Patents Assigned to Rakuten Group, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11971969
    Abstract: An authentication system includes at least one processor configured to register user information on a user who is to visit a predetermined location, and scheduled time information on scheduled time at which the user is to visit the predetermined location, in association with each other in a storage, execute, when someone visits the predetermined location, authentication based on visitor information on the someone, the user information, visit time information on time at which the someone visits the predetermined location, and the scheduled time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Yeongnam Chae
  • Publication number: 20240135693
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a generating unit configured to generate, from a data group including training data elements given different correct labels, multiple training data sets in such a manner that the number of included training data elements changes successively, by successively selecting one or more training data elements from the data group; and a training unit configured to repeatedly train a learning model for machine learning by applying the training data sets to the learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Dinesh DAULTANI, Mitsuru NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240135685
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a novel information processing technology relating to a predetermined object in an image. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image used as teacher data for machine learning, the image being with one or a plurality of annotations for showing a position in the image at which a predetermined object is shown; an adjustment image generation unit that generates an adjustment image in which parameters of the image are adjusted; and a machine learning unit that generates a learning model for detecting the predetermined object in an image by performing machine learning using teacher data including the adjustment image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Dinesh DAULTANI, Mitsuru NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240126850
    Abstract: An authentication system, comprising at least one processor configured to: execute first authentication for a first user when the first user is present at or arrives at a first place; determine whether a second user who has a possibility of being authenticated as the first user by the first authentication is present at the first place, or whether the second user has arrived at the first place; and execute, when it is determined that the second user is not present at or has not arrived at the first place, first processing for the first user based on the first authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachiko FUKUSHIMA, Yeongnam CHAE
  • Publication number: 20240119715
    Abstract: A method of contrastive learning (CL) performed by at least one processor includes receiving, by at least one processor implementing a text-based transformer, a text title corresponding to an anchor, generating, by the at least one processor implementing the text-based transformer, a text representation of the text title, receiving, by at least one processor implementing an image-based transformer, a first image corresponding to the anchor, generating, by the at least one processor implementing the image-based transformer, a first image representation of the first image corresponding to the anchor, and constructing a positive pair between the text representation and the first image representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Lei CHEN, Hou Wei CHOU
  • Patent number: 11954665
    Abstract: Provided is a payment system including at least one processor configured to: reserve, before a payment request for first payment means is received, at least one second payment means associated with the first payment means; receive the payment request; and execute, when the payment request is received, payment based on the first payment means and the at least one second payment means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ayaka Imura
  • Patent number: 11954633
    Abstract: The information processing device acquires load information of a load to be transported by UGV 1; acquires environmental information obtained by sensing an environment around the UGV by a sensor mounted on the UGV at a transport destination of the load; and determines a place where the load is placed by the UGV at the transport destination on the basis of the load information and the environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Tanaka, Toshiaki Tazume, Takayoshi Inuma
  • Publication number: 20240112236
    Abstract: An information processing device used for an electronic commerce platform includes one or more processors and one or more memories. At least one of the memories stores item data related to items registered in the electronic commerce platform. The item data includes data sets. The data sets each include data fields registered for one of the items. The data fields each include item information related to the one of the items. The processor is configured to execute an indexing process for one or more pieces of item information to obtain an index used to compare the one or more pieces of item information with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi TOMOOKA, Mitsuru NAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11947643
    Abstract: A fraud detection system including at least one processor configured to: calculate a fraud level of a user who uses a service based on a behavior of the user; obtain a determination result as to whether the behavior is actually fraudulent; and calculate accuracy of fraud detection for each user based on the fraud level and the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Kyosuke Tomoda
  • Publication number: 20240104880
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a novel information processing technology relating to a predetermined object in an image. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image used as teacher data for machine learning, the image being with one or a plurality of annotations for showing a position in the image at which a predetermined object is shown; a region specification unit that specifies a region in which the one or the plurality of annotations satisfy a predetermined criterion in the image; an edge detection unit that preferentially detects edges in the specified region or a range set on a basis of the region; and an annotation correction unit that corrects the annotations so as to be along the detected edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Dinesh DAULTANI, Mitsuru NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240104629
