Cooking appliance with a user interface
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsJoshua G. Abdoo, Ariana M. Bruno, Matthew P. Ebrom, Neomar Giacomini, Donald J. Gilmore
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Abstract
A cooking appliance having a cooking chamber, a user interface with a selector that allows a user to set a target degree of browning, an imaging device that captures an image of a food item inside the cooking chamber, a computing device in communication with the imaging device and has a software module that receives the captured image from the imaging device and computes a target image based on the captured image and the target degree of browning, and where the target image and the target degree of browning are displayed on the user interface.
Claims19
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a cooking chamber;
- a user interface comprising a selector configured to allow a user to set a target degree of browning;
- an imaging device for capturing a real-time image of a food item inside the cooking chamber;
- a computing device in communication with the imaging device and comprising a software module configured to receive the captured real-time image from the imaging device and compute a target image based on the captured real-time image and the target degree of browning, the target image indicating how the food item appears with the target degree of browning;
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- wherein the user interface displays the target image and the target degree of browning.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.