Patents Assigned to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230025536
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage device configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a logical layer, information objects related to a physical layer in a network configuration, and information objects related to a facility layer which are objects in which the information objects related to the physical layer are housed; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an information object related to an occurrence path of a failure in the logical layer of the network configuration, from the storage device; and a search unit configured to search for, among the information objects related to the facility layer stored in the storage device, an information object related to the facility layer and the physical layer associated with the information object related to the occurrence path of the failure acquired from the acquisition unit, as a candidate for a facility that causes the failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko FUKAMI, Masataka SATO, Shohei NISHIKAWA, Kenji MURASE, Kenichi TAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230025646
    Abstract: An object is to provide a terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system which are capable of acquiring accurate optical ID information regardless of the position of the terminal device and the light receiving angle. The terminal device, the communication method, and the communication system according to the present invention each sets a threshold value for the illuminance of a received optical signal by using a moving average method, a weighted moving average method, or an exponential moving average, so that the optical signal can be binarized with a threshold value according to a change in the position of the terminal device, the light receiving angle, or the like. Information from other sensors may be used to set the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20230026110
    Abstract: In a training data generation method, a computer executes: a generation step for generating partial data of a summary sentence created for text data; an extraction step for extracting, from the text data, a sentence set that is a portion of the text data, based on a similarity with the partial data; and a determination step for determining whether or not the partial data is to be used as training data for a neural network that generates a summary sentence, based on the similarity between the partial data and the sentence set. Thus, it is possible to streamline the collection of training data for a neural summarization model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itsumi SAITO, Kyosuke NISHIDA, Hisako ASANO, Junji TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20230028376
    Abstract: The efficiency of summary learning that requires an additional input parameter is improved by causing a computer to execute: a first learning step of learning a first model for calculating an importance value of each component in source text, with use of a first training data group and a second training data group, the first training data group including source text, a query related to a summary of the source text, and summary data related to the query in the source text, and the second training group including source text and summary data generated based on the source text; and a second learning step of learning a second model for generating summary data from source text of training data, with use of each piece of training data in the second training data group and a plurality of components extracted for each piece of training data in the second training data group based on importance values calculated by the first model for components of the source text of the piece of training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itsumi SAITO, Kyosuke NISHIDA, Kosuke NISHIDA, Hisako ASANO, Junji TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20230022598
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system which are capable of reducing the error rate even if the transmitting side and the receiving side are asynchronous. The terminal device, communication method, and communication system according to the present invention sample an optical signal more finely than a 0/1 bit pattern in optical ID estimation processing for determining which of 1/0 the data acquired by an optical sensor is, and perform a majority decision using a plurality of sampling values in a decision processing window. Thus, even if the correct sampling value fails to be obtained, the correct bit value can be derived from other samplings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20230023924
    Abstract: A measurement system for measuring a subgrade reaction coefficient of a plurality of layers having different depths in a ground is provided. The system includes an object provided on a ground surface of the ground. An earth pressure gauge measures an earth pressure of the plurality of layers with respect to a load of the object. A settlement gauge measures a settlement amount of the plurality of layers with respect to the load of the object. The disclosed technology calculates the subgrade reaction coefficient of the plurality of layers on the basis of the earth pressure and the settlement amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki KOBAYASHI, Atsushi ARATAKE, Kazuaki WATANABE, Masafumi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230022519
    Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional structure in which a multilayer film is three-dimensionally curved to form an interior space. The multilayer film includes a layer containing a carbon monoatomic layer substance, a support layer, and a curve induction layer that induces a curved structure, where the layer containing the carbon monoatomic layer substance is in contact with the interior space, and the support layer is positioned between the layer containing the carbon monoatomic layer substance and the curve induction layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SAKAI, Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Hiroki MIYAZAKO, Yuko UENO
  • Publication number: 20230028595
    Abstract: An analysis function imparting device (10) includes a virtual machine analyzing unit (121) that analyzes a virtual machine of a script engine, a command set architecture analyzing unit (122) that analyzes a command set architecture that is a command system of the virtual machine, and an analysis function imparting unit (123) that performs hooking for imparting multipath execution functions to the script engine, on the basis of architecture information acquired by the analysis performed by the virtual machine analyzing unit (121) and the command set architecture analyzing unit (122).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori USUI, Tomonori IKUSE, Yuhei KAWAKOYA, Makoto IWAMURA, Jun MIYOSHI
  • Patent number: 11563654
    Abstract: A detecting device obtains a network log and a host log of a device. The detecting device converts the network log into a network feature value in a form which is inputtable to a multimodal generative model which generates output data on the basis of multiple latent variables represented by random variables. The detecting device converts the host log into a host feature value in a form which is inputtable to the generative model. The detecting device also inputs at least one of the network feature value and the host feature value to the generative model and calculates output data. The detecting device detects an abnormality about the device using an anomaly score calculated on the basis of the output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Yamada, Yuminobu Igarashi, Yuki Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11562765
    Abstract: A mask estimation apparatus for estimating mask information for specifying a mask used to extract a signal of a specific sound source from an input audio signal includes a converter which converts the input audio signal into embedded vectors of a predetermined dimension using a trained neural network model and a mask calculator which calculates the mask information by fitting the embedded vectors to a mixed Gaussian model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Higuchi, Tomohiro Nakatani, Keisuke Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11561353
