Abstract: Some embodiments provide retail inventory identification systems, comprising: a mobile product mapping system comprising: a transport system, a tower housing, and a cluster processing system comprising: a plurality of product identifying (PI) systems each in different orientations and directed along different fields of view, and a mobile control circuit; wherein the PI systems each comprise an image capture system, and a location determination system, wherein each of the plurality of PI systems is configured to: capture images of products supported on product support systems; and locally process the images comprising applying a plurality of different machine learning modeling techniques, to infer identification of multiple products and generate product identifying information in association with location information; and the mobile control circuit is configured to generate product identifying mapping of products as the product mapping system moves; and communicate the generated product identifying mapping to

Abstract: The cook top is divided into at least one cold zone and cooking zones heatable by radiant heating elements under the cooking zones. The cook top includes a transparent, colorless glass ceramic or glass plate and a non-ceramic underside layer or layers on the underside of the plate. The upper side of the glass ceramic or glass plate is free of any decoration or layer, thus providing a cooking surface having improved smoothness for easy cleaning. The non-ceramic underside layer is permeable to infrared radiation in the cooking zones and is a color-imparting decoration. The underside layer, at least in cooking zones, has transmission properties for visible light such that the radiant heating elements are not visible from above, at least when they are not in a switched-on state.

Abstract: Modern cook-tops typically comprise a colored glass ceramic plate (1) serving as a cooking surface, which has cooking zones (2) that are heated by radiant heating elements (3), and on whose top side decorations are applied. In order to obtain particularly brilliant decorations while providing a smooth cooking surface of the glass ceramic plate (1), said glass ceramic plate (1) is comprised of a non-colored transparent glass ceramic material, whereby the decorations consisting of temperature-resistant coloring substances are applied as IR-permeable coatings (6) only to the underside of the glass ceramic plate (1). The decorations, when viewed from above, thus display brilliant shapes like a rear surface glass painting, and the cooking surface side of the glass ceramic plate (1) remains smooth.