Bsh Home Appliances Corporation

Bsh Hausgerate Gmbh

Bsh Hausger&#xe4;te Gmbh

Bsh Haugeräte Gmbh

Luc Lam

Garrett Bentley

Stefan Wrehde

An appliance management system for facilitating the dispersal of parts of a chore among users may include an appliance configured to be controlled at least partially automatically according to a routine created by a primary user, who will be away from the appliance (e.g., out of the house) during at least part of the time the routine is being carried out. The routine includes at least one task to be performed by a secondary user, who is in the same general location as the appliance. The task comprises at least one action that cannot practically be performed remotely. Remote control of the appliance is assigned to the primary user in response to the task being completed. Accordingly, the secondary user performs a task that the remote primary user cannot practically perform, but has little or no input into other parts of the chore.

Appliance management system

A home cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking cavity and a door movable between a closed state and an open state for providing access to an opening of the cooking cavity. The door has a glass surface facing an interior of the cooking cavity when the door is in the closed state, and at least a portion of the door is configured to be retractable into a position adjacent to a wall of the cooking cavity upon moving the door into the open state. The appliance includes a surface cleaning mechanism on the housing and configured to remove debris from at least a portion of the glass surface during at least one of a retraction of the door into the position adjacent to the wall of the cooking cavity and an extraction of the door from the position adjacent to the wall of the cooking cavity.

Home cooking appliance having an integrated door glass surface cleaner for automatic removal of cooking debris

An oven may include an image processing system configured to take images of an interior of a cavity of the oven. Images of the interior of the oven cavity captured by the image processing system are input into a machine learning model trained to identify food items in the image. The oven uses the identity of the food item output by the machine learning model to determine a cooking program for the food item and cooks the food item according to the cooking program. The oven may use the image processing system to monitor the cooking process of the food item and update the cooking program during the cooking process based on the observed progress.

Oven having an imaging system for food preparation

A method for cleaning an oven may include automatically scheduling a cleaning event to occur during a period of user inactivity, by an electronic controller of an oven, based on an estimated cumulative soiling level and a predicted period of user inactivity. In this context, the cleaning event includes one or more automatic activities configured to clean an interior cavity of the oven. A user is notified of the scheduled cleaning event, by the electronic controller, and the cleaning event is executed automatically. Other smart home components (e.g., ventilation, windows, and/or doors) may be repositioned automatically to facilitate the event.

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Luc Lam