Patents Assigned to Rakuten Group, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20230305571
    Abstract: An unmanned vehicle is configured to execute: a capturing device detection process that detects an external capturing device located at or around a delivery location where a package is to be received; a range identifying process that identifies a capture range of the external capturing device; a stop position determining process that determines, within the capture range of the external capturing device, a stop position of the unmanned vehicle at which the package is to be received; and a movement control process that stops the unmanned vehicle at the stop position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Publication number: 20230303288
    Abstract: Disclosed is a packaging box body for packing an article. In the packaging box body, an upper surface and at least two lateral surfaces that are adjacent to each other are defined as target surfaces, and a code image is formed on each of the target surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Tomooka, Mitsuru Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20230297934
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle executes: a movement control process that moves the unmanned aerial vehicle to a delivery area including a delivery address to which a package is to be delivered, the delivery area including delivery destination candidates, and each of the delivery destination candidates including an identification information indicator located at a position where the identification information indicator is readable from outside; an identification information acquiring process that acquires identification information associated with each delivery destination candidate by reading a corresponding identification information indicator; a delivery destination identifying process that identifies, as a delivery destination, a delivery destination candidate in which the acquired identification information matches the delivery address; a position identifying process that identifies a receiving position of the package based on a position of the identified delivery destination; and a placing process that place
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Daiki TANAKA, Toshiaki TAZUME, Takayoshi INUMA
  • Patent number: 11751834
    Abstract: A measurement image acquisition unit 72 acquires a measurement image indicating a measurement value of a predetermined physical quantity for a measurement target including a plurality of types of body tissues. A body tissue image generation unit 74 generates a body tissue image associated with each of the plurality of types of body tissues by executing, for the each of the plurality of types of body tissues, a filtering process corresponding to the each of the plurality of types of body tissues with respect to the measurement image. A masked body tissue image generation unit 78 generates a masked body tissue image associated with a specific type of body tissue by executing, with respect to the body tissue image associated with the specific type of body tissue, a masking process which is based on the body tissue image associated with a different type of body tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Joji Kimizuka
  • Patent number: 11756259
    Abstract: A sensor unit (105) included in a display device (100) detects a shift in orientation of a display (104) included in the display device (100) in a real space. A display control device configured by a control unit (101) changes the sight line direction in a virtual space, which includes a plurality of still and moving objects, in accordance with the detected shift in orientation, and generates an image representing a view of the virtual space in the sight line direction. The generated image is displayed on the display (104). The display control device configured by the control unit (101) then specifies a focus object among the objects, transfers an observation site about the focus object in the direction opposite to the direction of change in the sight line direction, and then generates the image of the virtual space from the observation site in the sight line direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Iwase
  • Patent number: 11755624
    Abstract: In a processing system 101, a first processing device 111 obtains first characteristics information indicating characteristics of users in a first environment, divides the users into first clusters according to the first characteristics information, and transmits, to a second processing device 121, representation information representing characteristics of users belonging to each of the first clusters using a centroid vector based on the first characteristics information of the cluster. The second processing device 121 obtains second characteristics information indicating characteristics of the users in a second environment, and divides the users into second clusters according to the representation information and the second characteristics information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Hirate, Hiroki Mihara
  • Patent number: 11747807
    Abstract: The control device is configured to control an aerial vehicle that carries a carrying object and includes a sensor capable of measuring a ground surface temperature during flight. The control device acquires a ground surface temperature in an area where the carrying object is planned to be released, the ground surface temperature being measured by the sensor. And then, the control unit performs control regarding release of the carrying object in accordance with the ground surface temperature in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11750604
    Abstract: An object is to provide an information providing system and an information providing method in which an information providing device can provide information personalized for a user without an input of identification information of the user into the information providing device. A server device receives, from a terminal device that has acquired device identification information identifying the information providing device, the device identification information and user identification information identifying a user. The server device transmits information for the user identified by the user identification information to the information providing device identified by the device identification information. The information providing device receives the information for the user. The information providing device provides information based on the information for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: James Brian Harvey, Jordan Cotter Scott, Michael Joseph Copeland, Shreya Jagdishrao Sarnaik, Robert J. Milewski, Sneha Rupesh Shinde, Yoann Mikami, Shun Yuki
  • Publication number: 20230274270
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a hash value acquisition unit for acquiring a hash value generated based on a key containing content data linked to a non-fungible token; a metadata generation unit for generating metadata for the content, the metadata including an electronic signature generated using the hash value and a predetermined secret key and a resource identifier referenced when acquiring the content data; a metadata identifier acquisition unit for acquiring a metadata identifier uniquely indicating the metadata; and a non-fungible token issuing unit for issuing a non-fungible token linked to the metadata and the content, by recording token data including the metadata identifier in a blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Marty BELL, Sean CASEY, Fergal DOWNEY, Hajime NISHINOMIYA, Masafumi MUTA
  • Patent number: 11734987
    Abstract: The vending machine control system S performs authentication processing for authenticating a user on the basis of information on the user who is about to open a door 13 of a vending machine 1, and when the user is authenticated, performs control to unlock the door 13 of the vending machine 1. Then, the vending machine control system S identifies a product picked up from a storing chamber 12 after the door 13 is unlocked, and when a reserved product is included in the identified product, outputs different information depending on whether or not the authenticated user is a reservation person of the reserved product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Suzuki, Asako Kudo, Satoru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230260410
