Patents Assigned to NEC
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Publication number: 20250140049Abstract: An object is to provide a management system capable of preventing efficiency of work using a mobile body from reducing. The management system according to the present disclosure includes: acquisition means (11) for acquiring information regarding work carried out by the mobile body and a time when the work is carried out; specification means (12) for specifying a prohibited area which a person is not allowed to enter in accordance with work; and control means (13) for performing control for regulating the entry of a person into the specified prohibited area in accordance with the time when the work is carried out.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiromi MUTO, Rieko UENO, Hidekazu NAGAOKA
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INFORMATION OUTPUT APPARATUS, INFORMATION OUTPUT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20250139143Abstract: In order to achieve that a mode in which information is provided is changed for each person, an information output apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a third acquisition unit, and an output unit. The first acquisition unit acquires subject information including a text. The second acquisition unit acquires attribute information of a user. The third acquisition unit inputs the attribute information and the subject information to a generative model, and acquires, from the generative model, provision information that is information based on the subject information and is to be provided to the user. The output unit outputs the provision information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shinnosuke NISHIMOTO, Genki KUSANO -
Publication number: 20250142425Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media for communication. A terminal device receives, from a first network device, a conditional reconfiguration indicating that a subsequent conditional cell change is enabled. If the subsequent conditional cell change to a candidate cell is to be performed after a cell change or addition is performed, the terminal device determines a first counter value, the first counter value being different from a second counter value used for the cell change or addition, and determines, based on the first counter value, a security key for communication with a second network device providing the candidate cell. In this way, a security key is determined for a subsequent conditional cell change.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Da WANG, Lin LIANG, Gang WANG
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Publication number: 20250142199Abstract: A method (300) for adjusting a detection area of an image to be captured by an image capturing device (402) comprises: detecting person appearances in the detection area from input images previously captured by the image capturing device (402) over a period of time (302); generating a map corresponding to the detection area based on the person appearances, wherein the map comprises a measure of the person appearances detected in each of a plurality of portions of the detection area across the input images (304); determining if a ratio of unutilized portions to the plurality of portions exceeds a threshold ratio (306); and adjusting the detection area such that a focus area within the detection area comprising a part of utilized portions is positioned at a center of the adjusted detection area of the image to be captured in response to the determination (308).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hui Lam ONG, Xinlai JIANG, Hong Yen ONG, Wei Jian PEH
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Publication number: 20250142018Abstract: A video processing system includes: an object movement information acquiring means for detecting a moving object moving in a plurality of segment regions from video data obtained by shooting a monitoring target area, and acquiring movement segment region information as object movement information, the movement segment region information representing segment regions where the detected moving object has moved; an object movement information and video data storing means for storing the object movement information in association with the video data corresponding to the object movement information; a retrieval condition inputting means for inputting a sequence of the segment regions as a retrieval condition; and a video data retrieving means for retrieving the object movement information in accordance with the retrieval condition and outputting video data stored in association with the retrieved object movement information, the object movement information being stored by the object movement information and video dType: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Yasufumi HIRAKAWA
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Publication number: 20250139830Abstract: A surveillance apparatus (100) includes: a position information acquisition unit (102) that acquires suitable position information allowing determination of a suitable installation position of an image capture apparatus that surveilles a surveillance target position; an image acquisition unit (104) that acquires an image in which an area where the image capture apparatus may be installed is captured; a determination unit (106) that determines the suitable installation position in the image by using the suitable position information; and a display processing unit (108) that causes a display unit to display the determined suitable installation position by superimposition on the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko Takahashi, Takami Sato
