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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2018
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Yasuhiro Yuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Ishii, Hyogo, JP;
Mitsuhiro Aso, Osaka, JP;
Takayuki Hayami, Osaka, JP;
Tomoko Kajimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.