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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2022
Haier Us Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Michael Goodman Schroeder, Louisville, KY (US);
Stephanos Kyriacou, Louisville, KY (US);
Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, a freezer drawer, a camera module, and a controller. The freezer drawer may include a drawer body and a freezer door coupled to the drawer body to move therewith and provide selective access to a freezer chamber. The controller may be operably coupled to the camera module. The controller may be configured to initiate an operation routine. The operation routine may include initiating an image capture sequence at the camera module to capture one or more two-dimensional images, identifying a first stored item based on the one or more two-dimensional images of the image capture sequence, determining an internal location of the first stored item within the freezer drawer based on the one or more two-dimensional images of the image capture sequence, and recording a descriptor of the first stored item and the internal location of the first stored item.