Patents Assigned to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
  • Patent number: 12236334
    Abstract: A monetary risk prediction apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a predictive model recording unit that records a predictive model to predict time-series data showing a future asset amount of a user; and prediction means for receiving evaluation data that is time-series data including an asset amount and a numeric value showing a health condition of the user, inputting the evaluation data to the predictive model recorded on the predictive model recording unit, and outputting the time-series data showing the future asset amount of the user predicted by the predictive model according to the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Kurasawa, Shozo Azuma, Naoki Asanoma, Akihiro Chiba, Kana Eguchi, Tsutomu Yabuuchi, Kazuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12238662
    Abstract: A synchronization method includes: a first step of transmitting a query command a plurality of times to a communication device configured to perform time synchronization with a base station device connected to a mobile communication network, the query command requesting time information expressed in a first unit, the first unit being lower in accuracy than accuracy of the time synchronization established by the communication device; a second step of determining timing at which the time information obtained in response to the query command is updated; a third step of determining timing to transmit a next query command, based on the timing at which the time information is updated; and a fourth step of acquiring time information with higher accuracy than the first unit, based on time information obtained in response to the query command transmitted at the third step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Teruhi, Kento Yoshizawa, Kazunori Akabane
  • Patent number: 12233549
    Abstract: An action control device controls movement of a plurality of control subjects. In particular, the present technology relates to a cooperative control of robots. The cooperative control comprises determining an action plan for each of a plurality of robots for respective movements. Given the action plan, the present case enables movements of the respective robots cooperatively from a state of rank formation in starting positions and cause the respective robots to form a rank in target position. In particular, the action plan comprises a set of operations where a plurality of robots extracted by deconstruction of parts of intermediate positions of robots are moved simultaneously to the locations to which the robots are to be added during construction of a subsequent intermediate positions of robots. The set of operations with simultaneous movements enables an increase in the speed of transformation of ranks formed by the plurality of robots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawano
  • Patent number: 12235204
    Abstract: A corrosion amount estimation apparatus that estimates the corrosion amount of a metal material buried in the ground, the apparatus including: a soil adjustment unit that dries the target soil; a water permeability measurement unit that measures the water permeability of the soil after supplying water to the dried soil; and a corrosion estimation unit that estimates the corrosion amount of the metal material when buried in the soil using the water permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Oki, Shingo Mineta, Mamoru Mizunuma, Masayuki Tsuda
  • Patent number: 12235399
    Abstract: A target that is irradiated with a charged particle to emit a neutron, an output circuit such as a DC/DC converter that includes a semiconductor element and that outputs voltage during normal operation, and a counter that measures elapsed time with a point in time when the neutron is emitted from the target defined as a starting point are included. Furthermore, a measurement unit that measures the voltage output from the output circuit, and a calculation unit that calculates time of flight of the neutron based on a time when a measurement voltage value measured by the measurement unit falls below a predetermined threshold value and the elapsed time measured by the counter and that calculates energy of the neutron based on the calculated time of flight are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Hiroshima, Hidenori Iwashita, Yuichiro Okugawa
  • Patent number: 12236247
    Abstract: The possibility of a desired program being automatically generated is increased by a program generation device including: a generation unit configured to generate a first program that satisfies at least one pair of an input value and an output value; and a determination unit configured to randomly generate an input value that satisfies a constraint regarding input and output of the first program, and determine whether or not an output value that is obtained by inputting the input value to the first program satisfies the constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kurabayashi, Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Yu Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 12238171
    Abstract: An information communication apparatus, which aggregates data transmitted from a plurality of terminals and transmits the aggregated data to a reception side. The information communication apparatus includes: a determination means that operates in a first layer for determining an update size of a memory area used to hold the data transmitted from the plurality of terminals on a basis of information related to the data; and a setting means that sets a band of a network path of a second layer necessary for communicating with the reception side on a basis of the update size and an update rate of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Mizuno, Kenji Shimizu, Masahisa Kawashima
