Patents Assigned to NEC
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Publication number: 20250209659Abstract: Provided are an input assistance apparatus, an input assistance method, and a program capable of more appropriately determining a position of a feature point. An input assistance apparatus (1) includes an estimation unit (2) that estimates a position of a feature point of an input image, and an input assistance unit (3) that assists a user's input for designating a position of a feature point of the input image on the basis of a position estimated by the estimation means and a position designated by the input.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Akira TSUCHIYA
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Publication number: 20250209235Abstract: A system configuration derivation device calculates a recovery cost required for recovery of a structure derived from an expected configuration of an entity having as a type a constituent component model based on information on a recovery model and the expected configuration; constructs a global state model representing an operation model relating to failure recovery of the abstract configuration; verifies whether the global state model satisfies the recovery time requirement; and generates an abstract configuration that embodies the functional requirement using a mechanism for gradually embodying the abstract configuration as a possible system configuration candidate, and derives a system configuration that simultaneously satisfies the functional requirement and the recovery time requirement by eliminating the candidates that do not satisfy the recovery time requirement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2024Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takuya KUWAHARA, Toshiki WATANABE, Takayuki KURODA
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Publication number: 20250212565Abstract: Provided is a mounting structure and a semiconductor component that have a structure capable of suppressing creeping up of a bonding material. The mounting structure according to the present disclosure includes a carrier including a first surface having a first wettability with respect to a bonding material, and a conductor layer being provided on the first surface and having a second wettability higher than the first wettability with respect to the bonding material. The conductor layer includes a first region having at least four sides, and two or more second regions spaced apart from each other along a first side of the at least four sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2024Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: Name NEC CorporationInventor: Yoshiki TAMAMURA
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Publication number: 20250212227Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method, device and computer readable medium of communication. A terminal device deployed with first and second sets of antenna ports receives DCI for scheduling an uplink transmission, the DCI comprising a first SRI and a second SRI. The terminal device determines a first set of antenna port indexes based on a first number of layers of the uplink transmission indicated by the first SRI and indexes of SRS resources in a first set of SRS resources, and determines a second set of antenna port indexes based on indexes of SRS resources in a second set of SRS resources, a second number of layers of the uplink transmission indicated by the second SRI and the number of SRS resources in the first set of SRS resources. Then the terminal device performs the uplink transmission over antenna ports corresponding to the first and second sets of antenna port indexes. In this way, a simultaneous transmission across multi-panels is well supported.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Peng GUAN, Yukai GAO, Gang WANG
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Publication number: 20250209777Abstract: The image processing device 1X includes an image acquisition means 30X, a proportion acquisition means 31X, and a detection means 33X. The image acquisition means 30X is configured to acquire an endoscopic image obtained by photographing an examination target by a photographing unit provided in an endoscope. The proportion acquisition means 31X is configured to acquire a proportion of an interest part region in the endoscopic image where a part of interest in the examination target exists. The detection means 33X is configured to generate, based on the proportion, a detection result relating to the part of interest in the examination target in the endoscopic image. It can be used to support examiner's decision making and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Masahiro Saikou
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Publication number: 20250212160Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, and medium for communication. A terminal device receives, from a core network device, an LPP message informing the terminal device to activate an AI-based positioning for determining location related information based on an output of the positioning model; and transmitting the location related information to the core network device. In additional, an interaction between an access network device and a core network device via NRPPa is triggered to activate an AI-based positioning for determining location related information based on the output of a positioning model, and transmitting the location related information to the core network device. In this way, a procedure between the terminal device and the core network device is defined and thus the positioning accuracy may be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Wei CHEN, Peng GUAN, Gang WANG
