Patents Assigned to NEC
  • Publication number: 20250111025
    Abstract: A system includes an authentication terminal and a server apparatus. The authentication terminal is an apparatus that can operate in different modes of operation corresponding to each of different procedure methods. The server apparatus includes a detection unit, a determination unit, and a mode control unit. The detection unit detects a waiting person waiting at a waiting area, where procedures are performed at the authentication terminal, using image data captured at the waiting area. The determination unit determines a type of the waiting person regarding the procedures to be proceeded with at the authentication terminal. The mode control unit instructs the authentication terminal to change the mode of operation, when the type of the waiting person is not consistent with a mode of operation of the authentication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya SATO, Haruka KUROSE, Takumi OTANI, Takeshi SASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250112441
    Abstract: Provided are a submarine apparatus, a submarine cable system, a method for controlling the submarine apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that can be stably operated. The submarine apparatus includes a laser element configured to generate an optical signal to be used in a case of responding to a remote control signal received from a land apparatus disposed on land via a cable, and a temperature adjustment unit configured to adjust a temperature of the laser element, and is disposed on the seabed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Narihiro Arai
  • Publication number: 20250107750
    Abstract: To provide a posture evaluation apparatus, a posture evaluation system, a posture evaluation method, and a program that are capable of suitably evaluating a backward-bending posture. The posture evaluation apparatus according to the present disclosure calculates a feature including at least a feature of an inclination of a head relative to a trunk, based on body information including information indicating at least an inclination of the trunk and an inclination of the head in a body of a subject person in a backward-bending posture in which the subject person is bent backward, and estimates a state of at least a spine in the backward-bending posture, based on the calculated feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Shuhei NOYORI, Makoto YASUKAWA, Keisuke SUZUKI, Yuki KOSAKA, Akimoto NIMURA, Koji FUJITA, Takuya IBARA
  • Publication number: 20250111613
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an information processing apparatus capable of displaying information useful for performing monitoring work. An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a generation unit configured to generate three-dimensional data including a monitoring target facility; a data acquisition unit configured to acquire sensor data detected by at least one sensor configured to monitor the monitoring target facility; and a display control unit configured to generate display data of displaying, on the three-dimensional data, abnormality data indicating an abnormal state that occurs in the monitoring target facility, the abnormality data being acquired by combining a plurality of types of the sensor data or by combining at least one piece of the sensor data and information related to the monitoring target facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo SUZUKI, Akira TSUJI, Takanori SHIGETA, Yusuke KUNII
  • Publication number: 20250108721
    Abstract: To improve convenience of an operation for power supply control in a charging service, a power supply control apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, by using an information acquisition apparatus, user determination information that determines a user; an inquiry destination determination unit that determines information about an inquiry destination terminal of the user, based on the user determination information; a transmission/reception unit that transmits inquiry information about use of a power supply apparatus to the inquiry destination terminal; and a control unit that controls a power supply from the power supply apparatus in response to a response to the inquiry information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun MORIZONO, Jiroh KUBOTA, Takuro MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20250111404
    Abstract: An information processing system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: register a product whose identification information is input by a customer's operation on a portable terminal; accept necessity of a disposable shopping bag from the portable terminal; determine a benefit in response to registration of one or more products in a case where a fact that a disposable shopping bag is unnecessary is accepted; and grant the determined benefit in a case where payment for the registered product is made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Rumi IKEZAWA, Tadamasa YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250112696
    Abstract: An optical wireless transmission system includes a transmission device including a digital baseband processor configured to generate a plurality of orthogonal signals, a pulse modulator configured to pulse-modulate an orthogonal signal, and a dither modulator configured to add a dither signal to a pulse-modulated signal, an optical fiber module configured to convert a signal to which a dither signal is added into an optical signal, transmit the optical signal through an optical fiber, and convert the optical signal into a digital electric signal, and a remote unit configured to transmit a digital electric signal transmitted by the optical fiber module as a radio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi HORI, Yuma KASE
  • Publication number: 20250111699
    Abstract: An image processing system (10) includes an analysis means (11), a determination means (12), and a label assigning means (13). The analysis means (11) recognizes a plurality of motion images indicating a motion of a person from image data of motion images according to a plurality of consecutive frames obtained by capturing the person who performs a series of motions. The determination means (12) determines whether or not the motion image and a predetermined reference motion are related to each other. The label assigning means (13) assigns a label to at least some of the consecutive frames in the motion image based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jianquan LIU, Noboru YOSHIDA, Ryo KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20250110098
    Abstract: A transmitting terminal (1A) transmits first D2D control information (522, 523) in one or more subframes within a first subframe pool (511) within a first D2D control period (501) and performs data transmission (531-534) in accordance with the first D2D control information (522, 523) in one or more subframes within a second subframe pool (512) within the first D2D control period (501). The first D2D control information (522, 523) contains a second information element indicating whether the first D2D control information (522, 523) is valid in at least one D2D control period (502, 503) occurring after the first D2D control period (501). This makes it possible to contribute, for example, to reducing failure in reception of scheduling assignment information that is transmitted in a radio resource region for control in a periodic D2D control period and that specifies D2D transmission resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushi MURAOKA, Hiroto Sugahara
  • Publication number: 20250110927
    Abstract: A file exchange apparatus includes: acquiring a label added file stored in a common use storage apparatus; isolating the acquired label added file from the common use storage apparatus and a plurality of dedicated use storage apparatuses; reading and identifying a label of the acquired label added file; and transmitting the acquired label added file to the dedicated use storage apparatus corresponding to the identified label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya OKADA, Shinya Takeda
  • Publication number: 20250111924
