US 12,473,721 B2
Automatic faucet
Xiaojing Ye, Edison, NJ (US)
Assigned to AS America, Inc., Piscataway, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 17/912,168
Filed by AS America, Inc., Piscataway, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 22, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/023458
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 16, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/194958, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/993,248, filed on Mar. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0139701 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. E03C 1/05 (2006.01); E03C 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC E03C 1/057 (2013.01) [E03C 1/0404 (2013.01); E03C 2001/0415 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A faucet assembly comprising
a faucet body, a spout, and a spray head; and
a sensing system comprising one or more detectors selected from a group consisting of time-of-flight sensors, camera sensors, image sensors, and time-of-flight camera sensors, and a controller in electrical communication with the one or more detectors,
wherein
the one or more detectors are positioned on a spray head face,
the spray head face defines a water flow path, and
the sensing system is configured to recognize introduction of an item into the flow path, recognize removal of an item from the flow path, and recognize an identity of an item in the flow path, wherein the controller is configured to determine and store a three-dimensional image of the item and to identify the item based on comparison to stored three-dimensional image.