US 11,752,650 B2
Apparatus and method for operating a personal grooming appliance or household cleaning appliance
Jonathan Livingston Joyce, Independence, KY (US); Faiz Feisal Sherman, Mason, OH (US); Xiaole Mao, Mason, OH (US); Reiner Engelmohr, Egelsbach (DE); Christian Peter Mandl, Bad Soden (DE); Moritz Poetzsch, Frankfurt am Main (DE); and Nasir Saeed Khan, Dietzenbach (DE)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/897,289.
Application 17/897,289 is a continuation of application No. 16/708,489, filed on Dec. 10, 2019, granted, now 11,468,561.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/783,929, filed on Dec. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0414879 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B26B 21/40 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); A46B 13/02 (2006.01); A46B 15/00 (2006.01); A47L 9/28 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G06N 5/04 (2023.01); G09B 19/00 (2006.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06F 18/2431 (2023.01); A61C 17/22 (2006.01); G06F 18/21 (2023.01)
CPC B26B 21/4087 (2013.01) [A46B 13/02 (2013.01); A46B 15/0004 (2013.01); A47L 9/2826 (2013.01); A61B 5/0077 (2013.01); A61B 5/0088 (2013.01); G05B 13/0265 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06F 18/2431 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 5/04 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0631 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G09B 19/0084 (2013.01); A47L 2201/04 (2013.01); A47L 2201/06 (2013.01); A61C 17/221 (2013.01); G06F 18/217 (2023.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30036 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a personal grooming appliance, comprising:
providing a personal grooming appliance including, at least one physical sensor taken from a group consisting of: an orientation sensor, an acceleration sensor, an inertial sensor, a global positioning sensor, a pressure sensor, a load sensor, audio sensor, humidity sensor, and a temperature sensor;
providing a camera associated with the personal grooming appliance;
deriving an augmented classification using one or more classifiers classifying the physical sensor data and the image data; and
modifying operation of a powered and electronically controlled grooming implement based upon the augmented classification.