Patents Assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
  • Patent number: 11774288
    Abstract: An interference imaging device includes a light interference generator that includes: a light wave splitter configured to reflect a part of incident light and to allow a remaining part of the incident light to pass through; a phase modulator configured to modulate a phase of incident light that has passed through the light wave splitter; and a reflector configured to reflect the phase-modulated incident light from the phase modulator so that the reflected, phase-modulated incident light overlaps with incident light that has been reflected by the light wave splitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventor: Tatsuki Tahara
  • Publication number: 20230281922
    Abstract: An optical aberration correction program causing a computer (3) to execute: obtaining phases of a plurality of provisional optical transfer functions of an optical system (10) corresponding to a plurality of provisional optical aberration amounts of the optical system; generating a plurality of three-dimensional phase-modulated images by deconvolving a three-dimensional original image of a sample (12) including an optical aberration of the optical system (10) with each of the phases of the plurality of provisional optical transfer functions; obtaining an optimal theoretical three-dimensional point spread function based on indices of luminance values of the plurality of three-dimensional phase-modulated images; and calculating a three-dimensional correction image by deconvolving the three-dimensional original image or another three-dimensional original image that includes the optical aberration of the optical system (10) and is different from the three-dimensional original image with an optimal optical transfe
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Atsushi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11750204
    Abstract: This atomic resonator for causing a resonance frequency by CPT resonance includes: a gas cell having alkali metal atoms enclosed; a photodetector configured to detect light having passed through the gas cell and convert the light to an electric signal; a high-frequency oscillator configured to receive the electric signal and output the signal after a frequency thereof is divided by two; and a laser light source configured to modulate and introduce, into the gas cell, light based on the signal output from the high-frequency oscillator. The high-frequency oscillator has an injection-locked frequency divider circuit including an acoustic resonator as an oscillation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Motoaki Hara, Yuichiro Yano, Masatoshi Kajita, Tetsuya Ido, Hiroyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 11722206
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yuuichi Teranishi, Takashi Kimata, Eiji Kawai, Hiroaki Harai
  • Publication number: 20230195161
    Abstract: It is provided a synchronization system capable of managing execution of synchronization for clocks to be mounted on various devices. A synchronization system of clocks comprising: a leader device; a follower device capable of establishing communication connection with the leader device; and a server apparatus capable of establishing communication connection with the leader device and/or the follower device, the system further comprising: a time deviation calculator configured to calculate a time deviation between the leader device and the follower device; and a time corrector configured to correct a time in the follower device based on the calculated time deviation, wherein the synchronization system executes the time deviation calculator and/or the time corrector when the server apparatus generates, transmits, and/or receives predetermined information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Nobuyasu SHIGA, Satoshi YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20230171726
    Abstract: In performing wireless communication between terminals to perform time difference measurement and propagation time measurement, first and second terminals that transmit a signal at least once in attempting space-time synchronization are included. The first terminal measures a reception phase of a locally transmitted signal, and a reception phase of a signal transmitted by the second terminal, adds a positive or negative phase to the measured reception phase, and makes a report to the second terminal. The second terminal measures a reception phase of a locally transmitted signal, and a reception phase of a signal transmitted by the first terminal, and makes a report to the first terminal. The first and second terminals obtain a time difference or propagation time according to a reception phase measured by a local device and reported from a counterpart, and obtain additional information based on a phase reflected in the time difference or propagation time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Maki YOSHIDA, Nobuyasu SHIGA, Satoshi YASUDA, Kenichi TAKIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11656122
    Abstract: A photon detection device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a superconducting photon detector array in which a plurality of superconducting photon detectors (SPDs) are arranged; a plurality of first transmission lines connected to the plurality of SPDs and configured to transmit a detection current output from each of the plurality of SPDs; an address information generation circuit connected to the plurality of first transmission lines and configured to generate, based on the detection current, an address information signal that specifies a superconducting photon detector from which the detection current is output; a second transmission line magnetically coupled to all of the plurality of first transmission lines; and a time information generation circuit connected to the second transmission line and configured to generate, based on the detection current, a time information signal indicating a time at which a photon is incident on the plurality of superconductive photon detection SPDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Naoki Takeuchi, Shigehito Miki, Hirotaka Terai
  • Publication number: 20230120581
    Abstract: A system for estimating an imbalance between electrical-optical responses of an in-phase (I) channel and a quadrature (Q) channel in an optical amplitude and phase modulator (optical IQ modulator) includes an optical detector (PD), an analog-digital converter (ADC), and an imbalance operation unit that estimates an imbalance between electrical-optical responses of an I channel and a Q channel in the optical IQ modulator, wherein the imbalance operation unit includes an input signal information receiving unit that receives information regarding a first modulation signal, and an intensity information receiving unit that receives intensity information of the digitalized output signal from the ADC, and the imbalance operation unit estimates an imbalance between electrical-optical responses of an I channel and a Q channel in the optical IQ modulator using information regarding a first modulation signal and intensity information of the digitalized output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yuki YOSHIDA, Naokatsu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230022825
