Patents by Inventor Akira HAGIHARA

Akira HAGIHARA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200053395
    Abstract: A video distribution system that generates a distribution video from a captured video obtained by capturing an event venue and distributes the distribution video to user terminal via a network is provided and includes a camera installed at a predetermined position in the event venue and capturing the event venue in a predetermined direction; a captured video storage accumulating a captured video output from the camera; a video processing computer that cuts out regions respectively corresponding to a plurality of viewpoints with respect to a subject from the captured video, and generates a plurality of distribution videos different in viewpoint; and a video distribution server that distributes the distribution video corresponding to a distribution request to the user terminal device when receiving the distribution request including information on the viewpoint selected by a user from the user terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi MUKAIYAMA, Akira HAGIHARA, Toshiki YAMAGUCHI, Kohei NAGURA, Bilguun SAINBAYAR
  • Publication number: 20170345010
    Abstract: A sales support method and. a sales support system which can reduce time and effort of a customer due to age verification when sales of age-restricted merchandise are performed. Age estimation information that is information obtained by estimating an age of a customer by using biometric information obtained by observing the customer is acquired, information that is input by the customer is acquired as age information of the customer in a case where the age estimation information is greater than or equal to a second predetermined age, and information based on a medium that the customer possesses is acquired as the age information of the customer in a case where the age estimation information is less than the second predetermined age, and whether the customer is older than or equal to a first predetermined age or under the first predetermined age is determined based on the age information of the customer and the determination result is notified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Akira HAGIHARA, Takeshi WAKAKO, Sako KONDO