Patents by Inventor Yasuhide KATOU
Yasuhide KATOU 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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Patent number: 11880816Abstract: According to one embodiment, a settlement system includes a server and a merchant device. The server includes a rate notification unit and a payment controller. The rate notification unit notifies the device of an exchange rate. The payment controller pays the amount to the device in a currency of a second country. The device includes a display controller and a sales notification unit. The display controller displays on a terminal of a user an amount of payment for purchase of an article in a currency of a first country. The sales notification unit reports to the server the sales information in the currency of the first country. Upon receipt of an image that contains an article, the display controller calculates the amount of payment for purchase of the article in the currency of the first country, and displays the calculated amount of payment on the image.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: NTT Communications CorporationInventors: Haruhisa Higashide, Yasuhide Katou, Mitsuya Tomoda, Kentaro Numa
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Patent number: 11829974Abstract: According to one embodiment, a settlement system includes a server and a merchant device. The server includes a rate notification unit and a payment controller. The rate notification unit notifies the device of an exchange rate. The payment controller pays the amount to the device in a currency of a second country. The device includes a display controller and a sales notification unit. The display controller displays on a terminal of a user an amount of payment for purchase of an article in a currency of a first country. The sales notification unit reports to the server the sales information in the currency of the first country. Upon receipt of an image that contains an article, the display controller calculates the amount of payment for purchase of the article in the currency of the first country, and displays the calculated amount of payment on the image.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: NTT Communications CorporationInventors: Haruhisa Higashide, Yasuhide Katou, Mitsuya Tomoda, Kentaro Numa
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Publication number: 20230196334Abstract: A terminal device equipped with an application being an application in which a plurality of settlement cards are registered as a payment method of electronic money, and an application that performs settlement processing of the electronic money, the terminal device includes processing circuitry configured to store a schedule of a user of the terminal device, select any one of the plurality of settlement cards as a payment method of the electronic money in the application in accordance with a day of a week and a time slot, or a plan registered in the schedule, and execute settlement processing of the electronic money in the application using the settlement card selected, as a payment method of the electronic money.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: NTT Communications CorporationInventors: Haruhisa HIGASHIDE, Yasuhide KATOU, Mitsuya TOMODA, Kentaro NUMA
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Publication number: 20230196311Abstract: A management system includes a terminal apparatus mounted with an application that enables electronic money to be loaded in plural types of currencies, and a management apparatus that manages the electronic money in the plural types of currencies, wherein any one of a plurality of the terminal apparatuses uses a bill splitting service of the application, and transmits a bill splitting report in which a sharing destination of a cost, a type of a first currency to be paid, and a shared amount of money have been set, the terminal apparatus of the sharing destination transmits a payment report in which the type of a second currency has been set, a share of the cost being paid in the second currency in accordance with the bill splitting service of the application, and the management apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to report the bill splitting report to the terminal apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: NTT Communications CorporationInventors: Haruhisa HIGASHIDE, Yasuhide KATOU, Mitsuya TOMODA, Kentaro NUMA
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Publication number: 20220261780Abstract: According to one embodiment, a settlement system includes a server and a merchant device. The server includes a rate notification unit and a payment controller. The rate notification unit notifies the device of an exchange rate. The payment controller pays the amount to the device in a currency of a second country. The device includes a display controller and a sales notification unit. The display controller displays on a terminal of a user an amount of payment for purchase of an article in a currency of a first country. The sales notification unit reports to the server the sales information in the currency of the first country. Upon receipt of an image that contains an article, the display controller calculates the amount of payment for purchase of the article in the currency of the first country, and displays the calculated amount of payment on the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: NTT Communications CorporationInventors: Haruhisa HIGASHIDE, Yasuhide KATOU, Mitsuya TOMODA, Kentaro NUMA
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Patent number: 11354654Abstract: According to one embodiments, an electronic money management system includes a fund charging controller and a deduction unit. The controller performs a control in a manner such that, if a transaction is made on a user's terminal through an electronic money service of a first country to charge a designated amount of funds in a currency of a second country the designated amount of funds in the currency of the second country is charged based on an exchange rate at time of the transaction. The currency of the second country differs from a currency of the first country. The deduction unit, if an electronic money service of the second country is used on the terminal, deduct an amount used from the currency of the second country charged by the controller.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: NTT Communications CorporationInventors: Haruhisa Higashide, Yasuhide Katou, Mitsuya Tomoda, Kentaro Numa
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Publication number: 20210133716Abstract: According to one embodiment, a settlement system includes a server and a merchant device. The server includes a rate notification unit and a payment controller. The rate notification unit notifies the device of an exchange rate. The payment controller pays the amount to the device in a currency of a second country. The device includes a display controller and a sales notification unit. The display controller displays on a terminal of a user an amount of payment for purchase of an article in a currency of a first country. The sales notification unit reports to the server the sales information in the currency of the first country. Upon receipt of an image that contains an article, the display controller calculates the amount of payment for purchase of the article in the currency of the first country, and displays the calculated amount of payment on the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: NTT Communications CorporationInventors: Haruhisa HIGASHIDE, Yasuhide KATOU, Mitsuya TOMODA, Kentaro NUMA
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Publication number: 20210133731Abstract: According to one embodiments, an electronic money management system includes a fund charging controller and a deduction unit. The controller performs a control in a manner such that, if a transaction is made on a user's terminal through an electronic money service of a first country to charge a designated amount of funds in a currency of a second country the designated amount of funds in the currency of the second country is charged based on an exchange rate at time of the transaction. The currency of the second country differs from a currency of the first country. The deduction unit, if an electronic money service of the second country is used on the terminal, deduct an amount used from the currency of the second country charged by the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: NTT Communications CorporationInventors: Haruhisa HIGASHIDE, Yasuhide Katou, Mitsuya Tomoda, Kentaro Numa