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Food processor

  • US 10,682,016 B2
  • Filed: 11/27/2013
  • Issued: 06/16/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An electrically operated food processor comprising:

  • (a) a mixing bowl;

    (b) a mixer in the mixing bowl;

    (c) a camera for recognizing a gesture comprising a movement of at least a portion of a body of a user of the food processor;

    said camera having a detection area, and that the detection area of the camera is not directed on the food processor but to an environment of the food processor at a distance of between 0.4 and 2 meters where the user may stand and gesture;

    (d) a processor comprising gesture recognition software; and

    (e) a memory comprising a gesture data bank for storing gestures;

    wherein only recognition of a first gesture stored in the gesture data bank activates the food processor and provides an operability via mechanical interfaces, via speech control and via second gestures stored in the gesture data bank, alone or in combination with each other, only after activation by recognition of the first gesture, wherein the food processor further comprises a heater for heating the mixing bowl and an electric motor for running the mixer, wherein the food processor is arranged to carry out the heating and the running of the mixer only when a speed of the mixer, a temperature of the mixing bowl, and a duration of at least one of the running of the mixer at the speed and the heating of the mixing bowl at the temperature is provided or is accepted by operation of the mechanical interfaces, speech control and second gestures.

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