JPH11243874A - Cooking system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooking system convenient to an addition or a renewal of a cooking program of a new cooking to a stored cooking program. SOLUTION: This cooking system has a system center 1 including a first memory 5 storing a plurality of cooking programs, a selection part 6 selecting one among the plurality of cooking programs and a transmitting part 7 transmitting a selected cooking program to a user terminal 2, the user terminal 2 including a first demanding part 10 transmitting a demand of a selection of the selection part 6, a receiving part 11 receiving the cooking program from the transmitting part 7, a display part 14 displaying a recipe in the cooking program from the receiving part 11 and a receiving-transmitting part 16 transmitting cooking- control data in the cooking program from the receiving part 11 to a rice cooker 3 and an over 4, and the rice cooker 3 and the oven 4 receiving cooking-control data from the receiving-transmitting part 16 and utilizing to the cooking.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cooking system for selecting and displaying a recipe of any one of a plurality of dishes, and setting cooking control data for cooking the dish in a cooking device. It is about.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a method of transmitting a cooking recipe indicating cooking ingredients and a cooking method to the public, a method using a paper medium such as a book, a magazine, a newspaper or a flyer, or a communication medium such as a television or a radio has been used. There is a way.

[0003] Recently, a large number of cooking recipes have been converted into a database, and cooking software has been digitized and stored in the world. A user can use a personal computer to obtain data in such cooking software. It is becoming possible to search and select and obtain a favorite cooking recipe. CD-ROM as such cooking software
There are “Restaurant Petto home cooking (publisher: Nagzat Co., Ltd.)” and “Cooking Mum (publisher: Technical Software Co., Ltd.). Such cooking software allows users to use various cooking recipes. Can be searched, and searchability is improved, for example, the search time is much shorter than in the case of searching for a favorite recipe on a paper medium as described above. Once supplied to the user, the supplier cannot substantially add or update the cooking recipe to the package medium, so the supplier adds or updates the cooking recipe. In this case, it is inconvenient that the user needs to purchase new cooking software.

[0004] To cope with the addition or update of a cooking recipe, a network-type cooking recipe search service using a homepage on the Internet has become widespread. A representative example of such an Internet homepage is Osaka Gas's "Bob and Angie's Kitchen: http://www.osakagas.co.jp/
webcooking / "and Ajinomoto's" Cooking Navi: http: /
/www.ajinomoto.co.jp/ ”or Kewpie's“ Special recipe: http://www.kewpie.co.jp/ ”. For example, Osaka Gas's “Bob and Angie's Kitchen” has about 1,300 recipes registered,
Also, about 50 cooking recipes are added every month. By distributing cooking recipes to each household using such a network, even if a data source adds or updates a cooking recipe, a user can browse the latest cooking recipe. I have.

[0005] The user of each household selects a favorite cooking recipe from a group of cooking recipes obtained through a paper medium, the Internet, or the like, prepares ingredients in accordance with the procedure of the selected cooking recipe, and prepares kitchen equipment. Select and cook. For example, the user obtains the cooking recipe “Oven setting temperature 180” on the personal computer screen obtained on the Internet.
After reading the description "degree, time 20 minutes", the set temperature and time of the oven are set. However, the usual cooking recipe is for cooking for 4 people, and for cooking for 2 people,
The user must change ingredients, cooking procedures, and the like by relying on past cooking experience. Also, the preference of the rice, such as hardness / softness, depends on the individual,
Even when such preferences are taken into account during cooking, the user needs to devise cooking himself to suit the preferences. In other words, even if the user can obtain the cooking recipe, the final cooking is left to his own discretion.

By the way, apart from the method of transmitting the cooking recipe to the public and the method of using the cooking recipe, as a cooking apparatus storing a cooking program composed of recipes and cooking control data for a large number of dishes, for example, a liquid crystal navigation system of Sharp Range RE-CM5 / RE-EM5
(Japanese Patent Application No. 63-274239, Japanese Patent Application No. 2-284962, etc.) have been developed and commercialized. Such a cooking device has a built-in RAM pack or IC card storing cooking programs for a large number of dishes, and can search for a user's favorite cooking recipe. Also,
When the user sets cooking conditions such as how many people the dish is for, the above-described liquid crystal navigation range changes the cooking program so as to match the set cooking condition, and the changed cooking program Cooking is performed based on the cooking control data in the kitchen.

[0007]

However, in a conventional cooking apparatus such as a liquid crystal navigation range in which cooking programs are stored for a plurality of dishes, only a limited number of cooking programs are registered. Without
In addition, since the RAM pack or IC card containing the cooking program is built in at the time of manufacturing, when the manufacturer adds or updates the cooking program, the user needs to add a new RAM pack or IC card. It is inconvenient, such as the need to purchase.

A conventional cooking device storing a cooking program contributes to improving the cooking operability of the cooking device itself, but does not contribute to improving the cooking operability of another cooking device. In other words, for example, when cooking rice in a rice cooker and then cooking in a microwave oven as in cooking of "seafood doria", the microwave oven contributes to improving the operability of cooking by the microwave oven itself, That is, it does not contribute to improving the operability of cooking such as cooking rice cookers.

The present invention is inconvenient for such a conventional cooking apparatus in which a plurality of cooking programs for cooking are stored, in which a cooking program for a new food is added or updated to the stored cooking programs. In view of the above problem, it is an object of the present invention to provide a convenient cooking system for adding or updating a cooking program for a new dish to a stored cooking program.

