Patents Assigned to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
  • Patent number: 12206689
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device is provided with a learning unit that generates a detection model using a communication log during normal operation of a communication apparatus as learning data and an anomaly detection unit that detects anomaly of the communication apparatus using the generated detection model. The anomaly detection device is further provided with a data acquisition unit that acquires a communication log (second communication log) generated during a predetermined period later than a first communication log and a determination unit that instructs relearning using the second communication log when there is difference information between the learning data (first communication log) of the current detection model and the second communication log and when the number of pieces of additional information (information on the additional flow) or the number of pieces of deletion information (information on the delete flow) included in the difference information satisfies predetermined evaluation criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Izumi, Tomoyasu Sato, Takeshi Nakatsuru, Takuya Minami, Naoto Fujiki
  • Patent number: 12203823
    Abstract: A looseness detection sensor for detecting looseness of a bolt for fixing a component, including: a resonance unit arranged adjacent to a head portion of the bolt and made of an insulating material confining a high-frequency signal input externally; and a conductive member in conduction with the component across the resonance unit, wherein the conductive member is a cap put on the head portion of the bolt and includes a protrusion contacting a surface of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Eri Matsunaga, Tadashi Minotani, Masahito Nakamura, Masayuki Tsuda
  • Patent number: 12203968
    Abstract: A high-frequency noise detection antenna is provided with a fine coaxial line that includes a center conductor, an insulator provided so as to surround the whole periphery of the center conductor, and a ground shield provided so as to surround the whole periphery of the insulator, and in which a tip of the center conductor is exposed so as to protrude from the end of the insulator and the end of the ground shield, and an exposed ground shield provided so as to protrude from the end of the ground shield and surround a part in a circumferential direction of an exposed portion from which the center conductor protrudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa Tanobe, Yuichi Okabe, Satoshi Tsunashima
  • Patent number: 12204852
    Abstract: Provided are a sentence proofreading assistance apparatus, a sentence proofreading assistance method, and a sentence proofreading assistance program for assisting in sentence proofreading when creating a picture book. The sentence proofreading assistance apparatus includes a requirement input unit that receives information on a development level of a target person and information on a purpose of creating a picture book, an acquisition unit that acquires a check content and a rule corresponding to both pieces of information received by the requirement input unit, a sentence analysis unit that analyzes, when receiving a sentence of a picture book to be proofread, the sentence of the picture book, and a proofreading information output unit that checks an analysis result by the sentence analysis unit in accordance with the check content and outputs proofreading information based on the rule for proofreading the sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ai Nakane, Momoko Nakatani, Harumi Saito, Yumiko Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20250022260
    Abstract: A learning model construction device (3A) according to the present disclosure includes: a plurality of learning units (354-k) that constructs a respective plurality of learning models by using a respective plurality of loss functions different from each other on the basis of teacher data in which image data indicating a learning image is associated with a true value of a scale of the learning image; a plurality of verification units (355-k) that respectively calculates, for an optimal verification image, a plurality of estimated values; a plurality of correlation calculation units (356-k) that calculates respective correlations of the true value with the plurality of estimated values of the scale; and an optimal learning model selection unit (357) that selects an optimal learning model that is a learning model of which a corresponding one of the correlations is the highest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki WATANABE, Daisuke UCHIBORI, Yosuke SAKURADA, Atsushi ARATAKE
  • Publication number: 20250022469
    Abstract: A classification device includes a first identification unit that receives, as input, utterance data including an utterance of a first speaker and an utterance of a second speaker in a dialogue and, using a first identification model/rule, identifies respective utterance types of the utterances included in the utterance data, a second identification unit that receives, as input, the utterance data and the utterance type of each of the utterances, using a second identification model/rule preset according to the utterance types, identifies a first identification utterance indicating an inquiry and a second identification utterance in response to the first identification utterance in the utterance data, and outputs pair data of utterances indicating the first identification utterance and the second identification utterance, and a result classification unit that receives, as input, the output pair data of utterances, and, using a result classification model/rule, classifies a response result of the dialogue inclu
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Setsuo YAMADA, Takafumi HIKICHI, Satoshi MIEDA
  • Publication number: 20250024382
