DISHES AND DEVICES FOR EATING HABITS CORRECTION WHICH HAVE HATCH ACTUATED BY SHAPE RECOGNITION PROCESS

• Main Author: AHN, JAE SOON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 16.09.2014
• Subjects: COFFEE MILLS; DIAGNOSIS; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; FURNITURE; HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; SURGERY

Disclosed are an eating habit corrector that performs hatch opening and closing operations with a hatch (10) which covers an upper space of a dish or a dish plate and a rotating arm (21) which is connected to a rotating shaft part of the hatch, and a dish provided with same. According to the present invention, a fixed arm that is fixed to a table on which the dish is put or is attached and fixed to the dish plate is used so that an opening/closing operation unit (20) that drives the rotating arm (21) is fixedly arranged at a circumference of the dish. Accordingly, a closed state of the hatch can be sufficiently maintained while a user chewing food and the user′s eating duration can be lengthened. A hatch operation timing can be effectively adjusted by an image recognition device (31) that is attached to an inner surface of the hatch and a control unit that detects a decrement of the food contained in the dish or the dish plate by using same and controls the opening/closing operation unit (20). During the course, a difference between a hatch angle during dish closing and a hatch angle during dish opening is a very effective three-dimensional scanning tool with which a three-dimensional shape difference of the current food intake, that is, that being decreased, can be sufficiently detected. Multiple partial opening portions (11) are formed in the hatch so as to prevent a sudden collision between a spoon and chopsticks being used for eating and the hatch and facilitate the hatch opening/closing operation in a state where the spoon and chopsticks are put on an edge of the dish. The present invention can address disadvantages of the related art including impossibility of actual food decrement detection and the absence of additional restriction means for intake speed control.