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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Naoya Taniguchi, Kyoto, JP;
Hirohisa Imai, Shiga, JP;
Gantetsu Matsui, Kyoto, JP;
Shinya Iwadare, Shiga, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/64 (2006.01); G06V 10/143 (2022.01); H04N 23/73 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/6447 (2013.01); G06V 10/143 (2022.01); H04N 23/73 (2023.01); G06V 2201/07 (2022.01);
Abstract
A heating cooker includes a heating cavity for accommodating a heating target, an imager for capturing an image of an interior of the heating cavity, and an exposure controller for performing exposure control. The exposure controller is operable to perform the exposure control based on gray level information obtained from the image captured by the imager. As a result, it is possible to acquire an image for recognition after accurately detecting the illuminance of the interior of the heating cavity and performing exposure control.