Patents Assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
  • Publication number: 20240352167
    Abstract: A polymer represented by the formula (1) is provided. in which RA1 and RA2 have the meanings as defined in the claims and the description. X represents a phenylene group, an ethylene group, or a phenylenevinylene group, RD1 and RD2 have the meanings as defined in the claims and the description. Y represents a linking group. Po represents a polymer structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Akira OTOMO, Kouichi TANAKA, Toshiki YAMADA, Chiyumi YAMADA, Shun KAMADA, Rieko UEDA
  • Publication number: 20240339747
    Abstract: An antenna module includes: a substrate with at least the top surface being a single crystal of silicon carbide; a single-crystal graphene layer provided in contact with the top surface of the substrate; and a gallium nitride layer on the substrate. The antenna module is characterized in that an antenna element portion is formed by patterning a region in the graphene layer that is not covered by the gallium nitride layer, an active element portion is formed in the gallium nitride layer, and a connection portion connecting the antenna element portion and the active element portion are integrally formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu FUKIDOME, Tetsuya SUEMITSU, Issei WATANABE, Minoru KAWAHARA, Shoji AKIYAMA, Yuji TOBISAKA, Makoto KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20240337868
    Abstract: A phase modulator calibration method includes steps of: providing a first delay interferometer to be used as a phase calibration reference and a second delay interferometer in which a phase modulator to be calibrated is installed in an optical path; for each of the first and second delay interferometers, measuring a delay time based on a time interval between pulses split from one input pulse and synchronizing the delay time with a cycle of a transmission clock; for the first delay interferometer, adjusting a phase difference so that input continuous-wave laser light produces an intensity-enhancing interference at an output; and determining the control signal with a calibration circuitry formed by connecting the first delay interferometer as a front stage and the second delay interferometer as a rear stage in a cascaded manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicants: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, National University Corporation Hokkaido University
    Inventors: Mikio FUJIWARA, Masahiro TAKEOKA, Masahide SASAKI, Akihisa TOMITA
  • Patent number: 12105552
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Shiga, Satoshi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20240317427
    Abstract: To control a mobile node group that performs a formation flight, mobile nodes constituting the mobile node group and a ground station that wirelessly communicates with each of the mobile nodes are included. The mobile nodes are classified into a follower mobile node and a leader mobile node that collects information on the follower mobile node and controls the follower mobile node. The mobile nodes wirelessly communicate with one another based on beamforming or MIMO. Based on an installed on-board processor, the leader mobile node controls the follower mobile node, and the mobile node controls a position or an attitude of the mobile node itself for performing the formation flight. The ground station performs link control of the wireless communication with the mobile node or link control of the wireless communication between the mobile nodes, and control of selecting any ground station that wirelessly communicates with the mobile node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yuma ABE, Hideaki KOTAKE, Morio TOYOSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240320369
    Abstract: A personal information protection management system for genomic data includes data storage, role storage, a filter, and a data output part. The data storage is configured to store genomic data. The role storage is configured to store an identifier of a data output destination and a role in association with each other, the role including a detail of filtering for removing from genomic data a part that is not to be outputted. The filter is configured to filter the stored genomic data based on the stored role. The data output part is configured to output the filtered genomic data to the data output destination. The filter is configured to obtain a data request signal transmitted from the data output destination and, based on the role that is associated with the identifier included in the obtained data request signal, filter the genomic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Mikio FUJIWARA, Masahiro TAKEOKA, Masahide SASAKI, Masao NAGASAKI
  • Patent number: 12099801
    Abstract: A program for training a representation generator generating a representation representing an answer part included in a passage to classify whether the passage is related to an answer or not. The program causes a computer to operate as: a fake representation generator responsive to a question and a passage for outputting a fake representation representing an answer part of the passage; a real representation generator for outputting, for the question and a core answer, a real representation representing the core answer, in the same format as fake representation; a discriminator for discriminating whether fake representation and real representation are a real or fake representation; and a generative adversarial network unit training the discriminator and fake representation generator through generative adversarial network such that error determination of fake representation is maximized and error determination of real representation is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Jonghoon Oh, Kazuma Kadowaki, Julien Kloetzer, Ryu Iida, Kentaro Torisawa
  • Publication number: 20240298284
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a base station group constituted of four or more base stations 2. One base station 2A measures a reception clock time TAA of a signal transmitted by itself and a reception clock time TBA of a signal received from another base station 2B, and the other base station 2B measures a reception clock time TBB of a signal transmitted by itself and a reception clock time TAB of a signal received from the one base station 2A. Based on the reception clock time TAA and the reception clock time TBA and the reception clock time TBB and the reception clock time TAB, a propagation time between the base stations 2 is obtained, and distances between all the base stations 2 are obtained by multiplying each of the propagation times similarly obtained between all the base stations 2 by a propagation velocity of the signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Nobuyasu SHIGA, Satoshi YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20240265200
    Abstract: A training data generator and a training device include: a supposed input storage storing a plurality of supposed inputs supposed as inputs to a dialogue apparatus; expanded causality DB storing a plurality of causality expressions; a training data preparing unit extracting, for each of the plurality of supposed inputs stored in supposed input storage, a causality expression having a prescribed relation with said supposed input from the plurality of causality expressions, for forming a training data sample having the supposed input as an input and the extracted causality expression as an answer and storing in a training data storage; and a training unit training a response generating neural network designed to generate an output sentence to a natural language input sentence, by using the training data samples stored in training data storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Kentaro TORISAWA, Ryu IIDA, Junta MIZUNO, Jonghoon OH, Julien KLOETZER, Yoshihiko ASAO, Mana KAMAKURA
  • Patent number: 12058246
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Endo, Masahide Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12057102