The present invention also relates to a conventional cooking device which stores a cooking program, which contributes to improving the operability of cooking of the cooking device itself, but also to improving the operability of cooking of another cooking device. It is an object of the present invention to provide a cooking system that contributes to improving the operability of cooking of a plurality of cooking devices in consideration of the problem of not performing cooking.

[0011]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a transmitting apparatus for transmitting a cooking program including a recipe and cooking control data of a predetermined dish, receiving the cooking program from the transmitting apparatus, and transmitting the cooking program. A receiving / transmitting device that transmits cooking control data in the cooking program, and a cooking device that receives the cooking control data from the receiving / transmitting device and uses it for cooking, wherein the transmitting device includes a plurality of dishes, recipes and Storage means for storing a cooking program including cooking control data; selecting means for selecting one of the cooking programs stored in the storage means; and the receiving / transmitting device transmitting the cooking program selected by the selecting means. And a first transmitting unit for transmitting to any one of a plurality of cooking programs stored in the storage unit. Instruction means for inputting an instruction from a user and transmitting the instruction to the selecting means, receiving means for receiving the cooking program from the transmitting means, and display for displaying a recipe in the cooking program received by the receiving means Means, and second transmitting means for transmitting cooking control data in the cooking program received by the receiving means to the cooking device, wherein the selecting means executes the cooking program based on an instruction from the instruction means. It is a cooking system characterized by selection.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the storage means stores a cooking program including a recipe and cooking control data of another dish in addition to the stored cooking program by an administrator of the transmitting apparatus. 2. The cooking system according to claim 1, wherein the cooking system additionally stores the information based on the following.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the storage means updates all or a part of the stored cooking program based on an operation of an administrator of the transmission device. It is a cooking system of a statement.

[0014] The instruction means of the present invention according to claim 1 includes a plurality of dishes stored in the storage means after being added or updated by the storage means according to claim 2 or 3. An instruction for selecting one of the programs is input from the user, and the instruction is transmitted to the selecting means of the present invention according to claim 1, wherein the selecting means stores the program in the storage means after the addition or update. One of the stored cooking programs is selected based on an instruction from the instruction means.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a storage means for storing the selected cooking program in the selection means, and a cooking condition from the user are inputted, and based on the cooking condition,
Program changing means for changing the contents of the cooking program stored in the storage means, wherein the display means displays a recipe in the cooking program after being changed by the program changing means, and wherein the second transmitting means The cooking system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein cooking control data in the cooking program changed by the program changing unit is transmitted to the cooking device.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the storing means and the program changing means are provided in the transmitting device.

Alternatively, the storage means and the program change means of the present invention according to claim 4 are provided in the transmission / reception device.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an attribute information inputting means for inputting attribute information of the user, and a value of a standard nutritional value to be taken by the user is obtained from the attribute information input by the attribute information inputting means. Standard nutritional value calculating means for calculating, cooking information recording means for inputting and recording information on food corresponding to the cooking program selected by the selecting means, and nutritional value information storage for storing information on the nutritional value of a plurality of dishes Means, the standard value calculated by the standard nutritional value calculating means, and information on the nutritional value of the dish recorded in the dish information recording means among the information stored by the nutritional value information accumulating means. 4. The cooking system according to claim 1, further comprising a comparison unit configured to perform comparison, wherein the display unit displays a comparison result compared by the comparison unit. 5.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the attribute information input means is provided in the transmission / reception device, and the standard nutritional value calculating means, the cooking information recording means, the nutritional value information accumulating means, and the comparing means include It is provided in the transmission device.

[0020] Alternatively, the attribute information input means, the standard nutritional value calculation means, the cooking information recording means, the nutritional value information storage means and the comparison means of the present invention according to claim 5 are provided in the transmission and reception device. It is characterized by being able to.

The attribute information input by the attribute information input means of the present invention according to claim 5 means all or a part of the sex, age, height and weight of the user.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in accordance with the present invention, based on the comparison result obtained by said comparing means and the nutritional value information of a plurality of dishes stored in said nutritional value information storing means, The cooking system according to claim 5, further comprising a suggestion unit for suggesting a dish to be taken next, wherein the display unit displays the dish suggested by the suggestion unit.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, the suggesting means is provided in the transmitting device.

Alternatively, the proposal means of the present invention according to claim 6 is provided in the transmission / reception device.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of food information corresponding to the cooking program selected by the selection means, and a classification of the plurality of pieces of food information stored by the storage means. A section specifying means for specifying a section exceeding a predetermined ratio, and an extracting means for extracting all or a part of the cooking programs stored in the storage means, which match the section specified by the section specifying means. Prepared,
The said display means displays the information of the cooking program extracted by the said extraction means, The Claims 1 to 3 characterized by the above-mentioned.
A cooking system according to any one of the above.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, the storing means, the classification specifying means and the extracting means are provided in the transmitting device.

Alternatively, the storage means and the classification specifying means of the present invention according to claim 7 are provided in the transmission / reception device,
The extraction unit is provided in the transmission device.

[0028] The cooking system according to any one of the first to seventh aspects of the present invention is characterized in that a plurality of the cooking devices are provided.

[0029] The cooking system according to any one of the first to seventh aspects of the present invention is characterized in that the transmitting and receiving devices are plural.

[0030] In the cooking system according to any one of the first to seventh aspects of the present invention, the communication between the transmitting device and the receiving / transmitting device uses the Internet.

