Patents Assigned to NEC
  • Publication number: 20250148635
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: an estimating unit configured to estimate, using sample points extracted from a plurality of data points, tentative geometric parameters that fit the sample points; an error calculating unit configured to calculate errors between the plurality of data points and the tentative geometric parameters; a threshold value determining unit configured to calculate a boundary value for classifying a logarithmic space of the calculated errors into two or more classes, and determine a threshold value by transforming the calculated boundary value; and an updating unit configured to count a number of inliers for which the calculated errors are less than or equal to the calculated threshold value, and when the number of inliers counted increases, update current best geometric parameters and a current best number of inliers with the tentative geometric parameters and the number of inliers, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Gaku NAKANO
  • Patent number: 12293585
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display control unit that displays, on a screen, a map of a search area, a camera icon indicating a location of a surveillance camera in the map, and a person image of a search target person; an operation receiving unit that receives an operation of superimposing, on the screen, one of the person image or the camera icon on the other; and a processing request unit that requests a matching process between the person image and a surveillance video captured by the surveillance camera corresponding to the camera icon based on the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Fukuda, Hajime Yamashita
  • Patent number: 12293033
    Abstract: Provided is a display antenna including a display including a plurality of light emitters arranged in a grid, an antenna array having an antenna assembly in which a plurality of patch antennas through which light in a wavelength band of a visible region is transmitted is disposed in a grid, the antenna array being disposed to be superimposed on the display, and a phase shifter disposed in a gap region sandwiched between the plurality of light emitters, connected to at least one of the plurality of patch antennas, and configured to shift a signal to be transmitted and received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Nihei, Junichi Funada, Kenji Wakafuji, Kazuyuki Hayashi, Kohei Yoshida, Shingo Watanabe, Kazushi Sugyo, Masakazu Ono, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 12295066
    Abstract: In response to revocation of authorization of a first network slice identifier for a User Equipment (UE) (1), an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) node (2) initiates a release procedure to release a PDU session associated with the first network slice identifier. This makes it possible, for example, to properly manage a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session associated with a network slice when authorization for that network slice is revoked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tamura, Tsuyoshi Takakura
  • Patent number: 12293346
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, the person identifying means identifies a person who has entered a facility. The group estimation means estimates a group including a plurality of persons. The group presentation means presents an estimation result of the group to the person. The group setting means sets the group based on a response to the estimation result of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Kamimura
  • Patent number: 12292677
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a first laser light source which emits first laser light; and a diffusion element which is provided on an optical path of the first laser light and diffuses the light, wherein the diffusion element includes: a first lens array in which a plurality of first lens elements that divide the first laser light into a plurality of light fluxes are arranged; and a second lens array in which a plurality of second lens elements that emit the light fluxes incident via the plurality of first lens elements toward an image formation plane are arranged, wherein the first lens array is disposed on an incidence surface of the diffusion element, wherein the second lens array is disposed on an emission surface of the diffusion element, and wherein at least two second lens elements among the plurality of second lens elements form light source images having different sizes in different regions on the image formation plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions
    Inventor: Sota Hirahara
  • Patent number: 12293620
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a user database that stores information obtained by associating first information that specifies a station with second information that indicates an entrance and exit authentication scheme available in a ticket examination system of the station; an information extraction unit that extracts, from the user database, the second information associated with input first information; and an output unit that outputs the second information extracted by the information extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yamaoka, Keito Tachizaki, Kenichi Oosawa, Junya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12293312
    Abstract: A visit assistance device, a visit assistance system, a visit assistance method, and a program are provided that can assist realization of a comfortable visit. A visit assistance device (1) includes a registration unit (2) configured to register a status in a seated condition of a user who is seated in a predetermined space for each user and a display control unit (3) configured to cause a display device installed in an entrance of the space to display the registered status of the user together with information identifying the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuki Akutsu, Miki Otani
  • Patent number: 12292952
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that prevents fraudulent updating of registered facial images. The information processing device comprises a database and an updating unit. The database stores a first facial image of a user. In accordance with at least the similarity between the first facial image and a second facial image, the updating unit determines whether to update the first facial image using the second facial image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Okuyama
  • Patent number: 12292505
    Abstract: A target object detection apparatus (20) includes an image generation unit (220) that generates, from three-dimensional information acquired by processing a reflection wave of an electromagnetic wave irradiated toward an inspection target, a two-dimensional image of the inspection target viewed from a predetermined direction; an area detection unit (230) that detects, from the two-dimensional image, each of at least two detection areas of detection target objects recognized by using at least two recognition means; and an identification unit (240) that identifies the detection target object, based on a positional relationship between the detected at least two detection areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Nomura
  • Patent number: 12293303
    Abstract: A learning device 100 includes correspondence inference unit which calculates outputs of predictors, which have learned for seen tasks or seen classes, for test input data, and infers correspondences between the calculated outputs and attribute information corresponding to an unseen task or an unseen class, and prediction unit which calculates a prediction output for the attribute information corresponding to the unseen task or the unseen class, using the inferred correspondences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Sakai, Yasuhiro Sogawa
