Patents Assigned to NEC PLATFORM, LTD.
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Publication number: 20240264638Abstract: Provided is a virtual input device that includes an input/output unit that acquires image data captured by a camera of a virtual reality display device and output display information to be displayed on a display of the virtual reality display device to the virtual reality display device, a video analysis unit that analyzes the image data to specify a position at which a virtual terminal is to be displayed, and a display information generation unit that generates the display information including the virtual terminal based on user information of a user wearing the virtual reality display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiaki Nozawa, Daisuke Shimada, Takuya Yagyu, Shinichi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 12056973Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus, a reading system, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of appropriately managing the carrying-in or the carrying-out of an article. An information processing apparatus (1) includes a flow line specification unit (2) that specifies a flow line of a movement of an object in a predetermined first area of a gate on an entrance side of the gate, and a reading control unit (3) that performs control so that reading processing of an RFID tag near the gate is started when the specified flow line corresponds to a predetermined pattern.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Hideki Matsuura
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Patent number: 12056779Abstract: The present invention provides a reception system, a reception method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program that are capable of identifying a guest. The reception system (100) includes a face photo information check unit (1), and a reception terminal (2). When the reception terminal (2) receives an input indicating an application for a check-in of a guest (GS1), the face photo information check unit (1) checks passport-face-photo-at-check-in-time information scanned from a passport (P1) at the time of check-in, with face-photo-at-check-in-time information through photographing the guest (GS1) at the time of check-in. When the passport-face-photo-at-check-in-time information and the face-photo-at-check-in-time information indicate a same person as a result of checking by the face photo information check unit (1), the reception terminal (2) displays information on a room reserved by the guest (GS1), and issues a card key for the room reserved by the guest (GS1).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Teruoki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Naorni Kakinaga, Kiyokazu Otsuka
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Patent number: 12056551Abstract: A display system includes a plurality of tags and a detection device. Each tag of the plurality of tags stores an identification code for identifying that tag, generates electric power upon receiving light that contains identification information to be compared with the identification code, and emits light using the electric power of that tag when the identification information contained in the received light matches the identification code. The detection device generates image data in accordance with an input of the identification information on a selected article, projects scanning light containing identification information on the position of the tag extracted from the generated image data, and, when emitted light from any of the plurality of tags is detected from the image data acquired during a period in which the scanning light is projected, projects marking light within a range attached with the tag that has emitted light.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Fujio Okumura
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Patent number: 12052388Abstract: A relay apparatus capable of reducing a load on a private branch exchange when an incoming call is made to an extension representative number is provided. A relay apparatus (1) includes a reception unit (2), a generation unit (4), and a transmission unit (6). The reception unit (2) receives, from the private branch exchange, incoming call notification information indicating an incoming call notification, which is a notification indicating that the incoming call is made to the extension representative number. The generation unit (4) generates a push notification request corresponding to the incoming call notification for each of a plurality of mobile terminals belonging to the group of the extension representative number based on the incoming call notification information. The transmission unit (6) performs processing for transmitting the push notification request to the corresponding mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Takumi Abe
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Patent number: 12052451Abstract: A re-multiplexing apparatus, a broadcasting system, a re-multiplexing method, and a program capable of, when broadcast data having a first resolution and broadcast data having a second resolution are broadcasted, synchronizing their outputs with each other are provided. A re-multiplexing apparatus includes a first re-multiplexing unit and a second re-multiplexing unit. The second re-multiplexing unit inserts a delay control packet at a timing corresponding to a timing of a first packet of an OFDM frame, the delay control packet being a packet containing control information for compensating for a difference between delay times of the first and second lines. When doing so, the second re-multiplexing unit generates, as the control information, an index value of a waiting time from a time when the delay control packet is received in a transmitting apparatus to a start of a modulation process for a packet following the delay control packet.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Tomoaki Hotaka