[0031]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) First, the configuration of a cooking system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a cooking system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes a system center 1, a user terminal 2,
It comprises a rice cooker 3 and an oven 4. The system center 1 includes a first memory 5, a selection unit 6, a transmission unit 7,
The first I / F 8 is configured. User terminal 2
/ F9, a first instruction unit 10, a reception unit 11, a second memory 12, a program change unit 13, a display unit 14, a second instruction unit 15, and a transmission / reception unit 16. In addition,
It is assumed that the user terminal 2 is installed in a predetermined house, the system center 1 is installed in a place away from the house of the user terminal 2, and the system center 1 and the user terminal 2 are connected by a telephone line. The rice cooker 3 and the oven 4 are installed in the house of the user terminal 2 and are connected to the user terminal 2 by RC232C in the house.

First, each component of the system center 1 will be described.

The first memory 5 is means for storing a cooking program for a plurality of dishes and a menu for the plurality of dishes. Further, it is a means for outputting a part of the menu to the transmission unit 7 based on an instruction from the first instruction unit 10 of the user terminal 2. In addition, the cooking program is a recipe indicating cooking ingredients and a cooking procedure, and a cooking for controlling the rice cooker 3 and the oven 4 when a part of the cooking of the cooking is caused to be performed by the rice cooker 3 and the oven 4. And control data. The menu is information indicating titles of a plurality of dishes stored in the first memory 5 and categories of the dishes, such as whether each of the plurality of dishes belongs to a category of Japanese, Western, or Chinese. Suppose there is.

[0036] The selection unit 6 is provided with the first instruction unit 1 of the user terminal 2.
This is a means for selecting one of a plurality of cooking programs stored in the first memory 5 based on an instruction from 0.

The transmitting section 7 is a means for transmitting a menu from the first memory 5 or a cooking program from the selecting section 6 to the user terminal 2.

The first I / F 8 is means for mediating data communication between the system center 1 and the user terminal 2.

Next, each component of the user terminal 2 will be described.

The second I / F 9 is a means for mediating data communication between the user terminal 2 and the system center 1 in the same manner as the first I / F 8 of the system center 1 described above.

The first instruction section 10 is a means for inputting an instruction to output a menu to the transmission section 7 from the user to the first memory 5 of the system center 1 and transmitting the instruction to the first memory 5. Further, it is also a means for inputting an instruction to select any one of the cooking programs to the selection unit 6 of the system center 1 from a user, and transmitting the instruction to the selection unit 6. Further, the first instructing unit 10 is a unit that inputs an instruction to the program changing unit 13 and the transmitting / receiving unit 16 from a user and outputs the instruction to the program changing unit 13 or the transmitting / receiving unit 16. The contents of instructions to the program changing unit 13 and the transmitting / receiving unit 16 will be described before describing the operation of the cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

The receiving section 11 is a means for receiving a menu or a cooking program from the transmitting section 7 of the system center 1.

The second memory 12 is a means for storing the cooking program received by the receiving unit 11.

The program change unit 13 is provided with the first instruction unit 10
Is a means for changing the content of the cooking program stored in the second memory 12 based on an instruction from the user.

The display unit 14 is a means for displaying a menu from the receiving unit 11, and displays a recipe in the cooking program changed by the program changing unit 13 based on an instruction of the second instruction unit 15. It is also a means to do.

The second instructing unit 15 receives an instruction from the user as to what is to be displayed on the display unit 14 and indicates from the program changing unit 13 which part of the recipe of the cooking program is to be displayed. This is a means for outputting to the program changing unit 13.

The transmission / reception section 16 transmits the cooking control data in the cooking program from the program changing section 13 to the rice cooker 3.
Alternatively, it is a means for outputting to the oven 4 and a means for inputting predetermined information from the rice cooker 3 and the oven 4. The predetermined information will be described when describing the operation of the cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

The rice cooker 3 is a cooking device that cooks using the cooking control data from the transmission / reception unit 16.

Further, the oven 4 is a cooking device for cooking using the cooking control data from the transmission / reception unit 16, like the rice cooker 3.

In the first aspect of the present invention, the system center 1 is used as the transmitting device, the user terminal 2 is used as the receiving / transmitting device, the rice cooker 3 and the oven 4 are used as the cooking device, the first memory 5 is used as the storage device, and the selecting device is used as the selecting device. Part 6, first
Transmitting unit 7 as transmitting means, first instruction unit 1 as instruction means
0, a receiving unit 11 as a receiving unit, a display unit 14 as a displaying unit, and a transmitting / receiving unit 16 as a second transmitting unit. Further, in the present invention of claim 4, the second memory 1 is used as storage means.
2. The program changing unit 13 is used as the program changing means.

Next, the operation of the cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described.

First, the manager of the system center 1 inputs and stores a plurality of cooking programs in the first memory 5 of the system center 1. After that, in addition to the existing cooking programs, a cooking program for a plurality of dishes different from the existing cooking programs is first set.
Input to the memory 5 and store it.

The user stores a part of the menu in the first memory 5 of the system center 1 by the transmission unit 7 and the first I
The first instruction unit 10 is instructed to output to the user terminal 2 via / F8. Specifically, for example, the user selects one number from each of the cooking type in FIG. 2A, the material classification in FIG. 2B, and the cooking method in FIG. This will be input to the first instruction unit 10. Here, for the convenience of the following description, the user
In (a) of FIG. 2, "Western food" of "1" is selected,
It is assumed that “fish” of “2” is selected in (b) and “bake” of “1” is selected in (c).

Next, the first instruction unit 10 transmits the above-mentioned selection instruction from the user to the system center 1 via the second I / F 9.

