Patents Assigned to NEC Corporation of America
  • Publication number: 20220282436
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for enhancing road markings using Infrared (IR) retroreflective spherical elements, comprising immersing a plurality of IR retroreflective spherical elements in one or more paint materials to produce a composition applied to paint road markings on one or more surfaces of one or more road segments. Each of the plurality of IR retroreflective spherical elements is at least partially transparent in visible light spectral range and in one or more infrared spectral ranges and is at least partially coated with one or more IR reflective materials characterized by (1) reflecting more than a first value of light in the one or more infrared spectral ranges, and (2) transferring more than a second value of light in the visible light spectral range. The painted road markings expressing driving information relating to the one or more road segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventor: Tsvi LEV
  • Publication number: 20220284225
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and system for detecting road marking expressed using alternating infrared reflective tiles comprising high infrared reflective tiles and low infrared red reflective tiles painted on a road surface using paint material(s) characterized by: (1) reflecting light in visible light spectral range deviating less than a first value from the light reflected by the road surface and (2) reflecting light in an infrared spectral range deviating more than a second value from the light reflected by the road surface. Infrared image(s) and visible light image(s) of the road surface which are registered to each other may be analyzed to compute an infrared reflective value and a luminance value for each pixel respectively. A ratio may be computed between the infrared reflective value of and the luminance value of corresponding pixels to identify high and low infrared reflective tiles in pixels having a ratio exceeding a third value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventor: Tsvi LEV
  • Publication number: 20220260667
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and systems for generating a model, mapping a monitored space, and used for augmenting the location and paths of devices path in the monitored space, using orientation and obstruction analysis. The disclosure comprises moving a device having a camera and one or more wireless transceiver through the monitored space, exchanging signal transmissions with one or more wireless transceivers present in the monitored space, and taking images, video sequences, or other optical readings. Either the mobile wireless device, the wireless transceivers, or both may have a non-isotropic transmission and reception characteristics, due to antenna structure, occlusions, other objects with radiation impact and/or the like. The images, videos, and/or optical readings, in addition to the received signal characteristics are stored and processed to generate the model, which one or more verification units, configured to verify the location objects or devices in the monitored space, may use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventor: Tsvi LEV
  • Publication number: 20220237396
    Abstract: An article having an invisible infrared pattern is disclosed. The article includes at least one infrared pattern printed onto a surface. The infrared pattern includes regions of high absorption and high reflection for a plurality of wavelengths of infrared radiation ranging between 700 and 2000 nm. A coating is overlaid over the infrared pattern. The coating is made of a material and has a thickness that is penetrable by infrared radiation and that has an average opacity of at least 20 for light in the visible range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventor: Tsvi LEV
  • Patent number: 11394698
    Abstract: Provided herein are system, devices and methods for applying Multi-Party Computation (MPC) to authenticate a user accessing a secure resource using a plurality of computing nodes. The computing nodes, each receiving a respective one of a plurality of encrypted shares created using a plurality of keys to encrypt private data captured by a client device used by the user accessing the secure resource, engage in a secure MPC to compare between the encrypted shares and reference encrypted private data copies also encrypted using the plurality of keys without decrypting the private data since the keys are not available to the computing nodes. The computing nodes compute a match score based on the comparison and transmit it to a controller of the secure resource configured to grant or deny the client device access to the secure resource based on the match score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi Lev, Yaacov Hoch
  • Publication number: 20220224515
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for efficiently retrieving data from an at least partially encrypted table based record using secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC). A query received to retrieve data from a table based record comprising data items arranged in rows and columns may include a queried data item (key) which potentially matches one or more encrypted data items contained in one or more of the columns. The computing nodes, each having a respective one of a plurality of shares of a one-hot representation of each of the encrypted data items engage in the MPC session to match between a one-hot representation of the queried data item and the one-hot representation of each encrypted data item and output each matching row. The match is based on multiplying, in each encrypted data item's one-hot representation, only bits identified as hot in the queried data item's one-hot representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Ori YAMPOLSKY, Maya COHEN MAIMON, Tsvi LEV, Yaacov HOCH, Ekaterina SHELENKOVA
  • Publication number: 20220212633
