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  • System and method for delivering and managing advertisements
    Publication number: 20040093253
    Abstract: Disclose is an advertisement delivery/management system for delivering an advertisement according to priority on a viewer-by-viewer basis through a selected media, comprising advertisement delivery means for delivering advertisements to each of viewers, delivery management means for managing the advertisements to be delivered from the advertisement delivery means to each of the viewers, according to priority, and an advertisement database for storing respective digital advertisement data of the managed advertisements. The delivery management means includes advertisement verification means for verifying the particularity of each of the managed advertisements, and advertisement data change/update means for changing or updating the advertisement data stored in the advertisement database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Akio Iijima
  • Sheet-like goods with string
    Patent number: 10479127
    Abstract: There is provided a sheet-like article with a string enabling use in two use forms (a first use form and a second use form). A sheet-like article 1 with a string has a first use form and a second use form. The sheet-like article 1 with a string includes a sheet-like main body 2, and a string body 4 inserted into holes 3 of the main body 2. In the sheet-like article 1 with a string, change from the first use form to the second use form is possible by pulling of the string body 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Akira Shikiya
  • DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20190026932
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that, even when a CG model moves with a tempo, it is possible to realize natural movement. The device according to one aspect of the present invention has a control section that exerts control so that specific data, which corresponds to a case where a predetermined parameter has a specific value, is generated using a plurality of pieces of data corresponding to respective cases where the predetermined parameter has different values, and a playback section that reproduces a predetermined computer graphics (CG) model based on the specific data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: DENTSU INC.
    Inventors: Yuki KISHI, Yasuo HIGA, Akio IIJIMA, Tatsuki TATARA
  • Data structure for computer graphics, information processing device, information processing method and information processing system
    Patent number: 10410392
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to allow easy synchronization of the movement of a computer graphics (CG) model with sound data. The data structure according to an embodiment of the present invention presents a data structure that relates to a computer graphics (CG) model, including first time-series information for designating the coordinates of the components of the CG model on a per beat basis, and the first time-series information is used on a computer to process the CG model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: DENTSU INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Kishi, Yasuo Higa, Akio Iijima, Tatsuki Tatara
  • Cooking device
    Patent number: 11213164
    Abstract: There is provided a cooking device that is capable of heating and cooking ingredients by burning altogether with the cooking device. A cooking device 1 includes a main body 3 that has a concave part 2 in which cooking ingredients are to be stored and a lid body 4 that covers the concave part 2. The main body 3 and the lid body 4 are formed from flammable material. With the ingredients stored in the concave part 2 and the concave part 2 covered with the lid body 4, the cooking device 1 is burned to heat and cook the ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Kengo Aoki
  • FRAME EXCHANGE EVALUATION SYSTEM, FRAME EXCHANGE EVALUATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220116689
    Abstract: To efficiently evaluate exchange of advertisement frames. A frame exchange evaluation system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control unit configured to decide a plurality of campaigns that are advertisement frame exchange targets; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire current frame information about each of the campaigns and setting information for frame exchange including information about an allowable predicted audience rating of at least one of the campaigns after the frame exchange; wherein the control unit decides candidates for the frame exchange based on the current frame information and the setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Wataru KISHIMOTO
  • Balancing device for air floaters
    Patent number: 5199667
    Abstract: An air floater comprises a balloon body which seals a gas therein and balancing means detachably attached to the balloon body. The balloon body comprises a film composed of a central layer made of ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer-resin, an aluminum evaporated layer provided outside the central layer, and a heated adhesive layer provided inside the central layer. The balancing means comprises a plurality of magnetic cards which are attracted by an attraction portion composed of a magnetic body attached to the balloon body. The plurality of magnetic cards includes one card having a reference weight matched with the buoyant force of the balloon body, first weight balancing cards having weight heavier by stages than the reference weight, and second weight balancing cards having weight lighter by stages than the reference weight. The balancing means may comprise sublimate sealed in a bag body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignees: Adonis Inc., Dentsu Prox Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiro Fujii
  • Device, program, and information processing method
    Patent number: 10916045
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that, even when a CG model moves with a tempo, it is possible to realize natural movement. The device according to one aspect of the present invention has a control section that exerts control so that specific data, which corresponds to a case where a predetermined parameter has a specific value, is generated using a plurality of pieces of data corresponding to respective cases where the predetermined parameter has different values, and a playback section that reproduces a predetermined computer graphics (CG) model based on the specific data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: DENTSU INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Kishi, Yasuo Higa, Akio Iijima, Tatsuki Tatara
  • Advertisement time frame transaction method and system
    Publication number: 20030163810
    Abstract: The present invention provides an advertisement time-frame transaction system comprising assigning means for selecting a viewer according to information about viewers and allowing an advertiser of an advertisement to assign an advertisement-viewing reward to the advertisement for the selected viewer, designating means for allowing the selected viewer to designate whether he/she will view the advertisement having the assigned advertisement-viewing reward, and hanging means for allowing the advertiser to change the advertisement-viewing reward of the advertisement in real time, depending on the information about the designation to be provided from the designating means when the viewer has designated whether he/she views the advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Dentsu Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Iijima, Tomohiko Yukawa
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM
    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
  • Frame exchange evaluation system, frame exchange evaluation apparatus and program
    Patent number: 11546672
