Patents Assigned to NEC PLATFORM, LTD.
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Patent number: 12244057Abstract: Provided is an antenna device whose characteristics are enhanced (radio waves are efficiently emitted from an extended antenna) without need to place a communication unit that wirelessly communicates with the outside of a vehicle in close proximity to a loop structure of the vehicle, thus allowing a high flexibility of installation of the communication unit. An antenna device mounted on a vehicle includes a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with an outside of the vehicle, and a metal bracket configured to serve also as an extended antenna, and the communication unit includes a housing and a substrate-accommodated in the housing and on which a pattern antenna is formed, the metal bracket includes a first part fixed to the housing and a second part fixed to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Imagawa, Masato Tsuchiya, Shinya Yamamoto, Jou Hashime, Tomoyuki Kuge
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Publication number: 20250069379Abstract: A product recognition apparatus includes: a storage unit storing in advance, an image database in which image information for learning of a plurality of products and product names are associated with each other and a similar image product name list in which product names of a plurality of products whose appearances are similar to each other are associated with each other, a learning unit generating a machine-learned identification engine; an identification unit identifying a product name using the identification engine; an image management unit storing, when the identification by the identification unit is erroneous, and the identified product name and the correct product name specified by a user are not stored in the similar image product name list, the image information of the target product and the correct product name in the image database.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoya NAKAGAWASAI, Kouji YAGIURA, Terukazu KANEKO, Mitsuki FUJISAKI, Hiroyasu HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 12230864Abstract: There is provided a wireless apparatus with which a communication range may be prevented from being reduced even in a case where the height of the apparatus is restricted. The wireless apparatus includes an antenna device configured by a substrate including a substrate ground and an antenna element provided on the substrate, and a conductor formed into a sideways U-shape. The conductor includes an upper section and a lower section that are disposed along a ground plane and vertically relative to each other, and a middle section that is disposed substantially perpendicular to the ground plane, between one end of the upper section and one end of the lower section. The conductor is disposed such that the upper section, the lower section, and the middle section thereof are near an upper side section, a lower side section, and a lateral side section of the antenna device, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Masato Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 12216961Abstract: A teleconference system (1) capable of smoothly progressing a teleconference is provided. A speech determination unit (2) determines whether a voice of each of a plurality of participants in a teleconference indicates speech or back-channel. A voice output control unit (4) performs control so that the voice of each of a plurality of the participants is output by a communication terminal of each of a plurality of the participants. The voice output control unit (4) performs control, when, while one of a plurality of the participants makes speech, another participant makes speech, so as to suppress an output of the speech of the another participant. A count unit (6) counts the number of collision speeches, for each participant. A number display control unit (8) performs control so that a display related to the number of times is made at the communication terminals of a plurality of the participants.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Mayuko Terata
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Patent number: 12216531Abstract: A learning unit of an operation management system extracts, according to performance information and event logs of a device to be managed, a first abnormality occurrence period using the performance information, calculates a first TF-IDF vector created using event logs in the first abnormality occurrence period, and stores at least the first TF-IDF vector as a learning model. A recommendation section calculates, using the performance information and event logs newly acquired by the device, a second abnormality occurrence period and a second TF-IDF vector, calculates a first degree of similarity between the first TF-IDF vector in the learning model and the second TF-IDF vector, and outputs recommendation information regarding the calculated second abnormality occurrence period when the first degree of similarity is equal to or less than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Suzuki, Ken Tonari
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Patent number: 12218443Abstract: A wireless communication device and a wireless communication method capable of improving the directivity of an antenna in a desired direction for a low cost are provided. According to one example embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: a printed board having a substrate surface; a ground plane having a plate shape that is disposed on the substrate surface, connected to the ground potential, and is parallel to the substrate surface; an omnidirectional antenna that is disposed alongside the ground plane on the substrate surface in one direction in a plane parallel to the substrate surface, and is caused to emit radio waves by being supplied with power; and a parasitic antenna that is disposed away from the ground plane in a direction perpendicular to the substrate surface and resonates with the omnidirectional antenna supplied with power.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Ken Miura
