US 11,716,964 B2
Intelligent defecation device for living creature
James Cheng-Han Wu, Taipei (TW); Pei-Hsuan Shih, Taipei (TW); Chun-Ming Su, Taipei (TW); You-Gang Kuo, Taipei (TW); Ning-Yuan Lyu, Taipei (TW); Chi-Yeh Hsu, Taipei (TW); and Liang-Hao Huang, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to LULUPET CO., LTD., Taipei (TW)
Filed by LuluPet Co., Ltd., Taipei (TW)
Filed on Jun. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/899,557.
Claims priority of application No. 108120865 (TW), filed on Jun. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0007320 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. A01K 1/01 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC A01K 1/0107 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0077 (2013.01); A61B 5/48 (2013.01); A61B 5/746 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); A61B 2503/40 (2013.01); A61B 2560/02 (2013.01); A61B 2560/06 (2013.01); A61B 2562/02 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
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1. An intelligent defecation device for living creature, comprising:
a device body;
a supporting portion being provided within an inner side of said device body and accommodating a moisture absorption member in such a manner to allow an excrement of the living creature to be left on said moisture absorption member;
an image module, arranged at said device body for dynamically capturing one or more images of the excrement in said supporting portion and outputting an image information of the excrement;
a first analysis module arranged in said device body and connected with said image module, to analyze and calculate a defecation mode with the image based on preset or accumulated data, so as to generate a signal when an abnormal defecation mode is diagnosed, wherein said first analysis module comprises a convolution unit, a pooling unit and a fully connected unit, wherein said convolution unit sequentially matriculates a portion of the image information in order to extract one or more characteristics, edges, shapes, and/or colors of the excrement, wherein said pooling unit selects one or more maximum values of a calculation result of said convolution unit so as to counter noise, wherein said fully connected unit flattens the calculation result of said pooling unit; and
a weight module and a second analysis module, wherein said weight module is arranged in said device body for dynamically detecting and recording a load weight of said supporting portion, wherein said second analysis module is arranged in said device body and connected with said weight module so as to analyze and calculate the defecation mode with the load weight and a defecation time based on preset or accumulated data, wherein said first analysis module and said second analysis module operate interactively in order to generate the signal when the abnormal defecation mode is diagnosed.