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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To precisely synchronize system clocks, medium clocks, or the like of apparatuses with each other. A wireless apparatus includes a main control unit and a wireless control unit. Information regarding a correspondence between a clock that manages a time of the main control unit and a clock that manages a time of the wireless control unit is wirelessly sent to another wireless apparatus by the wireless control unit. This information regarding the correspondence includes information regarding a difference between the two clocks, information regarding a granularity ratio of the two clocks, and the like. For example, the wireless control unit sends the information regarding the correspondence as a part of a frame for measuring the time of the wireless control unit with respect to the other wireless apparatus or a part of a frame for connecting to the other wireless apparatus.