Patents by Inventor Kan Arai
Kan Arai 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: 20240104587Abstract: 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: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Azusa FURUKAWA, Kan ARAI, Kei SHIBUYA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Ken HANAZAWA, Makiko AKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240095671Abstract: 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: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Azusa FURUKAWA, Kan ARAI, Kei SHIBUYA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Ken HANAZAWA, Makiko AKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240086946Abstract: 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: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Azusa FURUKAWA, Kan ARAI, Kei SHIBUYA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Ken HANAZAWA, Makiko AKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240087359Abstract: 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: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Makiko AKIGUCHI, Azusa FURUKAWA, Kei SHIBUYA, Kan ARAI, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Ken HANAZAWA
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Publication number: 20230259886Abstract: An information processing apparatus 1 includes: an acquisition unit 121 configured to acquire to-be-performed job data 1121 related to a to-be-performed job of a job performer and condition data 1122 indicating a condition for the job performer; an extraction unit 122 configured to extract, from among pieces of career data 1110 including past job data 1111 indicating details of a past job performed by an employee in the past and state data 1112 indicating a state of the employee at a time of performing the past job, at least one piece of the career data based on a degree of similarity S to the to-be-performed job data; a generation unit 123 configured to generate, based on the state data included in the extracted career data, a typical condition supposed to be a typical example of the condition for the job performer; and an output unit 124 configured to output, based on the condition indicated by the condition data and the typical condition, adequacy information related to adequacy of a relation between detaiType: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Koki KITAYA, Yoshinori SAIDA, Hiroto ONISHI, Daisuke TOKUSHIMA, Kei SHIBUYA, Kan ARAI
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Publication number: 20230186368Abstract: The information processing device 1D mainly includes a state-of-activity estimation unit 31D and a timing determination unit 32D. The state-of-activity estimation unit 31D estimates, based on information detected in a meeting room in which a meeting is being held, a state of activity of the meeting. The timing determination unit 32D determines a timing of mobile sales of a commodity to one or more participants of the meeting based on the state of activity estimated by the state-of-activity estimating unit 31D.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kan ARAI, Kota IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230153886Abstract: An information processing device 1C mainly includes an acquisition unit 30C and a determination unit 32C. The acquisition unit 30C acquires at least one of purchase record information indicative of a purchase record or the individual attribute information relating to an attribute of a customer who is a subject of mobile sales of a commodity, and presence information relating to a presence of the customer, the purchase record including a date and time of a purchase by the customer. The determination unit 32C determines, based on at least one of the purchase record information or the individual attribute information and the presence information, a timing of moving sales of a recommended commodity to be recommended to the customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Kan ARAI
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Publication number: 20230154039Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image of a product held in a hand of a customer; an image analysis unit (12) that generates time-series information on a position of the product, based on the image; a determination unit (13) that determines whether the customer has performed a specific action for the product, based on a movement status of the product indicated by the generated time-series information; and a registration unit (14) that registers that the customer has performed the specific action.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Soma SHIRAISHI, Takami SATO, Yu NABETO, Kan ARAI, Kei SHIBUYA, Azusa FURUKAWA, Ken HANAZAWA, Makiko AKIGUCHI
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 20230048334Abstract: A life log management device 1A mainly includes an image retrieval unit 31A and a display control unit 33A. The image retrieval unit 31A is configured to retrieve an objective image Iobj in which a target user is photographed from a database 22A of installation camera images generated by a camera installed in a public place. The display control unit 33A is configured to display life log information based on the objective image Iobj on a display device 7A.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Kan Arai
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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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Publication number: 20230008377Abstract: An information processing device 1C mainly includes a segmentation unit 32C and a display control unit 33C. The segmentation unit 32C is configured to divide a similar job group, to which multiple workers engaged in a common or similar job belong, into multiple segments based on one or more attributes of the workers. The display control unit 33C is configured to display segment information, which is information regarding workers per segment, on the display device 4C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kan ARAI, Daisuke TOKUSHIMA, Yoshinori SAIDA, Hiroto ONISHI, Yousuke MOTOHASHI
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Publication number: 20220122018Abstract: An information visualization apparatus 10 includes: a data obtainment unit 11 that obtains, as data, at least one of a response to a questionnaire administered to individuals belonging to an organization, and biometric information collected from the individuals; a coefficient calculation unit 12 that calculates a coefficient indicating correlation among nodes on the basis of the data obtained, in a causal loop diagram in which pre-registered items are nodes and relationships among the nodes are indicated by arrows; an updating unit 13 that updates the causal loop diagram on the basis of the coefficient calculated; and a presentation unit 14 that presents the causal loop diagram.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2019Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kei SHIBUYA, Kan ARAI, Makiko AKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210398083Abstract: An information providing device being capable of objectively evaluating a career of a user is provided. A job history acquisition unit (11) acquires job history information indicating a job history of a user. A similarity degree calculation unit (12) calculates a similarity degree between the job history information and each of a plurality of pieces of job offer information. A job offer information extraction unit (13) extracts the job offer information of which the similarity degree is equal to or more than a predetermined criterion. A proper job level calculation unit (14) calculates a proper job level of the user by use of the extracted job offer information. A proper job level display unit (15) performs processing for displaying the calculated proper job level.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kan ARAI, Daisuke TOKUSHIMA, Yoshinori SAIDA