Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Hashimoto
Hiroshi Hashimoto 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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Publication number: 20230142288Abstract: In an information processing device, a category setting unit sets a plurality of categories to a product, the category being a division representing characteristics of the product. A recommended product specifying unit specifies the product to be recommended to a customer as a recommended product. A display category specifying unit specifies a display category to be displayed as an advertisement, based on a condition including a customer attribute, from among the plurality of categories set to the recommended product. A display control unit displays a category display screen for displaying the display category on a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kei SHIBUYA, Kan ARAI, Azusa FURUKAWA, Makiko AKIGUCHI, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Ken HANNAZAWA
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Publication number: 20230138880Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part, a drainage water trap part that is connected to a bottom part of the bowl part, and a water drainage socket that is connected to the drainage water trap part and includes an upper side water drainage socket that extends downward from the drainage water trap part, a back side R part that is connected to the upper side water drainage socket and changes a flow channel so that a washing water that flows from an upper side is directed to a front side, and a horizontal pipe that extends forward from the back side R part. The back side R part and the horizontal pipe include a water storage part that stores a part of washing water. The water storage part is arranged on a lower side of a back side lower end part of the drainage water trap part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Chisato Sone, Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuichi Tsubone, Shigeru Okada, Kenichi Takano, Satoshi Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20230140512Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: a classification execution unit (12) that executes class classification, based on an inference device; a computation unit (13) that computes a precision of a class determined by the class classification; a processing unit (14) that outputs a class determined by the class classification and accepts a correct/incorrect input from an operator when the precision is less than a reference value; and a registration unit (15) that registers a product determined by the class classification as a purchase target when the precision is equal to or more than the reference value, and registers a product determined by a correct/incorrect input from the operator as a purchase target when the precision is less than the reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Kan ARAI, Kei SHIBUYA, Ken HANAZAWA, Azusa FURUKAWA, Mekiko AKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230137859Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part, a drainage water trap part that is connected to a bottom part thereof, and a water drainage socket that is connected thereto and includes a back side R part that changes a flow channel so that washing water flowing from an upper side is directed to a front side, a front side R part that is provided on a downstream side of the back side R part and changes a flow channel so that washing water flowing from a back side is directed to a lower side, a water storage part that stores a part of washing water on a flow channel from the back side R part to the front side R part, and a throttle part that is provided on a downstream side of the front side R part and decreases a cross-sectional area of a flow channel thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Yuichi Tsubone, Chisato Sone, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuya Miyake, Shigeru Okada, Kenichi Takano
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Publication number: 20230099665Abstract: In a familiarity degree estimation apparatus, a first video process unit calculates a time while a hand being viewed, which is a time when a customer is viewing the hand. A second video process unit calculates a time while an item being held, which is a time when the customer is holding an item. A familiarity degree estimation unit calculates a time while the item being viewed based on the time while a hand being viewed and the time while the item being held, and estimates that the longer the time while the item being viewed, the lower the degree of familiarity of the customer with respect to the item.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Azusa FURUKAWA, Kan ARAI, Kei SHIBUYA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Ken HANAZAWA, Makiko AKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230100206Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl including a waste receiving surface, a rim and a well portion; a water spouting part that spouts flush water toward the bowl; and a water discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the well portion, the water discharge trap discharging waste in the bowl, the well portion includes a bottom wall formed above and in front of the inlet of the water discharge trap, a side wall formed to surround a periphery of the bottom wall, and a joining portion that joins an outer edge of the bottom wall and a bottom edge of the side wall with a surface having a curvature, and the bottom wall of the well portion includes a concave portion formed to recess downward on left and right sides with respect to a center axis in a left-right direction in a front sectional view.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Shinichi URATA, Kazunari YASUI, Isami SAKABA, Yuichi TSUBONE, Shigeru OKADA, Satoshi YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230092638Abstract: Provided is a delivery management device for determining the delivery skill of a worker who delivers products in a specific store such as a labor-saving store. A delivery management device 30 equipped with an authentication unit 31 for authenticating a deliverer of a product on the basis of a captured image, and a skill determination unit 32 for determining the skill of the deliverer by using skill information which includes one or more elements among the number of products displayed, the time required by displaying and the product display state level on the product shelf, which are calculated on the basis of an image in which the authenticated deliverer displays one or more products on a product shelf.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kei Shibuya, Kan Arai, Azusa Furukawa, Makiko Akiguchi, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Ken Hanazawa
