Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Hiroyuki Mita

Makoto Sato

Seiji Kobayashi

Osamu Kozakai

Toshiyuki Hiroi

Takaaki Hashiguchi

Yusuke Yoneyama

Kozo Kobayashi

Kenichi Kawasaki

Sachio Iida

Atsushi Yamada

Keiji Fukuzawa

Tadashi Kajiwara

Shozo Horisawa

Kyohei Yoshimitsu

Toshikazu Ido

Masanori Sato

Akira Endo

Nabil Sven Loghin

Robert Hardacker

Tamotsu Ikeda

Ryoji Ikegaya

Katsuyuki Tanaka

Daisuke Kawakami

Hiroshi Aoki

Hiroyuki Kamata

Toshihiro Fujiki

Hitoshi Tomiyama

Yoshikazu Yoshida

Sawako Kiriyama

Mitsuru Ikeda

Kimiya Kato

Hideshi Motoyama

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.

Sensor device, water amount measurement device, water amount measurement method, information processing device, and information processing method

A communication apparatus and method, an antenna apparatus, and a communication system that prevent reduced communication characteristics are disclosed. In one example, a coupled antenna element positioned in the vicinity of a communication apparatus is detected, adaptation of impedance is controlled on the basis of the detection result, and wireless communication is performed via the coupled antenna element with the adapted impedance. In addition, an antenna element is excited by a wireless signal from a communication apparatus positioned in the vicinity of the antenna element, and this communication apparatus is notified of being positioned in the vicinity of this antenna element.

Communication apparatus and method, antenna apparatus, and communication system

A power receiving apparatus includes: a resonance element having a specific resonance frequency and adapted to couple in a non-contacting relationship to a different resonance element through a resonance relationship; a rectification section configured to rectify ac current of the resonance frequency in response to energy received by the resonance element; and a switching section configured to cut off a supplying path of the ac current from the resonance element to the rectification section; the resonance element maintaining the coupling state through the resonance relationship to the different resonance element also when the supplying path of the ac current to the rectification section is blocked by the switching section.

Power receiving apparatus, power transmission system, charging apparatus and power transmission method

LDPC coding is executed using a check matrix of an LDPC code whose code length is 736 bits and whose code rate is 1/4, and modulation is executed using a repetition unit that has an LDPC code obtained by the LDPC coding, repeatedly arranged therein. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits, the parity matrix portion has a stepwise structure, the information matrix portion is indicated by a check matrix initial value table, and the check matrix initial value table is a predetermined table indicating positions of elements of '1' of the information matrix portion for each eight columns. This technique is applicable to, for example, information transmission using the LDPC code.

Transmitting apparatus and transmission method, receiving apparatus and reception method, and program

An antenna device, including an antenna element constituted by a conductor, having a tubular shape, and including a long notch section formed to extend in an axial direction in at least a part of a side surface, a capacitor formed to bridge end portions of the notch section in a short direction, substantially at a center of the notch section in a longitudinal direction, and a power feed point formed at a position which is apart from the capacitor to a side of one end portion of the notch section in the longitudinal direction and corresponds to a side of one end portion of the notch section in the short direction.

Antenna device, communication device, and communication method

The present technology relates to communication apparatus and method, and a communication system that enable communication control according to a gain of an antenna element. In a communication apparatus that performs wireless communication via an antenna element, a state of a gain of the antenna element is detected, a threshold value for carrier sense is controlled on the basis of the state of the gain of the antenna element that has been detected, the carrier sense is performed to determine whether communication using the threshold value that has been set possible, and wireless communication is performed in a case where it is determined that the communication is possible. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a transmission/reception apparatus, a communication apparatus, electronic equipment, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.

Communication apparatus and method, and communication system

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.

Signal processing apparatus and method

A power transfer unit configured to transfer power using magnetic fields, and a foreign object remover configured to remove a foreign object in the vicinity of a power transfer path when the power is transferred.

Power supply apparatus, power supply system, vehicle, and electronic apparatus

Disclosed herein is a power feeding apparatus, including: a power feeding portion adapted to feed an electric power in a wireless manner; and a storage body storing therein the power feeding portion. The storage body includes a main body, a first storage portion formed within the main body and storing therein the power feeding portion, and at least one second storage portion formed so as to be adapted to store or retrieve a power receiving apparatus as a storage object in or from the main body, the electric power of the power feeding portion stored in the first storage portion being adapted to be fed from the at least one second storage portion. At least a magnetically shielding portion is formed in an outer peripheral portion, and the at least one second storage portion forms a magnetically closed space in a state of being stored in the main body.

Power feeding apparatus and wireless power feeding system

An electromagnetic resonance non-contact power transmission device includes a transmitter including a transmitter resonance element having a mechanism for discretely or continuously varying a resonant frequency, a transmitter excitation element coupled to the transmitter resonance element by electromagnetic induction, and an alternating current source for applying an alternating current at the same frequency as the resonant frequency to the transmitter excitation element, and a plurality of receivers each including a receiver resonance element having a specific resonant frequency, a receiver excitation element coupled to the receiver resonance element by electromagnetic induction, and an output circuit for outputting an electric current induced by the receiver excitation element. Electric power is transmitted selectively from the transmitter to any of the receivers having different specific resonant frequencies by changing the resonant frequency of the transmitter.

Non-contact power transmission device

A radio frequency receiver includes a receiver circuit for processing RF signals, an antenna to receive millimeter wave RF signals, and an attenuator circuit, coupled between the receiver circuit and antenna. In one embodiment, the attenuator circuit may be used to determine a signal strength of the millimeter wave RF signals, compare this signal strength to a first threshold value. If the signal strength is above the first threshold value, a level of attenuation applied to the millimeter wave RF signals may then be increased.

Systems and methods for providing millimeter wave signal improvements

An SHF-band receiving apparatus is used for demodulating a signal received by an antenna and input through a cable by using an indoor receiving unit which comprises; demodulation means for demodulating an input signal supplied thereto through the cable; detection means for detecting a detection signal representing the direction of the antenna from a demodulated signal output by the demodulation means; and output means for generating a modulated signal for displaying information on the direction of the antenna by modulation of a carrier signal based on the detection signal produced by the detection means and for outputting the modulated signal through the cable to the antenna side.

Satellite receiving system featuring antenna reception level signal

An SHF-band receiving apparatus is used for demodulating a signal received by an antenna and input through a cable by using an indoor receiving unit which comprises: demodulation means for demodulating an input signal supplied thereto through the cable; detection means for detecting a detection signal representing the direction of the antenna from a demodulated signal output by the demodulation means; and output means for generating a modulated signal for displaying information on the direction of the antenna by modulation of a carrier signal based on the detection signal produced by the detection means and for outputting the modulated signal through the cable to the antenna side.

Receiving apparatus, signal demodulating method, antenna apparatus,

A receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a terminal unit. The receiving apparatus including a receiving portion for receiving a number of multiplexed broadcast waves, a separation portion for separating the number of multiplexed broadcast waves received by the receiving portion into a number of types of broadcast waves, a conversion portion for converting the number of types of broadcast waves separated by the separation portion into a number of IF signals of mutually different frequencies; and an output portion for outputting the number of IF signals converted by the conversion portion to a processing section.

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Saitama, Japan

Hiroyuki Mita