JP6370461B1 - Recipe information providing apparatus, recipe information providing method, and recipe information providing program - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides recipe information based on current and future price information of ingredients.
A recipe information providing apparatus 100 that provides recipe information including ingredients and amounts of ingredients used for cooking work to terminal devices T1, T2,... Operated by a user, and present and future of ingredients. Cost information generation unit 101 that generates cost information including current and future costs of ingredients included in recipe information that the user operates and specifies the terminal devices T1, T2,. A recipe information providing apparatus 100 including a control unit 102 that controls provision of recipe information to a user who operates the terminal devices T1, T2,... Based on cost information generated by the generation unit 101 is provided.
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Description

  The present disclosure relates to a recipe information providing apparatus, a recipe information providing method, and a recipe information providing program for providing cooking recipe information.

  A system that provides cooking recipe information (hereinafter simply referred to as “recipe information”) to a user is known (for example, see Patent Document 1). In the system disclosed in Patent Document 1, recipe information is provided to a mobile terminal of a user who has visited a store based on special sales information such as time sales at the store.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2005-250616

  However, in Patent Document 1, since the user is provided with recipe information based on the price of ingredients in the store at the time of visiting the store, recipe information not related to the user's interest in the recipe information is provided. There are many cases. In addition, even if the price of ingredients can be purchased at a low price due to time sales etc. that are performed at the time of visit, the price of the ingredients may fall in the future, so the time of visit is a suitable time for purchasing ingredients It is also difficult to know whether or not.

  Therefore, in the present disclosure, a technique for providing recipe information based on current and future price information of ingredients included in recipe information designated by the user is disclosed.

A recipe information providing apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a recipe information providing apparatus that provides recipe information including ingredients and amounts of ingredients used for cooking work to a terminal device operated by a user, wherein the user the cost information including the current ingredients contained in the recipe information specified by operating the device and future costs, and cost information generating unit that generates based on the current and future price information ingredients, currently included in the cost information and a condition holding unit for holding a condition of future costs, the timing of future condition held in the condition holding unit holds, and a prediction unit that predicts, based on the cost information, the prediction to the user operating the terminal device It presents the the future time that is a control section for controlling the provision of recipe information, Ru comprising a.

A recipe information providing method according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a recipe information providing method in which a recipe information providing apparatus provides recipe information including the amount of ingredients and ingredients used for cooking work to a terminal device operated by a user. Te, now the user the cost information including the current and future costs of ingredients contained in the recipe information specified by operating the terminal device, generated based on the current and future price information ingredients, included in the cost information And the conditions related to future expenses, the future time when the held conditions are established is predicted based on the cost information, the predicted future time is presented to the user who operates the terminal device, and the recipe that controls the provision of information.

A recipe information providing program according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a recipe information providing program for providing a terminal device operated by a user with recipe information including ingredients used for cooking and the amount of ingredients. current and user cost information including the current and future costs of ingredients contained in the recipe information specified by operating the terminal apparatus, is generated based on the current and future price information ingredients, included in the cost information Recipe information that holds conditions related to future costs, predicts future times when the held conditions are satisfied, based on cost information, and presents predicted future times to the user who operates the terminal device. of Ru to control the provision.

  According to the present disclosure, recipe information can be provided based on current and future price information of ingredients included in recipe information designated by the user.

It is a functional block diagram of a system including a recipe information providing device concerning one embodiment of this indication. It is a figure which shows an example of the price information which the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication uses. It is a figure which shows an example of the recipe information which can be designated with respect to the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication. It is a flowchart of a process of the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication. It is a sequence diagram of communication processing with the recipe information providing device concerning one embodiment of this indication, and the terminal unit which a user operates. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen display of the terminal which communicates with the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication. It is a functional block diagram of a system including a recipe information providing device concerning one embodiment of this indication. It is a functional block diagram of a system including a recipe information providing device concerning one embodiment of this indication. It is a figure which shows an example of the information stored in the recipe storage part of the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen display of the terminal device which communicates with the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication. It is a functional block diagram of a system including a recipe information providing device concerning one embodiment of this indication. It is a figure which shows an example of the information stored in the area information storage part of the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication. It is a functional block diagram of a system including a recipe information providing device concerning one embodiment of this indication. It is an example figure of the information hold | maintained at the condition holding | maintenance part of the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen display of the terminal device which communicates with the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication. It is a flowchart of a process of the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication. It is a functional block diagram of a recipe information providing device concerning one embodiment of this indication. It is a figure which shows an example of the information which the estimation part of the recipe information provision apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this indication uses.

