Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Takayuki Hayami

Masahiko Moriwaki

Masahiro Ishii

Yasuhiro Yuki

Mitsuhiro Aso

Shinichi Sugihara

Yutaka Kohno

Tomoko Kajimoto

Yuji Takahashi

Tetsuya Imamura

Shinichi Maeda

Takahiro Miyauchi

Makoto Fujita

Shigeo Hiraoka

Yutaka Kono

Kyosuke Kawazoe

Yasuhiro Ban

Naoki Yamasaki

Jun Yamano

Kohji Niiyama

Induction cooktop

A bottle storage includes a housing portion that houses a bottle therein, a cooling-warming portion that is provided around the housing portion, a sensor which detects insertion of the bottle into the housing portion, an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion, a controller that causes the image capture portion to perform image capture for capturing the image of the bottle when the bottle is sensed to be inserted into the housing portion by the sensor, an information manager that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on recognition result of the bottle image captured by the control of the controller, and an output portion that outputs characteristics of a beverage of the brand identified by the information manager.

Bottle storage and system

A bottle storage includes: a housing portion that houses a bottle therein; a cooling-warming portion (cooling-warming devices) that is provided around the housing portion; a rotation portion (rotation motor) that rotates the bottle housed in the housing portion; an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion; a controller that controls the bottle rotation performed by the rotation portion and the image capture performed by the image capture portion, based on the bottle image captured by the image capture portion; an information manager (storage manager) that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on the bottle image captured by the control of the controller; and an output portion (display portion) that outputs at least one of the brand identified by the information manager and relevant information regarding the identified brand.

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Osaka, Japan

Takayuki Hayami