Patents Assigned to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240187107
    Abstract: A frequency offset estimation device includes a correlation processing unit that obtains a correlation pattern that is a waveform pattern indicating a correlation between a reception signal spectrum and a detection pattern based on a power spectrum of the reception signal or the reception signal spectrum indicating an amplitude spectrum based on the power spectrum and the detection pattern that is a predetermined waveform pattern, and an estimation unit that estimates a frequency offset amount based on a peak position of the correlation pattern obtained by the correlation processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo HORIKOSHI, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Seiji OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240187435
    Abstract: A matching device includes processing circuitry configured to generate, for each IP address range in a list indicating reference IP address ranges, a record indicating a start IP address and a record indicating an end IP address in the IP address range, combine the record indicating a start IP address and the record indicating an end IP address of each of the reference IP address ranges and a record indicating an IP address to be matched, sort a combined record group using an IP address of the record as a primary key and information indicating whether the record is a record of the IP address to be matched, a record indicating the start IP address, or a record of the end IP address as a secondary key, and determine that the IP address to be matched matches an IP address range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12001875
    Abstract: [Problem] To realize high-speed and fine-granularity scaling in a virtualization infrastructure. [Solution] A virtualization infrastructure 1 includes: a monitoring unit that monitors loads on a plurality of computes and loads on virtual machines that are execution environments operating on the plurality of computes; a scaling execution determination unit that determines execution of scaling and calculates a required resource amount; a resource dispensing control unit that manages and allocates a resource; a scaling method determination unit that, upon the determination of execution of scaling by the scaling execution determination unit, checks availability of the resource in each of the plurality of computes and selects any scaling method from the group consisting of scale-out, scale-up, and combined use of scale-out and scale-up; and a scaling indication unit that indicates the selected scaling method selected by the scaling method determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventor: Eriko Iwasa
  • Patent number: 12001895
    Abstract: Provided is a server delay control system for performing, on a server including a Host OS, packet transfer between a physical NIC connected to the Host OS and an application deployed in a user space. A server delay control device configured to perform polling for packet transfer on behalf of the application is deployed in the user space. The server delay control device creates, between the application and the physical NIC, a communication path for communication via socket communication. The communication path includes a first queue and a second queue. The server delay control device includes: a packet dequeuer configured to poll whether a packet has been enqueued into the first queue and to dequeue the enqueued packet from the first queue; and a packet enqueuer configured to enqueue the dequeued packet into the second queue in the same context as the polling and dequeuing without causing a context switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Fujimoto, Maiko Arai
  • Patent number: 12002237
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to make it possible to ascertain coordinates of facility. A processor obtains two or more captured images of a facility and an object (S101), obtains position coordinates and an actual size of the facility and a size of the object from a database (S104), calculates a distance from each camera that has captured the two or more images to the object using a relationship between a distance from each camera that has captured the two or more images to the facility and a magnification with respect to the actual size of the facility on the two or more images (S108), and derives position coordinates of the object using the calculated distance (S109).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Ohira, Yukihiro Goto
  • Patent number: 12001324
    Abstract: An operation pattern generation apparatus has a generating unit which generates, with respect to a test script to be used for a web application, operation patterns related to combinations of operation elements that cause a transition between screens of the web application and input data candidates for input elements to be used to input data on the screens, and with respect to the input element of which a default value of input data is set in advance, the generating unit combines only the default value with the operation elements in order to reduce time required for specification restoration of screen transitions of the web application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Yoshimura, Yu Adachi, Haruto Tanno, Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Toshiyuki Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 12003397
