Patents Assigned to NEC
  • Patent number: 12374117
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable medium for object detection coverage estimation are provided. The system for object detection coverage estimation includes a camera and a processing means. The processing means is coupled to the camera to receive image data acquired by the camera, the image data including a detected object. The processing means is configured to determine a spatial coverage of the detected object based on detected object metadata associated with the detected object in the image data received from the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Lam Ong, Satoshi Yamazaki, Wen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250240609
    Abstract: It is possible to give a notification for coping with a factor that causes a bottleneck of a communication problem in a service provision system that provides a service from a provision source server to a mobile object. A communication control system or a communication control apparatus identifies a bottleneck of a communication problem in a service provision system that provides a service from a provision source server to a mobile object. A communication control system or a communication control apparatus decides a control method in accordance with the bottleneck identified by the identifying and notifies a notification destination serving as a main control entity that executes control by the control method of the control method decided by the decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei KOBAYASHI, Yusuke SHINOHARA, Takanori IWAI, Hayato ITSUMI, Koichi NIHEI, Kazuki OGATA, Kei YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20250238524
    Abstract: A backdoor detecting apparatus includes a detecting part that detects a source and a sink from a control flow graph of a program, wherein the source is a function which accepts external input, and the sink is a predetermined function regarded as impacting on a machine; an extracting part that extracts Function-Operation Flow from the control flow graph, wherein the Function-Operation Flow is an execution path from the source leading to the sink; and a prioritizing part that prioritizes the Function-Operation Flow based on a level of threat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nakul GHATE, Yusuke Shimada, Kohei Tatara
  • Publication number: 20250239084
    Abstract: An object tracking apparatus, method and computer-readable medium for detecting an object from output information of sensors, tracking the object on a basis of a plurality of detection results, generating tracking information of the object represented in a common coordinate system, outputting the tracking information, and detecting the object on a basis of the tracking information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoma OAMI, Hiroyoshi MIYANO
  • Publication number: 20250237825
    Abstract: To provide an optical module and a communication apparatus that can be mounted at high density, an optical module according to the present disclosure includes: a substrate; an integrated circuit having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and being attached to the substrate in such a way that the first surface faces the substrate; an optical component being attached to the substrate; an optical fiber being connected to the optical component; and a base material portion being attached to the integrated circuit and holding at least a part of the optical fiber, and the optical fiber includes a first portion and a second portion passing through the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuuji MINOTA
  • Publication number: 20250240510
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a camera that captures a target; an illuminator that applies illumination light in response to capturing is performed by the camera; and an illumination range change unit that changes an illumination range of the illuminator based on a position of the target. According to the information processing apparatus, the target can be properly illuminated with the illumination light based on the position of the target, and it is thus possible to acquire the image of the target, more properly, even when the position of the target in the capturing is changed, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro OOMINE, Daisuke SHIMADA, Katsumi KAYAMA, Yuta KOMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20250239370
    Abstract: An information processing device 100 of the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit 121 that acquires a model that is generated for each elapsed period, and has learned by machine learning to output a measure for a human by receiving input of a plurality of types of feature value representing a condition of the human; a collection unit 122 that collects first output that is obtained when a predetermined number of types of feature value are input to the model of each elapsed period, and second output that is obtained when some types of feature value in the predetermined number of types of feature value are input to the model of each elapsed period; and a setting unit 123 that sets, on the basis of the first output and the second output, types to be associated with the model of each elapsed period. Thereby, the information processing device 100 can be used for assistance of decision-making by a user, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki KOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20250238955
    Abstract: The present invention provides an estimation apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a posted image to be processed being posted on the Internet; a related area determination unit (12) that determines a related area of a target contributor who posted the posted image to be processed; a selection unit (13) that selects a reference image to be collated with the posted image to be processed, based on a determination result of the related area of the target contributor; and a location estimation unit (14) that estimates a location indicated by the posted image to be processed, based on a collation result between the selected reference image and the posted image to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro TANI, Kazufumi Kojima, Keisuke Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20250236642
    Abstract: As a technique that can be used for cancer immunotherapy of adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), provided is a pharmaceutical composition for treatment or prevention of adult T-cell leukemia, the pharmaceutical composition containing a peptide consisting of an amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 68.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, The University of Tokyo, University of the Ryukyus, KURUME UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kaoru UCHIMARU, Kazumi NAKANO, Yoshiko YOSHIHARA, Takuya FUKUSHIMA, Yuetsu TANAKA, Kennosuke KARUBE, Hiroaki MASUZAKI, Koichi OSHIMA, Hiroaki MIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20250239068
    Abstract: A video processing system (10) includes an image quality control unit (11) that controls an image quality of a gaze region including a gaze target in an input video, a recognition unit (12) that performs recognition processing of recognizing the gaze target on the video in which the image quality of the gaze region is controlled, a prediction unit (13) that predicts a position of the gaze target in a video subsequent to the video on which the recognition processing has been performed, based on extraction information extracted from the recognition processing, and a determination unit (14) that determines the gaze region for which the image quality control means (11) controls an image quality in the subsequent video, based on the predicted position of the gaze target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori BABAZAKI, Katsuhiko TAKAHASHI, Jun PIAO, Ryuhei ANDO, Takanori IWAI, Koichi NIHEI, Florian BEYE, Hayato ITSUMI
  • Publication number: 20250238523
