Patent ID: 11940281
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 3:
4. An estimation apparatus comprising a processor configured to execute operations comprising:
receiving route information of a route and moving body number information as input, wherein the route information of the route specifies one or more paths in the route, the one or more paths are parts of a plurality of paths, and a parameter of a learned machine learning model, wherein the learned machine learning model determines a first relationship and a second relationship, the first relationship represents a relationship between the number of moving bodies for each of the plurality of paths and the number of moving bodies for the route, and the second relationship represents a relationship between the numbers of moving bodies for the route at different dates and times; and
estimating, using the route information and the parameter of the learned machine learning model, at least one of:
the number of moving bodies for each path of the plurality of paths on a date and a time, or
the number of moving bodies for the route on the date and time.