CN115114304A

CN115114304A - Food material management program and food material management system

Info

Publication number: CN115114304A
Application number: CN202210026891.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 小林大谨
Original assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products and Services Corp
Current assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products and Services Corp
Priority date: 2021-03-09
Filing date: 2022-01-11
Publication date: 2022-09-27
Also published as: JP2022138049A

Abstract

Provided are a food material management program and a food material management system which can improve the convenience of use. The food material management program of the embodiment comprises: registering a shopping list of food materials which a user plans to purchase; registering a food material list of the food materials purchased by the user; and managing the shopping list and the food material list, wherein when the food material is included in the purchased product list acquired by the user, only the food material is extracted from the purchased product list and registered in the food material list.

Description

Food material management program and food material management system

Technical Field

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a food material management program and a food material management system.

Background

A food material management system for managing food materials stored in a refrigerator is proposed. Such a food material management system is expected to improve convenience of use.

Documents of the prior art

Patent document

Patent document 1: japanese patent laid-open No. 2014-59787

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention has been made to solve the problem of providing a food material management program and a food material management system that can improve the convenience of use.

Means for solving the problems

The food material management program of the embodiment includes a shopping list, a food material list, and a management process. The shopping list registers ingredients that the user plans to purchase. A food item list registers the food items purchased by the user. The management process manages the shopping list and the food material list. And when the food materials are contained in the purchased item list acquired by the user, extracting only the food materials from the purchased item list and registering the extracted food materials in the food material list.

Effects of the invention

According to the food material management program of the present embodiment, it is possible to improve convenience of use.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a food material management system according to a first embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a front view showing the refrigerator of the present embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control unit of the refrigerator according to the present embodiment.

Fig. 4 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a control unit of the refrigerator according to the present embodiment.

Fig. 5 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the terminal device according to the present embodiment.

Fig. 6 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the material management program according to the present embodiment.

Fig. 7 is a diagram showing an example of contents of the material list DB according to the present embodiment.

Fig. 8 is a diagram showing an example of contents of the shopping list DB according to the present embodiment.

Fig. 9 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the home book application of the present embodiment.

Fig. 10 is a flowchart illustrating control of the food material management program according to the present embodiment.

Fig. 11 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the terminal device according to the second embodiment.

Fig. 12 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of the food material management system according to the third embodiment.

Description of the reference numerals

1. 1B … food material management system, 100 … refrigerator, 300 … router, 400a … terminal device, 440 … information processing section (processing section), 500 … server system, 600 … food material management program, 601 … food material list DB (first list), 602 … shopping list DB (second list), NW … network, 605 … first control application APP, 606 … second control application APP, 607 … home ledger application.

Detailed Description

(first embodiment)

Hereinafter, a food material management program and a food material management system according to an embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following description, the same reference numerals are given to components having the same or similar functions. Moreover, a repetitive description of these configurations may be omitted. "based on XX" means "based on at least XX", and may include a case where it is based on another element in addition to XX. "XX-based" is not limited to the case of using XX directly, and may include a case of obtaining XX through calculation and processing. "XX or YY" is not limited to one of XX and YY, and may include both XX and YY. "XX" and "YY" are arbitrary elements (for example, arbitrary information). Hereinafter, the "database" is referred to as "DB".

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a food material management system 1 according to the present embodiment. The food material management system 1 of the present embodiment is a system configured to manage the amount of food material that a user plans to purchase and the amount of food material that the user purchases and stores in a refrigerator. As shown in fig. 1, the food material management system 1 of the present embodiment includes, for example, at least a refrigerator 100, a home-use router 300, and a terminal device 400 held and used by a user. The network NW to be described later includes, for example, one or more of the internet, a cellular network, a Wi-Fi network, a wan (wide Area network), a lan (local Area network), a public line, a telephone line, a radio base station, and the like. For example, the router 300 is a wireless router provided in a home for connecting to the network NW, but is not limited thereto.

Refrigerator 100 is disposed at a predetermined location in a home including a user. The refrigerator 100 is connected to a network NW via the router 300, for example, and can communicate with the terminal device 400. However, the manner in which the refrigerator 100 and the terminal apparatus 400 are connected is not limited thereto. For example, when the refrigerator 100 and the terminal device 400 are close to each other, they may be directly connected by the short-range communication function.

