Patents Assigned to NEC
  • Publication number: 20250127425
    Abstract: Provided is a gait measurement device that includes an acquisition unit that acquires sensor data related to a motion of a foot, an interpolation unit that interpolates interpolation data into a period in which the sensor data is lost, a calculation unit that calculates a gait parameter by using the sensor data obtained by interpolating the interpolation data by the interpolation unit, and a transmission unit that transmits the gait parameter calculated by the calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kajitani
  • Publication number: 20250133628
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media of communication. A terminal device in a connected state with a first network device determines that a connection is to be established with a second network device, and transmits, to the first network device, an indication that a portion of capability of the terminal device for a first subscriber identity module is to be released for simultaneous connections with the first and second network devices. Thereby, partial capabilities of the terminal device for the first subscriber identity module are released so that the terminal device has spare capabilities for a second subscriber identity module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Da WANG, Gang WANG
  • Publication number: 20250132807
    Abstract: An object is to provide an apparatus, a method, and a program that contribute to an selecting an AMF to support UUAA-MM functionality in the UUAA-MM procedure. An access network node receives from a core network node information indicating whether authentication and authorization procedure for an UAV (UUAA-MM procedure) in mobility management is supported, receive from a UE information indicating an initiation request for the UUAA-MM procedure, and transmit a message requesting initiation of the UUAA-MM procedure to a core network node supporting the UUAA-MM procedure among the core network nodes. This allows the access network node to properly select the core network node that supports the UUAA-MM procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takakura, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20250130076
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and structures that mitigate accumulative error in relative-measurement DFOS by employing, for each segment of the DFOS arrangement that records a certain number of an earlier estimation of each spatial segment. A predictive model in each buffer learns trends from the recorded history and predicts an output from the previous history. The reference is also updated using the prediction from the buffer. Systems, methods, and structures according to the present disclosure include the buffer structure that records a certain number of earlier estimations for each segment, a predictive model in each buffer that predicts the output of each segment according to the earlier estimations, reference updates using the prediction from the buffer tracker and workflow of real-time data processing with the buffer structure and tracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian FANG, Ting WANG, Junyi YE
  • Publication number: 20250131708
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (10) including: a skeleton structure detection unit (11) that performs processing of detecting a keypoint of a human body included in each of a plurality of images generated by a plurality of cameras capturing a same place; a determination unit (12) that determines a same human body included in the plurality of images generated by the plurality of cameras; a quality value computation unit (13) that computes, for each human body, a quality value of the keypoint detected from the plurality of images generated by the plurality of cameras; and an output unit (14) that outputs information indicating a place where a human body with the quality value equal to or more than a threshold value is captured, or a partial image acquired by cutting the place out of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAI, Noboru YOSHIDA, Jianquan LIU
  • Publication number: 20250127451
    Abstract: A determination device includes a memory configured to store instructions and a model for receiving an input of data relating to a determination target for each time step and for changing the state thereof for each time step. The determination device further includes a processor configured to execute the instructions to: identify a reference time step as a time step serving as the reference to the changing state of the determination target, and perform determination of the determination target based on the state of the model at a derivative time step from the reference time step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke SAKEMI
  • Publication number: 20250133424
    Abstract: This disclosure proposes solutions for providing a resiliency of gNB-CU against possible node failures. The node failure includes unexpected system reset, system rebooting, system stall, system congestion and communication failure with neighboring nodes. A method of a gNB Distributed Unit (gNB-DU) apparatus includes communicating with a User Equipment, and communicating with a plurality of a gNB Centralized Unit Control Plane (gNB-CU-CP) apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tamura, Iskren Ianev, Kundan Tiwari
  • Publication number: 20250130307
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods directed to a MIMO method that detects and localizes an object without requiring the object to emit a sound. Operationally, multiple speakers generate tone signals at different frequencies, while multiple acoustic sensors demodulate the complex amplitude of each frequency. By monitoring the feature variation of the relative phase (or intensity) vector from the complex amplitude, our method detects or localizes movement of the object. For large-scale applications, a fiber-optic system and method that employs distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) in which an optical fiber is used as one or more acoustic sensors located at points along the length of the optical fiber. A single DAS system provides numerous sensors using only a single optical fiber thereby enabling perfect synchronization and centralized signal processing. Notably, with such a DAS arrangement, cost and complexity is significantly reduced, while privacy is preserved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian FANG, Wataru KOHNO, Yaowen LI, Ting WANG
  • Publication number: 20250130383
    Abstract: An external resonator outputs a laser light. A heater controls a phase of the laser light. A drive signal output unit outputs a drive signal to the heater. A control unit controls a drive signal provided to the heater by the drive signal output unit. A light monitoring unit monitors intensity of the laser light. The control unit superimposes an applied dither signal having a rectangular wave on the drive signal. The light monitoring unit detects an amplitude of the fluctuation of the laser light caused by the applied dither signal, and outputs a detection result. The control unit monitors the detection result by changing power of the drive signal, searches for the power at which an amplitude of the fluctuation of the laser light becomes a minimum, and determines the searched power as the power of the drive signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20250130583
    Abstract: In an operation schedule planning system, an operation specifying unit specifies an operation of an obstacle. A changing unit changes an order of a plurality of operation elements included in an operation schedule of a mobile object based on the operation of the obstacle. The “obstacle” means an object that may hinder the operation of the mobile object. The “mobile object” is an autonomously movable apparatus or an apparatus movable by operation of an operator, and may be, for example, a transport apparatus or a robot that transports an article or the like. The “operation of the obstacle” may be an operation accompanied by movement or an operation not accompanied by movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Rieko UENO, Hiromi MUTO, Hidekazu NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20250131689
