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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2023
Foodfx Inc, San Jose, CA (US);
Fengmin Gong, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jun Du, Cupertino, CA (US);
Samir Virmani, San Jose, CA (US);
Foodfx Inc, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking consumption rate of food in food containers. An example method includes capturing an image of a food station using an RGB camera, determining bounding boxes on the image that correspond to food containers in the food station, capturing an overall point cloud of the food station using a depth camera, cropping a point cloud for each food container from the overall point cloud based on the bounding boxes. Then for each food container, a volume of remaining food in the food container is determined based on the point cloud of the food container, and the food consumption information of the food containers is obtained by tracking volume changes of the remaining food in food containers.