Patents Assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
  • Patent number: 11940281
    Abstract: A learning apparatus includes an input unit configured to input route information indicating a route including one or more paths of a plurality of paths and moving body number information indicating the number of moving bodies for a date and a time on a path to be observed among the plurality of paths, and a learning unit configured to learn a parameter of a model indicating a relationship between the number of moving bodies for each of the plurality of paths and the number of moving bodies for the route and a relationship between the numbers of moving bodies for the route at different dates and times by using the route information and the moving body number information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoharu Iwata, Hitoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11942755
    Abstract: [Problem] To reduce a filter penalty caused by narrowing of an optical signal band due to optical filters having a multiplexing/demultiplexing function in an optical transmission line between transponder units. [Solution] In an optical transmission system 10A, transponder units 21a to 21n and 22a to 22n connected by optical fibers 14 in which optical filters having a multiplexing/demultiplexing function of an optical signal are interposed include a transmission unit 22 that transmits the optical signal obtained by modulating laser light from a laser light source 34 with an electric signal from a communication apparatus to the optical fibers 14, and a reception unit 23 that receives the optical signal from the optical fibers 14 and converts the received optical signal into an electric signal. The reception unit 23 includes a BER measurement unit that measures a BER, based on a received signal, and feeds the measured BER back to a transmitting side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Saito, Takashi Kotanigawa, Tsutomu Kubo
  • Patent number: 11943645
    Abstract: A wireless communication characteristics evaluation method for evaluating wireless communication characteristics of a wireless communication system where a plurality of wireless communication terminals perform communication by transmitting or exchanging signals, the wireless communication characteristics evaluation method including: a step 1 of acquiring power and a band of an interference signal; a step 2 of calculating an interference band rate showing a rate of the band of the interference signal that overlaps with a band of a desired signal; a step 3 of calculating an interference power rate from interference power and the interference band rate and furthermore, calculating steady noise power from the interference power and the interference power rate; a step 4 of determining a real SINR from received power of the desired signal and the steady noise power; and a step 5 of determining wireless communication characteristics of the desired signal from the real SINR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Shinohara, Toshiro Nakahira, Yasuhiko Inoue, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11941365
    Abstract: A model learning apparatus of the present invention has a question/answer-pair expansion unit and a translation-model learning unit. The question/answer-pair expansion unit generates expansion question/answer pairs by increasing the number of question/answer pairs associated with an index indicating that it sounds more like the character. The translation-model learning unit learns a translation model and a reverse translation model by using the expansion question/answer pairs. A response selecting apparatus of the present invention has a record unit, a document search unit, a score calculation unit, and a ranking unit. The record unit records question/answer pairs and the above described learned translation model. The score calculation unit obtains a translation likelihood which is a numerical value based on the probability of obtaining the answer from the input question and calculates a score of each of a search-result question/answer pair with respect to the input question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Mizukami, Junji Tomita
  • Patent number: 11943134
    Abstract: In a transfer apparatus 44, an internal routing layer L1 detects a destination address of internal routing information from an internal RIB DB 45t, transfers the internal routing information to a transfer apparatus of the detected destination address, and stores the internal routing information or external routing information transferred from another transfer apparatus via internal ports P1 and P2 in an FIB DB 46t. An external routing layer L2 stores external routing information transferred from an agent 65 in an external RIB DB 48t, stores the stored external routing information in the FIB DB 46t of the transfer apparatus to which the external routing layer L2 itself belongs, and transfers the external routing information to another transfer apparatus via the internal ports P1 and P2 such that the external routing information is stored in the FIB DB 46t.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventor: Takayoshi Hirasawa
  • Patent number: 11942074
    Abstract: A learning data acquisition device or the like, capable of acquiring learning data by superimposing noise data on clean voice data at an appropriate SN ratio, is provided. The learning data acquisition device includes a voice recognition influence degree calculation unit and a learning data acquisition unit. The voice recognition influence degree calculation unit calculates an influence degree on voice recognition accuracy caused by a change of a signal-to-noise ratio, based on a result of voice recognition on the kth noise superimposed voice data and a result of voice recognition on the k?1th noise superimposed voice data, where K is an integer of 2 or larger, k=2, 3, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Fukutomi, Takashi Nakamura, Kiyoaki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11941432
