Patents Assigned to NEC Corporation
  • Publication number: 20250258485
    Abstract: One of the purposes of the present disclosure is to provide a plant management device and the like which are capable of supporting plant inspection work. A plant management device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is provided with: a display control unit that displays a plant model on a display device, the plant model being an image of a facility included in a plant; and a reception unit that receives an operation by a user on the plant model displayed by the display device. The display control unit displays, on the display device being operated by the user, information corresponding to a role of the user and the operation of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji MIZUGUCHI, Kazunobu KAWAHARAGI
  • Publication number: 20250259432
    Abstract: An object is to provide a video processing system, a video processing apparatus, and a video processing method that can be expected to improve recognition accuracy of an object in a video. A video processing system includes video acquisition means, time difference information acquisition mean, and recognition means. The video acquisition means acquires an input video. The time difference information acquisition means acquires first time difference information between the frames of the input video. The recognition means inputs the input video and the first time difference information between the frames of the input video to a trained recognition model trained using a training video and second time difference information between frames of the training video and recognizing an object in the input video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Florian BEYE, Takanori IWAI, Koichi NIHEI, Hayato ITSUMI, Katsuhiko TAKAHASHI, Yasunori BABAZAKI, Ryuhei ANDO, Jun PIAO
  • Publication number: 20250259493
    Abstract: A visitor management apparatus 1 is provided with: an identification information acquiring part 11 for acquiring visitor identification information of a visitor coming to a building, an evaluation value acquiring part 12 for acquiring evaluation value for the visitor by a resident living in the building, a storing part 13 for storing the visitor identification information corresponding to the visitor and the evaluation value corresponding to the visitor in association with each other, and a providing part 14 for providing the visitor identification information and the evaluation value associated with each other and stored in the storing part 13 to an other building differing from the building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya Kuramoto
  • Publication number: 20250258652
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a structuring control means and a concretization control means. The structuring control means acquires request information described in a natural language, generates at least one or more requirement information candidates based on the acquired request information, and structures the generated at least one or more requirement information candidates. The concretization control means concretizes the at least one or more structured requirement information candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki INOKUCHI, Masaharu MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250261280
    Abstract: In response to revocation of authorization of a first network slice identifier for a User Equipment (UE) (1), an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) node (2) initiates a release procedure to release a PDU session associated with the first network slice identifier. This makes it possible, for example, to properly manage a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session associated with a network slice when authorization for that network slice is revoked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki TAMURA, Tsuyoshi TAKAKURA
  • Publication number: 20250259451
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) detects a stationary object from video data (12). In addition, the information processing apparatus (2000) executes person detection process of detecting a person in vicinity of an object (target object) detected as the stationary object for each of a plurality of video frames (14) which includes the target object. Furthermore, the information processing apparatus (2000) executes a predetermined process by comparing results of the person detection process for each of the plurality of video frames (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoma OAMI
  • Publication number: 20250259480
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that performs an acquisition operation of acquiring a surface image including fingerprints of a target person; a first estimation unit that performs a first estimation operation of estimating a pattern of the fingerprints from the acquired surface image; and an estimation control unit that controls the acquisition unit and the first estimation unit to repeat the acquisition operation and the first estimation operation until a predetermined number of surface images estimated by the first estimation unit to have a first pattern are acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori KODA
  • Publication number: 20250261242
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) (3) is provided. The method includes: receiving, from an access network node (5, 9), random-access configuration information identifying a plurality of physical random-access (PRACH) preamble formats for use by the UE (3) in a random-access procedure. Each of the plurality of the PRACH preamble formats is associated with a respective resource within a period to which the random-access configuration information is applicable. The each of the plurality of the PRACH preamble formats is associated with a respective number of repetition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Pravjyot DEOGUN, Yuhua CHEN, Hisashi FUTAKI, Neeraj GUPTA, Maxime GRAU
  • Publication number: 20250253064
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes a memory storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: identify a customer; acquire information regarding a prescription issued to the identified customer and information indicating a work status of medicine dispensing based on the prescription; predict a time for the customer to wait based on at least one of the information regarding the prescription and the information indicating the work status of medicine dispensing based on the prescription; and output information to be provided to the customer in a case where the predicted time for the customer to wait exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250252659
    Abstract: A traffic event reproduction system according to the present procedure includes: a server; a first transmission apparatus configured to transmit first event information including a first event video to the server; a second transmission apparatus configured to transmit second event information including a second event video to the server. A server includes: a reception unit configured to receive first and second event information; a model generation unit configured to generate first and second three-dimensional models including a party to a traffic event extracted from the first and second event videos as an object; a combining unit configured to combine the first and second three-dimensional models to generate a combined three-dimensional model in a three-dimensional space; and a display unit configured to display a video viewed from a user-specified viewpoint using the combined three-dimensional model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamanouchi
