Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic IP Management Co., Ltd.

Gantetsu Matsui

Hirohisa Imai

Naoya Taniguchi

Kazuhiro Kuroyama

Mahbub Rashid

Hirokazu Kusuura

Masaru Yamaoka

Yoshihiro Kojima

Hideo Umetani

Yasuo Yoshimura

Mariko Nakaso

Tetsuya Kouda

Norihiro Matsui

Takuya Matsumoto

Akio Nishiyama

Hiromi Toyota

Saki Takakura

Mariko Takenouchi

Nozomu Tooyama

Shinichi Horii

Taku Kariyazaki

Zarina Rafii

Toshiya Naka

Toshiko Mineno

Shinsuke Kawaguchi

Shota Nakajima

Kiyoshi Nakashita

Shinya Iwadare

A heating cooker of the present disclosure includes a heating chamber for accommodating a heating target; a heating unit; a control unit; a detection unit; an illumination unit; an image-capturing unit; a recognition processing unit; and a notification unit. The heating unit heats a heating target. The control unit controls heating by the heating unit. The detection unit detects opening/closing of a door of the heating chamber. The illumination unit illuminates an interior of the heating chamber. The image-capturing unit captures images of the interior of the heating chamber when the door is opened and closed. The recognition processing unit is operable to read the heating control information provided to the heating target from the captured images. When the recognition processing unit successfully reads the heating control information when the door is opened, the control unit causes the notification unit to notify success in reading the heating control information.

Heating cooker

The present disclosure provides a food detection devicethat can accurately detect, with a camera, a food item taken into or out of a refrigerator The food detection deviceis attached to an upper part of the refrigeratorby a user P and configured to detect, with a refrigerator compartment cameraand a drawer camera, a food item taken into or out of the refrigeratorand includes a camera moduleincluding the refrigerator compartment cameraand the drawer cameraconfigured to capture an image of the refrigeratorfrom an upper front of the refrigerator, and an electric power supply unitconfigured to supply electric power at least to the camera module

Food detection device

A heating cooker includes a heating cavity for accommodating a heating target, an imager for capturing an image of an interior of the heating cavity, and an exposure controller for performing exposure control. The exposure controller is operable to perform the exposure control based on gray level information obtained from the image captured by the imager. As a result, it is possible to acquire an image for recognition after accurately detecting the illuminance of the interior of the heating cavity and performing exposure control.

A heating cooker according to the present disclosure includes a heating chamber, a heating unit, a capturing unit, a control unit, an appearance characteristic analysis unit that analyzes an appearance characteristic of a heated material, an information reading unit that reads heating control information, an information storage unit in which an acceptable range of the heating control information is registered, and an information determination unit that determines whether the heating control information read by the information reading unit is within the acceptable range. When the heating control information read by the information reading unit is within the acceptable range, the control unit executes heating control based on the heating control information read by the information reading unit. When the heating control information read by the information reading unit is not within the acceptable range, the control unit does not execute heating control based on the heating control information read by the information reading unit.

Heating cooker, method of controlling heating cooker, and heating cooking system

A cooker includes a heating chamber configured to accommodate an object to be heated, a heater configured to heat the object to be heated accommodated in the heating chamber, heating controller () configured to control the heater for heating, an image capturing unit configured to capture an image inside the heating chamber, and mark detector () configured to detect a specific mark from the image captured by the image capturing unit. Heating controller () disallows or allows heating by the heater, based on a result of detection by mark detector ().

Cooker

Heating control information recognizing unit recognizes heating control information of an object to be heated from an image of the inside of heating chamber captured by imaging unit, and heating controller controls heating unit based on the heating control information. When it is difficult for heating control information recognizing unit to perform recognition, disposing position guide unit guides the object to be heated to a capturing range of imaging unit. It is thus possible to recognize the heating control information with a simple configuration including a single camera functioning as imaging unit.

