Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Tom Hostyn

Philip Marivoet

Conor Aylward

Christopher Michael Rutherford

Olivier Elshocht

Jan Spooren

Olivier Demarto

Jaqueline Mallett

Masatomo Kurata

Sota Matsuzawa

Hugo Embrechts

Yoeri Apts

Chris Minnoy

Francis Van Aeken

Vanessa Schelkens

Magdalena Wasowska

Gaetan De Brucker

Andreas Papaspyropoulos

Joachim Giard

Serkan Eryilmaz

Paulius Sarka

Dimitri Torfs

Jeroen Ost

Kenny Helsens

Anatoliy Lubashevskiy

Teemu Veikko Tapani Pohjola

Christopher Rutherford

A method is provided for managing energy. The method comprises collecting information relating to amounts of energy stored by a plurality of members of a group, and relating to energy requirements of the members. The method further comprises determining a price for distributing energy to a non-member of the group, determining whether to supply energy stored by the members to the non-member at the determined price, and issuing instructions to distribute energy upon determining that energy stored by the plurality of members should be supplied to the non-member.

Method of efficiently managing energy

An electronic device includes a tracking unit that tracks a movement of a first mobile device and a movement of a second mobile device, based on a position of the first mobile device and a position of the second mobile device received from a position estimation unit; a determination unit that determines a probability distribution of a distance between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, based on a probabilistic model, and the position of the first mobile device and the position of the second mobile device; and an action unit that performs action, based on the determined probability distribution of the distance.

Electronic device and method for determining a distance between mobile devices based on a probabilistic model

A method comprising generating an auxiliary key based on a secret key which is stored in an electronic device, generating a representation of the auxiliary key, displaying the representation of the auxiliary key on a display of the first electronic device, capturing the representation of the auxiliary key with a camera of a second electronic device, and restoring the auxiliary key from the captured representation of the auxiliary key.

Method, system and electronic device

It is described an apparatus for determining trends in picture taking activity. The apparatus comprises a meta information accessing unit for accessing a set of meta information, each meta information in the set of meta information being associated with a picture having been taken with a camera device at a respective geographic location and at a respective time. The apparatus further comprises a processing unit for determining trends in picture taking activity based on the set of meta information accessible by the meta information accessing unit.

Apparatus and method for determining trends in picture taking activity

A distribution system including, for connection over a network a plurality of client upload devices, each client upload device storing one or more chunks of a content file, a client download device configured to download from the client upload devices chunks of the content file stored by the respective client upload devices and an incentive device configured to generate token data packets exchangeable for chunks of the content file. The client download device is configured to acquire a plurality of token data packets from the incentive device and to communicate with individual respective client upload devices and thereby download, in exchange for respective token data packets, stored chunks of the content file. Each client upload device is configured to communicate with the client download device and, thereby, upload to the client download device stored chunks of the content file in exchange for token data packets acquired by the client download device from the incentive device and is configured to transmit to the incentive device token data packets received from the client download device.

Distribution system and method of distributing content files

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Tom Hostyn