Patents Assigned to NEC Corporation
  • Publication number: 20250021766
    Abstract: A system and a method for augmenting a dataset comprising a textual content using instruction to cause a conversational language model to create variations of text items by changing text properties such as length, style, terminology, dialect, rhyming and the like. The method may also be used with combined prompts and iteratively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventor: Tsvi LEV
  • Publication number: 20250024248
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, and computer readable medium for communication. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a terminal device transmits capability information to a network device. The capability information indicates at least one MCS supported by the terminal device and at least one configuration associated with the at least one MCS. The at least one configuration comprises a set of parameters associated with the at least one MCS. The terminal device receives a configuration of a configured MCS from the network device. The configured MCS is not higher than the at least one MCS supported by the terminal device. In this way, it enables the terminal device assisting the scheduling, thereby improving spectral efficiency of the communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gang WANG
  • Publication number: 20250021863
    Abstract: There is provided a method of generating a reduced ML model, comprising: obtaining a sample dataset, extracting global features from the sample dataset, applying a feature selection process for selecting a first subset of the global features, analyzing a classification performance of the ML model fed the first subset, to identify an error in classification by the ML model, identifying a subset of the sample dataset related to the error, extracting second features from the subset of the sample data, applying the feature selection process for selecting a second subset of the second features, and creating a reduced version of the ML model, comprising an ensemble of: a first ML model component trained by applying the first subset of global features to the sample dataset, and a second ML model component trained by applying the second subset of features to the subset of the sample data related to the error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Yaacov HOCH, Maya COHEN MAIMON, Ekaterina SHELENKOVA
  • Publication number: 20250022233
    Abstract: Augmented reality display apparatus includes: display part; image analysis part that detects shooting target object feature amount digitizing feature point of shooting target object included in image data; and control part, wherein control part transmits post download instruction information including shooting position information relating to shooting position of image data and shooting target object feature amount to a server apparatus; and causes display part to overlay post data at relative position to shooting target object feature amount in image data displayed on the display part based on information relating to post data associated with shooting position information and shooting target object feature amount transmitted from the server apparatus. Relative position to shooting target object feature amount is position based on post position information included in information relating to post data (FIG. 13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shin NORIEDA, Yoshiyuki TANAKA, Shogc AKASAKI, Maki KUROKAWA, Kazuki EGUCHI, Koji SHINOZAKI, Yuji NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20250020458
    Abstract: This state determination device comprises: a ground surface information acquisition means that acquires ground surface displacement using a measurement image acquired from a ground surface measurement device; a region setting means for setting, on the basis of ground surface displacement, the quantity of sensor information processed for each prescribed region, the quantity being used in processing for acquiring the sensor information from a sensor information acquisition device; a sensor information processing means that processes the sensor information on the basis of the quantity of the sensor information processed that corresponds to each of the set regions; a state determination means that determines the state of a structure using the processed sensor information; and an output means that outputs the determined state of the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Chisato Sugawara, Yosuke Kimura, Toshimichi Yokote, Takakazu Ishii, Daisuke Hashizume, Hiromichi Hirata, Shouhei Ohno, Nana Jumonji
  • Publication number: 20250021597
    Abstract: The present invention provides a matching result display device, a matching result display method, a program, and a recording medium, which allow, at the time of displaying feature points of objects determined as matching on the basis of matching result information provided by a matching system, visual check of the displayed feature points to be performed easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji HORIBA, Masanori KONDO
  • Publication number: 20250022072
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information provision apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires public information associated with each of a plurality of accounts existing in each of a plurality of types of social networking services (SNSes), a connection determination unit that determines a connection between a plurality of the accounts, based on the public information, a same-user-owned account determination unit that determines, based on the public information, a plurality of the accounts owned by a same user, and a visualization unit that collectively displays, as information indicating a connection of a certain user on an SNS, a connection between each of a plurality of the accounts owned by the certain user and another of the accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazufumi KOJIMA, Massahiro TANI, Keisuke IKEDA
  • Patent number: 12196605
    Abstract: A position detection device includes a transmitter that transmits an optical pulse into an optical transmission line laid along the movement path of a moving body; a detector that detects back-scattered light in the optical transmission line; a data processor that calculates the intensity of the back-scattered light and the generation position of the back-scattered light; a storage in which the processing results of the data processor are saved; a search range derivation circuit that derives a search range for the position of the moving body; a maximum value extraction circuit that extracts the generation position at which the variation of intensity within the search range is at a maximum, and causes the extracted generation position to be saved in the storage; and an output circuit that outputs the extraction result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuma Matsuda, Tomoyuki Hino
  • Patent number: 12199727
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data is provided. The method includes sending a probing packet using a scanning beam selected from a set of probing beams. The method further includes receiving feedback about the probing packet. The method also includes determining a data transmission beam based on the set of probing beams and the received feedback. The method additionally includes transmitting data using a multi-element antenna that is configured according to the determined data transmission beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Khojastepour, Nariman Torkzaban
