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: 11579296
    Abstract: A spatial recognition device provided with an analysis unit configured to acquire, from an optical device which receives reflected light obtained by radiating light onto a reflective plate provided on a moving body positioned within a detection area, reflected light information obtained based on the reflected light in accordance with a radiation direction of the light, and analyze a state of the moving body on which the reflective plate is provided, based on a distribution of the reflected light information at coordinates within the detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11568360
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220398648
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image including a product display shelf; a display location determination unit (12) that determines, based on the image, a display location of each of products; a computation unit (13) that computes, based on the determined display location of each of the products, a sales-related score relating to sales; and an output unit (14) that outputs the computed sales-related score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220391826
    Abstract: A management apparatus (100) includes: an area computation unit (102) that acquires an area of a displayable region of a display shelf in which a product can be displayed, and computes an area ratio of an area of a non-display region of the display shelf in which the product detected from a captured image is not displayed to the area of the display shelf; a decision unit (104) that decides whether to make a notification according to the area ratio; and a notification unit (106) that makes the notification when it is decided that the notification is to be made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220366695
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) acquiring a captured image including a managed object related to a store, a foreign object region detection unit (12) detecting a foreign object region being a region in which a foreign object exists in the managed object included in the captured image, and a warning unit (13) executing warning processing depending on the size of the foreign object region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220358745
    Abstract: A store monitoring system includes: an imaging apparatus; and a store monitoring apparatus that monitors a display shelf in a store by using a captured image captured by the imaging apparatus, the store monitoring apparatus including: an acquisition unit that sequentially obtains the captured image from the imaging apparatus; and an image generation unit that extracts from the captured image a shelf image in which the display shelf appears, by eliminating from the captured image a non-shelf image in which the display shelf does not appear, and that generates a front shelf image obtained when the display shelf is imaged from a front, by correcting a distortion of the shelf image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220343743
    Abstract: A display control apparatus (100) includes a display processing unit (102) that displays, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, an image of a surveillance camera (5) of a store on at least one display (10) installed in the store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220318778
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to one example embodiment is an information processing apparatus that performs a checkout process for a product or a service, and the information processing apparatus includes: a motion unit that causes the information processing apparatus to autonomously move; a detection unit configured to detect a position of a person; and a control unit that controls the motion unit in accordance with the position of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220318890
    Abstract: An individual article management apparatus (2000) acquires product identification information (10) about a target product and preference information (30) about a user. The individual article management apparatus (2000) generates output information (40), based on the acquired preference information (30) and attribute information about each individual article of a target product determined by the acquired product identification information (10). The output information (40) associated with a product includes a captured image related to one or more individual articles of the product. The individual article management apparatus (2000) determines one or more individual articles having attribute information associated with the acquired preference information from among a plurality of individual articles of a product determined by the acquired identification information, and generates the output information including a captured image related to the determined individual article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220309443
    Abstract: A package management system provided with a storeroom for stowing multiple packages; and a window apparatus comprising receiving means for receiving one or more packages to be received and stowing the one or more packages in the storeroom, and discharging means for discharging, from the storeroom, one or more packages to be discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Furnihiko SUGIURA, Shingo SUZUKI, Yasuyuki YAMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220295016
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a video generated by a surveillance camera, a generation unit (12) that generates a plurality of surveillance target video contents, based on the video, a condition setting unit (13) that sets a surveillant condition required of a surveillant who confirms the surveillance target video content, and a video distribution unit (14) that distributes the surveillance target video content to a terminal apparatus of a surveillant satisfying the surveillant condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Patent number: 11416839
    Abstract: Provided are a checkout device, a control method, and a storage medium that can smoothly perform a checkout process for a customer in accordance with a status. The checkout device includes: a first input/output unit; a second input/output unit provided to face a different direction from the first input/output unit; and a control unit that selects an input/output unit which accepts input related to a checkout process from the first input/output unit and the second input/output unit based on at least one of status of the checkout device and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Yoshihiro Itou, Kazuki Miura
  • Patent number: 11403471
    Abstract: A delivery monitoring device includes: a reading unit that reads a tag signal transmitted by a tag signal transmission device, the tag signal transmission device being attached to a package located in a vicinity of the delivery monitoring device; an acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating a position of the delivery monitoring device; and a transmission unit that transmits management information including the tag signal and the position information, to a delivery management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11397934
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to one example embodiment is an information processing apparatus that performs a checkout process for a product or a service, and the information processing apparatus includes: a motion unit that causes the information processing apparatus to autonomously move; a detection unit configured to detect a position of a person; and a control unit that controls the motion unit in accordance with the position of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Uchimura
  • 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: 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: 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: 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