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Remote customer service system

Grant US12586079B2 Kind: B2 Mar 24, 2026

Assignee

SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventors

Osamu Uratani, Kazuo Nishiura

Abstract

In a remote customer service system, an operator who is at a remote place from a customer visiting a store serves the customer via a customer service terminal apparatus provided in the store. The remote customer service system includes the customer service terminal apparatus, an imaging apparatus imaging inside of the store, and a control apparatus. The control apparatus includes: an image recognizer that recognizes a subject included in a captured image by the imaging apparatus as a tracking target, and acquires information on the tracking target from the captured image; and a control information generator that generates control information for executing a notification that prompts the operator to start customer service on the basis of the information on the tracking target.

CPC Classifications

G06Q 30/015-016 G06Q 30/0281 G06Q 30/0613-0619 G06V 20/44

Filing Date

2023-12-28

Application No.

18398602

Claims

8