Patents by Inventor Bereket SHAREW

Bereket SHAREW has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • GENERATIVE FOOD DONENESS PREDICTION
    Publication number: 20240386075
    Abstract: Controlling a heating process is provided. An image of a raw food item is captured. Using a generative model, synthesized images of the cooked food are generated at different levels of doneness based on the raw image. A selection of one of the synthesized cooked images is received. The food item is cooked to the levels of doneness corresponding to the one of the synthesized cooked images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Mohammad HAGHIGHAT, Seth HERNDON, Padmanabha C. JAKKAHALLI, Mohammad LASKAR, Harshil SHAH, Saqib N. SHAMSI, Bereket SHAREW
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING FOOD TYPES USING A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK AND UPDATING IDENTIFICATION MODEL WITHOUT RETRAINING
    Publication number: 20240370740
    Abstract: A method (110) for operating a cooking appliance (10) includes receiving data (16) from an image sensor (14) operably associated with a food-receiving area (12) of the cooking appliance (10), the data (16) comprising an image (24) of a food product (F), determining whether the image (24) of the food product (F) corresponds with one of a plurality of known food product types accessible by the cooking appliance (10) based on an analysis of the image (24) of the food product using an identification model (31), and in response to the image (24) of the food product (F) not corresponding with any one of the plurality of known food product types, designating the image (24) of the food product (F) as a new food product type and causing the new food product type to be added to the plurality of known food product types accessible by the cooking appliance without retraining the identification model (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohammad Haghighat, Mohammad Nasir Uddin Laskar, Harshil Shah, Bereket Sharew
  • Generative food doneness prediction
    Patent number: 12050662
    Abstract: Controlling a heating process is provided. An image of a raw food item is captured. Using a generative model, synthesized images of the cooked food are generated at different levels of doneness based on the raw image. A selection of one of the synthesized cooked images is received. The food item is cooked to the levels of doneness corresponding to the one of the synthesized cooked images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohammad Haghighat, Seth Herndon, Padmanabha C. Jakkahalli, Mohammad Laskar, Harshil Shah, Saqib N. Shamsi, Bereket Sharew
  • GENERATIVE FOOD DONENESS PREDICTION
    Publication number: 20230075208
    Abstract: Controlling a heating process is provided. An image of a raw food item is captured. Using a generative model, synthesized images of the cooked food are generated at different levels of doneness based on the raw image. A selection of one of the synthesized cooked images is received. The food item is cooked to the levels of doneness corresponding to the one of the synthesized cooked images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Mohammad HAGHIGHAT, Seth HERNDON, Padmanabha C. JAKKAHALLI, Mohammad LASKAR, Harshil SHAH, Saqib N. SHAMSI, Bereket SHAREW