  An embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that the embodiments described below do not unduly limit the content of the present disclosure described in the claims. In addition, all the components shown in the embodiments are not necessarily essential components of the present disclosure.

  FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a system 10 including a recipe information providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The system 10 includes a recipe information providing device 100, a network NW, and terminal devices T1, T2,..., And the recipe information providing device 100 and the terminal devices T1, T2,. Connected via NW. The terminal devices T1, T2,... May be collectively referred to as the terminal device T.

  The terminal device T is a terminal device operated by a user. As an example of the terminal device T, communicable devices such as a personal computer, a smartphone, and a personal digital assistant can be listed. The recipe information providing device 100 provides the recipe information to the terminal device T. Recipe information is information representing a procedure for cooking food and drink. The recipe information is information including the ingredients used for the cooking operation and the amount of the ingredients. Note that the recipe information may be not only static content including images and text, but also moving image content in which cooking procedures, ingredients, and the like are captured.

  The recipe information providing apparatus 100 includes a cost information generation unit 101 and a control unit 102. Functions and configurations of the cost information generation unit 101 and the control unit 102 are as follows.

  The expense information generation unit 101 generates expense information based on the price information. Price information is information about the price of food ingredients at present and in the future. More specifically, the price information includes information on the ingredients and the current price and future price per unit of ingredients. One unit of food is, for example, a unit of purchase when a general consumer purchases food from a greengrocer, a supermarket, a department store, or a mail order company. One unit of food is, for example, separable things such as vegetables are mainly represented as “individuals”, and foods that are difficult to recognize as “individuals” such as meat have a predetermined weight (for example, 100 g). expressed.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of price information. Price information as an example is a combination of “food” 201, “unit” 202, and “price” 203. “Food” 201 indicates the name of the food (such as “daikon radish”, “shii”, “angus beef”). “Unit” 202 represents one unit of food. “Price” 203 is information on current and future prices. In FIG. 2, the information included in the “price” 203 includes the price value of the current unit of food, and includes price fluctuation information after 7 days, 14 days, and 21 days. The fluctuation information represents a price fluctuation currently predicted, and is represented by “± 0”, “+”, “−”. “± 0” indicates that there is no change from the current price, “+” indicates that the current price is expected to increase, and “-” indicates that the current price is expected to decrease. If the price is expected to rise and fall, it may further include an increase rate and a decrease rate. In addition, a predicted value of a specific future price may be used instead of the price that is expected to rise or fall in the future.

  Referring to FIG. 2, for example, "daikon" is purchased in units of "one", the current price is "200 yen", and it is expected that it will not change from the current price after 7 days, and after 14 days The price information in FIG. 2 indicates that the price is expected to rise from the current price and that the price is expected to fall from the current price after 21 days. Therefore, it can be known that “daikon” can be purchased cheaply after 21 days and the price will increase after 14 days.

  The cost information generation unit 101 reads and acquires price information stored in a storage medium such as a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory, acquires it from a distributor such as a greengrocer, a supermarket, a department store, a mail order company, Price information is acquired via a communication line from administrative organizations such as bureaus, producer organizations such as JA, or the fruit and vegetable market. Further, when acquiring price information via a communication line, scraping is performed on a web server provided by a distributor, an administrative organization, a producer group, a vegetable market, etc., and the cost information generation unit 101 May be obtained. Further, in order to know the price trend of the imported food, the cost information generation unit 101 may also acquire information on the current exchange rate and the future trend of the exchange rate.