  • Patent number: 12237976
    Abstract: To make it possible to correctly understand a connection relationship of interfaces. A traffic addition device 50 adds to traffic volumes output from a plurality of interfaces of a plurality of network devices A to F in a to-be-estimated network N additional traffic volumes different at the interfaces. This forms a characteristic volume in the traffic volumes. The topology estimation device 10 can thus correctly understand a connection relationship of the interfaces from a correlation between the traffic volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Mizuto Nakamura, Toshihiko Seki, Naoyuki Tanji
  • Patent number: 12238355
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: an experience quality estimation unit that estimates an experience quality value by replacing a plurality of index values included in viewing history data of an image with an index value corresponding to a case other than any one of a plurality of predetermined bit rates; a contribution degree calculation unit that calculates a contribution degree of each bit rate included in the plurality of bit rates to an experience quality value on the basis of the estimated experience quality value; and a contribution degree output unit that outputs information indicating the contribution degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Matsuo, Kazuhisa Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20250063053
    Abstract: A formal verification apparatus includes: a protocol information acquisition unit configured to acquire protocol information including a system configuration including a client terminal having a virtual network; and a protocol verification unit configured to handle an attack on the virtual network as an attack by the client terminal, which is an unauthorized terminal, by formal verification that is performed based on the protocol information, and verifies safety of a protocol indicated in the protocol information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Misato NAKABAYASHI, Tetsuya OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20250060854
    Abstract: An information providing device (10) estimates a degree of skill of a user for work on the basis of first information (for example, an image of a scene) that is information for specifying a situation in the work and second information (for example, a trajectory of a line of sight) that is information regarding the user who performs the work. The information providing device (10) presents information regarding the work to the user in a format according to the degree of skill estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei SAIJO, Takao KURAHASHI, Shohei MATSUO, Lidwina Ayu ANDARINI
  • Publication number: 20250060213
    Abstract: The present disclosure is a shape measurement system including: a multi-core optical fiber in which four or more cores are disposed in a part other than the center of a cross section; a strain distribution measurement device configured to measure a strain distribution of each of the cores in a longitudinal direction of the multi-core optical fiber; and an analysis device configured to calculate a shape of the multi-core optical fiber by using the strain distribution of the multi-core optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Nobutomo HANZAWA, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Takashi MATSUI, Hideaki MURAYAMA, Ryota WADA, Makito KOBAYAHSI
  • Publication number: 20250060245
    Abstract: A determination device 301 is a determination device that categorizes an installation environment of an optical cable 21, and includes a feature extraction unit 212 that extracts a feature vector at each position of the optical cable 21 from a vibration distribution in a longitudinal direction of the optical cable 21, a calculation unit 219 that calculates a discriminant function at each position of the optical cable 21 from the feature vector and a weight vector corresponding to the installation environment, in need of categorization, of the optical cable 21, and a determination unit 220 that compares the discriminant function with teacher signals representing two states and designates a state of the nearer of the teacher signals as a state of the optical cable 21, at each position of the optical cable 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki INOUE, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA
  • Publication number: 20250061909
    Abstract: Voice recognition performance is improved. A voice signal processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention acquires an output value indicating whether to perform voice enhancement on an observation signal in which a voice or noise of another speaker overlaps a voice of a target speaker, or a degree of necessity of performing the voice enhancement. The ratio between the observation signal and the enhancement signal generated by the voice enhancement is decided under a predetermined condition using the acquired output value, and the input signal used for the voice recognition is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SATO, Tsubasa OCHIAI, Marc DELCROIX, Keisuke KINOSHITA, Naoyuki KAMO, Takafumi MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20250061913
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a separation signal updating unit that solves a minimization problem of an upper bound function related to a separation matrix W in a majorization-minimization algorithm for a signal source separation technique (independent vector analysis, IVA) by dividing a mixed matrix A into sub matrixes A1, . . . , AL having d columns (d is an integer equal to or larger than 2) and updating sets (W, Al) (l=1, . . . , L) of the separation matrix W and the sub matrixes A1, . . . , AL one by one and updates a separation signal Y according to updating of the separation matrix W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rintaro IKESHITA, Tomohiro NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20250062844
