Patents Assigned to NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
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Patent number: 12361753Abstract: A face authentication apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires face image data of a person from image capturing apparatuses, a determination unit that determines whether registration data, having degree of matching with the face image data that is equal to or more than a threshold value, is registered in a storage device, a prompting unit that prompts the person to input identifying information when the determination unit determines that the registration data is not registered in the storage device, a reception unit that receives the identifying information input, a registration after input reception unit that registers the face image data as registration data in the storage device when the reception unit successfully receives an input of the identifying information, and a setting unit that sets a threshold value, to be used by the determination unit, in association with the registration data registered by the registration after input reception unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhide Umeda
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Patent number: 12339984Abstract: Access right information (20) indicating an access right of a user for a target file (10) is stored in a storage device (3100) accessible from a server apparatus (3000). A management apparatus (4000) acquires the access right information (20) from the server apparatus (3000) and puts it in a storage device (4100). The management apparatus (4000) acquires a request for key information that is used to decrypt a target file (10) from a user apparatus (2000) operated by a target user (40). The management apparatus (4000) determines, upon the acquisition of the request, whether or not the target user (10) has an access right for the target file (40) by using the access right information (20) stored in the storage device (4100). The management apparatus (4000) outputs the key information to the user apparatus (2000) when it is determined that the target user (40) has the access right for the target file (10).Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Takumi Hirota, Morimichi Kojima
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Patent number: 12335416Abstract: A local timestamp issuing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a timestamp issuing unit configured to, in response to a request for a timestamp for electronic data by a predetermined information processing apparatus installed in the same local environment, issue a timestamp token for the electronic data; a ledger timestamp requesting unit configured to, at a preset timing, connect to a specific timestamp issuing apparatus installed on the Internet, and request a timestamp for ledger data including the timestamp token issued for the electronic data from the specific timestamp issuing apparatus; and a ledger timestamp acquiring unit configured to acquire the timestamp token issued for the ledger data from the specific timestamp issuing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Kunihiro Ishida, Tatsunori Yamagami
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Publication number: 20250156867Abstract: An information management apparatus includes: an accepting unit that accepts from an external device a usage request that is a request for use of NFT (non-fungible token) biometric information associating biometric information corresponding to a characteristic of a person with a non-fungible token; and a transmitting unit that transmits based on the usage request accepted by the accepting unit the NFT biometric information and an attribute of the person managed in association with the NFT biometric information to a sender of the usage request.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: May 15, 2025Applicant: NEC Solution Innovations, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhide UMEDA
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Patent number: 12292990Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a management server includes a monitoring means for monitoring whether a file has been saved in a storage area managed by a file server, a determination means for determining, when the monitoring means detects that a file has been saved in the storage area, whether identification information on a user who has saved the file matches identification information on a specific user, and a privilege change means for changing, when the determination means determines that the identification information on the user who has saved the file matches the identification information on the specific user, an access privilege of the file.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Takumi Hirota, Atsushi Kataoka
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Patent number: 12283370Abstract: A facility presentation apparatus (1) includes: a selection unit (121) for selecting, as a recommended facility, at least one medical checkup facility recommended to a medical checkup target person from a plurality of medical checkup facilities based on a medical checkup information indicating a medical checkup that is related to a healthcare and that is intended to be taken by the medical checkup target person, a medical checkup facility information (1110) related to the plurality of medical checkup facilities in each of which the medical checkup can be performed and medical chart data (1220) of the medical checkup target person; and a presentation unit (122) for presenting, to a presentation target person, a recommended facility information related to the recommended facility.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Hayashitani, Masahiro Kubo, Akihiko Shibano, Takayuki Banno, Junichi Yahara, Akira Yamauchi, Hideyuki Taketa, Kento Soma
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Patent number: 12260647Abstract: A measurement apparatus detects a person and an umbrella based on acquired image data, and measures the number of persons based on a detected result.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventor: Takeshi Saitoh
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Publication number: 20250069295Abstract: A progress diagram generation apparatus that allows time series to be easily grasped and input contents to be easily checked is provided. In a progress diagram generation apparatus (100) according to an example aspect of the invention, an observation information acquisition unit (101) is configured to acquire observation information related to an observation target, a time series data generation unit (102) is configured to extract date and time information indicating at least one of a date or a time and event information associated with the date and time information from the observation information and structure them to generate time series data, and a progress diagram generation unit (103) is configured to generate a progress diagram including a first axis indicating a time elapsed and a second axis indicating the event information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicants: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OKAYAMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Seiko OANA, Yasushi TAKAHASHI, Tsuyoshi MATANO, Ryuichi NAKAHARA, Keiichiro NISHIDA, Toshifumi OZAKI, Yoshihisa NASU
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Publication number: 20250045947Abstract: The input means 81 accepts input of multiple images captured of a target object that is the type of object to be collated. The object detection means 82 detects the target object from the images. The execution instruction means 83 transmits to a quantum computer performing the minimum-maximal matching, information of the first node representing a location of the detected target object, information of the second node representing a location of the target object predicted based on a past collation result, and a degree of similarity between the location of the first node and the location of the second node, and causes the quantum computer to execute collation process between the past collation result and the target object detected in the images, and determines the first node corresponding to the second node.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventor: Yasuyuki Ihara