  The format of the price information may be a text format or may be structured by XML (extensible Mark-up Language) or the like. Even if the format of the price information is a text format, the contents described can be converted into a structured format by executing a program or the like to analyze and convert the content.

  In FIG. 2, only one unit or price for one ingredient is shown. However, depending on the quality of the ingredient, the place where the ingredient is purchased, and in which region Units or multiple prices may be included in the price information. Moreover, the information which cannot purchase a foodstuff in a certain area | region may be included. If the food cannot be purchased, for example, the price value may be set to “∞”.

  Next, the cost information generated by the cost information generation unit 101 includes current and future costs included in the recipe information specified by the user operating the terminal device T. When the expense information generation unit 101 generates expense information, it is generated based on the price information described above.

As a specific example of the generation of the cost information, the cost information generation unit 101 extracts the ingredients and the amount of ingredients included in the recipe information, searches the price information by the name of the ingredients for each ingredient, and purchase unit and current The current cost for each ingredient is calculated by obtaining the price and prospect of the future price, and multiplying the current price by the value obtained by dividing the quantity of ingredients by the purchase unit, and for all ingredients included in the recipe information. Processing for calculating the sum is performed. If the recipe information is a static content consisting of an image and text, information about the ingredients is extracted from the text and the cost is calculated. Further, when the recipe information is moving image content, the cost may be calculated by extracting information related to the ingredients by video analysis. Also, in order to obtain an index of the future price outlook of the sum of the cost of ingredients, for example, an integer 0 is assigned to “± 0” included in the fluctuation information, an integer 1 is assigned to “+”, and an integer is assigned to “-”. -1 is assigned and weighted, and the current cost of ingredients is multiplied to find the sum. For example, the current price of one radish is 200 yen, the outlook after 7 days is “± 0”, after 14 days it is “+”, after 21 days it is “-”, and the current price of a new potato 100g is 150 It is a circle, the outlook after 7 days is “+”, after 14 days is “−”, after 21 days is “± 0”, and in certain recipe information, radish is half cut, and 300 g of fresh rice cake is the amount of ingredients and the amount of ingredients The current cost of the daikon ingredient is
(0.5 / 1) * 200 = 100 yen, and the current cost of ingredients like Shimo
(300/100) * 150 = 450 yen, the sum of the current cost of ingredients is
It is calculated by 100 + 450 = 550 yen. The outlook indicator after 7 days is
0 * 100 + 1 * 450 = 450
The indicator of the outlook after 14 days is
1 * 100 + (-1) * 450 = -350
The indicator of the outlook after 21 days is
(-1) * 100 + 0 * 450 = 350
It becomes. Therefore, since the index after 7 days is a positive value, the index after 14 days is a negative value, and the index after 21 days is a positive value, the cost of food is high after 7 days and after 14 days. It is expected to fall and become higher after 21 days. Therefore, it is expected that the cost of the current food or the cost of the food after 14 days will be less than the cost after 7 and 21 days.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of recipe information that can be specified by the user operating the terminal device T. The recipe information shown in FIG. 3 is identified by the values stored in the “recipe ID” column 301, “recipe name” column 302, “food” column 303, “procedure number” column 304, and “description”. Column 305 and “image” column 306. The “recipe name” column 302 stores names of foods and drinks cooked according to the recipe information. The “food” column 303 stores the name of the food used for cooking and the amount of the food. The column of “procedure number” 304 stores the number of the procedure for cooking according to the recipe information. The “Description” column 305 stores descriptions of cooking operations in each procedure. The “image” column 306 stores identification information of an image to be displayed together with “description”. In the present disclosure, it is mainly assumed that the recipe information is structured as shown in FIG. 3 and stored in the recipe database 701. However, the recipe information does not need to be structured. May be described in a natural language. In this case, the syntax information and semantic analysis of the recipe information described in the natural language may be performed to obtain information on the ingredients and the explanation of the procedure. In addition, when the recipe information is moving image content, a configuration may be used in which information about ingredients and thumbnail images for each procedure are extracted by video analysis.

