Patents Assigned to National Institute of Information and Communication Technology
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Publication number: 20220164037Abstract: A Latin character conversion apparatus includes a code associator that associates each of a plurality of character keys assigned with Latin characters among a plurality of keys included in a keyboard with any of a plurality of character codes established by a character encoding scheme of the Unicode Standard, a character associator that associates the character code with a relevant code being another character code, a code converter that, in response to an instruction by a user that instructs any of the plurality of character keys, determines the character code associated with the instructed character key as a conversion candidate, and a character converter that, in response to an instruction by the user that instructs the character key serving also as a conversion key of the plurality of character keys with the conversion candidate determined, converts the conversion candidate into the relevant code associated with the conversion candidate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Chenchen Ding, Masao Uchiyama
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Publication number: 20220147640Abstract: A secret sharing storage system includes at least one user terminal, n units (n: an integer of 2 or more) of storage devices, and a main controller that is communicably connected to a random number generator. The main controller acquires a random number generated by the random number generator in a case of receiving original data sent from the user terminal, executes distributed processing on the original data by using the random number to generate n pieces of distributed data, and stores the n pieces of distributed data respectively in the corresponding n units of storage devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicants: PANASONIC CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Masakatsu MATSUO, Katsunori KOGATA, Masahide SASAKI, Mikio FUJIWARA
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Patent number: 11301624Abstract: In order to solve a problem that the level of precision in inferring a crosslingual topic of documents or words in a non-parallel corpus associated in the document level is not high, a topic inferring apparatus includes: a word distribution information storage unit in which word distribution information is stored in association with each of two or more languages; a document topic distribution generating unit that acquires document topic distribution information of a multilingual document set; a segment topic distribution generating unit that acquires segment topic distribution information of each segment, using the document topic distribution information; and a word topic determining unit that determines, for each word contained in two or more documents contained in the multilingual document set, a topic of each word using the segment topic distribution information. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the level of precision in inferring a topic.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Akihiro Tamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Yutaka Kidawara
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Patent number: 11297305Abstract: Information indicating a shape of a screen, a shape of a viewing area and a relative positional relationship between the viewing area and the screen is acquired. A shared area in which a three-dimensional image presented by a three-dimensional display is to be arranged in order to be observed from any position in the viewing area is created based on the acquired information. Based on the acquired information, a specific area in which a three-dimensional image presented by the three-dimensional display is to be arranged in order to be observed from a specific position in the viewing area is created. The data indicating the created shared area and the data indicating the specific area are generated.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventor: Shunsuke Yoshida
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Publication number: 20220103242Abstract: A wireless communication method collects data generated from a plurality of moving entities. The wireless communication method includes performing first communication in which a control device controls a condition of data forwarding in the plurality of moving entities, via long-distance wireless communication; performing second communication that includes carrying out communication between one of the moving entities and a relay, or communication among the plurality of moving entities, via short-distance wireless communication, by using a DTN (Delay Tolerant Network), which employs a store-carry-and-forward process; and performing third communication that includes carrying out communication between the control device and the relay, or communication between the control device and one of the moving entities, via wired communication or the long-distance wireless communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yuuichi TERANISHI, Takashi KIMATA, Eiji KAWAI, Hiroaki HARAI
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Patent number: 11282992Abstract: A light-emitting module includes: a semiconductor light-emitting element which emits deep ultraviolet light; a liquid sealing the semiconductor light-emitting element; and a package for accommodating the semiconductor light-emitting element and the liquid. The liquid is transparent to the deep ultraviolet light. The package has a transparent member transparent to the deep ultraviolet light. For that reason, a highly reliable light-emitting module provided with the semiconductor light-emitting element that emits the deep ultraviolet light can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Shinichiro Inoue, Manabu Taniguchi, Kosei Nakaya
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Patent number: 11271653Abstract: [Problem] To provide a novel optical network which can be used as an in-vehicle optical backbone network and exhibits high capacity, low delay, low power consumption, low noise and low cost.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Ryo Takahashi, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Naokatsu Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11256658Abstract: A causality recognizing apparatus includes a candidate vector generating unit configured to receive a causality candidate for generating a candidate vector representing a word sequence forming the candidate; a context vector generating unit generating a context vector representing a context in which noun-phrases of cause and effect parts of the causality candidate appear; a binary pattern vector generating unit, an answer vector generating unit and a related passage vector generating unit, generating a word vector representing background knowledge for determining whether or not there is causality between the noun-phrase included in the cause part and the noun-phrase included in the effect part; and a multicolumn convolutional neural network learned in advance to receive these word vectors and to determine whether or not the causality candidate has causality.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Canasai Kruengkrai, Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Julien Kloetzer, Jonghoon Oh, Masahiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11236188Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel electro-optic polymer. Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel electro-optic polymer with a low alicyclic methacrylate monomer content. The polymer according to the present invention is a polymer comprising (a) a base polymer having a reactive group (A), (b) an electro-optic molecule having a plurality of reactive groups (B), and a bond (C) formed by reaction of the reactive group (A) with the plurality of reactive groups (B), the bond (C) being at least one type of bond selected from the group consisting of a (thio)ester bond, a (thio)urethane bond, a (thio)urea bond and a (thio)amide bond.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Akira Otomo, Isao Aoki, Toshiki Yamada