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Publication number: 20250211439Abstract: A (secure) matching system includes a user-side apparatus; and a service-side apparatus. The user-side apparatus includes a user key generation part and a registration part that registers a registration ciphertext in the service-side apparatus. The service-side apparatus includes a service key generation part, a conversion key generation part that generates a conversion key for converting a first ciphertext encrypted with a service public key into a second ciphertext encrypted with a user public key without executing a decryption process, and a matching part. The service-side apparatus generates a second ciphertext with the conversion key after generating a first ciphertext obtained by encrypting features used as a matching source with the service public key and matches the second ciphertext against a registered ciphertext.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki ISSHIKI, Kengo Mori, Haruna Fukuda
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Publication number: 20250212212Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a communication device transmits, to a base station and using communication resources that may be used for grant-free uplink communications, uplink data and information from which the communication device can be identified, wherein the information from which the communication device can be identified comprises a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) value that is encoded with identity information identifying the communication device (for example, a C-RNTI of the communication device).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2025Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yassin Aden AWAD, Ayesha IJAZ, Robert ARNOTT
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Publication number: 20250210032Abstract: a hearing assistance apparatus includes: a speech recognition information generation unit executes speech recognition processing on first speech information to infer one or more words from the first speech information, and generating speech recognition information by, for each of the one or more inferred words, associating word information representing the inferred word with second speech information corresponding to the inferred word; a first division unit divides a first character string formed by the one or more words into individual words or individual characters using the word information to generate second character string information representing a second character string; and a display information generation unit generates display information for displaying, on a display device, the second character string and a division position indicating a position at which the first character string was divided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Daichi NISHII, Akira GOTOH, Shuji KOMEIJI, Yuko NAKANISHI, Yuka ENJOJI
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Publication number: 20250209694Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a first data set, and acquires a first composite learner including a plurality of individual learners; and an output unit that outputs first visualization information including first graphic information summarizing, in a case where the first data set is input to the first composite learner, composite output information output by the first composite learner, individual output information output by each individual learner, configuration information of each individual learner, and a relationship between different individual learners.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2024Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Masakazu HIROKAWA, Yoshio Kameda, Keita Sakuma, Ryuta Matsuno, Miyu Kashiyama, Takayuki Itoh
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Publication number: 20250210159Abstract: To cause observation data to be easily available. An information processing apparatus includes a reception section that receives designation of an extraction condition on observation data and an extraction section that, in a case where the designation is received, starts a process of extracting a piece of observation data which, among observation data that has been stored after reception of the designation, matches the extraction condition and storing the piece of observation data in a database. The observation data stored in the database can be used, for example, for decision making for a countermeasure against an infectious disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2024Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Koki TAKEYASU, Yasushi Takahashi, Masashi Murao, Takeshi Tatebe, Michio Kaji, Masayuki Naitou
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Patent number: 12342247Abstract: A communication system, a UE (User Equipment), a communication method and a computer readable medium may be provided. The communication system (100) includes: a first UE (User Equipment) (110) including a first controller and a first transceiver, wherein the first controller is configured to control the transceiver to send a message including L2 ID (Layer 2 Identity) and verification information; and a second UE (120) including a second controller and a second transceiver, wherein the second controller is configured: to control the transceiver to receive the message from the first UE (110); and to determine whether to accept the L2 ID or not using the verification information.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takahito Yoshizawa, Nivedya Parambath Sasi, Rohini Rajendran
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Patent number: 12339952Abstract: A program analysis device including: code block extraction means for extracting code blocks having specific qualities from code blocks included in binary data of a program; backdoor score calculation means for calculating, for each code block extracted by the code block extraction means, based on the contents of operations in each code block, a backdoor score, which is a score indicating the possibility of each code block being a backdoor code or a score indicating the degree of impact of each code block on a system when it is executed; and output means for outputting the code blocks extracted by the code block extraction means and the backdoor score calculated for each of the extracted code blocks by the backdoor score calculation means.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Shimada, Takayuki Sasaki