  • Publication number: 20250252520
    Abstract: In the education support apparatus of the present disclosure, an acquisition unit acquires information of the user and information of a target of the user, an attribute analysis unit analyzes an attribute of the user and a request attribute of the target of the user by using a language model, from the information of the user and the information of the target of the user, an attribute gap analysis unit analyzes a difference in an attribute between the attribute of the user and the request attribute of the target of the user, and an educational content proposal unit generates at least one educational content for the first target for causing the user to add an attribute, based on the difference in the attribute, and proposes the generated educational content to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Nishimoto, Kenichi Ueda, Yoshikazu Arai, Yuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250251726
    Abstract: A driving assistance system (1001) according to the present disclosure is a driving assistance system including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires information regarding a driving operation amount of a moving object; a specifying unit (12) that specifies a region in which the moving object can travel based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit (11); and a display information generation unit (13) that displays the region specified by the specifying unit (12) to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryutaro YAMAGUCHI, Dai KANETOMO
  • Publication number: 20250251327
    Abstract: To provide an analysis apparatus, an analysis method, and a program that are non-destructively analyze a degree of damage of a fiber rope, an analysis apparatus includes an analysis unit that analyzes the degree of damage of the fiber rope by using an invariant model indicating a relationship between a plurality of pieces of time-series data based on measurement data of one or more sensors attached to or around the fiber rope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, TOKYO SEIKO ROPE MFG.CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Soma, Tetsuya Uchimoto, Sho Takeda, Kazuki Sasada, Makoto Kimura
  • Publication number: 20250245688
    Abstract: Provided is a data processing apparatus and the like that easily and suitably contribute to marketing activities. In a data processing apparatus, an input unit receives input data regarding a predetermined consumption behavior. A federated learning model is generated such that at least a part of local learning models generated for a plurality of different business operators are federated. The federated learning model described above is generated by learning a relationship between a plurality of customer groups respectively generated from business customer data owned by the business operators and consumption behaviors corresponding to the business operators. The federated learning model is set to be able to output prospective customer data with respect to the input data. An output unit outputs the prospective customer data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro KOZUSHI, Hideki KOMORI, Satoshi ODA, ISAMU TERANISHI, Ryo FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20250246085
    Abstract: A risk evaluation device includes an acquisition means and a risk evaluation means. The acquisition means acquires input information which includes location information indicating a location of a flying object, airframe information of the flying object, weather information, and environmental information. The risk evaluation means evaluates a risk in a case where the flying object is at the location, using a risk evaluation model which has been trained, based on the input information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji NAKADAI
  • Publication number: 20250244538
    Abstract: An MCF connection system includes: MCF transmission path that has cores of a quantity of N; a first FIFO; a light source that outputs, to one end of the first FIFO, a quantity of N inspection lights having mutually different characteristics; a connection device that optically connects a first end part forming one end of the MCF transmission path and the other end of the first FIFO; an identification device that identifies a characteristic of an inspection light output from a second end part forming the other end of the MCF transmission path; and a measurement device that measures, for each core of the MCF transmission path, a first optical power, which is the optical power of the inspection light output from the second end part, in correspondence with the characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuushi MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20250245005
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus includes an operation processing part to perform operation processing on D-bits data (D is a positive integer greater than or equal to three) represented in a two's complement representation and a storage processing part to perform storage processing on D-bits data represented in a second representation format, wherein the second representation format for a non-negative value of the D-bits data is identical to the two's complement representation and the second representation format for a negative value of the D-bits data has a representation format in which (D?N?1) bits of the D-bits data in the two's complement representation are bit-wise inverted (N is a positive integer such that N?D?2), the (D?N?1) bits being remaining bits obtained by excluding a most significant bit indicating a sign and N consecutive lower bits including a least significant bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Atsufumi SHIBAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250245356
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus presents a count of rules for which conversion processing by a tool is successful and a count of rules for which the conversion processing fails, the conversion processing being for converting rules written in a specific format that are for detecting a cyberattack into a format implementable in a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shota KIZUKURI, Takahisa Yutoku, Wataru Takahashi, Shota Umeki, Yoshihiko Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20250247716
    Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a base station serves a communication area, wherein the communication area is formed by a plurality of directional beams each covering a respective portion of the communication area and each having a different respective beam identifier. The base station communicates control information, for a communication device (UE), using at least one directional beam associated with that communication device (e.g., a UE-specific operational beam set).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Chadi KHIRALLAH, Yassin Aden AWAD, Neeraj GUPTA, Robert ARNOTT
  • Publication number: 20250246026
    Abstract: An avatar generation apparatus (10) includes an authentication unit (110) and an avatar generation unit (120). By using a first image including a target person and master information of the target person, the authentication unit (110) performs first authentication processing of the target person included in the first image. The avatar generation unit (120) generates an avatar of the target person by using the first image when the first authentication processing is successful. For example, the avatar is stored in a storage unit (140).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiko IMANISHI, Toru AOYAGI