Assignee
SONY FRANCE SA
FR·24 granted patents·4 pending applications·1,451 citations·filing 1999–2008
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28 records- 0198US6794566B2Information type identification method and apparatus, e.g. for music file name content identificationSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 21, 2004·332 cites·32 claims
- 0296US7886229B2Content-management interfaceSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 8, 2011·76 cites·19 claims
- 0395US7130860B2Method and system for generating sequencing information representing a sequence of items selected in a databaseSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 31, 2006·216 cites·35 claims
- 0495US6760645B2Training of autonomous robotsSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 6, 2004·100 cites·17 claims
- 0589US7709723B2Mapped meta-data sound-playback device and audio-sampling/sample-processing system usable therewithSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2005·Granted May 4, 2010·32 cites·9 claims
- 0689US7451079B2Emotion recognition method and deviceSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 11, 2008·88 cites·24 claims
- 0788US7333090B2Method and apparatus for analysing gestures produced in free space, e.g. for commanding apparatus by gesture recognitionSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 19, 2008·137 cites·30 claims
- 0886US6804649B2Expressivity of voice synthesis by emphasizing source signal featuresSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 12, 2004·183 cites·10 claims
- 0985US6452083B2Incremental sequence completion system and methodSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 17, 2002·52 cites·23 claims
- 1083US7034217B2Automatic music continuation method and deviceSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 25, 2006·33 cites·55 claims
- 1174US7672913B2Automated action-selection system and method, and application thereof to training prediction machines and driving the development of self-developing devicesSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 2, 2010·15 cites·25 claims
- 1274US7412390B2Method and apparatus for speech synthesis, program, recording medium, method and apparatus for generating constraint information and robot apparatusSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 12, 2008·23 cites·59 claims
- 1373US7996189B2Event-detection in multi-channel sensor-signal streamsSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 9, 2011·5 cites·12 claims
- 1471US7707147B2Self-organization approach to semantic interoperability in peer-to-peer information exchangeSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 27, 2010·11 cites·9 claims
- 1567US6469240B2Rhythm feature extractorSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 22, 2002·16 cites·33 claims
- 1661US7457752B2Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesizing deviceSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 25, 2008·11 cites·15 claims
- 1761US6430573B1Sequence generation using a constraint satisfaction problem formulationSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 6, 2002·39 cites·19 claims
- 1859US7624012B2Method and apparatus for automatically generating a general extraction function calculable on an input signal, e.g. an audio signal to extract therefrom a predetermined global characteristic value of its contents, e.g. a descriptorSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 24, 2009·12 cites·37 claims
- 1957US7203702B2Information sequence extraction and building apparatus e.g. for producing personalised music title sequencesSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 10, 2007·5 cites·47 claims
- 2052US6826282B1Music spatialisation system and methodSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 30, 2004·34 cites·22 claims
- 2149US7440927B2Regulating the growth of complexity in developmental systemsSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 21, 2008·2 cites·27 claims
- 2249US6675156B1Robotic teleportation method and systemSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 6, 2004·10 cites·15 claims
- 2349US2010294525A1Hand tool machineSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 2447US7477759B2Adaptive artificial vision method and systemSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 13, 2009·9 cites·16 claims
- 2546US2010174695A1One-click selection of music or other contentSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2644US2009154434A1Wireless communication system and method for facilitating wireless communicationSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 2741US6434540B1Hardware or software architecture implementing self-biased conditioningSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 13, 2002·10 cites·9 claims
- 2834US2008269953A1Peer-to-peer transaction-based power supply methods and systemsSONY FRANCE SA·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
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