Patents Assigned to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
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Publication number: 20240135155Abstract: In a data processing device, a fixed-point position control unit determines, as first control. The fixed-point position control unit causes a detection calculation unit to perform calculation processing on processing target data at a processing point in time. The saturation rate control unit instructs, as second control to be repeated by the fixed-point position control unit, the fixed-point position control unit to move at least the fixed-point position as control to increase a lower limit saturation rate proportional to a magnitude of a counted lower limit counter value with respect to a result of the first control. The fixed-point position control unit performs, as the second control, a predetermined determination on the basis of the instruction from the saturation rate control unit and the metadata, determines the fixed-point position moved for each layer, and causes calculation processing to be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Saki HATTA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Shuhei YOSHIDA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Yuya OMORI, Ken NAKAMURA, Koyo NITTA
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Publication number: 20240135652Abstract: A delivery control device generates a recognition index on a notification space basis, the recognition index used to recognize the notification space, displays the recognition index in the notification space, and stores the recognition index in management information. The delivery control device instead stores an image characteristic extracted from a content to be displayed in the notification space as the recognition index in the management information. In this state, the delivery control device selects a notification space viewable on the augmented reality display terminal based on information on the position of the augmented reality display terminal held by a user and information on the position of the notification space and transmits the recognition index corresponding to the selected notification space and a notification content to the augmented reality display terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke KONAGAI, Hitoshi SESHIMO
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Publication number: 20240137309Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to make multipath technology applicable to UDP. The present disclosure is a communication system in which a plurality of communication devices are connected via a plurality of networks, wherein one of the plurality of communication devices reads application data stored in a UDP payload, and stores information on a multipath option as a part of the application data, and the other one of the plurality of communication devices reads application data stored in a UDP payload, acquires information on a multipath option from the application data, and executes communication via the plurality of networks on the basis of the acquired information on the multipath option.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko IKEDA, Satoshi NARIKAWA, Takuya ABE
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Publication number: 20240137694Abstract: Provided is an acoustic system for a user who uses a seat of an aircraft, an automobile, or the like, which reproduces a sound that cannot be heard by surrounding users without using earphones or headphones.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUKUI, Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Noriyoshi KAMADO, Ryotaro SATO
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Publication number: 20240135950Abstract: A mixed acoustic signal including sound emitted from a plurality of sound sources and sound source video signals representing at least one video of the plurality of sound sources are received as inputs, and at least a separated signal including a signal representing a target sound emitted from one sound source represented by the video is acquired. However, at least the separated signal is acquired using properties of the sound source that affects sound emitted by the sound source acquired from the video and/or features of a structure used for the sound source to emit the sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki MAKISHIMA, Ryo MASUMURA
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Publication number: 20240137114Abstract: A transmission power controller includes: a control unit that outputs, within a range not exceeding a TPC set point, a TPC controlled variable that increases transmission power of a transmission system device more in a case of a larger attenuation of a reception signal received from a communication satellite; a data accumulation unit that accumulates the TPC controlled variable; an appropriate value extraction unit that extracts, as a TPC appropriate set point, the largest TPC controlled variable among the accumulated TPC controlled variables except a top predetermined proportion; and an updating unit that outputs, to the transmission system device, a reference transmission power increase signal that increases the reference transmission power more in a case of a larger difference between the TPC set point and the TPC appropriate set point and updates the TPC set point with the TPC appropriate set point. Thereby, efficient use of a transmitter is enabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi HARADA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Hiroki SHIBAYAMA
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Publication number: 20240137811Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform appropriate communication quality control even when a terminal out of management of a controller is connected to an access point. The present disclosure is a control system for controlling traffic of a wireless network, the control system including: a terminal and an access point that mutually transmit a packet via the wireless network; and a controller that performs transmission control with respect to the terminal and the access point, in which the controller notifies the access point of information of a terminal under management of the own device, and the access point collates information of the terminal a notification of which has been given with information of a terminal connected to the own device, and suppresses notification of transmission permission to an unmanaged terminal different from a terminal under management of the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki SAKAUE, Katsuya MINAMI, Tatsuya FUKUI, Ryohei TSUGAMI
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Publication number: 20240135248Abstract: A support device according to the present disclosure includes a label inference unit that infers inference labels that are labels corresponding to elements included in training data in which elements and correct labels corresponding to the elements are associated with each other using a model that is learned using the training data and infers labels corresponding to the elements, and an evaluation unit that generates training data confirmation screens including elements included in the training data, correct labels of the elements, and inference labels of the elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shota ORIHASHI, Masato SAWADA
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Publication number: 20240135249Abstract: A learning device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a data set division unit (11) as a training data processing unit and a divided data set learning unit (12) as a model learning unit. The data set division unit (11) divides a new training data set into a plurality of divided data sets on the basis of attribute information. After performing model learning processing using an existing model as a learning target model, the divided data set learning unit (12) creates a new model by repeating the model learning processing until all the divided data sets are learned using a learned model created by the model learning processing as a new learning target model.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shota ORIHASHI, Masato SAWADA