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Publication number: 20250037215Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the user's terminal, identification information on the user, information on an amount of energy specified by the user, and identification information on the code read by the user's terminal from the display object; a control unit configured to control, based on information in which the identification information on the code is recorded in association with identification information on the supply device, the supply device in accordance with the identification information on the code based on information on an amount of energy specified by the user; and a payment unit configured to make a payment of an amount of money, which corresponds to the amount of energy supplied from the supply device to the user, from a balance of an account of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Hasegawa, Hirokazu Shigematsu, Yuta Yamawaki, Koichi Watanabe, Masaaki Hatagawa, Takuya Funatsu
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Patent number: 12212061Abstract: An antenna apparatus including an antenna capable of having both a wide-band characteristic and an omni-directional characteristic is provided. An antenna apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a feeding antenna, and a passive element part disposed in a Z-direction of the feeding antenna, in which the passive element part is disposed in parallel to an XY-plane orthogonal to the Z-direction, is made of a conductor, and includes a passive element with a plurality of slots formed therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Masato Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 12206190Abstract: Three elements of a first (¼) wavelength element and a second (¼) wavelength element which have a length of (¼) wavelength at an arbitrary frequency designated in advance and a half-wavelength element which has a length of a half-wavelength at the arbitrary frequency are arranged in a three-orthogonal state where those are orthogonal to each other, one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, another end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the half-wavelength element, a feeding point for antenna power feeding is arranged in a position in which the one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to the one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, and an antenna is formed as a one-wavelength twisted Z-shaped three-orthogonal dipole antenna.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Jun Uchida
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Publication number: 20250021266Abstract: A memory system includes: a non-volatile memory that includes a plurality of logical areas; and a controller that controls access to each logical area of the non-volatile memory. The controller includes an execution order control part that determines an execution order of a command received in accordance with a priority set in advance to a logical area specified by the command.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Takuma SATOU
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RADIO MASTER UNIT, CONTROL METHOD FOR RADIO MASTER UNIT, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20250024326Abstract: In a radio master unit of the present disclosure, a OFDMA preferential setting unit preferentially selects, based on user input information, the OFDMA scheme as a communication scheme for performing communication with a plurality of radio slave units connected to the master unit. When the setting to preferentially select the OFDMA scheme is made, a connected-slave-unit detection unit detects the number of the radio slave units to be communicated among a plurality of the radio slave units connected to the master unit. When the number of the radio slave units to be communicated with is larger than a predetermined number, a OFDMA control unit averages the volume of data to be transmitted and received to and from the radio slave units to be communicated with among the radio slave units to be communicated with, and executes control of OFDMA communication with the radio slave units to be communicated with.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Shigematsu NAGASHIMA -
Patent number: 12200593Abstract: A management apparatus is configured to determine whether or not distribution of status information representing a wireless communication status in a public wireless system including at least one wireless station that executes wireless communication with a wireless terminal is necessary. The distribution is a distribution to a mobile communication terminal via a mobile communication system that provides a mobile communication service to the mobile communication terminal. The management apparatus is configured to transmit, when it is determined that the distribution is necessary, a request to the mobile communication system to set a dedicated fixed channel in a public communication network used in the mobile communication system. The dedicated fixed channel is fixed exclusively for the public wireless system.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Shunsuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 12189908Abstract: Cumbersomeness that is caused when a protective sheet is attached over a touch panel is alleviated. A touch panel apparatus (10) according to an example embodiment includes a roughly rectangular touch panel (13), a transparent protective sheet (12) having a shape roughly identical to that of the touch panel (13) and detachably disposed so as to cover a front surface of the touch panel (13), a lower-side holding part (11a) that holds the protective sheet (12), disposed on a lower side of the touch panel (13), and a left-side holding part (11b) and a right-side holding part (11c) that hold the protective sheet (12), disposed on two lateral sides, respectively, of the touch panel (13), the two lateral sides being adjacent to the lower side of the touch panel (13).Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Yuta Sasaki, Akihisa Iwata, Katsumi Harashima
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Patent number: 12193185Abstract: A device mounting mechanism that loads a device into an internal space within a plurality of columns constituting a rack mount includes: a pair of columns provided parallel to each other; mounters respectively supported by the pair of columns so as to be movable in a direction intersecting a plane containing these columns; and a mount bar supported substantially horizontally by connecting one end to one mounter and the other end to the other mounter so as to be rotatable about shafts substantially parallel to the columns. The mount bar supports an upper surface of the device within a space surrounded by the columns, and at least one of the one end and the other end is connected to a shaft so as to be movable in a direction connecting the shafts.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Yuji Horii
