Patents by Inventor Takanori IWAI

Takanori IWAI 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).

  • Patent number: 11924689
    Abstract: To provide a control device that can prevent an increase in a processing load and that can effectively allocate a radio resource. A control device (30) according the present disclosure includes: a deciding unit (31) configured to decide whether or not an interval between generation of a first flow that is generated when performing radio communication between a communication terminal (10) and a base station (20) and generation of a second flow that is generated after the generation of the first flow exceeds a permissible delay time of the first flow; and a determination unit (32) configured to determine deletion of non-transmitted data related to the communication terminal (10) after lapse of the permissible delay time of the first flow when it is decided that the generation interval exceeds the permissible delay time of the first flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Itoh, Takanori Iwai, Takahiro Nobukiyo, Motoki Morita
  • Publication number: 20240062507
    Abstract: An information processing device receives communication data based on feature data that indicates a feature of presented content of target data; restores the feature data on the basis of the received communication data; restores the target data on the basis of the restored feature data; performs a recognition process on the presented content of the target data on the basis of the restored feature data; and outputs information that indicates the presented content of the restored target data and a recognition result of the recognition process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Florian Beye, Yusuke Shinohara, Hayato Itsumi, Koichi Nihei, Charvi Vitthal, Takanori Iwai
  • Publication number: 20240048703
    Abstract: Estimating determines, on the basis of processed quantized values, a quantization interval for quantizing input element values, which are elements of input values serving as a processing object and determines, on the basis of the processed quantized values, a probability distribution of quantization value candidates, which are candidates of quantized values of the input element values; quantizing uses the quantization interval to quantize the input element values and determine a quantized value; and entropy encoding uses the probability distribution to perform entropy encoding of a quantization time sequence which includes quantized value codes indicating the quantized values of the input element values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Florian BEYE, Hayato ITSUMI, Koichi NIHEI, Charvi VITTHAL, Yusuke SHINOHARA, Takanori IWAI
  • Patent number: 11890829
    Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device are provided with: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; a pressing device pressing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors from above; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box bodies and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device lifting and lowering the lower conveyors and the pressing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Naoki Shigeyama, Masakazu Ohira, Yasunari Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11863399
    Abstract: In order to enable stabilizing control of communication in a communication network, a system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: an obtaining means for obtaining work-related information related to human work in network operation; and a training means for training a machine learning based controller for controlling communication in a communication network, based on the work-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anan Sawabe, Takanori Iwai, Kosei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230413118
    Abstract: An exposure node (50) receives a first request for resource management for future background data transfer between an application service provider and a plurality of radio terminals (10) from a server (60) associated with the application service provider and send a second request to a policy control node (40) in response to receiving the first request. The first request includes a parameter indicating whether background data transfer not complying with a previously agreed or negotiated transfer policy should be stopped, or whether the background data transfer should continue under a charging rule different from a previously agreed charging rule. The second request includes the parameter obtained from the first request. This enables the application service provider to negotiate with the radio communication network about handling of background data transfer not complying with a previously agreed transfer policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori IWAI, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20230410647
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (11) communicating information to and from a moving body, a violation time predicting unit (12) predicting a violation time at which the moving body violates a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and another object or a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and a path on which the moving body should run by using positional information of the moving body, a deadline calculating unit (13) calculating an execution deadline of an avoidance operation for avoiding a violation of the constraint condition by using the violation time, and a communication control unit (14) increasing a priority level of a communication with the moving body as a time difference between a current time and the execution deadline decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Sweety Suman, Takanori Iwai, HIroshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11831560
    Abstract: To perform flexible communication control according to variation in traffic so as to satisfy a plurality of QoS (Quality of Service) indexes. A communication apparatus (1) according to the present invention includes: a distribution unit (12) configured to distribute, based on a distribution rule for satisfying a plurality of different QoS indexes set in a plurality of queues (111 to 11n), respectively, a received packet to any one of the plurality of queues; and an update unit (13) configured to update the distribution rule based on performance information of each of the plurality of queues, the performance information being calculated for the QoS index set in each of the queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anan Sawabe, Takanori Iwai
  • Publication number: 20230367311
    Abstract: A monitoring person can rapidly take a countermeasure against a situation occurring in a moving object. Image reception means (31) receives image data obtained by imaging the outside of the moving object. Candidate acquisition means (32) acquires control content candidates of autonomous driving of the moving object. Monitoring screen display means (33) causes a display apparatus to display a monitoring screen. The monitoring screen includes a region where the image data is displayed and a region where the control content candidates are displayed. When one control content is selected from the control content candidates, control content transmission means (34) transmits a control signal representing the selected control content to the moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato ITSUMI, Koichi NIHEI, Takanori IWAI, Yusuke SHINOHARA, Florian BEYE, Charvi VITTHAL
  • Publication number: 20230360405
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging unit mounted on a vehicle; a target detection unit configured to detect a target region including a target in the acquired image; a classification identification unit configured to identify classification including a type of the detected target and a size of the detected target region; and a region determination unit configured to determine a region obtained by adding a margin corresponding to the identified classification to the target region as an image processing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato ITSUMI, Yusuke SHINOHARA, Koichi NIHEI, Takanori IWAI, Florian BEYE, Charvi VITTHAL
  • Publication number: 20230347927
