US 11,889,042 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, fee management method, and recording medium that transmits usage fee in response to detecting that first and second users belong to a same group
Yuji Kawamata, Tokyo (JP); and Nekka Matsuura, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Yuji Kawamata, Tokyo (JP); and Nekka Matsuura, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Mar. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/184,170.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-045721 (JP), filed on Mar. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0308586 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); H04N 1/34 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/344 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/202 (2013.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a first image receiver configured to receive a first image captured by an imaging apparatus in which a user of an electronic device and the electronic device are captured, the imaging apparatus and the electronic device being communicable with the information processing apparatus via a network;
a first user identifier configured to identify a first user from the first image;
a usage information receiver configured to receive, from the electronic device, usage information based on an operation of the first user identified by the first user identifier;
a second image receiver configured to receive a second image captured by the imaging apparatus in which a settlement apparatus and a second user capable of using the settlement apparatus are captured, the settlement apparatus being communicable with the information processing apparatus via the network;
a second user identifier configured to identify the second user from the second image; and
a usage information transmitter configured to transmit the usage information to the settlement apparatus, based on the first user identified by the first user identifier and the second user identified by the second user identifier.