ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,963, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Heating cooker" was invented by Naoya Taniguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Hirohisa Imai (Shiga, Japan), Gantetsu Matsui (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinya Iwadare (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating cooker includes a heating cavity for accommodating a heating target, an imager for capturing an image of an interior of the heating cavity, and an exposure controller for performing exposure control. The exposure controller is operable to perform the exposure control based on gray level information obtained from the image capture...