JPH0675976A - Dish input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To input not only a dish ID but also the contents of a dish simultaneously at the time of inputting the dish by writing the information of each dish to show the attribute of a name, etc., and the contents of foodstuff to be used in a table for inputting the dish by making it into a two-dimensional bar code, and reading it by a two-dimensional bar code reader. CONSTITUTION:A person to be guided inputs the attribute including the height, the weight, and the medical history, etc., of his own, and the contents of life and the contents of a meal into a personal computer as a nutrition guidance system. The personal computer compares ingested quantity and required quantity with each other in respect of energy, a nutriment and a food-stuff group, etc., and gives the person to be guided proper advice. Then, the table 5 for inputting the dish consisting of a dish display part and a two-dimensional bar code display part is printed beforehand on a sheet of paper in respect of the contents of the meal, and the person to be guided reads it by a bar code reading means. Since the name of the dish, a foodstuff code and content are encoded in the bar code, the storage area of a system side can be saved, and the necessity of excessive retrieval processing is eliminated.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to nutritional guidance, health guidance,
The present invention relates to a dish input device in a system used in the medical and health field such as provision of lunch.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional cooking input method will be described by taking a nutrition guidance system as an example. In the nutrition guidance system, it is necessary to grasp the food and the amount of food ingested by the instructor, and in many cases the food and the amount of food taken are input to the system. As a method of inputting a dish, a method of selecting an ingested dish from a screen according to an instruction of the system, a method of inputting a dish ID by a keyboard according to an instruction of the system, a method of inputting a dish ID by keyboard while looking at a dish input table (paper) There is a method of reading the one-dimensional barcoded information of the dish ID in the dish input table with a one-dimensional barcode reader. In each of the above-mentioned methods, the cooking ID is sent to the system.
The food was specified by, and the contents of the food were memorized by the system.

[0003]

As described above, in the prior art, it was necessary for the system side to store cooking information. Therefore, it is necessary for the system side to have a huge storage area for cooking information, and it is necessary to search for cooking information from the cooking ID at the time of calculation. Also, it is necessary to rewrite the cooking information on the system side each time the cooking is changed.

The food input device of the present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and its purpose is to input not only the food ID but also the contents of the food at the time of food input. It is to provide a possible food input device.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the dish input device of the present invention includes a dish display section for displaying a dish name and the content of the dish, and a dish name and content information of the dish. A dish input table including a two-dimensional bar code display unit that is a two-dimensional bar code and a bar code reading unit that reads the two-dimensional bar code in the dish input table are provided.

[0006]

That is, according to the present invention, information indicating attributes such as the name of each dish and the content of the food used for each dish is converted into a two-dimensional barcode and written in the dish input table, and the information is written into the two-dimensional barcode reader. To enter into the reading system.

This eliminates the need for the system side to have cooking information. Therefore, the storage area on the system side can be saved and the need for extra search processing is eliminated. Further, since the system and the independence of the food can be maintained, the food to be used can be variously changed by changing the food input table without making any modifications to the system.

[0008]

Embodiments of the dish input device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIGS. 1A and 1B are block diagrams showing a first embodiment of the present invention. The instructor inputs his / her own attributes (including height, weight, previous medical condition, etc.), life content, and meal content into the personal computer 1 as the nutritional guidance system. The personal computer 1 compares the intake amount and the required amount for energy, nutritional components, food groups, etc., and gives the instructor appropriate advice. Of the input information, the contents of meals are the most informative and complicated, and there are many systems that allow not only food items but also food items to be entered.

Therefore, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 4, the dish input table 5 including the dish display section and the two-dimensional bar code display section is printed on paper in advance, and the instructor looks at the table and the two-dimensional bar code as a bar code reading means. The method of reading the two-dimensional bar code display section with the reader 3 is adopted. Here, the two-dimensional barcode reader 3 and the food input table 5 constitute a food input device. FIG. 2B is a diagram showing the dish input table 5 in more detail.

3 (a) and 3 (b) are views showing an example of a two-dimensional bar code display section and its display contents, respectively. Figure 3
The food number in (b) is a food code defined in the fourth revised food ingredient table edited by the Science and Technology Agency. For example, 1-42-d is polished rice and 2-11-a is potato.

By this method, the storage area on the system side can be saved, the need for extra search processing is eliminated, and at the same time, the nutrition guidance system (personal computer 1) and the dish input table 5 can be kept independent. Therefore, the following effects are obtained.

1. Regional differences were considered without preparing the system at all by preparing regional food input tables considering differences in salt content, oil content, etc., and differences in food habits by region. System can be built.

2. When providing a nutritional guidance system for a specific company, by adding the menu of the company's dining room to the table for cooking input, the system for a specific company can be provided without changing the system. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention and shows another example of the content information of the dishes displayed on the two-dimensional barcode.

That is, the food used in each dish and its amount are not bar-coded, but the amounts of energy, nutrients, food groups, etc. contained in the food used in the dish are summed, and the total value is bar-coded. If this dish input table, which is converted into print, is used, the total value is input to the nutritional guidance system, so that the calculation for nutritional guidance becomes faster.

The only difference from the first embodiment is the content displayed by a two-dimensional bar code. That is, in the first embodiment, the food used for cooking and its amount are displayed, but in the second embodiment, the nutrient content obtained by adding up the amounts of nutritional components contained in the food and the food It is displayed by classifying it into groups and adding up. In the nutrition guidance, the evaluation according to the nutrients and the evaluation according to the food group are performed. Therefore, in the second embodiment, the calculation amount of the nutrition guidance system (search, multiplication, addition, etc.)
Is reduced.

[0017]

As described in detail above, in the dish input device of the present invention, it is possible to provide an input device capable of simultaneously inputting not only the dish ID but also the content of the dish when inputting the dish. .

Further, according to the present invention, the storage area for cooking information of the system can be saved, the time for searching for cooking information can be saved, and at the same time, the cooking input table and the system can be made independent, and the system can be maintained without modification. Can respond to various changes in cooking information.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a dish input table.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a two-dimensional bar code display unit and display contents thereof.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing display contents of a two-dimensional bar code according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... PC (nutrition guidance system), 3 ... 2D barcode reader, 5 ... Cooking input table.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A dish input table including a dish display section for displaying a dish name and the content of the dish, and a two-dimensional bar code display section in which the dish name and the content information of the dish are converted into a two-dimensional bar code. A food input device comprising a bar code reading means for reading a two-dimensional bar code in the food input table.