A heating cooker includes shooting section (201) for shooting an image inside a heating chamber that accommodates a heat-target object, and controller (200) that sets a shooting condition for shooting the image of an interior of the heating chamber and carries out an image recognition to the image. Controller (200) analyzes the image of the interior of the heating chamber, thereby recognizing a state inside the heating chamber, and then changes the shooting condition in response to the state inside the heating chamber for shooting the image. The structure discussed above allows this heating cooker (100a), which carries out the image recognition to the image of the interior of the heating chamber, to achieve a greater accuracy in the image recognition.

Provided are a heating unit, an imaging unit that captures an image of an interior of a heating chamber, a setting unit that sets heating control details, and a storage that registers the captured image and the set heating control details in association with each other. Further provided area plural-article determination unit that determines whether a plurality of types of foods are present, a similarity determination unit that determines a degree of similarity of a plurality of images, a control detail identification unit that identifies heating control details corresponding to a food included in a captured image in accordance with a determination result obtained by the similarity determination unit, and a controller. The controller presents heating control details indicating each food on a display unit in accordance with a number of the foods. This configuration can provide a heating cooker capable of facilitating heating control setting.

A microwave cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber delimited by a cooking chamber wall, and a microwave apparatus configured to introduce microwaves into the cooking chamber. The microwave apparatus includes a patch antenna having a planar base body and a planar emission body, which are electrically insulated from one another. The emission body is configured to cover the base body at a distance and capable of being fed with microwave energy, with the base body corresponding to a region of the cooking chamber wall.

A heating cooking device includes a heater, a heating chamber, an imaging unit, a lighting unit, an image processor, and a lighting controller. The heating chamber accommodates an object to be heated. The imaging unit take images of the inside of the heating chamber. The lighting unit illuminates the inside of the heating chamber. The image processor analyzes an image to detect the brightness of the object to be heated in the image. The lighting controller controls the lighting unit in response to the brightness of the object to be heated. This aspect allows the heating cooking device to accurately determine a cooking state of the object to be heated on the basis of the image of the inside of the heating chamber taken to control the heater in response to the cooking state.

Systems and methods include a cooking appliance comprising a heating element disposed within a cooking chamber and operable to selectively emit waves at any of a plurality of powers and/or peak wavelengths, a camera operable to capture an image of the cooking chamber, and a computing device operable to supply power to the heating element to vary the power and/or peak wavelength of the emitted waves and generate heat within the cooking chamber, and instruct the camera to capture the image when the heating element is emitting at a stabilized power and/or peak wavelength. The computing device is operable to generate an adjusted captured image by adjusting the captured image with respect to the stabilized power and/or peak wavelength. The computing device comprises feedback components operable to receive the adjusted captured image, extract features, and analyze the one or more features to determine an event, property, measurement and/or status.

A seal arrangement for an illumination device of a cooking apparatus, the seal arrangement comprising: a support element including a receiving borehole that penetrates the support element from top to bottom so that a light conductor rod is insertable into the receiving borehole in an insertion direction; a dead hole having a dead hole diameter that is greater than a receiving bore hole diameter of the receiving borehole and arranged concentric with the receiving borehole in the support element wherein a dead hole opening of the dead hole coincides with an inlet opening of the receiving borehole that is arranged upstream in the insertion direction; a first support surface that is formed by a base of the dead hole and that envelopes the receiving borehole in an annular shape where the receiving borehole penetrates the base of the dead hole.

A cooking apparatus including an inner housing forming a cooking room; an outer housing, with a cooling space between the inner housing and the outer housing; a cooling fan in the cooling space at a lower rear side of the cooking room, and configured to suction air from outside of the cooking apparatus and to discharge the suctioned air forward; a first duct configured to guide a portion of the air discharged by the cooling fan upward to cool a first electronic component in the cooling space and to guide a remaining portion of the air discharged by the cooling fan forward to cool a second electronic component disposed in the cooling space; and a second duct configured to guide a portion of the air guided forward by the first duct into an interior of the cooking room.

An LED lamp includes: a heat sink; a light-emitting module positioned on the heat sink, the light-emitting module including an LED unit positioned on the heat sink, a reflection cup, and a first diffuser covering the reflection cup, the reflection cup encircling the LED unit and defining at least one first ventilation hole; a heat-conducting support positioned on the heat sink and encircling the reflection cup, the heat-conducting support defining at least one second ventilation hole; and a second diffuser secured to and clamped by the heat-conducting support.

A cooking appliance light that can be placed in a recess in the wall of a cooking appliance, in particular an oven, steam cooker, or microwave. The cooking appliance light comprises, a sleeve, with a flange on the first end with which it can be attached to a wall in the appliance, a central longitudinal axis, that passes through the cooking appliance light parallel to the wall of the sleeve, securing means between the flange and the second end of the sleeve, wherein the sleeve is mounted such that the wall is between the flange and the securing means, retaining means on the second end of the sleeve, a light source unit, which comprises at least one LED light source on a heat sink, held by the retaining means on the second end of the sleeve, a glass cap that covers the first end of the sleeve, wherein the glass cap has a light entry surface facing the light source, and a light emission surface facing the interior of the cooking appliance, wherein the light entry surface of the glass cap forms a lens that acts on the light emitted from the light source toward the glass cap and passing through the glass cap in the emission direction.

A cooking appliance light for a combination cooking appliance with a microwave cooking function, the cooking appliance light comprising: a mounting sleeve configured to fix the cooking appliance light in a recess of a cooking appliance wall; a LED illuminant arranged at the mounting sleeve wherein light from the LED illuminant is feedable through a cylindrical cavity of the mounting sleeve into a cooking cavity of the cooking appliance; a microwave trap configured as a grid shaped blocking element configured to prevent a passage of microwave radiation from the cooking cavity through the cylindrical cavity of the mounting sleeve into an ambient of the cooking appliance; and a translucent cover arranged at an axial end of the mounting sleeve and configured to prevent an entry of cooking vapors into the cylindrical cavity of the mounting sleeve.