Patents Assigned to NEC Corporation
  • Patent number: 11946603
    Abstract: A facility state analyzing device includes: a measurement unit that measures a load on a facility and generates, based on a measurement condition, load information representing the load being measured; an extraction unit that extracts, from the load information generated by the measurement unit, dynamic load information representing a dynamic component of the load whose dynamic fluctuation degree with a lapse of time is equal to or more than a reference; a measurement condition determination unit that determines, based on temporal transition of the dynamic load information, the measurement condition indicating a time zone during which the load information is generated; and an analysis unit that analyzes the load applied on the facility, by using the load information generated based on the measurement condition, to efficiently increase accuracy in estimating the state of the facility on the basis of a situation of the load applied to the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatake Takahashi, Shin Tominaga
  • Patent number: 11950268
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and apparatus for resource allocation for a control resource region in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include determining resource units each containing a predetermined number of resource blocks based on available transmission resources. Resource blocks not contained in the resource units are distributed in the available transmission resources to divide resource blocks contained in the resource units into a plurality of resource segments. The method also comprise allocating one or more of the determined resource units to the control resource region and transmitting resource allocation information indicating the allocated one or more of resource units. With embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an effective solution for resource allocation for control resource region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhaobang Miao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11949631
    Abstract: When a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) is switched from a first BWP to a second BWP without a change of a cell defining synchronization signal block (SSB), if a reference signal type for Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) is set to an SSB type, a radio terminal (12) continues to use for RLM measurements a first SSB associated with the first BWP after switching of the downlink BWP to the second BWP. This for example enables the radio terminal to monitor a suitable Reference Signal (RS) for RLM measurements after switching of the DL active BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Futaki
  • Patent number: 11948479
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods, systems and computer program products for detecting tampering, comprising a sealing process and a seal verification process. The sealing process comprising analyzing a seal applied to seal an object as a tamper evident element, recording one or more manufacturing defects of the seal identified based on the analysis, each of the one or more manufacturing defects comprising one or more non-reproducible deviations from seal generation instructions used to produce the seal, and generating a signature comprising the one or more manufacturing defects. The seal verification process comprising obtaining the signature, analyzing the seal sealing the object, and determining whether the object is tampered based on a comparison between the analyzed seal and the signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventor: Tsvi Lev
  • Patent number: 11948312
    Abstract: In order to minimize the impact of a delay (if any) that occurs when a process for detecting an object from a video takes time, and thereby achieve accurate tracking, the object detection/tracking device according to the present invention is provided with: an acquisition unit which acquires a video; a tracking unit which tracks an object in the video; a detection unit which detects an object in the video; an association unit which associates the same objects that have been detected and tracked in the same image in the video; and a correction unit which corrects the position of the tracked object using the position of the detected object, from among the associated objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryoma Oami
  • Patent number: 11947244
    Abstract: A gate apparatus includes a supporting portion, a first light, and a camera device. The support portion is an element that extends vertically upward from a main body of the gate apparatus. The first light is installed in a ceiling portion attached to the supporting portion. The camera device is a device that is attached to the supporting portion and that acquires biological information of a user. The camera device acquires biological information of the user when the first light 102 is illuminating light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumi Irie, Yoshitaka Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11949165
    Abstract: An antenna device according to the present disclosure includes a first antenna that is oriented in a first direction and transmits and receives a signal with a first polarization, a second antenna that is oriented in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a third antenna that is oriented in a third direction obtained by horizontally rotating the second direction by 90° or 180° and transmits and receives a signal with a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization, a fourth antenna that is oriented in a fourth direction opposite to the third direction and transmits and receives a signal with the second polarization. The second antenna is provided with a feeding point placed in phase with a feeding point of the first antenna. The fourth antenna is provided with a feeding point placed in opposite phase to a feeding point of the third antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Hirabe, Tetsuo Yama, Hiroki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20240107587
    Abstract: In order to appropriately transmit a signal, based on presence or absence of a user device, a wireless device according to the present disclosure communicates with an intermediate device that duplicates or synthesizes and transmits a signal between a radio access network node communicating with the user device via the wireless device, and a plurality of the wireless devices, detects a PRACH signal transmitted from the user device, and performs transmission of a U-Plane signal to the radio access network node via the intermediate device, based on a detection result of the PRACH signal by a detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240104628
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (100) includes a display processing unit (102) that transmits information relating to a product to a terminal of a customer being present in a store, and causes the terminal to display the information on a screen, the screen includes a first region, and a second region demarcated from the first region, a product displayed in the first region of the screen is a specific product displayed in a specific location inside the store, and a product displayed in the second region of the screen is either a product being related to a type of the specific product displayed in the first region, or a product specified by the store or a trader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsuko INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240099654
    Abstract: In a recovery level estimation device, an image acquisition means acquires images in which eyes of a patient are captured. An eye movement feature extraction means extracts an eye movement feature which is a feature of an eye movement based on the images. A recovery level estimation means estimates a recovery level of the patient based on the eye movement feature by using a recovery level estimation model which has been learned by machine learning in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori HOSOI, Shoji Yachida