Thereafter, in the system center 1, the first memory 5 receives an instruction from the first instruction section 10 of the user terminal 2 via the first I / F 8, and based on the instruction, a part of the menu is displayed. Output to the transmission unit 7. As mentioned above,
The instruction from the first instruction unit 10 is “1” in FIG.
The first memory 5 stores the menu list shown in FIG. 3 because it is “seafood” of “2”, “fish” and “2” in (b), and “bake” of “1” in (c). Output to the transmission unit 7. The transmitting unit 7 transmits the menu list of FIG. 3 to the first I / F 8
The user terminal 2 receives the menu list of FIG. 3 via the second I / F 9 and outputs the menu list to the display unit 14, and the display unit 14 of FIG. Display the menu list. It is assumed that the menu list of FIG. 3 includes the cooking time required for each dish and the difficulty level of the cooking.

Next, the user selects one of the food menus from the menu list shown in FIG. 3 displayed on the display unit 14 and inputs the number of the selected food to the first instruction unit 10. I do. Here, for convenience of the following explanation,
It is assumed that the user selects “seafood doria” of “14” in FIG. 3 and inputs the number “14” to the first instruction unit 10.

Then, the first instruction unit 10 transmits an instruction with the number “14” from the user to the system center 1 via the second I / F 9, and in the system center 1, the selection unit 6 sends the user terminal 2 "1" from the first instruction unit 10
4 ”is input via the first I / F 8,
The number "14" is "Seafood Doria" in Fig. 3.
Is specified. Further, the selecting unit 6 selects the specified “seafood doria” cooking program from a plurality of cooking programs in the first memory 5 and outputs the selected cooking program to the transmitting unit 7.

Next, the transmitting section 7 transmits the cooking program of "seafood doria" from the selecting section 6 to the user terminal 2 via the first I / F 8, and in the user terminal 2, the receiving section 11 transmits the program. The cooking program of “seafood doria” from the unit 7 is received via the second I / F 9 and the second memory 1
2 is stored. For convenience of the following description, the cooking program of “seafood doria” stored by the second memory 12 has a menu as shown in FIG. 4 and a cooking finish image as shown in FIG. Data, FIG.
9 and basic cooking control data for controlling the rice cooker 3 as shown in FIG.
Is assumed to have basic cooking control data for controlling the oven 4 as shown in FIG. Here, FIG.
Indicates the ingredients in the recipe, and FIG. 7 shows the cooking procedure in the recipe. Also,
The second memory 12 stores a cooking program of “seafood doria” and displays the menu of FIG.
To be displayed.

Now, the user gives an instruction on how many “seafood doria” to cook, an instruction on how hard the rice of the “seafood doria” is to be cooked,
An instruction of the rice drying time is input to the first instruction unit 10,
The first instruction unit 10 sends those instructions to the program change unit 1
Output to 3. Specifically, the user indicates a specific number of “N” for “N” persons, and “hardness of rice” in FIG. 10A and “boiled rice time” in FIG. One of the numbers is selected from among the numbers, and the numbers are input to the first instruction unit 10. Here, for convenience of the following description, the user sets “4” as a specific number of “N”, and “slightly soft” of “2” in “hardness of rice” in FIG. It is assumed that “Slightly short” of “2” is selected and input to the first instruction unit 10 in “Boiled rice time” in FIG.

After that, the program changing unit 13 inputs the cooking program of “seafood doria” stored in the second memory 12, and receives the program from the first instruction unit 10.
An instruction is input that “N” is “4”, “hardness of rice” is “2”, and “boiled rice time” is “2”. Then, “4” is substituted for “N” of the material of “seafood doria” in FIG. 6, and the material of “seafood doria” for four persons as shown in FIG. 11 is calculated. Similarly, a standard time in the cooking procedure of FIG. 7 is calculated as shown in FIG. In addition, the program changing unit 13 determines whether the “hardness of rice” and “water level” in FIG. 13 have the program changing unit 13 based on the instruction that “hardness of rice” is “2”. Of "2" in the information of "", select "Water level is slightly larger (+ 5%)". Furthermore, the program change unit 13 calculates the “time of rice meal time” in FIG. 10B that the program change unit 13 itself has based on the instruction that the “time of rice meal time” is “2”. From the "method" information, "13" of "2" is selected. Then, in accordance with the selection, the data of “cooking time 13 minutes” after the end of rice cooking, that is, after the fire extinguishing,
"Murashi time X" of the basic cooking control data of rice cooker 3 in FIG.
And the first cooking control data required for the rice cooker 3 to actually cook rice as shown in FIG. Further, the first cooking control data is transmitted to the rice cooker 3 via the transmission / reception unit 16, and the first cooking control data is set in the rice cooker 3. Further, according to the instruction that “N” is “4”, the program changing unit 13 sets the oven 4 to “seafood doria” as shown in FIG. 15 based on the basic cooking control data of the oven 4 in FIG. Is performed, the second cooking control data required for the operation of “baking” when cooking is performed, the second cooking control data is transmitted to the oven 4 via the transmission / reception unit 16, and the second cooking control data is transmitted to the oven. Set to 4. Note that the second cooking control data in FIG. 15 is the internal temperature control data when the oven 4 bake “seafood doria”, and is data indicating the remaining heat temperature, the remaining heating time, and the cooking temperature and the cooking time. is there. Here, for convenience of explanation, the residual heat temperature is 230
The second cooking control data is assumed to have been created so that the heating time is 10 minutes in ° C., and the cooking time is represented by “N” in the equation for determining the cooking time in step 18 in FIG. It is assumed that the second cooking control data has been created so that 10 minutes is obtained by substituting “4” into “1”.