    Abstract: In asynchronous processing, processing of a low-order system is checked. A high-order system 1 includes a high-order workflow advancing unit 21 that transmits a processing command for asynchronous processing to a low-order system 2, and a notice processing unit 23 that receives, from the low-order system 2, a notice related to a device command to be executed by a device 3 in the asynchronous processing, and updates progress data 13. The low-order system 2 includes a low-order workflow advancing unit 61 that, upon receiving the processing command from the high-order system 1, transmits a device command to the device, and a notification unit 62 that, when transmission of the device command to the device 3 is detected, notifies the high-order system 1 of the identifier of the device to which the device command was transmitted and the device command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Suto, Atsushi Takada, Aiko Oi
  • Patent number: 11943810
    Abstract: A format that includes a BSSID of a transmitting station within a preamble of the frame is an HE format, and a format that does not include a BSSID within the preamble but includes a BSSID in a MAC header is a Non-HE format; and a wireless station in the BSS includes a control part which checks a format of a frame received at a predetermined receiver sensitivity or above, and continues demodulation of the received frame if the format is HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is consistent with its own BSS, and stops the demodulation of the received frame if the HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is not consistent with its own BSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Shinohara, Yasuhiko Inoue, Junichi Iwatani, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 11942913
    Abstract: A gain adjustment unit constituted by a distribution switch having a control terminal is provided in an input unit of an amplifier circuit. One end of a coupler is connected to an output line of the amplifier circuit, another end of the coupler is connected to an anode of a diode, and a monitor terminal is connected via a low-pass filter to a cathode of the diode. The anode of the diode is unbiased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hamada, Hideyuki Nosaka
  • Publication number: 20240097941
    Abstract: A filter setting device (20) includes a shared filter DB (21) having a shared filter information table (211) in which information of each shared filter is recorded and a shared filter application destination table (212) in which a transfer device of an application destination of each shared filter is recorded; a shared filter creation unit (22) for determining new creation of a shared filter or diversion of an existing shared filter by referring to a shared filter information table (211) and a shared filter application destination table (212) on the basis of an instruction of a host server (10), in the L3 transfer technology; and a configuration input unit (23) for generating a configuration on the basis of a determination result of the shared filter creation unit (22), and setting a shared filter to be shared among a plurality of IF in a transfer device (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki FUJIWARA, Satoshi NAKATSUKASA, Yuta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240095581
    Abstract: A processing method executed by a processing system that performs first inference in an edge device and performs second inference in a server device, the processing method includes determining whether or not a tendency of a target data group on which inference is performed is changed in at least one of the edge device or the server device on a basis of a variation in load or a decrease in inference accuracy in at least one of the edge device or the server device, and executing relearning of at least one of a first model that performs the first inference or a second model that performs the second inference in a case where it is determined that the tendency of the target data group is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoku SHI, Shohei ENOMOTO, Takeharu EDA, Akira SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240096206
    Abstract: An estimation device (10) includes: a collection unit (11) configured to collect alarms which are issued when a device constituting connection equipment is in an abnormal state, the connection equipment connecting a building in which telecommunication equipment is accommodated to an ONU disposed in a house of an individual user, and including a cable having a plurality of first core wires branched by a 4SP, an 8SP for branching the first core wire into a plurality of second core wires, and equipment that connects the second core wire to the ONU; and an estimation unit (12) configured to estimate in which section of the connection equipment a failure has occurred, based on a type of the collected alarm and the equipment for which the alarm has been issued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki SHIROMA, Natsuko HIKAGE, Kumiko OMORI
  • Publication number: 20240097775
