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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsJose Martin Villar Duran, Chelsea Pereira, Gul Dikmen, Ivonne Labadie Lezama, Elizabeth Michelle Starke, Robert Joseph Leigh Phibbs, Brian Esley Tidball
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A power toothbrush (10) is disclosed comprising a motor (12) for driving a brush head (15) of the power toothbrush and a controller (20) responsive to an operating mode selection signal and arranged to control said motor. The controller comprises a timer (22) for timing a total duration of a tooth brushing session with said power toothbrush and is adapted to, in a feedback mode of operation, calculate an average total duration of a tooth brushing session based on stored prior tooth brushing session times; define a target value based on the calculated average total duration and cause the generation of a sensory output during a tooth brushing session upon its duration reaching the target value to encourage the user to carry on brushing. Also disclosed is a method of evaluating tooth brushing session data generated by such a power toothbrush, a computer program product for implementing such a method, an electronic device adapted to implement such a method and an oral hygiene kit.
A power toothbrush comprising:
A computer-implemented method of controlling an operating mode of a power toothbrush, wherein the power toothbrush provides tooth brushing session data including an indication of the total duration of a tooth brushing session, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon, that, when executed on a processor arrangement of an evaluation module, cause the processor arrangement to perform the steps of
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