Beverage dispensing apparatus method and apparatus
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDaniel Pohl, Roman Schick, Fengqian Gao, Wenlong Yang
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Abstract
Apparatus, method and storage medium associated with a beverage dispensing apparatus are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a beverage dispensing apparatus may include a dispenser to dispense a beverage into a beverage container placed underneath the dispenser; one or more sensors to sense and collect depth data associated with the beverage container; and a controller coupled to the dispenser and the one or more sensors to control the dispenser's dispensation of the beverage, in accordance with a capacity of the beverage container inferred based at least in part on the collected depth data associated with the beverage container. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
Claims19
An apparatus for dispensing beverages, comprising:
- a dispenser, having a dispensing path, to dispense a beverage into a beverage container positioned in the dispensing path underneath the dispenser;
- one or more sensors to sense and collect, from a head end of the dispensing path, a plurality of geometry data associated with the positioned beverage container, including a plurality of depth measures of the positioned beverage container;
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- a controller coupled to the dispenser and the one or more sensors to control the one or more sensors in collecting, from the head end of the dispensing path, the plurality of geometry data associated with the positioned beverage container including the plurality of depth measures, to determine a capacity of the positioned beverage container based at least in part on the collected geometry data associated with the positioned beverage container including the plurality of depth measures, and to control the dispenser in dispensing the beverage into the positioned beverage container based at least in part on the determined capacity of the positioned beverage container.
A method for dispensing a beverage, comprising:
- sensing and collecting with one or more sensors, from a head end of a dispensing path of a dispenser arranged to dispense the beverage, geometry data associated with a beverage container positioned in the dispensing path, including a plurality of depth measures of the positioned beverage container;
- determining a capacity of the beverage container, based at least in part on the collected plurality of depth measures of the positioned beverage container;
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- controlling the dispenser in dispensing of the beverage into the beverage container in accordance with the determined capacity of the positioned beverage container.
At least one non-transitory computer readable media (CRM) comprising a plurality of instructions to cause a beverage dispensing apparatus, in response to execution of the instructions by the beverage dispensing apparatus, to:
- sense and collect with one or more sensors, from a head end of dispensing path of a beverage dispenser of the beverage dispensing apparatus, geometry data associated with a beverage container positioned in the dispensing path underneath the beverage dispenser, including a plurality of depth measures of the positioned beverage container;
- determine a capacity of the positioned beverage container, based at least in part on the collected depth measures of the positioned beverage container;
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- control the beverage dispenser in dispensing the beverage into the positioned beverage container in accordance with the determined capacity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.