Refrigerator
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKINYA YAMADE, HIROSHI HISAHARA, YOSHIHIKO HAMAGUCHI, SADAHIKO HINOUE
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Abstract
A refrigerator includes a storage compartment, a door, an air outlet, an imaging unit, and a determination unit. The storage compartment has a storage region that stores a stored object. The door opens and closes the storage compartment. The air outlet is provided in a rear wall of the storage region and blows cold air into the storage region. The imaging unit is provided at an inner side of the door at a position higher than or equal to a height of the air outlet and acquires an image of the storage region from the door. The determination unit determines an arrangement state of the stored object stored in the storage region based on the image acquired by the imaging unit.
Claims9
A refrigerator comprising:
- a storage compartment having a storage region that stores a stored object;
- a door that opens and closes the storage compartment;
- an air outlet that is provided in a rear wall of the storage region and that blows cold air into the storage region;
- an imaging unit that is provided at an inner side of the door at a position higher than or equal to a height of the air outlet and that acquires an image of the storage region from the door;
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- a determination unit that determines an arrangement state of the stored object stored in the storage region based on the image acquired by the imaging unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.