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Publication number: 20240251061Abstract: A self-checkout monitoring system, a self-checkout monitoring method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium capable of monitoring fraud committed by customers at a low cost are provided. A self-checkout monitoring system according to the present disclosure includes: an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of a plurality of self-checkout machines from above; and an image distribution unit configured to divide the image of the plurality of self-checkout machines captured by the image-capturing unit for each of the plurality of self-checkout machines and distribute the divided images to the plurality of respective self-checkout machines. The self-checkout monitoring system causes display units which display customer's shopping information in the plurality of respective self-checkout machines to display the divided images of the self-checkout machines distributed from the image distribution unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Shogo YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240232737Abstract: When the person in charge of reception registers visit information of a visitor beforehand, a visitor identification code is issued, and the visitor acquires the visitor identification code on a mobile terminal of the visitor. The visitor holds the visitor identification code displayed on the mobile terminal of the visitor over a reader that cooperates with a reception telephone to cause the reader to read the visitor identification code. The reception telephone automatically makes a call to a communication device of the person in charge of reception, the person in charge of reception responds on the communication device, and a call is established between the visitor and the person in charge of reception. The person in charge of reception confirms the visitor on a display unit that cooperates with the communication device from an image of the visitor imaged by a camera, and entry of the visitor is permitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Toshihiko Itoh
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Patent number: 12034259Abstract: The contactor rotary connector is provided with a first connector having a first terminal supported by a first mold; and a second connector having a second terminal supported by a second mold. The first connector is provided with a first space block. The second connector is provided with a second space block; a fixed component capable of holding the first mold and the second mold in a coupled state by being rotatably housed in the first space block and the second space block; a contactor capable of contacting the first terminal and the second terminal; and a rotating shaft that integrally couples the contactor and the fixed component, is rotatably supported by one of the first mold and the second mold, and is capable of connecting the first terminal and the second terminal by rotating the contactor.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Kunihiko Endo
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Publication number: 20240223703Abstract: To enable provision of various extension services to a terminal apparatus connected to an external exchange. A first gateway (12) registers an extension number of a terminal apparatus (30) to an extension control means (11). A flow control means (13) routes an outgoing call originated from the terminal apparatus (30) and an outgoing call addressed to the terminal apparatus (30) between the first gateway (12) and a second gateway (14). When receiving the outgoing call originated from the terminal apparatus (30) from the first gateway (12), the extension control means (11) processes the outgoing call as an outgoing call from the extension number of the terminal apparatus (30). In addition, when an outgoing call addressed to the extension number of the terminal apparatus (30) is made, the extension control means (11) transmits the outgoing call addressed to the terminal apparatus (30) to the first gateway (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi ESHIRO, Hiroyuki EBIHARA, Tomohiro OHNO
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Patent number: 12026689Abstract: An accounting system according to the present disclosure includes a terminal that is placed on a table used by a customer, a connection apparatus that is connected to the terminal at the time of accounting, and a server that communicates with the terminal and the connection apparatus via a network. The terminal receives an order for a product from the customer and then transmits table identification information by which the table can be identified and product information regarding the product to the server, the server stores the table identification information and the product information in association with each other as accounting information, and the terminal acquires, when it is connected to the connection apparatus, the accounting information associated with the table identification information from the server and performs accounting processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Yagiura, Tomoya Nakagawasai, Hiroyasu Hasegawa, Terukazu Kaneko, Mitsuki Fujisaki
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Patent number: 12027784Abstract: An antenna device includes a printed circuit board including a circuit configured to determine a position based on a navigation signal, and a dipole antenna element mounted on the printed circuit board and configured to receive the navigation signal. Further, the antenna device includes an L-shaped parasitic antenna element, wherein the dipole antenna element and a long-side element of the L-shaped parasitic antenna element are placed parallel to each other but at a position not in line with each other, and an end of a short-side element of the L-shaped antenna element is placed in close proximity to an end of the dipole antenna element.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Shun Hirano, Masato Tsuchiya, Shinya Yamamoto, Raita Nakanishi, Tomoyuki Kuge
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Patent number: 12020229Abstract: A self-POS system (1) according to the present disclosure is a self-POS system whereby a customer registers a commodity and checks out and includes a sensor (2) that detects that the customer has retrieved the commodity in a display state, an imaging apparatus (3) that images the customer, and a control unit (4) connected the sensor (2) and the imaging apparatus (3). The control unit (4) is configured to record, as a problem image, an image including at least an image at the time of the retrieval of the commodity when the commodity detected by the sensor (2) as having been retrieved is not registered. Thus, it is possible to provide a self-POS system, a self-POS terminal apparatus, a control method, and a control program capable of recording a fraudulent act at the time of check-out.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Takuro Nagano, Fumihiro Ishino, Tooru Kobayashi, Kazuya Sano
