US 12,141,835 B2
Information processing device, control method, and storage medium
Kan Arai, Tokyo (JP); and Kota Iwamoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/767,566
Filed by NEC Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 31, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/042806
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/084688, PCT Pub. Date May 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0186368 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0252 (2013.01) [B25J 11/008 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0261 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0255 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0631 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device comprising:
at least one memory storing instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to:
estimate, based on information detected in a meeting room in which a meeting is being held, a state of activity of the meeting;
determine a timing of mobile sales of a commodity to one or more of participants of the meeting based on the state of activity, and based on at least one of the number of the participants in the meeting or an elapsed time of the meeting; and
transmit a control signal for instructing a self-propelled robot with a commodity to perform the mobile sales to the meeting room at the timing,
wherein the self-propelled robot recognizes a person present in the meeting room based on an output of a sensor and sells the commodity to the person.