Patent ID: 11860086
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A food selection method comprising:
obtaining one or more spectra corresponding one-to-one to each of one or more foods, each of the one or more spectra being a result of measurement of each of the one or more foods using a spectral camera;
comparing desire information indicating an attribute of a food desired by a user and a state of each of the one or more foods based on each of the one or more spectra; and
selecting a food that suits the user's desire on a basis of a result of the comparing,
wherein, in the obtaining one or more spectra, two or more spectra are obtained,
wherein, in the selecting, two or more foods whose right timings to eat are different from each other are selected as the food that suits the user's desire on the basis of the result of the comparing, and
wherein each of the right timings to eat is determined based on information indicating freshness of each of the two or more foods, information indicating ripeness of each of the two or more foods, or the information indicating freshness of each of the two or more foods and the information indicating ripeness of each of the two or more foods.