Patents by Inventor Masachika Kurata
Masachika Kurata 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: 20240104535Abstract: According to one embodiment, a commodity registration apparatus includes an input device that can be operated by a customer himself or herself to input information related to a sales transaction in which the customer purchases a commodity. The apparatus also has a processor and a display device to display information to the customer who operates the input device. The processor is configured to cause the display device to display a consent confirmation screen for obtaining consent from the customer to an additional use of a video from a camera monitoring the customer during the sales transaction including the operation of the input device by the customer. The processor is also configured to perform registration processing for the commodity to be purchased based on information from the input device. The consent confirmation screen is displayed before the processor performs the registration processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventor: Masachika KURATA
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Patent number: 11834089Abstract: A stackable handcart includes a cart frame, a display, and a restriction member. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a front end portion that abuts a first stackable handcart when the stackable handcart is stacked with the first stackable handcart from behind the first stackable handcart. The display is attached to the cart frame. The restriction member is attached to the cart frame at a position to abut a front end portion of a second stackable handcart when the second stackable handcart is stacked with the stackable handcart from behind the stackable handcart. The restriction member is positioned such that a display of the second stackable handcart does not abut the display of the stackable handcart when the front end portion of the second stackable handcart abuts the restriction member.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukiko Yokoyama, Takahiro Saitou, Masachika Kurata, Noriyoshi Hara, Hitoshi Iizaka, Hidehiro Naito
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Publication number: 20230316761Abstract: According to one embodiment, a fraudulent act detection device includes a processor and a camera interface to connect to a camera positioned to acquire images of a purchaser at a settlement terminal. The processor is configured to recognize an action of the purchaser at the settlement terminal from an image acquired from the camera via the camera interface, acquire a degree of reliability for the recognition of the action of the purchaser, determine whether a change condition for changing a degree of reliability threshold has been met, set a value for the degree of reliability threshold based on whether or not the change condition has been met, and use the set value for the degree of reliability threshold in determining whether a fraudulent act of the purchaser has been recognized in acquired images of the purchaser at the settlement terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventor: Masachika KURATA
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Patent number: 11704513Abstract: A handcart includes a cart frame, a caster, and a code reader. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a lateral portion extending in a width direction of the cart frame. The caster is disposed at a bottom region of the cart frame. The code reader is attached to the lateral portion of the cart frame so as to be rotatable around the lateral portion. The code reader may be rotated around the lateral portion of the cart frame to a first position at which a reading window of the code reader faces an inner space of the shopping basket on the receiving portion of the cart frame, and to a second position at which the reading window of the code reader faces a front of the cart frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hitoshi Iizaka, Hidehiro Naito, Takahiro Saitou, Yukiko Yokoyama, Masachika Kurata, Noriyoshi Hara
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Patent number: 11605057Abstract: According to an embodiment, a store management system includes a store entry management device and a sales management device. The store entry management device reads identification data, of a shopper, for using the electronic receipt service from an information terminal of a shopper who wants to enter the store. The sales management device causes the store entry management device to permit the shopper to enter the store when the settlement data can be acquired based on the read shopper identification data.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noriyoshi Hara, Takahiro Saitou, Atsushi Okamura, Yuta Sasaki, Masachika Kurata, Takahide Kubota, Xiaozhou Wang
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FRAUDULENT ACT RECOGNITION DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR AND FRAUDULENT ACT RECOGNITION METHOD
Publication number: 20220284434Abstract: A fraudulent act recognition device includes a processor. The processor is configured to recognize an operation input relating to commodity registration in a settlement terminal by a purchaser, recognize an action of the purchaser who performs the operation input, detect, as a fraudulent act of the purchaser, a taking-out action of an unregistered commodity after an operation input for a checkout instruction is recognized, and transmit a signal indicative of the fraudulent act of the purchaser.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masachika KURATA -
Publication number: 20220083947Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to identify, based on a captured image obtained by an imaging device that images a predetermined area, a worker present in the area, and recognize, based on the captured image, an action of the worker identified. The processor is further configured to record, if the action recognized is predetermined work content, correlating with identification information for identifying the worker, a work achievement including a type of the work content and information indicating a date and time when work of the work content was performed and recording the work achievement, and output information based on the work achievement recorded.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masachika KURATA
