Patents Assigned to NEC
  • Publication number: 20220322056
    Abstract: A wireless system includes a terminal owned by a passenger who rides on a vehicle, a key device mounted on the vehicle and connected to the terminal by a first connection method, an authentication server for returning whether or not authentication is successful to the terminal in response to an authentication request from the terminal, and a wireless router connected to the terminal by a second connection method for performing communication from the terminal to the authentication server via a communication line. The wireless router includes a timer for disconnecting the connection with the communication line when the authentication by the authentication server is not performed within a predetermined time period, and when the authentication server authenticates the terminal, the timer is canceled and the connection with the communication line is continued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumihiro OSUMI
  • Publication number: 20220318660
    Abstract: A superconducting circuit and a quantum computer capable of implementing four-body interaction using a plurality of superconducting qubit circuits supplied with signals of the same frequency are provided. A superconducting circuit (1) includes four superconducting qubit circuits (10), a coupling circuit (20) directly connected to the four superconducting qubit circuits (10). Each of the superconducting qubit circuits (10) indicates a qubit by being in a first phase state or a second phase state, when the number of the superconducting qubit circuits (10) in the first phase state among the four superconducting qubit circuits (10) is an even number, an interaction term of Hamiltonian of the superconducting circuit (1) takes a first value, and when the number of the superconducting qubit circuits (10) in the first phase state among the four superconducting qubit circuits (10) is an odd number, the interaction term takes a second value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro HASEGAWA, Tsuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Yoshihito HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220319662
    Abstract: A rehabilitation work support apparatus, a rehabilitation work support method, and a program capable of efficiently managing patient's actual current ability values are provided. A rehabilitation work support apparatus (1) includes a change prediction unit (2) that predicts whether or not an actual current ability value of a patient during a rehabilitation period has changed from a latest ability value of that patient stored in a storage device based on an elapsed time from a time of an evaluation of the latest ability value of the patient stored in the storage device, and a change prediction output unit (3) that performs control so as to output a result of the prediction made by the change prediction unit (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Kosaka, Toshinori Hosoi, Masahiro Kubo, Yuan Luo, Shigemi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20220318890
    Abstract: An individual article management apparatus (2000) acquires product identification information (10) about a target product and preference information (30) about a user. The individual article management apparatus (2000) generates output information (40), based on the acquired preference information (30) and attribute information about each individual article of a target product determined by the acquired product identification information (10). The output information (40) associated with a product includes a captured image related to one or more individual articles of the product. The individual article management apparatus (2000) determines one or more individual articles having attribute information associated with the acquired preference information from among a plurality of individual articles of a product determined by the acquired identification information, and generates the output information including a captured image related to the determined individual article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220317311
    Abstract: A positioning assistance apparatus 1 that improves the positioning accuracy includes an estimation unit 2 that estimates a delay amount (ionosphere delay amount or a troposphere delay amount) using a model generated through machine learning (an ionosphere delay model or a troposphere delay model) and a degree-of-precision calculation unit 3 that calculates a degree of precision with respect to a delay amount (an ionosphere delay amount or a troposphere delay amount) calculated through positioning computation, using the estimated delay amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Solution innovators, Lid.
