OVEN COMPRISING A SCANNING SYSTEM

• US 20150285513A1
• Filed: 04/02/2015
• Published: 10/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Whirlpool EMEA Srl (Whirlpool Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Indesit Company SPA (Whirlpool Corporation)
• Inventors: Matarazzi, Filippo, Ratti, Carlo Filippo, Pedrazzo, Marco Maria
• Granted Patent: US 9,933,166 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/00 Details
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/08 Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/085 on baking ovens

Abstract

The present invention relates to an oven (101) comprising a heated cavity (102) for cooking a food (201), which comprises a three-dimensional scanning system (106) configured for acquiring information about the volume and/or shape of a food (201) positioned in the heated cavity (102).

Claims

1. An oven comprising a heated cavity for cooking a food, the heated cavity including a three-dimensional scanning system configured to acquire information about at least one of a volume and a shape of the food positioned in said heated cavity.

2. The oven according to claim 1, wherein said three-dimensional scanning system comprises at least one image sensor positioned in said heated cavity and configured to acquire images of said food, and said three-dimensional scanning system further comprises at least one light source positioned in said heated cavity and configured to illuminate said food.

3. The oven according to claim 2, further comprising two or more image sensors configured to acquire the images of said food from different viewpoints, and said three-dimensional scanning system further comprising two or more light sources configured to illuminate said food from different viewpoints.

4. The oven according to claim 2, wherein said at least one image sensor and said at least one light sources are configured for operating in an infrared range.

5. The oven according to claim 1, further comprising an associated processing means operationally connected to the three-dimensional scanning system and operationally connected to a memory storing reference three-dimensional scan information, and, wherein said associated processing means is configured to determine a typology of said food by comparing said information about at least one of the volume and the shape of said food with said reference three-dimensional scan information.

6. The oven according to claim 5, wherein said associated processing means is configured to request a user to confirm a specific typology of said food within a given list of food typologies determined by said associated processing means.

7. The oven according to claim 5, wherein said associated processing means are is further configured to provide information about nutritional values of said food.

8. The oven according to claim 1, further comprising:

supporting means positioned in said heated cavity and configured to support a shelf in said heated cavity, and

at least one weight sensor configured to detect a weight of the food positioned on said shelf.

9. The oven according to claim 8, wherein said associated processing means is further configured to store reference weight information, said associated processing means further operationally connected to said at least one weight sensor, wherein said associated processing means is configured to provide indications about the cooking of said food by comparing information about the weight of said food with said reference weight information.

10. The oven according to claim 9, wherein said associated processing means is further configured to provide the indications about the cooking of the food and nutritional values of the food based on said information about at least one of the volume of said food, the shape of said food, the weight of said food, and a typology of said food, through a comparison with third reference information stored in a memory.

11. The oven according to claim 1, further comprising transmission means configured to send information about said food to an external device.