    Abstract: A secret key sharing system includes a transceiver in a first layer, a plurality of transceivers in a second layer, and a plurality of transceivers in a third layer. The transceivers in the second layer receive a first random number from the transceiver in the first layer via a directional carrier wave. The transceivers in the third layer receive a second random number from one of the transceivers in the second layer via the carrier wave. The transceiver in the first layer and the transceivers in the second layer share a first secret key based on the first random number, and the one of the transceivers in the second layer and the plurality of transceivers in the third layer share a second secret key based on the second random number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ENDO, Masahide SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11563092
    Abstract: A Ga2O3-based semiconductor device includes a Ga2O3-based crystal layer including a donor, and an N-doped region formed in at least a part of the Ga2O3-based crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tamura Corporation, Novel Crystal Technology, Inc
    Inventors: Masataka Higashiwaki, Yoshiaki Nakata, Takafumi Kamimura, Man Hoi Wong, Kohei Sasaki, Daiki Wakimoto
  • Publication number: 20230012453
    Abstract: Provided is a variable-wavelength surface emission laser having a wide wavelength variation range. A partial region of a thin-plate substrate (22) and a movable mirror (20), the partial region being positioned between an air gap (G1) and a movable gap (G2), can move toward the air gap (G1) side or the movable gap (G2) side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Motoaki HARA, Yuichiro YANO, Masatoshi KAJITA, Tetsuya IDO, Satoshi SHINADA, Takahito ONO, Masaya TODA
  • Patent number: 11502831
    Abstract: A quantum key distribution device is provided with an encoding unit which encodes an optical pulse train; an intensity modulating unit which subjects the encoded optical pulse train to N (where N is an integer at least equal to 3) types of intensity modulation having mutually different intensities, with different timings; and a first key distillation processing unit which generates an encryption key on the basis of a data sequence obtained by removing data obtained from an optical pulse having a specific modulation pattern from a data sequence used by the encoding unit and the intensity modulating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, National University Corporation Hokkaido University
    Inventors: Ken-ichiro Yoshino, Mikio Fujiwara, Masahide Sasaki, Akihisa Tomita
  • Publication number: 20220349755
    Abstract: An interference imaging device includes a light interference generator that includes: a light wave splitter configured to reflect a part of incident light and to allow a remaining part of the incident light to pass through; a phase modulator configured to modulate a phase of incident light that has passed through the light wave splitter; and a reflector configured to reflect the phase-modulated incident light from the phase modulator so that the reflected, phase-modulated incident light overlaps with incident light that has been reflected by the light wave splitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventor: Tatsuki TAHARA
  • Patent number: 11429197
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chenchen Ding, Masao Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11405072
    Abstract: A communication method includes generating at a first node, a message of a predetermined message temporal length that indicates an input value to be encoded and transmitting, at the first node, a signal including a pulse train corresponding to the generated message. The signal including the pulse train includes two pulses that define start and end of the message, respectively, and further two pulses that define within the message, a first time interval calculated from the input value in accordance with a first function and a second time interval calculated from the input value in accordance with a second function, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Ferdinand Peper, Kenji Leibnitz, Tetsuya Shimokawa, Mikio Hasegawa, Kaori Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20220237380
    Abstract: Improvement is made in performance of a trained neural network that uses positional information indicating a position at which each token included in an input sequence is present in the input sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kehai CHEN, Rui WANG, Masao UCHIYAMA, Eiichiro SUMITA
  • Publication number: 20220200612
    Abstract: This atomic resonator for causing a resonance frequency by CPT resonance includes: a gas cell having alkali metal atoms enclosed; a photodetector configured to detect light having passed through the gas cell and convert the light to an electric signal; a high-frequency oscillator configured to receive the electric signal and output the signal after a frequency thereof is divided by two; and a laser light source configured to modulate and introduce, into the gas cell, light based on the signal output from the high-frequency oscillator. The high-frequency oscillator has an injection-locked frequency divider circuit including an acoustic resonator as an oscillation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Motoaki HARA, Yuichiro YANO, Masatoshi KAJITA, Tetsuya IDO, Hiroyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 11368938
    Abstract: To provide a wireless communication system that can implement optimal communication conditions depending on the type of data. A wireless communication system 100 for transmitting and receiving data to and from a plurality of terminals 2 for use in a narrow space includes normal transmitting/receiving means for transmitting and receiving normal data, among the data, to and from a terminal 2, based on priorities assigned to each of a plurality of buffers stored in a base station 1, and urgent transmitting/receiving means for assigning a high priority to a buffer storing a lowest amount of data among the plurality of buffers, and transmitting and receiving urgent data, among the data, which is different from the normal data, to and from the terminal, via the buffer to which the high priority is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Satoko Itaya, Kenichi Maruhashi, Fumiko Ohori, Fumihide Kojima
  • Publication number: 20220164037
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chenchen Ding, Masao Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20220147640
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: PANASONIC CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Masakatsu MATSUO, Katsunori KOGATA, Masahide SASAKI, Mikio FUJIWARA