Patents Assigned to NEC PLATFORM, LTD.
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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
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Patent number: 12156373Abstract: A pipe protection device which is provided at a supply-side coupler provided at an end portion of a supply pipe which supplies a heat exchange medium to a heat exchange unit, and a discharge-side coupler provided at an end portion of a discharge pipe from which the heat exchange medium, which is supplied from the supply pipe to the heat exchange unit, is discharged, includes a supply-side support part having a recess along a contour of part of the supply pipe, a discharge-side support part having a recess along a contour of part of the discharge pipe, and a connecting part which supports the supply-side support part and the discharge-side support part at a predetermined interval and connects the supply-side support part and the discharge-side support part to a housing constituting a server.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi Isoya
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Publication number: 20240385646Abstract: A display apparatus (10) includes a display (110) and a housing (120). The housing (120) is one example of a support member, and supports the display (110). The housing (120) includes a base (140). The base (140) includes, on an upper surface thereof, a positioning portion, for example, a recess portion (142) that positions a first input device (20). The recess portion (142) is larger than the first input device (20) in a top plan view. The first input device (20) is, for example, a keyboard.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Platforms, LtdInventors: Shinji FUNAI, Takahiro MATSUI, Hironobu MOCHIZUKI, Naoto OTA
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Publication number: 20240386324Abstract: The learning model generator includes a data division unit which groups multiple feature data, each of which indicates a feature, and a learning model generation unit which generates a learning model using feature data belonging to a first group among multiple groups formed by the data division unit, or the feature data belonging to the first group and a part of feature data belonging to other groups, as training data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Shoya TOKITA, Jun SAKAI, Toshiki TAKEUCHI, Ayaka HARAYAMA, Tsuyoshi HAMADA, Tomohiro SHIMODA
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Patent number: 12147515Abstract: An authentication system SYS comprises: an imaging unit 12 capable of generating an iris image IMG_I by capturing an image of an iris of an target P; and a display unit 15 capable of displaying information related to authentication of the target using the iris image, wherein at least a part of the imaging unit is disposed in a space SP2 adjacent to a back surface 152 of the display unit, the back surface being located opposite a display surface 151 for displaying the information, and the imaging unit is oriented in a direction different from a direction in which the target is present.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Oomine, Daisuke Shimada, Daisuke Okamoto, Katsumi Kayama, Shuya Gonda
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Publication number: 20240376296Abstract: Provided is a cellulose-based resin composition capable of forming a molded body excellent in flame retardancy and mechanical strength, and a molded body formed using the same. The present invention relates to a cellulose-based resin composition including: component (A): cellulose acetate, component (B): a predetermined phosphoric acid ester, component (C): an anti-dripping agent, and component (D): a metal hydroxide, wherein a content of the component (B) is 20% by mass or more and less than 30% by mass based on 100% by mass of a total content of the component (A) and the component (B), and a content of the component (D) is 10% by mass or more and 20% by mass or less based on 100% by mass of a total content of the components (A) to (D).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Yuto SANO, Kiyohiko TOYAMA, Shukichi TANAKA, Midori SHIMURA, Takuma OZAWA
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Patent number: 12143815Abstract: A wireless repeater holds control information for controlling a communication status of a first wireless communication path for short-range wireless communication and authentication data required to permit short-range wireless communication, automatically permits connection when receiving a connection request using the first wireless communication path from the mobile terminal, determines, when receiving an authentication request with authentication data requesting a start of wireless communication from the connected mobile terminal, whether to authenticate the authentication-request-source mobile terminal, based on a result of comparing the authentication data attached to the authentication request from the mobile terminal with the authentication data held in the wireless repeater, and sets, when the mobile terminal is authenticated, a status of the wireless repeater to a status for performing wireless communication with the mobile terminal using the first wireless communication path.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Takanori Tamai
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Patent number: 12142099Abstract: An information processing system (10) comprises: a first acquiring means (210) for acquiring a first information relating to performance of a specific inspection; a second acquiring means (220) for acquiring a second information for determining that whether or not a user is a person who has gotten the specific inspection; a determining means (300) for performing a determination that whether or not the user has gotten the specific inspection on the basis of the first information and the second information; and an output means (400) for performing an output according to a result of the determination. According to such the information processing system, it is possible to appropriately process information relating to a specific inspection.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Fumiyuki Inagaki, Fumi Irie
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Publication number: 20240372966Abstract: There is provided a terminal apparatus, including: a reception part that receives a plurality of meeting data distributed from a plurality of meeting servers; a selection part that selects one of the plurality of meeting data as main meeting data, and selects the other meeting data as sub meeting data; an output setting part that sets, based on the selection by the selection part, an output setting in which a meeting data output mode is set, for an individual one of the meeting data; and an output part that outputs, based on the output settings, the meeting data. The output setting part sets the output setting(s) of the sub meeting data differently from the output setting of the main meeting data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sonoda, Yuka Koseki