  • Patent number: 12200493
    Abstract: The method includes: generating, by a source base station, a UE specific Anonymity Challenge Parameter to the UE based on sensitive information from the UE, cell information, source base station information and initial Anonymity Challenge Parameter assigned to the particular base station; and sending, by the source base station, a measurement command message including the UE specific Anonymity Challenge Parameter to the UE. Further, the method includes receiving, by the source base station, an Anonymity Challenge Parameter acknowledgement as a response from the UE; and negotiating, by the source base station, the UE specific Anonymity Challenge Parameter with the UE to prevent the UE from attaching to the false base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rohini Rajendran, Pradheep Kumar Singaravelu, Nivedya Parambath Sasi, Takahito Yoshizawa, Sivabalan Arumugam, Anand Raghawa Prasad
  • Patent number: 12198401
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2) includes: a reducing unit (211) that generates a second image (IMG2) by reducing a first image (MGI) in which a target object is included; a first extracting unit (212) that extracts, as a first key point, a key point (KP) of the target object from the second image; a setting unit (213) that sets a target area (TA) that designates a part of the first image based on the first key point; and a second extracting unit (214) that extracts, as a second key point, a key point of the target object from a target image (IMG1 TA) of the first image that is included in the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Toizumi, Koichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12198670
    Abstract: A filtering device is configured to estimate the characteristics of noise superposed on measurement data relating to the status of a controlled machine based on the status information representing the status of a controlled machine, thus adjusting the filtering to eliminate noise based on the estimated noise characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Ohta, Hiroshi Yoshida, Tatsuya Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 12198472
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that acquires a high resolution iris image more quickly than before. An iris capture apparatus according to one example embodiment of the present invention includes a rotatable movable mirror; a control unit that controls rotation of the movable mirror; a capture unit that captures different regions of a face of a user via the movable mirror and outputs a group of images every time the control unit rotates the movable mirror by a predetermined angle; and an iris image acquisition unit that acquires an image of an iris of the user from the group of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Leiming Su, Hiroaki Morita, Mamoru Inoue
  • Patent number: 12198397
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for action localization. The method includes converting one or more video frames into person keypoints and object keypoints. The method further includes embedding position, timestamp, instance, and type information with the person keypoints and object keypoints to obtain keypoint embeddings. The method also includes predicting, by a hierarchical transformer encoder using the keypoint embeddings, human actions and bounding box information of when and where the human actions occur in the one or more video frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Asim Kadav, Farley Lai, Hans Peter Graf, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 12198436
    Abstract: A display system (1) includes a display (D1) installed on a first road (R1) and a camera (C1) for capturing an image of a second road (R2) being narrower than the first road (R1), in which the display (D1) acquires and displays an image generated by the camera (C1) or a display data using the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Yamazaki, Ryuji Wakakusa
  • Patent number: 12199674
    Abstract: Provided are a light transmission device and a control method of same which can switch a processing sequence according to a vendor of an optical module to be mounted thereon. The light transmission device, which is provided with ports on which optical modules which transmit an optical signal are mounted, is additionally provided with: a storage means for holding a table in which processing sequences respectively corresponding to pieces of identification information about the optical modules are stored; and a control means for acquiring pieces of identification information about the mounted optical modules, determining, with reference to the table, a processing sequence corresponding to the identification information about the acquired optical module, and executing the determined processing sequence for the optical module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Seki
  • Patent number: 12197200
    Abstract: Provided is an anomaly detection apparatus 10 capable of detecting anomalies of processing results. The anomaly detection apparatus 10 estimates first processing result information in accordance with first processing, using data regarding a target, compares second processing result data, for the data, obtained by second processing that differs from the first processing with the first processing result information, and detects an anomaly of the second processing according to the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mineto Satoh, Masatsugu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12196545
    Abstract: A surface property estimation system includes an image acquisition means for acquiring an image of a surface of an object, an estimation means for estimating a surface property from the acquired image by using an estimation model obtained through machine learning with use of an image of a surface of an object and a surface property shown by the image as training data, an extraction means for extracting, from the acquired image, a feature amount unique to the image, and a registration means for storing the estimated surface property and the extracted feature amount in a storage means in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Rui Ishiyama, Kengo Makino, Takashi Shibata
  • Patent number: 12198375
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi Lev, Hagai Har-Gil
  • Patent number: 12198393
    Abstract: An imaging system (10) includes: iris imaging means (1) for photographing an iris of a subject; first irradiation means (2a) for applying light to the subject; and second irradiation means (2b) for applying light to the subject in such a manner that an angle between an optical axis of the light emitted from the second irradiation means (2b) and an optical axis of the iris imaging means (1) is larger than an angle between an optical axis of the light emitted from the first irradiation means (2a) and the optical axis of the iris imaging means (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Chono, Ryuichi Akashi, Yuka Ogino