  For example, the “recipe name” of the recipe information identified as “recipe ID” “1” is “tofu meat roll”, and the “food ingredients” are “1 tofu tofu”, “2 cheeses”, “ Contains 100g pork and 3g sugar. In addition, tofu is cooked as procedure 1 of “procedure”, and cheese is cooked in procedure 2. In addition, the image identified by “P035” is displayed together with the description of the procedure 1, and the image is not displayed in the description of the procedure 2. (“NULL” represents a null value. Indicates that there is no image to display with the description.)

  In order to designate recipe information by the user operating the terminal device T, for example, recipe information shown in FIG. 3 is stored in the terminal device T or the recipe information providing device 100. When the recipe information is stored in the terminal device T, the terminal device T transmits a value stored in at least the “foodstuff” column 303 of the recipe information designated by the user. At this time, since the seasoning is usually already purchased by the user, it is not necessary to transmit the seasoning. Moreover, you may make it not transmit ingredients other than the seasoning which the user has already purchased. When recipe information is stored in the recipe information providing apparatus 100, the user operates the terminal device T to search for recipe information, and transmits the searched result for display on the terminal device T. When all or part of the recipe information is specified, the recipe information is specified, or the recipe ID shown along with the description of the food and drink and the photo on the medium such as a magazine or a book is received from the terminal device T. Recipe information is designated by transmitting to the information providing apparatus 100.

  The control unit 102 controls the provision of recipe information to the terminal device T based on the cost information generated by the cost information generation unit 101. For example, when providing the recipe information, the control unit 102 performs control so that the current cost of the food cooked according to the recipe information is added to the recipe information and displayed on the screen of the terminal device T. Or, when providing the recipe information, if the index after 7 days of the cost of ingredients cooked according to the recipe information is a negative value, the recipe information is added that "the ingredients will be cheaper after one week" Control to be displayed on the screen of the terminal device T. In addition, for recipe information that uses ingredients not included in the price information (as described above, it is possible to detect that the ingredients cannot be obtained by setting the price of the ingredients that cannot be obtained to infinity ("∞"). ), The control unit 102 can also be controlled so as not to be displayed on the screen of the terminal device T.

  The mode of control by the control unit 102 is, for example, that the user operates the terminal device T in advance and stores in the control unit 102 or the like information associated with an instruction on what kind of control is to be performed in the cost information. It can also be specified by the user.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart of processing performed by the recipe information providing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. The processing of each step in the flowchart is as follows.

  As a process of step S401, the recipe information providing apparatus 100 acquires price information. As described above, price information is read through, for example, a USB memory or an Internet line.

  As a process of step S <b> 402, the expense information generation unit 101 receives a designation of recipe information from the terminal device T by the user.

  As the process of step S403, the expense information generation unit 101 generates expense information for the recipe information for which the designation has been received.

  As processing of Step S404, control part 102 controls presentation of recipe information based on expense information generated in Step S403.

  The above processing can be executed by a computer including a CPU and a storage device. Therefore, the recipe information providing apparatus 100 is realized by causing the computer to execute a program for performing the above processing using the computer. Is possible.

  FIG. 5 shows a sequence diagram of communication between each of the terminal devices T1, T2,... And the recipe information providing device 100.

  As the process of step S501, the recipe information providing apparatus 100 acquires price information. Step S501 is a step corresponding to step S401.

  As the processing of step S502, the terminal device T specifies recipe information to the recipe information providing device 100. Step S502 is a step corresponding to step S402.

  As processing in step S503, the recipe information providing apparatus 100 transmits recipe information controlled for provision to a user who operates the terminal device T. Step S503 is a step corresponding to step S405 executed after step S403 is performed.

  FIG. 6 shows an example of the screen display of the terminal device T. It is an example of the screen display 600 displayed when the terminal device T is connected to the recipe information providing apparatus 100. The user can log in to the recipe information providing apparatus 100 by inputting a user ID and a password in the input areas 601 and 602, respectively.

