Patents Assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
  • Patent number: 10389174
    Abstract: A resource management system includes first and second opening/closing control mechanisms and a grid manager. The first and second control mechanisms each include: a controller to transmit a signal between a resource supply source and a load, a monitor to monitor a state of a resource from the source, a storage to store a policy defining the signal corresponding to the state of the resource from the source; and a path controller to generate the signal based on a monitoring result of the monitor and the policy. The grid manager includes: a third monitor to monitor the state of the resource from the first source; and a third path controller to generate at least one of the first and second signals by controlling at least one of the first path and second path controllers based on a monitoring result of the third monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Satoko Itaya, Fumihide Kojima, Hiroshi Harada
  • Publication number: 20190251171
    Abstract: A scenario passage pair recognizer includes: a text passage searching unit searching a set of text passages each including no more than a certain number of sentences of a document, and within which all noun phrases included in a scenario candidate co-occur; a feature extracting unit extracting a feature from each combination of the scenario candidate and each searched support passage; a classifier outputting a score indicating reliability of the scenario candidate based on the support passage as a source of the feature; and a score accumulating unit and a maximum value selecting unit, accumulating the scores output from the classifier and selecting the maximum value as the reliability of the scenario candidate. The scenario classifier determines plausibility of the scenario candidate as a causality based on the feature including the score output from the scenario passage pair recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Kazuaki INADA, Chikara HASHIMOTO, Kentaro TORISAWA
  • Patent number: 10381204
    Abstract: Provided is an ultra-high vacuum forming device containing an ion pump having a compact size in the central axis direction. The ultra-high vacuum forming device (1) is provided with at least one ion pump (100). The ion pump (100) is provided with: a casing (110) having at least one opening (111, 112); a board-shaped electrode group (120) formed by means of a central opening (120a) being formed along a predetermined central axis (C) disposed within the casing (110), and a plurality of electrodes (121) being joined with spaces therebetween; a pair of board-shaped electrodes (131, 132) having a different polarity than that of the electrode group (120) and that are disposed at positions sandwiching both sides of the electrode group (120) within the casing (110); and a pair of board-shaped magnets (141, 142) disposed at positions sandwiching both sides of the pair of board-shaped electrodes (131, 132).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Shukichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10380250
    Abstract: An entailment pattern pair extension apparatus 50 extends entailment pairs by generating an n-term entailment pair from an m-term entailment pair, where m and n are integers not smaller than 0 and satisfying m<n. Each entailment pair includes a first language pattern and a second language pattern entailed by the first language pattern. Entailment pattern pair extension apparatus 50 includes: a generation rule storage unit 110 storing generation rules for generating n-term entailment pairs from m-term entailment pairs, and a binary pair adding unit 112 receiving m-term entailment pair, determining, for each generation rule stored in the generation rule storage unit 110, whether its condition is satisfied by the m-term pair, and if the condition is satisfied, applying a modification rule of the generation rule to each language pattern constituting the m-term entailment pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Takuya Kawada, Julien Kloetzer, Kentaro Torisawa
  • Patent number: 10380149
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a device assisting a user to easily generate, in relation to an issue of interest to the user, a question sentence guaranteed to have an answer of a certain accuracy or higher in a question-answering system. [Solution] A question sentence generating device is used with a question-answering system, and it includes: word receiving means for receiving a word 480 as a source for generating a question sentence; and question sentence generating database 502 comprised of a plurality of entries for generating a question sentence. Each of the plurality of entries has a word as a key and includes an answer sentence pattern co-occurring with the word, used in the question-answering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Kentaro Torisawa, Jun Goto, Julien Kloetzer, Takuya Kawada
  • Publication number: 20190243315
    Abstract: An equipment management system includes an adaptive system control unit which is assigned to at least one piece of equipment installed in a plant and which monitors and controls the equipment via wireless communication. The adaptive system control unit includes an information detection unit for detecting information from the equipment, a detected information control unit for guaranteeing that only acquisition intended information previously intended to be acquired in the information detected by the information detection unit is acquired by the adaptive system control unit, a first data propagation adjustment unit for adjusting a propagation path when transmitting data including information controlled by the detected information control unit to the outside, and an equipment control unit for controlling the equipment on the basis of the information detected by the information detection unit or a control policy from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Satoko ITAYA, Fumihide KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190225728
