US 12,185,862 B2
System and method for targeted heating element control
Nikhil Bhogal, San Francisco, CA (US); Nishit Kumar, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher Russell Clark, San Francisco, CA (US); Jithendra Paruchuri, San Francisco, CA (US); and Robert Cottrell, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to June Life LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by June Life, LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/403,472.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/065,787, filed on Aug. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0047109 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. A47J 27/00 (2006.01); A47J 37/06 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)
CPC A47J 27/004 (2013.01) [A47J 37/0623 (2013.01); G06T 7/0008 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30128 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
sampling a measurement depicting food within a cavity of an appliance;
classifying, based on the measurement, the food as being arranged within one of a predetermined set of cavity occupancy regions;
determining a food type for the food; and
controlling the appliance operation based on the classified one of the predetermined set of cavity occupancy regions and the food type by selectively operating, from among a set of individually controllable heating elements, one or more heating elements that are associated with the classified one of the predetermined set of cavity occupancy regions,
wherein each one of the set of individually controllable heating elements is configured to operate in a heating state in accordance with an independently adjustable output power range.