Patents by Inventor Shun MAEKAWA

Shun MAEKAWA 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: 11734721
    Abstract: The present disclosure optimally determines a contact between a user and an advertisement. An advertisement contact determination system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a communication unit configured to obtain position information of a device, and a control unit configured to determine that a user of the device has come into contact with an Out Of Home (OOH) advertisement if the OOH advertisement is included in a certain range in a traveling direction of the user based on the position information of the device. The communication unit obtains a log of a certain apparatus, and the control unit determines whether the device exists in vicinity of the certain apparatus in a certain period of time or not and, if the device exists, associates the log of the certain apparatus in the certain period of time with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: DENTSU INC.
    Inventors: Shun Maekawa, Kei Hamada, Daiki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20220129947
    Abstract: The present disclosure optimally determines a contact between a user and an advertisement. An advertisement contact determination system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a communication unit configured to obtain position information of a device, and a control unit configured to determine that a user of the device has come into contact with an Out Of Home (OOH) advertisement if the OOH advertisement is included in a certain range in a traveling direction of the user based on the position information of the device. The communication unit obtains a log of a certain apparatus, and the control unit determines whether the device exists in vicinity of the certain apparatus in a certain period of time or not and, if the device exists, associates the log of the certain apparatus in the certain period of time with the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: DENTSU INC.
    Inventors: Shun MAEKAWA, Kei HAMADA, Daiki NAGATA
  • Patent number: 10715852
    Abstract: To implement advertisement distribution suitable for a user by associating each device even when a user uses a plurality of devices, the information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire first identification information at least including an Internet Protocol (IP) address and information regarding a television viewing log, and second identification information at least including an IP address and an advertisement ID (Identifier); and a control unit configured to perform control to identify a combination of the viewing log and the advertisement ID corresponding to the same IP address on the basis of the first identification information and the second identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: DENTSU INC.
    Inventors: Hisashi Matsunaga, Shun Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20190132625
    Abstract: To implement advertisement distribution suitable for a user by associating each device even when a user uses a plurality of devices, the information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire first identification information at least including an Internet Protocol (IP) address and information regarding a television viewing log, and second identification information at least including an IP address and an advertisement ID (Identifier); and a control unit configured to perform control to identify a combination of the viewing log and the advertisement ID corresponding to the same IP address on the basis of the first identification information and the second identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: DENTSU INC.
    Inventors: Hisashi MATSUNAGA, Shun MAEKAWA