  When the login is successful, the terminal device T displays, for example, the screen display 600 of FIG. 6B. When the user presses the button 603, the recipe information is searched, or when the user presses the button 604, popular recipe information is displayed. Can be browsed. Further, when the user presses the button 605, the bookmarked recipe information can be viewed.

  In FIG. 6C, when the recipe information is searched by pressing the button 603 and the search result is displayed, the popular recipe information is displayed by pressing the button 604, or the button 605 is pressed. An example of the screen display 600 when the bookmarked recipe information is displayed is shown. In the area 606 of FIG. 6C, the names of foods and drinks cooked according to the recipe information are displayed side by side, and in the area 607, the current food cost status based on the cost information is displayed side by side. In the area 608, buttons for displaying recipe information are displayed side by side, and in the area 609, information on whether or not the recipe information is bookmarked is displayed side by side. With such a screen display 600, the user can know the status of the cost of the ingredients for food and drink cooked according to the recipe information, and can display details of the recipe information that is of interest. Further, since information on whether or not the bookmark has been made is displayed, it is possible to understand whether or not the recipe information is of interest to the user.

(First modification)
FIG. 7 shows a first modification of the recipe information providing apparatus 100 according to the embodiment. The recipe information providing apparatus 100 includes a cost information generation unit 101, a control unit 102, and a recipe database 701.

  The recipe database 701 is a database that stores recipe information. Therefore, the first modified example shows a specific example in which the recipe information illustrated in FIG. 3 is stored in the recipe information providing apparatus 100. Since the recipe database 701 is stored in the recipe information providing apparatus 100, it is not necessary to store recipe information in each terminal device T. Further, the same recipe information can be provided to each terminal device T.

(Second modification)
FIG. 8 shows a second modification of the recipe information providing apparatus 100 according to the embodiment. The recipe information providing apparatus 100 includes a cost information generation unit 101, a control unit 102, and a recipe storage unit 801.

  The recipe storage unit 801 stores recipe information bookmarked by the user for each user. For example, the recipe storage unit 801 stores recipe information bookmarked by the user in a table structure as shown in FIG. A column 901 stores a user ID, a column 902 stores a bookmarked recipe ID, and a user having the user ID is identified by the user ID and the recipe ID stored in the same row. This indicates that the recipe ID has been bookmarked. Therefore, the second modified example is a specific example of a configuration that displays whether or not recipe information is bookmarked, as in the screen display 600 of FIG. 6C, for example.

  FIG. 10 shows a state where the details of the recipe information are displayed by pressing the display button in the screen display 600 shown in FIG. 6C, for example. FIG. 10 shows a state in which recipe information having “1” as “recipe ID” is shown in the recipe information shown in FIG. 3. Therefore, the area 1001 in FIG. 10 displays “tofu meat roll” as the recipe name, the area 1002 displays “Tofu 1-chome” as the material, and the areas 1003 and 1005 include the procedure 1. And the explanation of the procedure 2 is displayed, and an image identified by “P035” is displayed in the area 1004. In addition, a button for bookmarking is displayed as a button 1006. When this button 1006 is pressed, the recipe information having “1” as the “recipe ID” is bookmarked, and if there is no combination of the same user ID and recipe ID in the table shown in FIG. When combinations of the same user ID and recipe ID are stored in the table shown in FIG. 9, the same user ID and recipe ID may be added in duplicate.

  By providing the recipe storage unit 801 in the recipe information providing device 100, it is possible to inform the user of the terminal device T whether the recipe information is bookmarked. When the user bookmarks the recipe information, it can be said that the user is interested in the recipe information. Therefore, when displaying a list of recipe information, the user can easily determine whether the recipe information is interesting. Can be judged. In addition, the recipe storage unit 801 stores the current cost of the ingredients included in the recipe information when the recipe information is bookmarked, for example, when the button 605 in FIG. 6B is pressed. Compare the cost of the ingredients included in the recipe information when the recipe information is bookmarked and the cost of the current ingredients. May be.

