Patents by Inventor Kazunari Kogure

Kazunari Kogure 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).

  • Publication number: 20240027946
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing device capable of removing a horizontal streak that may show when a document is scanned and made into a file is provided. An image processing device according to one embodiment includes: an image processing unit configured to generate smoothing image data obtained by applying smoothing to image data, and save, as an image file, non-smoothing image data in which smoothing is not applied to the image data when a difference between the non-smoothing image data and the smoothing image data is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and the smoothing image data when the difference is smaller than the threshold value; and a storage unit configured to save the image file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kazunari Kogure, Satoru Ishihara, Hirokazu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11809116
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing device capable of removing a horizontal streak that may show when a document is scanned and made into a file is provided. An image processing device according to one embodiment includes: an image processing unit configured to generate smoothing image data obtained by applying smoothing to image data, and save, as an image file, non-smoothing image data in which smoothing is not applied to the image data when a difference between the non-smoothing image data and the smoothing image data is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and the smoothing image data when the difference is smaller than the threshold value; and a storage unit configured to save the image file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Kogure, Satoru Ishihara, Hirokazu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230004111
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing device capable of removing a horizontal streak that may show when a document is scanned and made into a file is provided. An image processing device according to one embodiment includes: an image processing unit configured to generate smoothing image data obtained by applying smoothing to image data, and save, as an image file, non-smoothing image data in which smoothing is not applied to the image data when a difference between the non-smoothing image data and the smoothing image data is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and the smoothing image data when the difference is smaller than the threshold value; and a storage unit configured to save the image file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kazunari Kogure, Satoru Ishihara, Hirokazu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220366423
    Abstract: A store management system includes a first determination unit, a monitoring unit, a settlement unit, a second determination unit, and a generation unit. The first determination unit determines a customer entering a store displaying and selling a commodity. The monitoring unit monitors that the customer determined by the first determination unit carries the commodity. The settlement unit settles price of the commodity monitored by the monitoring unit as being carried by the customer, according to instruction from the customer. The second determination unit determines that the customer leaves the store. The generation unit generates history data including suspicious data indicating that the customer, identified by an identification code, is associated with an unsettled commodity being carried out of the store, when a settlement of the commodity carried by the customer which is determined by the second determination unit as leaving the store has not been completed by the settlement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari KOGURE, Satoru ISHIHARA, Mikio ITO
  • Publication number: 20220180387
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus acquires, from a payment apparatus, transaction data, user identification data, and planning identification data. The information processing apparatus acquires, from a first management database, a product code associated with the planning identification data. The information processing apparatus acquires, from a second management database, an achievement status of a reward providing condition. The information processing apparatus determines, on the basis of whether or not the transaction data includes the product code and of the achievement status of the reward providing condition, necessity of provision of a reward to a subject corresponding to the user identification data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Toru TERAUCHI, Kazunari KOGURE, Toshihide MURATA, Takuma TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220114611
    Abstract: A coupon management device includes a network interface configured to communicate with a payment terminal installed at a store, and a processor configured to upon receipt of transaction data of a transaction settled by the payment terminal and identification information associated with the store, select one or more coupons based on the transaction data, based on the identification information, determine a number of coupons to be issued from the payment terminal, generate print data of the determined number of coupons among the selected coupons, and control the network interface to transmit the generated print data to the payment terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Toru TERAUCHI, Kazunari KOGURE, Toshihide MURATA, Takuma TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200387905
    Abstract: A store management system includes a first determination unit, a monitoring unit, a settlement unit, a second determination unit, and a generation unit. The first determination unit determines a customer entering a store displaying and selling a commodity. The monitoring unit monitors that the customer determined by the first determination unit carries the commodity. The settlement unit settles price of the commodity monitored by the monitoring unit as being carried by the customer, according to instruction from the customer. The second determination unit determines that the customer leaves the store. The generation unit generates history data including suspicious data indicating that the customer, identified by an identification code, is associated with an unsettled commodity being carried out of the store, when a settlement of the commodity carried by the customer which is determined by the second determination unit as leaving the store has not been completed by the settlement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari KOGURE, Satoru ISHIHARA, Mikio ITO
  • Publication number: 20200258113
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a detector, a controller, a display device, and a storage device. The detector detects a commodity code of a commodity. If a first commodity code of a first commodity is detected, the controller determines whether a second commodity is registered as associated with the first commodity. The display device outputs content of the privilege data for the second commodity in response to determining the second commodity is registered as associated with the first commodity. In response to detecting a second commodity code of the second commodity, the storage device applies a privilege corresponding to the privilege data to the second commodity and stores commodity information of the second commodity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumio NAKATSUKASA, Mikio ITO, Satoru ISHIHARA, Kazunari KOGURE, Daigo KUDOU
  • Patent number: 9600224
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a commodity information browsing system includes a shelf label apparatus including a first storing section and a first transmitting section, a portable terminal including a first receiving section, a notifying section, a second receiving section, and a display section, and a server apparatus including a second storing section and a second transmitting section. The first transmitting section transmits, by radio, one shelf label code among a plurality of shelf label codes. The notifying section notifies the server apparatus of the shelf label code. The second storing section stores association information representing a relation between the shelf label codes and commodity information. The second transmitting section determines, on the basis of the association information, the commodity information associated with the notified shelf label code and transmits the relevant commodity information to the portable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiji Ishikawa, Shuji Takahashi, Kenya Suzuki, Ryu Morita, Hiroki Mochizuki, Yoshihiko Ikeda, Kazuya Nambu, Kazunari Kogure
  • Publication number: 20150248863
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a commodity information browsing system includes a shelf label apparatus including a first storing section and a first transmitting section, a portable terminal including a first receiving section, a notifying section, a second receiving section, and a display section, and a server apparatus including a second storing section and a second transmitting section. The first transmitting section transmits, by radio, one shelf label code among a plurality of shelf label codes. The notifying section notifies the server apparatus of the shelf label code. The second storing section stores association information representing a relation between the shelf label codes and commodity information. The second transmitting section determines, on the basis of the association information, the commodity information associated with the notified shelf label code and transmits the relevant commodity information to the portable terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Seiji Ishikawa, Shuji Takahashi, Kenya Suzuki, Ryu Morita, Hiroki Mochizuki, Yoshihiko Ikeda, Kazuya Nambu, Kazunari Kogure