Patents by Inventor Shinya Yamasaki

Shinya Yamasaki 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).

  • Patent number: 11587103
    Abstract: The present invention provides a registration system (10) including a recognition unit (11) that analyzes an image obtained by a camera imaging a placing surface of a table on which a product is placed and recognizes the product in the image, a registration unit (12) that registers the recognized product as a checkout target, a first display unit (13) that displays a list of the products registered as the checkout targets on a display, a first selection unit (14) that selects one or more of the products from the list, and a second display unit (15) that displays information for determining the selected product, on the placing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20220172228
    Abstract: A sales management system (1) is configured to include an image processing unit (110) and an output unit (130). The image processing unit (110) identifies, based on an image of a purchase product, the product and a package design of the product. The output unit (130) outputs sales performance information by package design of the product, based on an identification result of the product and the package design of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Kota IWAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220148017
    Abstract: This invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an appearance image of each of a plurality of products, a sales-related information acquisition unit (12) that acquires sales-related information concerning the sales details of each of the plurality of products, a registration unit (13) that stores product identification information of each of the plurality of products, the sales-related information, and the appearance image in a storage unit (14) in association with each other, and an output unit (16) that arranges a plurality of appearance images associated with the identical product identification information in a predetermined order, based on the sales-related information, and outputs the plurality of arranged appearance images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Kota IWAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220139087
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (100) includes: a person detecting unit (102) that executes processing of detecting a person and a location with respect to each of a first image generated in a first camera (5a) and a second image generated in a second camera (5b); a coordinate generating unit (104) that generates coordinates of the location of the detected person; and a determination unit (106) that determines, by using a first location generated from the first image and a second location generated from the second image, whether the person detected from the first image and the person detected from the second image are the same person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: NEC corporation
    Inventors: Motoyuki NAKAMURA, Hisayoshi MURA, Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220139068
    Abstract: This invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including a container identification score computation unit (11) that computes an identification score of a container for a product, based on an image to be processed containing the product, a product identification score computation unit (12) that computes an identification score of the product, based on the image to be processed, and a first identification unit (13) that decides identification information of the product, based on the computed identification score of the container and the computed identification score of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Kota IWAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220129655
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an object area determination unit (11) that estimates an area within an image where an object is located; an appearance product determination unit (12) that determines product identification information of the object, based on an appearance feature of the object; a code area determination unit (13) that estimates an area within the image where a code is located; a code product determination unit (14) that determines product identification information indicated by the code; a correlation unit (15) that determines a pair of the object and the code in which areas estimated to be located within the image overlap each other; and a determination unit (16) that determines product identification information of a product included in the image, based on the product identification information determined by the appearance product determination unit (12), the product identification information determined by the code product determination unit (14), and
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya YAMASAKI, Kota IWAMOTO, Soma SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20210312772
    Abstract: First position information indicating positions of approaching people nearing merchandise is acquired. Second position information indicating a position of a subject person who has stretched an arm out towards the merchandise among the approaching people, is detected. A movement action performed on the merchandise is detected. An ID of a person corresponding to the subject person who performed the detected movement action is specified based on a positional relationship between the first position information and the second position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro OKAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 11049373
    Abstract: First position information indicating positions of approaching people nearing merchandise is acquired. Second position information indicating a position of a subject person who has stretched an arm out towards the merchandise among the approaching people, is detected. A movement action performed on the merchandise is detected. An ID of a person corresponding to the subject person who performed the detected movement action is specified based on a positional relationship between the first position information and the second position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Okamoto, Shinya Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20210056818
    Abstract: The present invention provides a registration system (10) including a detection unit (11) that detects an object in a captured image obtained by a camera imaging a placing surface of a table on which a product is placed, a recognition unit (12) that recognizes which product the object is, a display unit (13) that displays information for determining the object which cannot be recognized and a product candidate for the object on the display, a selection input reception unit (15) that receives a selection input for selecting one of the product candidates, and a registration unit (14) that registers the recognized product and the selected product candidate as checkout targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210027062
    Abstract: Non-limiting embodiments provide a registration system (10) including a detection unit (11) that detects an object in an image obtained by a camera imaging a placing surface of a table on which a product is placed, a recognition unit (12) that recognizes which product the object is, a first display unit (13) that displays first information for determining a first object which is an object not recognized by the recognition unit (12) on the placing surface, a second display unit (14) that displays product candidates for the first object on a display, a selection input reception unit (15) that receives a selection input for selecting one of the product candidates, and a registration unit (16) that registers the product recognized by the recognition unit (12) and the product candidate selected by the selection input as a checkout target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210027318
