Patents by Inventor Yasuyo KAZO

Yasuyo KAZO 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).

  • Publication number: 20240119410
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires recipient identification information that identifies a recipient of an article stored in a warehouse and attribute information indicating an attribute that needs to be satisfied during storage of the article; an association unit that stores, in a storage region, storage space identification information that identifies a target storage space selected based on the attribute information, and article determination information that determines the article in association with each other; an article determination information transmission unit that transmits the article determination information to a terminal determined by using the recipient identification information, in response to the article being disposed in the target storage space; and an article ejection unit that ejects, from a predetermined outlet, the article stored in the target storage space in response to an input of the article determination information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Yasuyo Kazo
  • Publication number: 20230396740
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a video generated by a surveillance camera, a generation unit (12) that generates a plurality of surveillance target video contents, based on the video, a condition setting unit (13) that sets a surveillant condition required of a surveillant who confirms the surveillance target video content, and a video distribution unit (14) that distributes the surveillance target video content to a terminal apparatus of a surveillant satisfying the surveillant condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji Tahara, Rina Tomita, Yasuyo Kazo
  • Publication number: 20230396739
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a video generated by a surveillance camera, a generation unit (12) that generates a plurality of surveillance target video contents, based on the video, a condition setting unit (13) that sets a surveillant condition required of a surveillant who confirms the surveillance target video content, and a video distribution unit (14) that distributes the surveillance target video content to a terminal apparatus of a surveillant satisfying the surveillant condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20230386209
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) acquiring a captured image including a managed object related to a store, a foreign object region detection unit (12) detecting a foreign object region being a region in which a foreign object exists in the managed object included in the captured image, and a warning unit (13) executing warning processing depending on the size of the foreign object region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji Tahara, Rina Tomita, Yasuyo Kazo
  • Publication number: 20230386210
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) acquiring a captured image including a managed object related to a store, a foreign object region detection unit (12) detecting a foreign object region being a region in which a foreign object exists in the managed object included in the captured image, and a warning unit (13) executing warning processing depending on the size of the foreign object region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20230282049
    Abstract: A store management apparatus (100) includes: a determination unit (102) that determines whether a predetermined reference is satisfied in a store; a mode switching unit (104) that switches, by using a determination result by the determination unit (102), an operation mode of the store between an attended mode in which at least a salesclerk is permanently stationed and an unattended mode in which the salesclerk is not permanently stationed; and a setting unit (106) that switches a store-entry condition to the store according to the operation mode after switching when the mode switching unit (104) switches the operation mode, wherein the predetermined reference is absence of a customer near an entrance of the store at a reference time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Yuji Tahara, Rina Tomita, Yasuyo Kazo
  • Publication number: 20230098475
    Abstract: In a purchase management system using a self-checkout register, pieces of information, which are respectively registered by individual terminal devices, are shared among a plurality of customers. A terminal device capable of acquiring item identification information of each item to be purchased first acquires a cooperation ID. Next, the terminal device shares the information in real time with a cooperative terminal device that is another terminal device and includes the same cooperation ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yasuyo KAZO, Shinji FUNAI, Hiroki SUGEGAYA
  • Publication number: 20230098126
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shop system (10) including: an acquisition unit (13) that acquires, from an information acquisition terminal (12), person-related information about a person who visits a shop; a determination unit (14) that determines, based on the person-related information, whether to permit the person who visits the shop to enter the shop; and an operation control unit (16) that controls, based on a result of the determination, operation of a shop entry control apparatus (11) that controls entry into the shop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corparation
    Inventors: Takahiro MATSUI, Jun UCHIMURA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20230070529
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image of a management target; and a determination unit (12) that determines, by using layout information of equipment in the management target, a piece of the equipment included in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Yuji Tahara, Rina Tomita, Yasuyo Kazo
  • Publication number: 20220398648
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image including a product display shelf; a display location determination unit (12) that determines, based on the image, a display location of each of products; a computation unit (13) that computes, based on the determined display location of each of the products, a sales-related score relating to sales; and an output unit (14) that outputs the computed sales-related score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220391826
    Abstract: A management apparatus (100) includes: an area computation unit (102) that acquires an area of a displayable region of a display shelf in which a product can be displayed, and computes an area ratio of an area of a non-display region of the display shelf in which the product detected from a captured image is not displayed to the area of the display shelf; a decision unit (104) that decides whether to make a notification according to the area ratio; and a notification unit (106) that makes the notification when it is decided that the notification is to be made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220366695
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) acquiring a captured image including a managed object related to a store, a foreign object region detection unit (12) detecting a foreign object region being a region in which a foreign object exists in the managed object included in the captured image, and a warning unit (13) executing warning processing depending on the size of the foreign object region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220358745
    Abstract: A store monitoring system includes: an imaging apparatus; and a store monitoring apparatus that monitors a display shelf in a store by using a captured image captured by the imaging apparatus, the store monitoring apparatus including: an acquisition unit that sequentially obtains the captured image from the imaging apparatus; and an image generation unit that extracts from the captured image a shelf image in which the display shelf appears, by eliminating from the captured image a non-shelf image in which the display shelf does not appear, and that generates a front shelf image obtained when the display shelf is imaged from a front, by correcting a distortion of the shelf image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220343743
    Abstract: A display control apparatus (100) includes a display processing unit (102) that displays, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, an image of a surveillance camera (5) of a store on at least one display (10) installed in the store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO
  • Publication number: 20220295016
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a video generated by a surveillance camera, a generation unit (12) that generates a plurality of surveillance target video contents, based on the video, a condition setting unit (13) that sets a surveillant condition required of a surveillant who confirms the surveillance target video content, and a video distribution unit (14) that distributes the surveillance target video content to a terminal apparatus of a surveillant satisfying the surveillant condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun UCHIMURA, Yuji TAHARA, Rina TOMITA, Yasuyo KAZO