Next, the user presses the button "6" of the second instructing section 15 to display the ingredients of the recipe in the cooking program changed by the program changing section 13 on the display section 14. Input the material display information. “6” is the same as “6” in the menu of the cooking program of “seafood doria” in FIG. Then, the program changing unit 13 transmits the material display information from the user to the second
The material is input via the instruction unit 15 and the materials of the “seafood doria” for four persons in FIG. 11 are displayed on the display unit 14 based on the material display information.

Then, the user prepares necessary materials in accordance with the “seafood doria” materials for four persons shown in FIG. 11 displayed on the display unit 14, and after the preparation, the user changes the materials by the program changing unit 13. The cooking procedure of the recipe in the prepared cooking program is displayed on the display unit 14. This is indicated by 4 in FIG.
In order to return to the cooking program menu of “seafood doria” in FIG. 4 from the material data of “seafood doria” for the user, the user presses the “clear button” of the second instruction unit 15.
After the menu of FIG. 4 is displayed on the display unit 14 again, the user presses the button “7” of the second instruction unit 15. The button “7” of the second instruction unit 15 is the same as the menu “7” of FIG. 4 displayed on the display unit 14. Thus, the display unit 1
The cooking procedure displayed in 4 is a cooking procedure of “seafood doria” for four persons as shown in FIG. Then, the user presses the “step” button of the second instruction section 15 and
Only the procedure of “Step 1” of the cooking procedure of 2 is displayed on the display unit 14. After completing the procedure of “Step 1”, the user presses the “Step” button of the second instruction unit 15 again, and causes the display unit 14 to display only the procedure of “Step 2”. In this way, the user proceeds to cook “seafood doria” according to the cooking procedure of FIG.
By the way, in step 12, the display unit 14
13 is selected by the program changing unit 13,
In the information on "Relationship between rice hardness and water level", "water level message" indicating "water level is slightly larger (+ 5%)" and "start of rice cooking" are also displayed. The user also utilizes the “water level message” on the display unit 14 to
The material to be cooked in the rice cooker 3 is set, and an instruction to cook the rice in the rice cooker 3 is input by pressing the “cooking” button of the first instruction unit 10. The “cooking” instruction is transmitted to the rice cooker 3 via the transmission / reception unit 16, and the rice cooker 3 starts cooking rice. The rice cooker 3 is the first in FIG.
Since the cooking control data is set, rice is cooked according to the first cooking control data.

After that, when the rice cooker 3 finishes the rice cooking,
The display unit 14 transmits the “cooking end” information to the transmitting / receiving unit 16 to that effect, and the display unit 14 inputs the “cooking end” information via the transmitting / receiving unit 16 and the program changing unit 13 and outputs a message “cooking end”. indicate. The message of “cooking end” is displayed at “step 13”, and then the user is displayed on the display unit 14 as shown in FIG.
The cooking proceeds according to the order of the steps in the cooking procedure 2. Then, at "Step 15", the display unit 14
Displays the message "Oven cooking". This is performed by the program change unit 13 calculating backward from “10 minutes of remaining heat time” and instructing the display unit 14. After the display of “Oven cooking”, the user starts the oven 4 to apply residual heat into the oven 4, presses the “Oven” button of the first instruction unit 10 to input an instruction for cooking, and inputs the first instruction. Indication unit 10
Transmits the “instruction for cooking” to the oven 4 via the transmission / reception unit 16 and gives the oven 4 residual heat. Since the second cooking control data of FIG. 15 is set in advance in the oven 4, the oven 4 starts giving residual heat in the oven 4 according to the second cooking control data. The remaining heat time is 10 minutes as set in the second cooking control data.

Then, the oven 4 is
When the residual heat is given for 0 minutes, the “end of residual heat” information to that effect is transmitted to the transmission / reception unit 16, and the display unit 14 inputs the “end of residual heat” information via the transmission / reception unit 16 and the program change unit 13. , The message “End of remaining heat” is displayed. The message is displayed at “Step 18”, and then the user puts the material prepared at “Step 17” into the oven 4 and the oven 4
Is closed and the "oven" button is pressed again, the oven 4 begins to bake the ingredients and cooks, and after 10 minutes the "seafood doria" is completed.

When "seafood doria" is cooked according to such a cooking procedure, it is possible to cook the seafood doria for any number of people, and also to make the finished food to match the user's preference.

In the first embodiment, first, the administrator of the system center 1 adds a plurality of programs other than the existing cooking programs in addition to the cooking programs already stored in the first memory 5. Of the cooking program of the dish is inputted and stored in the first memory 5, but the administrator of the system center 1 updates all or a part of the cooking program already stored in the first memory 5 and updates the program. The result may be stored in the first memory 5. Further, the latest cooking program may be stored in the first memory 5 by adding and updating the cooking program.

In the first embodiment, in addition to the cooking programs already stored in the first memory 5, another cooking program is stored in the first memory 5. , First instruction unit 1 of user terminal 2
Although it is assumed that a predetermined instruction is input to 0, the user inputs a predetermined instruction to the first instruction unit 10 of the user terminal 2 with respect to the already stored cooking program before addition to the first memory 5. Is also good.

In the first embodiment, the second memory 12 and the program change unit 13 are provided in the user terminal 2. However, the second memory 12 and the program change unit 13 are provided in the system center 1. It may be. In short, the second memory 12 stores the cooking program selected by the selection unit 6, and the program change unit 13 changes the cooking program stored in the second memory 12 according to the instruction of the first instruction unit 10 of the user terminal 2. You only have to do it.

