Patents Assigned to Rakuten Group, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11704721
    Abstract: An information processing device obtains order identification information capable of identifying an order placed by an order-placing person, transmits, as payment information, the order identification information, causes a printing process of a print medium to be executed, the print medium being capable of identifying the order identification information and gives, to another information processing device when an additional order placed by the order-placing person is received, an invalidation command which invalidates the order identification information in such a way that a payment with respect to the order identification information on an order not paid yet and placed by the same order-placing person is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Nakamura, Takeshi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11704392
    Abstract: Relevance information obtaining means of a fraud estimation system is configured to obtain relevance information about relevance between one service and another service. Comparison result obtaining means is configured to obtain a comparison result of a comparison between user information of a target user in the one service and user information of a fraudulent user or an authentic user in the another service. Estimation means is configured to estimate fraudulence of the target user based on the relevance information and the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Kyosuke Tomoda
  • Patent number: 11704619
    Abstract: Provided is a package reception management system including a delivery vehicle configured to move in an unmanned operation. The package reception management system is configured to: acquire a reception region in which a package transported by the delivery vehicle is to be passed to a user being a delivery destination; issue authentication information to be input to the delivery vehicle in the reception region by the user being the delivery destination; and to notify the user of the issued authentication information. In the issuing, the package reception management system sets information for restricting later issuing of the issued authentication information for the reception region, and restricts issuing of the same authentication information as at least one piece of authentication information restricted in the issuing for the reception region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11702214
    Abstract: An unmanned flight equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an aerial vehicle capable of flying in an unmanned manner; an abnormality recognition part-configured to recognize an abnormal situation in which a determination is made that it is difficult for the aerial vehicle to continue flight; and an alarm device held on the aerial vehicle and configured to be detached from the aerial vehicle and to warn neighborhood of abnormality when the abnormality recognition part recognizes the abnormal situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichi Lee
  • Patent number: 11693400
    Abstract: To ensure stability of flying by an unmanned aerial vehicle, first acquisition means of an unmanned aerial vehicle control system acquires first information, which is at least one piece of information for operating an unmanned aerial vehicle that is flying or information on a result of detecting an operation of the unmanned aerial vehicle. Second acquisition means acquires second information for operating the unmanned aerial vehicle after switching of control of the unmanned aerial vehicle. Flight control means restricts, in accordance with the first information and the second information, switching to control of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Junji Torii, Jun Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20230206301
    Abstract: Provided is a member registration system which is configured to: receive a start request issued by a user in a first service to start member registration of a second service; display, when the start request is received, fields for the member registration on one page in the first service; and request, based on input to the one page from the user, a second service server associated with the second service to execute the member registration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Shizuka ENDO, Tatsuko OKUNO, Mariko OGURA, Tomohiro SHIMONO, Junpei HIRAKAWA, Hideaki YOSHIURA, Taichi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230205233
    Abstract: The article transportation system S acquires first sensing information obtained by sensing a peripheral area around a user including a release candidate place with an optical sensor 23 of a user terminal 2 and the position information of the user terminal 2. Then, the article transportation system S determines whether the release candidate place satisfies one or more application conditions on the basis of the first sensing information, and in a case where it is determined that the release candidate place satisfies the one or more application conditions, sets a release place suitable for releasing an article from an UAV 1 on the basis of the release candidate place and the position information of the user terminal 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki TAZUME, Daiki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230206294
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including a processor and a memory. The processor references a list indicative of correspondence between a genre of products in electronic commerce and tags to be attached to the products, thereby determining at least one tag not corresponding to the genre. The processor performs a process of training a machine learning model including at least a classifier that determines an output value of each of the at least one tag related to the products on the basis of an embedded expression in product information on the products, the training process being performed on the basis of a loss function of the at least one output value excluding the output value related to each of the at least one tag not corresponding to the genre of the products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Te CHEN, Yandi XIA, Keiji SHINZATO
  • Publication number: 20230206483
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including a receiving section that receives a captured image of a target object, an instruction section that gives a user an instruction on which direction to capture an image of the target object, an inferencing section that performs an inference of an imaging direction on the basis of the received captured image, and a verifying section that performs predetermined verification processing related to the target object on the basis of an imaging direction as the instructed direction and the imaging direction as a result of the inference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuru NAKAZAWA, Takashi TOMOOKA
  • Publication number: 20230209171
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including a receiving section that receives a captured image of a target object, a recognizing section that performs recognition of the target object by extracting feature points of the target object on the basis of the captured image, a recommending section that gives recommendation regarding an imaging direction on the basis of a type of the target object, and an instruction section that gives an instruction on a specific direction to capture an image of the target object, on the basis of a result of the recognition and a result of the recommendation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Nakazawa, Takashi Tomooka
  • Patent number: 11689699
