公开(公告)号：US20170041520A1

公开(公告)日：2017-02-09

申请号：US14934316

申请日：2015-11-06

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： VICTOR HENRIQUE SFOGGIA CARLOTTO ,  MICHAEL TODD MOORE ,  SUSHANTH PURANDHAR ,  RYAN MICHAEL POST ,  MICHAEL S. RICHARDS

IPC: H04N5/225 ,  H04N5/247 ,  G06F17/30 ,  H04N7/18

CPC classification number: H04N5/2256 ,  F25D29/00 ,  G06F17/3028 ,  H04N5/2252 ,  H04N5/247 ,  H04N7/18

Abstract: Example refrigerators having internal content cameras, and methods of operating the same are disclosed. A disclosed example refrigerator includes a cabinet, an internal compartment disposed within the cabinet, a closing member operatively coupled to the cabinet providing selective access to the internal compartment, two cameras disposed in the compartment and positioned to capture images of different portions of the compartment, two light sources disposed in the compartment, and a controller communicatively coupled with the cameras and light sources and configured to control the light sources to provide two different illuminations for respective ones of the two cameras.

Abstract translation: 公开了具有内部摄像机的示例性冰箱及其操作方法。 所公开的示例性冰箱包括机柜，设置在机柜内的内部隔间，可操作地联接到机柜的关闭构件，提供对内部隔间的选择性接近，设置在隔室中的两个照相机，其被定位成捕获隔室不同部分的图像， 设置在隔室中的两个光源，以及与相机和光源通信耦合并被配置为控制光源以为两个相机中的相机提供两个不同照明的控制器。