The terminal device 400 is, for example, a portable terminal device owned by a user, and is a general-purpose smart phone, a tablet terminal device, or the like. The terminal device 400 is connected to a network NW and can communicate with the refrigerator 100. The terminal device 400 is provided with a device control application (hereinafter, sometimes referred to as a "control application") for managing food and remotely operating the refrigerator 100, and a home ledger application 607 (hereinafter, sometimes referred to as a "home ledger application 607") for recording histories of places, dates, amounts, and the like of various daily necessities including food purchased by a user. However, the terminal apparatus 400 is not limited to the above example, and may be a television receiver or the like having a personal computer, an input function, or the like.

The refrigerator 100 and the terminal device 400 according to the present embodiment will be described in detail below.

(constitution of refrigerator)

Fig. 2 is a front view showing the refrigerator 100. The refrigerator 100 includes, for example, a cabinet 110, a plurality of doors 130, a display device 140, an actuator 150, and a control unit 160. A plurality of storage chambers (storage chambers) 120 are provided inside the cabinet 110. The plurality of storage compartments 120 include, for example, a refrigerating compartment 121, a fresh food compartment 122, a vegetable compartment 123, an ice making compartment 124, a small refrigerating compartment 125, and a main refrigerating compartment 126. In the present embodiment, refrigerating room 121 is disposed at the uppermost portion, vegetable room 123 is disposed below refrigerating room 121, ice making room 124 and small cooling room 125 are disposed below vegetable room 123, and main cooling room 126 is disposed below ice making room 124 and small cooling room 125. However, the configuration of the storage chamber 120 is not limited to the above example. The plurality of storage chambers 120 are openably and closably closed by a plurality of doors 130.

The display device 140 is a liquid crystal display, an organic el (electro luminescence) display, or the like, and includes a display screen 141 capable of displaying images and/or videos. The display device 140 includes a touch sensor 142 provided to overlap the display screen 141. The actuator 150 includes a compressor that compresses the cooling refrigerant and sends the compressed cooling refrigerant to the cooler, a blower that sends the cooled air cooled by the cooler to each storage chamber 120, and the like. However, in the refrigerator 100 of the present embodiment, the display device 140 is not an essential component. For example, refrigerator 100 and terminal device 400 may communicate via network NW to display information displayed on display device 140 on terminal device 400.

The control unit 160 controls the display device 140 and the actuator 150. For example, the control unit 160 can receive an operation of the display screen 141 by the user via the touch sensor 142. By controlling actuator 150, control unit 160 can execute functions of refrigerator 100 such as changing a set temperature range of each storage compartment 120 of refrigerator 100, changing a control mode of fresh food compartment 122, "rapid cooling" for rapidly cooling

refrigeration rooms

126 and 126 as compared with a normal operation, and "rapid ice making" for rapidly making ice as compared with a normal operation.

As shown in fig. 3, control unit 160 includes an information processing unit 1601, a memory 1602, a storage unit 1603, and an input control unit 1604. In the present embodiment, for example, information processing unit 1601 reads and executes an application stored in storage unit 1603 into memory 1602, thereby controlling the operation status of refrigerator 100. The input control unit 1604 can control the operating state of the refrigerator 100 by processing the operation of the display screen 141 by the user and transmitting an instruction to the information processing unit 1601.

Fig. 4 is a block diagram showing functions of the control unit 160 of the refrigerator 100 according to the present embodiment. As shown in fig. 4, the information processing unit 1601 of the control unit 160 includes, for example, an instruction receiving unit 521, a registration information management unit 522, a display control unit 523, a determination unit 524, a control mode changing unit 525, a control instruction generating unit 526, and a response generating unit 527. The information processing unit 1601 is an example of a "processing unit".

The instruction receiving unit 521 can receive information indicating an operation directly input to the refrigerator 100 by a user (an operation performed by the user on the display screen 141 of the display device 140). The instruction receiving unit 521 can also receive information indicating the user operation (the user operation on the display screen 411 of the terminal device 400) received by the operation receiving unit 441 of the terminal device 400, which will be described later, from the terminal device 400 via the communication module 510. The instruction receiving unit 521 outputs the received information to the registration information management unit 522.

The registration information manager 522 updates various DBs (the material list DB601, the trash DB 603, the candidate list DB 604, and the like) described later based on the information received from the instruction accepting unit 521. In the present embodiment, the registration information management unit 522 receives information obtained by analysis by the determination unit 524 described later, and updates the various DBs based on the obtained information. The registration information manager 522 will be described in detail later. In the following description, "user operation" or "user input" refers to a user operation received by the instruction receiving unit 521.

