公开(公告)号：US12156617B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US18160505

申请日：2023-01-27

Applicant: TOTO LTD.

Inventor： Mitsuhiro Shimada ,  Hinako Kurashima ,  Daisuke Suzawa ,  Katsumi Yamanaka

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.

公开(公告)号：US12126889B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US18160543

申请日：2023-01-27

Applicant: TOTO LTD.

Inventor： Mitsuhiro Shimada ,  Hinako Kurashima ,  Daisuke Suzawa ,  Katsumi Yamanaka ,  Tetsuya Fukunaga

IPC: H04N23/61 ,  A47K13/24 ,  H04N23/62

CPC classification number: H04N23/61 ,  A47K13/24 ,  H04N23/62

Abstract: A photography system includes: an authentication unit executing personal authentication of a user using a toilet bowl; and a control unit controlling an image sensor 44 to automatically photograph an inside of a bowl of the toilet bowl. The control unit 312 conducts the automatic photographing of the inside of the bowl if the personal authentication is successful and does not conduct the automatic photographing of the inside of the bowl if the personal authentication fails.