Patents Assigned to NEC Corporation
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Publication number: 20250148764Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising a plurality of sparse transformer units, wherein the sparse transformer units each includes: an extraction unit that: uses a matrix formed such that a plurality of first feature vectors and a matrix formed such that a plurality of second feature vectors to calculate, the difference between the first feature vector and the second feature vector; and, based on the difference, extracts a feature vector that is a computation target; and a transformer processing unit that includes a plurality of matrix multipliers, wherein each of the matrix multipliers: executes matrix multiplication computation for the feature vector that is a computation target; and does not execute matrix multiplication computation and uses a result of the matrix multiplication computation at the second time point for a feature vector that is not a computation target among the first feature vectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Youki SADA
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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
Publication number: 20250148065Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first score acquiring unit that acquires a first score indicating a matching score of first biometric recognition using first biometric information about a target; a second score acquiring unit that acquires a second score indicating a matching score of second biometric recognition using second biometric information about the target; a reference data acquiring unit that acquires reference data about at least one of the first biometric recognition and the second biometric recognition; and an integrated score calculation unit that calculates an integrated score on the basis of the first score, the second score, and the reference data. According to the information processing apparatus, it is possible to properly calculate the integrated score.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki SASHIHARA -
Publication number: 20250148316Abstract: In order to apply a text-based label inference approach to infer a label to be assigned to target data in a common data form, an inference apparatus (1) includes: a data converting section (11) for converting target data subject to label assignment into text; and a label inferring section (12) for inferring a label to be assigned to the target data, in accordance with a label inference model for inferring a label to be assigned to text and the text obtained by the converting carried out by the data converting means.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Genki KUSANO, Masafumi OYAMADA, Kunihiro TAKEOKA
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Publication number: 20250148883Abstract: A terminal apparatus (10) is used when target processing being at least one of product registration processing and settlement processing is performed, and includes a first support portion (300), a first display (130), a second support portion (200), and an interlocking portion (400). The first support portion (300) rotatably supports, in a horizontal direction, an input device (120) operated by a user of the terminal apparatus (10). The first display (130) faces a user of the terminal apparatus (10). The second support portion (200) rotatably supports the first display (130) in the horizontal direction. The interlocking portion (400) interlocks the first support portion (300) and the second support portion (200) with each other, and rotates the input device (120) and the first display (130) in the same direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takashi SHIMIZU, Hiroshi MORIMITSU, Takahiro AMBE
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Publication number: 20250148756Abstract: A classification apparatus acquires first input data being a first type of feature value and second input data being a second type of feature value for a classification target. The classification apparatus computes a first intermediate feature value from first input data, and computes a second intermediate feature value from second input data. The classification apparatus computes first attention data from the second intermediate feature value, and computes second attention data from the first intermediate feature value. The classification apparatus computes a first feature value from the first intermediate feature value and the first attention data, and computes a second feature value from the second intermediate feature value and the second attention data. The classification apparatus performs classification for a classification target by using the first feature value, the second feature value, or both of the first feature value and the second feature value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Kenta lshihara
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Publication number: 20250149790Abstract: A planar antenna device that includes a first substrate having a patch antenna, a dielectric, and a second substrate. The second substrate includes a matrix circuit including a transistor pair including a first thin-film transistor and a second thin-film transistor, a first signal line to which a signal to be transmitted is input, a phase shift element including a plurality of phase shift wires, a second signal line electromagnetically coupled to the patch antenna via the slot, and a switch group configured by a first switching element having a first end of a channel connected to one end of the plurality of phase shift wires and a control electrode connected to the first thin-film transistor, and a second switching element having a first end of the channel connected to the other end of the plurality of phase shift wires and a control electrode connected to the second thin-film transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kohei YOSHIDA, Ryota NIHEI, Kenji WAKAFUJI, Koya TAKATA, Fujio OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20250148665Abstract: A display control device generates data for displaying at least three variable nodes, wherein each variable node indicates a state of each of at least three quantum bit, parity node indicating a parity of the at least three quantum bits, and edges coupling between each variable nodes and the parity node.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tomohiro YAMAJI, Ryoji Miyazaki, Yuki Susa
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Publication number: 20250148884Abstract: A terminal apparatus (10) is used when at least one of product registration processing and settlement processing is performed, and includes a housing (110), a first input device (172), and a shielding portion (300). The first input device (172) is provided on an upper surface of the housing (110), and receives an input of at least one of a character and a number from a user. The shielding portion (300) is provided on the housing (110), and shields a line of sight of the first input device (172) from a person other than a user. The shielding portion (300) includes a first member (302) and a second member (304). The first member (302) is located on one side of the first input device (172) when viewed from a user. The second member (304) is located on another side of the first input device (172) when viewed from a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takashi SHIMIZU, Hiroshi MORIMITSU, Takahiro AMBE
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Publication number: 20250147739Abstract: An environment construction support apparatus includes a reception unit that receives selection of a notation related to a processing purpose in a predetermined environment construction tool in an information system, a specifying unit that specifies, for each of the processing purposes in the environment construction tool, a first set corresponding to the selected notation from first registration information in which a set of a code character string that can be described for execution by the environment construction tool and an accompanying character string that can be described accompanying the code character string is registered, a generation unit that generates a template code to be executed by the selected environment construction tool by using the code character string and the accompanying character string included in the specified first set, and a display unit that displays the generated template code in a code display field of a screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Toru WAKITANI
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Publication number: 20250147262Abstract: To provide a feedthrough and a method for manufacturing the feedthrough that make it possible to achieve high reliability and reduce optical loss of an optical fiber. The feedthrough includes: a sleeve including an upper sleeve portion, a sleeve central portion, and a sleeve lower portion; a guide fitted to at least an inner peripheral surface of the sleeve central portion; an optical fiber inserted through a through hole formed in the sleeve; and a sealing material being formed between the sleeve upper portion and the guide and hermetically sealing a part of the optical fiber to a sealing groove communicating with the through hole. In the sleeve, a thermal conductivity of the sleeve lower portion is lower than a thermal conductivity of the sleeve upper portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Toshihide NAGASAWA
