Patents by Inventor Kazuo Miwa
Kazuo Miwa 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: 20240022069Abstract: When a power source-side electric path from a power source side and a load-side electric path directed toward a load that operates with power supply, a receptacle serving as an electric connection portion for supplying power to the load are electrically connected to each other via a power device, the system automatically performs ON/OFF switching of each of the loads, automatically checks a meter for a power usage amount in the load and automatically calculates the power usage amount to save labor, and further prevents occurrence of an electrical accident leading to a fire by, for example, detecting bolt looseness in a bolt screw tightening connection portion in the power device, insufficient insertion into a receptacle, and leakage due to dust adhesion in the bolt screw tightening connection portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: TECHNOMIRAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo MIWA
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Publication number: 20220139199Abstract: Provided is an accurate digital security system, method, and program that enable establishment of high-level security by detection of a three-dimensional position at low cost and accurate detection of an intruder into a security area of three dimensions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20200217534Abstract: A digital smart real showcase control system (100) can control a showcase with minimum required energy by quickly and properly controlling the showcase as a result of comprising an external air temperature input unit (11) configured to input an external air temperature, an external air temperature table (12) that stores past external air temperatures, an external air temperature prediction unit (13) configured to predict a future predicted external air temperature, an indoor temperature input unit (14) configured to input an indoor temperature, an indoor humidity input unit (15) configured to input an indoor humidity, an indoor enthalpy storage unit (16) configured to store past indoor enthalpies, an indoor enthalpy prediction unit (17) configured to predict a future predicted indoor enthalpy, a showcase control unit (18) configured to control a showcase temperature based on a predicted external air temperature and a predicted indoor enthalpy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20200217535Abstract: A digital smart real showcase control system (100) can control a showcase with minimum required energy by quickly and properly controlling the showcase as a result of comprising an external air temperature input unit (11) configured to input an external air temperature, an external air temperature table (12) that stores past external air temperatures, an external air temperature prediction unit (13) configured to predict a future predicted external air temperature, an indoor temperature input unit (14) configured to input an indoor temperature, an indoor humidity input unit (15) configured to input an indoor humidity, an indoor enthalpy storage unit (16) configured to store past indoor enthalpies, an indoor enthalpy prediction unit (17) configured to predict a future predicted indoor enthalpy, a showcase control unit (18) configured to control a showcase temperature based on a predicted external air temperature and a predicted indoor enthalpy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Patent number: 10635888Abstract: Provided is a smart-security digital system that enables, when there is a habitual shoplifter or suspicious behavior person, an employee or the like close to the habitual shoplifter or suspicious behavior person to quickly rush to the scene and prevent an act of shoplifting.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: TECHNOMIRAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20200018537Abstract: A digital smart real showcase warning system (100) comprises a showcase (110), a freezing machine (20), a showcase control unit (18), and a portable device (70), wherein a control unit (81) of the showcase control unit (18) inputs a temperature of the showcase (110) over time, and determines that a freezing function for the showcase (110) is failing based on the inputted temperature, the control unit (81) calculates an expected date and time of an increase to a warning temperature (an increase in temperature of a product in the showcase (110) to a predetermined temperature so high as to be unsuitable for refrigerating and freezing), and the control unit (81) causes a notifying means (87) to warning-display the expected date and time and to transmit warning information to the portable device (70), whereby the occurrence of a product loss can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20190376712Abstract: Provided is a digital smart energy saving system, method, and program capable of easily and accurately performing indoor air-conditioning control at low cost. A digital smart energy saving system (100) comprises an enthalpy calculating unit (121) that inputs a temperature and a humidity of indoor air and calculates an enthalpy being a total wet air heating value of the indoor air based on the input temperature and humidity of the indoor air, and the number of people in room estimating means (122) that estimates the number of people in a room based on the enthalpy of the indoor air calculated, and an air-conditioning control unit (120) controls air-conditioning based on the calculated enthalpy of the indoor air and the number of people in a room calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2016Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Patent number: 10134255Abstract: Provided is a digital future-now security system, method, and program capable of preventing an improper behavior, etc., of a person who is not excluded by conventional security checks. A digital future-now security system (1000) comprises a behavior pattern DB (115) that accumulates behavior patterns, the behavior pattern is positions of a mobile terminal device (30) on a layout, and stores them as normal patterns, and a behavior pattern determination function unit (112) that determines whether a behavior pattern, at the time of acquisition of positional information of the mobile terminal device (30), corresponds to the “normal pattern” stored in the behavior pattern DB (115), and issues a warning when the behavior pattern deviates from the “normal pattern” and any other mobile terminal device (30) is not present within a predetermined distance from the position.