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Publication number: 20230080815Abstract: A customer analysis apparatus (10) includes an image acquisition unit (110) and an image processing unit (120). The image acquisition unit (110) acquires a first image generated by a first image capture unit (22) and a second image generated by a second image capture unit (24). The image processing unit (120) processes the first image and the second image. More specifically, the image processing unit (120) generates product information indicating a product (50) taken out from a product shelf (40), by processing the first image and the second image. Further, the image processing unit (120) generates customer attribute information of a customer taking out the product (50), by processing the first image. Then, the image processing unit (120) causes a result storage unit (130) to store the product information and the customer attribute information in association with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Makiko AKIGUCHI, Azusa FURUKAWA, Kei SHIBUYA, Kan ARAI, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Ken HANAZAWA
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Publication number: 20230066417Abstract: The present invention provides a flush toilet device (1) including: a flush toilet (2); a flush water tank (10); a discharge valve (12) that discharges the flush water stored in the flush water tank; a branching portion (33) that splits flush water supplied from a water supply source into first and second branched flow paths; a first on-off valve (19) provided in the first branched flow path and switches between spout and stop of the flush water from the upper spout port; a second on-off valve (17) provided in the second branched flow path and switches between supply and stop of the flush water into the flush water tank; and a controller (28) that controls the first and second on-off valve so that water is spouted from the upper spout port and is supplied into the flush water tank at a time by opening the first and second on-off valves.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Shinichi URATA, Chisato SONE, Koichiro MATSUMURA
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Publication number: 20230063863Abstract: An item management apparatus manages the number of items displayed on an item shelf. An acquisition unit acquires an ideal quantity indicating an ideal number of items to be displayed, and a current quantity indicating the number of items being actually displayed on the item shelf. A detection unit detects the number of times of taking out and placing back an item with respect to the item shelf. An ideal quantity correction unit corrects the ideal quantity based on the current quantity and the number of times of taking out and placing back the item.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Azusa FURUKAWA, Kan ARAI, Kei SHIBUYA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Ken HANAZAWA, Makiko AKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230069523Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: a registration unit (12) that recognizes, based on image processing, product discrimination information of a product picked up from a product placing space, and registers the recognized product discrimination information in association with customer discrimination information; and a settlement unit (13) that executes, when it is detected, based on image processing, that a customer having picked up the product performs a predetermined action, a settlement based on a registration content resulting from the registration unit (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kan Arai, Azusa Furukawa, Kei Shibuya, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Makiko Akiguchi, Ken Hanazawa
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Publication number: 20230027388Abstract: A price information determination apparatus (10) includes an information acquisition unit (110), a price information determination unit (120), and an output unit (130). The information acquisition unit (110) acquires customer information of a customer when the customer selects a specific product (50) out of products (50) placed in a product shelving unit (40). The price information determination unit (120) generates price information of the selected product (50) by using the customer information acquired by the information acquisition unit (110). The output unit (130) outputs the customer information generated by the price information determination unit (120) to, for example, a display apparatus (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kan Arai, Kei Shibuya, Azusa Furukawa, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Makiko Akiguchi, Ken Hanazawa