In the first embodiment, the rice cooker 3 and the oven 4 are used as the cooking device according to the first aspect of the present invention.
However, depending on the content of the dish, the number of cooking devices of the present invention may be one, or three or more.

The cooking control data changed by the program changing unit 13 according to the first embodiment is the same as that shown in FIG.
The program may be set in the rice cooker 3 or the oven 4 as a program that records a temperature change curve indicating a relationship between temperature and time in FIG. 4 or FIG. 15, for example, a Java program.

In the first embodiment described above, the user terminal 2 as the receiving / transmitting device, the rice cooker 3 and the oven 4 as the cooking device according to the first aspect of the present invention,
Although the connection is established by 2C, the communication between the transmitting and receiving device and the cooking device according to the first aspect of the present invention may be performed by using a wire such as a power line carrier or a wireless device such as a specific low-power wireless device. Good.

In the first embodiment, the user terminal 2 is provided with the first instruction unit 10 and the second instruction unit 15 separately. However, the user terminal 2 is provided with the first instruction unit 10 and the second instruction unit 10. It is also possible to provide only one instruction unit having the functions of the instruction unit 15 together. Also, the first instruction unit 10 and the second instruction unit 15, or the first instruction unit 10 and the second instruction unit 15
The instruction means having the function of the keyboard may have the function of the keyboard.

Further, the communication between the system center 1 and the user terminal 2 according to the first embodiment described above may use personal computer communication such as the Internet.

(Embodiment 2) The configuration of a cooking system according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described together with its operation.

FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing a cooking system according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The difference between the cooking system according to the second embodiment and the cooking system according to the first embodiment is that the cooking system according to the second embodiment is different from the cooking system according to the first embodiment in the system center 1. Standard nutrition value calculation unit 17 and nutrition value information storage unit 18
And a third memory 19, a comparison unit 20, and a proposal unit 21. Also, the first instruction unit 10 of the user terminal 2
Of the first instruction unit 10 of the cooking system according to the first embodiment.
Is different from the operation. Therefore, in the second embodiment, only points different from the first embodiment will be described.

The user inputs attribute information such as his / her gender, age, height and weight to the first instruction unit 10 of the user terminal 2. The attribute information is transmitted to the system center 1 via the second I / F 9. In the system center 1, the standard nutrition value calculation unit 17 inputs the attribute information of the user from the user terminal 2 via the first I / F 8. Based on the attribute information, a value of a standard nutritional value to be consumed by the user having the attribute information is calculated.

On the other hand, in the system center 1, the transmitting section 7 outputs to the third memory 19 the dish information indicating what the dish corresponding to the cooking program selected by the selecting section 6 is, and outputs it to the third memory 19. 19 records the cooking information every day. Then, the comparison unit 20 calculates the standard nutritional value to be consumed by the user and the average nutritional value of the plurality of dishes recorded in the third memory 19 by the standard nutritional value calculation unit 17. The nutrition information is compared with the nutrition information using the nutrition information in the nutrition information storage unit 18. The nutritional value information storage unit 18 further stores information on the nutritional values of a plurality of dishes including the plurality of dishes recorded in the third memory 19. The nutritional value information includes, for example, information on “seafood doria” used in the first embodiment.
This is as shown in FIG. Now, for example, the comparison unit 2
0 indicates the amount of salt in the nutritional value in the third memory 19.
Amount of salt in multiple dishes recorded in
A comparison is made as to whether or not the daily average salt content taken by the user of the user terminal 2 is larger or smaller than the standard value.

Next, based on the comparison result of the comparison unit 20, the suggestion unit 21 sends the information of the nutrition values of a plurality of dishes in the nutrition value information storage unit 18 to the user of the user terminal 2 and then to the user. A dish to be eaten is selected, and information on the dish is output to the transmitting unit 7 as proposal information. For example, if the comparison result of the comparison unit 20 is that the intake amount of salt of the user is larger than the standard value, the suggestion unit 21 outputs information on the low salt dish to the transmission unit 7 as proposal information.

Thereafter, the transmitting unit 7 transmits the information of the low salt dish from the suggesting unit 21 to the user terminal 2 via the first I / F 8, and in the user terminal 2, the receiving unit 11 transmits the information via the second I / F 9. To input information of the low salt dish and display it on the display unit 14.

The user uses the information on the low salt dish displayed on the display unit 14 as a reference for the dish to be eaten next.

As described above, in the system center 1, the third memory 19 records the information of the food corresponding to the cooking program selected by the selection unit 6 every day, thereby recovering the health in consideration of the nutritional value. The cooking information is displayed on the display unit 14.

In the second embodiment, the first instruction unit 1 is used as the attribute information input means of the present invention.
0, a standard nutritional value calculation unit 17 as a standard nutritional value calculation means,
The third memory 19 was used as the dish information recording means, the nutrition value information storage unit 18 was used as the nutrition value information storage means, and the comparison unit 20 was used as the comparison means. In addition, a proposal unit 21 is used as a proposal means of the present invention.

Further, in the above-described second embodiment, the comparison unit 20 shows an example in which only the salt content in the nutritional value is compared. However, the comparison unit 20 determines the calorie (energy) and the calcium content in the nutritional value. Etc. may be compared. In addition, the salt, calorie (energy), calcium and the like may be compared in a complex manner. In this case as well, the suggestion unit 21 only needs to select a dish to be eaten next to the user based on the comparison result of the comparison unit 20 and output information on the dish to the transmission unit 7 as proposal information.

