Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto

Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto 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).

  • Patent number: 9916614
    Abstract: To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display racks 11 to 14 based upon the detection result of the RFID reader; a second step for acquiring RFID numbers of related products having related product types and functional types relative to the product type of the RFID number from the product related information data base 260 by using the detected RFID number as a key; a third step for acquiring the product display coordinates of the product type from the product coordinate data base 250 by using the acquired RFID number of the related product as a key; and a fourth step for lighting or flickering the lamp of the lamp guiding units 30 to 33 at a position close to the acquired product display coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Noriho Tanaka, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
  • Publication number: 20160055566
    Abstract: To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display racks 11 to 14 based upon the detection result of the RFID reader; a second step for acquiring RFID numbers of related products having related product types and functional types relative to the product type of the RFID number from the product related information data base 260 by using the detected RFID number as a key; a third step for acquiring the product display coordinates of the product type from the product coordinate data base 250 by using the acquired RFID number of the related product as a key; and a fourth step for lighting or flickering the lamp of the lamp guiding units 30 to 33 at a position close to the acquired product display coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Noriho Tanaka, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
  • Patent number: 7881988
    Abstract: A system with an intelligent shelf (100) has product display shelves (110 to 130) displaying products having RFID tags R. The system includes antennas (112a to 112c) each having unique antenna numbers and detecting a tag serial number from an RFID tag on a product, human body sensors S disposed on each end of the product display shelf 120, a tag-product ID registration table storing the tag serial numbers of the RFID tags and the product IDs of the products and a control computer (200) detecting that a particular product is picked up from and/or returned to a particular product display shelf by combining the input tag serial number and the antenna number of the antenna detecting the tag serial number and analyzing which direction the detected human body has moved based on the difference of the detection times of the human body sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignees: Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd., Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Tana-X-Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Tohru Kaneko, Katsumasa Kishida, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
  • Publication number: 20090153328
    Abstract: [OBJECT] To provide system and program for obtaining customers' purchase behavior information for products. [MEANS FOR ACHIEVING OBJECT] A system comprising an intelligent shelf (100) having product display shelves (110 to 130) on which the products A to C applied with RFID tags R are displayed, a plurality of antennas (112a to 112c) each having unique antenna numbers and detecting a tag serial number from an RFID tag on a product, a pair of human body sensors S disposed on each end of the product display shelf 120, a tag-product ID registration table storing the tag serial numbers of the RFID tags and the product IDs of the products uniquely given to each kind of product and a control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Tohru Kaneko, Katsumasa Kishida, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto