Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Ab

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

Sony Group Corporation

Ola Karl Thörn

Henrik Bengtsson

Magnus Midholt

Pär-Anders Aronsson

Erik L Bengtsson

Linus Mårtensson

Olivier Moliner

Thomas Bolin

Jonas Gustavsson

Gunnar Klinghult

Alexander Hunt

Andreas Kristensson

David De Léon

Peter Isberg

Magnus Landqvist

Aleksandar Rodzevski

Hakan Jonsson

Lars Nord

Magnus Jendbro

Peter Exner

Magnus Ola Johansson

Simon Lessing

Martin Ek

Jim Rasmusson

Markus Andreasson

Peter Åberg

Henrik Heringslack

Kåre Agardh

Fredrik Mattisson

Johannes Elg

Simon Henning

Fredrik Johansson

Ernst Hupkes

Håkan Jonsson

Andreas Sandblad

Pär Stenberg

Erik Westenius

Malin Larsson

Jari Sassi

Kristian Tärnhed

Alexandar Rodzevski

Käre Agardh

Petter Alexanderson

Daniel Linåker

Andrej Petef

Magnus Nambord

Erik Johan Vendel Backlund

Darius Katz

Samir Drincic

Martin Grip

Barteld Trip

Shaun Lee

Petter Alexandersson

Anders Gullander

Anders Wikander

Philip Sandell

Erik Backlund

Damjan Stamcar

Par Stenberg

Robert Helmbro

Alce Günter

Gert Magnus Jendbro

Per Magnus Landqvist

Stefan Sorensson

Alexander Rodzevski

Thomas Waldner

Oskar Syrén

Kristian TÄRNHED

Linus MÅRTENSSON

A monitoring system detects and mitigates traffic risks among a group of vehicles. The group of vehicles includes a ground-based vehicle (GBV), e.g. an automotive vehicle, and an air-based vehicle (ABV), e.g. a drone, which is operated to track a ground-based object (GBO), e.g. an unprotected road user or an animal. The monitoring system performs a method comprising: obtaining () predicted navigation data for the ground-based vehicle and the air-based vehicle, processing () the predicted navigation data to obtain one or more future locations of the ground based-object and to detect an upcoming spatial proximity between the ground-based object and the ground-based vehicle, and causing (), upon detection of the upcoming spatial proximity, an alert signal to be provided to at least one of the ground-based object and the ground-based vehicle.

Monitoring vehicle movement for traffic risk mitigation

A control device operates a drone with an onboard camera. The control device obtains a current performance metric to be computed for an activity performed by an individual, determines, based on a positioning rule associated with the current performance metric, a selected relative position, SRP, between the individual and the onboard camera, identifies a reference plane of the individual, operates the drone to move the onboard camera from an initial relative position to attain the SRP in relation to the reference plane; operates the onboard camera, when in the SRP, to capture image(s) of the individual, and provides the image(s) for computation of the current performance metric for the activity performed by the individual. The SRP may be defined, by the positioning rule, to ensure that the orientation of the individual in the image(s) is relevant or optimal for the current performance metric.

Device and method for monitoring activity performance

Drones are controlled by one or more control devices and comprise a respective camera for image capture. The one or more control devices perform a method including obtaining projected flight paths of the drones, obtaining a projected camera setting of the respective camera, computing, as a function of the projected camera setting, a projected viewing frustum of the respective camera, defining, for the drones, projected time-space trajectories of no-fly zones based on the projected viewing frustum of the respective camera, analyzing the projected flight paths of the drones in relation to the projected time-space trajectories for detection of a violation of one or more of the no-fly zones, and setting an operative flight path and/or an operative camera setting for at least one selected drone to prevent the violation.

Controlling a group of drones for image capture

An image capturing device may include a recording circuit configured to record multimedia data of a field of view of the image capturing device, a receiving circuit configured to receive a wireless signal from a wireless sensor, a location determining circuit configured to determine, based on the received wireless signal, a location of the wireless sensor, and a storage circuit configured to store data associated with the wireless sensor responsive to a comparison of the determined location of the wireless sensor and the field of view of the image capturing device so as to create an association between the data associated with the wireless sensor and the recorded multimedia data.

Multimedia capture and editing using wireless sensors

A device and method for editing media content analyze the media content to detect words in the media content. The detected words are converted to text and stored in a text container. A characteristic of the text within the text container is changed, and the media content is altered to correspond to the changed characteristic of the text within the text container.

Speech to text enhanced media editing

Methods (FIG.), systems and the like for determining which users have an interest in receiving media content and determining when to transmit the media content (i.e., which segment/portion of a media content to transmit) based on user characteristics that are related to the user's interest in the media content. Users/viewers are targeted/selected as candidates for receiving media content based on their interest in the event. Specific segments/portions of the event are identified that are of interest to the users/viewers, such that, real-time transmission (e.g., unicast, broadcast, multicast) of the event may be limited to only those segments/portions of the event that are of interest to the users/viewers.