    Abstract: The information processing device detects a feature existing in the peripheral area of a landing candidate place of the UAV 1, estimates a degree of influence on a landing due to downwardly-blowing wind generated during the landing of the UAV 1, hitting and bouncing off the feature, which is the degree of influence at the landing candidate place, and determines whether or not the landing candidate place is suitable for landing on the basis of the estimated degree of influence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Mitsuru NAKAZAWA, Jun TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230260277
    Abstract: The management server 2 acquires sensing information obtained by the UAV 1 sensing, from the sky, a scatter area where a colcothar is scattered on a mountain climbing route, identifies a state of the colcothar on the basis of the sensing information, and identifies a visual recognition difficult place on the basis of the state of the colcothar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Takumi Yamato, Takayoshi Inuma, Daiki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230252124
    Abstract: Provided is an authentication system (S) configured as follows. Input information acquisition means (101, 201) acquires input information, which relates to a feature of an outer appearance of a card possessed by a user, and has been input from a user terminal (30). Identification information acquisition means (104, 202) acquires identification information that enables identification of the card. Registered information acquisition means (105, 203) acquires registered information, which relates to the feature of the outer appearance, and has been registered in a server (10, 20) in association with the identification information in advance. Authentication means (102) executes the authentication based on the input information and the registered information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Hideki AKASHIKA
  • Patent number: 11718399
    Abstract: A protective member configured as a protective member that is mountable to an aerial vehicle having a body and at least one rotor held on the body, and includes a plurality of support members that are connectable to the aerial vehicle and have a flexible member stretched between distal end portions thereof so as to surround an outside of the body in planar view, wherein at least one of the plurality of support members has a tension adjusting mechanism that is capable of adjusting a tension applied to the flexible member in a stretching direction, by changing a distance from a center of the body to the distal end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Lee, Takayoshi Inuma
  • Patent number: 11722843
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are disclosed for adjustment in the amount of calculations performed at a server for determining a location of a device for purposes of providing an arrival alert to a destination of arrival of the device. In one aspect, a method includes determining a zone around a destination; receiving location information from a tracking device that is traveling to the destination; based on the location information and the zone, determining whether the tracking device is within the zone to yield a determination; determining a remaining time for a user associated with the tracking device to reach the destination based on the determination; and providing an arrival alert to the destination regarding an arrival time of the user at the destination based on the remaining time and an arrival threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Seejo Pylappan, Denis Laprise, Jaron Waldman
  • Patent number: 11718269
    Abstract: The present technology discloses methods, non-transitory computer-readable media, and systems for generating, for a transaction, a transaction code, wherein the transaction code includes a temporary key allowing access to a vehicle at a delivery location; sending, to a merchant device, the transaction code; sending, to the merchant device, an alert that the vehicle has arrived at the delivery location, wherein the temporary key is used to access the vehicle for placing a product inside the vehicle; receiving a notification that the product has been placed inside the vehicle; and disabling the temporary key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC
    Inventor: Seejo Pylappan
  • Patent number: 11720575
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method implemented on a computer system of database retrieval including organizing and suggesting search results by style, not just product category. In one embodiment, a computer implemented smoothing algorithm is used to adjust the ranking feature calculations from insufficient data. The use of smoothing improves the statistical confidence of the ranking features, creating a product ranking that is robust to small sample bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Grace Tzu-Wei Huang, Phil Kallos
  • Patent number: 11711463
    Abstract: A telephone advertisement system acquires, in response to receiving a telephone talk request from a caller to a callee, callee information indicating a callee from a caller terminal device of the caller. The telephone advertisement system acquires, based on the acquired callee information, advertisement content associated with a condition corresponding to an attribute of the callee among a plurality of pieces of advertisement content, each of the plurality of piece of advertisement content associated with a condition of a person to whom respective advertisement content is presented, the condition of the person stored in a predetermined storage. The telephone advertisement system transmits the acquired advertisement content to the caller terminal device to cause the caller terminal device to present the advertisement content within an invitation period during which the callee is being invited to answer an incoming call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Saki Shirai
  • Publication number: 20230230024
    Abstract: A control device (100) includes an acquirer (110) that, when an order is accepted, acquires vehicle location information indicating a location of a vehicle capable of storing a target of the order, start location information indicating a start location at which transportation of the target is started, and preparation information indicating preparation time required for preparation to bring a state of the target into a state where the transportation is startable or a preparation completion time at which the preparation is completed and a generator (120) that generates movement control information for causing the vehicle to move from the location of the vehicle to the start location, based on (i) an amount of energy that the vehicle is estimated to consume to move from the location indicated by the acquired vehicle location information to the start location indicated by the acquired start location information, and (ii) the preparation time or the preparation completion time indicated by the acquired preparation
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Patent number: 11704620
    Abstract: Provided is an estimating system including: at least one memory configured to store computer program code; and at least one processor configured to access said at least one memory and operate according to said computer program code, said computer program code including: via point acquisition code configured to cause the at least one processor to acquire a position of a via point, wherein the route is a path followed by a mobile object when the mobile object moves toward a destination; staying time period code configured to cause the at least one processor to estimate, based on the position of the via point, a staying time period; and arrival time code configured to cause the at least one processor to estimate, by including the staying time period, an arrival time of the mobile object at the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Reda Elsayed Mohamed, Jeremiah Luke Anderson