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NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

5,399Patents
3,711Active
5,399Granted
60Portfolio score

Filing activity: Oct 20, 1976 → Jun 14, 2024 · 406 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

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US8405773B2 Video communication quality estimation apparatus, method, and program Electricity 443 Active
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US6233578A Method and system for information retrieval Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 297 Expired
US5280537A Digital communication system using superposed transmission of high speed and low speed digital signals Electricity 296 Expired
US8548294B2 Optical fiber cable and optical fiber ribbon Physics 281 Active
US5736982A Virtual space apparatus with avatars and speech Electricity 279 Expired
US5581652A Reconstruction of wideband speech from narrowband speech using codebooks Physics 276 Expired
US5933506A Transmitter-receiver having ear-piece type acoustic transducing part Electricity 261 Expired
US5617537A Message passing system for distributed shared memory multiprocessor system and message passing method using the same Physics 255 Expired
US6920166B2 Thin film deposition method of nitride semiconductor and nitride semiconductor light emitting device Electricity 247 Expired
US5293448A Speech analysis-synthesis method and apparatus therefor Physics 247 Expired
US5718628A Air conditioning method in machine room having forced air-cooling equipment housed therein Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 243 Expired
US6788865B2 Polarization maintaining optical fiber with improved polarization maintaining property Physics 231 Expired
US5214730A Multifiber optical connector plug with low reflection and low insertion loss Physics 230 Expired
US6185312A Method for embedding and reading watermark-information in digital form, and apparatus thereof Electricity 223 Expired
US5911008A Scheme for detecting shot boundaries in compressed video data using inter-frame/inter-field prediction coding and intra-frame/intra-field coding Electricity 222 Expired
US6542171B1 Scheme for graphical user interface using polygonal-shaped slider Human Necessities 222 Expired
US5751452A Optical devices with high polymer material and method of forming the same Physics 207 Expired
US6226614A Method and apparatus for editing/creating synthetic speech message and recording medium with the method recorded thereon Physics 205 Expired
US5926548A Method and apparatus for implementing hierarchical electronic cash Electricity 203 Expired
US5999975A On-line information providing scheme featuring function to dynamically account for user's interest Physics 201 Expired
US5576950A Video image search method and system using the same Electricity 197 Expired
US6222583A Device and system for labeling sight images Physics 196 Expired
US5317405A Display and image capture apparatus which enables eye contact Electricity 194 Expired
US5748775A Method and apparatus for moving object extraction based on background subtraction Electricity 190 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.