JPWO2024231980A5

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Publication number: JPWO2024231980A5
Application number: JP2025519202A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2023-05-08
Publication date: 2025-08-07

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開示に係る冷蔵庫は、第１の貯蔵室を含む複数の貯蔵室を本体に備える冷蔵庫であって、本体前面に設置され、第１の貯蔵室を開閉する扉と、第１の貯蔵室の扉の開閉検知を行って開閉信号を送る第１の扉開閉検知部と、第１の貯蔵室の天井部に設置され、音声を取得し、取得した音声のデータを含む音声信号を送る第１の音声取得部と、第１の貯蔵室と、第１の貯蔵室より下段の貯蔵室とを仕切る仕切り部材の本体前面となる部分に設置され、音声を取得し、取得した音声のデータを含む音声信号を送る第２の音声取得部と、第１の音声取得部および第２の音声取得部が取得した音声から物品名を判定し、判定した物品名を含む買い物メモデータを作成する制御装置とを備え、制御装置は、使用者の身長を記憶する記憶部を有し、開閉信号に基づき、扉が開いていることを検知し、第１の音声取得部が取得した音声の音量に対する、第２の音声取得部が取得した音声の音量の比率が、記憶部に記憶された身長に基づいて設定される閾値以下である場合には、第１の貯蔵室内における下方の貯蔵空間または第１の貯蔵室よりも下段の貯蔵室に、物品名に相当する物品が収納されると判定し、比率が閾値よりも大きい場合、第１の貯蔵室内において下方の貯蔵空間よりも上方の貯蔵空間に物品名に相当する物品が収納されると判定し、物品が収納されると判定した貯蔵空間または貯蔵室の貯蔵室名のデータを、物品名のデータと関連付けてメモデータを作成するものである。 The refrigerator disclosed herein is a refrigerator having a plurality of storage compartments including a first storage compartment in its main body, the refrigerator including: a door installed on the front of the main body for opening and closing the first storage compartment; a first door open/close detection unit that detects whether the door of the first storage compartment is open or closed and sends an open/close signal; a first voice acquisition unit that is installed on the ceiling of the first storage compartment and acquires voice and sends a voice signal including data of the acquired voice; a second voice acquisition unit that is installed on a portion of a partition member that separates the first storage compartment from a storage compartment below the first storage compartment, which becomes the front of the main body, acquires voice and sends a voice signal including data of the acquired voice; and a control device that determines product names from the voices acquired by the first voice acquisition unit and the second voice acquisition unit and creates shopping memo data including the determined product names ; The device has a memory unit that stores the height of the user, and detects that the door is open based on an open/close signal. If the ratio of the volume of the voice acquired by the second voice acquisition unit to the volume of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit is equal to or less than a threshold value set based on the height stored in the memory unit, it determines that an item corresponding to the item name is stored in a lower storage space within the first storage room or in a storage room lower than the first storage room. If the ratio is greater than the threshold value, it determines that an item corresponding to the item name is stored in a storage space above the lower storage space within the first storage room, and creates memo data by associating data on the name of the storage space or storage room where it is determined that the item will be stored with data on the item name .

