Refrigerator inventory device
View Patent ↗A food inventory device having a bar code scanner and camera to add and remove inventory items to and from the inventory. The scanner may be mounted on an inventory storage container to facilitate inventory control from one or more storage devices, including refrigerators, freezers, and pantries. The inventory system may display a table listing the inventory items along with variable details. Based on the food inventory list, the inventory system may suggest recipes, display the ingredients in stock for suggested recipes, and create a shopping list of the ingredients not in stock for a desired recipe. The device may have an ordering system allowing users to order items in the storage device that have been exhausted or otherwise need to be replenished through audio or touch input. The ordering system may be connected to third-party external sites and may be based on one or more user profile settings.
1. A food inventory system comprising:
one or more databases, the one or more databases stored in a memory, wherein at least one database is an inventory database, the inventory database comprising one or more inventory items;
one or more sensors to capture identifying information of the one or more inventory items, wherein the identifying information of the one or more inventory items is searched using an image recognition API stored in the memory to recognize the one or more inventory items whose identifying information has been captured by the one or more sensors;
one or more processors coupled to the one or more databases; and
a computing device coupled to the one or more processors and the one or more databases; wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
utilize a digital assistant module that converts audio input to text then analyzes the text to update the one or more inventory items in the inventory database in the storage container wherein the digital assistant module transmits a notification pertaining to acknowledgement of the audio input wherein the notification is presented on a display on a housing of the food inventory system;
automatically ordering inventory items wherein a percentage of a particular inventory item located in the storage container drops below a predetermined percentage; and
receiving a BMI in a user profile and altering or decreasing a rate of the automatically ordering of the particular inventory item of the one or more inventory items based upon the BMI.