    Abstract: Estimating a propagation environment of a radio wave using a scale model. The method includes the following steps. The scale model is created. In the scale model, a light source capable of emitting directional light and scanning an irradiation direction is installed, regarding the light source as a transmission station of a radio wave. The light source scans an inside of the scale model, and a center light generation state in which center light directed to a measurement point set in the scale model is generated is detected in a process of scanning. A light receiving sphere is installed such that a center coincides with the measurement point. A direction connecting a position of an irradiated point appearing on the light receiving sphere and a position of the center under the center light generation state is estimated as an arrival direction of the light reaching the measurement point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro TANIGUCHI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Tomoaki OGAWA, Yasushi TAKATORI, Minoru INOMATA
  • Patent number: 12231173
    Abstract: The symbol determination device generates the plurality of estimated reception symbol sequences on the basis of the estimated transfer function of the transmission line represented by the tap gain value applied to each tap of the nonlinear filter including the plurality of taps and the plurality of candidate symbol sequences, determines the transmission symbol by the maximum likelihood sequence estimation on the basis of the determination target reception symbol sequence obtained from the reception signal sequence and each of the plurality of estimated reception symbol sequences, identifies the estimated transmission symbol corresponding to the determination target reception symbol sequence, calculates the new tap gain values on the basis of the determination target reception symbol sequence and the identified estimated transmission symbol sequence, updates the estimated transfer function by applying the calculated tap gain values to the taps of the transmission line estimation unit, and selects the tap to be
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Taniguchi, Masanori Nakamura, Shuto Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Kisaka
  • Patent number: 12226232
    Abstract: A flexible device (1) includes an insulating substrate (2), a source electrode (3), a drain electrode (4), and an extended gate electrode (5) formed on a surface of the insulating substrate (2) at intervals, a channel (6) arranged at an interval between the source electrode (3) and the drain electrode (4), and a gate dielectric (7) formed so as to cover all of the channel (6) and a part of the extended gate electrode (5), in which the insulating substrate (2) is a flexible thin film having light transmissivity, the extended gate electrode (5) is a carbon material thin film having biocompatibility and light transmissivity, the channel (6) is an organic semiconductor thin film, and the gate dielectric (7) is an ionic liquid or an ionic gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toichiro Goto, Tetsuhiko Teshima, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shingo Tsukada
  • Patent number: 12232154
    Abstract: A wireless LAN system where an interfering communication device is present around a base station device and a terminal device includes an interference control signal transmitter that transmits an interference control signal that causes the interfering communication device to wait for transmission, and an interference control signal management device that collects wireless environment information, sets wireless LAN communication between the base station device and the terminal device, which are protection targets, as protected communication, and causes the interference control signal transmitter to transmit an interference control signal that causes the interfering communication device to wait for transmission, and the interference control signal management device instructs the interference control signal transmitter to start transmitting the interference control signal when detecting a start of the protected communication and instructs the interference control signal transmitter to stop transmitting the inter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Nakayama, Kenichi Kawamura, Takatsune Moriyama, Keisuke Wakao, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12227137
    Abstract: Information regarding an impact occurring in a vehicle is analyzed from an observed signal by a sensor installed in the vehicle. An acquisition unit (11) acquires an observed signal by a sensor (S) installed at a predetermined position of the vehicle. The analysis unit (12) analyzes the type of impact at each time from the observed signal with respect to the impact occurring on the vehicle at a position different from the position at which the sensor (S) is installed in the vehicle. The type of impact includes at least one type of impact among impact from collision of an obstacle with the vehicle, impact from the vehicle driving over a curb, impact from collision of a flying object with the vehicle, impact from the vehicle rubbing against an object other than the vehicle, and impact from an object other than the vehicle rubbing against the vehicle. An output unit (13) outputs a result obtained by analyzing a time at which the impact occurs and the type of impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Shin Murata