In the second embodiment described above, the attribute information input by the user to the first instruction unit 10 is all information of the user's gender, age, height, and weight. The information may be partial information of gender, age, height, and weight.

Further, in the above-described second embodiment, the standard nutrition value calculation unit 17, the nutrition value information storage unit 18, the third memory 19, the comparison unit 20, and the proposal unit 21 are provided in the system center 1. The standard nutrition value calculation unit 17, the nutrition value information storage unit 18, the third memory 19, the comparison unit 20, and the proposal unit 21 may be provided in the user terminal 2. Also in this case, the standard nutrition value calculation unit 17 receives the attribute information of the user from the first instruction unit 10 and calculates the value of the standard nutrition value to be consumed by the user. The dish information indicating what the dish corresponding to the cooking program selected by the first selecting unit 6 is is recorded. Then, the comparison unit 20 compares the value of the standard nutrition value from the standard nutrition value calculation unit 17 with the value of the third memory 19.
Is compared with the nutritional value information recorded in the nutritional value information storage unit 18 using the nutritional value information.

(Embodiment 3) The configuration of a cooking system according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention will be described along with its operation.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram showing a cooking system according to the third embodiment of the present invention. The difference between the cooking system according to the third embodiment and the cooking system according to the first embodiment is that the cooking system according to the third embodiment is different from the cooking system according to the first embodiment in the system center 1. Fourth memory 22, section identification unit 23, extraction unit 24
Is provided. Therefore, in the third embodiment, only points different from the first embodiment will be described.

In the system center 1, the transmitting unit 7
Sets the cooking program selected by the selection unit 6 to the first
The information is transmitted to the user terminal 2 via the I / F 8 and the information on the type of food corresponding to the selected cooking program is output to the fourth memory 22.

Then, the fourth memory 22 inputs and accumulates a plurality of dish information from the transmission unit 7, and the section specifying unit 23
From the plurality of dishes information stored in the fourth memory 22, it is determined whether each of the plurality of dishes corresponds to, for example, Japanese, Western, or Chinese in the type of FIG. Identify what type is.

Next, the extracting section 24 extracts all the dishes of the type specified by the section specifying section 23 from the first memory 5 and outputs them to the transmitting section 7. Here, for convenience of the following description, it is assumed that the type of dish specified by the section specifying unit 23 is Chinese. In this case, the extraction unit 24
Extracts all Chinese dishes from the first memory 5,
Output to the transmission unit 7. Then, the transmission unit 7 includes the extraction unit 24
All Chinese cuisine information extracted by
The information is transmitted to the user terminal 2 via F8, and in the user terminal 2, the receiving unit 11 receives all the Chinese cuisine information via the second I / F 9 and outputs the Chinese cuisine information to the display unit 14. . After that, the display unit 14 displays the
All the Chinese cuisine information extracted by the extraction unit 24 is displayed.

In this way, the section specifying section 23 specifies which type of dish is the most, and the extracting section 2
4 extracts all the information of the specified type of dish from the first memory 5 based on the specification, so that new information is added to the first memory 5;
Even if information already stored is updated,
Among the added or updated information, the information on the type of dish specified by the section specifying unit 23 is stored in the user terminal 2.
Will be displayed on the display unit 14. This means that the type of dish specified by the section specifying unit 23 reflects the preference of the user. Therefore, when the information in the first memory 5 is added or updated, the user can select the type of dish of the favorite type. Means that the latest information can be obtained with priority.

Further, in the above-described third embodiment, the section specifying unit 23 determines from the plurality of pieces of dish information stored in the fourth memory 22 that each of the plurality of dishes is one of the types shown in FIG. Was determined, and the most common type of dish was identified. However, based on the plurality of dish information stored in the fourth memory 22, the section identification unit 23 determines that each of the plurality of dishes corresponds to any of the material classification in FIG. 2B and the cooking method in FIG. 2C. 2 (b) or (c) may be specified. Alternatively, it may be possible to specify what is the most common combination among the combinations of FIGS. 2A, 2B, and 2C. For example, the Chinese of FIG. 2A, the fish and shellfish of FIG.
It is specified that the combination of baking (c) is the largest.

In the third embodiment described above, the fourth memory 22, the section specifying unit 23, and the extracting unit 24 are provided in the system center 1, but the fourth memory 22,
The section identification unit 23 and the extraction unit 24 may be provided in the user terminal 2. Also in this case, the section identification unit 23
Is obtained from a plurality of dish information stored in the fourth memory 22.
It is only necessary to specify which type of dish is the most, and the extracting unit 24 only needs to extract all the dishes of the type specified by the section specifying unit 23 from the first memory 5.

Further, in the above-described third embodiment, the section specifying unit 23 determines from the plurality of pieces of dish information stored in the fourth memory 22 that each of the plurality of dishes is one of the types shown in FIG. To determine which food type is the most common,
The classification specifying unit 23 may specify a type of a plurality of types of cooking information stored in the fourth memory 22 that exceeds a predetermined ratio. In short, as long as the ratio exceeds the predetermined ratio, not only the most types but also the types exceeding the predetermined ratio may be specified.

In the above-described first to third embodiments,
FIG. 19 shows an example in which the number of user terminals 2 is one.
, The user terminal 2 may be plural. Each of the plurality of user terminals 2 and the system center 1
Are the same as those described in the first to third embodiments, and operate independently of each other.

