Patents Assigned to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
  • Patent number: 11605181
    Abstract: A control device mounted in a first mobile body that includes a camera and an antenna includes: the camera configured to operate such that a direction of an optical axis of the camera and an oriented direction of the antenna are linked to each other; an identification unit configured to identify a second mobile body through image recognition from a captured image captured by the camera operating; and an antenna control unit configured to control the oriented direction of the antenna such that a position of the identified second mobile body in the captured image is a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Suzaki, Yusuke Asai, Hiroyuki Shiba
  • Patent number: 11604445
    Abstract: A control system includes a control unit configured to control a target controlled apparatus, and at least one communication processing unit configured to execute communication processing in communication between the target controlled apparatus and the control unit, and in the control system, the communication processing unit sequentially measures a processing time of the communication processing and sequentially outputs delay information indicating the measured processing time to the control unit, and the control unit sequentially acquires the delay information from all of a plurality of the communication processing units, and sequentially updates delay information incorporated in a control algorithm for controlling the target controlled apparatus based on the acquired delay information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yushi Koyasako, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230076338
    Abstract: The number of conversational tests needed for the evaluation of acoustic quality of the ICC system is reduced. An evaluation value conversion device 3 evaluates the quality of communication between a near-end acoustic region 100 and a far-end acoustic region 200 inside a vehicle for which a plurality of acoustic regions are predetermined. A voice signal picked up by a microphone M2 disposed in the far-end acoustic region 200 is emitted from a speaker S1 disposed in the near-end acoustic region 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachiko KURIHARA, Noboru HARADA, Masahiro FUKUI, Akira NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230071063
    Abstract: An optical transmitter generates symbols for transmission by applying a predetermined coding method to each of m-valued transmission symbols generated from transmission data, generates signal light by performing optical modulation on the basis of the symbols for transmission, and transmits the signal light. An optical receiver generates a series of digital signals from the received signal light, detects coded symbols by applying predetermined digital signal processing to the series of digital signals, decodes the m-valued transmission symbols from the detected coded symbols, and restores the transmission data from the decoded m-valued transmission symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuto YAMAMOTO, Masanori NAKAMURA, Hiroki TANIGUCHI, Yoshiaki KISAKA
  • Publication number: 20230072278
    Abstract: A satellite communication system includes a plurality of earth station apparatuses and a control earth station apparatus, the plurality of earth station apparatuses each accommodating a terminal apparatus that establishes a session by using a control message being dedicated to perform communication, the control earth station apparatus transmitting and/or receiving a control signal on a controlling line to an earth station apparatus of the plurality of earth station apparatuses via a relay satellite, and the satellite communication system performing circuit-switching of a communicating line between the plurality of earth station apparatuses that are connected by single-hop connection to allow a plurality of the terminal apparatuses to perform communication with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki SHIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Hiroki SHIBAYAMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Mitsuru NISHINO, Koichi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20230075721
    Abstract: A signal transfer management apparatus manages operations of a plurality of signal transfer devices in a system in which the signal transfer devices forming a packet network transmit and receive time synchronization messages including time information between a master device having a reference time and a plurality of slave devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita TAKAHASHI, Naotaka SHIBATA, Jun TERADA
  • Publication number: 20230070907
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a plurality of devices, each of the plurality of devices includes a monitoring unit configured to monitor at least one other device to detect an error that has occurred in the other device, and each of the plurality of devices is monitored by at least one other device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta ITO, Toshinori HANANO, Shun MORISHIMA, Masayoshi SEKIGUCHI, Takayoshi TASHIRO, Satoshi SHIMAZU, Haruka NAGOSHI, Manabu KUBOTA, Tomoaki YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230070849