Methods and systems for delivery of electronic media content

The disclosure relates to a system for generating a status output based on sound emitted by an animal. The system comprising: a client (), a server () and a database (); the database () is accessible () by the server () and comprises historic sound data pertaining to the animal () or animals of the same type as the animal; the client () comprising circuitry () configured to: detect () sound emitted () by the animal (); record () the detected sound (); analyze () the recorded sound for detecting whether the sound () comprises a specific sound characteristic out of a plurality of possible sound characteristics, wherein the sound characteristic includes at least one of intensity, frequency and duration of the detected sound; transmit (), in response to detecting that the sound () comprises the specific sound characteristic, the recorded sound to a server (); the server () comprises circuitry () configured to: receive () the recorded sound; classify () the recorded sound by comparing one or more sound characteristics of the recorded sound with the historic sound data comprised in the database (); generate () the status output based on the classification of the recorded sound. A method () for generating a status output based on sound emitted by an animal is also provided.

System and method for generating a status output based on sound emitted by an animal

The invention relates to a system for automatically creating a soundtrack, comprising a camera device (') for recording a user-generated video, at least one wearable sensor (&#x2032;), and a control unit (&#x2032;) in communication with the camera device (&#x2032;) and the at least one wearable sensor (&#x2032;). The control unit (&#x2032;) is adapted to generate the soundtrack based on data gathered from the at least one wearable sensor (&#x2032;) during the recording of the user-generated video. The invention further relates to a method for automatically creating a soundtrack, computer program product, a computer readable memory storage unit computing arrangement or mobile device () for executing the method.

Method and system for automatically creating a soundtrack to a user-generated video

A camera-based surveillance system operates to detect presence of unauthorized individuals in digital images taken by a camera unit at a venue visited by individuals that are either authorized or unauthorized. A control unit in the surveillance system obtains, from a positioning system, a position parameter for each authorized individual located at the venue, processes each digital image for detection of one or more individuals, and detects presence of one or more unauthorized individuals in the digital image as a function of the individual(s) detected in the digital image and the position parameter(s) for the one or more authorized individuals. The positioning system may comprise a base station for receiving authorized data transmissions generated by wireless communication devices located at said venue, and a positioning module for determining the position parameter of the respective communication device with respect to the base station based on a respective authorized data transmission.

Surveillance system and method for camera-based surveillance

A control method improves a user's ability to navigate in speech-containing audio data during playback of the audio data on a computing device. The control method is executed by a processor in the computing device and comprises operating () a media player on the computing device to play the audio data, detecting () a user-initiated time-shift command to step forward or backward in the audio data, and, after detecting the time-shift command at a current time in the audio data, identifying () a starting point of a sentence in the audio data and operating () the media player to play the audio data from the starting point.

Controlling playback of speech-containing audio data

The present disclosure provides a system and method of setting a display brightness of a display of an electronic device. One or more images of a user of the electronic device may be captured with a camera of the electronic device. A characteristic of an eye of the user may be detected in the one or more images. A light adaptation state of the user's eye may be determined based on the detected characteristic. The display brightness of the display of the electronic device may be set in view of the determined light adaptation state.

System and method for setting display brightness of display of electronic device

An electronic device includes a proximity-sensitive touch sensor array which extends along an input surface of the electronic device and a processing device coupled to the touch sensor array. The processing device is configured to process data captured by the touch sensor array to determine a finger angle at which a finger is directed towards the input surface and an actuation position on the input surface. The processing device is configured to establish an offset-corrected actuation position as a function of the actuation position and the finger angle.

Electronic device and method of processing user actuation of a touch-sensitive input surface

An editing method facilitates the task of adding background sound to speech-containing audio data so as to augment the listening experience. The editing method is executed by a processor in a computing device and comprises obtaining characterization data that characterizes time segments in the audio data by at least one of topic and sentiment; deriving, for a respective time segment in the audio data and based on the characterization data, a desired property of a background sound to be added to the audio data in the respective time segment, and providing the desired property for the respective time segment so as to enable the audio data to be combined, within the respective time segment, with background sound having the desired property. The background sound may be selected and added automatically or by manual user intervention.

Adding background sound to speech-containing audio data

A portable electronic equipment comprises a gaze tracking device configured to track an eye gaze direction of a user in a time interval. The portable electronic equipment comprises a processing device coupled to the gaze tracking device and configured to generate heat map data for the eye gaze direction, generate saliency map data for a field of view of the user, and identify at least one point of interest in the field of view based on both the heat map data and the saliency map data.

Portable electronic equipment and method of controlling a portable electronic equipment

Controlling a lifelog camera () via a first intrapersonal area network (IAN) () associated with a first user () includes detecting a second IAN () associated with a second user () in range of the first IAN () and capturing an image of the second user () with the lifelog camera ().

Lifelog camera and method of controlling in association with an intrapersonal area network

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Ola Karl Thörn