STEREOVISION MONITORING SYSTEM FOR COOKING APPLIANCE

• Main Authors: Ehrenbeck, Blake William, Wiatrak, Bruce, Daly, Michael Benjamin, Herndon, Seth Douglas, Gvozdjan, Milica
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 22.12.2022
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CALCULATING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COFFEE MILLS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FURNITURE; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL

A cooking appliance includes a body defining a cooking cavity. A door is rotatably coupled to the body. An imager assembly is coupled to an interior surface of the door. The imager assembly includes an image sensor configured to obtain image data within a field of view, a first primary mirror positioned at a first angle proximate to the image sensor and within the field of view, and a second primary mirror positioned at a second angle proximate to the image sensor and within the field of view. A secondary mirror assembly includes multiple secondary mirrors coupled to the body within the cooking cavity. The secondary mirrors reflect image views within the cooking cavity to the first primary mirror and the second primary mirror which reflects the image views to the image sensor to be captured as the image data.