Patents by Inventor Masaharu Morimoto
Masaharu Morimoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240086812Abstract: A method, an apparatus (70) and a program(s) for measuring productivity are provided. The method comprises: identifying a first movement based on at least one image frame, wherein the first movement matches a start action which define a cycle of movements (S1); identifying a second movement based on at least one image frame, wherein the second movement matches an end action which define the cycle (S2); and determining a period of time between the identified first movement and the identified second movement to measure productivity (S3).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Isaac PEK, Masaharu MORIMOTO, Hayato CHISHAKI
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Publication number: 20240062385Abstract: Present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for monitoring motion in a video stream. The method comprises: identifying a motion of interest from motion present in a virtual stream, the virtual stream covering an area of the video stream at which motion is present, the motion of interest being a motion that is targeted for monitoring, wherein the area of the video stream being covered is controllable by a pan tilt value of the virtual stream; and adjusting the pan tilt value of the virtual stream to position the motion of interest at a centre of the virtual stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Ramarajulu SRINIVASAN, Masaharu MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 11809297Abstract: Provided is a data analysis device comprising: an analysis subject acquisition part for acquiring data to be analyzed (analysis subject data); a precision estimation part for estimating the analysis precision of the analysis subject data; a selection part for selecting an analysis module to be used in analyzing the analysis subject data on the basis of the result of estimating the analysis precision of the analysis subject data and information indicating the analysis time of the analysis subject data; and an analysis execution part for analyzing the analysis subject data using the analysis module having been selected by the selection part. According to this configuration, in cases where a data analysis device configures a data analysis processing method, the operator of the data analysis device does not have to preset a determination standard for configuring the processing method.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato Itsumi, Masaharu Morimoto
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Publication number: 20220051413Abstract: In an object tracking device, an object detection unit detects an object from video data using a plurality of object detection programs of different detection accuracy. The object tracking unit tracks the object from the detected position of the object by the object detection unit. The control unit controls the object detection programs used by the object detection unit based on the detection result of the object by the object detection unit and the tracking result of the object by the object tracking unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hayato ITSUMI, Masaharu MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20210019552Abstract: Provided is a data analysis device comprising: an analysis subject acquisition part for acquiring data to be analyzed (analysis subject data); a precision estimation part for estimating the analysis precision of the analysis subject data; a selection part for selecting an analysis module to be used in analyzing the analysis subject data on the basis of the result of estimating the analysis precision of the analysis subject data and information indicating the analysis time of the analysis subject data; and an analysis execution part for analyzing the analysis subject data using the analysis module having been selected by the selection part. According to this configuration, in cases where a data analysis device configures a data analysis processing method, the operator of the data analysis device does not have to preset a determination standard for configuring the processing method.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hayato ITSUMI, Masaharu MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190245807Abstract: A communication path setting apparatus 20 is provided with an allocation unit 21 that, when a new communication path is set in a communication network in which predetermined communication paths constituted by an active path and a redundant path are set, allocates a network capacity to the active path constituting the new communication path in such a manner that a network capacity reserved for the redundant path is shared by the active path constituting the new communication path and by the redundant path.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2017Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Masaharu MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 10187271Abstract: A network-diagram rendering system for rendering a network diagram including nodes and links as elements of a network configuration is provided with: an index calculation unit (81) which calculates, for each node, an index indicating a degree that the node is a primary node in the network configuration, using network configuration information as information to be obtained from the network configuration; and a primary node coefficient setting unit (82) which sets a primary node coefficient for the node to be higher as the index increases, the primary node coefficient being a value indicating a degree of not changing a rendering position of a network diagram associated with a change in the network configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Okano, Yohei Iizawa, Masaharu Morimoto
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Patent number: 10063420Abstract: A control apparatus comprises: a network management unit that holds topology information and flow information; a network division unit that divides a plurality of switches into a core switch(es) and edge switches; a core network management unit that holds topology information about a core network including the core switch(es); an edge network management unit that holds topology information about an edge network including the edge switches; a core control logic that generates flow information based on the topology information about the core network and stores the flow information in the core network management unit; and an edge control logic that generates flow information based on the topology information about the edge network and stores the flow information in the edge network management unit. When the flow information about the core network or the edge network is generated, the flow information held in the network management unit is updated.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masaharu Morimoto
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Patent number: 9967194Abstract: The objective of the invention is to enable sharing, between layers in a network in which the layers are used to perform communications, resource information and information required for using paths. A network control system includes: a lower layer information storage unit, a lower layer control information conversion unit, an upper layer information storage unit, an upper layer control information conversion unit, an integrated layer information storage unit and a layer integration unit. The layer integration unit integrates, as virtual links, the information of flows, which are representative of communications among terminals in the lower layer, with the network information of the upper layer, thereby constituting the network information of the integrated layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaharu Morimoto, Kazuya Suzuki, Yohei Iizawa
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Publication number: 20170310597Abstract: The objective of the invention is to enable sharing, between layers in a network in which the layers are used to perform communications, resource information and information required for using paths. A network control system includes: a lower layer information storage unit, a lower layer control information conversion unit, an upper layer information storage unit, an upper layer control information conversion unit, an integrated layer information storage unit and a layer integration unit. The layer integration unit integrates, as virtual links, the information of flows, which are representative of communications among terminals in the lower layer, with the network information of the upper layer, thereby constituting the network information of the integrated layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaharu MORIMOTO, Kazuya SUZUKI, Yohei IIZAWA
