Patents by Inventor Kazue Hosoya

Kazue Hosoya 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).

  • Survey method and survey system
    Patent number: 7926726
    Abstract: A customer is made to have an object equipped with a chip (wireless chip) capable of wireless communication. Further, an antenna is arranged in each of an entrance and an exit of a saleroom in a store and a plurality of points, respectively, inside the saleroom of the store. When the customer approaches the entrance, exit, and plurality of points, positional information and time information are written from an antenna arranged in the approached point to the wireless chip. By reading information written in the wireless chip, a movement path or the like of the customer in the saleroom is judged. The needs of the customer are judged based on the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Yukawa, Kazue Hosoya
  • SURVEY METHOD AND SURVEY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20060213987
    Abstract: A customer is made to have an object equipped with a chip (wireless chip) capable of wireless communication. Further, an antenna is arranged in each of an entrance and an exit of a saleroom in a store and a plurality of points, respectively, inside the saleroom of the store. When the customer approaches the entrance, exit, and plurality of points, positional information and time information are written from an antenna arranged in the approached point to the wireless chip. By reading information written in the wireless chip, a movement path or the like of the customer in the saleroom is judged. The needs of the customer are judged based on the result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Yukawa, Kazue Hosoya