Patents Assigned to NEC
  • Publication number: 20250193810
    Abstract: An acquisition unit in a control apparatus acquires the traffic volume and the remaining power amount of a non-terrestrial network apparatus. A control unit controls the non-terrestrial network apparatus based on the traffic volume and the remaining power amount acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kohei YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250185884
    Abstract: In the endoscopic examination support apparatus, the video acquisition means acquires an endoscopic video captured by an endoscope. The lesion detection means detects a lesion candidate from the endoscopic video. The heat map generation means generates a heat map which represents a lesion possibility of the lesion candidate included in the endoscopic video by a color. The display control means superimposes and displays an area where the lesion possibility is equal to or higher than a first threshold on the endoscopic video in a first display mode, and superimposes and displays an area where the lesion possibility is equal to or higher than a second threshold on the endoscopic video in a second display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto MAEDA, Takuma IGARASHI, Masahiro SAIKOU, Kimiyasu TAKOH, Yuko MAEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20250191464
    Abstract: A lane change detection apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to acquire, from a sensing apparatus configured to measure vibration generated on a road by using an optical fiber embedded in the road, vehicle vibration data indicating vibration generated by traveling of a vehicle on the road, and detect whether there is a lane change of the vehicle, based on a specific feature of a current frame of the vehicle vibration and a traveling lane in which the vehicle has traveled in a previous frame of the vehicle vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke IKEFUJI, Hemant Shivsagar PRASAD, Sakiko MISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20250191289
    Abstract: In order to solve an object that is to present information which makes it possible to more sufficiently ascertain a task carried out by a user in a virtual space, an information processing system (1) includes: a task information acquisition unit (11) which acquires task information that is related to a task carried out by a user in a virtual space; a line-of-sight information acquisition unit (12) which acquires line-of-sight information that is related to a line of sight of the user; an emotion information acquisition unit (13) which acquires emotion information that is related to an emotion of the user; and a relevance information output unit (14) that outputs information indicating relevance between a change in the task information, a change in the line-of-sight information, and a change in the emotion information, which are associated with a progress of the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi NONAKA, Kiri Inayoshi, Kentaro NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250190582
    Abstract: Analysis result acquisition means acquires a result of a risk analysis for a system to be analyzed. The result of the risk analysis includes attack routes. A measure information table includes an index indicating an effect of a measure introduced against an attack. Measure calculation means plans a measure against an attack used in an attack route by using the measure information table. Table update means updates the index indicating the effect included in the measure information table based on the planned measure and measure related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo MIZUSHIMA, Tomohiko YAGYU
  • Publication number: 20250193225
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: an extracting unit extracts a first protocol information and a port number from vulnerability description information; a first determining unit that: (a) extracts second protocol information and transmission-destination port number from using the first protocol and the port number; (b) generates frequency distribution information by using the extracted second protocol and transmission-destination port number; (c) calculates curve information indicating a curve by executing smoothing processing on the frequency distribution information; (d) calculate a processing result by executing definite integral processing on the curve information; and (e) first determine presence/absence of an actual attack using the processing result and a threshold; and a severity assessing unit that calculates a severity based on the reported-case-of-exploitation presence/absence information included in the vulnerability information and a result of the determination of the presence/absenc
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masaru KAWAKITA
  • Publication number: 20250191181
    Abstract: A posture evaluation apparatus, a posture evaluation system, a posture evaluation method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that are able to evaluate a posture with high accuracy at a relatively low cost are provided. A posture evaluation apparatus includes a spine extracting means for extracting, based on an image acquired by imaging a side surface of a body of a subject person and position information about at least a cervical vertebrae, hip joints, and knee joints of the body on the image, a spine edge point cloud constituted of a predetermined number of points representing a spine shape on the image, a feature value calculating means for calculating a feature value about at least a spine, based on the position information and the spine edge point cloud, and a state estimating means for estimating a state of at least the spine, based on the feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Shuhei NOYORI, Makoto YASUKAWA, Kosuke NISHIHARA, Yuki KOSAKA, Akimoto NIMURA, Koji FUJITA, Takuya IBARA
  • Publication number: 20250193235
    Abstract: A diagnosis apparatus or the like including a configuration information acquisition part that acquires configuration information that is configuration content of a target device; a diagnostic rule holding part that holds a diagnostic rule for diagnosing the configuration information; a diagnosis part that diagnoses the target device on a basis of the diagnostic rule; and a diagnostic result notification part that notifies a diagnosis result, wherein the diagnostic rule holding part holds the diagnostic rule that diagnoses whether or not the configuration information is a secure configuration from a security perspective is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250191099
    Abstract: A traffic management apparatus (102) includes an estimation unit (103) and a decision unit (104). The estimation unit (103) estimates an exhaust gas amount of a vehicle. The decision unit (104) decides a toll fee for a target vehicle to pass through a predetermined road section, by using the exhaust gas amount being estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kosei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250193728
    Abstract: In order to make it possible to transmit packets in an appropriate order, a packet transfer apparatus (1) includes: an acquisition means (11) that acquires an uplink packet received from a terminal apparatus; an allowable time determination means (12) that determines, with reference to time information included in header information of the uplink packet, an allowable time of delay of the uplink packet; and an order determination means (13) that determines, on the basis of the allowable time of delay, an order of transmission of the uplink packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kengo NAGATOMO
  • Publication number: 20250192993