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Publication number: 20240366045Abstract: An information collection apparatus includes: a sitting sensor detecting that a user of a toilet bowl in a toilet is sitting on a toilet seat placed on the top surface of a rim of the bowl; an information collector collecting information about an excretion in the bowl; and a housing in which the sensor and the collector are placed. The apparatus includes: a bridge component bridging the inside of the rim and the outside of the rim by placing part of the component on the top surface of the rim of the bowl and sandwiching the rim; and a fitting being attached to an end of the component in a direction of the inside of the rim and attaching the housing. The apparatus includes a change mechanism changing the distance from the end to the housing in a direction along an inner wall forming the inside of the rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Yamamoto, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Junpei Kumagai, Kazutoshi Ohishi, Hiroshi Katayanagi, Keita Yamaguchi, Takeyoshi Obara
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Patent number: 12136296Abstract: A parking lot management system according to the present disclosure includes a management apparatus, an image capturing apparatus, a cart, and a display apparatus. The management apparatus acquires, and stores as parking information, a license plate number and a spot number of a parking spot from the image capturing apparatus. Then, the management apparatus acquires, from a cart terminal of the cart, information that enables specification of the parking information of a vehicle of a customer using the cart and an identification number of the cart terminal, and stores the identification number of the cart terminal in association with the parking information. Then, the management apparatus detects return of the cart to a predetermined location, calculates a predicted time until the parking spot is freed up, and updates display on the display apparatus based on the predicted time.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Miho Inoue, Makoto Kuzukubo, Ryota Kagiwada, Tatsuyuki Yazawa, Yuki Kobata, Takahiro Minami
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Patent number: 12137538Abstract: A cooling system includes a first module, a second module provided at a different position in a depth direction of a housing with respect to the first module, a third module provided at a different position in a width direction of the housing with respect to the first module and the second module, an upstream side tube configured to supply a cooling medium to a cooling member of the first module, a downstream side tube configured to supply the cooling medium passed through the cooling member of the first module to a cooling member of the second module, and a branch tube configured to branch from the downstream side tube and supply the cooling medium to a cooling member of the third module.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Yasuhito Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240364813Abstract: There is provided a server apparatus, comprising a notification part that, when receiving an incoming call to a representative telephone number, multicastingly notifies a plurality of staff terminals previously registered in association with the representative telephone number of an occurrence of the incoming call, and a connection part that, when receiving an answering operation from a first staff terminal, calls a telephone number of the first staff terminal via a telephone exchanger to establish a telephone connection thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Naomi KAKINAGA, Kiyohide SUTOU, Masaru KUBOTA, Hikaru UDAGAWA
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Patent number: 12130653Abstract: A delay time detection circuit includes below configurations. A clock generation unit generates a sub scale clock signal, based on a system clock signal. A count unit generates a count signal while sequentially and repeatedly incrementing a count number, based on the sub scale clock signal. A sub scale signal generation unit receives the count signal, and generates sub scale signals, equal in number to the count number, that each have, at a rate of once in the count number, a rectangular wave for a duration being associated with a second period and that are shifted in timing relative to one another according to the second period. A delay time calculation unit receives the input clock signal, and calculates a delay time within a range of the first period of the input clock signal with respect to the system clock signal, based on one of the sub scale signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20240355164Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus, a reading system, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of appropriately managing the carrying-in or the carrying-out of an article. An information processing apparatus (1) includes a flow line specification unit (2) that specifies a flow line of a movement of an object in a predetermined first area of a gate on an entrance side of the gate, and a reading control unit (3) that performs control so that reading processing of an RFID tag near the gate is started when the specified flow line corresponds to a predetermined pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Hideki MATSUURA
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Publication number: 20240353745Abstract: A projection device includes a light source, spatial light modulator, a control unit, and a shield. The spatial light modulator has a modulation part that modulates the phase of light emitted from the light source. The control unit divides the modulation part of the spatial light modulator into at least two regions and sets phase images of the target image in these regions. The light source is controlled to emit light onto the modulation parts with the phase images. The shield allows light from the image region for the desired image to pass through as projection light while blocking light from an unnecessary region, including ghost images.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: FUJIO OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20240348754Abstract: A projection device that includes a light source, a spatial light modulator, a partition wall, a control unit, and a curved mirror. The spatial light modulator has a modulation part in which a plurality of modulation regions to be irradiated with light emitted from the light source are set. The partition wall is disposed at a boundary between the plurality of modulation regions and separates modulated light modulated in each of the plurality of modulation regions. The control unit sets a pattern for forming the desired image in each of the plurality of modulation regions set, and controls the light source such that the modulation part is irradiated with the light. The curved mirror has a curved reflection surface to be irradiated with the modulated light, reflects the modulated light by the reflection surface, and projects projection light the projection angle of which is widened.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: FUJIO OKUMURA