Food management device, food management system, food management method, food management program, and storage medium
AssigneeSharp Display Technology Corporation
InventorHiroyuki KITO
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Abstract
A food management device (MA) in accordance with the present disclosure includes: a location identifying section (14) that identifies a location of a food item which is shown in a first image showing an inside of a storage compartment: an identifier assignment section (21) that assigns an identifier to each food item; a type determination section (15) that determines, for each food item, a type of a food item; and a storage section (30) that stores, as stock information, each food item in association with the identifier, the location, and the type.
Claims11
A food management device comprising:
- a location identifying section that analyzes a first image showing an inside of a storage compartment of a refrigerator so as to identify a location, in the storage compartment, of at least one food item shown in the first image;
- an identifier assignment section that assigns an identifier to each of the at least one food item;
- a type determination section that analyzes, for each of the at least one food item, a second image which shows the inside of the storage compartment and the each of the at least one food item, so as to determine a type of the each of the at least one food item;
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- a storage section that stores, as stock information, each of the at least one food item in association with the identifier, the location, and the type.
A food management method comprising:
- a location identifying step of analyzing a first image showing an inside of a storage compartment of a refrigerator so as to identify a location, in the storage compartment, of at least one food item shown in the first image;
- an identifier assignment step of assigning an identifier to each of the at least one food item;
- a type determination step of analyzing, for each of the at least one food item, a second image which shows the inside of the storage compartment and the each of the at least one food item, so as to determine a type of the each of the at least one food item;
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- a storage step of storing, as stock information, each of the at least one food item in association with the identifier, the location, and the type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.