US 12,144,478 B2
System comprising a dishwasher, method for operating a dishwasher, and computer program product
Michael Rupp, Holzheim (DE); Kai Paintner, Welden (DE); Kuldeep Narayan Singh, Dillingen a.d. Donau (DE); and Tobias Späth, Dillingen (DE)
Assigned to BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/021,221
Filed by BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/074752
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 14, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/058223, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 211 543.5 (DE), filed on Sep. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0292978 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. A47L 15/00 (2006.01); A47L 15/42 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 15/0021 (2013.01) [A47L 15/4295 (2013.01); A47L 15/006 (2013.01); A47L 2401/04 (2013.01); A47L 2501/26 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a dishwasher including a receptacle for items to be washed;
a control apparatus configured to execute a wash program based on a loading of the receptacle with items to be washed;
a camera configured to capture an image of at least one partial region of the receptacle based on a pull-out position of the receptacle, with the captured image being stored by the control apparatus based on the pull-out position in a memory location of a number of memory locations, which memory location is assigned to the pull-out position prior to the camera capturing the image of the at least one partial region, with each of the number of memory locations being assigned a set of pull-out positions; and
an image analyzer configured to determine the loading of the receptacle based on images that are stored in the memory locations.