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a determination unit and a transmission unit. The determination unit determines a target of transmission power regulation based on a beacon frame. The transmission unit, in a case where it is determined that the target of regulation is not a transmission power density, transmits a first frame in a first frequency band, and in a case where it is determined that the target of regulation is a transmission power density, transmits a second frame which is a duplicate of the first frame in a second frequency band while transmitting the first frame in the first frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Hanae OTANI, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20250021651
    Abstract: A trace information generation device (10) includes an acquisition unit (15a) that acquires behavior information related to a behavior of malware and collection information related to a date and time when the malware is collected, a first classification unit (15c) that classifies the malware into a first group based on the behavior information, a second classification unit (15e) that further classifies the malware classified into the first group into a second group based on the collection information, a detection unit (15b) that detects an activity trace of the malware from the behavior information, and a generation unit (15f) that generates trace information of the malware from the activity trace indicated by the malware classified into the second group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori USUI, Tomonori IKUSE, Yuhei KAWAKOYA, Makoto IWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20250021373
    Abstract: A control device includes an activation unit configured to cause another virtual machine or another container to activate an application that is activated in a virtual machine or a container constructed in a server and periodically transmits control information to a control target device, a communication setting unit configured to perform, in a case where the application has been activated, setting for enabling communication between the activated application and the control target device, and a deriving unit configured to derive, as a timing at which the activation unit activates the application, a timing at which the setting is not performed between transmission of the control information from the application and reception of the control information by the control target device, wherein the activation unit causes the another virtual machine or the another container to activate the application at the derived timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sei KOU, Takashi YAMADA, Tomoya HATANO
  • Publication number: 20250018518
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical multiplexing/demultiplexing circuit manufacturing device and an optical multiplexing/demultiplexing circuit manufacturing method for polishing a portion of a side surface of an optical fiber core wire by a desired polishing amount without measuring optical loss by cutting an active optical fiber core wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takui UEMATSU, Kazutaka NOTO, Hiroyuki IIDA, Hidenobu HIROTA, Kazunori KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250024499
    Abstract: The wireless communication system includes a plurality of wireless terminals each including a plurality of wireless interfaces corresponding to a plurality of channels in different frequency bands, and a wireless base station device that establishes wireless communication with the wireless terminals. Each of the wireless terminals performs channel sensing, and transmits sensing information including an identifier of a sensed channel, a sensing result of the channel, and an identifier of the wireless terminal. The wireless base station device calculates and stores a sensing time for each of the wireless terminals on the basis of the sensing information, the sensing time being an accumulated value of time required for sensing by the wireless terminal, and allocates a reward according to the sensing time to each of the plurality of wireless terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku OMIYA, Junichi IWATANI, Akira KISHIDA, Shinya OTSUKI, Yusuke ASAI, Tomoaki OGAWA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20250024351
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a multi-device-compatible base station to mixedly accommodate one or more first wireless terminals capable of performing simultaneous communication by a plurality of different communication schemes. There is a control device configured to control the base station. The control device includes a collection unit that collects scheme information regarding the communication schemes by which the first wireless terminals are able to perform communication and scheme information regarding the communication schemes by which the second wireless terminals are able to perform communication. There is also a distribution control unit that controls distribution of traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi IWATANI, Yusuke ASAI, Akira KISHIDA, Shinya OTSUKI, Riku OMIYA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Patent number: 12199664
    Abstract: A light leakage confirmation method comprising: an excitation light incident step in which an excitation light output unit connected to a first end of a first optical transmission line outputs an excitation light and makes the excitation light incident on the first optical transmission line; a reflection step in which an excitation light reflection unit connected to a second end of the first optical transmission line reflects the excitation light which has been incident in the excitation light incident step; a reflected light incident step of making a reflected light which has been reflected in the reflection step incident on the first optical transmission line; a reflected light measurement step in which the excitation light output unit measures an intensity of the reflected light; and a leakage determination step of determining whether or not the excitation light is leaked on a basis of the intensity of the excitation light and the intensity of the reflected light which has been measured in the reflected li
