and with fluctuating network topologies. Neighbor communication is used only if no node is sleeping.

Relative 3D positioning in an ad-hoc network based on distances

A wireless multi-hop ad-hoc network in which a wireless communication device is enabled to register with a multi-hop network in a secure and easy-to-use way. In one implementation a user's wireless communication device is registered before allowing the device to enter a wireless multi-hop ad-hoc network and the device participates in communication with wireless nodes connected to the network. For this purpose, the device wirelessly transmits a registration request message to all the wireless nodes and determines the nearest wireless node in its environment being authorized to register the device to the network by evaluating wirelessly received response messages from the nodes.

Device registration in a wireless multi-hop ad-hoc network

A method for dispatching steps of an application running on an application server which can be accessed from client terminals. Users select user interaction elements on client terminals, and the interactions are transmitted to the application server executing a main part of an application, which creates output that contains the next set of possible user interactions. Calling application steps can be addressed and invoked by other application steps in order to reuse software components necessary for processing said other application steps. Nesting programming commands used to call another application step are arbitrarily nested and serve as a called sub-routine within the calling application step. Values are returned to the calling application step, and nesting paths of called application steps are discarded in case a user switches to another application.

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Fritz Hohl