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US 10,330,376 B2Granted
Refrigerator with advice generating unit
AssigneeToshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
InventorsKazuhiro Furuta, Yuuki Marutani, Takuya Mashimo
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Abstract
A refrigerator includes a biological information obtaining unit for obtaining biological information of a person upon detection of the person in the vicinity of the refrigerator. The refrigerator further includes an advice generating portion for generating advice about health care based on analysis of the biological information and a display configured to display the advice in response to a user request.
Claims16
A refrigerator comprising:
- at least one storage compartment for storing foodstuffs;
- a first sensor configured to obtain biological information of a person automatically upon detection of the person in the vicinity of the refrigerator;
- a memory, coupled to the first sensor to store the biological information automatically upon detection of the person in the vicinity of the refrigerator;
- a second sensor configured to determine the presence of foodstuffs in the storage compartment;
- a biological information analysis portion of a computer configured to analyze the biological information and to obtain foodstuff information comprising information on foodstuffs stored in the storage compartment with which it is possible to improve the biological information;
- an advice generating portion of the computer configured to generate advice for improving the biological information based on the analysis result of the biological information analysis unit, the advice including:
- advice regarding foodstuffs pertinent directly to nutrients and advice relevant to nutrients and not regarding foodstuffs,
- advice about dietary life based on the foodstuff information obtained by the second sensor generated in response to the foodstuffs being detected in the storage compartment, and
- advice about purchase of the foodstuffs generated in response to the foodstuffs not being detected in the storage compartment;
- an input device configured to receive a user request for the advice;
- and
- a display configured to:
- report a measured result of the biological information, and
- only in response to the user request for advise being received by the input device, report the advice for improving the biological information after reporting the measured result of the biological information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.