Patents by Inventor Reishi Kondo

Reishi Kondo 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).

  • Publication number: 20220028372
    Abstract: The acoustic feature extraction means 82 extracts an acoustic feature, using predetermined parameters, from an acoustic pattern obtained as a result of processing on an acoustic signal. The language vector calculation means 83 calculates a language vector from a given label that represents an attribute of a source of the acoustic signal and that is associated with the acoustic pattern. The similarity calculation means 84 calculates a similarity between the acoustic feature and the language vector. The parameter update means 85 learns parameters so that the similarity becomes larger, and updates the predetermined parameters to the parameters obtained by learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO, Sakiko MISHIMA
  • Patent number: 11200882
    Abstract: A signal processing device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: extract, from a target signal, a feature value representing a feature of the target signal; calculate, based on the extracted feature value, signal element bases capable of representing a plurality of object signals by linear combination, and information of the linear combination, weights each representing intensities of the plurality of object signals included in the target signal; derive, based on the weights, information of a target object signal included in the target signal, the target object signal being at least one type of the plurality of object signals; and output information of the target object signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Komatsu, Reishi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20210358513
    Abstract: A purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a source separation method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a source separation apparatus. The source separation apparatus includes an input means for inputting mixture data obtained by mixing a plurality of data; and a matrix decomposition means for separating the input mixture data by estimating a mixing/unmixing matrix, a basis matrix for each source, an activations matrix for each source and a reliability vector for each source, and a means for unmixing of input mixture data using the estimated matrices from the matrix decomposition means to estimate the sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Chaitanya Prasad NARISETTY, Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20210263126
    Abstract: A wave-source-direction estimation device includes: a plurality of input units that acquires, as input signals, electrical signals based on waves detected by a plurality of sensors; a signal selection unit that selects a plurality of pairs that are each a combination of two input signals from among a plurality of the input signals; a relative delay time calculation unit that calculates, as relative delay times, arrival time differences of the waves at the sensors that are supply sources of the two input signals composing each of the pairs, for each wave source direction; and an integrated-estimated-direction-information calculation unit that generates per-frequency estimated direction information for each of the pairs using the input signals composing each of the pairs and the relative delay times of each of the pairs and generates integrated estimated direction information by assigning a weight to and integrating the estimated direction information on all the pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yumi ARAI, Reishi KONDO, Yuzo SENDA
  • Publication number: 20210263125
    Abstract: A wave-source-direction estimation device includes: input units that acquire, as input signals, electrical signals that have been converted from waves acquired by sensors; a signal selection unit that selects at least two pairs that are each a combination of at least two input signals from among the input signals; a relative delay time calculation unit that calculates, as relative delay times, arrival time differences of the waves for each wave source searching direction between the at least two input signals composing one of the pairs of the input signals; at least one per-frequency estimated-direction-information generation unit that uses the pairs of the input signals and the relative delay times to generate estimated direction information on a wave source of the waves for each frequency; and an integration unit that integrates the estimated direction information generated for each frequency by the per-frequency estimated-direction-information generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yumi ARAI, Yuzo SENDA, Reishi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20210256312
    Abstract: An anomaly detection apparatus comprises a pattern storage part, first long time-span feature extraction part, a pattern feature calculation part, and a score calculation part. The pattern storage part stores a signal pattern model trained based on an acoustic signal for training in a first time-span and a feature for training being calculated from signal for training in a second time-span that is longer than first time-span. The first long time-span feature extraction part extracts a long time-span feature for detection associated with the feature for training from a signal being a detection target. The pattern feature calculation part calculates a signal pattern feature related to a signal being a detection target based on the signal being a detection target, the feature for detection, and the signal pattern model. The score calculation part calculates score to detect anomaly in the signal being detection target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO, Tomoki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210224580
    Abstract: A signal processing device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: extract, from a target signal, a feature amount of the target signal; repeatedly calculate, based on the extracted feature amount, a signal element basis representing a plurality of types of object signals by linear combination, and information of the linear combination, a weight representing an intensity of an object signal included in the target signal, and update information of the linear combination, based on the feature amount, the signal element basis, and the weight, until a predetermined condition is satisfied; derive, based on the weight, information of a target object signal being at least one type of the object signal included in the target signal; and output information of the target object signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO
  • Patent number: 11011185
    Abstract: Provided is a processing device capable of, on the basis of data prepared by a recorder that only has recording function, acquiring information related to a time when the data was prepared. The processing device includes an acquisition unit for acquiring the recorded audio data, and an identification unit for detecting a sound signal that is included in the audio data and transmitted from an information transmission device and allows the time at which the signal was recorded to be identified, and identifying the time when other signals included in the audio data were recorded on the basis of the sound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reishi Kondo, Yuzo Senda
  • Publication number: 20210133494
    Abstract: An anomaly detection apparatus extracts a circumstantial feature value for anomaly detection corresponding to a circumstantial feature value for learning from other modal signal for anomaly detection different in modal from acoustic, calculates a signal pattern feature related to an acoustic signal of anomaly detection target based on the acoustic signal of anomaly detection target, the circumstantial feature value for anomaly detection and a signal pattern model learned based on an acoustic signal for learning and the circumstantial feature value for learning calculated from other modal signal for learning, and calculates an anomaly score for performing an anomaly detection of the acoustic signal of anomaly detection target based on the signal pattern feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20210074268
    Abstract: A pattern recognition apparatus includes: a model storage part that stores a model(s) generated by using transfer path information indicating a difference of transfer paths of a signal(s) for training, additional to the signal(s) for training, and a pattern recognition part that inputs an input signal and transfer path information indicating a difference of transfer paths of the input signal, and performs pattern recognition of the input signal by using the model(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20210064928
