Patents Assigned to NEC PLATFORMS, LTD.
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Publication number: 20230025023Abstract: In a business management system (1) according to an example embodiment of the present invention, a user PC (10) determines whether a position of an iris of a user being detected by analyzing an image is within a correspondent screen region, calculates viewpoint coordinates on a display screen when the position of the iris of the user is within the correspondent screen region, and uses coordinate information of an application screen being displayed on the display screen and the viewpoint coordinates to identify an application providing an application screen viewed by the user. Then, a management server (20) determines whether the identified application is a predetermined application used in a business, and calculates a usage time of an application determined to be the predetermined application.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Yusuke IIZUKA
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Publication number: 20230018657Abstract: An image reading device that efficiently performs shading correction that flexibly responds to changes in the diffusion properties of reflected light on the surface of a reading target efficiently performing same as a result of including: controlling a plurality of light sources so as to cause only a specific light source among the light sources to be lit; obtaining the diffusion state of a first reflected light generated by the specific light source being lit, in a state in which general shading correction data not dependent on the image reading target is generated; obtaining a diffusion state for a second reflected light generated by light being irradiated on to the reading target by the specific light source; and generating dedicated shading correction data that relies on the reading target, based on the first reflected light diffusion state, the second reflected light diffusion state, and the general shading correction data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi KOMATSU
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Patent number: 11557233Abstract: An information display system includes a frame, a pair of cameras arranged at both side ends of the frame, a transparent display fitted into the frame, a display position setting device that detects a target based on a feature extracted from image data captured by the pair of cameras, and sets, as a display position, a position at which a straight line connecting an eye of a user wearing the frame and the target passes through the transparent display, and a controller that controls the transparent display in such a way as to display a point light at the display position set by the display position setting device.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Fujio Okumura
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Patent number: 11546455Abstract: A casing angle adjustment mechanism capable of adjusting the angle of a casing with respect to a mounting surface by a simple operation of a leg unit is provided. When an angle adjustment mechanism of a casing rotates a leg unit in one direction, moves a part of a stopper along a connection hole of the leg unit, and slides a slide plate, a side wall of the slide plate blocks openings of engagement holes of the leg unit, and a side wall of the leg unit blocks openings of engagement grooves of the slide plate, and when it rotates the leg unit in another direction, moves the part of the stopper along the connection hole of the leg unit, and slides the slide plate, engagement grooves of the slide plate and engagement holes of the leg unit are placed to overlap.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Masaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11547003Abstract: An electronic device including a housing that accommodates a circuit board and a first electronic component connected to the circuit board, and that has an opening portion that opens upward; a cover that is provided on an upper portion of the housing, that at least partially covers the opening portion, and that has a second electronic component mounted thereon; a connecting wire that connects the second electronic component to the circuit board; and an opening/closing mechanism that can open and close the cover in a state in which the second electronic component and the circuit board are connected by the connecting wire.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Tomoki Miwa
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Publication number: 20220417478Abstract: A light transmitting device that includes a light transmitter that transmits a spatial light signal including a communication signal, and a light transmission control unit that adds a dummy signal having a same brightness as a ghost image of the communication signal to the spatial light signal and controls the light transmitter in such a way that the dummy signal is displayed at a position of the ghost image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: FUJIO OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20220417622Abstract: A telephone switching device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a storage unit (11) that stores a registration table (11a) registering a plurality of personal telephone numbers for each telephone terminal, an acquisition unit (12) that acquires an authentication result of a user with respect to the telephone terminal, a registration unit (13) that registers the telephone terminal and a personal telephone number of the user in the registration table (11a) in association with each other, according to the acquired authentication result, and a control unit (14) that controls incoming/outgoing calls using the personal telephone number of the user in the telephone terminal, based on the registered registration table (11a).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Shinobu KIMATA
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Publication number: 20220414620Abstract: An electronic receipt system according to example embodiments includes: a code issuance server configured to issue a code in response to a request from a mobile terminal and to transmit the code to the mobile terminal; a POS terminal configured to read the code displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal, to transmit the code to the code issuance server for inquiry, and when it is confirmed that the code is one that is issued by the code issuance server, to associate the code and electronic receipt information generated when performing transaction processing with each other; and an electronic receipt management server configured to save the code and the electronic receipt information that are associated with each other received from the POS terminal and when the mobile terminal transmits the code, to transmit the electronic receipt information that is associated with the code to the mobile terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Norihiko SHIMAZU
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Patent number: 11537188Abstract: A user can easily determine, before connecting, whether an electronic device is able to operate when connected to an interface circuit and whether power can be supplied. The interface circuit includes a controller, a connector for connecting to an electronic device, and a display. The controller displays an operation mode and a power supply mode supported by the interface circuit on the display with the electronic device not connected to the connector.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shimada, Takeo Miyajima, Hiromu Matsushima