(Third Modification)
FIG. 11 shows a third modification of the recipe information providing apparatus 100 according to the embodiment. The recipe information providing apparatus 100 includes a cost information generation unit 101, a control unit 102, and an area information storage unit 1101.

  The area information storage unit 1101 stores area information indicating in which area the user resides for each user. FIG. 12 shows an example of a table for storing area information. The column 1201 stores user IDs, the column 1202 stores area names, and the user ID and area stored in the same row. Indicates that the user having the user ID lives in the area of the name. For example, a user having the user ID of user 1 lives in Kanto.

  When the recipe information providing apparatus 100 includes the area information storage unit 1101, when the price information includes the price of the food that can be purchased for each area, the user can, for example, Instead of cost information, information on material costs in the area where you live can be obtained.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, the recipe information providing apparatus 100 includes the expense information generation unit 101 and the control unit 102, thereby providing recipe information according to the ingredient cost and the user's recipe. The effects such as being able to assist the selection of can be obtained.

(Embodiment 2)
FIG. 13 is a functional block diagram of the system 10 including the recipe information providing apparatus 100 according to the second embodiment. The recipe information providing apparatus 100 includes a cost information generation unit 101, a control unit 102, and a condition holding unit 1301. Therefore, the recipe information providing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment has a configuration in which the recipe information providing apparatus according to the first embodiment described above further includes a condition holding unit 1301.

  The condition holding unit 1301 holds a condition relating to at least one of current and future expenses included in the expense information of the recipe information. Further, in the present embodiment, the control unit 102 provides the recipe information to the terminal device T when the cost information generated by the cost information generation unit 101 satisfies the condition held in the condition holding unit 1301.

  Therefore, by holding the condition in the condition holding unit 1301, recipe information that satisfies the condition among the expense information of the recipe information is provided to the terminal device T.

  Examples of the condition held by the condition holding unit 1301 include a condition indicating that the price of food after 7 days, 14 days, and 21 days is not expected to drop, and the current food cost is the lowest price. . Moreover, the conditions showing that food expense is below a predetermined value (for example, 200 yen or less) can be illustrated.

  The conditions held by the condition holding unit 1301 can be individually set for each user. For example, if the user is interested in the recipe information where the current food cost is the lowest price, the user ID is assigned to the user ID. A condition indicating that the current food cost is the lowest price may be associated and held. Alternatively, if the user is interested in recipe information for ingredients costs less than a predetermined value, the user ID is associated with a condition indicating that the ingredients costs are less than a predetermined value (for example, 200 yen or less). You may do it. Thereby, when a foodstuff expense satisfy | fills conditions, a user can be notified. For example, the notification may be made when the user logs in to the recipe information providing apparatus 100 using the terminal device T, or the notification may be made toward the user's e-mail address or SNS (Social Network System) account. .

  FIG. 14A is a diagram illustrating an example of a table for the condition holding unit 1301 to hold the user ID in association with the condition. The column 1401 stores the user ID, the column 1402 stores the condition, and the user ID and the condition are stored in the same row, thereby associating the user ID with the condition. For example, in FIG. 14A, the user 1 is associated with a condition that the food cost is the lowest value.

  The condition holding unit 1301 can also hold conditions for each piece of recipe information that the user is interested in. FIG. 14B is a diagram illustrating an example of a table for the condition holding unit 1301 to hold the user ID in association with the recipe ID and the condition. A column 1403 stores a user ID, a column 1404 stores a recipe ID, a column 1405 stores a condition, and the user ID, the recipe ID, and the condition are stored in the same row. When the user of the user ID satisfies the condition, the ingredient cost of the recipe information of the recipe ID can notify the user that the ingredient cost of the specific recipe information satisfies the condition. When the conditions are satisfied, notification may be made when the user logs in to the recipe information providing apparatus 100 using the terminal device T as described above, or for the user's e-mail address or SNS user account. May be notified.