    Abstract: A delay measurement device measures a delay time of an end-to-end route path of a virtual private network related to a predetermined user. The delay measurement device includes a measurement route generation unit configured to generate a first route that transfers to a start point node of a route path, transfers back on the route path, and then returns to itself, and to generate a second route of a route that transfers to the start point node of the route path and returns to itself; a packet transmission/reception unit configured to transmit and receive packets circulating on the first route; a delay measurement unit configured to measure a time from transmission of the packet to reception of the packet to set the measured time as a delay time of the route; and a one-way delay calculation unit configured to calculate a one-way delay time of the route path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakatsukasa, Toshihiro Yokoi, Ken Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12001440
    Abstract: A prediction device includes: a normal prediction unit configured to predict first prediction values for target ranges of respective models, based on respective pieces of spatio-temporal observation data including observation values for respective observation locations and respective observation times observed for a given time period and the respective models for predicting variations of the pieces of spatio-temporal observation data for the respective target ranges defined for at least one of an observation location or a period; a residual extraction unit configured to extract, based on residuals between the respective pieces of spatio-temporal observation data being observed and the models corresponding to the respective pieces of spatio-temporal observation data based on the pieces of spatio-temporal observation data and the models, the respective pieces of spatio-temporal observation data with residuals greater than or equal to a threshold value, as spatio-temporal residual data; a residual prediction uni
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Sato, Tatsushi Matsubayashi, Hiroyuki Toda
  • Patent number: 12001465
    Abstract: A response selecting apparatus includes a recording part, a document searching part, an information acquiring part, a score calculating part, and a ranking part. The document searching part searches for a question-answer pair from the question-answer pairs recorded in the recording part using the input question as input. The information acquiring part acquires information for quantifying appropriateness of the search-result-question-answer pair with respect to the input question using the input question and the search-result-question-answer pair as input. The score calculating part calculates a score with respect to the input question for each of the search-result-question-answer pairs from a numerical value indicating appropriateness based on a search scheme and a numerical value based on the quantification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Mizukami, Junji Tomita
  • Patent number: 11998360
    Abstract: A wearable device attached to a subject includes an accelerometer that measures acceleration information, and a biological sensor that measures biological signal information of the subject. From the measured acceleration information and biological signal information, first feature data corresponding to a first predetermined period and second feature data corresponding to a second predetermined period are extracted. By machine learning based on the first feature data, a dynamic/static activity identification model, a dynamic-activity identification model, and a static-activity identification model, for the subject, are generated. By combination of results of determination based on each of the identification models, a posture and an activity of the subject are identified and correspondence information, which associates the identified posture and activity with the biological signal information of the subject, is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro Horikawa, Yoshitaka Nakamura, Masato Sawada, Akihiro Yamanaka, Shingo Tsukada, Toshiya Yamada
  • Patent number: 12002445
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for generating an elimination filter coefficient for suppressing degradation of noise elimination performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Masahiro Fukui
  • Patent number: 12002486
    Abstract: A tag estimation device capable of estimating, for an utterance made among several persons, a tag representing a result of analyzing the utterance is provided. The tag estimation device includes an utterance sequence information vector generation unit that adds a t-th utterance word feature vector and a t-th speaker vector to a (t?1)-th utterance sequence information vector ut-1 that includes an utterance word feature vector that precedes the t-th utterance word feature vector and a speaker vector that precedes the t-th speaker vector to generate a t-th utterance sequence information vector ut, where t is a natural number, and a tagging unit that determines a tag lt that represents a result of analyzing a t-th utterance from a model parameter set in advance and the t-th utterance sequence information vector ut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12003762
    Abstract: A technique for interpolating positional information of a target in an image of a frame in which positional information of the target has not been acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Isogawa, Dan Mikami, Kosuke Takahashi, Yoshinori Kusachi
  • Patent number: 11998819
