Portable beverage container systems and methods for adjusting the composition of a beverage

1. A beverage apparatus, the beverage apparatus being hand-holdable by a user of the beverage apparatus so as to be portable, the beverage apparatus comprising:

a beverage chamber housing that includes a chamber, and the chamber storing a consumable liquid in the chamber;

a dispensing assembly that includes a first receptacle, and the first receptacle retaining a first vessel, and the first vessel containing a first additive,

the dispensing assembly operatively controllable to perform dispensing of the first additive from the first vessel into the consumable liquid in the chamber;

a first element that includes an accelerometer, the accelerometer outputting acceleration data regarding acceleration that the beverage apparatus experiences;

an apparatus computer processor (ACP);

an apparatus database portion that includes instructions that are performed by the ACP in operation of the beverage apparatus, and the ACP configured to control the dispensing assembly to perform the dispensing of the first additive from the first vessel into the consumable liquid in the chamber, and the ACP performing processing including:

inputting the acceleration data from the accelerometer;

determining volume data, regarding the consumable liquid in the chamber, based on the acceleration data; and

performing processing based on the volume data.

2. The beverage apparatus of claim 1 , the volume data includes: a liquid volume of the consumable liquid in the chamber.

3. The beverage apparatus of claim 1 , the performing processing based on the volume data includes: (a) the ACP determining an amount of the first additive to dispense based on the volume data, and (b) the ACP controlling the dispensing assembly to dispense said amount of the first additive.

4. The beverage apparatus of claim 3 , the apparatus database portion includes a dispense lookup table; and

the determining an amount of the first additive to dispense includes:

mapping the volume data into a first value in the dispense lookup table; and

identifying a second value that is associated with the first value in the dispense lookup table.

5. The beverage apparatus of claim 4 , the first value in the lookup table is a volume value, and the second value in the lookup table is an amount of dispense.

6. The beverage apparatus of claim 3 , the determining an amount of the first additive to dispense based on the volume data includes:

determining a volume value based on the volume data; and

applying a ratio to the volume value so as to determine the amount of the first additive to dispense.

7. The beverage apparatus of claim 1 , the determining volume data, regarding the consumable liquid in the chamber, based on the acceleration data includes:

determining acceleration vectors over time;

from the acceleration vectors, culling out an observed set of selected acceleration vectors (SAVs); and

determining observed attributes of the SAVs.

8. The beverage apparatus of claim 7 , the observed attributes, of the SAVs, include frequency data, such that such frequency data is obtained by the ACP from the accelerometer.

9. The beverage apparatus of claim 7 , the determining observed attributes of the SAVs including:

identifying an anchor acceleration vector, in the observed set, based on attributes of the SAVs; and

identifying follow-up acceleration vectors that occur in time subsequent to the anchor acceleration vector.

10. The beverage apparatus of claim 9 , the anchor acceleration vector including x-y-z components and having a magnitude;

the determining observed attributes of the SAVs further including:

normalizing the anchor acceleration vector by dividing each x-y-z component by the magnitude.

11. The beverage apparatus of claim 9 , the anchor acceleration vector including x-y-z components and having a magnitude in x-y-z space and direction in x-y-z space;

the determining observed attributes of the SAVs including:

determining an x-y-z adjustment factor to adjust the anchor acceleration vector to be parallel with a predetermined common axis.

12. The beverage apparatus of claim 11 , the predetermined common axis is a vertical axis.

13. The beverage apparatus of claim 7 , the determining observed attributes of the SAVs includes:

normalizing at least one SAV of the SAVs to (a) parse out or isolate a particular attribute of the at least one SAV and/or (b) for purposes of comparison of the at least one SAV.

14. The beverage apparatus of claim 7 , the culling constituting a first filtering process; and

the determining observed attributes constituting a second filtering process.

15. The beverage apparatus of claim 7 , the determining volume data includes inputting data, from the accelerometer, that indicates movement status of the beverage apparatus;

the determining volume data includes:

the ACP selecting, based on the movement status, one selected from the group consisting of a standing library, a walking library and a running library;

the one constituting a selected library; and

comparing the observed attributes only with known attributes of the selected library, thereby conserving processing resources of the ACP.

16. The beverage apparatus of claim 1 , the volume data includes a liquid level of the consumable liquid in the chamber.