    Abstract: To efficiently evaluate exchange of advertisement frames. A frame exchange evaluation system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control unit configured to decide a plurality of campaigns that are advertisement frame exchange targets; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire current frame information about each of the campaigns and setting information for frame exchange including information about an allowable predicted audience rating of at least one of the campaigns after the frame exchange; wherein the control unit decides candidates for the frame exchange based on the current frame information and the setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Wataru Kishimoto
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system, and program
    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
  • ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20230343020
    Abstract: An advertisement display system 1 acquires coordinates of the avatar and a size of the avatar in the virtual reality space and calculates a movement speed of the avatar by dividing a coordinate change amount per unit time of the avatar in the virtual reality space by a reference amount in accordance with the size of the avatar. In addition, the system 1 determines whether a point of view of the avatar in the virtual reality space is set to a first-person point of view or a third-person point of view. Furthermore, the system 1 performs control to differentiate, when an avatar is moving in the virtual reality space, a position where advertising is to be displayed in the virtual reality space with respect to the user operating the avatar in accordance with the movement speed of the avatar and the point of view of the avatar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Mihoko HOTTA
  • DATA CONVERSION APPARATUS, ROBOT, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20190022860
    Abstract: To facilitate synchronization of a robot motion with a musical piece, a data conversion apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire first time-series information for designating coordinates of a constituent component of a predetermined computer graphics (CG) model on a beat basis in time series, a control unit configured to detect a structural difference between the predetermined CG model and a predetermined robot based on the first time-series information, and a generation unit configured to correct the first time-series information based on the detected difference to generate second time-series information for designating coordinates of a constituent component of the predetermined robot on a beat basis in time series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: DENTSU INC.
    Inventors: Yuki KISHI, Yasuo HIGA, Akio IIJIMA, Tatsuki TATARA
  • MOVEMENT SOUND GENERATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20230377555
    Abstract: A movement sound generation system (1) generates a movement sound when a moving body moves on a predetermined movement surface in a virtual space. A sound volume of the movement sound is decided based on a mass of the moving body in the virtual space. A sound quality of the movement sound is decided based on material information of a ground contacting portion of the moving body which contacts a movement surface in the virtual space, and on material information of the movement surface contacted by the ground contacting portion of the moving body. A sound production timing of the movement sound is decided based on a timing at which the ground contacting portion of the moving body contacts the movement surface. The movement sound of the moving body is played in the virtual space, with a sound volume, with a sound quality, and at a sound production timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Mihoko HOTTA
  • PREDICTION APPARATUS, PREDICTION METHOD, AND PREDICTION PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20230066059
    Abstract: A storage unit stores broadcast contact information indicating a degree of contact from receivers for each of a plurality of pieces of broadcast information broadcasted by a broadcast medium. A calculation unit calculates a statistic by using broadcast contact information of first broadcast information included in the plurality of pieces of broadcast information and broadcast contact information of second broadcast information broadcasted after the first broadcast information. The statistic to be calculated is a statistic having a larger contribution of the broadcast contact information of the second broadcast information than a contribution of the broadcast contact information of the first broadcast information. A prediction unit determines predicted contact information indicating a degree of contact from receivers for broadcasting-scheduled broadcast information based on the statistic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Wataru KISHIMOTO
  • Value data management method, value data management system, and miles management method
    Publication number: 20020087406
    Abstract: There is provided a value data management method for managing a first value data acquired by each of users and having value exchangeable for specific merchandise, comprising: reading second value data from a first information storage medium and user identification data from a second information storage medium; and updating the first value data acquired by the user corresponding to the user identification data read from the second information storage medium, based on the second value data read from the first information storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. and Dentsu Inc.
    Inventors: Kunio Hashimoto, Etsuko Ikeda, Kenichi Agarihama, Hideo Tanzawa, Katsuyoshi Yamanouchi, Toshiyuki Jingu
  • RECIPE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20050192869
    Abstract: A recipe providing system and a recipe providing method for presenting a suitable recipe that matches to a user request on specific foodstuff basis and/or specific cooking process basis. A recipe element storing unit stores a recipe element data related to recipes. The recipe elements are hierarchized according to cooking process of one recipe and each of the recipe element has link information to a finished-dish for which the recipe element is used. A recipe generating means retrieves/extracts recipe element data from the recipe element storing unit in accordance with user's recipe request, and generates a recipe. A recipe sending means sends the recipe generated by the recipe generating means to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Applicants: DENTSU, INC., TSUJI ACADEMY, MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Maeda, Tatsuo Inoue, Kazuaki Hiraga
  • Ad frame management system for displaying web page including advertisement in correspondence with bidding popularity
    Patent number: 11017439
    Abstract: A frame coordinating computer (154), upon receiving a bidding popularity from a bid management computer (152) (S1), determines whether a multiple-view video frame distributed as a content should be changed to an ad frame (S2). When it is determined that the multiple-view video frame distributed as the content should be changed to an ad frame, a change request is transmitted (S4). A content distributing computer (156P1), upon receiving such a change request (S11), changes one of content frames is changed to an ad frame (S12). Ad frame management system flexibly changes the number of ad frames in accordance with the advertisement demand by dynamically changing the number of ad frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Akihiro Shimura
  • ADVERTISEMENT CONTACT DETERMINATION SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT CONTACT DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM
    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
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