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Publication number: 20250036785Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes: an authentication code acquisition unit that acquires, when login authentication of a user who has performed a login operation succeeds, an authentication code associated with the user; a code management unit that manages an identification code for identifying the user for which the login authentication succeeded and the authentication code in association with each other; a determination unit that determines, when a request for access to data is made, based on whether there is an authentication code corresponding to the identification code of the user who made the request for access, whether the user corresponding to the authentication code has authorization to use the data; and a processing permission unit that permits, if the user has been granted use authorization, processing of the data by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo SHOJI, Hisashi SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240378986Abstract: A disaster evaluation apparatus is disclosed. The disaster evaluation apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store an instruction. The disaster evaluation apparatus also includes at least one processor configured to execute the instruction to: respectively perform, in response to occurrence of a disaster, simulations of damage states for plural types of events caused by the disaster; convert data indicating the damage state as each of simulation results by the simulations into data indicating a common social value; and evaluate a change in a social value that is caused by the disaster, based on plural pieces of the converted data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicants: NEC Corporation, Tohoku University, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki KUWAMORI, Akihiro Musa, Junko Kinjo, Yohei Takigawa, Yoshihiko Satou, Shunichi Kpshimura, Erick Arturo Mas Samanez
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Patent number: 12133725Abstract: A gait analysis apparatus 10 includes, a data acquisition unit 11 that acquires a three-dimensional point cloud data of a human to be analyzed, a center of gravity location calculation unit 12 that calculates coordinates of a center of gravity location on the three-dimensional point cloud data of the human to be analyzed by using coordinates of each point constituting the acquired three-dimensional point cloud data, and a gait index calculation unit 13 that calculates a gait index of the human to be analyzed by using the calculated center of gravity location.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Terashima, Katsuyuki Nagai
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Patent number: 12111402Abstract: A positioning assistance apparatus 1 that improves the positioning accuracy includes an estimation unit 2 that estimates a delay amount (ionosphere delay amount or a troposphere delay amount) using a model generated through machine learning (an ionosphere delay model or a troposphere delay model) and a degree-of-precision calculation unit 3 that calculates a degree of precision with respect to a delay amount (an ionosphere delay amount or a troposphere delay amount) calculated through positioning computation, using the estimated delay amount.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Miyamoto, Maho Kashiwagi, Yuka Kanda
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Publication number: 20240303042Abstract: A random number generator includes an input receiving unit configured to receive an input for designating a probability distribution of random numbers, a model generation unit configured to generate, based on the probability distribution, an Ising model using n binary variables (n is an integer equal to or greater than 2) each of which is assigned to a respective one of n subintervals obtained by dividing a numerical range of random numbers, an annealing result acquisition unit configured to acquire values of the n binary variables, the values being an execution result of quantum annealing for the Ising model, and a random number output unit configured to output, as a random number, a value included in the subinterval assigned to the binary variable whose value, which has been obtained as the execution result, is equal to a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Nobutatsu Nakamura, Shinji Hashimoto, Reo Takahara, Sho Shibata, Hidenori Mori
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Patent number: 12039799Abstract: A part detection apparatus (10) including: a data acquisition unit (11) that acquires image data of a human to be subject, a contour extraction unit (12) that extracts an outline representing a contour of the human to be subject, from the acquired image data, and a part detection unit (13) that continuously calculates a curvature radius on the extracted outline and detecting a part of a body of the human to be subject based on a change in the calculated curvature radius.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Terashima, Katsuyuki Nagai
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Publication number: 20240177181Abstract: A demand prediction device of the present disclosure includes an information acquisition means that acquires deviation information indicating a deviation from an actual demand of a target product and a sales quantity, a correction means that corrects the sales quantity based on the deviation information, and a generation means that generates a demand prediction model based on learning data including the corrected sales quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki WASHIZUKA, Kyohko AKAZAWA
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Patent number: 11966435Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) displays, on a display apparatus (60), a first display (30) that represents a partial image (14) where an object contained therein was not recognized as a product. The information processing apparatus (2000) receives input for selecting one or more first displays (30). The information processing apparatus (2000), upon receiving a predetermined input from a user, ends receiving selection of a first display (30). The information processing apparatus (2000) stores, in a storage apparatus (120), product identification information input to a product information input area (54) and feature information based on a partial image(s) (14) corresponding to a selected first display(s) in association with each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Yaeko Yonezawa, Akiko Kubo, Hiroki Iiduka
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Publication number: 20240127003Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a selecting unit that abstracts a plurality of inputs based on the plurality of inputs and selects a common concept that is an abstract concept common to the plurality of inputs; and a generating unit that generates output data including the common concept based on a result of the selection by the selecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventor: Takao KOIZUMI
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Publication number: 20240107278Abstract: A communication apparatus according to the present invention includes: a map display unit configured to output a map image on which another user is associated with a predetermined position so as to display to a target user; a selection accepting unit configured to accept selection of a position by the target user on the map image; and an output unit configured to acquire information sent by the other user associated with the position on the map image selected by the target user, and output to the target user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventor: Tsuneo Tachikawa
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Patent number: 11922659Abstract: A coordinate calculation apparatus 10 includes: an image selection unit 11 configured to select, when a specific portion is designated in an object, two or more images including the specific portion from the images of the object; a three-dimensional coordinate calculation unit 12 configured to specify, for each of the selected images, a location of points corresponding to each other at the specific portion, and calculating a three-dimensional coordinate of the specific portion by using the location of the point specified for each of the images and the camera matrix calculated in advance for each of the images; a three-dimensional model display unit 13 configured to display, using the point cloud data of the object, a three-dimensional model of the object on a screen, and displaying the designated specific portion on the three-dimensional model based on the calculated three-dimensional coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihiro Yamashita