US 11,992,150 B2
Apparatus, method, program and system
Kaishun Kihara, Tokyo (JP); and Taisuke Torizu, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to DAITO GIKEN, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/262,943
Filed by DAITO GIKEN, INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 2, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/030544
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 25, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/031906, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-148568 (JP), filed on Aug. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0307559 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. A47J 31/52 (2006.01); A47J 31/18 (2006.01); A47J 31/36 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC A47J 31/525 (2018.08) [A47J 31/18 (2013.01); A47J 31/36 (2013.01); G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30128 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system that produces a coffee beverage from a coffee bean, the system comprising an apparatus that performs an estimation process and a beverage making apparatus that produces the coffee beverage,
wherein the apparatus that performs an estimation process comprises:
obtaining means for obtaining photograph data of the coffee bean; and
estimation means for estimating a property of the coffee bean based on the photograph data obtained by the obtaining means; and
the beverage making apparatus comprises:
production means for producing the coffee beverage according to a type of coffee bean specified by a user in one or more types of coffee beans based on a result of the estimation by the estimation means.