APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PERSONAL GROOMING APPLIANCE OR HOUSEHOLD CLEANING APPLIANCE

• Main Authors: Poetzsch, Moritz, Engelmohr, Reiner, Sherman, Faiz Feisal, Mandl, Christian Peter, Khan, Nasir Saeed, Joyce, Jonathan Livingston, Mao, Xiaole
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.06.2020
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND,DEAF OR MUTE; BRUSHES; BRUSHWARE; CALCULATING; COFFEE MILLS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; DIAGRAMS; DISPLAY; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; FURNITURE; GLOBES; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; PLANETARIA; REGULATING; SEALS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

A system and method for operating a personal grooming/household appliance, including: providing a personal grooming/household appliance including at least one physical sensor taken from a group consisting of: an orientation sensor, an acceleration sensor, an inertial sensor, a global positioning sensor, a pressure sensor, and a load sensor, audio sensor, humidity sensor, and a temperature sensor; providing a camera associated with the personal grooming/household appliance; classifying data received from the physical sensor and from the camera using at least one trained machine learning classifier to generate an augmented classification; and providing user feedback information based upon the augmented classification or modifying operation of the grooming/household appliance based upon the augmented classification.