    Inventors: Ryo MIYAMOTO, Maho KASHIWAGI, Yuka KANDA
  • Patent number: 11463890
    Abstract: A location change managing device includes: a generation unit that, when a communication environment by wireless communication apparatuses changes from a first state to a second state, generates location candidates for the wireless communication apparatuses in the second state so as to be different from locations of the wireless communication apparatuses in the first state; an estimation unit that estimates communication quality pertaining to the location candidates by the wireless communication apparatuses in the first state; a calculation unit that calculates, with respect to the location candidates, a location change cost required for changing the locations of the wireless communication apparatuses from the locations in the first state to the location candidates; and a selection unit for selecting a specific location candidate, from among the location candidates, that satisfies criteria, the selection being made based on the communication quality pertaining to the location candidates and the location chang
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya Fujiwaka
  • Patent number: 11461756
    Abstract: An information processing system includes hardware, including a processor and a memory, an information processing apparatus and a terminal device. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a storing unit and a controlling unit. The receiving unit is implemented at least by the hardware and that receives, from a store terminal, information on merchandise purchased by a customer. The storing unit is implemented at least by the hardware and that stores at least one of a weight and a volume of the merchandise associated with the customer. The controlling unit is implemented at least by the hardware and that causes information including at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise purchased by the customer to be output as output information in response to a request from the external device. The terminal device requests the output information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kotaro Miyata
  • Patent number: 11463618
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided an apparatus (10) for providing information, the apparatus including an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a captured image obtained by imaging the vicinity of a display; an image analysis unit (12) that detects a position on the display, which is being viewed by a person extracted from the captured image; and a control unit (13) that divides a display area of the display into multiple sub-areas, displays content on each of the multiple sub-areas, and makes a change to the displaying on the sub-area that is being viewed by the person extracted from the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouhei Gotou
  • Patent number: 11463211
    Abstract: A Machine Type Communication Inter Working Function (MTC-IWF) entity (1) includes a trigger controller (11) and a notification service controller (12). The trigger controller (11) controls a device trigger of an MTC device (3) requested from an SCS entity (2). The notification service controller (12) is configured to send, to the SCS entity (2), a subscription request for a notification service including providing a PLMN (5) with management information which is collected outside (4) the PLMN (5) regarding the MTC device (3), and receive, from the SCS entity, a message containing the management information (2) when the subscription request has been accepted. Accordingly, it is possible to contribute to, for example, improvement in collaborative and cooperative operations between the PLMN and an M2M service layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Takanori Iwai
  • Patent number: 11463302
    Abstract: Provided is an information communication device which allows an appropriate transfer of communication data even in case of failure. This device includes: a communication unit which receives data transmitted from a device via a communication network; and a control unit which causes the communication unit to transmit data containing the data received to a first information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Haruki Katou
  • Patent number: 11461463
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations includes: extracting, based on a first data extraction policy being a policy for extracting first processing data to be used for counting a first frequency related to a transmission source from communication data, the first processing data from the communication data; counting, based on a first counting policy being a policy for counting the first frequency relating to the transmission source in the first processing data, the first frequency related to the transmission source in the first processing data; and extracting, based on a first transmission-source extraction policy being a policy for extracting the transmission source and the first frequency, the transmission source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ayaka Samejima
  • Patent number: 11461157
    Abstract: A peripheral device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and a processor. The processor performs operations. The operations includes: detecting a failure related to the peripheral device and notifying a host device of occurrence of the failure; transmitting the failure information to the host device when failure information relating to the failure is requested by the host device after notifying of the occurrence of the failure, storing the failure information in the memory when there is no request for the failure information from the host device, and reading the failure information from the memory and transmitting the read failure information to the host device when the stored failure information is requested by the host device; and initializing the peripheral device after storing the failure information in the memory when initialization is instructed by the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahito Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 11463235
    Abstract: An encryption device includes an encryption unit that encrypts blocks, obtained by dividing a plaintext, with use of an auxiliary variable, a partial checksum generation unit that generates a plurality of partial checksums on the basis of the blocks obtained by dividing the plaintext, a meta checksum generation unit that generates a meta checksum on the basis of the partial checksums generated by the partial checksum generation unit, and a tag generation unit that generates a tag to be used for detecting tampering, on the basis of the meta checksum generated by the meta checksum generation unit. The encryption device outputs a ciphertext encrypted by the encryption unit and the tag generated by the tag generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nec Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Minematsu