    Abstract: A method for detecting non-rain and/or non-snow particles movement towards an optical interface is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving one or more images from one or more imaging sensors of the vicinity of the optical interface, of particles movement towards the optical interface; analyzing the one or more images to detect non-rain and/or non-snow particles movement towards the optical interface and distinguish between rain and/or snow particles and the non-rain and/or non-snow particles movement towards the optical interface; and controlling one or more wiping elements activation based on the analyzed one or more images and removing the non-rain and/or non-snow particles from the optical interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventor: Tsvi LEV
  • Publication number: 20220207263
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for determining whether a user engaged in an interactive video session is a genuine user or a potential impersonator by analyzing a plurality of consecutive images depicting the user while engaged in the video session to identify one or more dynamic facial patterns in the face of the user while his lips are moving. Each such dynamic facial pattern may express a movement of one or more of a plurality of wrinkles and/or other dynamic facial features (e.g., nostrils, distance between nostrils, ear, skin portion, muscle, etc.) in the face of the user. The user may be then determined to be genuine or not based on a comparison between the identified dynamic facial pattern(s) and one or more reference dynamic facial patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Mark VEXLER, Liran OREVI, Yaacov HOCH, Tsvi LEV
  • Publication number: 20220188706
    Abstract: There is provided a system for computing a secure statistical classifier, comprising: at least one hardware processor executing a code for: accessing code instructions of an untrained statistical classifier, accessing a training dataset, accessing a plurality of cryptographic keys, creating a plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier, creating a plurality of trained sub-classifiers by training each of the plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier by iteratively adjusting adjustable classification parameters of the respective instance of the untrained statistical classifier according to a portion of the training data serving as input and a corresponding ground truth label, and at least one unique cryptographic key of the plurality of cryptographic keys, wherein the adjustable classification parameters of each trained sub-classifier have unique values computed according to corresponding at least one unique cryptographic key, and providing the statistical classifier, whe
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicants: NEC Corporation Of America, Bar-Ilan University, NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun FURUKAWA, Joseph KESHET, Kazuma OHARA, Toshinori ARAKI, Hikaru TSUCHIDA, Takuma AMADA, Kazuya KAKIZAKI, Shir AVIV-REUVEN
  • Patent number: 11361592
    Abstract: A monitoring system, comprising: at least one device, comprising at least one processing circuitry configured for: receiving from at least one image sensor connected to the at least one processing circuitry, at least one digital image captured by the at least one image sensor; identifying a nature of at least one relationship between at least one first body part of at least one first person and at least one second body part of at least one second person, where the at least one first person and the at least one second person are identified in the at least one digital image; identifying at least one offending relationship according to the nature of the at least one relationship and a set of relationship rules; and outputting an indication of the at least one offending relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi Lev, Yaacov Hoch
  • Patent number: 11363557
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of detecting unauthorized mobile wireless transmitters, comprising using one or more processors adapted for obtaining, from one or more radio frequency (RF) sensors deployed in a monitored location, RF sensory data relating to a plurality of transmissions transmitted by one or more of a plurality of mobile wireless transmitters, detecting a change in a location of one or more of the mobile wireless transmitters by analyzing the RF sensory data, classifying one or more of the mobile wireless transmitters as unauthorized in case the detected location change deviates from one or more mobility rules and outputting an indication of the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi Lev, Yaacov Hoch, Doron Gonen
  • Patent number: 11357411
    Abstract: There is provided a system for measuring a physiological parameter of a person indicative of physiological pathology, comprising: a plurality of remote non-contact sensors, each of a different type of sensing modality, at least one hardware processor executing a code for: simultaneously receiving over a time interval, from each of the plurality of remote non-contact sensors monitoring a person, a respective dataset, extracting, from each respective dataset, a respective sub-physiological parameter of a plurality of sub-physiological parameters, analyzing a combination of the plurality of sub-physiological parameters, and computing a physiological parameter indicative of physiological pathology according to the analysis, wherein an accuracy of the physiological parameter computed from the combination is higher than an accuracy of the physiological parameter independently computed using any one of the plurality of sub-physiological parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi Lev, Yaacov Hoch
  • Patent number: 11361445
    Abstract: There is provided a computer implemented method for analyzing a thermal image for enforcing mask wearing compliance, comprising: receiving a thermal image of a subject captured by a sensor, analyzing the thermal image to identify an indication of estimated temperature of a region of a face of the subject, in response to the estimated temperature being below a temperature threshold, detecting lack of mask wearing compliance, and generating instructions for meeting proper mask wearing compliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventor: Tsvi Lev
  • Publication number: 20220133157