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel electro-optic polymer. Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel electro-optic polymer with a low alicyclic methacrylate monomer content. The polymer according to the present invention is a polymer comprising (a) a base polymer having a reactive group (A), (b) an electro-optic molecule having a plurality of reactive groups (B), and a bond (C) formed by reaction of the reactive group (A) with the plurality of reactive groups (B), the bond (C) being at least one type of bond selected from the group consisting of a (thio)ester bond, a (thio)urethane bond, a (thio)urea bond and a (thio)amide bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Akira OTOMO, Isao AOKI, Toshiki YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10297978
    Abstract: A semiconductor optical device 1 includes an active layer 4 provided on a substrate 2, a clad layer 5 provided on the active layer 4, and a contact layer 7 provided on the clad layer 5. The contact layer 7 contains a first impurity and a second impurity different from the first impurity. A semiconductor light source includes the active layer 4 provided on the substrate 2, the clad layer 5 provided on the active layer 4, and the contact layer 7 provided on the clad layer 5. The contact layer 7 contains the first impurity and the second impurity different from the first impurity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Kouichi Akahane, Naokatsu Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190148563
    Abstract: A trench MOS-type Schottky diode includes a first semiconductor layer including a Ga2O3-based single crystal, a second semiconductor layer that is a layer laminated on the first semiconductor layer and that includes a Ga2O3-based single crystal and a trench opened on a surface thereof opposite to the first semiconductor layer, an anode electrode formed on the surface of the second semiconductor layer opposite to the first semiconductor layer, a cathode electrode formed on a surface of the first semiconductor layer opposite to the second semiconductor layer, an insulating film covering the inner surface of the trench of the second semiconductor layer, and a trench MOS gate that is embedded in the trench of the second semiconductor layer so as to be covered with the insulating film and is in contact with the anode electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicants: TAMURA CORPORATION, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Kohei SASAKI, Masataka HIGASHIWAKI
  • Publication number: 20190146234
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image observation system includes a three-dimensional display (100) and a guide frame (410). The three-dimensional display is constituted by a light ray controller (1), a plurality of light ray generators (2), a control device (3) and a storage device (4). Further, the three-dimensional display (100) is provided at a table (5). In the three-dimensional display (100), the area where eyes of observers (10) are to be positioned when the observers observe a three-dimensional image is predefined as a viewing area (500), and the guide frame (410) visually guides the eyes of the observers (10) from the outside of the viewing area (500) to the inside of the viewing area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Shunsuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20190139540
    Abstract: A speech recognition device includes: an acoustic model based on an End-to-End neural network responsive to an observed sequence formed of prescribed acoustic features obtained from a speech signal by feature extracting unit, for calculating probability of the observed sequence being a certain symbol sequence; and a decoder responsive to a symbol sequence candidate, for decoding a speech signal by a WFST based on a posterior probability of each of word sequences corresponding to the symbol sequence candidate, probabilities calculated by the acoustic model for symbol sequences selected based on an observed sequence, and a posterior probability of each of the plurality of symbol sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventor: Naoyuki KANDA
  • Publication number: 20190140007
    Abstract: An electric field imaging device is provided with which it is possible to visualize as a dynamic state an electromagnetic field intensity distribution and a phase delay/advance distribution in the vicinity of a product, using a sample of the actual product without lead-out lines. The electric field imaging device includes: an antenna which accepts a high-frequency signal emitted by the sample as an input; an electrooptic (EO) crystal plate which is a frequency fRF high-frequency electric field sensor; a flashing light source which radiates polarized light onto the EO crystal plate; an optical system leading to an analyzer for detecting phase changes in polarized light obtained by means of the EO crystal plate; an image capturing device which converts an in-plane distribution of optical beam from the analyzer into an electrical signal; and an information processing device which processes and displays an output signal from the image capturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Masahiro TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 10284304
    Abstract: A SDH receiver which comprises a first polarization beam splitter 11, a second polarization beam splitter 13, a first separator 15, a second separator 17, a third separator 19, a fourth separator 21, a first 90-degree polarization rotor 23, a second 90-degree polarization rotor 25, a first hybrid detector 31, a second hybrid detector 33, a third hybrid detector 35, a fourth hybrid detector 37, and a signal processor 39.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Luis Ruben Soares, Ben Puttnam, Mendinueta Jose Manuel Delgado, Yoshinari Awaji, Naoya Wada
