Patents by Inventor Hiroki SUGEGAYA

Hiroki SUGEGAYA 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: 20240096241
    Abstract: A display apparatus (100) includes a shelf tag attachment member (102) being fixed to a front end surface of a product shelf S, and a shelf tag (101) having a display surface (103). The shelf tag (101) is attached to the shelf tag attachment member (102) via a rotation axis A, and is rotatable in a predetermined direction in which the display surface (103) is turned upward. A lower end of the shelf tag (101) is located below a lower surface LS of the product shelf S and a lower end of the shelf tag attachment member (102) in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sugegaya, Akihiko Onita, Shunsuke Tsuda, Benny Goh, Hiromitsu Nakano, Kunihiro Akaba, Kazuhiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20240062213
    Abstract: A detection system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a number of registered commodities for which commodity registration has been performed based on notification information given upon the commodity registration by a customer; acquire a number of to-be registered commodities for which the customer is to perform commodity registration; detect a discrepancy between the number of registered commodities and the number of to-be registered commodities; and output a detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki SUGEGAYA, Shunsuke TSUDA, Ning LI, Yuki TSURUOKA, Shut OKADA
  • Publication number: 20240054470
    Abstract: A detection system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a number of one or more products to be registered based on an image in which a customer reads one or more product symbols with a scanner; acquire a number of one or more products registered by the customer; detect discrepancy between the number of the one or more products to be registered and the number of the one or more registered products; and output a detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki SUGEGAYA, Shunsuke TSUDA, Ning LI, Yuki TSURUOKA, Shuta OKADA
  • Publication number: 20240013683
    Abstract: A shelf tag attachment apparatus (100) includes an electronic shelf tag (101), and a shelf tag holding portion (103) for holding the electronic shelf tag (101). The electronic shelf tag (101) includes, on each of an upper end and a lower end, a groove portion (105) extending in a left-right direction, and the shelf tag holding portion (103) includes a protrusion portion (115) that projects downwards and upwards, and that fits into each of the upper groove portion (105) and a lower groove portion (105). At least one combination of a combination of the upper groove portion (105) and the protrusion portion (115) that fits into the groove portion (105), and a combination of the lower groove portion (105) and the protrusion portion (115) that fits into the groove portion (105) is discretely provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Akaba, Hiromitsu Nakano, Akihiko Onita, Shunsuke Tsuda, Hiroki Sugegaya
  • Publication number: 20230401530
    Abstract: One of objects of the present invention is to reduce labor of a user when placing an electronic shelf label (103) on a fixture (104). The present invention includes: one or a plurality of electronic shelf labels (103); and a management apparatus (107) that manages the one or a plurality of electronic shelf labels (103). The management apparatus (107) includes: a product ID acquisition unit (120) that acquires, when accepting exhibition area information for identifying an exhibition area of one or a plurality of products, product information of the one or a plurality of products relevant to a product ID associated with the accepted exhibition area information in information in which exhibition area information and product identification information are associated with each other; and a second control unit (122) that performs control for associating each of the one or a plurality of pieces of product information with the one or a plurality of electronic shelf labels (103).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroki Sugegaya
  • Publication number: 20230385895
    Abstract: A shelf information acquisition unit (122) acquires shelf identification information. The shelf identification information is information acquired by processing an image being generated by capturing an image of inside of a store and including a product shelf, and is information identifying the product shelf. A product identification information acquisition unit (130) acquires, from an identification information storage unit (160), a plurality of pieces of product identification information being related to the shelf identification information acquired by the shelf information acquisition unit (122). A display control unit (140) performs display processing for acquiring, from a product information storage unit (170), product information being related to the product identification information acquired by the product identification information acquisition unit (130), and causing a display unit (150) to display the product information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroki Sugegaya
  • Publication number: 20230385757
    Abstract: A burden on a user when confirming whether product information is correctly registered in an electronic shelf label (102) is reduced. A management system (100) includes: a plurality of the electronic shelf labels (102) and a management apparatus (103). The management apparatus (103) includes an inquiry unit (114) that transmits inquiry information including first product identification information to the plurality of electronic shelf labels (102), and a notification control unit (117) that performs control for notifying a user, based on reply data from the plurality of electronic shelf labels (102) in response to the inquiry information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroki SUGEGAYA
  • Publication number: 20230376890
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a stock information acquisition unit, an apparatus information acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The stock information acquisition unit acquires product identification information, and stock information of a product associated with the product identification information in a store. The apparatus information acquisition unit uses information stored in an apparatus information storage unit. The apparatus information storage unit stores display apparatus identification information of a display apparatus, and product identification information associated with the display apparatus in association with each other. Further, the apparatus information acquisition unit acquires, from the apparatus information storage unit, display apparatus identification information associated with the acquired product identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroki Sugegaya
  • Publication number: 20230276956
    Abstract: A shelf tag attachment apparatus (100) includes a shelf tag holding portion (103) for holding an electronic shelf tag (101), and a support member (102) that supports the shelf tag holding portion rotatably about a rotation axis P extending in a left-right direction of the electronic shelf tag (101). The shelf tag holding portion (103) includes a bearing portion for rotating about the rotation axis P relative to the support member (102). The support member (102) includes an arm portion (110) that is provided with a shaft portion (112), and that sandwiches the bearing portion from the left-right direction. The shelf tag holding portion (103) includes a stopper (130) that contacts the arm portion (110), and thereby locks in such a way that a display surface (104) of the electronic shelf tag (101) does not rotate beyond a previously determined range in a direction to face downwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Akaba, Hiromitsu Nakano, Akihiko Onita, Shunsuke Tsuda, Hiroki Sugegaya
  • Publication number: 20230098475
    Abstract: In a purchase management system using a self-checkout register, pieces of information, which are respectively registered by individual terminal devices, are shared among a plurality of customers. A terminal device capable of acquiring item identification information of each item to be purchased first acquires a cooperation ID. Next, the terminal device shares the information in real time with a cooperative terminal device that is another terminal device and includes the same cooperation ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yasuyo KAZO, Shinji FUNAI, Hiroki SUGEGAYA
  • Publication number: 20220188908
    Abstract: A POS device includes a transmission unit. When a guest purchasing a product entity displayed as a product of priority sales in a store is not a guest who requests the priority sales, the transmission unit transmits, to a terminal of a clerk, an instruction for displaying another entity of the corresponding product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Sayaka TAKAHASHI, Yuusuke KAYANO, Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroki SUGEGAYA
  • Publication number: 20220172227
    Abstract: A commodity demand prediction device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire information regarding a person expected to be present in an area where a store is located in at least a part of a time zone in which a demand for a commodity is predicted; and predict the demand for the commodity in the store in the time zone based on the information regarding the person and a purchase tendency of the person for the commodity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsunori MORISAKI, Hiroki SUGEGAYA
  • Publication number: 20220084347
    Abstract: An attachment provision control device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations include: acquiring information related to a purchased product and at least one of a purchase quantity and a purchase amount of the purchased product; determining at least one of a number and an amount of attachments to be attached to the purchased product based on the information related to the purchased product and at least one of the purchase quantity and the purchase amount of the purchased product; and transmitting an instruction to provide at least one of the determined number of attachments or the determined amount of attachments to an attachment provision device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsunori MORISAKI, Shinichiro SATO, Hiroki SUGEGAYA