Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Hirohisa Imai

Gantetsu Matsui

Koji Yoshino

Kiyoshi Kanazawa

Makoto Shibuya

Takashi Kashimoto

Hiroyoshi Nomura

Akira Ahagon

Keiko Noda

Naoya Taniguchi

Koichiro Yamashita

Kazuko Awaya

Hirokazu Kusuura

Jinsei Miyazaki

Naofumi Nakatani

Shunichi Nagamoto

Hiroshi Kawai

Saki Takakura

Mariko Takenouchi

Hirofumi Inui

Miki Moriguchi

Masamitsu Kondou

Motomiti Kato

Kazumasa Takada

Shinya Iwadare

Kozi Yosimoto

Kanzi Nisii

Hirohumi Inui

Masanori Nisikawa

Hirosi Kobayasi

Naohumi Nakatani

Kazunari Nisii

Shota Nakajima

Ikue Nakano

Miki Ueda

Jianlan Dou

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.

Heating cooker

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

A heating cooker includes a heating chamber that houses food, a heating unit that heats the food, an imaging unit that acquires image data on the food after the food has been housed in the heating chamber, a setting unit that accepts a user input relating to heating control content defining a heating operation, a storage unit that stores control information in which the image data and the heating control content corresponding to the food specified from the image data are associated with each other, a heating start button that orders the start of the heating operation, and a storage update unit that associates the image data and the heating control content with each other and updates the control information within the storage unit, when the setting unit accepts the user input and then the heating start button orders the start of the heating operation.

Heating cooker, cooking system, arithmetic device, and cooking support method

A device for cooking by heating comprises: a heating unit for heating food that is accommodated in a cooking cavity, a setting unit for setting a heating control content of the heating unit, a display unit for displaying the heating control content set by setting unit, and a display controller for controlling display on the display unit. Moreover, the device for cooking by heating comprises: an image capturing unit for capturing the inside of the cooking cavity, and a storage unit for storing an image captured by image capturing unit and the heating control content set by setting unit in a correspondence table in association with each other. The display controller controls display so as to display images stored in the storage unit in a list on the display unit, and the setting unit sets, based on selection of an image from the list, the associated heating control content in the correspondence table in the storage unit.

Device for cooking by heating and control method for same

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

Provided are a heating unit, an imaging unit that captures an image of an interior of a heating chamber, a setting unit that sets heating control details, and a storage that registers the captured image and the set heating control details in association with each other. Further provided area plural-article determination unit that determines whether a plurality of types of foods are present, a similarity determination unit that determines a degree of similarity of a plurality of images, a control detail identification unit that identifies heating control details corresponding to a food included in a captured image in accordance with a determination result obtained by the similarity determination unit, and a controller. The controller presents heating control details indicating each food on a display unit in accordance with a number of the foods. This configuration can provide a heating cooker capable of facilitating heating control setting.

A heating cooker includes a heating chamber in which an object to be heated is stored, a heating unit heating the object to be heated stored in the heating chamber, an imaging unit imaging an inside of the heating chamber, and a reading unit extracting a character of heating control information from an attachment attached to the object to be heated and reading that character. The heating cooker further includes a heating control unit controlling the heating unit based on the heating control information read by the reading unit. In this manner, heating time can be automatically set without a clerk having to input a product heating time or select a button corresponding to a product and a hassle attributable to registration of a relationship between a product code and the heating time can be avoided.

Heating device for cooking

A microwave heating appliance, capable of achieving a locally concentrated heating in answer to the purpose while achieving a uniform heating in the overall heating chamber in a normal mode, is provided. The microwave heating appliance includes a microwave generating unit, a waveguide for transmitting a microwave from the microwave generating unit, a heating chamber for housing a heated subject heated by the microwave, a rotating antenna for radiating the microwave to the heating chamber, a driving unit for rotating and driving the rotating antenna, a temperature distribution detecting unit for detecting a temperature distribution in the heating chamber, and a controlling unit for controlling a direction of the rotating antenna based on a detected result of the temperature distribution detecting unit so that a sharp part of radiation directivity of the rotating antenna in a direction decided based on the detected result.

Microwave heating appliance

A communication system for providing information of a medical doctor's questions to patients includes a medical doctor terminal apparatus, a patient terminal apparatus, and a database server apparatus for storing question sets for the medical doctor's questions to patients, where the medical doctor terminal apparatus, patient terminal apparatus and database server apparatus are connected through a communication network. The patient terminal apparatus generates question programs for making inquiries about the medical doctor's questions to patients in accordance with the question sets received from the database server apparatus, displays the questions for the medical doctor's questions to patients by execution of the generated question programs, enters answer data to the displayed questions, transmits the entered answer data to the database server apparatus, and stores the transmitted answer data in the database server apparatus. The medical doctor terminal apparatus receives the stored answer data by accessing the database server apparatus, and displays the received answer data thereon.

Communication system for information of medical doctor's questions to patients, terminal apparatus for medical doctor and terminal apparatus for patient

A themometer for measuring a body temperature by using infrared rays and on the basis of a measuring method in which a measurement error fluctuates depending upon the length of the measuring time including computation time. The measuring time is calculated on the basis of a required measurement error, so that a temperature can be measured in a suitable time corresponding to a required allowable error. A probe is formed of a porous structure so as to improve the heat insulating effect thereof, and an auxiliary adapter is provided to permit the thermometer to be fitted better in the earhole in spite of an individual difference in size thereof with the function of reporting a relative ovulation date based on a desired delivery date also incorporated in the themometer.

Ear type thermometer

A radiation thermometer measures temperature of the eardrum. The thermometer comprises a signal processor for calculating a temperature from an output of a light receptor, which receives only the infrared rays radiated directly from the eardrum and/or vicinity of it, and a notification system for notifying the temperature resulted from the calculation. Since the structure does not receive an influence of any radiant heats from other than those of the eardrum and/or vicinity of it, temperature change of a probe does not become a factor of measuring errors, so as to offer an accurate measurement of temperatures. An infrared-receiving element is positioned within a triangle configured by an intersection between a light path and an optical axis, and two image points of hypothetical end points formed by an optical condenser, when viewed in a cross sectional plane including the optical axis of the optical condenser, where (a) the light path is a path that extends from the hypothetical end point to the image point of the hypothetical end point formed by the optical condenser by passing through a rim of the optical condenser on the same side as the hypothetical end point with respect to the optical axis, and (b) the hypothetical end point is a point at which a straight line drawn from the rim of the optical condenser toward the probe in a manner to be tangent to an inner surface of the probe on the same side as the rim of the optical condenser with respect to the optical axis crosses a plane at a tip of the probe.

Radiation clinical thermometer

A high frequency heating apparatus for heating an object to be heated is provided with an electromagnetic wave emission device for emitting electromagnetic waves, a local heating device capable of heating an optional portion of the object by the electromagnetic waves emitted from the emission device, and a control device for controlling the local heating device. The high frequency heating apparatus is further provided with a stage on which the object is placed, a protecting device for protecting the local heating device, a setting device and a detection device, so that the local heating device, the electromagnetic wave emission device or the stage is controlled in accordance with the setting device or detection device.

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Shiga, Japan

Hirohisa Imai