Independent toilet seat assembly with image recognizers for automatic lifts

An automatic toilet seat, comprising:

• a seat assembly having a housing coupled to a toilet and including a cushion ring and a cover lid coupled to the housing and configured to extend over a bowl portion of the toilet, the seat assembly further including a controller disposed within the housing, a first power unit and a second power unit disposed within the housing and respectively electrically coupled to the controller, the first power unit being drivingly coupled to the cover lid for lifting and closing the cover lid with respect to the bowl portion of the toilet, and the second power unit being drivingly coupled to the cushion ring for lifting and closing the cushion ring with respect to the bowl portion of the toilet, the seat assembly further including an image recognizer disposed external to the housing and communicatively coupled to the controller,
• wherein the image recognizer is configured to detect a presence of an image of a human form in proximity to the toilet and transmit a first signal to the controller, the image recognizer is further configured to determine if the detected image of a human form includes a presence of a human facial image and (1) transmit a second signal to the controller responsive to detection of the presence of a human facial image corresponding to the image of a human form, or (2) withhold transmission of the second signal to the controller responsive to the image recognizer failing to detect the presence of a human facial image corresponding to the image of a human form, and further, the image recognizer is configured to transmit a third signal to the controller responsive to the image recognizer subsequently failing to detect the presence of the image of a human form previously detected, and
• wherein the controller drives the first power unit to displace the cover lid from a closed position overlaying the cushion ring to an open position thereof responsive to receipt of the first signal from the image recognizer, drives the second power unit to displace the cushion seat from a closed position thereof to an open position adjacent the cover lid responsive to receipt of the second signal from the image recognizer, and respectively drives corresponding ones of the first and second power units to respectively displace any of the cover lid and cushion seat from their respective open positions to their corresponding closed positions responsive to receipt of the third signal from the image recognizer.