US 12,126,889 B2
Photography system and toilet apparatus
Mitsuhiro Shimada, Kitakyushu (JP); Hinako Kurashima, Kitakyushu (JP); Daisuke Suzawa, Kitakyushu (JP); Katsumi Yamanaka, Kitakyushu (JP); and Tetsuya Fukunaga, Kitakyushu (JP)
Assigned to TOTO LTD., Kitakyushu (JP)
Filed by TOTO LTD., Kitakyushu (JP)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/160,543.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-012436 (JP), filed on Jan. 28, 2022; and application No. 2022-155148 (JP), filed on Sep. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0247278 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/61 (2023.01); A47K 13/24 (2006.01); H04N 23/62 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/61 (2023.01) [A47K 13/24 (2013.01); H04N 23/62 (2023.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A photography system comprising:
an authentication unit executing personal authentication of a user using a toilet bowl; and
a control unit controlling an image sensor to automatically photograph an inside of a bowl of the toilet bowl,
wherein the control unit conducts the automatic photographing of the inside of the bowl if the personal authentication is successful and does not conduct the automatic photographing of the inside of the bowl if the personal authentication fails.