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus including the number of antennas different from a reception apparatus and performing transmission by SC-MIMO to and from the reception apparatus includes a training signal generation unit that generates a known signal predetermined, a CP addition unit that adds a CP to each symbol of a transmission signal including the known signal, a weight generation unit that multiplies a channel matrix estimated based on the known signal by the reception apparatus by a pseudo-inverse matrix obtained by a predetermined number of iterative calculations to generate a transmission weight that is diagonalizable, and a transmission beam formation unit that uses the transmission weight to form a transmission beam for the transmission signal where the CP is added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato FUKUZONO, Keita KURIYAMA, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Takafumi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230070007
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus communicating with an external apparatus connected via a network, and the communication apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to: calculate a communication interval of data communicated within the communication apparatus; determine whether to perform communication with the external apparatus based on whether the communication interval is within a range set in advance; and transmit, to the external apparatus, communication data including the communication interval determined to perform communication with the external apparatus, latter data in the communication interval, and a transition between former data and the latter data in the communication interval, so that traffic from an apparatus to outside is reduced while suppressing deterioration in detection accuracy of unauthorized communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma KOYAMA, Masashi TANAKA, Yasushi OKANO, Masaru MATSUBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230074152
    Abstract: An optical communication system according to the present invention cancels waveform distortion due to wavelength dispersion by extracting the spectrum of a transmitted optical signal and passing the optical signal to a fiber having a dispersion value opposite to a dispersion amount corresponding to a transmission distance received by the spectrum component and compensates for a transmission path loss due to the fiber having the opposite dispersion value using optical splitters having different split ratios. With this configuration, the present invention can compensate for waveform distortion due to wavelength dispersion by a simple method in an access network and achieve an increase in the reachable transmission distance of the farthest user or an increase in the number of connectable users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka HARA, Yasutaka KIMURA, Atsuko KAWAKITA
  • Publication number: 20230073123
    Abstract: A method of laying an optical cable according to the present disclosure includes: installing a laying strip, in which the optical cable is to be embedded, on a road surface or a wall surface; forming a cut line, for embedding the optical cable, on the installed laying strip; and embedding the optical cable in the formed cut line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMADA, Akira SAKURAI, Yuta MARUO, Shigekatsu TETSUTANI, Hisashi IZUMITA, Hiroaki TANIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230076576
    Abstract: A learning device includes a memory; and a processor configured to execute answer generation means for taking data including text, and a question text related to the data as inputs; creating, by using a model parameter of a neural network, a token sequence that takes visual information in the data into consideration, and generating an answer text to the question text, based on the created token sequence; and learning means for learning the model parameter by using the answer text and a correct answer text to the question text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyosuke NISHIDA, Ryota TANAKA, Sen YOSHIDA, Junji TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20230071054
    Abstract: A height estimation method performed by a height estimation apparatus includes a first feature point extraction step of extracting a feature point coordinate, a first coordinate estimation step of estimating a coordinate of a first subject frame, a pre-generation step of deriving a height of the first subject frame and generating a distance addition pattern and a correction coefficient for an individual missing pattern, a second feature point extraction step of extracting a feature point coordinate from a second input image, a second coordinate estimation step of estimating a coordinate of a second subject frame and estimating a coordinate of an object frame, a subject data selection step of selecting the individual missing pattern and the correction coefficient in accordance with the feature point coordinate, an object data selection step of selecting an object height, and a height estimation step of adding up a distance between a feature point coordinate and another feature point coordinate extracted in acc
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki TAKEDA, Dan MIKAMI, Yoshinori KUSACHI
  • Publication number: 20230069908
    Abstract: A recognition apparatus includes a classification unit that estimates a non-linguistic and para-linguistic information label to be imparted by an n-th listener from an acoustic feature amount of speech data to be recognized using an n-th classification model, and an integration unit that integrates estimation results of the non-linguistic and para-linguistic information labels for N listeners and obtains non-linguistic and para-linguistic information estimation results as a recognition apparatus for the speech data to be recognized, and the n-th classification model is a classification model trained using training speech data and a non-linguistic and para-linguistic information label imparted to the training speech data by the n-th listener as training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ANDO, Yuki KITAGISHI, Hosana KAMIYAMA, Takeshi MORI