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: TECHNOMIRAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20180308326Abstract: Provided are a digital smart safety system, method, and program capable of safely guiding evacuation of people in a facility in case of fire.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20180239953Abstract: Provided is a smart-security digital system that enables, when there is a habitual shoplifter or suspicious behavior person, an employee or the like close to the habitual shoplifter or suspicious behavior person to quickly rush to the scene and prevent an act of shoplifting.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2015Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventor: Kazuo MIWA
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Patent number: 9942414Abstract: Provided are a digital smart security system and method and a program that allow reporting the occurrence of an abnormal situation in security, even in front of a suspicious person, without the suspicious person's awareness. The digital smart security system comprises an abnormality determination unit (112) that, when breathing detected by a respiration sensor (10) for detecting a user's breathing has a preset breathing pattern in which breathing stops for a predetermined period of time and resumes, determines it to be the occurrence of an abnormal situation, and an alarm sending unit (203) that reports the abnormal situation based on the determination result as being the occurrence of an abnormal situation. The abnormality determination unit (112), if the user has stopped breathing for a certain period of time (for example, 10 to 15 seconds) and has resumed breathing, determines it to be the occurrence of an abnormal situation.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: TECHNOMIRAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20180047274Abstract: Provided is a digital future-now security system, method, and program capable of preventing an improper behavior, etc., of a person who is not excluded by conventional security checks. A digital future-now security system (1000) comprises a behavior pattern DB (115) that accumulates behavior patterns, the behavior pattern is positions of a mobile terminal device (30) on a layout, and stores them as normal patterns, and a behavior pattern determination function unit (112) that determines whether a behavior pattern, at the time of acquisition of positional information of the mobile terminal device (30), corresponds to the “normal pattern” stored in the behavior pattern DB (115), and issues a warning when the behavior pattern deviates from the “normal pattern” and any other mobile terminal device (30) is not present within a predetermined distance from the position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: TECHNOMIRAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20170352256Abstract: Provided are a digital find security system, method, and program which can reliably make a report to an employee closest to an event point and allow the employee to more promptly rush to the scene. In a digital find security system (100), a control unit (110) refers to facility layout information stored in a layout information storage unit (114A), and calculates moving distances between a suspicious person and respective mobile terminal devices close to a position of the suspicious person on the facility layout. Then, the control unit (110) corrects moving distances extracted for the respective employees by adding correction coefficients and converts these into moving time distances, and transmits information regarding the suspicious person to a mobile terminal device (30) at the shortest moving time distance to the position of the suspicious person.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2014Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20170294089Abstract: Provided are a digital loss/accident defense system and method, and a program capable of preventing an act of theft and the like in advance by monitoring behavior of a suspicious person in real time in a surveillance target area such as a back facility. The digital loss/accident defense system (1000) comprises mobile terminal devices (30) a plurality of employees respectively carry with them throughout a surveillance target area such as a back facility, a face authentication function unit (111) that collates a face image of a person shot by a monitoring camera (11) with a face image of a suspicious person accumulated in a face information DB 160, and a control unit (110) that, in the case of a non-match with an authenticated person's face image or a match with a suspicious person's face image, transmits information regarding the suspicious person to a mobile terminal device (30) closest to the suspicious person based on acquired positional information of the mobile terminal devices (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2016Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Patent number: 9761120Abstract: Provided are a digital security system, method and a program that prevent erroneous reports and failed reports to improve reliability, while allowing reporting an abnormal situation in security, even in front of a suspicious person, without the suspicious person's awareness.