公开(公告)号：US20200149797A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-14

申请号：US16740232

申请日：2020-01-10

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Seiji YAMAHIRA ,  Yuta MORIURA ,  Akihiro ODAGAWA ,  Kazuya NIKI ,  Shinobu MASUDA ,  Yui SAWADA ,  Keiji NOINE

IPC: F25D11/00 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06K9/00

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.