    Abstract: A rehabilitation planning apparatus, a rehabilitation planning system, a rehabilitation planning method, and a program capable of efficiently creating a rehabilitation plan are provided. A rehabilitation planning apparatus (1) includes a rehabilitation pattern selection unit (2), an ability value prediction unit (3) that predicts a physical ability value after a target patient performs rehabilitation indicated in a selected rehabilitation pattern, a repetition control unit (4) that performs control so that the selection by the rehabilitation pattern selection unit (2) and the prediction by the ability value prediction unit (3) are repeated, and a determination unit (5) that determines a rehabilitation pattern for, among combinations of rehabilitation patterns and physical ability values obtained through the repetition of the selection and the prediction, a combination of which the physical ability value satisfies a predetermined condition as a rehabilitation plan for the target patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori HOSOI, Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro KUBO, Yuan LUO
  • Publication number: 20250111531
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a posture estimation unit configured to estimate a position and a posture of a camera when the camera has captured each of at least two images including the same phenomena based on the at least two images and three-dimensional data of a structure; an area selection unit configured to select an area of the phenomenon in each of the at least two images; a three-dimensional position specification unit configured to specify a position of each of the phenomena in a coordinate system of the three-dimensional data; and a projection unit configured to generate a projection image by projecting three-dimensional data including the specified position of each of the phenomena and compositing the phenomena included in the images in such a manner that the phenomena for the images are distinguishable from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumine OGURA, Kyota HIGA, Kazuya INABA
  • Publication number: 20250112996
    Abstract: This disclosure proposes a network function node in a core network, comprising: means for receiving, from User Equipment, UE, a non access stratum, NAS, message including identity information for the UE, and a plurality of user identity information, each of which includes a user identifier for a user that uses the UE; and means for sending, to a policy control and charging function node in the core network, the plurality of the user identity information for creating a Policy and Charging Control, PCC, rule based on the plurality of the user identity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shubhranshu SINGH, Toshiyuki TAMURA, Iskren IANEV
  • Publication number: 20250111790
    Abstract: A flight management system that manages flight of an unmanned aircraft flying according to a flight plan. The flight management system including at least one unmanned aircraft that holds shared information in which transmission information including identification information, position information, and time information about the unmanned aircraft and flight plan information including a flight plan are associated with each other and that flies according to the flight plan while transmitting the transmission information at a predetermined timing, and a flight management device that shares the shared information with the unmanned aircraft to be managed and that acquires the transmission information transmitted from the unmanned aircraft flying according to the flight plan to update the shared information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Tokumi, Takuya Hisamoto, Kenichi Kijima, Tetsuya Tanabiki, Takahiro Mizuta, Takuya Nomura
  • Publication number: 20250111805
    Abstract: This shelf label system comprises an acquisition unit, location identification unit, linking unit, and first output control unit. For each location in a facility, the acquisition unit acquires data in which location information representing said location and merchandise information relating to merchandise displayed near the location are linked. Upon receipt of an instruction to link the location of an electronic shelf label, the location identification unit identifies location information representing the location where the electronic shelf label has been arranged in the facility. The linking unit links the identified location information and information identifying the electronic shelf label. The first output control unit causes the electronic shelf label to output merchandise information linked with the identified location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira TADA, Hiroki Sugegaya, Yuki Tono, Akihiko Onita
  • Patent number: 12266174
    Abstract: Methods and systems of training a neural network include training a feature extractor and a classifier using a first set of training data that includes one or more base cases. The classifier is trained with few-shot adaptation using a second set of training data, smaller than the first set of training data, while keeping parameters of the feature extractor constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Biplob Debnath, Srimat Chakradhar, Oliver Po, Asim Kadav, Farley Lai, Farhan Asif Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 12263586
    Abstract: A control system includes a control apparatus and a plurality of robots. The control apparatus includes a function acquisition unit that acquires a function, a function form conversion unit that converts the function into a distributed calculable form, and a variable conversion unit that sets, based on the function which form is converted, variables to be stored by each of the robots and a process corresponding to the variables, to the robot. Each of the plurality of robots a consensus control means that updates a variable value stored by the robot itself based on the set variable while sending and receiving variable values among other communicable robots, and a function value inference means that infers a function value from the variable based on the set process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manao Machida
  • Patent number: 12262864
    Abstract: Provided are a surgery assistance apparatus, a surgery assistance method, and a computer readable recording medium that includes a surgery assistance program recorded thereon that improve the accuracy of endoscopic surgery by identifying a target part image. A surgery assistance apparatus 1 includes a feature amount calculation unit 2 that calculates, from a human-body internal image captured using an endoscope, a feature amount of a target part image corresponding to a target part, a similarity degree calculation unit 3 that calculates a similarity degree of the features amount between different human-body internal images, and an identification unit 4 that identifies the target part image in each of the different human-body internal images if the similarity degree is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Saikou
  • Patent number: 12265893
    Abstract: A learning device 80 is a learning device for learning a model applied to a device that performs processing using a specific model, includes an input unit 81 and an imitation learning unit 82. The input unit 81 receives input of a functional form of a reward. The imitation learning unit 82 learns a policy by imitation learning based on training data. The imitation learning unit 82 learns a reward function depending on the input functional form of the reward by the imitation learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryota Higa
  • Patent number: 12267168
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer storage media for communication. A method comprises transmitting, from a first device to a second device, a plurality of repetitions for a physical channel for scheduling a communication between the first device and the second device, wherein the plurality of PDCCH repetitions indicate same offset information for the communication; determining, based on the same offset information and index information about a repetition of the plurality of repetitions, a time offset between the repetition and the communication; and performing, based on the time offset, the communication with the second device. Embodiments of the present disclosure enable both the network device and the terminal device to obtain, from the physical channel repetitions, the real time offset for a corresponding communication and improve reliability and robustness for the physical channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukai Gao, Gang Wang