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: TECHNOMIRAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Patent number: 9741235Abstract: A digital real security system, method and program reliably report the occurrence of an emergency situation in real time. The digital real security system comprises an abdominal pressure signal acquisition unit (101) that acquires an abdominal pressure signal from an abdominal pressure sensor (10) for detecting a user's abdominal pressure and acquires a respiration signal from a respiration sensor (20) for detecting the user's breathing, and a storage unit (105) that stores a normal-time number of breathing times and abdominal pressure pattern of the user detected by the abdominal pressure signal acquisition unit (101), and an abnormality determination unit (112) matches a number of breathing times and abdominal pressure pattern detected by the abdominal pressure signal acquisition unit (101) to that user's normal-time number of breathing times and abdominal pressure pattern stored in the storage unit (105), and determines whether it is abnormality based on the match result.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: TECHNOMIRAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Patent number: 9639096Abstract: A showcase control system 100 comprises a showcase operating rate detection unit 11 that detects a showcase operating rate of a showcase control unit 30 which controls freezing or refrigerating inside a showcase, an over-operating detection unit 12 that outputs an over-operating signal when the showcase operating rate input from the showcase operating rate detection unit 11 exceeds a predetermined value, and an air-conditioning control system 20 that curtails the energy-saving control of an air conditioner 50 when receiving an over-operating signal from the over-operating detection unit 12. Thereby, it is possible to comprehensively perform energy-saving control of a showcase and an air conditioner at a sales space where the showcase is installed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: TECHNOMIRAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20170091560Abstract: Provided is a digital loss-defense security system that, when there is a habitual shoplifter or a person showing suspicious behavior, allows an employee or the like nearby to respond quickly to the scene in real time and prevent an act of shoplifting. The digital loss-defense security system (1000) comprises a face authentication function unit (111) that makes a collation with a face image of a habitual shoplifter or person showing suspicious behavior accumulated in a face information DB (160), and a control unit (110) that, if a collation result by the face authentication function unit (111) is a match, determines the position of a mobile terminal device (30) closest to the habitual shoplifter or person showing suspicious behavior the collation result with whom is a match, based on positional information acquired from a position determination unit (113), and transmitting information regarding the habitual shoplifter or person showing suspicious behavior to the mobile terminal device (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Patent number: 9578181Abstract: A monitoring device 100 comprises a control unit 101 including a positional information acquisition section 101A that tracks an existing position of the communication terminal 120 and acquires positional information of the communication terminal 120 and a jurisdiction retaining section 101B that retains a jurisdictional district to receive an emergency telephone call where a building under security exists, an input/output unit 102 that detects an emergency situation based on a sensor output from the input/output device 110, and an alarm sending unit 103 that reports an e-mail transmission or an image via the telephone line 130. The control unit 101, when having detected an emergency situation, performs control to specify a communication terminal 120 that exists in the police jurisdictional district or fire jurisdictional district with reference to the jurisdiction retaining section 101B, and to report preferentially to the specified communication terminal 120.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: TECHNOMIRAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Miwa
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Publication number: 20160284201Abstract: Provided are a digital real security system, method and a program that allow reliably reporting the occurrence of an emergency situation in real time. The digital real security system comprises an abdominal pressure signal acquisition unit (101) that acquires an abdominal pressure signal from an abdominal pressure sensor (10) for detecting a user's abdominal pressure and acquires a respiration signal from a respiration sensor (20) for detecting the user's breathing, and a storage unit (105) that stores a normal-time number of breathing times and abdominal pressure pattern of the user detected by the abdominal pressure signal acquisition unit (101), and an abnormality determination unit (112) matches a number of breathing times and abdominal pressure pattern detected by the abdominal pressure signal acquisition unit (101) to that user's normal-time number of breathing times and abdominal pressure pattern stored in the storage unit (105), and determines whether it is abnormality based on the match result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventor: Kazuo Miwa