  • Publication number: 20230072015
    Abstract: Information corresponding to a t-th word string Yt of a second text, which is a conversion result of a t-th word string Xt of a first text is estimated on the basis of a model parameter ?, by using, as inputs, a t-th word string Xt of the first text and a sequence Y{circumflex over (?)}1, . . . , Y{circumflex over (?)}t-1 of first to (t?1)-th word strings of the second text, which is a conversion result of a sequence X1, . . . Xt-1 of first to (t?1)-th word strings of the first text. Here, t is an integer of two or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mana IHORI, Ryo MASUMURA
  • Publication number: 20230076354
    Abstract: To surely fix an optical fiber cable including a nonmetallic tension member in a closure without damaging the tension member and a core. An optical fiber cable holding device according to the present disclosure includes: a thin plate portion configured, by bending a rectangular thin plate in a length direction thereof into a shape of a rough circle, to hold an outer periphery of an optical fiber cable; a binding mechanism portion fixed on one end of the thin plate portion and configured to bind and fix the thin plate portion wound around the optical fiber cable; protrusion fitting holes provided on the other end of the thin plate portion wound around the optical fiber cable; and a band-diameter adjuster fixed to the binding mechanism portion, including a protrusion to fittable into each of the protrusion fitting holes, and configured to adjust a diameter of the rough circle by changing from one hole to another hole of the protrusion fitting holes to be fitted onto the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira SAKURAI, Hiroaki TANIOKA, Hisashi IZUMITA, Yusuke YAMADA, Yuta MARUO
  • Publication number: 20230076671
    Abstract: A virtual environment optical communication network is generated by setting configuration parameters of physical packages of a real environment optical communication network in package emulators that a computer program has virtually constructed to implement the physical packages, the real environment optical communication network being constructed by a plurality of node devices in which the physical packages are mounted, pieces of configuration data are generated based on pieces of resource data indicating resources required for optical paths detected based on acquired configuration parameters and a requested transmission mode, optical paths are set in the virtual environment optical communication network based on the generated pieces of configuration data, and optical paths are set in the real environment optical communication network based on the pieces of configuration data that have been used to set the optical paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi TANAKA, Hideki NISHIZAWA, Tetsuro INUI, Seiki KUWABARA, Shuto YAMAMOTO, Seiji OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230070521
    Abstract: A training device changes feedback formant frequencies which are formant frequencies of a picked-up speech signal, applies a lowpass filter, converts the picked-up speech signal, adds high-pass noise to the converted speech signal, feeds back the converted speech signal with the high-pass noise added to a subject, calculates a compensatory response vector by using pickup formant frequencies which are formant frequencies of a speech signal acquired by picking up an utterance made by the subject while feeding back a speech signal that has been converted with change of the feedback formant frequencies to the subject, and pickup formant frequencies which are formant frequencies of a speech signal acquired by picking up an utterance made by the subject while feeding back a speech signal that has been converted without change of the feedback formant frequencies to the subject, and determines an evaluation based on the compensatory response vector and a correct compensatory response vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasufumi UEZU, Sadao HIROYA, Takemi MOCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230072537
    Abstract: A learning apparatus according to an embodiment has a feature generation means configured to take a search query, a first document related to the search query, and a second document that is not related to the search query as input, and generate a feature of the search query, a feature of the first document, and a feature of the second document, by using model parameters of a neural network, and an update means configured to take the feature of the search query, the feature of the first document, and the feature of the second document as input, and update the model parameters by using an error function including a cost function that is a differentiable approximation function of an L0 norm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku HASEGAWA, Kyosuke NISHIDA, Junji TOMITA, Hisako ASANO
  • Publication number: 20230071959
    Abstract: An analysis device includes processing circuitry configured to perform parsing on a first character string based on a grammar described in a PEG in which a variable is associated with a predetermined terminal symbol, add, to the variable, an element in which a predetermined attribute is imparted to a part of the first character string, the part being a second character string analyzed as corresponding to the terminal symbol, extract an element that is latest from elements of each predetermined attribute from the variable, and determine whether the element extracted satisfies a predetermined condition regarding a context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nariyoshi CHIDA