Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toilet apparatus
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Application No.: US18160505Application Date: 2023-01-27
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Publication No.: US12156617B2Publication Date: 2024-12-03
- Inventor: Mitsuhiro Shimada , Hinako Kurashima , Daisuke Suzawa , Katsumi Yamanaka
- Applicant: TOTO LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Kitakyushu
- Assignee: TOTO LTD.
- Current Assignee: TOTO LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kitakyushu
- Agency: Maier & Maier, PLLC
- Priority: JP2022-012437 20220128
- Main IPC: A47K13/24
- IPC: A47K13/24

Abstract:
A toilet apparatus includes: a toilet seat disposed above a toilet bowl; an image sensor photographing an inside of a bowl of the toilet bowl; and a control unit controlling the image sensor to execute an automatic photographing mode of automatically photographing the inside of the bowl. When acquiring a user's photographing intention information indicating whether or not the user has an intention to photograph the inside of the bowl, the control unit switches between executing and stopping of the automatic photographing mode based on the acquired photographing intention information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230284845A1 TOILET APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2023-09-14
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