US 11,727,090 B2
Waste collecting device, building, and method
Kazuya Nishimura, Anjyo (JP); Shin Sakurada, Toyota (JP); Yuko Mizuno, Nagoya (JP); and Soutaro Kaneko, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/370,147.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-149424 (JP), filed on Sep. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0076050 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06F 18/2431 (2023.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); B65F 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 18/2431 (2023.01) [G06T 7/0006 (2013.01); B65F 1/00 (2013.01); B65F 2210/168 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10121 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A waste collecting device comprising:
an inlet unit;
an X-ray inspection device configured to acquire waste information on waste thrown into the inlet unit; and
a processor configured to:
specify a category of the waste based on the waste information;
determine whether the category of the waste matches a predetermined category;
output a determination result via an output unit;
authenticate a user who throws the waste into the inlet unit;
store, in a storage unit, for each of a plurality of users living in an apartment complex, a number of times that or a frequency at which a category of waste thrown into the inlet unit by each user within a predetermined period matches the predetermined category; and
determine a maintenance fee of the apartment complex, issued for each of the users, based on the number of times or the frequency.