  FIG. 15 shows an example of a screen display on which the user uses the terminal device T to set the condition holding unit 1301 to hold the condition.

  FIG. 15A shows a screen display 1500 immediately after the user logs in to the recipe information providing apparatus 100 using the terminal apparatus T. In the screen display 1500, a recipe search button 1501, a popular recipe button 1502, and a recipe condition setting button 1503 are displayed.

  When the user presses the recipe condition setting button 1503, a screen display 1500 shown in FIG. 15B is performed. When the user brings a cursor 1504 such as a mouse close to the area 1505, for example, “lowest price”, “low price update”, and “price setting” options 1506 are displayed. The “lowest price” is a condition indicating that the current food cost is the lowest, and the food cost will continue to increase after 7 days, 14 days, and 21 days. “Low price update” is a condition indicating that the food cost is expected not to increase.

  When “price setting” is selected, the screen shown in FIG. 15C is displayed, and the upper limit of the recipe material cost can be input in the area 1507.

  Using the screen display illustrated in FIGS. 15A to 15C, for example, the user can store desired conditions in a table as illustrated in FIG. Further, by further specifying the recipe ID, the condition can be stored in the table as shown in FIG.

  FIG. 16 shows a flowchart of processing of the recipe information providing apparatus 100 according to this embodiment. The processing of each step is as follows.

  As a process of step S1601, the recipe information providing apparatus 100 acquires price information. As described in the first embodiment, price information is read via, for example, a USB memory or an Internet line.

  As a process of step S1602, the recipe information providing apparatus 100 accepts designation of a condition related to the food cost from the user. For example, specification of conditions set by the user is received using the screen display shown in FIG.

  As the processing in step S1603, the expense information generation unit 101 receives the designation of recipe information from the terminal device T by the user. For example, in response to a recipe search request from the user, recipe information is searched and a search result is obtained. Alternatively, when the condition holding unit 1301 holds the conditions in the table shown in FIG. 14B, the recipe ID and the condition stored in association with the user ID of the user are acquired.

  Steps S1604 to S1608 represent a loop executed for each recipe information received as the process of step S1603. For example, when a search result is obtained in response to a recipe search request from the user in step S1603, the control unit 102 performs the processing from step S1605 to step S1607 for each piece of recipe information included in the search result.

  As the processing in step S1605, the expense information generation unit 101 generates expense information for the recipe information.

  As processing in step S1606, the control unit 102 determines whether the cost information generated in step S1605 satisfies a condition. If the condition is satisfied, the process proceeds to step S1607. If the condition is not satisfied, step S1607 is skipped.

  As processing of Step S1607, control part 102 presents recipe information.

(First modification)
FIG. 17 shows a first modification of the recipe information providing apparatus 100 according to this embodiment. The condition holding unit 1301 of the recipe information providing apparatus 100 has a prediction unit 1701.

  The predicting unit 1701 predicts the time when the condition held by the condition holding unit 1301 is satisfied based on the cost information. For example, as described in the first embodiment, when the current cost of food, the forecast index after 7 days, the forecast index after 14 days, and the forecast index after 21 days are calculated, these costs and indices are calculated. Accordingly, the prediction unit 1701 predicts when the condition is satisfied. Therefore, even when the condition held in the condition holding unit 1301 is not satisfied, it is possible to present to the user when the condition is satisfied.

  In addition, since the cost of foodstuffs, especially for vegetables and fresh fish, is shipped more in the so-called seasonal time than in other times, in addition to the cost information generated based on the price information, the prediction unit 1701 It may be predicted whether or not the condition is satisfied depending on whether or not it corresponds to the seasonal time.

  In the case of Japan, for example, the seasonal time can be expressed by using twenty-four seasons and seventy-two seasons. As shown in FIG. 18A, the names of ingredients are stored in a column 1801, and a column 1802 is stored. Can be managed using a table that stores seasonal names. For example, bamboo shoots show that Kiyoaki is in season. Further, as shown in FIG. 18B, the season time can be managed using a table in which the season name is stored in the column 1803 and the seasonal period information is stored in the column 1804. For example, Kiyoaki is shown to be in the period from April 1 to April 7.