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Publication number: 20220009536Abstract: A stackable handcart includes a cart frame, a display, and a restriction member. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a front end portion that abuts a first stackable handcart when the stackable handcart is stacked with the first stackable handcart from behind the first stackable handcart. The display is attached to the cart frame. The restriction member is attached to the cart frame at a position to abut a front end portion of a second stackable handcart when the second stackable handcart is stacked with the stackable handcart from behind the stackable handcart. The restriction member is positioned such that a display of the second stackable handcart does not abut the display of the stackable handcart when the front end portion of the second stackable handcart abuts the restriction member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Yukiko YOKOYAMA, Takahiro SAITOU, Masachika KURATA, Noriyoshi HARA, Hitoshi IIZAKA, Hidehiro NAITO
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Publication number: 20210374368Abstract: A handcart includes a cart frame, a caster, and a code reader. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a lateral portion extending in a width direction of the cart frame. The caster is disposed at a bottom region of the cart frame. The code reader is attached to the lateral portion of the cart frame so as to be rotatable around the lateral portion. The code reader may be rotated around the lateral portion of the cart frame to a first position at which a reading window of the code reader faces an inner space of the shopping basket on the receiving portion of the cart frame, and to a second position at which the reading window of the code reader faces a front of the cart frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Hitoshi IIZAKA, Hidehiro NAITO, Takahiro SAITOU, Yukiko YOKOYAMA, Masachika KURATA, Noriyoshi HARA
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Patent number: 11155290Abstract: A stackable handcart includes a cart frame, a display, and a restriction member. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a front end portion that abuts a first stackable handcart when the stackable handcart is stacked with the first stackable handcart from behind the first stackable handcart. The display is attached to the cart frame. The restriction member is attached to the cart frame at a position to abut a front end portion of a second stackable handcart when the second stackable handcart is stacked with the stackable handcart from behind the stackable handcart. The restriction member is positioned such that a display of the second stackable handcart does not abut the display of the stackable handcart when the front end portion of the second stackable handcart abuts the restriction member.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukiko Yokoyama, Takahiro Saitou, Masachika Kurata, Noriyoshi Hara, Hitoshi Iizaka, Hidehiro Naito
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Patent number: 11126810Abstract: A handcart includes a cart frame, a caster, and a code reader. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a lateral portion extending in a width direction of the cart frame. The caster is disposed at a bottom region of the cart frame. The code reader is attached to the lateral portion of the cart frame so as to be rotatable around the lateral portion. The code reader may be rotated around the lateral portion of the cart frame to a first position at which a reading window of the code reader faces an inner space of the shopping basket on the receiving portion of the cart frame, and to a second position at which the reading window of the code reader faces a front of the cart frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hitoshi Iizaka, Hidehiro Naito, Takahiro Saitou, Yukiko Yokoyama, Masachika Kurata, Noriyoshi Hara
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Publication number: 20200387875Abstract: According to an embodiment, a store management system includes a store entry management device and a sales management device. The store entry management device reads identification data, of a shopper, for using the electronic receipt service from an information terminal of a shopper who wants to enter the store. The sales management device causes the store entry management device to permit the shopper to enter the store when the settlement data can be acquired based on the read shopper identification data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Noriyoshi HARA, Takahiro SAITOU, Atsushi OKAMURA, Yuta SASAKI, Masachika KURATA, Takahide KUBOTA, Xiaozhou WANG
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Publication number: 20200327289Abstract: A handcart includes a cart frame, a caster, and a code reader. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a lateral portion extending in a width direction of the cart frame. The caster is disposed at a bottom region of the cart frame. The code reader is attached to the lateral portion of the cart frame so as to be rotatable around the lateral portion. The code reader may be rotated around the lateral portion of the cart frame to a first position at which a reading window of the code reader faces an inner space of the shopping basket on the receiving portion of the cart frame, and to a second position at which the reading window of the code reader faces a front of the cart frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Hitoshi IIZAKA, Hidehiro NAITO, Takahiro SAITOU, Yukiko YOKOYAMA, Masachika KURATA, Noriyoshi HARA