  • Patent number: 10277263
    Abstract: A radio receiver, configured to use an impulse UWB, includes: a reception antenna which receives the impulse UWB, a reception unit which amplifies the received impulse UWB and detects an envelope of the impulse UWB, maximum-peak and minimum-peak detection units which detect a maximum value and minimum value of the envelope, respectively, a comparator which acquires signal data from the envelope with an initial threshold value, a baseband unit which measures an error rate of the signal data, an MPU which calculates a correction value based on the error rate, and an arithmetic unit which calculates a corrected threshold value based on the maximum, minimum and correction values. The arithmetic unit transmits the corrected threshold value to the comparator. The comparator acquires the signal data from the envelope based on the corrected threshold value transmitted from the arithmetic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, GIT JAPAN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Huan-Bang Li, Ryu Miura, Hisashi Nishikawa, Atsushi Osada
  • Patent number: 10253124
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EO polymer having a desired Tg. The present invention provides a copolymer comprising (i) a cycloalkane methacrylate and 2-isocyanatoethyl methacrylate as monomers at an adjusted blending ratio and (ii) an electro-optic molecule (EO molecule) bound to the copolymer, thereby exhibiting a desired glass transition temperature (Tg).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Akira Otomo, Isao Aoki, Toshiki Yamada, Hideki Miki
  • Patent number: 10249767
    Abstract: A Ga2O3-based semiconductor element includes an undoped ?-Ga2O3 single crystal film disposed on a surface of a ?-Ga2O3 substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on a same side of the undoped ?-Ga2O3 single crystal film, a gate electrode disposed on the undoped ?-Ga2O3 single crystal film between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a region formed in the undoped ?-Ga2O3 single crystal film under the source electrode and the drain electrode and including a controlled dopant concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kohei Sasaki, Masataka Higashiwaki
  • Publication number: 20190079924
    Abstract: A new technology of prediction of manipulability in response even to an instruction with missing information in an object manipulation task to have a robot manipulate some kind of object is provided. An instruction understanding system includes an obtaining engine configured to obtain a linguistic expression of a name of an object to be manipulated and a linguistic expression of a situation where the object corresponding to the name is placed in a real environment and a classifier configured to receive input of the linguistic expression of the name and the linguistic expression of the situation and output manipulability of the object corresponding to the name in the real environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Komei SUGIURA, Hisashi KAWAI
  • Patent number: 10230007
    Abstract: A semiconductor element includes a base substrate that includes a Ga2O3-based crystal having a thickness of not less than 0.05 ?m and not more than 50 ?m, and an epitaxial layer that includes a Ga2O3-based crystal and is epitaxially grown on the base substrate. A semiconductor element includes an epitaxial layer that includes a Ga2O3-based crystal including an n-type dopant, an ion implanted layer that is formed on a surface of the epitaxial layer and includes a higher concentration of n-type dopant than the epitaxial layer, an anode electrode connected to the epitaxial layer, and a cathode electrode connected to the ion implanted layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignees: TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kohei Sasaki, Akito Kuramata, Masataka Higashiwaki
  • Patent number: 10209504
    Abstract: Provided is a light detecting device including: a light path branching unit that branches a single detection light path of fluorescence from a specimen, into a plurality of branched light paths; a plurality of light detectors that are provided to the respective branched light paths branched by the light path branching unit and that include an SSPD or Geiger mode APD to detect the fluorescence; and a signal adder that generates a single image signal in accordance with the detection signals outputted from the plurality of light detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kubo, Shigehito Miki, Hirotaka Terai, Taro Yamashita, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka, Masataka Kinjo
  • Publication number: 20190049294
    Abstract: A signal processing circuit configured with a superconducting digital logic circuit and used for processing detection signals output from superconducting single photon detectors (SSPDs) includes transmission paths connected to the SSPDs on a one-to-one basis, a branching unit causing each of the transmission paths to branch into a first transmission path and a second transmission path, a time information generation circuit connected to the first transmission paths, and an address information generation circuit connected to the second transmission paths. The time information generation circuit outputs, based on the detection signals output from the SSPDs, a time information signal for identifying a time at which a photon is incident on the SSPDs, and the address information generation circuit outputs, based on the detection signals output from the SSPDs, an address information signal for identifying an SSPD on which a photon is incident from among the SSPDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Shigehito Miki, Hirotaka Terai, Taro Yamashita, Shigeyuki Miyajima