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US 11,297,874 B2Granted
Assisting apparatus for bean roasting and bean roasting apparatus
AssigneeJiyonson Co., Ltd.
InventorsYun-Long Tun, Chia-Yen Liu, Yi-Chi Lin
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Abstract
An assisting apparatus for bean roasting and a bean roasting apparatus are provided. The assisting apparatus captures a scene in a chamber of the bean roasting device through an image capturing device to generate an image, compares the image with a historical roasting pattern set based on a plurality of color attributes of a color space to determine a roasting level represented by the image, and controls the bean roasting procedure.
Claims15
An assisting apparatus for bean roasting, comprising:
- a storage, being configured to store a historical roasting pattern set, the historical roasting pattern set comprising a plurality of historical roasting patterns, wherein there is a one-to-one relationship between the plurality of historical roasting patterns and a plurality of coordinate points of a historical roasting curve of a bean roasting device, and;
- an image capturing device, being configured to capture a scene in a chamber of the bean roasting device to generate an image;
- a processor, electrically connected to the storage and the image capturing device, being configured to receive the image from the image capturing device, compare the image with the historical roasting pattern set based on a plurality of color attributes of a color space to determine a roasting level represented by the image, and generate a first control signal;
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- a transceiver, electrically connected to the processor, wherein the processor further transmits the control signal to the transceiver to make the transceiver transmits a second control signal to the bean roasting device to enable the bean roasting device to perform a roasting operation;
- wherein during the roasting operation, the bean roasting device is configured to control a heating control element and an airflow control element of the bean roasting device to change a real-time temperature in the chamber according to one of the coordinate points which corresponds to the image, the historical roasting curve, and a real-time roasting curve of the bean roasting device.
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A bean roasting apparatus, comprising:
- a chamber;
- a storage, being configured to store a historical roasting pattern set;
- an image capturing device, being configured to capture a scene in the chamber to generate an image;
- a processor, electrically connected to the storage and the image capturing device, being configured to receive the image from the image capturing device, compare the image with the historical roasting pattern set based on a plurality of color attributes of a color space to determine a roasting level represented by the image, and generate a control signal;
- a heating control element;
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- an airflow control element, wherein the storage further stores a historical roasting curve with a plurality of coordinate points, the historical roasting pattern set comprises a plurality of historical roasting patterns, there is an one-to-one relationship between the coordinate points and the historical roasting patterns, and the processor is further configured to control the heating control element and the airflow control element to change a real-time temperature in the chamber according to one of the coordinate points which corresponds to the image, the historical roasting curve, and a real-time roasting curve.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.