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (10) detects a keypoint of a human body included in an image; computes a degree of similarity between a pose or a movement of a human body detected from the image and a pose or a movement of a human body indicated by a preregistered template image, based on the detected keypoint; determines a place in the image where a human body also with the degree of similarity to a pose or a movement of a human body indicated by any template image to be less than a first threshold value but satisfying a first similarity condition to a pose or a movement of a human body indicated by any template image is captured; and outputs information indicating the determined place or a partial image acquired by cutting the place out of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAI, Noboru YOSHIDA, Jianquan LIU
  • Publication number: 20250131723
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a summarizing unit (2040) and a display control unit (2060). The summarizing unit (2040) obtains a video (30) generated by each of a plurality of cameras (10). Furthermore, the summarizing unit (2040) performs a summarizing process on the video (30) and generates summary information of the video (30). The display control unit (2060) causes a display system (20) to display the video (30). Here, the display control unit (2060) causes the display system (20) to display the summary information of the video (30) in response to that a change in a display state of the video (30) in the display system (20) satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20250130061
    Abstract: An information provision system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: collect, from a user terminal, position information of the user terminal and behavior information indicating a movement behavior of the user terminal moving at an acceleration higher than a predetermined value; generate a danger level map representing an attention-seeking place based on a position in which the behavior information is observed on a predetermined map; and provide the danger level map to a predetermined terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shuei YAMADA, Shintaro Chiku, Naoko Fukushi, Masanori Kuki, Shuhei Mizuguchi, Kosei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250130075
    Abstract: A signal acquisition unit acquires a plurality of signal groups acquired based on backscattered light from a plurality of long gauge length sections and a plurality of signal groups acquired based on backscattered light from a plurality of short gauge length sections, which are set in an optical fiber used for distributed acoustic sensing. A signal selection unit selects a long gauge length section based on a first signal feature of each of signal groups of the plurality of long gauge length sections, and selects a plurality of short gauge length sections corresponding to the selected long gauge length section. A section estimation unit determines one short gauge length section, as a section in which an event has occurred, based on a second signal feature of each of signal groups of the plurality of selected short gauge length sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Sakiko MISHIMA, Wataru KOHNO, Reishi KONDO, Tomoyuki HINO
  • Publication number: 20250130562
    Abstract: A constraint condition acquisition device acquires success time time-series data, which is time-series data pertaining to control over a control target when a predetermined task carried out through the control is successful, and failure time time-series data, which is the time-series data in the case of task failure; acquires a constraint condition template, which is a constraint condition that includes a parameter; and determines the value of the parameter such that the constraint condition holds in the success time-series data and the constraint condition does not hold in the failure time-series data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OYAMA, Rin TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20250131227
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal 10 includes a reception unit that accepts an instruction to display a code by using an input/output unit 102, and a display control unit that causes an undisplayed code to be displayed when the display control unit detects a trigger indicating that the code is ready to be read. An undisplay application 103B that is a program for the mobile communication terminal causes the mobile communication terminal 10 to function as; a code monitoring unit that monitors a screen displayed on a touch panel 102A of an input/output unit 102 and detects whether or not a code is displayed; an undisplay unit that undisplays the code; and a display control unit that causes the undisplayed code to be displayed when the display control unit detects a trigger indicating that the mobile communication terminal is ready for the code to be read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hajime Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20250133526
    Abstract: Many commercially deployed devices support more than one SIM cards. Support for multi-USIM is currently handled in an implementation-specific manner without any support from 3GPP specifications. With the increased complexity of 5G-capable UEs and with growing demand for multi-USIM devices in the market, it becomes important to consider system enhancements that would allow for more efficient solution involving required support to UE from 5G core and 5G-RAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shubhranshu SINGH, Takahito YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20250132838
    Abstract: The control device for an optical transmitter includes a control signal generator configured to generate a control signal that specifies a power value to be consumed by a heating element used for temperature control of the optical transmitter and a power generator configured to generate supply power with the power value according to the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20250131943
    Abstract: A data augmentation apparatus acquires source time-series data. The data augmentation apparatus generates augmented time-series data by performing a modification process on one or more pieces of target time-series data included in the source time-series data. The target time-series data includes a plurality of frames belonging to the same class. The modification process includes a deletion process of deleting the target time-series data, a length change process of changing a length of the target time-series data, or a position change process of changing a position of the target time-series data on a time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke MORIWAKI
  • Publication number: 20250131764
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit 11 acquires a three-dimensional luminance data of skin, the data being generated by optical coherence tomography performed by irradiating the skin of a finger with an optical beam in a two-dimensionally scanning manner; a first extraction unit 12 extracts from the three-dimensional luminance data of the skin, a pattern image of a pattern of the skin; a second extraction unit 213 extracts from the three-dimensional luminance data of the skin, a normal direction of a surface of the skin; and a generation unit 214 moves a position of a pixel included in the pattern image based on the normal direction to generate a post-move pattern image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru Nakamura