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus acquires a plurality of training data, extracts feature data from each training data, and divides the training data using the extracted feature data into a plurality of data clusters. The information processing apparatus performs for each data cluster: extracting a feature matrix from the training data in the data cluster; and perform matrix decomposition on the feature matrix to generate a first basis matrix. The information processing apparatus performs dimensionality reduction on a concatenation of a plurality of the first basis matrices to generate a second basis matrix. The information processing apparatus performs matrix decomposition on a concatenation of a plurality of the feature matrices using the second basis matrix, thereby generating an activations matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chaitanya NARISETTY, Reishi KONDO, Tatsuya KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210010855
    Abstract: A memory is configured to store instructions and a processor is configured to execute the instructions, and the instructions comprise: propagation path estimation apparatus comprises calculating feature value from output signals from a plurality of sensors, and determining a propagation path corresponding to the feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Reishi KONDO, Tatsuya KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200395002
    Abstract: A signal source identification device includes: a feature value calculation unit configured to calculate feature values corresponding to paths where signals from generation sources of the signals transmit, based on signals received by a plurality of sensors; and an identification unit configured to identify whether or not a feature value calculated by the feature value calculation unit is a signal from a predetermined signal source by using an identification range that is a range within which feature values based on signals from the predetermined signal source fall and that is previously determined based on the feature values calculated by the feature value calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Reishi KONDO, Yuzo SENDA
  • Patent number: 10817719
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a basis storage that stores an acoustic event basis group; a model storage that stores an identification model, as a feature amount, a combination of activation levels of spectral; an identification signal analysis unit that, upon input of a spectrogram of an acoustic signal for identification, performs sound source separation on the spectrogram by using a spectral basis set that is obtained by appending spectral bases corresponding to an unknown acoustic event that is an acoustic event other than the acoustic event specified as a detection target to the acoustic event basis group and causing only unknown spectral bases within the spectral basis set to be learned, and thereby calculating activation levels of spectral bases of the acoustic events in the spectrogram of the acoustic signal for identification; and a signal identify unit that identifies an acoustic event included in the acoustic signal for identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Komatsu, Reishi Kondo
  • Patent number: 10679646
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a prior distribution storage that stores a prior distribution group that is a set of prior distributions representing representative spectral shapes of spectral bases of an acoustic event specified as a detection target, and a basis generation unit that, using as input a spectrogram for basis generation, generates an acoustic event basis group that is a set of the spectral bases of the acoustic event specified as a detection target. The basis generation unit performs sound source separation on the spectrogram for basis generation and thereby generates an acoustic event basis group, using respective prior distributions included in a prior distribution group as a constraint for spectral bases of a corresponding acoustic event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Komatsu, Reishi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20200152171
    Abstract: A signal processing device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: extract, from a target signal, a feature value representing a feature of the target signal; calculate, based on the extracted feature value, signal element bases capable of representing a plurality of object signals by linear combination, and information of the linear combination, weights each representing intensities of the plurality of object signals included in the target signal; derive, based on the weights, information of a target object signal included in the target signal, the target object signal being at least one type of the plurality of object signals; and output information of the target object signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20190251988
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a prior distribution storage that stores a prior distribution group that is a set of prior distributions representing representative spectral shapes of spectral bases of an acoustic event specified as a detection target, and a basis generation unit that, using as input a spectrogram for basis generation, generates an acoustic event basis group that is a set of the spectral bases of the acoustic event specified as a detection target. The basis generation unit performs sound source separation on the spectrogram for basis generation and thereby generates an acoustic event basis group, using respective prior distributions included in a prior distribution group as a constraint for spectral bases of a corresponding acoustic event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20190251989
    Abstract: Provided is a processing device capable of, on the basis of data prepared by a recorder that only has recording function, acquiring information related to a time when the data was prepared. The processing device includes an acquisition unit for acquiring the recorded audio data, and an identification unit for detecting a sound signal that is included in the audio data and transmitted from an information transmission device and allows the time at which the signal was recorded to be identified, and identifying the time when other signals included in the audio data were recorded on the basis of the sound signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Reishi KONDO, Yuzo SENDA
  • Publication number: 20190243872
    Abstract: An anomaly detecting device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations includes: when first series data are input, extracting a series feature amount being a feature amount of a signal included in the first series data; calculating a series probability distribution being a probability distribution which the series feature amount follows; storing a reference probability distribution being a probability distribution designated as a reference for the series feature amount in the first series data; calculating a state feature amount representing a fluctuation condition of the series probability distribution with respect to the reference probability distribution; and detecting an anomaly of the first series data, based on a plurality of the state feature amounts calculated from the first series data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20190188468
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a basis storage that stores an acoustic event basis group; a model storage that stores an identification model, as a feature amount, a combination of activation levels of spectral; an identification signal analysis unit that, upon input of a spectrogram of an acoustic signal for identification, performs sound source separation on the spectrogram by using a spectral basis set that is obtained by appending spectral bases corresponding to an unknown acoustic event that is an acoustic event other than the acoustic event specified as a detection target to the acoustic event basis group and causing only unknown spectral bases within the spectral basis set to be learned, and thereby calculating activation levels of spectral bases of the acoustic events in the spectrogram of the acoustic signal for identification; and a signal identify unit that identifies an acoustic event included in the acoustic signal for identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOMATSU, Reishi KONDO