Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Matsuno
Hirokazu Matsuno 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).
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Patent number: 11727379Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stocking support system includes a processor configured to acquire a reference display value and a lower limit display value for an item. The processor then acquires a sales number for the item from a sales data processing device and calculates a restocking number for the item when a displayed number of the item falls below the lower limit display value. The processor then instructs a printing device to output the calculated restocking number for the item along with information for identifying the item in a work unit for an item restocking process.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hirokazu Matsuno
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Publication number: 20230026389Abstract: A store server is configured to be installed in a store and includes a communications interface, a memory, and a processing circuit. The communications interface is configured to facilitate communication with one or more other store servers installed in one or more other stores and a user terminal within the store. The memory is configured to store other store content related to products of the one or more other stores received from the one or more other store servers. The processing circuit is configured to acquire customer identification information that identifies a customer, transmit shopping content to a user terminal carried by the customer that includes information determined based on the customer identification information and the other store content stored in the memory, acquire purchase content related to product purchased by the customer in the store, and transmit the purchase content to the one or more other store servers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirokazu MATSUNO
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Publication number: 20230028398Abstract: An information processing device includes a first acquisition unit that acquires merchandise identification information identifying a merchandise, expiration date information indicating an expiration date determined for the merchandise, and exhibition unit information indicating a merchandise exhibition unit where the merchandise is exhibited, with respect to merchandises exhibited in the merchandise exhibition unit; a registration unit that registers merchandise exhibition information associated with the merchandise identification information, the expiration date information, and the exhibition unit information acquired by the first acquisition unit; a second acquisition unit that acquires the merchandise identification information and the expiration date information of sold merchandises; and an update unit that updates the merchandise exhibition information based on the merchandise identification information and the expiration date information acquired by the second acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventor: Hirokazu Matsuno
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Publication number: 20220309442Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server includes a product position storage unit configured to store a storage position of a product in association with each product, a cart position storage unit configured to store a position of a cart, a cart determining unit configured to determine a cart positioned closest to a product-to-pick ordered from an ordering party, based on the storage position of the product and the position of the cart, and a product information transmitting unit configured to transmit information on the product-to-pick to a cart terminal attached to the determined cart for display thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventor: Hirokazu Matsuno
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Publication number: 20210406858Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stocking support system includes a processor configured to acquire a reference display value and a lower limit display value for an item. The processor then acquires a sales number for the item from a sales data processing device and calculates a restocking number for the item when a displayed number of the item falls below the lower limit display value. The processor then instructs a printing device to output the calculated restocking number for the item along with information for identifying the item in a work unit for an item restocking process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventor: Hirokazu MATSUNO
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Patent number: 11190041Abstract: According to an embodiment, a charge-discharge control apparatus includes a rectifier-voltage decrease detector circuit and an over-discharge suppression controller circuit. On the condition that the rectifier-voltage decrease detector circuit detects that voltage output from a rectifier circuit of a power-receiving device is decreased below a voltage threshold, the over-discharge suppression controller circuit suppresses over-discharge of an inverter circuit of a power-feeding device, or suppresses over-discharge of a battery of the power-receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirokazu Matsuno
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Patent number: 10958107Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-contact power supply device includes an inverter circuit configured to convert power supplied from a direct current (DC) power supply into alternating current (AC) power, a resonant circuit configured to supply the AC power to an external power receiving device in a non-contact manner, a current sensor electrically connected the inverter circuit, a voltage subtractor circuit configured to detect a voltage difference between a predetermined reference voltage and a voltage value of the AC power as detected by a voltage sensor in the external power receiving device, a current subtractor circuit configured to detect a current difference between a predetermined reference current and a current value of the AC power as detected by the current sensor, and a controller configured to control the inverter circuit to reduce the voltage difference and the current difference when the voltage is outside a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirokazu Matsuno
