Control of a portable food processing apparatus
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsWing Kee CHENG, Dennis LAI, Samuel Agustin CUARESMA, Jr.
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Abstract
A portable food processing apparatus describes a food processing chamber including a blade arrangement and a housing including a motor for driving said blade arrangement, a microcontroller for controlling said motor and at least one motion sensor communicatively coupled to said microcontroller. The microcontroller is adapted to evaluate sensor data produced by the at least one motion sensor in order to detect a predefined motion pattern in said sensor data, said predefined motion pattern corresponding to an operation setting of the motor; and control said motor in accordance with said operation setting upon detection of the predefined motion pattern.
Claims17
A portable food processing apparatus comprising:
- a food processing chamber including a blade arrangement;
- and
- a housing comprising:
- a motorfor driving said blade arrangement, a microcontroller for controlling said motor, and at least one motion sensor communicatively coupled to said microcontroller;
- wherein the microcontroller is adapted to:
- evaluate a sensor data produced by the at least one motion sensor in order to detect a predefined motion pattern in said sensor data and said predefined motion pattern corresponding to an operation setting of the motor;
- and
- control said motor in accordance with said operation setting upon detection of the predefined motion pattern.
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