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A business in Tokyo, Japan, that hires out workers to perform maintenance upon a grave. Maintenance tasks include cleaning, tidying, weeding, arranging flowers and lighting incense. The worker records the maintenance using using a 360-degree camera,…

A service that provides mobile apps for cemeteries. Through the app, individual grave locations are plotted on a map, and each grave can have an associated online memorial page with media about the deceased person's life. Cemetery navigation and…

A service that creates explorable virtual recreations of a funeral service using 360 degree photography (otherwise known as VR photography). Marketed towards US military veterans and their families, for those who are unable to attend a veteran's…

A video panel designed to be installed in a gravestone, which plays video tributes to the deceased person. The system is powered by a battery charged from a solar panel that covers the screen when it is not in use.

An audiovisual display system embedded in a gravestone and operated by a remote control device. The patent for the system describes it as follows: "A tombstone for communicating audio and visual data related to the deceased from the tombstone to a…

A mobile app that allows the user to set a GPS location as a memorial place for a deceased person. When friends or family visit the location with the app, they can use their phone to see a photograph of the deceased person superimposed on the…

A custom-made granite headstone (or other memorial object) featuring a QR code that links to an online memorial page. The memorial page can receive and display text, photos, video recordings, comments and sharing links to social media sites.

Cloud-based software for cemetery management. The public-facing website, Everafter, provides a search function to look up records of deceased people and find their gravesite plotted on an aerial map. The cemetery business website, Plotbox, provides…

A Las Vegas-based videography service that produces live and recorded webcasts of funeral services.

The US National Cemetery Administration registry of graves of military veterans and their families. The provides a search function to look up burial records, drawn from various government sources, and locate the corresponding gravesite.