Patents Assigned to NEC Corporation
  • Patent number: 11977626
    Abstract: A method for securing a genuine machine learning model against adversarial samples includes the steps of attaching a trigger to a sample to be classified and classifying the sample with the trigger attached using a backdoored model that has been backdoored using the trigger. In a further step, it is determined whether an output of the backdoored model is the same as a backdoor class of the backdoored model, and/or an outlier detection method is applied to logits compared to honest logits that were computed using a genuine sample. These steps are repeated using different triggers and backdoored models respectively associated therewith. It is compared a number of times that an output of the backdoored models is not the same as the respective backdoor class, and/or a difference determined by applying the outlier detection method, against one or more thresholds so as to determine whether the sample is adversarial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sebastien Andreina, Giorgia Azzurra Marson, Ghassan Karame
  • Patent number: 11979787
    Abstract: A target RAN node (3) receives, from a core network (5), a message requesting a handover of a radio terminal (1) from a bearer-based network to a bearer-less network. This handover request message includes flow information related to at least one session to be established in the bearer-less network in order to transfer at least one packet flow of the radio terminal (1). The target RAN node (3) transmits, to the core network (5), a handover acknowledge response message containing a transparent container that includes a radio resource configuration information derived from the flow information and is to be forwarded to a source RAN node associated (2) through the core network (5). It is thus, for example, possible to appropriately configuring an AS layer of a target RAT in an inter-RAT handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20240146587
    Abstract: A wireless access system includes: a centralized control station; and an access point. The access point performs a pulse width modulation process on an analog uplink signal, thereby to generate an analog modulation signal; and converts the analog modulation signal to an optical uplink signal. The centralized control station converts the optical uplink signal to an electrical uplink signal; performs, on the electrical uplink signal, a filtering process for extracting an analog extraction signal including a signal component corresponding to the analog uplink signal; and converts the analog extraction signal to a digital uplink signal representing a signal level of the analog extraction signal by two or more bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masaaki TANIO
  • Publication number: 20240146437
    Abstract: A penalty is introduced to the channel with less noise when the difference in the transmitted signal quality among channels is reduced; therefore, an equalization apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the disclosure includes a processing means for performing a process associated with a signal using a transfer function with a coefficient, the signal propagating through each of a plurality of channels; and a coefficient generating means for generating the coefficient based on channel quality information on each of the plurality of channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Mingqi WU, Kazushi MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240144025
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a feature extraction means for extracting, from input data that is motion data representing a motion of a person, basic feature data representing a feature of the motion data corresponding to a basic motion set with respect to the motion, motion feature data representing a feature of the motion data corresponding to a motion style set with respect to the motion, and person feature data representing a feature of the motion data corresponding to the person; a motion data generation means for generating first motion data based on the basic feature data and the motion feature data, and generating second motion data based on the basic feature data and the person feature data; and a learning means for learning the feature extraction means and the motion data generation means based on the first motion data and the second motion data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke NISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240147258
    Abstract: A base station control apparatus includes a part that acquires a provision state of a predetermined service by one or more base stations in a service target area; and a part that instructs the one or more base stations whether or not to provide the predetermined service based on a service coverage which indicates a ratio of one or more areas in which the predetermined service is provided by the one or more base stations for each road section included in the service target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20240143695
    Abstract: A sparse matrix vector product operation device 20 includes a generating unit 21 which generates a second sparse matrix of a predetermined form by arranging a plurality of columns having a predetermined number or more non-zero components among a plurality of columns constituting a first sparse matrix of the predetermined form in order of the number of non-zero components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20240147603
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate according to the present disclosure includes a high-frequency circuit, in which a size of each of dummy metal pieces and an interval of an arrangement of the dummy metal pieces constituting a dummy metal piece group in a first area which is inside a line constituting a high-frequency circuit is n times larger than that of a dummy metal piece group outside a peripheral area of the high-frequency circuit; and the number of the dummy metal pieces in the first area is 1/n2 of the number of the dummy metal pieces outside the peripheral area, where n is a real number greater than one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki OSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240144300
    Abstract: Estimating means estimates first characteristic information pertaining to persons present within an area for which an estimation is made, based on first information obtained by tallying signals transmitted from terminal devices of users in the area for which the estimation is made and second information which is statistical information of the area for which the estimation is made. Based on the second characteristic information generated by an analyzing apparatus that analyzes an image, verifying means verifies the first characteristic information estimated by the estimating means. Based on the verification result of the verifying means, correcting means corrects the estimation of the first characteristic information estimated by the estimating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro CHIKU, Yuki TSUJI, Naoko FUKUSHI, Yoko TANAKA, Kazuki OGATA, Kosei KOBAYASHI, Kei YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20240146505
    Abstract: An secure computation server apparatus in a secure computation system includes: a local shuffle part that computes, by using a shared permutation shared by four of the five secure computation server apparatuses, permuted values of a share for a remaining one of the five secure computation server apparatuses and sends the permuted values of the share to the remaining secure computation server apparatus; a comparison and verification part that compares values with each other, which are received from at least three of the four secure computation server apparatuses and which are supposed to be a same value, and adopts the values that are same at least two values as an accurate permutation; and a shuffle synthesis part that synthesizes mini-shuffles, by using a shared permutation shared by a corresponding combination of four secure computation server apparatuses and a permutation adopted by a corresponding one of the comparison and verification parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hikaru Tsuchida