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Publication number: 20250139296Abstract: A data storage apparatus, including: encoding part; and falsification correction part; wherein the encoding part includes code generation section that generates, based on original data and falsification frequency, a code which enables correction of the original data, and includes a tag generation section that generates a first tag which enables detection of falsification of the original data, based on the original data; wherein the encoding part stores the code and the first tag in a storage part; and wherein the falsification correction part includes a falsified portion determination section that retrieves a falsified code and the first tag from the storage part, generates a second tag based on the falsified code, and determines a falsified portion(s) in the falsified code by using the first tag and the second tag, and includes a data correction section that outputs corrected original data by using the determined falsified portion(s) and the falsified code.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Isamu FURUYA, Akiko MUKAI, Kazuhiko MINEMATSU
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Publication number: 20250139826Abstract: Provided is a self-position estimation system including: a reference environment point cloud storage means for storing a reference environment point cloud for self-position estimation; a point cloud acquisition means for acquiring a short-distance point cloud in a wide field of view, and a long-distance point cloud farther away than the short-distance point cloud and in a narrow field of view; a rough estimation means for performing rough estimation on a self-position by registering the short-distance point cloud with respect to the reference environment point cloud; and a precision estimation means for performing precision estimation on the self-position by registering the long-distance point cloud with respect to the reference environment point cloud by using, as an initial condition, a rough estimation result by the rough estimation means.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Hidemi NOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20250142210Abstract: An information processing system includes: a velocity setting unit that sets a focus change velocity, which is a velocity for changing a focal length of a camera, on the basis of at least one of information about a target and information about the camera that images the target; a focus control unit that controls the camera to change the focal length of the camera a plurality of times at the focus change velocity; and an imaging control unit that controls the camera to perform imaging with a first focal length and a second focal length. According to such an information processing system, a high-quality image in focus can be captured.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Ryo YAMAKABE
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Publication number: 20250141555Abstract: A wavelength-tunable optical transmission unit is configured to be able to transmit a channel setting optical signal including first channel information indicating a channel of the first channel setting optical signal. When receiving a channel setting optical signal from another optical transceiver, a wavelength-tunable optical reception unit forwards second channel information indicating a channel of the channel setting optical signal. A control unit includes an arithmetic unit that sets the channel to be used for the transmission by the wavelength-tunable optical transmission unit and the channel to be used for the reception by the wavelength-tunable optical reception unit, and a non-volatile storage unit. The arithmetic unit writes, to the non-volatile storage unit, only information indicating the channel determined to be used for the transmission by the wavelength-tunable optical transmission unit and the channel determined to be used for the reception by the wavelength-tunable optical reception unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Masaki OE
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Publication number: 20250140390Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, etc. capable of supporting mutual assistance among the members of a group (optimizing the manner of mutual assistance). The information processing apparatus includes: a target detecting section for detecting, based on the state of a member of a group, a target member in need of care provided by one or more other members of the group, the state being inferred from an image of the member; and a notifying section for notifying each member of the group of the target member detected. This information processing apparatus also makes it possible to support decision-making in the mutual assistance among the members.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Junichi SHIMOMURA, Toshiko Osaka
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Publication number: 20250139221Abstract: This information communication system comprises a communication instrument and a verification device that verifies the authenticity of the communication instrument, the information communication system also comprising: a verification means for verifying the authenticity of each of a plurality of apparatuses managed by the communication instrument; and a notification means that, when an abnormality regarding the authenticity of one of the plurality of apparatuses is detected, issues a report on the abnormality of the apparatus to the verification device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Atsushi NAGATA
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Publication number: 20250141548Abstract: A communication control device that includes a light transmission condition generation unit that generates a light transmission condition for transmitting the first spatial light signal including the transmission signal toward a first address, a light transmission control unit that controls a light transmitting device to transmit the first spatial light signal toward the first address, a signal acquisition unit that acquires a reception signal included in the second spatial light signal that has received the second spatial light signal, a signal analysis unit that analyzes the reception signal and extracts a second address in a second transmission coordinate system, the second address being included in the reception signal, and a signal generation unit that generates the transmission signal including the first address, generate the transmission signal including the first address and the second address according to a result of analyzing the reception signal, and output the generated transmission signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Koya TAKATA, Hisashi Mizumoto, Fujio Okumura