    Abstract: A key delivery system, includes: a key issuance apparatus generating and issuing an encryption key; a distribution apparatus including: a share data generation part electronically dividing the encryption key into share data using a secret sharing scheme, a transmission destination verification part verifying validity of a transmission destination in transmitting the share data, and a share data transmission part transmitting the share data to the transmission destination, when a verification result obtained by the transmission destination verification part is valid; and a decryption apparatus including: a transmission source verification part verifying validity of a transmission source, in receiving the share data, a share data reception part receiving the share data from the transmission source when a verification result obtained by the transmission source verification part is valid, and a decryption part decrypting the encryption key using the share data received, as an input value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryo Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20250193003
    Abstract: In order to make it possible to suitably instruct encryption or decryption of information according to the security level, a communication control apparatus (1) includes: an acquisition means (11) for acquiring communication path information; and an instruction means (12) for instructing at least one of encryption and decryption of a target flow with use of an encryption range which is defined according to the acquired communication path information and which is of the target flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20250191058
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a return procedure for a mobile body rented by a user has been completed; a specifying unit configured to specify, upon determining by the determination unit that the return procedure has been completed, a return place for the mobile body; and a transmission control unit configured to transmit, to a user terminal used by the user, at least a part of area information regarding an area to which the specified return place belongs, as first transmission information. It is therefore possible to suitably encourage repeated use of a rental service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Taichi OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20250191482
    Abstract: A work analysis device acquires data representing motions that have been detected by a VR device that presents a plurality of work items of a problem in a virtual space, and which are made by a user of the VR device to perform the plurality of work items in the virtual space, and data representing a line of sight direction of the user of the VR device. The work analysis device generates and stores time-series data of the motions made by the user of the VR device from the data representing the motions made by the user of the VR device to perform the plurality of work items in the virtual space. The work analysis device generates and stores time-series data of the line of sight direction of the user of the VR device from the data representing the line of sight direction of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi NONAKA, Kenichi WAKABAYASHI, Hiroaki YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20250190705
    Abstract: In an information processing device, a prompt acquisition means acquires a prompt which is described in natural language and includes a designation of a task. An input variable acquisition means interprets the prompt using a language model, acquires related information corresponding to the task designated by the prompt, and acquires an input variable to be used for prediction corresponding to the task designated, based on the related information. An output means outputs the input variable acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2024
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporaton
    Inventors: Yoshio KAMEDA, Shinnosuke Nishimoto, Keita Sakuma, Ryuta Matsuno, Masakazu Hirokawa
  • Publication number: 20250190715
    Abstract: An information processing device acquires a prompt input by a user, acquires an analytical algorithm designated in the prompt, and outputs a question based on the analytical algorithm, executes the analytical algorithm interactively by acquiring an answer of the user to the question, and outputs an analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio KAMEDA, Keita SAKUMA, Ryuta MATSUNO, Masakazu HIROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20250193099
    Abstract: A network monitoring device according to the present disclosure comprises an inoperativeness detecting means that detects that a network device being monitored has become inoperative, and a task indication means that indicates, to the network device that has become inoperative, a task including console connection to a management terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru NAGATANI, Tomoo ADACHI, Shuichi KARINO
  • Publication number: 20250193945
    Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a communication device forms part of a communication system in which network slicing is supported and in which at least one tenant is able to communicate using at least one slice type associated with that tenant. The communication device receives network slicing related information transmitted by a base station. The network slicing related information may comprise information identifying support for a tenant whose communication is supported via the base station, or a network slice type of a tenant that is supported by the base station. The network slicing related information may comprise information comprising at least one communication parameter that is associated with a specific tenant or a specific slice type of a specific tenant. The communication device uses a slice having a slice type of a tenant with which the communication device is associated, based on the network slicing related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Sivapathalingham SIVAVAKEESAR
  • Publication number: 20250190485
    Abstract: A verification apparatus includes: a verification unit that extracts a plurality of pieces of first similar data similar to query data, from a plurality of pieces of registration data, on the basis of a query feature quantity that is a feature quantity of the query data; and a correction unit that corrects the query feature quantity on the basis of an arithmetic value of a plurality of registration feature quantities that are feature quantities of the plurality of pieces of first similar data, wherein the verification unit extracts at least one piece of second similar data similar to the query data, from the plurality of pieces of registration data, on the basis of the query feature quantity corrected by the correction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takaya MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250190414
    Abstract: A code conversion apparatus including: a detection unit that detects first code that includes first function code; an extraction unit that extracts, from the detected first codes, second codes; a selection unit that selects key columns to be used for a link table that is obtained by reducing the number of key columns of the target two-dimensional array data, based on the aggregate computation code included in the second codes and key columns of the target two-dimensional array data; a generation unit that generates third code using the first function code, the selected key columns, and the aggregate computation code, and adding the generated third code at a beginning of the second codes; and a conversion unit that converts the plurality of second codes into fourth code by aligning the second codes with the third code, based on the third code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki OHNO