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Publication number: 20220408595Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate which is provided in a housing and on which a heat generating member is mounted, a cooling member configured to cool the heat generating member, a first tube including one end connected to the cooling member and configured to supply a cooling medium to the cooling member or discharge the cooling medium from the cooling member, a joint member including a first connection portion extending in a tube axial direction of the first tube and connected to another end of the first tube, a support member fixed to the housing or the substrate, and a tube fixing portion configured to fix the first tube to the support member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi ISOYA
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Publication number: 20220405494Abstract: A scanner apparatus (1A) includes: a housing (11); a hand scanner (20); and a hand scanner holder (30) attached to a side of the housing (11) and configured to hold the hand scanner (20), in which the hand scanner holder (30) includes a base part (31) configured to be attached to the side of the housing (11), the base part (31) includes a pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b) opposed to each other with a first interval therebetween, and the pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b) form a holding recess (34) configured to hold a lower part (21a) of a grasping part (21) of the hand scanner (20), which is inserted, from above the pair of the holding pieces (34a, 34b), between the pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b), in a state in which an upper part (21b) of the grasping part (21) protrudes upward.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa IWATA, Katsumi HARASHIMA, Yuta SASAKI
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Publication number: 20220408608Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi ISOYA
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Publication number: 20220392095Abstract: A package measuring apparatus includes a control unit and a depth sensor that picks up a package having a rectangular parallelepiped shape placed on a mounting table from substantially directly above the package. The control unit is configured to: specify data of the package in an acquired depth image data by comparing with background depth image data; calculate a height of the package and specify positions of three vertices located on a leftmost, rightmost, and uppermost or lowermost side in the depth image data; obtain two-dimensional coordinates of the three vertices based on a view angle of the depth sensor, data of a distance from the depth sensor corresponding to the three vertices, data of a position of each sensor element, and the number of sensor elements; and calculate a length of two sides defined between a third vertex and other two vertices based on the two-dimensional coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Youhei NISHI
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Publication number: 20220385759Abstract: Incoming call signal reception means receives an incoming call signal including a caller number, caller information, and ring type information. Image generation means generates, based on the incoming call signal, a caller information image including at least a portion of the caller information as character information. Telephone dictionary registering means registers the caller number, caller text information, and the caller information image in a telephone dictionary. Incoming call screen display means receives the caller number and acquires the registered caller text information and the caller information image corresponding to the received caller number from the telephone dictionary. Incoming call screen display means displays an incoming call screen including the caller text information and the caller information image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoki AWATANI, Hikaru OGAWA
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Publication number: 20220383658Abstract: An imaging apparatus for authentication includes: a first imaging unit that obtains a first image used in a first authentication process by imaging a target person; a second imaging unit that obtains a second image used in a second image process by imaging the target person in an imaging range narrower than that of the first imaging unit; a drive unit that integrally drives the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit; and a drive control unit that controls the drive unit on the basis of the first image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2019Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Toshinobu OGATSU, Ryoma OAMI, Toshiyuki SASHIHARA, Takamichi MIYAMOTO, Ryuichi AKASHI, Ryo YAMAKABE, Daisuke SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20220374669Abstract: A display system includes a plurality of tags and a detection device. Each tag of the plurality of tags stores an identification code for identifying that tag, generates electric power upon receiving light that contains identification information to be compared with the identification code, and emits light using the electric power of that tag when the identification information contained in the received light matches the identification code. The detection device generates image data in accordance with an input of the identification information on a selected article, projects scanning light containing identification information on the position of the tag extracted from the generated image data, and, when emitted light from any of the plurality of tags is detected from the image data acquired during a period in which the scanning light is projected, projects marking light within a range attached with the tag that has emitted light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Fujio OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20220377551Abstract: The AP transmits a verification server certificate signed by a trusted certificate authority to the STA, transmits, upon receipt of the verification request from the STA, the content thereof to the verification server, performs encrypted communication that uses a random number included in the verification response as a seed, and encrypts and transmits the content of the verification response to the STA. The STA generates a common key, checks the content of the response, receives the verification server certificate, verifies whether or not there is a signature of a trusted certificate authority, and encrypts and transmits, to the AP information about a connection destination and the random number as the verification request. The STA decrypts the content of the verification response and checks to see whether information indicating success or failure of the verification and the random number are included, decrypts the content of the verification server certificate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Tomohiro SATO
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Patent number: 11509874Abstract: To provide a video projector which improves visibility in response to changes in projection environment, a video projector has an initial level setter, a level adjuster, a projection display, an image capture, and a projection histogram calculator. The initial level setter performs a prescribed initial level setting on an input video signal and outputs an initial display signal. The level adjuster adjusts the level of the initial display signal on the basis of a projection image and outputs a display signal. The image capture captures the projection image projected on a projection surface by the projection display based on the display signal. The projection histogram calculator prepares a projection histogram for each color. The level adjuster adjusts the level of the initial display signal for each color on the basis of the projection histogram.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi Ohno
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Publication number: 20220368006Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Masato TSUCHIYA
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Patent number: D973042Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignees: NEC PLATFORMS, LTD., TOCHIGIYA CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoko Ono, Takeshi Ohashi