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Publication number: 20250148466Abstract: A terminal includes an identity verification unit and a ticket issuance control unit. The identity verification unit performs an identity verification of a ticket purchase applicant by a first biometric authentication using a first biometric information acquired from an identity verification document and a second biometric information of the ticket purchase applicant. The identity verification unit stores a third biometric information of the ticket purchase applicant who has been successfully verified. The ticket issuance control unit performs a second biometric authentication using a fourth biometric information of a ticket issuance applicant and the stored third biometric information. The ticket issuance control unit performs a processing related to an issuance of a ticket when the second biometric authentication has been successful.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Eri KOKAJI, Kazufumi Hoshi
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Publication number: 20250148641Abstract: There is provided a computer implemented method of controlling movement of an object, comprising: accessing a current image of a surface relative to an object at a current location, wherein an imaging sensor is set to capture the current image depicting an overlap with a previously captured image of the surface when the object was at a previous location, registering the current image to the overlap of the previously captured image, computing the current location of the object relative to a reference location according to an analysis of the registration, and feeding the current location into a controller for controlling movement of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC Corporation Of AmericaInventors: Tsvi LEV, Hagai HAR-GIL
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WORK ASSISTING APPARATUS, WORK ASSISTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20250149179Abstract: A work assisting apparatus (100) includes an acquisition unit (102) that acquires biological information of a user and resume information of the user, a computation unit (104) that computes an evaluation value indicating a health risk for the user, by using the biological information and the resume information that have been acquired, and a determination unit (106) that determines, by using the evaluation value indicating the health risk, a candidate of a task to present to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Hirotaka MAESHIMA -
Publication number: 20250148832Abstract: Attained is an object of making it possible to specify a contact detail of a service user and deliver information while reducing time and labor of the service user. To attain the object, an information processing system (1) includes: a first obtaining section (11) which obtains first biometric information from a first terminal which is managed by a service provider; a first registering section (12) which generates first registration information in association with the first biometric information; a second obtaining section (13) which obtains second biometric information from a second terminal which is managed by a service user; and a second registering section (14) which generates second registration information in association with the first registration information and contact detail information which is associated with the second terminal, in a case where the first biometric information and the second biometric information successfully match.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Tatsuya NAKADA
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Publication number: 20250150477Abstract: A network monitoring device according to the present disclosure is provided with an authentication history collection means that collects an authentication history of access to a management function of a network device to be monitored, a statistic calculation means that calculates statistic information of the authentication history, and a display means that displays the statistic information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Noboru Nagatani, Tomoo Adachi, Shuichi Karino
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Publication number: 20250148844Abstract: A component state estimation apparatus (10) includes an acquisition unit (110) and an estimation unit (120). The acquisition unit (110) acquires state information and operating prediction data. The state information indicates a state of a component included in a product. The operating prediction data acquire operating prediction data indicating a prediction result of an operating state of the product until after a lapse of a predetermined period of time. The estimation unit (120) estimates a deterioration state of the component after a predetermined period of time has elapsed by using the state information and the operating prediction data. The estimation unit (120) may further estimate a deterioration state by using track record data about an operating state of the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Asako Fujii, Takuroh Kashima, Yuki Chiba, Norihito Oi
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Publication number: 20250146816Abstract: An effect determination system according to the present invention includes: a memory configured to store instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a predicted displacement of a structure after an event, the predicted displacement being a displacement of the structure on a ground surface and having been predicted based on a pre-event displacement acquired before the event related to a ground of the structure; acquire a post-event displacement of the structure based on an observation result of the ground surface observed after the event; and determine an effect of the event on the structure based on the predicted displacement and the post-event displacement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Nana Jumonji, Takakazu Ishii, Shouhei Ohno, Hiromichi Hirata, Toshimichi Yokote, Yosuke Kimura, Chisato Sugawara, Yusuke Mizukoshi
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Publication number: 20250150283Abstract: An authentication unit can transmit electronic certificates. A data transmission unit adds a signature and an electronic certificate to data and transmits the obtained data to a first data relay unit. The first data relay unit adds a signature and an electronic certificate to the received data and transmits the obtained data to a second data relay unit. The second data relay unit adds a signature and an electronic certificate to the received data and transmits the obtained data to a data receiving unit. The data receiving unit verifies, between the data receiving unit and the authentication unit, the electronic certificates cumulatively added to the received data, and checks a transmission path of the data based on the electronic signatures that have been cumulatively added.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Keisuke INA
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Publication number: 20250147977Abstract: An operation management apparatus includes an extraction unit that extracts data for each item from a collection file based on format information of the collection file collected from a component of an information system and definition information of a delimiter character between items defined by the component, a storage unit that stores the extracted data and the item in association with each other in a collected data table, and a comparison unit that compares data associated with an item common in an expected value table that stores an expected value of each item in the collection file and the collected data table, and outputs a comparison result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Toru WAKITANI
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Publication number: 20250144800Abstract: A movement route setting apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a space dividing unit that divides interior of a space in which a moving object can move into regions; a motion vector setting unit that sets, for each of the regions, a motion vector that the moving object moves based on information of an object that exists in the space and obstructs movement of the moving object; and a movement route calculating unit that, when calculating a movement route for the moving object in the space so as to satisfy a preset condition, calculates the movement route based on the motion vector set for each of the regions and a distance of the region to the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Kei TAKAYA