  • Publication number: 20240102813
    Abstract: The function input means 71 accepts input of a cost function that calculates a cost incurred in at least one of a selection of a candidate relay point and a design of a route, the cost function being represented as a linear sum of terms weighted by degree of importance attached to each of the features that an expert is assumed to intend when selecting the candidate relay point and design of the route. The learning means 72 learns the cost function by inverse reinforcement learning using training data that includes relay point information which is data that maps information indicating a relay point with surrounding information of the relay point and usage information of the relay point, and route result information which is result data of a route that pass through each relay point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Asako Fujii, Riki Eto, Yuki Chiba, Norihito Oi
  • Publication number: 20240106654
    Abstract: A secure computation server apparatus in a secure computation system includes: a table storage part that stores a table of secret shares of the product of a first value and a second value for combinations of shares of possible values of the first value and shares of possible values of the second value; a table shuffle part that shuffles indices of possible values of the first value and indices of possible values of the second value in the table; a multiplication part that selects an element in the table whose indices in the shuffled table match the first and the second values; and a comparative verification part that accepts data that a majority of other secure computation server apparatuses agrees on as a correct value out of a plurality of data received from the other secure computation server apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hikaru Tsuchida
  • Publication number: 20240104923
    Abstract: In a focus determination device, an acquisition acquires an iris image including an iris of a user. A filter processing unit performs a filter processing by applying an image processing filter in a shape decided based on a shape of a light applied to the user to the iris image. A focus determination unit determines whether or not the iris image is in focus based on the iris image resulting from the filter processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi AKASHI, Takahiro TOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240104179
    Abstract: A biometric authentication system (10) comprises a first imaging unit (11) that images a first image including a living body; a detecting unit (115) that detects a position of the living body in the first image; a second imaging unit (120) that images a second image including an authentication portion of the living body, based on the position of the living body in the first image; a calculating unit (140) that calculates an error between the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit based on the position of the living body in the first image and a position of the authentication portion in the second image; and an adjusting unit (150) that adjusts a set value relating to the second imaging unit, based on the error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuka OGINO
  • Publication number: 20240104477
    Abstract: To more accurately compute a waiting time until an ordered product is received and a service is received, the present invention provides a waiting time prediction system 10 including an image acquisition unit 11 that acquires an image in which a workspace of a worker in a store that provides a product or a service is captured; a work process determination unit 12 that determines which work process is performed by the worker at a point in time at which the image is captured, based on the image; and a waiting time computation unit 13 that computes a waiting time until a product or a service in the store is provided, based on a determination result of the work process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Moriwaki
  • Publication number: 20240103033
    Abstract: A wind estimation apparatus includes an acquisition unit and an estimation unit. The acquisition unit acquires a target image of a target region. The estimation unit estimates at least one of a direction and strength of wind in the target region by using the target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuya Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20240104430
    Abstract: In order to improve a feature quantity selection method for machine learning of a stress level estimation model, an information processing apparatus (1) includes: a first selection section (11) that generates a feature set by selecting a feature quantity corresponding to each of a plurality of modalities from among a plurality of feature quantities; and a second selection section (12) that selects, based on a result of verifying estimation accuracy, a combination of feature quantities for use in the machine learning, the verification being carried out by applying combinations of feature quantities included in the feature set to the machine learning of the estimation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki NAKASHIMA, Masanori TSUJIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240104680
    Abstract: To improve accuracy of a result acquired by analyzing, by using a machine learning model, an image in which a road is captured, an information processing system 100 is an information processing system for collecting a machine learning image, and includes a generation unit 122 and a storage processing unit 123. The generation unit 122 processes an image in which a road is captured, and generates capturing situation information indicating a situation related to capturing of the image. The storage processing unit 123 performs processing for storing an image, based on the capturing situation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shin TOMINAGA, Yusuke IMAI, Kazutoshi SAGI, Yuzo SENDA
  • Publication number: 20240104546
    Abstract: A reception unit receives an input of identification information of a store clerk. A product information acquisition unit acquires product information of a product that is purchased by a customer in accordance with the store clerk's operation. An output unit outputs settlement information for the product that includes the identification information of the store clerk, relates to payment based on the product information, and can be read by a settlement device. The settlement device reads the settlement information. The settlement device uses the read settlement information to settle the payment. The settlement device issues a receipt that includes the identification information of the store clerk included in the settlement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Rumi Ikezawa
  • Publication number: 20240104182
    Abstract: A conventional biometric authentication system has been time-consuming and labor-intensive for users since the users are requested to re-register their biometric information. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a biometric authentication system includes an update value generation unit configured to generate an update value, a first update processing unit configured to update, using the update value, a template generated based on biometric information, and a second update processing unit configured to update, using the update value, a verification key generated along with the template based on the biometric information using the update value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro NARA, Toshihiko OKAMURA, Toshiyuki ISSHIKI, Kengo MORI, Hiroto TAMIYA