摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a refrigerator capable of controlling inventory management in the refrigerator as well as of suppressing reduction in effective storage space of the refrigerator and increase in cost of manufacture while alleviating the time and labor of users.SOLUTION: A refrigerator comprises: a cold room 100; a door 8 for opening/closing the cold room 100; an inside camera 14 for capturing an image of an object passing through an opening of the cold room 100 at predetermined time intervals to form a plurality of images; and a control device 7 having a storage part storing inventory information in the cold room 100, and updating the inventory information based on the plurality of images. The control device 7 detects a traveling direction of an object by the arithmetic processing based on the plurality of images so as to determine whether the object is loaded in the cold room 100 or the object is unloaded from the cold room 100, and updates the inventory information on the basis of the result of the determination of loading or unloading of the object. |