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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2014
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuhiro Ochi, Kyoto, JP;

Tatsuya Takahashi, Shiga, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/42 (2006.01); G01N 21/31 (2006.01); G01J 3/453 (2006.01); G01J 3/427 (2006.01); G01N 33/02 (2006.01); G01N 21/359 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/314 (2013.01); G01J 3/42 (2013.01); G01J 3/427 (2013.01); G01J 3/453 (2013.01); G01N 21/359 (2013.01); G01N 33/02 (2013.01); G01N 2021/3137 (2013.01); G01N 2021/3166 (2013.01); G01N 2201/129 (2013.01);
Abstract

This food-article analysis device is provided with a light-reception/detection unit that receives near-infrared light reflected off of at least one measurement region of a measurement target and/or near-infrared light that has passed through at least one measurement region of said measurement target and generates a signal corresponding to the intensity of the received light, a computation unit that computes sectional nutrition information containing information regarding the caloric content of at least one measurement region and/or information regarding the components thereof on the basis of the signal supplied by the light-reception/detection unit and generates a distribution image by combining a plurality of pieces of sectional nutrition information relating to a plurality of measurement regions with position information for said measurement regions, and a display unit that displays the distribution image supplied by the computation unit.


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