| 摘要 |
The invention refers to a method and an apparatus for registering and supervision of the positions and time of storage of articles entered into a cabinet or other delimited space. A preferred fields of application is refrigerators in which one or several cameras (3) at selected occasions take pictures of the interior of the refrigerator (1). These pictures are treated in an image analyser (6) which transfers clear pictures of all articles stored on each shelf (4) in the refrigerator (1) to a computer (5) for registration. In the computer (5) there is stored for each article information on the time of entry in a list containing article denominations. For distance communication the computer (5) can be connected to a central computer (9) having information about all articles marketed on a national basis and including both pictures and denominations. It is possible to establish a remote connection, via Internet or via mobile phone, to the computer (5) for collecting information on the content of the cabinet, for example when shopping in a store.
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