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Patent number: 9794111Abstract: A communication system includes: a network configuration memory that stores network configuration information of a first layer in which an area of the first layer whose low level configuration is desired to be concealed is represented by a preset symbol and that also stores network configuration information of a second layer showing the area represented by the preset symbol. The system also includes a network configuration management section that allows a first user to manage a network of the first layer using the network configuration information of the first layer and that also allows a second user to manage a network of the second layer using at least the network configuration information of the second layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Yamabe, Masaharu Morimoto
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Patent number: 9560177Abstract: A switch apparatus includes a storage storing a table, the table including rules and actions corresponding to the rules, and a controller including a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive the rules and the actions from a control apparatus, identify, based on the rules, a received packet, duplicate a part of a header of the identified packet as an additional header when the identified packet includes a target of encapsulation, encapsulate the identified packet by the additional header, and process, based on the actions, the identified packet.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masaharu Morimoto
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Publication number: 20160373305Abstract: A control apparatus comprises: a network management unit that holds topology information and flow information; a network division unit that divides a plurality of switches into a core switch(es) and edge switches; a core network management unit that holds topology information about a core network including the core switch(es); an edge network management unit that holds topology information about an edge network including the edge switches; a core control logic that generates flow information based on the topology information about the core network and stores the flow information in the core network management unit; and an edge control logic that generates flow information based on the topology information about the edge network and stores the flow information in the edge network management unit. When the flow information about the core network or the edge network is generated, the flow information held in the network management unit is updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventor: Masaharu MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20160294637Abstract: A network-diagram rendering system for rendering a network diagram including nodes and links as elements of a network configuration is provided with: an index calculation unit (81) which calculates, for each node, an index indicating a degree that the node is a primary node in the network configuration, using network configuration information as information to be obtained from the network configuration; and a primary node coefficient setting unit (82) which sets a primary node coefficient for the node to be higher as the index increases, the primary node coefficient being a value indicating a degree of not changing a rendering position of a network diagram associated with a change in the network configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Okano, Yohei Iizawa, Masaharu Morimoto
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Publication number: 20160294634Abstract: A network statistical information providing system comprises: a domain boundary management unit that manages link information between a first domain configured to include a device capable of acquiring statistical information having a predetermined granularity and a second domain that does not include a device capable of acquiring statistical information having the predetermined granularity; and a statistical information conversion unit that classifies statistical information acquired from the first domain into statistical information that does not belong to a domain boundary and statistical information that belongs to the domain boundary using the link information, performs predetermined processing on the statistical information that belongs to the domain boundary, and provides the processed statistical information as statistical information straddling a plurality of domains.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Masaharu MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 9401865Abstract: A network appliance redundancy system includes: a first switch arranged upstream of two different models of network appliances each of which switchably operates in an active system and a standby system; a second switch arranged downstream of the two different models of network appliances; and a control apparatus comprising a translation rule management unit learning a header translation rule(s) of a network appliance operating in the active system on the basis of header information of a packet transmitted from the first switch and header information of a packet received by the second switch via the network appliance operating in the active system and instructing, when the appliances in the active and standby systems are switched, the second switch to rewrite header information on the basis of the header translation rule(s) so as to obtain the same output packet as that from the network appliance operating in the active system.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masaharu Morimoto
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Publication number: 20160198025Abstract: A switch apparatus includes a storage storing a table, the table including rules and actions corresponding to the rules, and a controller including a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive the rules and the actions from a control apparatus, identify, based on the rules, a received packet, duplicate a part of a header of the identified packet as an additional header when the identified packet includes a target of encapsulation, encapsulate the identified packet by the additional header, and process, based on the actions, the identified packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2016Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventor: MASAHARU MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 9313128Abstract: In a flow-based network such as an open flow network system, even when a network appliance such as NAT and NAPT for translating a packet header is passed through, a correspondence relation of two flows before and after the passing can be grasped to make it possible to trace the flow in end-to-end. Specifically, a packet is encapsulated in a switch (or in a controller requested from the switch). By encapsulating by using the same header as a current header, two kinds of headers before the translation and after the translation are attached to the packet after the packet phases through the network appliance.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masaharu Morimoto
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Publication number: 20150249565Abstract: A communication system includes: a network configuration memory that stores network configuration information of a first layer in which an area of the first layer whose low level configuration is desired to be concealed is represented by a preset symbol and that also stores network configuration information of a second layer showing the area represented by the preset symbol. The system also includes a network configuration management section that allows a first user to manage a network of the first layer using the network configuration information of the first layer and that also allows a second user to manage a network of the second layer using at least the network configuration information of the second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2013Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Tomohisa Yamabe, Masaharu Morimoto
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Publication number: 20150055656Abstract: A network appliance redundancy system includes: a first switch arranged upstream of two different models of network appliances each of which switchably operates in an active system and a standby system; a second switch arranged downstream of the two different models of network appliances; and a control apparatus comprising a translation rule management unit learning a header translation rule(s) of a network appliance operating in the active system on the basis of header information of a packet transmitted from the first switch and header information of a packet received by the second switch via the network appliance operating in the active system and instructing, when the appliances in the active and standby systems are switched, the second switch to rewrite header information on the basis of the header translation rule(s) so as to obtain the same output packet as that from the network appliance operating in the active system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Masaharu Morimoto