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Publication number: 20210393159Abstract: A medical support system includes a first transmitting antenna attached to a body surface that transmits a first transmitting wave, and a reflector that is present in the body and reflects the first transmitting wave transmitted from the first transmitting antenna. A first receiving antenna attached to the body surface receives the first transmitting wave transmitted from the first transmitting antenna and a reflected wave reflected by the reflector, and a location estimation device estimates the passage of the reflector in the body based on changes in the respective phases of the first transmitting wave received by the first receiving antenna and the reflected wave, at time t and time t+?t.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, EA PHARMA CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi TAKIZAWA, Fumihide KOJIMA, Hirotoshi ISHIDA, Tsutomu UMEZAWA, Kenji TAKEHANA
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Patent number: 11192242Abstract: A holding apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect an indicated holding object, a second detection unit configured to detect, when the first detection unit detects the holding object, a tag proximate to the holding object, and a holding part configured to hold a container provided with the tag based on tag information of the tag detected by the second detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yuji Onuma, Komei Sugiura
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Patent number: 11194225Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a laminate for non-linear optics.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyInventors: Takahiro Kaji, Yukihiro Tominari, Toshiki Yamada, Akira Otomo
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Publication number: 20210364642Abstract: [Problem] To provide a camera with high sensitivity even if an output to the outside is weak. [Solution] This camera includes a light source 3, a demultiplexing unit 5 which demultiplexes light from the light source 3 into first demultiplexed light and second demultiplexed light, a first modulator 7 which modulates the first demultiplexed light to obtain a modulated signal, an emission unit 9 which emits the modulation signal modulated by the first modulator 7, and a phase imparting means 11 which imparts a plurality of types of phase shifts to the second demultiplexed light to obtain phase-imparted local light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyInventors: Keizo INAGAKI, Toshimasa UMEZAWA, Naokatsu YAMAMOTO, Tetsuya KAWANISHI
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Patent number: 11176328Abstract: A question answering device includes: a general word vector converter converting a question and an answer to semantic vectors in accordance with general context; a general sentence level CNN 214, in response to similarities of semantic vectors between words in question and answer and to strength of causality between the words, for weighting each semantic vector to calculate sentence level representations of the question and the answer; a general passage level CNN 218, in response to similarity between sentence level representations of question and answer, and to strength of relation of vectors in the sentence level representations viewed from causality, for weighting the sentence level representation to calculate a passage level representation for the question and answer passage; and a classifier determining whether or not an answer is a correct answer, based on the similarities between outputs from CNNs 214 and 218.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyInventors: Jonghoon Oh, Kentaro Torisawa, Canasai Kruengkrai, Ryu Iida, Julien Kloetzer
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Patent number: 11119452Abstract: An equipment management system includes an adaptive system control unit which is assigned to at least one piece of equipment installed in a plant and which monitors and controls the equipment via wireless communication. The adaptive system control unit includes an information detection unit for detecting information from the equipment, a detected information control unit for guaranteeing that only acquisition intended information previously intended to be acquired in the information detected by the information detection unit is acquired by the adaptive system control unit, a first data propagation adjustment unit for adjusting a propagation path when transmitting data including information controlled by the detected information control unit to the outside, and an equipment control unit for controlling the equipment on the basis of the information detected by the information detection unit or a control policy from the outside.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Satoko Itaya, Fumihide Kojima
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Patent number: 11113335Abstract: A dialogue system includes a response utterance selecting unit generating a response utterance original sentence to an input utterance; an input utterance emotion estimating unit estimating emotion of the input utterance by calculating input utterance emotion scores indicating degree of matching between the emotion represented by the input utterance and a plurality of emotions; and a response utterance modifying unit for calculating response utterance emotion scores of a response utterance original sentence as emotion scores for each of the plurality of emotions, modifying the response utterance original sentence by a method of modification determined by the values of input utterance emotion score and the response utterance emotion score, and thereby generating and outputting a response utterance.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyInventors: Noriyuki Abe, Kanako Onishi, Kentaro Torisawa, Canasai Kruengkrai, Yutaka Kidawara
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Patent number: 11106714Abstract: A summary generating apparatus includes a text storage device storing text with information indicating a portion to be focused on; word vector converters vectorizing each word of the text and adding an element indicating whether the word is focused on or not to the vector and thereby converting the text to a word vector sequence; an LSTM implemented by a neural network performing sequence-to-sequence type conversion, pre-trained by machine learning to output, in response to each of the word vectors of the word vector sequence input in a prescribed order, a summary of the text consisting of the words represented by the word sequence; and input units inputting each of the word vectors of the word vector sequence in the prescribed order to the neural network.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyInventors: Ryu Iida, Kentaro Torisawa, Jonghoon Oh, Canasai Kruengkrai, Yoshihiko Asao, Noriyuki Abe, Junta Mizuno, Julien Kloetzer
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Patent number: 11088777Abstract: It is therefore an object of the disclosure of this document to attain a data transmission system with a simple transmitter implementing polarization multiplexing using either DML or EAM and a receiver with only one PD. A data transmission system 1 which comprises a transmitter 3 and a receiver 5, wherein the transmitter 3 comprises a first signal processor 11 and an optical signal generator 13, the optical signal generator 13 outputs an optical signal which comprises X and Y polarization components, ex(t) and ey(t), and wherein the first signal processor 11 receives a first data stream, Sx, and a second data stream, Sy, and controls the X and Y polarization components to reflect the first and the second data streams, respectively, wherein the receiver 5 comprises only one photodetector 21 and a second signal processor 23.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyInventors: Ruben Soares Luis, Georg Friedrich Rademacher, Ben Puttnam, Satoshi Shinada, Naoya Wada
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Patent number: 11049493Abstract: [Problem] With conventional technology, it is impossible to appropriately support spoken dialog that is carried out in multiple languages.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Atsuo Hiroe, Takuma Okamoto
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Publication number: 20210167855Abstract: [Problem] To provide a novel optical network which can be used as an in-vehicle optical backbone network and exhibits high capacity, low delay, low power consumption, low noise and low cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyInventors: Ryo TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya KAWANISHI, Naokatsu YAMAMOTO