Patents by Inventor Jun Uchimura

Jun Uchimura 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: 11386278
    Abstract: A product management device includes: a reception state storage unit configured to, on the basis of changes in reception states of signals transmitted from tag devices attached to products, store identification information of products in which the changes have occurred; and a list output unit configured to output a list of products for which the changes in the reception states are equal to or greater than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Uchimura
  • 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: 20220180400
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a featured product including a product of interest to a customer visiting a store; and an output unit that outputs ranking information, that satisfies a first criterion, regarding a sales performance of the featured product and regarding a parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi TANABE, Yuusuke KAYANO, Jun UCHIMURA, Toshikazu NAKAJIMA, Tomoyuki NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220164832
    Abstract: A sales management server that includes a generation unit and a notification unit. The generation unit generates advertisement information that includes: information about products for sale to a customer at a child store at which a product replaced by an employee of a mother store: and a number of the products for the sale. The notification unit notifies at least one of a portable communication terminal held by the customer or a device installed in the child store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki KIMURA, Takahiro MATSUI, Jun UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220164812
    Abstract: An information processing device 400 includes an attribute estimation unit 410, an input/output control unit 411, and an output unit 412. The attribute estimation unit 410 estimates, on the basis of imaging data in which a customer who visits a store is imaged, an attribute of the customer. The input/output control unit 411 outputs a survey to an output device in a store and receives an answer to this survey. The output unit 412 includes an output unit 412 that outputs an estimated attribute and a received answer in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Sayaka TAKAHASHI, Jun UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220129862
    Abstract: A display 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: determining a start of handling of a target facility; and changing display on an advertisement display device from an advertisement to a handling description of the target facility when determining the start of the handling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Sayaka TAKAHASHI, Yuji TAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220122125
    Abstract: An information processing device 400 is configured to be provided with a detection unit 410 and a control unit 420 so that an advertisement can be outputted to a customer at an appropriate timing. The detection unit 410 detects the position of a customer that has come to a store. The display control unit 420 causes a display device associated with a predetermined position in the store to display an advertisement when the distance between the detected position of the customer and the predetermined position is a predetermined value or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporaton
    Inventor: Jun UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220114538
    Abstract: An inventory management server according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor performing operations to: generate expiration information including information for specifying a product and information for specifying a branch store that sells the product based on a stock quantity of the product in the branch store in which an employee of a flagship store replaces a plurality of products and a sell-by date of the product; set a timing to transmit the expiration information to a store terminal based on at least either a movement time or a movement distance from a position of the employee to the branch store that sells the product, and the sell-by date related to the product; and notify the store terminal of the expiration information based on the set timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220092663
    Abstract: This information processing device is provided with: an image acquisition unit that acquires a commodity image obtained by photographing commodities at a store; an image manipulation unit that manipulates the commodity image on the basis of a manipulation instruction for the commodity image, the instruction being received from a customer information terminal; and an identification unit that identifies the customer needs for the commodities at the store on the basis of the manipulated commodity image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuusuke KAYANO, Takahiro MATSUI, Toshikazu NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220092523
    Abstract: There are provided an inventory management server, an inventory management system, an inventory management method, and an inventory management program for efficiently performing inventory management in a specific store such as a labor-saving store. The inventory management server 4 includes a generation unit 2 and a notification unit 3. The generation unit 2 generates stock shortage information including information for specifying a branch store and a stock quantity of a product when the stock quantity of the product in the branch store in which an employee of a flagship store replaces the product is equal to or less than a threshold. The notification unit 3 notifies the store terminal held by the employee of the stock shortage information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun UCHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11276107
    Abstract: A product management device includes: a reception state storage unit configured to, on the basis of changes in reception states of signals transmitted from tag devices attached to products, store identification information of products in which changes have occurred; a movement path detection unit configured to detect a movement path of a purchaser in a store in which the products are placed; and a list output unit configured to output a list of products placed at locations close to the movement path among the products for which changes in the reception states are equal to or greater than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Uchimura
  • Patent number: 11276053
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including: a detection means for detecting a position of a customer, a product, or a carrier used for carrying the product; an acquisition means for acquiring identification information from the product; a determination means for determining whether or not a position detected by the detection means is a position that enables acquisition of the identification information; and a notification information generation means for, when it is determined that the position detected by the detection means is not a position that enables acquisition of the identification information, generating notification information used for providing a notification to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220003867
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing system, an information processing method, and a storage medium that can realize high working efficiency in loading of loads. The information processing apparatus includes: a dimension measurement unit that measures three-dimensional dimensions of a load; and an identification information acquisition unit that acquires identification information on the load based on a signal read from the load in measurement of the three-dimensional dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220003872
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing system, an information processing method, and a storage medium that can accurately acquire a loading rate of loads on a load-carrying platform of a vehicle. The information processing system includes: a ranging unit that acquires a distribution of distances to a load loaded on a load-carrying platform of a vehicle or to a floor surface of the load-carrying platform; and a loading rate acquisition unit that acquires a loading rate of the load on the load-carrying platform based on the distribution of the distances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210405195
    Abstract: Provided is a passenger monitoring system comprising: a ranging sensor that is provided in a vehicle and capable of outputting a distance information corresponding to a distance to a passenger in the vehicle; and a control unit that estimates a state of congestion of the vehicle based on the distance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210396874
    Abstract: Provided is an object detection system including: a ranging device that emits light so as to pass through a detection region and receives reflected light in which the ranging device is configured to perform a scan by changing an optical path of emitted light; and a reflection member that is provided in a scan range so as to reflect light passing through the detection region toward the ranging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210382145
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor device including: a sensor device including: a sensor unit that emits light and receives light reflected by an object; and a reflection mirror unit that reflects light emitted from the sensor unit. A reflection surface of a reflection mirror included in the reflection mirror unit includes a first part and a second part having lower reflectance than the first part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11188871
    Abstract: A wireless tag system includes: a tag signal antenna configured to receive a tag signal transmitted from a wireless transmission tag; and a communication area shaping antenna configured to transmit a reception area shaping signal for narrowing an area in which the tag signal antenna can communicate with the wireless transmission tag, wherein the tag signal antenna and the communication area shaping antenna are arranged for each prescribed product unit in a group of products that are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210287162
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a product registration apparatus including an information acquisition unit that determines a placement position of a product having a placing table surface side to which product information is attached and acquires the product information attached to the product, and an output unit that outputs information indicating at least one of the placement position of the product from which the product information can be acquired and the placement position of the product from which the product information cannot be acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Masato WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11068672
    Abstract: A wireless tag system including a tag signal antenna configured to receive a tag signal transmitted from a wireless transmission tag; and a communication area shaping antenna configured to transmit a reception area shaping signal for narrowing an area in which the tag signal antenna can communicate with the wireless transmission tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe