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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2019
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jonathan Livingston Joyce, Independence, KY (US);
Faiz Feisal Sherman, Mason, OH (US);
Xiaole Mao, Mason, OH (US);
Reiner Engelmohr, Egelsbach, DE;
Christian Peter Mandl, Bad Soden, DE;
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A system and method for operating a personal grooming/household appliance, including: providing a personal grooming appliance including at least one motion sensor taken from a group consisting of: an orientation sensor, an acceleration sensor, and an inertial sensor; providing a camera associated with the personal grooming appliance; classifying data received from the motion sensor and from the camera using at least one trained machine learning classifier to generate an augmented classification; and providing user feedback information based upon the augmented classification, wherein the augmented classification pertains to a combination of a first state pertaining to a position of the grooming appliance with respect to a user's body part and also pertains to a second state that is different than the first state.