    Abstract: An optical circuit is provided in which electric circuit parts and optical circuit parts are integrated in a stack on a printed substrate. The optical circuit is provided with a lid having a temperature regulation function that uses a temperature control element and an optical fiber block capable of optical input and output. Temperature control of optical circuit elements can be efficiently performed by mounting electric circuit parts and optical circuit parts on a printed substrate in advance by a reflow step using OBO technology and subsequently attaching a lid that includes a temperature control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takushi Kazama, Yuta Ueda, Hiroyuki Ishii, Koji Takeda, Hitoshi Wakita
  • Patent number: 11563717
    Abstract: A generation method includes identifying, as paths that are abstraction candidates, dynamically generated paths among paths in a profile that is used to determine whether each request to a server is an attack, and counting numbers of path variations corresponding to the respective paths that are abstraction candidates, and abstracting paths contained in the profile when a number of variations counted at the counting satisfies a certain condition, by processing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunio Miyamoto, Shingo Orihara, Yuta Iwaki, Yo Kanemoto, Yuichi Murata
  • Patent number: 11562513
    Abstract: Centerlines for generating network data of an indoor space can be simplified while the amount of calculation is limited. A centerline simplification unit 240 performs processing of deleting centerlines of passages that are movable regions in an indoor space and processing of correcting centerlines. A determination unit 242 determines whether or not the simplification has ended based on the number of centerlines or the number of vertices connecting the centerlines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Kyota Tsutsumida, Osamu Matsuda, Hitoshi Seshimo
  • Patent number: 11561350
    Abstract: To reduce bad connections of a BGA optical module as an optical fiber interface during mounting by reflowing. An optical module includes: a substrate to which an optical fiber is connected and fixed and on which an electronic circuit, an optical circuit or the like is formed; a ball grid array provided on one face of the substrate as an electrical interface used when the optical module is mounted on a mounting substrate; a lid having a thermal conductivity provided on another face of the substrate; and a fiber routing mechanism provided in contact with the lid, the fiber routing mechanism having a thermal conductivity and shaped to enable the optical fiber to be wound around the fiber routing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Kikuchi, Shunichi Soma, Ken Tsuzuki, Shuichiro Asakawa
  • Patent number: 11560637
    Abstract: To improve the efficiency of a reduction reaction. A power source applies a voltage to an oxidation electrode immersed in an aqueous solution in an oxidation tank and a reduction electrode immersed in an aqueous solution in a reduction tank, the voltage having a voltage value that changes with a predetermined cycle to be a voltage value at which ions can be desorbed from a surface of the oxidation electrode and a surface of the reduction electrode during one cycle of the voltage change. The frequency of the voltage is set within a range of 10 Hz to 1 kHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sayumi Sato, Yuya Uzumaki, Yoko Ono, Takeshi Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20230018573
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a photographed target matching method and the like which allows video image data including a plurality of photographed targets and sensor data from terminals worn by the targets to be automatically associated with one another, so that a data set for analysis can be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Shiro KUMANO, Takayuki NAKACHI
  • Publication number: 20230013385
    Abstract: A learning apparatus includes: a speaker vector learning unit configured to learn a speaker vector extraction parameter ? based on one or more items of learning speech voice data in a speaker vector voice database; a non-speaker-individuality sound model learning unit configured to create a probability distribution model using a frequency component of one or more items of non-speaker-individuality sound data in a non-speaker-individuality sound database and calculate an internal parameter of the probability distribution model; and an age level estimation model learning unit configured to extract a speaker vector from voice data in an age level estimation model-learning voice database using the speaker vector extraction parameter ?, calculate a non-speaker-individuality sound likelihood vector from voice data in the age level estimation model-learning voice database using the internal parameters ? and ?, and learn, with input of the speaker vector and the non-speaker-individuality sound likelihood vector, a pa
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki KITAGISHI, Takeshi MORI, Hosana KAMIYAMA, Atsushi ANDO, Satoshi KOBASHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230020465
    Abstract: A line-of-sight determination method includes: a point cloud data acquisition step of acquiring point cloud data including a first position indicating a position of a first wireless station and a plurality of second positions indicating positions on a structure serving as a candidate in which a second wireless station opposing the first wireless station is to be installed; and a line-of-sight determination step of determining whether or not there is a line of sight between the first position and at least one of the second positions, and determining whether or not there is a line of sight between the first wireless station and the structure based on the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuki WAI, Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Hideyuki TSUBOI, Daisei UCHIDA, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Kazuto GOTO, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20230018658
    Abstract: An action control device includes a compression process processing unit that envisages a first virtual plane and a second virtual plane, pushes control subjects that are arranged or control subjects that were arranged in a set of starting positions and that abut the second virtual plane in a movement direction of the second virtual plane, thereby compressing the control subjects such that none of the control subjects exceeds the first virtual plane and such that the coordinate values thereof in a first direction remain at or below Xthresh, envisages a third virtual plane and a fourth virtual plane, pushes the control subjects that are included in the compressed shaped acquired using the first and second virtual planes and that abut the fourth virtual plane in a movement direction of the fourth virtual plane, thereby compressing the control subjects such that none of the control subjects exceeds the third virtual plane and such that the coordinate values thereof in a second direction remain at or below Ythresh
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20230014267
    Abstract: A display device for displaying an utterance and information extracted from the utterance, includes an input/output interface configured to display display blocks for a series of dialogue scenes in chronological order of acquisition of utterances, each of the series of dialogue scenes being indicated by dialogue scene data stored in correspondence with utterance data indicating a corresponding one of the utterances, display dialogue scene information within each of the display blocks for the series of dialogue scenes, the dialogue scene information including the corresponding one of the utterances, an utterance type indicating a type of the corresponding one of the utterances, or utterance focus point information of the corresponding one of the utterances, and switch, based on an operation input, between displaying the dialogue scene information and not displaying the dialogue scene information within each of the display blocks for the series of dialogue scenes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NODA, Setsuo YAMADA, Takaaki HASEGAWA