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Publication number: 20250005553Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a user's terminal, identification information on the user, information on an amount of energy specified by the user, and identification information on the transmitter transmitted from the transmitter; a control unit configured to control, based on information in which the identification information on the transmitter is recorded in association with identification information on the supply device, the supply device in accordance with the identification information on the transmitter based on information on an amount of energy specified by the user; and a payment unit configured to make a payment of an amount of money, which corresponds to the amount of energy supplied from the supply device to an article of the user, from a balance of an account of the user is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Hasegawa, Hirokazu Shigematsu, Yuta Yamawaki, Koichi Watanabe, Masaaki Hatagawa, Takuya Funatsu
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Publication number: 20240428670Abstract: An information processing system includes a sensor that detects entry of a person into a room, and determines whether the person who enters the room is a care recipient as a user of the room or a caregiver who provides care for the user. The information processing system specifies a person who enters the room, and stores an entry detection result by the sensor, a determination result, and a specification result. The information processing system outputs first notification information indicating the entry detection result, second notification information indicating the determination result, and third notification information indicating the specification result to a notification destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2022Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Mieno, Mutsumi Onodera, Hiroshi Saito
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Publication number: 20240426092Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a housing in which a distance sensor is placed, fittings attaching the housing to a toilet bowl in a toilet, and a control unit. The sensor measures the distance to an object located in a direction of the inside of a toilet seat installed on the bowl when the seat is placed on the top surface of a rim of the bowl. The control unit detects that a user of the toilet is in a state of sitting on the seat when a first distance being a result of measurement by the sensor is less than a predetermined threshold value. The fittings are components attaching the housing in such a way that the sensor is placed at a position located inside the rim and located under the seat in the vertical direction when the seat is placed on the top surface of the rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2022Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Junpei Kumagai, Keita Yamaguchi, Ikuhiro Aota, Hiroshi Katayanagi, Kazutoshi Ohishi, Takeshi Yamamoto, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Takeyoshi Obara
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Publication number: 20240421495Abstract: Three elements of a first (¼) wavelength element and a second (¼) wavelength element which have a length of (¼) wavelength at an arbitrary frequency designated in advance and a half-wavelength element which has a length of a half-wavelength at the arbitrary frequency are arranged in a three-orthogonal state where those are orthogonal to each other, one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, another end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the half-wavelength element, a feeding point for antenna power feeding is arranged in a position in which the one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to the one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, and an antenna is formed as a one-wavelength twisted Z-shaped three-orthogonal dipole antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Jun UCHIDA
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Patent number: 12167578Abstract: A cooling system includes a first module provided with a substrate, a heat generating member, and a cooling member, a second module provided on a first side of a housing in a depth direction with respect to the first module and provided with a substrate, a heat generating member, and a cooling member, an upstream side tube configured to supply a cooling medium to the cooling member of the first module from an outside, a downstream side tube configured to supply the cooling medium passed through the cooling member of the first module to the cooling member of the second module, and a discharge tube configured to discharge the cooling medium passed through the first module and the second module.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi Isoya
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Patent number: 12163881Abstract: A gas detection that includes a projector including a light source that emits laser light having a wavelength at which an absorption rate by a detection target gas is high and a spatial light modulator that modulates the laser light emitted from the light source, a projection control unit that controls projection light to be projected toward a retroreflector by causing the light source to emit the laser light and setting a pattern of a modulation part of the spatial light modulator, a light receiver that receives reflected light of the projection light reflected by the retroreflector and measures an intensity of the received reflected light; and a leakage determination unit that acquires the intensity of the reflected light from the light receiver and determines leakage of the detection target gas in a detection space with the retroreflector based on the intensity of the reflected light.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Fujio Okumura