  • Patent number: 12295017
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a method and related system and communication terminal devices, for assigning a radio resource allocation mode to a mobile radio communications device for device-to-device communication within a wireless communication network environment, the method including the step of identifying at the mobile radio communications device an initial radio resource allocation mode and further including the step of signalling from the network to the mobile radio communications device configuration data relating to an authorized radio resource allocation mode to be employed for the device-to-device communication and defining at least one operation requirement of the mobile radio communications device when employing the said authorized mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abdoulaye Bagayoko, Christian Mouton, Caroline Jactat, Lanto Rakotoharison, Philippe Delahaye
  • Patent number: 12292988
    Abstract: In order to efficiently perform security inspection, an inspection support apparatus includes a reception processing section configured to receive information related to a plurality of activity histories for security inspections performed by a plurality of inspection apparatuses, a specifying section configured to specify a conforming activity history meeting a predetermined correlation condition, from the plurality of activity histories, and a generating section configured to generate information related to the conforming activity history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Sonoda
  • Patent number: 12293172
    Abstract: A device inputs a first source code, which is source code of the software to be monitored; builds the first source code to generate a first binary; generates a first CFG based on the first binary; embeds a tamper detection feature and tamper detection feature calling functions in a first source code based on the first CFG to generate a second source code, builds a second source code to generate a second binary; generates a second CFG based on the second binary; creates an allowed list based on the second binary and the second CFG, and outputs the second binary and the allowed list. Here, in creating the allowed list, the monitoring range for the tamper detection feature calling functions is determined based on the second CFG, and a list of hash values of the monitoring range for the tamper detection feature calling functions is created as an allowed list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuto Hayaki, Norio Yamagaki
  • Patent number: 12294491
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an updating method, and a program that can properly update software even when a network function has a redundant configuration are provided. An information processing apparatus (1) includes: an information acquiring unit (2) configured to acquire redundant configuration information contained in network definition information from a MANO implementation apparatus performing instantiation of network functions by using the network definition information that contains the redundant configuration information being information about a redundant configuration of the network functions, and implementing MANO for the network functions; and an update control unit (3) configured to propose an update sequence of nodes in updating software of the nodes that execute processing for providing the network functions, based on the redundant configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12293526
    Abstract: A gaze estimation system includes: a display control unit that allows a point to look at where a target person looks at to be displayed to move in a predetermined moving aspect; a detection unit that detects a movement of eyes of the target person from an image of the target person; and a tracking determination unit that determines whether or not the eyes of the target person are following the point to look at on the basis of a relationship between the eye movement and a movement of the point to look at. According to such a gaze estimation system, the eye movement of the target person can be detected more appropriately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Takamoto
  • Patent number: 12294886
    Abstract: Traffic is allocated to a dedicated apparatus that performs a predetermined network function or a predetermined virtual network function corresponding to the predetermined network function of the dedicated apparatus, according to a service level set in correspondence with information relating to the traffic, and the traffic is forwarded to the dedicated apparatus or the predetermined virtual network function, based on a result of the allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Nakano, Hideo Hasegawa, Satoru Ishii
  • Patent number: 12292925
    Abstract: A display control device (10) includes an acquisition unit (11), a control unit (13), and an output unit (18). The acquisition unit (11) acquires video data captured by each of a plurality of image capturing devices from each of the plurality of image capturing devices. In response to detection of a target state of a monitoring target from each of two or more pieces of video data among a plurality of pieces of the video data, the control unit (13) allocates a time order of output to a display device to each of the target video data being the video data in which the target state is detected. The output unit (18) sequentially outputs the target video data to the display device, based on the allocated time order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jian Cheng
  • Patent number: 12293622
    Abstract: A collation system of the present invention includes imaging means for acquiring a captured image of a pre-passage side area with respect to each of gates arranged in parallel with each other, and collation means for performing a collation process on the captured image of the pre-passage side area for each of the gates, between a previously registered target and a target included in the captured image. The collation means performs the collation process on the basis of a target in the captured image corresponding to one of the gates and a target in the captured image corresponding to another one of the gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taketo Kochi, Kenji Saito
  • Patent number: 12293606
    Abstract: To provide a technology of more accurately detecting spoofing in face authentication, without increasing a scale of a device configuration and a burden on a user. A spoofing detection device includes a facial image sequence acquisition unit, a line-of-sight change detection unit, a presentation information display unit, and a spoofing determination unit. The facial image sequence acquisition unit acquires a facial image sequence indicating the face of a user. The line-of-sight change detection unit detects information about a temporal change in the line-of-sight from the facial image sequence. The presentation information display unit displays presentation information presented to the user as part of an authentication process. The spoofing determination unit determines the likelihood of the face indicated by the facial image sequence being spoofing on the basis of the information about the temporal change in the line-of-sight with respect to the presentation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Morishita