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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2017
Nec Solution Innovators, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhide Umeda, Tokyo, JP;
Suguru Eguchi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a new stock control system that can grasp the stock status of objects to be controlled and is excellent in convenience. The stock control system of the present invention includes a shelf; a marker; an image acquisition unit; a storage unit; an analysis unit; and an alert unit. The shelfis a shelf on which an object to be controlledis placed. The markeris disposed in the shelfat a position where it is shielded from the image acquisition unitdue to the placed object to be controlled. The image acquisition unitacquires an image of the marker. The storage unit updates and stores on-time stock information of the object to be controlledplaced on the shelfbased on sales information of the object to be controlled. The analysis unit analyzes, upon acquisition of the image of the markerby the image acquisition unit, the on-time stock information in the storage unit. The alert unit outputs an alert according to an analysis result of the analysis unit.