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Publication number: 20200083750Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-contact power supply device includes an inverter circuit configured to convert power supplied from a direct current (DC) power supply into alternating current (AC) power, a resonant circuit configured to supply the AC power to an external power receiving device in a non-contact manner, a current sensor electrically connected the inverter circuit, a voltage subtractor circuit configured to detect a voltage difference between a predetermined reference voltage and a voltage value of the AC power as detected by a voltage sensor in the external power receiving device, a current subtractor circuit configured to detect a current difference between a predetermined reference current and a current value of the AC power as detected by the current sensor, and a controller configured to control the inverter circuit to reduce the voltage difference and the current difference when the voltage is outside a predetermined range.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventor: Hirokazu MATSUNO
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Publication number: 20190372386Abstract: According to an embodiment, a charge-discharge control apparatus includes a rectifier-voltage decrease detector circuit and an over-discharge suppression controller circuit. On the condition that the rectifier-voltage decrease detector circuit detects that voltage output from a rectifier circuit of a power-receiving device is decreased below a voltage threshold, the over-discharge suppression controller circuit suppresses over-discharge of an inverter circuit of a power-feeding device, or suppresses over-discharge of a battery of the power-receiving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventor: Hirokazu MATSUNO
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Patent number: 10483807Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-contact power supply device includes an inverter circuit configured to convert power supplied from a direct current (DC) power supply into alternating current (AC) power, a resonant circuit configured to supply the AC power to an external power receiving device in a non-contact manner, a current sensor electrically connected the inverter circuit, a voltage subtractor circuit configured to detect a voltage difference between a predetermined reference voltage and a voltage value of the AC power as detected by a voltage sensor in the external power receiving device, a current subtractor circuit configured to detect a current difference between a predetermined reference current and a current value of the AC power as detected by the current sensor, and a controller configured to control the inverter circuit to reduce the voltage difference and the current difference when the voltage is outside a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirokazu Matsuno
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Patent number: 10432011Abstract: According to an embodiment, a charge-discharge control apparatus includes a rectifier-voltage decrease detector circuit and an over-discharge suppression controller circuit. On the condition that the rectifier-voltage decrease detector circuit detects that voltage output from a rectifier circuit of a power-receiving device is decreased below a voltage threshold, the over-discharge suppression controller circuit suppresses over-discharge of an inverter circuit of a power-feeding device, or suppresses over-discharge of a battery of the power-receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirokazu Matsuno
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Publication number: 20180183268Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-contact power supply device includes an inverter circuit configured to convert power supplied from a direct current (DC) power supply into alternating current (AC) power, a resonant circuit configured to supply the AC power to an external power receiving device in a non-contact manner, a current sensor electrically connected the inverter circuit, a voltage subtractor circuit configured to detect a voltage difference between a predetermined reference voltage and a voltage value of the AC power as detected by a voltage sensor in the external power receiving device, a current subtractor circuit configured to detect a current difference between a predetermined reference current and a current value of the AC power as detected by the current sensor, and a controller configured to control the inverter circuit to reduce the voltage difference and the current difference when the voltage is outside a predetermined range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventor: Hirokazu MATSUNO
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Publication number: 20170346330Abstract: According to an embodiment, a charge-discharge control apparatus includes a rectifier-voltage decrease detector circuit and an over-discharge suppression controller circuit. On the condition that the rectifier-voltage decrease detector circuit detects that voltage output from a rectifier circuit of a power-receiving device is decreased below a voltage threshold, the over-discharge suppression controller circuit suppresses over-discharge of an inverter circuit of a power-feeding device, or suppresses over-discharge of a battery of the power-receiving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventor: Hirokazu MATSUNO
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Publication number: 20170075840Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a management module configured to manage peripheral device information relating to a peripheral device connected with connection destination devices in association with each of the connection destination devices, a selection module configured to select a connection destination candidate from the connection destination devices on the basis of the peripheral device information if connection is requested from a new peripheral device and an informing module configured to inform the connection destination device serving as the connection destination candidate selected by the selection module.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Hirokazu Matsuno
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Publication number: 20170012472Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a wireless power supply system comprises a power supply section configured to carry out a wireless power supply to an electronic device, a detection section configured to detect an operator who operates the electronic device, and a power supply control section configured to start the wireless power supply to the electronic device by the power supply section if the operator is detected by the detection section or stop the wireless power supply to the electronic device by the power supply section if the operator is not detected by the detection section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventor: Hirokazu Matsuno