Patents Assigned to NEC
  • Patent number: 12198411
    Abstract: Teacher and student models output inference results for training data. A loss calculation unit calculates a total loss using at least one of (1) a loss obtained by multiplying a difference between a true value and a student model output by a weight increasing as a confidence of the teacher model output is lower, (2) a loss obtained by multiplying a difference between the true value and the student model output by a weight increasing as a difference between the true value and the teacher model output is greater, and (3) a loss obtained by multiplying a difference between the teacher and student model outputs by weights increasing as the difference between the teacher and student model outputs is greater and increasing as the difference between the true value and the teacher model output is smaller. An update part updates parameters of the student model based on the total loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Asuka Ishii
  • Patent number: 12200748
    Abstract: When a secondary cell of carrier aggregation has been activated, a radio terminal (2) communicates with a radio access network (RAN) node (1) in an active downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) selected from among a plurality of DL BWPs for the secondary cell. In addition, when the secondary cell is in a dormant state, the radio terminal (2) transmits to the RAN node (1), via a primary cell or another activated serving cell of the carrier aggregation, a channel state information report for a target DL BWP selected from among the plurality of DL BWPs. It is thus, for example, possible to allow the radio terminal to perform channel a state information measurement on a dormant SCell that has been configured with a plurality of BWPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12199674
    Abstract: Provided are a light transmission device and a control method of same which can switch a processing sequence according to a vendor of an optical module to be mounted thereon. The light transmission device, which is provided with ports on which optical modules which transmit an optical signal are mounted, is additionally provided with: a storage means for holding a table in which processing sequences respectively corresponding to pieces of identification information about the optical modules are stored; and a control means for acquiring pieces of identification information about the mounted optical modules, determining, with reference to the table, a processing sequence corresponding to the identification information about the acquired optical module, and executing the determined processing sequence for the optical module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Seki
  • Patent number: 12200352
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus (10) including: an obtainment unit (12) which obtains a reference image; an extraction unit (13) which extracts, from a storage unit (11) which stores a provision image generated by a plurality of provision-image generation cameras installed in a facility, the provision image including a person included in the reference image; and a display control unit (14) which causes a display to display the provision image extracted by the extraction unit (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuaki Kawase
  • Patent number: 12200493
    Abstract: The method includes: generating, by a source base station, a UE specific Anonymity Challenge Parameter to the UE based on sensitive information from the UE, cell information, source base station information and initial Anonymity Challenge Parameter assigned to the particular base station; and sending, by the source base station, a measurement command message including the UE specific Anonymity Challenge Parameter to the UE. Further, the method includes receiving, by the source base station, an Anonymity Challenge Parameter acknowledgement as a response from the UE; and negotiating, by the source base station, the UE specific Anonymity Challenge Parameter with the UE to prevent the UE from attaching to the false base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rohini Rajendran, Pradheep Kumar Singaravelu, Nivedya Parambath Sasi, Takahito Yoshizawa, Sivabalan Arumugam, Anand Raghawa Prasad
  • Patent number: 12197300
    Abstract: A method for execution of a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocol among a number of participating nodes of a network includes: receiving, by a primary node of the BFT protocol, a transaction request, applying, by the primary node, a data dissemination protocol for distributing the transaction request among the participating nodes via a data-plane of the network, and generating, by the primary node, a hash of the transaction request and requesting consensus among the participating nodes via a control-plane of the network using the hash of the transaction request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sebastien Andreina, Ghassan Karame
  • Patent number: 12198361
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures for anti-spoofing 3D face reconstruction using infrared structured light that advantageously reconstructs 3D face structures for facial recognition and detect face surface material(s) such that human skin may be effectively distinguished from artifacts thereby providing additional security for facial recognition including immunity from 2D/3D print attacks including face masks and special make-ups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yue Tian, Ting Wang, Shengtao Sun
  • Patent number: 12196545
    Abstract: A surface property estimation system includes an image acquisition means for acquiring an image of a surface of an object, an estimation means for estimating a surface property from the acquired image by using an estimation model obtained through machine learning with use of an image of a surface of an object and a surface property shown by the image as training data, an extraction means for extracting, from the acquired image, a feature amount unique to the image, and a registration means for storing the estimated surface property and the extracted feature amount in a storage means in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Rui Ishiyama, Kengo Makino, Takashi Shibata
  • Patent number: 12200483
    Abstract: In order to provide a control apparatus that enhances security of a radio communication system run by a user, the control apparatus including an acquisition section and a registration section, the acquisition section being configured to acquire subscriber information in which at least authentication information is encrypted, and the registration section being configured to register the acquired subscriber information in a database included in a core network. The control apparatus may further include an authentication section configured to decrypt the encrypted authentication information, and use the decrypted authentication information and authentication information included in a connection request from a terminal apparatus to the core network to authenticate the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Tsuoka, Tetsuo Yama, Akihisa Kurashima
  • Patent number: 12198397
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for action localization. The method includes converting one or more video frames into person keypoints and object keypoints. The method further includes embedding position, timestamp, instance, and type information with the person keypoints and object keypoints to obtain keypoint embeddings. The method also includes predicting, by a hierarchical transformer encoder using the keypoint embeddings, human actions and bounding box information of when and where the human actions occur in the one or more video frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Asim Kadav, Farley Lai, Hans Peter Graf, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 12198375
    Abstract: There is provided a computer implemented method of controlling movement of an object, comprising: accessing a current image of a surface relative to an object at a current location, wherein an imaging sensor is set to capture the current image depicting an overlap with a previously captured image of the surface when the object was at a previous location, registering the current image to the overlap of the previously captured image, computing the current location of the object relative to a reference location according to an analysis of the registration, and feeding the current location into a controller for controlling movement of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi Lev, Hagai Har-Gil
  • Patent number: 12198354
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes receiving an image of a target subject; determining a direction in response to the receipt of the image, the direction being one in which the target subject was likely to move during a time period in the past or is likely to move during a time period in the future; determining a target area within which another image of the target subject can be expected to appear based on the determined direction; and determining if a portion of a subsequent image is outside the determined target area to identify if the subsequent image is one relating to the target subject, wherein the subsequent image is one taken during the time period in the past or during the time period in the future.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Lam Ong, Hong Yen Ong, Xinlai Jiang
  • Patent number: 12200819
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to providing a gateway device that can properly page a communication terminal managed by a control device even if the control device loses information on the communication terminal when the control device recovers from a failure that has occurred therein. A gateway device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a storage unit (11) configured to store temporarily allocated identification information temporarily allocated to a communication terminal and an eDRX parameter associated with the communication terminal, and a transceiver (12) configured to, in a case in which downlink data destined for a communication terminal managed by a mobility management device (20) is received after a failure has occurred in the mobility management device (20), transmit a notification message with the temporarily allocated identification information and the eDRX parameter set therein to the mobility management device (20) or another mobility management device (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tamura, Kouji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12198670
    Abstract: A filtering device is configured to estimate the characteristics of noise superposed on measurement data relating to the status of a controlled machine based on the status information representing the status of a controlled machine, thus adjusting the filtering to eliminate noise based on the estimated noise characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Ohta, Hiroshi Yoshida, Tatsuya Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 12199638
    Abstract: In order to provide an information concealing apparatus, an information reconfiguring apparatus, an information concealing system, an information concealing method, an information reconfiguring method, an information concealing program, and an information reconfiguring program to reduce information leakage risks, an information concealing system includes an information concealing apparatus, and an information reconfiguring apparatus. The information concealing apparatus generates a codeword capable of error-correcting concealment-side input information, generates noise including a predetermined error, and generates concealment information capable to reconfigure the concealment-side input information, by adding the concealment-side input information and the noise to the codeword. The information reconfiguring apparatus reconfigures the codeword from the concealment information, based on reconfiguration-side input information and the concealment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Tamiya, Toshiyuki Isshiki
  • Patent number: 12198436
    Abstract: A display system (1) includes a display (D1) installed on a first road (R1) and a camera (C1) for capturing an image of a second road (R2) being narrower than the first road (R1), in which the display (D1) acquires and displays an image generated by the camera (C1) or a display data using the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Yamazaki, Ryuji Wakakusa
  • Patent number: 12198331
    Abstract: Methods and systems for training a machine learning model include generating pairs of training pixel patches from a dataset of training images, each pair including a first patch representing a part of a respective training image, and a second patch, centered at the same location as the first, representing a larger part of the training image, being resized to a same size of as the first patch. A detection model is trained using the first pixel patches, to detect and locate cells in the images. A classification model is trained using the first pixel patches, to classify cells according to whether the detected cells are cancerous, based on cell location information generated by the detection model. A segmentation model is trained using the second pixel patches, to locate and classify cancerous arrangements of cells in the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Cosatto, Kyle Gerard
  • Publication number: 20250014392
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects a target-to-target distance between an imaging target and a light irradiation unit that irradiates light for scanning the imaging target; and a scan control unit that starts irradiation with the light by the light irradiation unit in a case where the target-to-target distance is a desired distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru NAKAMURA, John Kenji David CLARK
  • Publication number: 20250013550
    Abstract: A system design device estimates a probability distribution of values of evaluation indices of an embodied system configuration in cases where system configurations that are candidates to be embodied have been embodied in system design involving embodiment of system configurations; calculates expected values of the evaluation indices on the basis of the probability distribution; and selects one of the system configurations that is a candidate to be embodied on the basis of the expected values of the evaluation indices and embodies the selected system configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: RE50270
    Abstract: A transmitting terminal (1A) transmits first D2D control information (522, 523) in one or more subframes within a first subframe pool (511) within a first D2D control period (501) and performs data transmission (531-534) in accordance with the first D2D control information (522, 523) in one or more subframes within a second subframe pool (512) within the first D2D control period (501). The first D2D control information (522, 523) contains a second information element indicating whether the first D2D control information (522, 523) is valid in at least one D2D control period (502, 503) occurring after the first D2D control period (501). This makes it possible to contribute, for example, to reducing failure in reception of scheduling assignment information that is transmitted in a radio resource region for control in a periodic D2D control period and that specifies D2D transmission resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazushi Muraoka, Hiroto Sugahara