また、開示に係る冷蔵庫システムは、第１の貯蔵室を含む複数の貯蔵室を有する本体と、本体前面に設置され、第１の貯蔵室を開閉する扉と、第１の貯蔵室の扉の開閉検知を行って開閉信号を送る第１の扉開閉検知部と、第１の貯蔵室の天井部に設置され、音声を取得し、取得した音声のデータを含む音声信号を送る第１の音声取得部と、第１の貯蔵室と、第１の貯蔵室より下段の貯蔵室とを仕切る仕切り部材の本体前面となる部分に設置され、音声を取得し、取得した音声のデータを含む音声信号を送る第２の音声取得部と、第１の音声取得部が取得した音声信号および第２の音声取得部が取得した音声信号を外部に送信する通信部と、有する冷蔵庫と、使用者の身長を記憶する記憶部を有し、冷蔵庫から送られる開閉信号及び音声信号に基づき、扉が開いていることを検知し、第１の音声取得部が取得した音声の音量に対する、第２の音声取得部が取得した音声の音量の比率が、記憶部に記憶された身長に基づいて設定される閾値以下である場合には、第１の貯蔵室内における下方の貯蔵空間または第１の貯蔵室よりも下段の貯蔵室に、物品名に相当する物品が収納されると判定し、比率が閾値よりも大きい場合、第１の貯蔵室内において下方の貯蔵空間よりも上方の貯蔵空間に物品名に相当する物品が収納されると判定し、物品が収納されると判定した貯蔵空間または貯蔵室の貯蔵室名のデータを、物品名のデータと関連付けてメモデータを作成する制御装置と、制御装置からメモデータを含む信号を受信し、買い物メモを表示する表示部を備える端末装置とを電気通信回線で接続するものである。 The refrigerator system disclosed herein also includes a refrigerator having a main body having a plurality of storage compartments including a first storage compartment, a door installed on the front of the main body for opening and closing the first storage compartment, a first door open/close detection unit that detects whether the door of the first storage compartment is open or closed and sends an open/close signal, a first audio acquisition unit that is installed on the ceiling of the first storage compartment and acquires audio and sends an audio signal including data of the acquired audio , a second audio acquisition unit that is installed on a portion of a partition member that separates the first storage compartment from a storage compartment below the first storage compartment and forms the front of the main body, acquires audio and sends an audio signal including data of the acquired audio, and a communication unit that transmits the audio signal acquired by the first audio acquisition unit and the audio signal acquired by the second audio acquisition unit to an external device , and a storage unit that stores the height of a user and detects whether the door is open or closed based on the open/close signal and the audio signal sent from the refrigerator. The device detects that the voice acquisition unit is open, and if the ratio of the volume of the voice acquired by the second voice acquisition unit to the volume of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit is equal to or less than a threshold value set based on the height stored in the memory unit, it determines that an item corresponding to the item name is stored in a lower storage space within the first storage room or in a storage room lower than the first storage room, and if the ratio is greater than the threshold value, it determines that an item corresponding to the item name is stored in a storage space above the lower storage space within the first storage room, and a control device that creates memo data by associating data on the name of the storage space or storage room where it has been determined that the item will be stored with data on the name of the item , and a terminal device that receives a signal including the memo data from the control unit and has a display unit that displays a shopping memo are connected by an electric communication line.

Claims

A refrigerator having a plurality of storage compartments including a first storage compartment in a main body,
a door provided on the front surface of the main body for opening and closing the first storage chamber;
a first door open/close detection unit that detects whether the door of the first storage compartment is open or closed and sends an open/close signal;
a first audio acquisition unit that is installed on a ceiling of the first storage room and that acquires audio and transmits an audio signal including data of the acquired audio;
a second audio acquisition unit that is installed on a portion of a partition member that separates the first storage chamber from a storage chamber below the first storage chamber, the portion being the front surface of the main body, and that acquires the audio and sends the audio signal including data of the acquired audio;
a control device that determines an item name from the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit and the second voice acquisition unit, and creates shopping memo data including the determined item name;
the control device has a memory unit that stores the height of the user,
detects that the door is open based on the opening/closing signal, and determines that an item corresponding to the item name is stored in a lower storage space in the first storage room or in a storage room lower than the first storage room if a ratio of the volume of the voice acquired by the second voice acquisition unit to the volume of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit is equal to or less than a threshold value set based on the height stored in the memory unit;
If the ratio is greater than the threshold value, it is determined that the item corresponding to the item name is stored in an upper storage space than the lower storage space in the first storage room,
The refrigerator creates memo data by associating data on the name of the storage space or the storage room in which the item is determined to be stored with data on the name of the item.

The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the first sound acquisition unit is installed adjacent to a light source for illumination in a space between the ceiling unit and the cover.

The partition member has a partition recess on a front surface,
the second sound acquisition unit is disposed in the partition recess,
a design cover that covers the partition recess and the front surface of the second sound acquisition unit;
The refrigerator according to claim 1 or 2 , further comprising a heat radiation pipe arranged on the partition recess side of the decorative cover so as to be in contact with the decorative cover.