    Abstract: A traffic control apparatus includes state specifying means for specifying a state of a vehicle based on peripheral information about the vehicle received from the vehicle that can be autonomously driven, state comparison means for comparing a first specified vehicle state, which is a state of the vehicle specified by the state specifying means, with a second specified vehicle state, which is the state of the vehicle received from the vehicle and specified by the vehicle based on the peripheral information, to see whether there is a difference between the first specified vehicle state and the second specified vehicle state, and notification means for outputting a message indicating the difference when there is the difference between the first specified vehicle state and the second specified vehicle state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SAKATA, Takashi YAMANE, Takanori IWAI, Yusuke SHINOHARA, Kosei KOBAYASHI, Koichi NIHEI
  • Publication number: 20230343106
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus and the like capable of specifying an object in an image that may affect traveling of a vehicle. An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an image captured by an image capturing unit mounted on a vehicle; an object detection unit that detects one or more objects in the acquired image; a traveling region specifying unit that specifies a traveling region, in which the vehicle is traveling, from regions in the acquired image; and a determination unit that determines, based on the traveling region, an image processing region, which is subjected to image processing, among regions of the one or more objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato ITSUMI, Yusuke SHINOHARA, Koichi NIHEI, Takanori IWAI, Florian BEYE, Charvi VITTHAL
  • Publication number: 20230334672
    Abstract: A region prediction unit predicts the target region in the second image frame based on the target region detected in a first image frame and a time interval between the first and second image frames. The region prediction unit predicts the target region in the third image frame based on the target region detected in the second image frame and a time interval between the second and third image frames. A region determination unit determines, as an image-processing region, a region obtained by adding a margin to the target prediction region in the third image frame in accordance with an overlapping portion between the detected target region in the second image frame and the prediction region in the second image frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato ITSUMI, Koichi Nihei, Yusuke Shinohara, Takanori Iwai, Florian Beye, Charvi Vitthal
  • Patent number: 11783701
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (11) communicating information to and from a moving body, a violation time predicting unit (12) predicting a violation time at which the moving body violates a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and another object or a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and a path on which the moving body should run by using positional information of the moving body, a deadline calculating unit (13) calculating an execution deadline of an avoidance operation for avoiding a violation of the constraint condition by using the violation time, and a communication control unit (14) increasing a priority level of a communication with the moving body as a time difference between a current time and the execution deadline decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Sweety Suman, Takanori Iwai, Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11785505
    Abstract: An exposure node (50) receives a first request for resource management for future background data transfer between an application service provider and a plurality of radio terminals (10) from a server (60) associated with the application service provider and send a second request to a policy control node (40) in response to receiving the first request. The first request includes a parameter indicating whether background data transfer not complying with a previously agreed or negotiated transfer policy should be stopped, or whether the background data transfer should continue under a charging rule different from a previously agreed charging rule. The second request includes the parameter obtained from the first request. This enables the application service provider to negotiate with the radio communication network about handling of background data transfer not complying with a previously agreed transfer policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20230319369
    Abstract: A video quality estimation apparatus (100) according to the present disclosure includes a first collection unit (101) configured to collect network quality information about a network pertaining to distribution of a video, a second collection unit (102) configured to collect video quality information about the video, and an estimation unit (103) configured to estimate a first bit rate corresponding to a resolution of the video based on the network quality information and the video quality information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Anan SAWABE, Takanori IWAI
  • Patent number: 11764806
    Abstract: A system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store instructions thereon; and a processor connected to the non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for generating a mask based on received data from a sensor, wherein the mask includes a plurality of importance values, and each region of the received data is designated a corresponding importance value of the plurality of importance values. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for encoding the received data based on the mask; and transmitting the encoded data to a decoder for defining reconstructed data. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for computing a loss based on the reconstructed data, the received data and the mask. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for providing training to an encoder for encoding the received data based on the computed loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charvi Vitthal, Florian Beye, Koichi Nihei, Hayato Itsumi, Takanori Iwai
  • Publication number: 20230283818
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a communication control method capable of preventing excessive bandwidth allocation to a specific apparatus. A communication control method according to the present disclosure includes: estimating a quality of experience of a monitoring person who monitors videos displayed on a monitoring apparatus (30) that has received video data of the videos captured by a plurality of imaging apparatuses (20) via a network (40), when viewing the videos; and controlling communication for transmitting the video captured by each of the imaging apparatuses (20) to the monitoring apparatus via the network based on the estimated quality of experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Nihei, Takanori iwai
  • Publication number: 20230262575
    Abstract: The moving body receives data from a remote monitoring apparatus and transmits data to the remote monitoring apparatus, via the wireless communication network. A candidate route acquisition unit acquires a candidate route of the moving body to a destination. A communication quality evaluation unit evaluates communication quality of the wireless communication network at each location included in the candidate route for each direction of communication by using communication quality information for each direction of communication. A candidate route evaluation unit evaluates communication stability of the candidate route by using communication quality evaluated for each direction of communication. A route determination unit determines a movement route of the moving body among the candidate routes by using an evaluation result of the communication stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei KOBAYASHI, Takanori Iwai, Yusuke Shinohara, Koichi Nihei, Masayuki Sakata, Takashi Yamane
  • Patent number: 11729657
    Abstract: A control apparatus (40) is configured to acquire a required end-to-end performance required for an end-to-end path from a first end node to a second end node, and determine each required segment performance required for a respective one of the path segments based on the required end-to-end performance. The control apparatus (40) is further configured to communicate with a node included in each path segment or communicate with an entity controlling the path segment to enforce a corresponding one of the required segment performances in the path segment. The control apparatus (40) is further configured to update a required segment performance currently enforced in at least one path segment based on an achievement status of each of the required segment performances in the respective path segments. It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to guaranteeing the required end-to-end performance even when quality of each path segment changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takanori Iwai