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires user features indicating features for each of a plurality of users and item features indicating features for each of a plurality of items, acquires time-series information indicating time-series interactions between the plurality of users and the plurality of items, constructs, based on the user features, the item features, and the time-series information, a graph including a plurality of user nodes representing the plurality of users, a plurality of item nodes representing the plurality of items, and links indicating interaction relationships in the plurality of user nodes and the plurality of item nodes, and extracts, from the graph, a node representation in the graph for any node among the plurality of user nodes and the plurality of item nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke KIKUTA, Md Mostafizur RAHMAN, Satyen ABROL, Yu HIRATE, Pablo LOYOLA, Takuma EBISU, Manoj KONDAPAKA
  • Publication number: 20240104634
    Abstract: The order processing system S receives the designation of the number of ordering users related to the group order, receives the selection of items related to the order, sorts the selected items for each of as many users as the designated number of the users, and performs settlement for the sorted items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaki MATSUMOTO, Takayoshi INUMA, Masato TANI
  • Publication number: 20240104635
    Abstract: The order processing system S receives the designation of the number of ordering users related to the group order, receives the selection of items related to the order, and sorts and displays the selected items for each of as many users as the designated number of ordering users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaki MATSUMOTO, Takayoshi INUMA, Masato TANI
  • Publication number: 20240104754
    Abstract: [Problem] The present disclosure has an object of correcting the orientation of a captured image captured during flight. [Solving Means] An information processing system includes: a captured image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image captured during flight by an imaging device mounted on an airplane; a relevant information acquisition unit that acquires information detected using a sensor mounted on the airplane; and an image correction unit that acquires, by correcting the captured image on a basis of information acquired using the relevant information, a correction image in which a predetermined direction in a state where the image is erected and a reference direction in the image are matched to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki MUKASA, Mitsuru NAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11941657
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an identification information receiving unit for receiving user identification information presented by a user, a determining unit for determining whether the user identification information that has been received is first user identification information for performing first processing relating to the user, or second user identification information for performing second processing that is executed following the first processing, and an user identifying unit for, in a case of determining that the user identification information that has been received is the second user identification information, identifying a user that is an object of third processing relating to the user, with the third processing being executed following the second processing, on the basis of the second user identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Tsuchiya, Sachiko Fukushima, Nanase Kato
  • Patent number: 11941570
    Abstract: A transport system S acquires load information of a load to be transported and environmental information obtained by sensing environment of the transport destination of the load, and determines a receiving time limit for the load in the environment of the transport destination on the basis of the acquired load information and the environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Daiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11939058
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle according to the present invention includes: a main body; an arm that extends from the main body to support a rotor; a first electrical conductor which is supported by the arm and to which a voltage is applied; a second electrical conductor which is supported by the arm and spaced apart from the first electrical conductor and to which a voltage lower than the voltage applied to the first electrical conductor is applied; and a controller configured to control electrical supply to the first and second electrical conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Takumi Yamato
  • Patent number: 11932393
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial device according to an aspect of the present invention includes an aerial device body capable of flying in an unmanned manner, and a load-lowering device mounted to the aerial device body and configured to lower a load from the aerial device body. The load-lowering device has a linear member holder for holding a linear member having one end portion connectable to the load, the linear member holder holding at least the other end portion of the linear member, and a speed limiting mechanism that limits a speed at which the linear member is pulled out of the linear member holder, under a weight of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Inuma, Kenichi Lee, Nobuyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11928698
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a first fitness calculation to calculate a fitness using a predetermined function for models in a population; a virtual model generating to select, as parent models, models having higher value of the fitness using the first fitness calculation among the models, and generate a virtual model that outputs by performing calculation of output results of the selected parent models; a second fitness calculation to calculate the fitness of the virtual model using the predetermined function; a replacing operation constituting the population by adding the virtual model and by deleting a model having lower value of the fitness among the models in the population; and a model extracting to extract a model having higher value of the fitness from the population by repeating processing by the virtual model generating, the second fitness calculation, and the model replacing until a predetermined termination condition is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Dinesh Daultani, Bruno Andre Charron
  • Patent number: 11928199
    Abstract: An authentication system, including at least one processor configured to: perform authentication based on a first authentication method; record, when the authentication by the first authentication method is successful, an authenticated user and a location of the authenticated user in association with each other in a storage; perform authentication based on a second authentication method; and restrict successful authentication by the second authentication method when a user to be authenticated by the second authentication method and a location of the user to be authenticated are not associated with each other in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Yeongnam Chae