    Abstract: A control device 200 includes at least one memory configured to store a program code, and at least one processor configured to access the program code and operate as instructed by the program code. The program code includes an acquisition code configured to cause the at least one processor to acquire a request for requesting determination as to whether or not a target area is usable for a predetermined purpose, and a control code configured to cause the at least one processor to perform control to cause a first flying object to fly to the target area. The acquisition code is configured to cause the at least one processor to further acquire sensing data that is data obtained by optical sensing of the target area by the first flying object. The program code further comprises a determination code configured to cause the at least one processor to determine, based on the acquired sensing data, whether or not the target area is usable for the predetermined purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Publication number: 20230192332
    Abstract: The center server 3 determines, for each take-off/landing port 2, any one of charging of the UAV 1, discharging of the UAV 1, operation of the UAV 1 for article delivery, and standby of the UAV 1 as a action to be implemented in the take-off/landing port 2 on the basis of delivery schedule information related to a schedule for article delivery and battery information of the UAV 1 deployed in each of the plurality of take-off/landing ports 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Takumi YAMATO, Daiki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230196263
    Abstract: The information processing server 2 communicates with the user terminal 3 of the recipient of the article delivered by the delivery machine 1, specifies content that is content according to the delivery waiting time until the delivery machine 1 arrives at the delivery destination of the article and that can be output on the user terminal 3 during the delivery waiting time, and provides the specified content to the user terminal 3 during the delivery waiting time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Publication number: 20230186163
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, comprising: a data set acquisition unit configured to acquire a first training data set that stores training data in which a first natural language sequence is correlated to a second natural language sequence; an analysis unit configured to extract a segment indicating either non-honorific or honorific expressions from the second natural language sequence in the first training data set, and analyze the extracted segment; and a data set conversion unit configured to convert, based on an analysis result of the segment, the first training data set into a second training data set that is different from the first training data set and in which the honorific expression in the second natural language sequence is enriched over the non-honorific expression with respect to the first training data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Alberto PONCELAS
  • Patent number: 11676588
    Abstract: A dialogue control system, comprising at least one processor configured to: acquire remark information about a remark of a user; control a plurality of dialogue generators each for generating, when the remark information is acquired, reply information about a reply to be made in response to the remark indicated by the remark information; and output the reply information generated by at least one of a plurality of dialogue generators, wherein the acquisition of the remark information and the output of the reply information are repeated so that a dialogue progresses, and wherein each of the plurality of dialogue generators is configured to generate new reply information based on the reply information that has been generated and output by another of the plurality of dialogue generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Masayuki Chatani
  • Publication number: 20230176589
    Abstract: An UAV 1 performs a detachment control to detach a cargo supported by a support portion 117 or connected a connecting portion 118, and thereafter, performs a load detection process of detecting a mechanical load applied to the support portion 117 or the connecting portion 118. And then An UAV 1 performs different control according to the mechanical load, with respect to a movement of the UAV 1 after the detection of the mechanical load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki TAZUME
  • Publication number: 20230177567
    Abstract: A bidding assistance device includes a ratio calculation unit configured to calculate a ratio of an actual advertising cost index to a goal advertising cost index, the actual advertising cost index being based on an advertising delivery performance at a bidding time in an advertising period, the goal advertising cost index being requested by an advertiser in the advertising period, an adjustment factor calculation unit configured to calculate an adjustment factor from the ratio and from a relationship between the advertising period and the bidding time, the adjustment factor being used to adjust a bid price of an advertisement, and a determination unit configured to determine the bid price at the bidding time using the adjustment factor calculated by the adjustment factor calculation unit, the goal advertising cost index, and a forecast effectiveness index forecast from advertising effectiveness, the advertising effectiveness being obtained from the advertising delivery performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Carlos KOBASHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11659123
    Abstract: Photographed image acquisition means (201) of an information processing device (20) acquires a photographed image photographed by photographing means (25) capable of photographing a target image including predetermined information. Reference means (202) refers to storage means (200) for storing the target image photographed in the past and information extracted from the target image in the past, in association with each other. Determination means (207) determines whether or not the target image photographed in the past has been captured in the photographed image. Processing execution means (211) executes, when the target image photographed in the past has been captured in the photographed image, predetermined processing based on the information associated with the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Yeongnam Chae
  • Patent number: 11656633
    Abstract: The article transfer system S selects an article transfer candidate on the basis of first sensing information obtained from first sensing performed by the unmanned aerial vehicle in flight, performs a movement control of the unmanned ground vehicle on the basis of position information of the selected article transfer candidate, and determines an article transfer place with reference to the selected article transfer candidate on the basis of second sensing information obtained from second sensing performed by the unmanned ground vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tazume, Qingnan Zhou, Hayato Mizukami
  • Patent number: 11657077
    Abstract: A computer system document according to one embodiment includes a generation unit and an update unit. The generation unit performs first machine learning on a target document, as input data, to which a correct path in a tree structure where each node indicates a document category is given, and thereby generates a classification model indicating a right path to a leaf node for the target document. The update unit performs second machine learning that applies, to the classification model, the target document to which the correct path is not given, and when a path from an Nth level node to an (N+1)th level node is different from the correct path, updates the classification model by setting a modified path from the (N+1)th level node to an (N+2)th level node different from a child node of the (N+1)th level node based on the correct path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Murakami, Masato Mita