Patents Assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240106759
    Abstract: An information communication device arranged between a transmission-side device and a reception-side device according to one embodiment includes a reception unit that receives transmission data to be transmitted from the transmission-side device to the reception-side device, a control unit that receives a notification indicating deterioration in quality the transmission data, determines conversion object data for converting a data type of the transmission data or reducing an information amount of the transmission data and non-conversion object data for not converting a data type based on the notification, and generates post-conversion object data by converting a type of the conversion object data based on the notification, a transmission queue that synthesizes the non-conversion object data and the post-conversion object data and generates converted transmission data, and a transmission unit that transmits the converted transmission data to the reception-side device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro KUBO, Shinichi YOSHIHARA, Natsuki YASUHARA, Go YAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240105182
    Abstract: An array generating unit (15b) divides a sequence of acoustic features for each frame of an acoustic signal into segments of a predetermined length and generates an array in which a plurality of divided segments in a row direction are arranged in a column direction. A learning unit (15d) generates by learning, using the array, a speaker diarization model (14a) for estimating a speaker label of a speaker vector of each frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ANDO, Yumiko MURATA, Takeshi MORI
  • Publication number: 20240106524
    Abstract: A transmission data controller determines a frequency bandwidth according to a relay apparatus position, the frequency bandwidth being used for a first signal transmitted from a first communication apparatus, on the basis of information regarding the number of first communication apparatuses with which a relay apparatus communicates at the relay apparatus position. The transmission data controller transmits band information indicating a frequency band selected from radio frequency bands that can be used for the first signal on the basis of the determined frequency bandwidth to the first communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus transmits the first signal having a frequency included in the frequency band indicated by the band information. The relay apparatus acquires waveform data of the first signal transmitted by the first communication apparatus, and transmits the acquired waveform data to a second communication apparatus by a second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240102797
    Abstract: A coating film evaluation structure includes a laminate including a first sheet, a second sheet, and a third sheet which are laminated. The second sheet is disposed on the first sheet, and the third sheet is disposed on the second sheet. In the laminate, the area of each sheet gradually reduces in the lamination direction, and a stepped portion is provided at an end portion. The coating film to be evaluated and the plurality of sheets have different colors. The coating film evaluation structure includes a coating film layer formed on the sheet having the largest area among the plurality of sheets so as to cover the other sheets and having a flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Azusa Ishii, Shingo Mineta, Soichi Oka
  • Publication number: 20240105202
    Abstract: Provided is a reverberation removal device that is highly accurate even in noisy environments and underdetermined conditions. Reverberation is removed by applying a plurality of reverberation prediction filters to an observation signal while switching the plurality of reverberation prediction filters according to each time frequency bin of the observation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rintaro IKESHITA, Naoyuki KAMO, Tomohiro NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20240102883
    Abstract: A vibration reproduction device (100) is a vibration reproduction device that reproduces vibration of a pipeline (10) attached to a structure, and includes: a plurality of support members (101a, 101b) for supporting the pipeline; a fixing members (102a, 102b) for fastening the pipeline to the support members; support bases (103a, 103b) that are joined to the support members and to which a vibration force is applied; and viscoelastic members (106a, 106b) provided between the support bases and the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta IKEGUCHI, Daiki KOBAYASHI, Daisuke UCHIBORI, Atsushi ARATAKE, Masafumi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240102943
    Abstract: A dielectric spectroscopy measuring device includes a signal generation unit that generates electromagnetic waves, a signal separation unit that separate the electromagnetic waves according to a transmission direction and outputs the separated electromagnetic waves to an output destination corresponding to the transmission direction, a changeover switch unit that receives the electromagnetic waves generated by the signal generation unit via the signal separation unit, switches an output destination, and outputs the received electromagnetic waves, and outputs electromagnetic waves returning from the output destination to the signal separation unit, a sensor unit that irradiates a measurement target with the electromagnetic waves output by the changeover switch unit, and outputs measurement target waves obtained by irradiation to the changeover switch unit, a calibration standard unit including a circuit for calibration standard, the circuit outputting reflected waves for calibration generated by receiving the
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito NAKAMURA, Takuro TAJIMA, Michiko SEYAMA
  • 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: 11943250
    Abstract: A testing device (10) transmits a test packet that increases processing load to a device protected by a security system, the security system performing authentication of a packet transmitted to a to-be-protected device and a packet limit per source IP address. In addition, the testing device (10) generates a test session according to a scenario when transmitting the test packet and configures a packet so that the test packet uses a plurality of source IP addresses. In addition, the testing device (10) responds to a response request up to a predetermined stage of authentication among a plurality of stages of authentication performed by the security system so that the security system authenticates the test packet to be valid. In addition, the testing device (10) monitors, at a predetermined stage, packet filtering situation and processing load of the security system to which the test packet is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kurakami
  • 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: 11941835
    Abstract: A technology capable of estimating information on a position and a size of a pupil or an iris using an image obtained by photographing eyes of a subject even when a part of the pupil or the iris is hidden in the image is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Yoneya
  • 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: 11940333
    Abstract: A heat flux sensor including two temperature sensors is used to obtain time-series data of a core temperature of a living body, and a blood flow rate in a vicinity of the heat flux sensor is measured by a blood flow sensor. In an arithmetic circuit, a delay time until a fluctuation of the core temperature of the living body is reflected on an epidermis temperature is calculated on the basis of the blood flow rate measured by the blood flow sensor and a previously prepared relation between the blood flow rate and the delay time until the fluctuation of the core temperature of the living body is reflected on the epidermis temperature, and a time corresponding to the core temperature of the living body on the basis of the delay time is corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Michiko Seyama, Daichi Matsunaga, Yujiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11941165
    Abstract: A temperature stimulus presentation device includes a presentation unit that generates heat at a predetermined temperature, and a control unit that changes an area of the presentation unit depending on whether or not a temperature stimulus is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Arinobu Niijima, Toki Takeda, Takafumi Mukouchi, Takashi Sato
  • Patent number: 11941890
    Abstract: A sidewalk information generation device includes a thinning unit configured to perform thinning processing for extracting, from image data indicating an area of a sidewalk, a centerline in a width direction of the area of the sidewalk, a segmentation unit configured to perform segmentation processing for dividing the centerline extracted by the thinning unit in a longitudinal direction to generate a plurality of lines, and a vectorization unit configured to convert each of the plurality of lines generated by the segmentation unit to vector data indicating a coordinate sequence of a plurality of line segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Maeda, Manabu Yoshida, Yuki Yokohata, Ippei Shake
  • Patent number: 11940663
    Abstract: An optical device includes a core formed on a substrate, a first source electrode and a second source electrode formed in contact with both side surfaces of the core interposed between the first source electrode and the second source electrode, and a drain electrode formed in contact with an upper surface of the core. The core, the first source electrode, and the second source electrode together form a plasmonic waveguide. The first source electrode and the second source electrode are Schottky coupled to the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetaka Nishi, Shinji Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11940868
    Abstract: An information analysis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an input unit that inputs information indicating an apparatus that is a fault occurrence location in a communication network and a factor of a fault, a storage unit that stores a restoration handling method rule in which the apparatus that is the fault occurrence location, the factor of the fault, and an appropriate restoration handling method for the fault are associated, and an analyzer that analyzes an appropriate restoration handling method for the apparatus and the factor indicated by the information that is input, based on information related to a past fault for the apparatus that is the fault occurrence location, or a condition inherent in the apparatus that is the fault occurrence location, from the restoration handling method rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Haruhisa Nozue, Shunsuke Kanai, Fumika Asai, Naomi Murata, Kenichi Tayama
  • 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: 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
  • 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