  • Publication number: 20240144303
    Abstract: An optimization apparatus includes: a selection unit that selects, as a correction value, an element having a magnitude equal to or smaller than a predetermined value from among convex hulls of a policy set; an acquisition unit that acquires a result of execution of a second policy executed in a second round, the second round being a round a predetermined round before a first round for executing a first policy that is determined from among the policy set; a calculation unit that calculates an estimated value of a loss vector in the execution of the policy based on the result of the execution and the correction value selected in the second round; an update unit that updates a first probability distribution based on the estimated value; and a determination unit that determines a policy for a next round based on the updated first probability distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji ITO
  • Publication number: 20240146581
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with another communication device through a wireless channel; and at least one processor configured to execute instructions to: a) estimate at least one first channel response of the wireless channel based on a predetermined signal received from the another communication device; and b) predict a second channel response based on the at least one first channel response by an extrapolation method for signal transmission to the another communication device at a time instant where no channel estimation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Prakash CHAKI, Jun Shikida, Kazushi Muraoka, Takanobu Doi
  • Publication number: 20240144500
    Abstract: A data conversion device including a feature amount calculation unit that normalizes posture data estimated in each frame constituting moving image data including a synchronization target motion into an angular representation, and calculates a feature amount in an embedded space by inputting the posture data normalized into the angular representation to an encoder, a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance between a feature amount calculated in each frame constituting reference moving image data and a feature amount calculated in each frame constituting synchronization target moving image data, a synchronization processing unit that calculates an optimal path for each frame based on the calculated distance and synchronizes the synchronization target moving image data with the reference moving image data by aligning timings of frames connected by the optimal path, and an output unit that outputs the synchronization target moving image data synchronized with the reference moving image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka NOZAKI, Kenichiro Fukushi, Kosuke Nishihara, Kentaro Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20240146468
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media for communication. A terminal device receives, from a network device, a first downlink transmission on a first cell in a cell group; and determines, from a set of cells for uplink control transmissions associated with the cell group, a second cell for a first uplink control transmission for a first HARQ feedback for the first downlink transmission. In this way, a latency for HARQ feedback can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gang WANG, Lin LIANG
  • Publication number: 20240138712
    Abstract: A feature-amount generation device that includes an extraction unit that generates a gait waveform for one gait cycle from time-series data of sensor data related to a motion of a foot, extracts a feature amount from the generated gait waveform, and extracts a gait phase cluster by integrating a plurality of temporally continuous gait phases from each of which a feature amount is extracted, and a generation unit that generates a feature amount of the gait phase cluster using a preset feature-amount constitutive expression, and generates feature-amount data in which the plurality of gait phases constituting the gait phase cluster and the feature amount of the gait phase cluster are associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Chenhui HUANG, Fumiyuki NIHEY, Kentaro NAKAGARA, Kenichiro FUKUSHI
  • Publication number: 20240144915
    Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus includes: an output unit that outputs a first probability that is a probability of a character sequence corresponding to a speech sequence indicated by speech data and a second probability that is a probability of a phoneme sequence corresponding to the speech sequence, by using a neural network that outputs the first probability and the second probability, when the speech data are inputted; and an update unit that updates the first probability on the basis of the second probability and dictionary data in which a registered character is associated with a registered phoneme that is a phoneme of the registered character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji OKABE, Hitoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240146400
    Abstract: At least one processor included in a server carries out: an acquiring process of acquiring, from a communication terminal configured to communicate with low earth orbit satellite equipment, information which indicates a communication condition in the communication terminal regarding communication with the low earth orbit satellite equipment; and a controlling process of referring to a radio wave map of a region including a location of the communication terminal and the information, to control an air vehicle configured to measure an attenuation of a radio wave between the air vehicle and the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki HAYASHI, Masakazu Ono, Junichi Funada, Kenji Wakafuji, Kohei Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240145923
    Abstract: A display board (101) configured to include a first display element (102A) that displays a first pixel that is one pixel of a screen of the touch panel and a second display element (102B) that displays a second pixel that is other one pixel of the screen; a touch sensor (106, 201, 203) configured to detect contact with the screen; a planar antenna (105) configured to be provided at a position on a front surface side of the screen with respect to the display board and the touch sensor, the position not facing the first display element and the second display element when viewed from above the screen; and a control unit configured to communicate to the planar antenna via a space between the first display element and the second display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koya Takata, Kenji Wakafuji, Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20240146405
    Abstract: A control apparatus capable of exhibiting the diversity effect in a hybrid mobile communication system using a terrestrial communication apparatus and a non-terrestrial communication apparatus is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji WAKAFUJI, Junichi FUNADA, Kohei YOSHIDA, Masakazu ONO, Kazuyuki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240146015
    Abstract: An optical amplifier that amplifies a wavelength multiplexing optical signal includes a first rare-earth-doped fiber, a second rare-earth-doped fiber connected in series with the first rare-earth-doped fiber, an excitation light combiner that inputs core excitation light to any of a core of the first rare-earth-doped fiber and a core of the second rare-earth-doped fiber and inputs clad excitation light to a clad of the first rare-earth-doped fiber, the clad excitation light having a wavelength different from that of the core excitation light, and an optical filter that is arranged between the first rare-earth-doped fiber and the second rare-earth-doped fiber, and transmits the wavelength multiplexing optical signal and the core excitation light and blocks the clad excitation light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi TAKESHITA