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Patent number: 11421410Abstract: There are provided a flush water tank apparatus capable of reducing a pressure of flush water in a pressure chamber easily, and a flush toilet apparatus provided with the same. A discharge valve hydraulic drive portion of a flush water tank apparatus includes a cylinder in which supplied the flush water flows, a piston that is slidably disposed in the cylinder, partitions inside of the cylinder into a pressure chamber and a back pressure chamber, and further is moved from a first position to a second position by a pressure of the flush water that has flowed into the pressure chamber, an outflow portion from which the flush water in the cylinder flows out, and a communication mechanism that establishes communication between the pressure chamber and the outflow portion after the clutch mechanism is disengaged.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu Kitaura, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Akihiro Shimuta, Masahiro Kuroishi, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Koki Shinohara, Kenji Hatama
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Patent number: 11421409Abstract: Provided are a flush water tank apparatus capable of restraining instability of an operation of a piston and restraining fluctuations in a water pressure of flush water discharged from a first discharge part provided separately from an inlet, and a flush toilet apparatus including the flush water tank apparatus. A discharge valve hydraulic drive portion of a flush water tank apparatus of the present invention includes a cylinder, a piston, and a rod extending from the piston through a through-hole portion formed in the cylinder, the cylinder including an inlet into which flush water flows, a first discharge part that is provided separately from the inlet to drain the flush water, and a second discharge part that is provided separately from the first discharge part and is formed between the rod and the through-hole portion and between the piston and the through-hole portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Nobuhiro Hayashi, Hidekazu Kitaura, Akihiro Shimuta, Masahiro Kuroishi, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Koki Shinohara, Kenji Hatama, Takashi Yoshioka
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Patent number: 11413752Abstract: A programming assistance device includes a program storage unit that stores a first program comprising a first set of time series jobs and stores a second program comprising a second set of time series jobs. Each job of the first program defines at least one operation of a first robot, and the first program is configured to be performed along a shared time line. Additionally, each job of the second program defines at least one operation of a second robot, and the second program is configured to be performed along the shared time line.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Inventors: Makoto Takahashi, Wataru Watanabe, Yutaro Uchida, Keita Satsuma, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11384521Abstract: A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part, a rim part, a water spout port, and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The rim part is formed on a top of the bowl part. The water spout port spouts a washing water. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part. A first region that is connected to a discharge channel and a second region that is located on a front side of the first region are formed in the water storage part. A main stream of the washing water that is spouted from the water spout port along the rim part swirls on the bowl part and flows into the first region.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Jing Chen
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Publication number: 20220207304Abstract: A robustness setting device provided with robustness specifying means for specifying a robustness level required in a computation device using a trained model against an adversarial sample that is an input signal to which a perturbation has been added in order to induce an erroneous determination by the trained model; and level determination means for determining a noise removal level for the input signal based on the robustness level.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 11346092Abstract: A flush toilet according to the embodiment includes a main water guide channel, a downstream-side water guide channel, and a convex part. Through the main water guide channel, flush water supplied from a water supply source flows. The downstream-side water guide channel on a downstream side of the main water guide channel spouts the flush water from a water spout port of the downstream-side water guide channel. The convex part is formed in the downstream-side water guide channel. The convex part includes a first guide part that guides upward the flush water flowing through the downstream-side water guide channel, and a second guide part on a downstream side of the first guide part which guides downward the flush water.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Jing Chen, Takumi Tsuchitani, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11332916Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part and stores a stored water. The water storage part includes a front surface part, a back surface part that is formed on a back side of the front surface part, and a pair of side surface parts that are formed between the front surface part and the back surface part. On at least one side surface part in the pair of side surface parts, a convex surface that protrudes toward another side surface part is formed.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Nakamura, Shinichi Urata, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11326333Abstract: A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part, a rim part, a water spout port, and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The rim part is formed on a top of the bowl part. The water spout port spouts a washing water from one side of the bowl part in leftward and rightward directions. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part. The bowl part includes a guide part that causes the washing water to swirl from the one side to another side that is opposite to the one side and causes the washing water that swirls to the another side to flow into a back side of the water storage part.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Jing Chen, Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto