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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2020
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Seiji Yamahira, Kyoto, JP;
Yuta Moriura, Osaka, JP;
Akihiro Odagawa, Osaka, JP;
Kazuya Niki, Osaka, JP;
Shinobu Masuda, Osaka, JP;
Yui Sawada, Osaka, JP;
Keiji Noine, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 11/00 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 20/68 (2022.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 11/00 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01); F25D 2400/36 (2013.01); F25D 2700/06 (2013.01); G06V 20/68 (2022.01);
Abstract
A food management system that manages food items in a refrigerator includes: a pressure-sensitive sensor that acquires information including shapes, weights, and positions of the food items; a comparator that performs comparison of the information acquired at different times; and an identifier that identifies at least one of (i) fluctuations in the number of food items or (ii) presence or absence of the food items.