  • Patent number: 11463267
    Abstract: A network function virtualization system, comprises a request receiving unit that receives a request to a certificate of at least one of data exchanging parties; a private key generator that generates a first private key information using a second private key information stored in a hardware-based isolated secure execution environment, in response to the request; a public key extractor that extracts a public key information of the first private key information; a public key information storage unit that stores the public key information; and a verifying unit that is accessible from the request receiving unit and verifies the certificate using the public key information corresponding to the certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pradheepkumar Singaravelu, Sivabalan Arumugam, Anand Prasad, Hironori Ito
  • Patent number: 11461733
    Abstract: A behavior analysis device includes an approach information acquisition unit configured to acquire approach information indicating whether or not a person has approached a shelf on which a plurality of goods are displayed, a determination unit configured to determine as stockout information a position of a stockout item which is out of stock among the plurality of goods displayed on the shelf and a stockout of the stockout item, and an analysis unit configured to perform behavior analysis of the person on the basis of the approach information and the stockout information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kobayashi, Shigetsu Saito
  • Patent number: 11462008
    Abstract: A system acquiring data for phenotyping on a farm field where crops are bred. The device includes: an information storage unit storing farm field information, an imaging condition, and aerial images of the farm field linked with imaging condition; a classification unit classifying the aerial images into a plurality of image groups having different imaging altitude ranges on the basis of an imaging altitude included in the imaging condition; an image processing unit creating image-processed data from at least one of the image groups and imaging condition and analyzes a trait of in the farm field from the image-processed data; a visualization unit visualizing image-processed data obtained in the image processing unit; a processed information storage unit storing, as processed information, data obtained in the image processing unit and visualization unit; and an output unit outputting data obtained in the image processing unit and the visualization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Kazuki Sekiya, Shigeharu Taniguchi, Toshiyuki Kamiya, Hiroaki Ochiai, Yurika Nagoshi, Wei Guo, Yue Mu, Masayuki Hirafuji, Seishi Ninomiya, Daisuke Takata
  • Patent number: 11461344
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data processing method, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The data processing method comprises: obtaining a model representing causal relations among a plurality of variables based on a set of observation data of the plurality of variables; determining, based on the obtained model, a first and a second variables having direct causal relation in the plurality of variables; determining whether the first and second variables are independent from each other; and in response to the first and second variables being independent from each other, deleting the direct causal relation between the first and second variables from the obtained model. With the data processing method of the present disclosure, pseudo-causes can be removed effectively so that causal relations among a plurality of variables can be represented more accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chunchen Liu, Wenjuan Wei, Lu Feng
  • Patent number: 11460900
    Abstract: A video display apparatus includes a power source that supplies first electric power and supplies second electric power that is different from the first electric power to an external device, a current detector that detects a current value when the second electric power is supplied to the external device, an electric power supply controller that includes a plurality of electric power supply modes and performs control that supplies electric power corresponding to one electric power supply mode among the plurality of electric power supply modes to the external device as the second electric power, and a controller that performs control that limits the first electric power when the current value detected by the current detector reaches a predetermined first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuta Nagano
  • Patent number: 11457839
    Abstract: A fingerprint reading device that can suppress a position shift of a finger, that includes: a placement portion on which a finger is placed; a reading face; a pair of light sources provided on the placement portion and that irradiate the finger with lights; and a reading unit that captures and reads a fingerprint of the finger in contact with the reading face in accordance with lights scattered in the finger and emitted from a surface of the finger, the pair of light sources are provided on both ends of the reading face that are opposed to each other in a width direction of the placement portion and have light guiding parts formed in a front-back direction of the placement portion, respectively, and the light guiding parts are formed so as to extend up to above the ends of the reading face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koda, Teruyuki Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11460573
    Abstract: A synthetic aperture radar signal processing device 10 includes a persistent scatterer extraction unit 11 which extracts, from time-series observation data related to an observation target observed from a plurality of observation directions by a radar, a plurality of persistent scatterers in respective observation directions; a persistent scatterer grouping unit 12 which groups the plurality of persistent scatterers in each of the observation directions; a group selection unit 13 which selects, in each of the observation directions, a persistent scatterer group that includes the persistent scatterers included in an analysis target from among groups generated by grouping; and a displacement speed processing unit 14 which synthesize displacement speeds of the selected persistent scatterer groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Ikefuji, Taichi Tanaka, Osamu Hoshuyama