A cooker is configured such that reader () reads heating control information attached to food from an image of an interior of heating chamber () captured by imaging unit (), correction calculator () performs correction calculation based on the heating control information, and heating controller () controls heating unit () based on a result of the correction calculation.

A heating cooker includes shooting section () for shooting an image inside a heating chamber that accommodates a heat-target object, and controller () that sets a shooting condition for shooting the image of an interior of the heating chamber and carries out an image recognition to the image. Controller () analyzes the image of the interior of the heating chamber, thereby recognizing a state inside the heating chamber, and then changes the shooting condition in response to the state inside the heating chamber for shooting the image. The structure discussed above allows this heating cooker (), which carries out the image recognition to the image of the interior of the heating chamber, to achieve a greater accuracy in the image recognition.

Heating cooker, method for controlling heating cooker, and heating cooking system

A cooking recipe supply method includes a first acquiring step of acquiring identification information for identifying a cooking appliance and type information representing a type of the cooking appliance, and a second acquiring step of acquiring cooking recipe information related to the identification information. When the cooking recipe information includes the cooking recipe information related to the identification information, the cooking recipe information related to the identification information is supplied. Further, the method includes a supply step of, when the cooking recipe information related to the identification information is not present, supplying the cooking recipe information based on the type information. As a result, the user can easily view a suitable cooking recipe according to the cooking appliance owned by the user.

Cooking recipe supply method and control program

An information management method allows presenting the usage of each of storage areas in a visually intuitive manner, the method including: obtaining user configuration information in each of the storage areas; receiving a designated user ID and obtaining user information corresponding to the designated user ID; and displaying an image, wherein when displaying an image, a first image is displayed for a storage area that stores user configuration information regarding a user identified by the designated user ID or the user information, a second image is displayed for a storage area that stores user configuration information regarding a user different from the user identified by the designated user ID or the user information, and a third image is displayed for a storage area that stores user configuration information indicating that the storage area is not being used for any user.

Information management method, information management device, program, and program provision method

An information terminal includes a first radio communication unit that performs communication with a server, a condition input unit through which a condition for retrieving a specific cooking recipe information group from cooking recipe information groups stored in the server is input, and a display unit that displays the specific cooking recipe information group specified based on the condition input through the condition input unit. Further, the display unit displays list screen () that displays as a list the specific cooking recipe information group so that first cooking recipe information that is associated with operation control information is differentiated from second cooking recipe information that is not associated with the operation control information, and a cooking method screen that displays a cooking method relating to specific cooking recipe information in the specific cooking recipe information group displayed on the list screen.

Information terminal, information terminal control method, and information terminal control program

A generation unit generates a command based on operation history information read from a storage unit and operation status information obtained by an obtainment unit when power is supplied from a first power source unit to a communication apparatus, and generates the command based on the operation history information read from the storage unit when the power is not supplied from the first power source unit to the communication apparatus, when power is supplied from a second power source unit to each of the storage unit, the generation unit, and a proximity wireless communication unit.

Communication apparatus, which communicates with an external terminal, method of controlling a communication apparatus which communicates with an external terminal, program, and server

Provided is a user interface apparatus with improved operability thereby allowing a desired alternative to be selected from a plurality of alternatives more smoothly than by conventional techniques. When an instruction is received from a user to display a contents selection reception screen, eight contents corresponding to eight ordinal ranks are selected from among managed contents at intervals of n/8, and are set as selectable alternatives, and a table is created in which the ordinal ranks of the eight selectable alternatives are corresponded with key codes respectively, where each key code represents a press directed to a corresponding one eight press sensors. Based on the created table, a GUI screen is displayed for receiving selection of one of the ordinal ranks. Upon reception of ordinal-rank selection, a set of alternatives in a predetermined number including an alternative corresponding to the selected ordinal rank are displayed as a list, where the predetermined number of alternatives in the set are consecutive in terms of ordinal ranks. When a user selects a desired alternative from the list by operating members, the selection reception processing is ended. The user may also scroll through the alternatives by operating the operation member

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Gantetsu Matsui