    Abstract: An attack route extraction system includes a functional part which extracts one or more attack steps that can be performed by a system to be diagnosed according to configuration information of the system to be diagnosed; a cost setting part which sets a cost to the attack step based on at least one piece of information of threat information, attack content information, countermeasure possibility information based on countermeasure information corresponding to an attack method; and an attack route extraction part which determines a priority of each attack route acquired by concatenating the one or more attack steps from an intrusion point to an attack target of the system to be diagnosed based on the cost of the attack step set by the cost setting part and extracts the one or more attack route in a descending order of the priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Inokuchi
  • Publication number: 20250238576
    Abstract: An automated system design device includes: a means for accepting a system requirement; and a means for deriving a concrete system configuration by applying a predefined concretization pattern for each configuration element based on the system requirement, wherein the means for deriving a system configuration in a case where the multi-element is a single configuration element that represents a plurality of configuration elements of a same type, in concretizing the multi-element, advances the concretization of the multi-element without decomposing it into individual configuration elements to thereby design a redundant system configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki WATANABE, Takayuki KURODA, Satoshi AKABORI
  • Publication number: 20250240173
    Abstract: An certificate issuer generates auxiliary data using a signing key and first biometric information, generates a certificate including a verification key corresponding to the signing key, and transmits the certificate and the auxiliary data to a certificate holder, which obtains the second biometric, receives the certificate and the auxiliary data transmitted from the certificate issuer, generates, using the second biometric information and the auxiliary data, a signature, and transmit a certificate presentation and the signature to a certificate verifier, which receives the certificate presentation and the signature from the certificate holder and verifies the signature using the verification key include d in the certificate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto TAMIYA, Saki OTSUKI, Yoshitomo WARASHINA, Toshiyuki ISSHIKI
  • Publication number: 20250239046
    Abstract: By processing an image in which a plurality of articles (such as products) placed on a shelf are captured, an image processing unit (120) determines the article name (such as the product name) of each of the plurality of articles captured in the image. Determining an article name also includes determining identification information tied to the article name. When a specific condition is satisfied for an article the article name of which is indeterminable by the image processing unit (120) (hereinafter described as an undetermined article), an article inference unit (130) infers the article name of the undetermined article to be the article name of an article positioned adjacent to the undetermined article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yaeko YONEZAWA, Kaito HORITA, Takaaki IWABUCHI, Akiko KUBO
  • Publication number: 20250238415
    Abstract: To correct an error related to an attribute of data with higher accuracy without requiring large amounts of training data, an information processing apparatus (1) includes: a data obtaining section (11) that obtains target data; an error attribute identification section (12) that identifies an error attribute that is an attribute including an error, from among a plurality of attributes contained in processed data obtained by applying a predetermined process to the target data; a reference attribute identification section (13) that identifies a reference attribute that is an attribute similar to the error attribute and contained in the target data; a prediction section (14) that predicts a correction related to the error attribute; and a revision section (15) that revises the correction with reference to the reference attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Enomoto, Yuyang Dong, Masafumi Oyamada, Takuma Nozawa
  • Publication number: 20250238491
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of reducing the possibility of contact between a user and a member in authentication of the user. An information processing apparatus (100) includes a detection unit (101) that detects a hand presenting a reading target object including identification information of a user, and a reading unit (102) that reads biometric information from an image obtained by imaging the detected hand and reads identification information from the reading target object presented by the hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Misuzu SHINGAI, Katsuya NAKASHIMA, Honami SUZUKI, Takeo TAMURA, Masatoshi SUGISAWA, Shinji KUBOTANI
  • Publication number: 20250239835
    Abstract: A wavelength-tunable light source device includes an optical amplifier, an optical waveguide provided with a wavelength-tunable filter, a mount on which the optical amplifier and the optical waveguide are mounted and a controller which controls the optical waveguide and the mount, and the controller controls the temperature of the mount such that the wavelength of a ripple caused by internal reflection matches a predetermined wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Mizutani, Shigeru Mieda, Naoki Kobayashi, Masaki Oe
  • Publication number: 20250238928
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes an image processing unit (110) and a risk information generation unit (120). The image processing unit (110) acquires and processes an image generated by an image capture apparatus (20), that is, an image including a plurality of persons. As an example, the image processing unit (110) sets a person being at least part of the plurality of persons as a reference person and computes a distance (first distance) between the reference person and the closest person to the reference person. By using the first distance, the risk information generation unit (120) generates infection risk information in a target region being an image capture target of the image capture apparatus (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku NAKANO, Shoji NISHIMURA, Yoshitaka HIGETA, Youtarou NODA, Shigeki SHINODA, Yuzo SENDA, Shin TOMINAGA, Masumi ISHIKAWA, Daisuke IKEFUJI, Kana TAKIZAWA, Kenichi ISHII, Yoshiyuki SATOU, Eishi ARITA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI, Narumitsu NOTOMI, Aki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20250237818
    Abstract: Provided is a multicore fiber transmission line in which a plurality of MCFs including a first MCF and a second MCF are connected in series with respect to each core, wherein cores of the first MCF and cores of the second MCF to be connected are selected in such a way that a variation in loss among a plurality of cores to be connected between the first MCF and the second MCF is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250238826
    Abstract: A generation unit of the purchase action analysis apparatus generates, using purchase history information including an entity who has purchased a product, a timing at which the product has been purchased, and a purchase amount of the product, purchase status information including information about a total purchase amount that is a total amount of purchase amount by the entity in each analysis unit period. An identification unit identifies, as a change factor, a product or a product classification that is a factor of a change in the purchase status of the entity whose purchase status has changed, using the purchase history information and the purchase status information. The output unit outputs change factor information indicating the identified change factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya KOUYAMA, Motonori IKEUCHI, Takahiro MURAMATSU