Abstract: A system for remotely monitoring the contents of a refrigerator, consisting of monitor and remote components. The monitor component is associated with a user and a refrigerator. The monitor component has a camera, light sensor, angular position sensor and a computer. The light sensor determines when the computer is powered on, the computer and position sensors determine when the camera will take pictures. The quality of the picture information is calculated, and the picture information is sent to the remote component. A user can request the picture information for a refrigerator that he is associated with.

Abstract: A system for facial recognition, consisting of a global database of facial characteristics of known users, a server which accepts from registration pictures taken on a user's camera device, accepts and processes training pictures and videos of other users to enable algorithm improvement, and a static camera which processes user pictures to determine whether the user is a known user or not based on the global database and a local database associated with each static camera.

Abstract: A system for remotely monitoring the contents of a refrigerator, consisting of monitor and remote components. The monitor component is associated with a user and a refrigerator. The monitor component has a camera, light sensor, angular position sensor and a computer. The light sensor determines when the computer is powered on, the computer and position sensors determine when the camera will take pictures. The quality of the picture information is calculated, and the picture information is sent to the remote component. A user can request the picture information for a refrigerator that he is associated with.