US 11,989,687 B2
Shelf inventory management system, shelf inventory management method, and program
Yuta Itozawa, Nagoya (JP); Kunihiro Iwamoto, Nagakute (JP); Hirotaka Komura, Tokyo (JP); Yutaro Takagi, Tokyo (JP); Yoshiaki Nakamoto, Nisshin (JP); and Junya Ota, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/560,659.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-025080 (JP), filed on Feb. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0270031 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 10/10 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing thereon a program for shelf inventory management method that causes a computer to perform a process comprising:
receiving, from a first sensor, a detection result of a detection of a mass change of a plurality of storage boxes in a shelf;
storing, in a memory, information of an article stored in each of the plurality of storage boxes and an expiration date related to consumption of the article in association with each other; and
outputting, to a terminal, reminder information for notifying that the expiration date of the article is approaching, and controlling the terminal to indicate the reminder information, when a period until the expiration date of the article falls below a predetermined standard and removal of the article is not indicated by the detection result;
wherein the reminder information includes storage box information indicating which of the plurality of storage boxes the article with the approaching expiration date is stored in.