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a sensor that acquires a position of an obstacle present between a transmitting station and a receiving station; an obstacle region detector that detects an obstacle region on the basis of the position acquired by the sensor; and a reflector region setter that sets, as a reflector setting region, a region on an opposite side of the obstacle region with reference to a tangent from the transmitting station toward the obstacle region and on an opposite side of the obstacle region with reference to a tangent from the receiving station toward the obstacle region. Further, there is a reflector selector that selects a reflector present in the reflector setting region among the plurality of reflectors, and a controller that controls communication such that the receiving station and the transmitting station perform wireless communication by radio waves reflected by the reflector selected by the reflector selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku OMIYA, Tomoaki OGAWA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20240093715
    Abstract: A U-bolt (10) according to the present disclosure is a U-bolt (10) including a pair of shaft parts (11) arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a bridge part (12) connecting one end of each of the pair of shaft parts (11) and in which a strain detection pattern is attached to at least a part of at least one shaft part (11) of the pair of shaft parts (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki KOBAYASHI, Atsushi ARATAKE
  • Publication number: 20240093807
    Abstract: A U-bolt (10) according to the present disclosure is a U-bolt (10) including a pair of shaft parts (11) arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a bridge part (12) connecting one end of each of the pair of shaft parts (11) and includes a photonic crystal thin film (14) which is stuck to at least a part of at least one shaft part (11) of the pair of shaft parts (11) and changes its color according to strain of the shaft part (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki KOBAYASHI, Atsushi ARATAKE
  • Publication number: 20240093713
    Abstract: An installing system (100) according to the present disclosure includes a U-bolt (10) which includes a pair of shaft parts (11) aligned in a first direction and extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a bridge part (12) that connects one ends of each of the pair of shaft parts (11); and a measurer (20), in which a strain gauge (14) which outputs a signal corresponding to a strain of the shaft parts (11) in the second direction is embedded in each of the pair of shaft parts (11), in line symmetry with respect to a straight line (OX) including an apex (0) of the U-shape and extending in the second direction, and the measurer (20) measures the strain of each of the pair of shaft parts (11) in the second direction, from an output signal of the strain gauge (14) embedded in each of the pair of shaft parts (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki NAKANISHI, Daiki KOBAYASHI, Atsushi ARATAKE
  • Publication number: 20240098244
    Abstract: An image display method according to the present disclosure includes: a step of extracting each portion obtained by dividing one display target of the first and second display targets from one display target (S11); a step of determining whether the extracted portion is in contact with the other display target for each portion of one display target based on attribute information indicating presence of contact between each portion and the other display target among the first and second display targets (S12); and a step of displaying the extracted portion on a display device that displays the other display target when it is determined that the extracted portion is in contact with the other display target (S13) and displaying the extracted portion on a display device that displays one display target when it is determined that the extracted portion is not in contact with the other display target (S14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto MUTO
  • Publication number: 20240097344
    Abstract: A reflector antenna includes: a radiator that radiates a radio wave; a main reflector that reflects the radio wave radiated from the radiator in a communication direction; an expansion panel that is attached to at least a part of the main reflector to increase an area of the main reflector; and a first adjustment unit that changes a position of the radiator, or a second adjustment unit that replaces the radiator with a radiator having a different radiation angle. This configuration makes it possible to implement a large-aperture antenna having excellent transportability and operability without preparing another antenna having a large aperture and replacing a standard antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi HARADA, Masaki SHIMA, Hiroki SHIBAYAMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240098783
    Abstract: A wireless apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a reception unit configured to receive, on a frequency channel, a frame including first identification information for identifying the priority level of the frame, and a carrier sensing control unit configured to determine a threshold based on the first identification information, and determine a usage state of the frequency channel based on a comparison between received power of the frame and the determined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hanae OTANI, Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasuhiko INOUE, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20240094477
    Abstract: An objective of the present disclosure is to provide an optical coupler and an optical switch capable of achieving stable optical characteristics with low power consumption and more economical efficiency with respect to external factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chisato FUKAI, Yoshiteru ABE, Kunihiro TOGE, Kazunori KATAYAMA