Abstract: A bottle storage includes a housing portion that houses a bottle therein, a cooling-warming portion that is provided around the housing portion, a sensor which detects insertion of the bottle into the housing portion, an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion, a controller that causes the image capture portion to perform image capture for capturing the image of the bottle when the bottle is sensed to be inserted into the housing portion by the sensor, an information manager that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on recognition result of the bottle image captured by the control of the controller, and an output portion that outputs characteristics of a beverage of the brand identified by the information manager.

Abstract: A bottle storage includes a housing portion that houses a bottle therein, a cooling-warming portion that is provided around the housing portion, a sensor which detects insertion of the bottle into the housing portion, an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion, a controller that causes the image capture portion to perform image capture for capturing the image of the bottle when the bottle is sensed to be inserted into the housing portion by the sensor, an information manager that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on recognition result of the bottle image captured by the control of the controller, and an output portion that outputs characteristics of a beverage of the brand identified by the information manager.

Abstract: A bottle storage includes: a housing portion that houses a bottle therein; a cooling-warming portion (cooling-warming devices) that is provided around the housing portion; a rotation portion (rotation motor) that rotates the bottle housed in the housing portion; an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion; a controller that controls the bottle rotation performed by the rotation portion and the image capture performed by the image capture portion, based on the bottle image captured by the image capture portion; an information manager (storage manager) that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on the bottle image captured by the control of the controller; and an output portion (display portion) that outputs at least one of the brand identified by the information manager and relevant information regarding the identified brand.

Abstract: A bottle storage includes: a housing portion that houses a bottle therein; a cooling-warming portion (cooling-warming devices) that is provided around the housing portion; a rotation portion (rotation motor) that rotates the bottle housed in the housing portion; an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion; a controller that controls the bottle rotation performed by the rotation portion and the image capture performed by the image capture portion, based on the bottle image captured by the image capture portion; an information manager (storage manager) that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on the bottle image captured by the control of the controller; and an output portion (display portion) that outputs at least one of the brand identified by the information manager and relevant information regarding the identified brand.

Abstract: In a heating cooker, multiple IH coils (3) are provided under a top plate, so as to heat an object to be heated by induction heating. Operation display unit (7) is configured with touch panel (5) to display information prompting an operation via touch panel (5) and receive an input of the operation via touch panel (5). Control unit (202) controls operation display unit (7) and drive unit (203), according to an operation input to operation display unit (7). Control unit (202) also sets a selection region on touch panel (5) and a heating region on the top plate, according to a drag operation on touch panel (5). Operation display unit (7) displays a selection region. Drive unit (203) drives one or more IH coils (3) corresponding to the heating region. This configuration enables to offer an inexpensive heating cooker with higher flexibility in the placement position of the object to be heated, without compromising its operability.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to desirably induce a user's gaze onto a keyboard or numeral buttons when data is directly inputted from the keyboard or the numeral buttons. In order to attain this object, a data input apparatus 10 according to the present invention includes: a first operating means 1 for directly inputting at least either of numerical data and character data; a second operating means 2 for executing an operation except a direct input of numerical data and character data; and an inducing means 5 for inducing a user's gaze onto the first operating means by having a blinking operation accompanied when a data input is started by the first operating means. When a data input is started by the first operating means 1, the inducing means 5 blinks on and off an induction mark 3c which expresses the shape of the first operating means 1 and the direction in which the first operating means 1 is located.

Abstract: In a network system providing a service, addition of an expanded function can be easily realized. A database server (105) provides a service such as accepting reservations of a facility to a terminal PC (101) via the Internet (104). To add an expanded function to the service provided by the database server (105), an agent server (106) executes a script, prepared by combining basic functions of the database server (105) and stored in a script storage section (209), according to a request from the terminal PC (101).