Patents by Inventor Kazuma Kitamura

Kazuma Kitamura 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).

  • SETTLEMENT SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL DEVICE, SALES SERVER, SETTLEMENT SERVER AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20150324773
    Abstract: An example system includes: a sales server for performing sales processing pertaining to sales of a commodity; a settlement server for performing settlement processing pertaining to a commodity sold by the sales server in the sales processing; and a user terminal device having a communication unit configured to communicate with the sales server and with the settlement server via a network and an operation acceptance unit configured to accept operation pertaining to purchase of the commodity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKEUCHI, Ryuichi YOSHIDA, Atsushi SUGAWARA, Naoki TAKEDA, Kazuma KITAMURA, Shinya OGURA
  • Invisible information embedding apparatus, invisible information detecting apparatus, invisible information embedding method, invisible information detecting method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 8891815
    Abstract: An invisible information embedding apparatus for embedding invisible information at a position in an obtained image includes an image analysis unit configured to obtain object information and positional information of an object included in the image, an embedding target image determining unit configured to determine whether the image is an embedding target based on the object information obtained by the image analysis unit, and an image synthesizing unit configured to combine the image with the invisible information based on the determination result of the embedding target image determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignees: Shiseido Company, Ltd., The Ritsumelkan Trust
    Inventors: Naoto Hanyu, Hiroshi Fukui, Kenichi Sakuma, Takakuni Douseki, Kazuma Kitamura
  • INVISIBLE INFORMATION EMBEDDING APPARATUS, INVISIBLE INFORMATION DETECTING APPARATUS, INVISIBLE INFORMATION EMBEDDING METHOD, INVISIBLE INFORMATION DETECTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20120237079
    Abstract: An invisible information embedding apparatus for embedding invisible information at a position in an obtained image includes an image analysis unit configured to obtain object information and positional information of an object included in the image, an embedding target image determining unit configured to determine whether the image is an embedding target based on the object information obtained by the image analysis unit, and an image synthesizing unit configured to combine the image with the invisible information based on the determination result of the embedding target image determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Naoto Hanyu, Hiroshi Fukui, Kenichi Sakuma, Takakuni Douseki, Kazuma Kitamura