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Patent number: 11968324Abstract: In a signal transmission system for transmitting an analog signal, in which a billing signal is superposed on an audio signal, from a transmitting device to a receiving device, the transmitting device includes a separation unit configured to separate the audio signal from the analog signal, an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion on the audio signal separated by the separation unit, a detection unit configured to detect the billing signal from the analog signal, a coding unit configured to encode the billing signal detected by the detection unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the audio signal subjected to the AD conversion by the AD conversion unit and the billing signal encoded by the coding unit to the receiving device, and the receiving device includes a reception unit configured to receive the audio signal and the billing signal transmitted by the transmission unit, a DA conversion unit configured to perform DA conversion on the audio signal received by the reception uniType: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Furuya, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Hayato Fukuzono, Yu Ono, Tsutomu Tatsuta, Tomohiro Nakayama
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Patent number: 11966312Abstract: An operation log visualization device includes processing circuitry configured to store operation logs each containing a captured image of an operation screen captured during an operation and information identifying a position of an operation location in an operation target window on the operation screen, generate images in each of which a portion corresponding to the position in the captured image is highlighted, and generate a flowchart by arranging the generated images in an order of processing of operation logs corresponding to the images.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yuki Urabe, Kimio Tsuchikawa, Shiro Ogasawara
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Patent number: 11965758Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a Brillouin optical sensing device and an optical sensing method capable of reducing introduction costs. The Brillouin optical sensing device according to the present invention includes: a sensing fiber 90 in which a plurality of optical fibers having Brillouin frequency shift characteristics different from each other are arranged in parallel; an optical measuring instrument 11 that launches an optical pulse into at least two of the optical fibers of the sensing fiber 90 to generate Brillouin scattering lights and measures a beat frequency of a beat signal between the Brillouin scattering lights at any position of the sensing fiber 90; and an arithmetic processing unit 12 that acquires a physical quantity of the sensing fiber 90 at said any position based on the beat frequency acquired by the optical measuring instrument 11.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Chihiro Kito, Daisuke Iida, Junichi Kawataka, Hiroyuki Oshida
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Patent number: 11967993Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus for making connection to a communication network, including: an optical network unit; and an external power supply input/output terminal, the communication apparatus being configured such that electrical power is fed to the optical network unit from an external terminal that is connected to the external power supply input/output terminal and functions as an auxiliary power supply.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Toshimitsu Tanaka, Naoki Hanaoka, Toshihiro Hayashi, Hiroya Minami, Hidetoshi Takada
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Patent number: 11966082Abstract: Optical alignment between an optical waveguide device and an optical connection part is realized easily and at low cost. An optical circuit in which optical waveguides to be connected to optical fibers are formed includes: an alignment optical waveguide configured to be opposed to, on an optical waveguide edge face to which an optical connection part having guide holes for insertion of core wires of the optical fibers is to be fixed, a guide hole into which an alignment optical fiber is to be inserted; and a light path changing member configured to change a path of light to a vertical direction with respect to the optical axis direction of the core of the alignment optical waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Muranaka, Kota Shikama, Hidetaka Nishi, Ai Yanagihara
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Patent number: 11967603Abstract: Provided is a highly-sensitive image-capture element and an image capture device that can be simply manufactured, have little polarization dependency, and have micro-spectroscopic elements capable of separating incident light into three wavelength ranges integrated facing a pixel array. An image capture element has a transparent layer having a low refractive index made of SiO2 or the like and a plurality of micro-lenses laminated on a pixel array in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element are disposed in an array. Inside the transparent layer having the low refractive index, micro-spectroscopic elements composed of a plurality of microstructures having constant thickness (length in a direction perpendicular to the pixel array) formed of a material such as SiN having a higher refractive index than that of the transparent layer is embedded.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Miyata, Mitsumasa Nakajima, Toshikazu Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11967223Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a hazard prediction method that can perform hazard prediction activities so as to prevent accidents, regardless of skills and personalities of workers.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Sachi Tsujimura, Jun Onishi, Yasuhiro Maehara, Hidenobu Hirota, Naotsugu Ambe
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Patent number: 11968253Abstract: A load balancer includes: a request queue that stores a request scheduled to be transmitted to a server; a transmission unit that transmits a request read from the request queue to the server capable of processing the request; a reception unit that receives a completion message indicating that processing of the request is completed; and a completion list that stores the completion message, and the transmission unit discards a request for which the completion message is stored in the completion list without transmitting the request to the server, and transmits, to the server, a request for which the completion message is not stored in the completion list and stores the request again in the request queue.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Masaki Ueno, Noritaka Horikome, Kenta Shinohara
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Patent number: 11968121Abstract: A control apparatus configured to, in a network constituted by the multiple communication apparatuses, control one or more anchor nodes designated in advance among the multiple communication apparatuses, includes: a route creation unit configured to create route information including labels of communication apparatuses or links to be passed through, based on an input required condition; a route compression unit configured to divide the labels included in the route information in units of anchor nodes, and compress at least a portion of the labels included in the route information into a compressed label that can be expanded in at least one anchor node among the communication apparatuses determined based on the route information, so as not to exceed a processing limit of a communication apparatus determined based on the route information; and a distribution unit configured to distribute information for expanding the compressed label to the at least one anchor node.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yukihiro Togari, Hisashi Kojima, Takeshi Kuwahara
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Patent number: 11967135Abstract: A computer executes a display procedure of displaying a list of character strings registered in advance in response to a predetermined operation for data forming a part of a web page; and a storage procedure of storing a character string selected by a user from the list into a storage device in association with the data, to thereby achieve more efficient labeling of data.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinari Shirai, Yasue Kishino, Shin Mizutani, Takayuki Suyama
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Patent number: 11967121Abstract: A difference detection device includes a difference detection unit configured to, based on association among a first image and a second image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space and encoding information of each of the first image and the second image, detect difference between a third image and a fourth image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space, and the encoding information is information acquired from data including the first image encoded and data including the second image encoded, before inverse transform processing is executed in decoding processing executed on each of the first image and the second image.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Takagi, Kazuya Hayase, Atsushi Shimizu