Sony Corporation

Sony Europe Limited

Sony Group Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Sony Service Center (europe) N.v.

Manabu Onishi

Satoru Maeda

Kazuyuki Ikeda

Katsutoshi Sakao

Natsuko Nishikata

Hideki Yoshida

Munehiro Yoshikawa

Kei Yamashita

Daisuke Kawaguchi

Takahiro Nishikawa

Tsuyoshi Oobayashi

Tom Frans Maurits Hostyn

Shunkichi Shimizu

Tomonobu Saito

Khac Tri Vu

Geert Uytterhoeven

Tatsuya Narahara

Hiroshige Okamoto

Tatsuhiro Iida

Hirotada Taniuchi

Yu Miyajima

Ryo Awata

Noriaki Taira

Mitsuharu Imai

A wireless communication terminal includes a memory, a processor, and a wireless communication module. The memory can store a plurality of transmission patterns different from each other and payload patterns respectively corresponding to the plurality of transmission patterns. The processor generates a payload according to the plurality of transmission patterns and payload patterns stored in the memory. The wireless communication module wirelessly transmits data including the payload.

Wireless communication terminal and communication control method

Provided is a locking/unlocking device that accurately detects an opening/closing state of an opening/closing device and optimizes timing to lock or unlock. The locking/unlocking device includes a drive unit that drives a lock mechanism of the opening/closing device, a magnetic detection unit that detects a change in a magnetic field based on a change in the relative position between a movable section and a fixed section of the opening/closing device, and a control unit that determines an open/closed state of the opening/closing device on the basis of the change in the magnetic field detected by the magnetic detection unit and activates the drive unit to lock or unlock the lock mechanism on the basis of the open/closed state.

Locking/unlocking device, locking/unlocking method, and locking/unlocking system

A data transmission system may have a sending apparatus that sends streaming data, and a receiving apparatus that receives the streaming data and transmits a request of switch of the streaming data to the sending apparatus, in which the sending apparatus may switch the streaming data in response to the received request. The receiving apparatus may include a receiving section, a storage section that stores the streaming data temporarily and transfers it, an operation-detecting section that detects whether a user operates the request, and a control section that controls a transfer rate of the streaming data stored in the storage section to fast-forward the streaming data when the operation-detecting section detects that the user's operation. The sending apparatus may include an information-adding section that adds to the streaming data additional information on the user's operation when receiving a notice of user's operation, and a sending section that sends the additional-information-added streaming data.

Data transmission system, receiving apparatus, and receiving method as well as sending apparatus and sending method

In an information-processing system shown in FIG., a server () for delivering remote-operation control information in accordance with an audio/video instrument () and an information-processing apparatus () with a remote-operation screen display function for remote-controlling the audio/video instrument () based on control information acquired from this server () are connected to each other through the Internet () etc. The information-processing apparatus () makes a request to the server () to deliver the remote-operation control information in accordance with this audio/video instrument () and, based on the control information delivered from the server () owing to this delivery request, performs display processing of a remote-operation screen and, based on remote-operation information input by operations on the remote-operation screen, remote-controls the audio/video instrument ().

Information-processing system, information-processing apparatus, and information-processing method

A receiving apparatus contains a local area network interface for communication, a signal-processing device that decodes program information received by the local area network interface, and an encoding device that encodes the decoded program information to reconstitute program information to which a synchronizing signal is added and to generate any one of a composite signal and a separate signal. The receiving apparatus also contains an output terminal that the encoding device supplies with any one of a composite signal and a separate signal.

Receiving apparatus

A sending apparatus sends program information to which accompanying information is added with the program information and the accompanying information being suitable for sending. The sending apparatus contains a detection portion that detects the accompanying information, a separation portion that separates the accompanying information from the program information. The sending apparatus also contains a signal-processing portion that compresses and encodes the separated accompanying information and program information, respectively, and then packetizes the accompanying information and the program information, respectively, and a local area network interface for communication. The accompanying information and the program information are sent following separated data formats.

Sending apparatus and receiving apparatus

The present invention provides a transmission/reception apparatus capable of achieving both a high processing speed and good extensibility in performing communication protocol processes. Used for transmitting data in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol and receiving data transmitted in accordance with the predetermined communication protocol, the transmission/reception apparatus has a configuration capable of executing communication protocol processes by using hardware (in first and second communication-protocol-processing units) and software (in first and second control units). The hardware or the software can be selected properly in accordance with the type of data. For example, a communication protocol process for data regarded as a heavy processing load can be carried out by using the hardware at the high processing speed whereas a communication protocol process for data regarded as a light processing load can be carried out by using the software, which offers the good extensibility.

Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus and transmission/reception apparatus for image and/or audio data and other than image and/or audio data

A communication-processing method performs communication processing on any network-connected equipment. The method includes the steps of sending an identification signal through a network to every apparatus that is connected in an identical network circuit to identify a local apparatus, and determining whether a reply signal including identification information in reply to the sent identification signal is received or not. The method also includes the steps of deciding that the local apparatus is connected to the identical network circuit if receiving the reply signal including the identification information to secure a communication-processing condition for the identified local apparatus, communicating with the identified local apparatus, and sending the communication-processing condition to the identified local apparatus.

Communication-processing method on network-connected equipment and receiving apparatus

Information-processing system, information-processing device, and information-processing method

A system and method of audio/video streaming in which a server transmits over a network an audio/video stream to a client device. The client device is able to send command data to the server causing the server to provide a change in content of the audio/video stream from a first content to a second content. Buffers in the server and client device can be flushed or skipped-over at the time of sending the command data so as to improve response time and marker data can be sent from the server to the client device to indicate the start of the second content.

System and method of audio/video streaming

A terminal apparatus setting method is provided, comprising the steps of connecting a terminal apparatus to a setting server which is provided for registering with one or more Internet service providers associated with the setting server. The terminal apparatus receives information regarding the one or more Internet service providers associated with the setting server from the setting server, and a desired one of the one or more Internet service providers associated with the setting server is selected. Selection information indicative of the selected Internet service provider is sent to the setting server. An input request regarding registration items required by the selected Internet service provider is received from the setting server. Registration information is in response to the required registration items in the input request and sending the registration information to the setting server. Setting information is finally received from the setting server for setting up the terminal apparatus necessary to utilize the selected Internet service provider.

Method for registering a terminal with an internet service provider

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Tokyo, Japan

Manabu Onishi