    Abstract: A store management device is configured to generate a visitor table used to record information of a visitor who visits a store and to delete the information of the visitor who leaves the store from the visitor table after a predetermined process. For example, the predetermined process is a settlement of products purchased by the visitor. In addition, the visitor table is used to make a store-leaving approval when the visitor leaves the store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya YAMASAKI, Mizuto SEKINE, Yoshinori EHARA, Saika GOTO, Yuka SUGANO
  • Publication number: 20210019776
    Abstract: The present invention provides a registration system (10) including a recognition unit (11) that analyzes an image obtained by a camera imaging a placing surface of a table on which a product is placed and recognizes the product in the image, a registration unit (12) that registers the recognized product as a checkout target, a first display unit (13) that displays a list of the products registered as the checkout targets on a display, a first selection unit (14) that selects one or more of the products from the list, and a second display unit (15) that displays information for determining the selected product, on the placing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210019770
    Abstract: A store management device is configured to select a registered customer corresponding to a visitor who visits a store from among a plurality of registered customers in communication with a terminal device held by the visitor when carrying out identity verification via face authentication of the visitor and to identify the visitor as a processed-subject person subjected to a predetermined process (e.g. a settlement process of purchased products) by way of authentication using a set of biological information of the registered customer corresponding to the visitor and biological information of the visitor which is newly acquired at a timing of executing the predetermined process in the store. Thus, it is possible to improve the accuracy when determining the identification of the visitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya YAMASAKI, Rie SHIMIZU, Koji SUDO
  • Publication number: 20200364752
    Abstract: A storefront device comprising a display device specifying unit configured to specify, among a plurality of display devices, a display device for displaying sales management information indicating merchandise acquired in a storefront by a processing subject person detected in the storefront; and a display timing determination unit configured to determine a timing at which the sales management information is to be displayed on the specified display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro OKAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200364997
    Abstract: First position information indicating positions of approaching people nearing merchandise is acquired. Second position information indicating a position of a subject person who has stretched an arm out towards the merchandise among the approaching people, is detected. A movement action performed on the merchandise is detected. An ID of a person corresponding to the subject person who performed the detected movement action is specified based on a positional relationship between the first position information and the second position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro OKAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 10824873
    Abstract: A product registration apparatus (20) includes a comparison unit (22) and a registration unit (24). The comparison unit (22) compares a first frame and a second frame of a video. The second frame is generated at a time later than the first frame. The comparison unit (22) determines a product that is not included in the first frame but included in the second frame. Then, the registration unit (24) registers the determined product (product that is not included in the first frame but included in the second frame) as a payment target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Dai Kinno, Kota Iwamoto, Shinichi Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Itou, Shinya Yamasaki, Kanako Taga
  • Patent number: 10762486
    Abstract: There is provided a checkout apparatus (10) including an image data acquisition unit (11) which acquires data on an image, an image analysis unit (12) which recognizes a product in the image, using a feature value of appearance of each of a plurality of products registered in a feature value storage unit (14) and the image data; a registration unit (13) which registers the product recognized by the image analysis unit (12) as a checkout target, and a projection unit (15) which projects an image related to a checkout process on the product and/or a placement surface of a placement platform of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Dai Kinno, Kota Iwamoto, Shinichi Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Itou, Shinya Yamasaki, Kanako Taga
  • Patent number: 10510218
    Abstract: A checkout apparatus (10) includes an image data acquisition unit (11) that acquires data of an image; an image analysis unit (12) that recognizes a plurality of products in the image using a feature value of an exterior of each of the products registered in a feature value storage unit (14) and the data of the image; a reading necessity or non-necessity check unit (15) that extracts the product for which it is necessary to read a product code from among the recognized products, using an object-to-be-read storage unit (16) in which the product for which it is necessary to read the product code is registered in advance; and a reading unit (17) that reads the product code of the product extracted by the reading necessity or non-necessity check unit (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Dai Kinno, Kota Iwamoto, Shinichi Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Itou, Shinya Yamasaki, Kanako Taga
  • Publication number: 20190034904
    Abstract: A checkout apparatus (10) includes: an image data acquisition unit (11) that acquires data of an image; a product recognition unit (12) that recognizes, using a feature value of an exterior of each of a plurality of products registered in a product feature value storage unit (14) and the data of the image, a product in the image; a medium recognition unit (15) that recognizes, using a feature value of an exterior of each of payment media and/or point accumulation media used to accumulate a point in accordance with payment which are registered in a medium feature value storage unit (16) and the data of the image, a payment medium and/or a point accumulation medium in the image; and a payment processing unit (17) that performs a payment process using a recognition result by the medium recognition unit (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Dai KINNO, Kota IWAMOTO, Shinichi MATSUMOTO, Yoshihiro ITOU, Shinya YAMASAKI, Kanako TAGA
  • Publication number: 20190026999
    Abstract: A checkout apparatus (10) includes an image data acquisition unit (11) that acquires data of an image; an image analysis unit (12) that recognizes a plurality of products in the image using a feature value of an exterior of each of the products registered in a feature value storage unit (14) and the data of the image; a reading necessity or non-necessity check unit (15) that extracts the product for which it is necessary to read a product code from among the recognized products, using an object-to-be-read storage unit (16) in which the product for which it is necessary to read the product code is registered in advance; and a reading unit (17) that reads the product code of the product extracted by the reading necessity or non-necessity check unit (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Dai KINNO, Kota IWAMOTO, Shinichi MATSUMOTO, Yoshihiro ITOU, Shinya YAMASAKI, Kanako TAGA