  Therefore, the prediction unit 1701 can predict the establishment of the condition depending on whether the current time is the season of the food, or how many days later the season comes in addition to the cost information of the food.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, the condition holding unit 1301 stores the condition relating to the cost information, so that the recipe information providing apparatus 100 responds to the establishment of the condition related to the expense information and the time when the condition is established. The recipe information can be presented to the user.

  As described above, the embodiments and modifications according to the disclosure have been described, but these can be implemented in various other forms, and can be implemented with various omissions, substitutions, and changes. These embodiments and modifications, as well as those obtained by omission, substitution, and change are included in the technical scope of the claims and their equivalents.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 System, 100 Recipe information provision apparatus, 101 Cost information generation part, 102 Control part, NW network, T1 terminal device, T2 terminal apparatus, 701 Recipe database, 801 Recipe storage part, 1101 Area information storage part, 1301 Condition holding part, 1701 Prediction unit

Claims (9)

A recipe information providing device that provides recipe information including ingredients to be used for cooking work and the amount of the ingredients to a terminal device operated by a user,
The cost information including present and future costs of ingredients before SL user is included in the recipe information specified by operating the terminal device, the cost information generating unit that generates based on the current and future price information of the food ,
A condition holding unit for holding conditions concerning current and future expenses included in the expense information;
A prediction unit that predicts a future time when the condition held in the condition holding unit is satisfied, based on the cost information;
Before Symbol wherein presents the predicted future time to the user operating the terminal device, and a control unit for controlling the providing of the recipe information,
A recipe information providing device comprising: The condition holding unit holds condition indicating that the cost information comprises current than the cost of future costs is large, recipe information providing apparatus according to claim 1. The condition holding unit holds condition representing that the current or future costs the cost information comprises becomes less costs predetermined recipe information providing apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 2. The prediction unit predicts the time the condition is satisfied in accordance with whether the current corresponds to the timing of seasonal ingredients contained in the recipe information, recipe information according to any one of claims 1 3 Providing device. Includes a recipe storage unit for storing said recipe information specified by the user for each of the user,
The recipe information providing device according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , wherein the expense information generation unit sets the recipe information stored for each user by the recipe storage unit as recipe information designated by the user. . A recipe database for storing the recipe information in a searchable manner is provided.
The recipe information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5 , wherein the recipe information designated by the user is recipe information searched from the recipe database. An area information storage unit for storing area information representing an area where the user resides;
The price information includes information about the current and future price of available for purchase food by region,
The cost information generation unit, current and the user the terminal device based on information on the future price of possible food purchased in areas representing local information resident in the user stored in the area information storage unit The recipe information providing device according to any one of claims 1 to 6 , wherein cost information including current and future costs of ingredients included in recipe information that is specified by operating and specifying is generated. The terminal device operated by a user, recipe information providing apparatus, a recipe information providing method for providing a recipe information including the amount of food and the food used in the cooking operation,
The cost information including present and future costs of ingredients before SL user is included in the recipe information specified by operating the terminal device, generated based on the current and future price information of the food material,
Keep the current and future costs conditions included in the cost information,
Based on the cost information, predicting the future time when the held conditions will be met,
Wherein presenting the predicted future the time to the user, recipe information providing method including controlling the providing of the recipe information to operate the pre SL terminal. A recipe information providing program for providing recipe information including ingredients to be used for cooking work and the amount of the ingredients to a terminal device operated by a user,
On the computer,
The cost information including present and future costs of ingredients before SL user is included in the recipe information specified by operating the terminal apparatus, it is generated based on the current and future price information of the food material,
Keep the conditions for current and future costs included in the cost information,
Based on the cost information, a future time when the held condition is satisfied is predicted,
Before Symbol wherein presents the predicted future time to the user operating the terminal device, the recipe information providing program for causing the control to provide the recipe information.

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