Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Pramod Chintalapoodi

Sho Tanaka

Manish Satyapal Gupta

Ramesha Chelur Ramachandra Sastry

Madhvesh R Sulibhavi

Pralay Kumar Pal

Makoto Koike

Thomas Woonyoung Ko

Manish Gupta

Hemant Sadhwani

Jaison Joseph

Nabarun Goswami

Nagesh B T Shenoy

Ramesh Chelur Ramchandra Sastry

Piyush Bhattacharya

Awadh Bihari Mohan

Ashritha Shenoy Udyavar

Smikky Sahaya Singh

Hanumantha Reddy Uruvakili

Samiran Sarkar

Sachin Nagappa Agsebagil

Abhijit Hebsur

Kishore Keerthi

Khushwant Peswani

Syed Inayathulla Nazerulla Malgimani

Maneesh Mohanan Bava

Various aspects of a system and method to provide driving assistance to safely overtake a vehicle are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, an electronic control unit used in a first vehicle is configured to detect a second vehicle in front of the first vehicle. A first position associated with the first vehicle and a second position associated with the detected second vehicle is determined for a first time instance. It may be determined whether a lateral distance between the determined first position and the determined second position is below a pre-defined threshold distance. A first alert is generated when the determined lateral distance is below the pre-defined threshold distance.

System and method for providing driving assistance to safely overtake a vehicle

Various aspects of a system and method for driving assistance along a path are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, a unique identifier is received from a communication device at an electronic control unit (ECU) of a first vehicle. The unique identifier is received when the first vehicle has reached a first location along a first portion of the path. A communication channel is established between the first vehicle and the communication device based on the received unique identifier. Data associated with a second portion of the path is received by the ECU from the communication device based on the established communication channel. Alert information associated with the second portion of the path is generated by the ECU based on the received data.

System and method for driving assistance along a path

Various aspects of a device and method to manage interaction with one or more control circuits in a vehicle and one or more wearable devices are disclosed herein. The device comprises one or more circuits configured to receive a first set of input values from the one or more wearable devices associated with a first user. The one or more wearable devices are communicatively coupled to the device used in the vehicle. A second set of input values is received from one or more vehicle sensors embedded in the vehicle. An operating mode of the device is determined based on the received first set of input values and the second set of input values. One or more functions of the vehicle are controlled based on the determined operating mode of the device.

Method and device for managing interaction between a wearable device and a vehicle

Various aspects of a method and system for authentication of a virtual currency instrument for a monetary transaction are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes activation of a software module different from a payment application at an electronic device. An authentication of secure information, which is read through the payment application by the software module, is performed at the electronic device. Output of an authentication result occurs at the electronic device based on the authentication from the software module for the monetary transaction.

Method and system for authenticating a virtual currency instrument

Various aspects of a system and a method to provide recommendation on an electronic device based on emotional state detection of a user, are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes the electronic device, which is configured to detect a transition in an emotional state of a user associated with the electronic device from a first emotional state to a second emotional state. A tagged content item associated with the second emotional state of the user is retrieved from a network device based on identity information of the user and the detected transition. An application is launched on the electronic device to recommend a product or a service related to the retrieved tagged content item. The application is launched in response to the detected transition in the emotional state of the user and a current location of the electronic device.

System and method for providing recommendation on an electronic device based on emotional state detection

Various aspects of a system and method to facilitate communication via an electronic interface of a vehicle are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes receipt of information from a first electronic device by an electronic control unit (ECU) via the electronic interface of the vehicle. The information is received by use of a first communication protocol. The first electronic device is in a first proximity range of the electronic interface of the vehicle. One or more correspondent actions is performed by the ECU based on the received information and a preference of a user associated with the vehicle.

System and method for facilitating communication via an electronic interface of a vehicle

Various aspects of a system and method to provide a unified connected network are disclosed herein. The system comprises a server communicatively coupled to an electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicle and a first set of electronic devices. Upon detection of an event, the server receives a first set of data from the ECU and/or a second set of data from the first set of electronic devices associated with a plurality of services. The server extracts information from the received first set and/or the second set of data, based on analysis of the received first set and/or the second set of data. The server further determines one or more responses that correspond to the detected event, based on the extracted information. The server further transmits the determined one or more responses to a second set of electronic devices associated with the plurality of services.

System and method for a unified connected network

Various aspects of an apparatus and a method for issued token management are disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises an interface configured to communicate with a plurality of electronic devices, via a token server. The apparatus includes a controller configured to receive, from the token server, a plurality of registration requests generated by a user associated with the plurality of electronic devices. An account and associated identity of each of the plurality of electronic devices may be confirmed for a virtual currency instrument that corresponds to the user and an approval is transmitted to issue a token to each of the plurality of electronic devices. A plurality of instantiations of the virtual currency instrument, from the plurality of electronic devices, is registered in a user profile related to the user and stored in a memory along with the associated electronic device information, and the virtual currency instrument information.

Method and apparatus for issued token management

Various aspects of a method and system to provide a recommendation for selection of a merchant store are disclosed herein. The method includes reception, by a server, of a recommendation request for selection of one or more merchant stores from a plurality of merchant stores. The recommendation request is associated with a beneficiary. The method further includes determination, at the server, of a score associated with each of the plurality of merchant stores based on a plurality of weighted parameters associated with the beneficiary. The method further includes generation of a recommendation, at the server, for the selection of the one or more merchant stores based on the determined score associated with each of the plurality of merchant stores.

Method and system for providing recommendation for selection of a merchant store

Various aspects of a system and method for generation of a preventive alert are disclosed herein. The system comprises one or more circuits in a vehicle that retrieves sensor data associated with the vehicle and/or obstacle information generated by one or more sensors of the vehicle, along a path of the vehicle. The system further comprises one or more circuits that communicates to a server, a set of data based on the retrieved sensor data and/or the retrieved obstacle information. The generation of an alert to one or more vehicles is controlled by the server, based on the communicated set of data.

System and method for generation of a preventive alert

Various aspects of a system and method for communication of a message to a vehicle are disclosed herein. The system comprises one or more circuits in an electronic control unit (ECU) of a first vehicle that is communicatively coupled to a display device. The one or more circuits in the ECU are configured to receive a video stream and control display of a plurality of image frames in the video stream on the display device. Vehicle information of one or more vehicles, included in an image frame of the plurality of image frames, is received from the one or more vehicles via a wireless network. A first input corresponding to a selection of a vehicle from the one or more vehicles included in the image frame, is received. Vehicle information associated with the selected vehicle is identified. A second input that corresponds to a selection of an information item to be communicated to the selected vehicle, is received. The selected information item is communicated to the selected vehicle.

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Pramod Chintalapoodi