FOOD RECOGNIZER, AND HEAT COOKER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely recognize food by a simple procedure. SOLUTION: Food 6 and a dish 8 dished up with the food 6 are photographed in an image picking-up means 1, a dish frame model 2f for expressing shapes of an outer circumference 8a and an inside partitioning 8b in the dish 8 is matched with the image picked-up image in a dish recognizing means 3 to estimate a position and a direction of the dish 8, and the food 6 stored in a food map 4m is applied to an estimated area S for the dish 8 to recognize the food 6 in the each area S, in a food recognition means 5.