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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2020
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, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
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.