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US 11,079,117 B2Granted
Connected food preparation system and method of use
AssigneeJune Life, Inc.
InventorsNikhil Bhogal, Matthew Van Horn, Seunghoon Park, Ravishankar Sivalingam, Christopher Russell Clark
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Abstract
A connected oven, including a set of in-cavity sensors and a processor configured to automatically identify foodstuff within the cooking cavity, based on the sensor measurements; and automatically operate the heating element based on the foodstuff identity.
Claims29
A connected oven, comprising:
- an oven body defining a cooking cavity, the oven body comprising an oven base and an oven top;
- an oven door mounted to the oven body, the oven door comprising a transparent window coextensive with at least part of the cooking cavity, the transparent window optically connecting an ambient environment with the cooking cavity;
- an optical sensor defining a field of view, the optical sensor mounted to the oven body with the field of view directed toward the cooking cavity;
- a heating element mounted to the oven body;
- a user interface unit comprising a touchscreen overlaying a display, the user interface unit defining a broad face, the user interface unit mounted to the oven door and arranged with a normal vector to the broad face intersecting the cooking cavity;
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- a processing system connected to the optical sensor, the heating element, and the user interface unit, the processing system configured to:
- determine a classification for foodstuff within the cooking cavity based on an image recorded by the optical sensor;
- and
- operate the heating element based on the classification.
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A connected oven, comprising:
- an oven body defining a cooking cavity;
- an oven door mounted to the oven body and comprising a window optically connecting an ambient environment with the cooking cavity;
- an optical sensor mounted to an upper region of the oven body and arranged with a field of view directed toward the cooking cavity;
- cooking elements, comprising:
- heating elements mounted to a top of the oven body;
- convection elements mounted to a back of the oven body;
- a touchscreen mounted to the window;
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- a processing system connected to the optical sensor, the cooking elements, and the touchscreen, the processing system configured to:
- classify food within the cooking cavity based on an image recorded by the optical sensor;
- and
- operate at least one of the cooking elements based on the classification.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.