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Publication number: 20240203215Abstract: A semi-self POS system according to the present disclosure includes: a registration apparatus and an accounting apparatus, the accounting apparatus being able to communicate with the registration apparatus, in which the accounting apparatus captures, when an addition of a product is requested, a bar code image of an additional purchase product and transmits an additional purchase notification including the bar code image to the registration apparatus, and the registration apparatus displays, when it receives the additional purchase notification, the bar code image included in the additional purchase notification, reads the displayed bar code image and thereby registers the additional purchase product, calculates a new total amount of payment obtained by adding payment of the registered additional purchase product to the total amount of payment, and transmits new accounting information including the new total amount of payment to the accounting apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Yuri Fujimaki
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Publication number: 20240204396Abstract: An antenna and a radio communication system that are capable of improving the design quality of the antenna at a low cost are provided. According to an example embodiment, an antenna (20) includes a parasitic antenna element (21) formed using a transparent conduction film, in which the parasitic antenna element (21) is not in contact with a feeding point (13) and is disposed near a feeding antenna element (11) of a radio communication apparatus (10) configured to function as a radio communicator, and an induction current is generated in the parasitic antenna element (21) by a driving current of the feeding antenna element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Jun UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20240196571Abstract: A cooling apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a first flexible pipe at least a part of which is arranged inside a housing and through which a heat medium supplied from an outside of the housing passes, the housing including a plurality of modules installed in the housing, each of the plurality of modules including an electronic circuit board including a heat-generating member and a cooling member that receives heat from the heat-generating member and cools the heat-generating member by using the heat medium; and a branching member that causes the heat medium to branch from the first flexible pipe into the cooling member and a second flexible pipe, the cooling member being included in any one of the plurality of modules, the second flexible pipe supplying the heat medium to the cooling member included in any other module of the plurality of modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi ISOYA
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Patent number: 12007182Abstract: A flow rate abnormality detection device includes: a number determination unit that determines a number of devices to be cooled; a threshold value setting unit that sets a threshold value based on the number of devices to be cooled; and an abnormality determination unit that determines that there is an abnormality when a total flow rate of refrigerant supplied to the devices to be cooled is less than the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Yasuhito Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240170120Abstract: A health information generating apparatus includes an acquiring unit, an attribute information generating unit, and a health information generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires customer identification information of a customer whose health information is to be generated, and acquires prescription information associated with the customer identification information. The attribute information generating unit generates attribute information of the customer by using the prescription information acquired by the acquiring unit. The attribute information includes information indicating a health state of the customer. The health information generating unit generates the above-described health information by using the attribute information generated by the attribute information generating unit. The health information relates to at least one of maintenance, improvement, and future change in health of the customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki YAMAMOTO, Kiichi Kanoo, Yang Yang, Jingjing Ye, Seisho Kuba
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Publication number: 20240169415Abstract: A customer makes a reader unit of a commodity registration machine read a commodity code of the commodity, so that the commodity registration machine notifies the customer of completion, and, as the customer frames out the commodity code from a reading area of the reader unit within a predetermined period, a display unit of the commodity registration machine displays the commodity on a list as a purchase determined commodity. The customer makes the reader unit of the commodity registration machine read a commodity code of the commodity, so that the commodity registration machine notifies the customer of completion, and as the customer keeps the commodity in the commodity code reading state in the reading area of the reader unit, the commodity registration machine notifies the customer of completion and the display unit of the commodity registration machine displays the commodity on the list as a purchase deferred commodity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Keisuke KATSURA
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Publication number: 20240169281Abstract: A shop management server according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations include: acquiring, at a shop in which a customer consumes a product, an image of the shop that is an image showing at least one of an area for providing the product to the customer and an area in which the customer consumes the product; determining a type of an instruction to a customer service clerk who provides the product to the customer by applying the image of the shop to a determination model for determining the instruction; acquiring the instruction corresponding to the determined type of the instruction; and outputting the acquired instruction to the customer service clerk.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki TAKANE