    Abstract: A language identifying device includes: a neural network responsive to an input of a speech signal, for outputting a score for each of a plurality of languages indicating that the speech represented by the speech signal is the speech of the corresponding language; a selecting device for selecting, among the scores output by the neural network, scores of a smaller number of languages; a normalizing device for normalizing the scores selected by the selecting device; a determining device for determining whether the maximum of the normalized scores normalized by the normalizing device is equal to or higher than a threshold; and a language deciding device, responsive to a positive determination by the determining device, for selectively performing a process of deciding the language corresponding to the maximum of the scores as the language of the speech represented by the speech signal, or a process of discarding outputs of the score selecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Peng Shen, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
  • Patent number: 12050271
    Abstract: [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: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Keizo Inagaki, Toshimasa Umezawa, Naokatsu Yamamoto, Tetsuya Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 12023173
    Abstract: A method is described for making determinations on or classifying the pain of an estimation subject on the basis of the brainwaves of the estimation subject. This method includes: (a) stimulating the estimation subject at a plurality of levels of stimulation intensity; (b) acquiring brainwave data for the estimation subject; (c) extracting a brainwave feature quantity from the brainwave data or the analysis data; (d) for plugging the feature quantity into a Sparse model analysis, making the feature quantity approach a quantitative level and/or a qualitative level for pain, and estimating or making a determination on a pain level. Another method is described including comparing of brainwave data or analysis data from the 2,000 msec following the earliest of an induced brainwave component, an initial-event-related voltage component, and 250 msec after a target stimulus has been applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: PAMELA, INC., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aya Nakae, Yasushi Naruse, Takahiro Soshi
  • Publication number: 20240195601
    Abstract: A node includes: a communication module that recovers a clock signal of another node; a high-precision clock module; a first phase/frequency comparison module; a time estimation section that estimates time information of each node; a counter value correction section that corrects a counter value; a fractional PLL; a second phase/frequency comparison module; and a division ratio correction section that corrects a division ratio of the fractional PLL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Yuichiro YANO, Tetsuya IDO, Motoaki HARA
  • Publication number: 20240192637
    Abstract: A hologram recording device includes an image sensor and a light interference generator that is attached to an imaging surface of the image sensor. The light interference generator is configured to generate two light waves whose phases are different from each other from an incident object light, and the image sensor is configured to record interference fringes that are formed from the two light waves as a hologram. The light interference generator includes a first birefringent material, a phase shifter array configured to spatially divide a polarization component whose polarization direction is parallel to or orthogonal to an optic axis of the first birefringent material to change a phase difference in two or more ways, and a polarizer whose transmission axis is in a direction that is inclined with respect to the optic axis of the first birefringent material. The first birefringent material, phase shifter array, and polarizer are arranged in this order starting from a side of incidence of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventor: Tatsuki TAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240171386
    Abstract: The abstract below has been amended in order to comply with USPTO requirements. Application respectfully requests to replace any prior versions of the abstract with the following: An encryption key generating device includes a shared key separator separating a shared key into a first key and a second key and storing the first key in a non-volatile memory and storing the second key in a volatile memory; a key extender extending the second key to the same key length as that of the first key and storing the second key extended as a third key in the volatile memory; a key calculator calculating an encryption key by an exclusive-OR of the first key and the third key and storing it in the volatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Mikio FUJIWARA, Masahiro TAKEOKA, Masahide SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240162984
    Abstract: Link control is performed to optical space communication devices, which are installed in a non-terrestrial node group and an optical ground station, and optical space communication is performed using one or more links, based on link path information and a link parameter for transmitting and receiving communication service data based on service requests and link monitoring information received from the non-terrestrial node group. A link monitoring unit measures the link monitoring information, a position calculation unit calculates position information of the non-terrestrial node group, and a link parameter calculation unit calculates the link path information and the link parameter based on the position information, the service requests, and the link monitoring information. A link control unit performs link control to the optical space communication devices, and a link information communication unit communicates with the non-terrestrial node group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hideaki KOTAKE, Yuma ABE, Morio TOYOSHIMA, Tetsuharu FUSE
  • Publication number: 20240150229
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a substrate with high versatility, a method for producing the substrate, and a method for producing a unit cell using the substrate. The problem is solved by providing a substrate comprising a plurality of alkali metal azide spots on a substantially flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, TOYOBO MC Corporation
    Inventors: Motoaki HARA, Yuichiro YANO, Tetsuya IDO, Hikaru TANAKA, Kazutake HAGIYA, Yasuhiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20240147398
    Abstract: A base station includes the following parts: a propagation estimation part that estimates a radio wave propagation characteristic between a terminal and base station based on a training signal received from the terminal; a phase compensation part that compensates data to be transmitted to the terminal with phase rotation of a carrier wave that is indicated by the radio wave propagation characteristic; and a frequency conversion part that transmits the data that has been compensated by the phase compensation part to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Kenichi TAKIZAWA, Satoshi YASUDA, Nobuyasu SHIGA
  • Patent number: 11972947
    Abstract: A semiconductor laminate film includes a silicon substrate and a semiconductor layer formed on the silicon substrate and containing silicon and germanium. The semiconductor layer having a surface roughness Rms of 1 nm or less. Further, the semiconductor layer satisfies the following relationship t?0.881×x?4.79 where t represents a thickness (nm) of the semiconductor layer, and x represents a ratio of the number of germanium atoms to a sum of the number of silicon atoms and the number of germanium atoms in the semiconductor layer. Also, the semiconductor layer being a mixed crystal semiconductor layer containing silicon and germanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: National University Corporation Tokyo University Of Agriculture And Technology, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Suda, Takahiro Tsukamoto, Akira Motohashi, Kyohei Degura, Katsumi Okubo, Takuma Yagi, Akifumi Kasamatsu, Nobumitsu Hirose, Toshiaki Matsui