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As is apparent from the above description, the present invention can provide a convenient cooking system for adding or updating a cooking program for a new dish to a stored cooking program. .

The present invention can also provide a cooking system that contributes to improving the operability of cooking of a plurality of cooking devices.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a cooking system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a menu list created by a first memory of a system center of a cooking system according to a first embodiment of the present invention; a first instruction unit of a user terminal inputs an instruction from a user; Illustration of Sai

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a menu list created by a first memory 5 of the system center 1 of the cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 “Seafood doria” in the menu list of FIG. 3
Figure showing an example of a menu

FIG. 5 is an output of a halftone image displayed on a display, showing a cooking finish image of “seafood doria” used in Embodiment 1 of the present invention, from a printer;
It is a photograph replacing a drawing.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing ingredients in a “seafood doria” recipe used in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a cooking procedure in a recipe of “seafood doria” used in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing basic cooking control data based on the first cooking control data set in the rice cooker 3 of the cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing basic cooking control data based on second cooking control data set in the oven 4 of the cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 shows the “hardness of rice” and the “time of rice spotting” of “seafood doria” used in the first embodiment of the present invention.
Diagram for explaining

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing ingredients for four persons in a “seafood doria” recipe used in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a cooking procedure that satisfies the cooking conditions for four persons in the “seafood doria” recipe used in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing information on “the relationship between the hardness of rice and the water level” held by the program changing unit 13 of the cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing first cooking control data set in the rice cooker 3 of the cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing second cooking control data set in the oven 4 of the cooking system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a block diagram of a cooking system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example of nutritional value information included in the nutritional value information storage unit 18 of the cooking system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram of a cooking system according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a block diagram of a cooking system according to an embodiment of the present invention, which is different from FIG. 1, 16 or 18.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 System center 2 User terminal 3 Rice cooker 4 Oven 5 1st memory 6 Selection part 7 Transmission part 8 1st I / F 9 2nd I / F 10 1st indication part 11 Receiving part 12 2nd memory 13 Program change part 14 Display part 15 Second Instruction Unit 16 Transmission / Reception Unit 17 Standard Nutrition Value Calculation Unit 18 Nutrition Value Information Storage Unit 19 Third Memory 20 Comparison Unit 21 Proposal Unit 22 Fourth Memory 23 Division Identification Unit 24 Extraction Unit

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Junji Yoshida 4-1-2, Hiranocho, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Inside Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A transmitting device for transmitting a cooking program including a recipe and cooking control data of a predetermined dish, a receiving device for receiving a cooking program from the transmitting device, and transmitting cooking control data in the cooking program. A transmitting device;
A cooking device that receives the cooking control data from the receiving and transmitting device and uses the data for cooking; the transmitting device stores a cooking program including recipes and cooking control data of a plurality of dishes; and the storage. Selecting means for selecting one of the cooking programs stored in the means, and first transmitting means for transmitting the cooking program selected by the selecting means to the transmitting / receiving apparatus, the receiving / transmitting apparatus A user inputting an instruction to select any one of a plurality of cooking programs stored in the storage unit, and transmitting the instruction to the selection unit; and cooking from the transmission unit. Receiving means for receiving the program, display means for displaying a recipe in the cooking program received by the receiving means, and display of the cooking program received by the receiving means And a second transmission means for transmitting the Kano cooking control data to the cooking apparatus, wherein the selecting means, cooking system, characterized by selecting the cooking program based on an instruction from said instruction means. 2. The storage device according to claim 1, further comprising: a cooking program including a recipe and cooking control data of another dish, in addition to the stored cooking program, based on an operation of an administrator of the transmission device. The cooking system according to claim 1, wherein the cooking system stores the information. 3. The cooking system according to claim 1, wherein said storage means updates all or a part of the stored cooking program based on an operation of an administrator of said transmission device. 4. A storage means for storing the selected cooking program in the selection means, and a cooking condition input from the user, and the contents of the cooking program stored in the storage means are changed based on the cooking condition. The display means displays a recipe in the cooking program after being changed by the program changing means, and the second transmitting means displays the recipe after being changed by the program changing means. The cooking system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein cooking control data in a cooking program is transmitted to the cooking device. 5. Attribute information input means for inputting attribute information of the user, and standard nutrient value calculation for calculating a standard nutrient value to be consumed by the user from the attribute information input by the attribute information input means. Means, a dish information recording means for inputting and recording information on a dish corresponding to the cooking program selected by the selection means, a nutritive value information accumulating means for accumulating information on the nutritional values of a plurality of dishes, the standard nutrition A standard value calculated by the price calculating means, and a comparing means for comparing the information on the nutritional value of the dish recorded in the dish information recording means among the information stored in the nutritional value information storing means. The cooking system according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a comparison result compared by the comparison unit. 6. A dish which the user should ingest next based on a comparison result compared by the comparing means and information on a plurality of dishes stored in the nutrition value information accumulating means. The cooking system according to claim 5, further comprising: a suggestion unit that proposes a dish; and wherein the display unit displays a dish suggested by the proposal unit. 7. A storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of food information corresponding to a cooking program selected by the selection means, and a classification of dishes of the plurality of pieces of food information stored by the storage means.
A section specifying unit that specifies a section exceeding a predetermined ratio; and an extracting unit that extracts all or a part of the cooking programs stored in the storage unit that match the section specified by the section specifying unit. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays information on the cooking program extracted by the extraction unit.
The cooking system according to any one of the above.