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Patent number: 12339561Abstract: A first directional coupler branching input light into a cross-port path having a branching ratio ? and a bar-port path having a branching ratio 1-?. A first arm propagating light from the cross-port path of the first directional coupler; a second arm propagating light from the bar-port path of the first directional coupler. A second directional coupler outputting output light acquired by combining the light being input from the first arm and the light being input from the second arm at the cross-port branching ratio ? and the bar-port branching ratio 1-?. A phase modulation unit providing a phase difference between the light propagating through the first arm and the light propagating through the second arm. ? and 1-?, and ? and 1-? are determined such that an ? parameter being a chirp parameter is a negative value.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Ryo Kurahashi
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Patent number: 12340002Abstract: A device includes: an input/output unit configured to receive input of the binary of the software to be monitored in which a tamper detection feature and tamper detection feature calling functions are embedded; a CFG (control flow graph) generation unit configured to generate a CFG based on the binary; and an allowed list creation unit configured to determine the monitoring range for the tamper detection feature calling functions based on the CFG. The allowed list creation unit sequentially selects the tamper detection feature calling functions on the CFG, adds a node to the monitoring range for the selected tamper detection feature calling functions according to a predetermined rule, searches for the tamper detection feature calling function to be be executed next to the added node according to the predetermined rule, and adds the found tamper detection feature calling function to the monitoring range for the selected tamper detection feature calling functions.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuto Hayaki, Norio Yamagaki
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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: 12340577Abstract: A prediction device 100 of the present invention includes a detection means 121 for, on the basis of a river image that is an image obtained by capturing a river and associated with capturing position information representing a position where the river is captured, detecting river condition information representing a condition of the river at the position where the river image is captured; and a prediction means 122 for, on the basis of the capturing position information, the river condition information, and topography information representing the topography of the river, predicting a river condition representing a condition of the river at a given point of the river. The given point is different from the position represented by the capturing position information.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Shinoda, Daisuke Ikefuji, Shin Tominaga, Yuzo Senda, Hirofumi Inoue
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Patent number: 12339359Abstract: A target object detection apparatus (20) includes an acquisition unit (210), a likelihood information generation unit (220), and a determination unit (230). The acquisition unit (210) acquires an IF signal from an irradiation apparatus (10) at a plurality of timings. The likelihood information generation unit (220) executes, by processing the IF signal, processing of generating, with respect to each of a plurality of IF signals, likelihood information for a region (hereinafter, referred to as a target object region) having a possibility in that an accompaniment, i.e., a target object is present. The likelihood information indicates a distribution of presence probabilities of a target object in at least a height direction in a target object region. Then, the determination unit (230) determines a presence or absence of a target object, by using likelihood information generated for each of a plurality of target object regions.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Sumiya, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Kazumine Ogura, Nagma Samreen Khan, Shingo Yamanouchi, Toshiyuki Nomura
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Patent number: 12339395Abstract: For increasing measurement precision while suppressing cost increase when measuring a permittivity of an object using a radio wave, an object detection apparatus includes a transmission unit projecting a radio wave toward a target object by using a transmission antenna, a reception unit receiving the radio wave reflected by the target object by a reception antenna and generating an intermediate frequency signal, and an arithmetic apparatus. The arithmetic apparatus computes a reflection amplitude of the target object from the intermediate frequency signal, computes a reflectance from the reflection amplitude, computes a complex permittivity absolute value of the target object from the computed reflectance, computes a depth position of the target object from the reflection amplitude, computes a thickness of the target object from the depth and the reflection amplitude, and computes a permittivity of the target object from the reflection amplitude, the complex permittivity absolute value, and the thickness.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Yamanouchi, Toshiyuki Nomura, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Kazumine Ogura, Tatsuya Sumiya
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Patent number: 12340807Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus (2000) acquires source data (10) representing an audio signal including an utterance. The speech recognition apparatus (2000) converts the source data (10) into a text string (30). The speech recognition apparatus (2000) generates a concatenated text (40) representing a content of an utterance by concatenating a text (32) included in the text string (30). Herein, texts (32) adjacent to each other in the text string (30) are such that parts of associated audio signals overlap each other on a time axis. At a time of concatenating texts (32) adjacent to each other, the speech recognition apparatus (2000) eliminates a trailing portion of a preceding text (32) and a leading portion of a succeeding text (32).Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Komeiji, Hitoshi Yamamoto