    Abstract: There is provided a system for measuring a physiological parameter of a person indicative of physiological pathology, comprising: a plurality of remote non-contact sensors, each of a different type of sensing modality, at least one hardware processor executing a code for: simultaneously receiving over a time interval, from each of the plurality of remote non-contact sensors monitoring a person, a respective dataset, extracting, from each respective dataset, a respective sub-physiological parameter of a plurality of sub-physiological parameters, analyzing a combination of the plurality of sub-physiological parameters, and computing a physiological parameter indicative of physiological pathology according to the analysis, wherein an accuracy of the physiological parameter computed from the combination is higher than an accuracy of the physiological parameter independently computed using any one of the plurality of sub-physiological parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi LEV, Yaacov HOCH
  • Publication number: 20220128535
    Abstract: A kit includes at least one facemask configured to cover a respective user's mouth and nose. The facemask contains at least one layer impregnated with a first chemical. When the facemask covers the respective user's mouth and nose, airborne particles of the first chemical are released from the at least one layer through the user's breathing. A sensor is configured to measure airborne concentration of the first chemical. A processing circuitry is configured to receive outputs of the sensor, to calculate a change in airborne concentration of the first chemical, and to issue a notification when the airborne concentration of the first chemical increases at above a predetermined rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi LEV, Yaacov HOCH
  • Patent number: 11315037
    Abstract: There is provided a system for computing a secure statistical classifier, comprising: at least one hardware processor executing a code for: accessing code instructions of an untrained statistical classifier, accessing a training dataset, accessing a plurality of cryptographic keys, creating a plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier, creating a plurality of trained sub-classifiers by training each of the plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier by iteratively adjusting adjustable classification parameters of the respective instance of the untrained statistical classifier according to a portion of the training data serving as input and a corresponding ground truth label, and at least one unique cryptographic key of the plurality of cryptographic keys, wherein the adjustable classification parameters of each trained sub-classifier have unique values computed according to corresponding at least one unique cryptographic key, and providing the statistical classifier, whe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: NEC Corporation Of America, Bar-Ilan University, NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Furukawa, Joseph Keshet, Kazuma Ohara, Toshinori Araki, Hikaru Tsuchida, Takuma Amada, Kazuya Kakizaki, Shir Aviv-Reuven
  • Publication number: 20220104771
    Abstract: An automated health check device and methods, the device comprising: at least one imaging sensor configured for capturing at least one image of at least an area confined by a window of the vehicle; at least one vital signs sensor configured for measuring a health parameter of a passenger at the area confined by the window; and at least one processor configured for: acquiring and analyzing the at least one image to determine location of the window; determining based on the determined location of the window a location of the passenger; determining the at least one vital signs sensor being oriented to a predetermined point of view in relation to the location of the passenger determined; and obtaining a measurement of the health parameter of the passenger from the at least one vital signs sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi LEV, Yaacov HOCH
  • Patent number: 11295120
    Abstract: A method of adapting a display comprises receiving a sequence of a plurality of facial images of a face of at least one user located in front of a display; analyzing the plurality of facial images to detect a hand to face gesture of the user; and updating, according to the hand to face gesture, a dataset documenting a plurality of facial touch event frequencies of a plurality of facial touch events in a plurality of facial locations. Each of the plurality of facial touch events is prompted by one of a plurality of previously captured hand to face gestures of the user. The method further comprises, based on the plurality of facial touch event frequencies, generating a presentation on the display. In response to detection of an impending facial touch, a destruction event may be depicted. A presentation may be also generated showing scoring of multiple persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventor: Tsvi Lev
  • Publication number: 20220067921
    Abstract: There is provided a computer implemented method of measuring a temperature of a subject, comprising: receiving a sequence of a plurality of thermal images of a subject captured by a thermal sensor, analyzing the sequence of the plurality of thermal images to identify at least one target thermal image depicting an upper region of a tongue of the subject, analyzing the at least one target thermal image to identify an estimated temperature of the upper region of the tongue, and providing the estimated temperature of the upper region of the tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi LEV, Yaacov HOCH, Liran OREVI
  • Publication number: 20220038442
    Abstract: Provided herein are system, devices and methods for applying Multi-Party Computation (MPC) to authenticate a user accessing a secure resource using a plurality of computing nodes. The computing nodes, each receiving a respective one of a plurality of encrypted shares created using a plurality of keys to encrypt private data captured by a client device used by the user accessing the secure resource, engage in a secure MPC to compare between the encrypted shares and reference encrypted private data copies also encrypted using the plurality of keys without decrypting the private data since the keys are not available to the computing nodes. The computing nodes compute a match score based on the comparison and transmit it to a controller of the secure resource configured to grant or deny the client device access to the secure resource based on the match score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi LEV, Yaacov HOCH