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Patent number: 10759459Abstract: A handcart includes a cart frame having a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a handle portion, a caster disposed at a bottom region of the cart frame, a display mounting arm adjacent to the handle portion and extending upward from the cart frame, and a display device attached to an upper end of the display mounting arm. The display mounting arm is movable to position the display device at a location that is shifted to a left or a right side with respect to a center of the cart frame in a width direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masachika Kurata, Takahiro Saitou, Yukiko Yokoyama, Noriyoshi Hara, Hitoshi Iizaka, Hidehiro Naito
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Publication number: 20200126146Abstract: A commodity data processing system includes a reader configured to read an ID of a customer, a camera configured to acquire images of the customer in a store, a display configured to display information about commodities, and a processor configured to identify the customer with the ID read by the reader when the customer enters the store, track movement of the customer in the store based on the images acquired by the camera and identify one or more commodities taken by the customer in the store, acquire commodity data of each of the identified commodities, perform a settlement process for the commodities based on the acquired commodity data after the customer has left the store, and control the display to display a list of the commodities before the customer leaves the store.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventor: Masachika KURATA
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Publication number: 20190272400Abstract: A handcart includes a cart frame, a code reader holder, and a code reader. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable. The code reader holder is attached to the cart frame and including an insertion opening that is movable to a position at which the insertion opening faces upward. The code reader includes an insertion portion, and detachably attached to the code reader holder when the insertion portion is inserted into the insertion opening of the code reader.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Hidehiro NAITO, Hitoshi IIZAKA, Takahiro SAITOU, Yukiko YOKOYAMA, Masachika KURATA, Noriyoshi HARA
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Publication number: 20190270470Abstract: A handcart includes a cart frame having a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a handle portion, a caster disposed at a bottom region of the cart frame, a display mounting arm adjacent to the handle portion and extending upward from the cart frame, and a display device attached to an upper end of the display mounting arm. The display mounting arm is movable to position the display device at a location that is shifted to a left or a right side with respect to a center of the cart frame in a width direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Masachika KURATA, Takahiro SAITOU, Yukiko YOKOYAMA, Noriyoshi HARA, Hitoshi IIZAKA, Hidehiro NAITO
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Publication number: 20190270469Abstract: A stackable handcart includes a cart frame, a display, and a restriction member. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a front end portion that abuts a first stackable handcart when the stackable handcart is stacked with the first stackable handcart from behind the first stackable handcart. The display is attached to the cart frame. The restriction member is attached to the cart frame at a position to abut a front end portion of a second stackable handcart when the second stackable handcart is stacked with the stackable handcart from behind the stackable handcart. The restriction member is positioned such that a display of the second stackable handcart does not abut the display of the stackable handcart when the front end portion of the second stackable handcart abuts the restriction member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Yukiko YOKOYAMA, Takahiro SAITOU, Masachika KURATA, Noriyoshi HARA, Hitoshi IIZAKA, Hidehiro NAITO
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Publication number: 20190272399Abstract: A handcart includes a cart frame, a caster, and a code reader. The cart frame includes a receiving portion on which a shopping basket is placeable and a lateral portion extending in a width direction of the cart frame. The caster is disposed at a bottom region of the cart frame. The code reader is attached to the lateral portion of the cart frame so as to be rotatable around the lateral portion. The code reader may be rotated around the lateral portion of the cart frame to a first position at which a reading window of the code reader faces an inner space of the shopping basket on the receiving portion of the cart frame, and to a second position at which the reading window of the code reader faces a front of the cart frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Hitoshi IIZAKA, Hidehiro NAITO, Takahiro SAITOU, Yukiko YOKOYAMA, Masachika KURATA, Noriyoshi HARA
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Publication number: 20160300248Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a server comprises a storage section configured to store an attribute ratio representing the ratio of attributes of people who purchased a sales object in the past in association with sales object information specifying the sales object, a reception module configured to receive the sales object information of the sales object purchased by a customer from a sales data processing apparatus which carries out a transaction processing of the sales object, and an attribute acquisition module acquires an attribute of which the attribute ratio is highest among the attribute ratios which are stored in the storage section and correspond to the sales object information received by the reception module.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventor: Masachika Kurata