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Publication number: 20250139170Abstract: Use of two types of machine-learned generative models is optimized. An information processing apparatus includes: an accepting section which accepts an input of a query; a determining section which determines a generative model that is among a first generative model included in the information processing apparatus and a second generative model included in another apparatus and that is to be caused to generate content in accordance with the query; and a presenting section which presents, to a user, the content generated according to determination by the determining section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shinnosuke NISHIMOTO, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Masahiro IWADARE, Akio YOSHIOKA
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Publication number: 20250141628Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an effective mechanism for reference signal (RS) configuration. In this solution, the terminal device determines at least one cyclic shift (CS) for an SRS transmission with four antenna ports, the at least one CS comprising: at least one first CS and at least one second CS, where the at least one second CS is different from the at least one first CS. Further, the terminal device transmits, to a network device and based on the at least one first CS and the at least one second CS, the SRS transmission over a comb-structure resource with a comb value of eight. In this way, the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) performance is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukai GAO, Peng GUAN, Lin LIANG, Gang WANG
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Publication number: 20250139341Abstract: A high-level synthesis apparatus generating a circuit description in response to input of a behavioral description describing the behavior of a circuit includes: a hazard detection circuit adding unit that adds a hazard detection circuit determining the presence or absence of occurrence of hazard to a pipeline circuit generated in accordance with the behavioral description; and a circuit description generating unit that generates the circuit description describing the pipeline circuit with the hazard detection circuit added by the hazard detection circuit adding unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Wataru TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20250141562Abstract: A receiving circuit coherent-receives a signal being transmitted from a transmitter via a transmission path. An equalization signal processing circuit performs equalization signal processing with respect to the reception signal being coherent-received. A filter group includes a plurality of filters being connected in series along a signal path of the reception signal. A coefficient updating means adaptively controls filter coefficients of at least some filters of the plurality of filters, by using an error back propagation method. Among the plurality of filters, at least some of intermediate filters convolve the filter coefficients with respect to an input signal vector, and output a calculation result of the convolution and a calculation result of the convolution that is acquired by calculation at a previous time, to a filter in a following stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Manabu Arikawa
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Publication number: 20250134346Abstract: An endoscopic examination assistance device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire an endoscopic image captured by an imaging unit of an endoscope and imaging unit position information indicating a position of the imaging unit of the endoscope within a lumen at a time when the endoscopic image is captured; detect a lesion from the endoscopic image; determine whether it is an insertion step for inserting the endoscope to a turnaround point in the lumen or a removal step for removing the endoscope from a turnaround point in the lumen; and cause a notification device to give notification according to a positional relationship between the imaging unit position information and lesion position information indicating a position of a lesion, in a case where a result of the determination indicates the removal step.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kenichi KAMIJO, Ikuma TAKAHASHI, Motoyasu OKUTSU, Shota OHTSUKA, Tatsu KIMURA
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Publication number: 20250140384Abstract: In a video editing device, a video acquisition means acquires an endoscopic video taken by an endoscope. A first timing acquisition means acquires a first timing at which a lesion is detected from the endoscopic video. A second timing acquisition means acquires a second timing at which an examiner instructs photographing based on the endoscopic video. An editing means generates an edited video by extracting, from the endoscopic video, a partial video of a predetermined time period before and after a timing corresponding to at least one of the first timing and the second timing, and output the edited video.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kenichi KAMIJO, Shota Ohtsuka, Tatsu Kimura, Atsushi Marugame, Masahiro Saikou, Ryosaku Shino
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IMAGE MATCHING APPARATUS, IMAGE MATCHING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20250139939Abstract: An image matching apparatus acquires a ground-view image, an aerial-view image, and class information. The class information indicates a distribution of classes of objects on the ground-view image, the aerial-view image, or both. The image matching apparatus-extracts features from the ground-view image to compute a ground image feature, extracts features from the aerial-view image to compute an aerial image feature, and extracts features from the class information to compute a class feature. The image matching apparatus determines whether or not the ground-view image and the aerial-view image match each other based on the ground image feature, the aerial image feature, and the class feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Royston RODRIGUES, Masahiro Tani