    Abstract: A virtual reality system is provided that includes a video presentation apparatus, the virtual reality system comprising: the video presentation apparatus which includes circuitry configured to: obtain as input a video sequence composed of a plurality of frames and mask information specifying a complementation target region in the video sequence; separate a frame into a foreground region and a background region based on binary images representing differences between the plurality of frames included in the video sequence; determine either one of patch-search-based completion and paste synthesis as a complementation method for the complementation target region based on a number of pixels belonging to the foreground region and located within a given distance from a periphery of the complementation target region; and complement the complementation target region in accordance with the complementation method; and a virtual reality head mounted display which presents the complemented video sequence to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Takahashi, Dan Mikami, Mariko Isogawa, Akira Kojima, Hideaki Kimata, Ayumi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12000936
    Abstract: A positioning system includes equipment that receives a signal from a GNSS satellite, and a server apparatus that is connected to the equipment via a communication network. The equipment includes a memory and a processor configured to transmit information indicated by the signal to the server apparatus, and perform positioning of the equipment by using the information indicated by the signal. The server apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to perform positioning of the equipment by using the information indicated by the signal received from the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12001325
    Abstract: A test data generation device that generates test data to be input into an input field of a test target application includes a storage unit that stores a tacit knowledge test data dictionary including, for each tacit knowledge category, a generation method, test data information, and an input value constraint on an input field to be used as a generation condition, and a generation unit that refers to, regarding a certain tacit knowledge category for a target input field, the tacit knowledge test data dictionary to generate test data for the target input field when an input value constraint of the target input field in the test target application and an input value constraint of a generation condition regarding the tacit knowledge category are determined to match, and not to generate the test data for the target input field when the input value constraint of the target input field and the input value constraint of the generation condition regarding the tacit knowledge category are determined not to match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Adachi, Haruto Tanno, Yu Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Toshiyuki Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 12001868
    Abstract: In a VM migration system 100, a controller 20 determines a priority group to which a VM whose performance is insufficient is desired to belong based on the amount of resource usage of each VM 1 and priority group setting information 14 acquired from a physical server 10. Upon acquiring performance guarantee failure alarm information, the controller 20 selects a VM to be migrated from VMs currently belonging to a priority group in which there are no vacancies, selects a physical server having the largest margin as another physical server to which the VM is to be migrated, and transmits migration instruction information to the physical server. The physical server migrates the selected VM to the other physical server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshito Ito
  • Patent number: 12001271
    Abstract: As an embodiment of the present invention, a network monitoring apparatus includes a combination rule storage section where a combination rule is registered; and the combination rule includes a combination of a plurality of failure event information to be monitored, and new event information to which the combination of the plurality of failure event information is to be changed. In this state, the network monitoring apparatus collects a plurality of failure event information from network apparatuses; extracts, from the plurality of failure event information collected, a combination of a plurality of failure event information detected to occur within a unit time; and collates the combination of the plurality of failure event information extracted with the combination of the plurality of failure event information defined to be monitored in the combination rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Naomi Murata, Satoshi Suzuki, Haruhisa Nozue, Shunsuke Kanai, Fumika Asai, Kazuaki Akashi
  • Publication number: 20240175726
    Abstract: The present disclosure generates an optical spectrogram, representing a temporal change in frequency characteristics, using a plurality of spectral data measured by an OFDR measurement instrument at different times, and filters the optical spectrogram in both a time direction and a frequency direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
  • Publication number: 20240178921
    Abstract: A reception unit, in which a range of an electric band is in a range from ?Be to +Be and Be >B/2 is satisfied, receives signal light of a symbol rate B generated by optically modulating transmission data, performs digital coherent reception by interfering the received signal light with the local oscillation light generated by the local oscillation light source, converts the signal light into an electric digital signal, and output the digital signal, and a frequency offset compensation unit provided in a digital signal processing unit estimates a frequency offset amount generated in the digital signal in a range of ?B/2 or more and +B/2 or less in accordance with a frequency difference between the signal light and the local oscillation light, and perform frequency offset compensation for the digital signal on the basis of the estimated frequency offset amount to compensate the frequency offset amount in a range of ?B/2 or more and +B/2 or less and compensate so as to remain the frequency offset amount of an
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo KOMA, Junichi KANI