The refrigerator described in claim 3, wherein the decorative cover has folded portions at its upper and lower ends that are folded and protrude toward the rear side of the main body, and at least the protruding surface of the folded portion at the upper end side of the decorative cover protrudes toward the rear side of the main body further than the rear end of the substrate having the second sound acquisition unit.

The refrigerator according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the door has an operation unit provided with an operation button that accepts voices acquired by the first voice acquisition unit and the second voice acquisition unit.

The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the door is rotatable about both ends or one end of the front surface of the first storage compartment, and has an operation switch on a side surface thereof for receiving audio signals acquired by the first audio acquisition unit and the second audio acquisition unit.

3. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein when the control device determines based on the open/close signal that the doors of the uppermost storage compartment and the storage compartments below the uppermost compartment are open when the control device receives the voice signals from the first voice acquisition unit and the second voice acquisition unit, the control device compares the volume of the voice in the voice signals from the first voice acquisition unit and the second voice acquisition unit, and when the control device determines that the volume of the voice from the second voice acquisition unit is lower than the volume of the voice from the first voice acquisition unit by a predetermined ratio, the control device determines that a food name related to the lower storage compartment has been spoken.

an outside-compartment temperature sensor that detects the temperature in the space outside the compartment; an outside-compartment humidity sensor that detects the humidity in the space outside the compartment; and a drawer door opening/closing detection unit that detects the opening/closing of a drawer door in a plurality of drawer-type storage compartments that are equipped with a drawer door among the storage compartments below the first storage compartment.
a storage chamber temperature sensor for detecting a storage chamber temperature in the drawer-type storage chamber;
The control device
When the drawer door open/close detection unit detects that the plurality of drawer doors are open and the first voice acquisition unit and the second voice acquisition unit acquire voice,
3. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the door opening amounts of the plurality of drawer doors are estimated based on the rise in the storage room temperature detected by the storage room temperature sensor, and when it is determined that the door opening amount of the drawer door in the top drawer storage room is equal to or greater than a preset door opening amount, it is determined that the item corresponding to the item name determined from the acquired voice is to be stored in the top drawer door.

The refrigerator according to claim 1 or 2 , further comprising a communication unit that transmits a signal including the memo data created by the control device to an external device.

The refrigerator according to claim 9 , wherein the external device is a cloud server.

The refrigerator according to claim 9 , wherein the external device is a terminal device.

a body having a plurality of storage chambers including a first storage chamber;
a door provided on the front surface of the main body for opening and closing the first storage chamber;
a first door open/close detection unit that detects whether the door of the first storage compartment is open or closed and sends an open/close signal;
a first audio acquisition unit that is installed on a ceiling of the first storage room and that acquires audio and transmits an audio signal including data of the acquired audio ;
a second audio acquisition unit that is installed on a portion of a partition member that separates the first storage chamber from a storage chamber below the first storage chamber, the portion being the front surface of the main body, and that acquires the audio and sends the audio signal including data of the acquired audio;
a communication unit that transmits the voice signal acquired by the first voice acquisition unit and the voice signal acquired by the second voice acquisition unit to an outside;
a storage unit that stores a height of a user, and detects that the door is open based on the open/close signal and the audio signal sent from the refrigerator, and determines that an item corresponding to an item name is stored in a lower storage space in the first storage compartment or in a storage compartment lower than the first storage compartment when a ratio of a volume of the audio acquired by the second audio acquisition unit to a volume of the audio acquired by the first audio acquisition unit is equal to or less than a threshold value that is set based on the height stored in the storage unit,
If the ratio is greater than the threshold value, it is determined that the item corresponding to the item name is stored in an upper storage space than the lower storage space in the first storage room,
a control device that creates memo data by associating data on the name of the storage space or the storage room in which the item is determined to be stored with data on the name of the item;
The refrigerator system is connected to a terminal device via an electric communication line, the terminal device having a display unit that receives a signal including the memo data from the control device and displays the shopping memo.