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Igarashi, Masamichi Fujiwara, Takuya Kanai
  • Patent number: 12197006
    Abstract: To provide an optical multiplexing circuit that can accurately monitor light of a plurality of wavelengths, and that can mitigate allowable errors in manufacturing. The present invention includes a plurality of branching units that each divide light output from a corresponding one of a plurality of input waveguides; a multiplexing unit that multiplexes beams each being one beam of the light divided by each of the plurality of branching units; an output waveguide that outputs the light multiplexed by the multiplexing unit; and a plurality of monitoring waveguides that each output another beam of the light divided by the plurality of branching units, wherein a plurality of optical multiplexing circuits including multiplexing units having different multiplexing characteristics are provided on a same substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Sakamoto, Toshikazu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12197540
    Abstract: A learning method includes a step in which a device acquires a plurality of samples, a step in which the device divides the plurality of samples into a plurality of clusters, a step in which the device extracts samples from each of the plurality of clusters according to an effectiveness of each cluster received from a learning apparatus, a step in which the device transmits the extracted samples to the learning apparatus, a step in which the learning apparatus learns the extracted samples, a step in which the learning apparatus calculates, for each cluster, an effectiveness in learning the samples belonging to a cluster from learning results, and a step in which the learning apparatus transmits the effectiveness of each cluster to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Keiichiro Kashiwagi, Yui Saito, Tomoyuki Fujino
  • Patent number: 12200092
    Abstract: A synchronization control device receives a trigger signal as input, outputs a first output signal for presenting a specific sensing target of a first sensor at a first time point corresponding to an input time point of the trigger signal, to a first device that presents the specific sensing target of the first sensor, and outputs a second output signal that instructs start of sensing in a second sensor different from the first sensor at a second time point corresponding to the input time point of the trigger signal, to the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Matsumura, Naoki Saijo, Makio Kashino
  • Patent number: 12198550
    Abstract: A video distribution device according to an embodiment is a video distribution device that distributes videos from a plurality of cameras installed in each of a plurality of vehicles that perform autonomous driving to a terminal, and includes a probability of collision calculating unit that calculates a probability of collision indicating a probability of the vehicles colliding with an object by a predetermined time of day, a selecting unit that selects, out of the videos of the plurality of cameras, video from a camera installed in a vehicle of which the probability of collision is highest, and a control unit for setting video quality of the video of the selected camera to be high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma Tsubaki, Ryota Ishibashi, Yuki Nakahara, Kotaro Ono, Takeshi Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 12197692
    Abstract: A storage unit stores display information related to display of UI extension components of GUI components constituting a predetermined application for each user type including an implementer and a supervisor, and an operation rule that specifies an operation according to the user type when there is an input for a predetermined UI extension component. A display control unit displays, to the supervisor, a UI extension component that accepts an input as to whether or not to grant approval while referring to the display information and the operation rule when detecting an input for the predetermined UI extension component displayed to the implementer. An input execution unit executes, to a target GUI component, the input for the UI extension component made by the implementer while referring to the operation rule when detecting an input of approval for the UI extension component displayed to the supervisor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Mori, Taisuke Wakasugi, Masashi Tadokoro, Akira Kataoka, Haruo Oishi
  • Patent number: 12197051
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an optical inspection circuit includes: an optical modulator comprising an optical waveguide on a substrate, the optical waveguide having a core comprising a semiconductor; a first input waveguide optically connected to the optical modulator, the first input waveguide having a core comprising the semiconductor; an output waveguide optically connected to the optical modulator, the output waveguide having a core comprising the semiconductor; a photodiode on the substrate in a vicinity of the optical modulator; a wire electrically connecting the optical modulator and the photodiode; and a second input waveguide optically connected to the photodiode, the second input waveguide having a core comprising the semiconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukuda, Toru Miura, Yoshiho Maeda
  • Patent number: 12199665
    Abstract: For an optical monitor device that detects the intensity of light propagating through an optical fiber, a reduction in size and cost of the optical monitor device are to be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Koyama, Masaaki Takaya, Yoshiteru Abe