Sony
Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology Equipment |
| Website | http://www.sony.net/ |
Between 2015 and 2025, Sony researchers released682 AI research articles
- #26in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 33.81citations per AI article on average (#121 in PARAT)
- 86highly cited articles (#28 in PARAT)
- +21.6%growth in Sony's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 102articles at top AI conferences (#26 in PARAT)
- 28.8%of Sony's total public research was AI-focused
Sony's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 165 | 54.1 | 34.82 |
| NLP publications | 89 | 25.6 | 77.78 |
| Robotics publications | 129 | 19.3 | 7.07 |
| AI safety publications | 38 | 62.6 | 53.48 |
| Large language model publications | 86 | 34.9 | 149.54 |
Between 2015 and 2025, Sony filed1,860 AI-related patents
- #19in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 52.2%growth in Sony's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 685AI-related patents were granted to Sony (2017–2020)
- 7.1%of Sony's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Sony's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Computer vision patents | 652 | 67.04% |
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 182 | 84.38% |
| Speech processing patents | 180 | 45.65% |
| Measuring and testing patents | 142 | 28.97% |
| Control patents | 130 | 5.36% |
Top use cases across Sony's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 666 | 49.09% |
| Telecommunications patents | 560 | 39.78% |
| Entertainment patents | 391 | 80.24% |
| Life sciences patents | 156 | 25% |
| Transportation patents | 97 | 23.44% |
PARAT workforce data for this non-U.S. company may be unreliable. Use with caution. Read more >>
118
AI jobs
According to our data, Sony currently employs about 118 AI workers (#239 rank in PARAT). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
1,543
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Sony currently employs about 1,543 Tech Team 1 workers (#209 rank in PARAT).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.