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Sony patents system to pick best network for remote vehicle control

Sony has filed a patent for a device that helps mobile objects, like vehicles, communicate with remote support centers. It automatically chooses the best available network connection based on the type of data being sent and the quality of each line.

Why it mattersThis could make remote driving or emergency assistance for cars more reliable by ensuring critical data travels over the most stable connection.

In the filing’s own words

The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to stably execute remote support for a mobile object. The information processing device includes a communication unit capable of communication, in a mobile object, with a remote support device which performs remote support for the mobile object via a plurality of communication lines, and a communication control section that selects, on the basis of a characteristic of transmission data including information which is used in the remote support device and a characteristic of each communication line, a communication line for transmitting the transmission data to the remote support device. The present technology can be applied to a system which performs remote driving of a vehicle, for example.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An information processing device comprising: a communication unit capable of communicating, in a mobile object, with a remote support device that performs remote support for the mobile object, via a plurality of communication lines; and a communication control section that selects a communication line that transmits transmission data to the remote support device, on a basis of a characteristic of the transmission data including information to be used in the remote support device and a characteristic of each of the communication lines.

Facts

Company
Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
Official title
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
Publication number
US20260281884A1
Application number
18878698
Filed
Jun 20, 2023
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
20

Classified under

H04W 48/18 Electricity & electronicsH04W 4/44 Electricity & electronics
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