The display control unit 523 generates display data including an image or video to be displayed on the display screen 411 of the terminal device 400 and a control signal based on the contents of the various DBs. The display controller 523 transmits the generated display data and control signal to the terminal device 400 via the communication module 510. The control signal generated by the display control unit 523 is a control signal for operating the display device control unit 442 of the terminal apparatus 400. Here, "to display on the display screen" does not mean to display an image or video on the display screen 411 by the display device control section 442 of the terminal apparatus 400, and may include displaying an image or video on the display screen 411 by externally providing display data and/or a control signal to the terminal apparatus 400.

However, in the present embodiment, the display controller 523 may generate display data and control signals including images or videos to be displayed on the display screen 141 of the display device 140 of the refrigerator 100 based on the contents of the various DBs. In this case, the control signal generated by the display control unit 523 is a control signal for operating the display device 140.

Determination unit 524 determines whether or not to change the operating state of refrigerator 100 based on information transmitted from terminal device 400, which will be described later. More specifically, the determination unit 524 determines whether or not to change the operation state of the refrigerator 100 based on the states of the food material list DB601 and the shopping list DB602 of the food material management program 600, which will be described later. When determining that the operating state of refrigerator 100 is to be changed based on the information of material management program 600, determination unit 524 causes control mode changing unit 525 to perform control for changing the operating state of refrigerator 100. The operation of the determination unit 524 will be described in detail later.

Control mode changing unit 525 performs control for changing the operating state of refrigerator 100 based on the determination result of determining unit 524. Control mode changing unit 525 causes control instruction generating unit 526 to generate a control signal for changing the operation state of refrigerator 100, based on the determination result of determining unit 524. The operation of the control mode changing unit 525 will be described in detail later.

In response to the control of control mode changing unit 525, control instruction generating unit 526 generates a control instruction for changing the operating state of refrigerator 100 and transmits the control instruction to refrigerator 100. In this way, refrigerator 100 drives actuator 150 based on the control instruction generated by control instruction generating unit 526, thereby realizing the control desired by the user.

The configuration of the refrigerator 100 of the present embodiment is not limited to the above example. For example, the refrigerator 100 may also have a camera 170 provided inside the cabinet 110 or the door 130. In this case, the image of the food material captured by the camera 170 may also be used for food material management. This will be described later.

As shown in fig. 4, for example, a material list DB601, a trash DB 603, a candidate list DB 604, and a control application APP 605 are stored in the storage unit 1603 of the control unit 160.

In the following, for convenience of explanation, an example in which the plurality of DBs are present is shown as the DB for managing food materials, but these DBs may be integrally provided and managed by adding identification information (for example, tags) indicating that the identification information is displayed in a specific list (food material list, shopping list, and candidate list) described later to registration of each food material. The processing (e.g., registration, deletion, and confirmation of food materials) performed on the various DBs described below is executed by the registration information manager 522.

Fig. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the material list DB 601. The "food material list" is a list of food materials that the management user has. The "food material list" is an example of the "first list". In the present embodiment, the food material list DB601 registers stock food materials in the refrigerator 100 placed in the house of the user.

In the material list DB601, for each material, "management ID", "material name", "material classification", "storage location", "purchase date", "expiration date" (or "expiration date"), "number", "unit", and "history" are registered in association with each other. "per-food material" means, for example, the same food material purchased at the same time. In other words, even if the same category, a material purchased at another date and time different from the material purchased at the certain date and time is registered as another material. The "purchase date" as used herein means a registration date when a specific food material is newly registered, that is, a date of increase in the stock quantity, and is used in a sense including a case where an obtaining route of the food material is not purchased.

The "food material classification" refers to the division of food materials. In the present embodiment, 16 food material categories of "vegetables", "fruits", "meats", "seafood/seaweed", "egg/dairy products", "bean/bean products", "processed foods", "rice/bread", "noodles", "beverages", "frozen foods", "dessert", "seasonings", "spices", "side dishes", and "others" are set as the "food material categories". However, the above-described division is an example, and the division of the food material classification can be appropriately set.

The "storage place" refers to a place where food materials are stored. In the present embodiment, 4 kinds of storage places, that is, "refrigerating room", "vegetable room", "refrigerating room", and "other", are set as the "storage places". The "refrigerating compartment" corresponds to an area where the refrigerating compartment 121 and the fresh food compartment 122 are combined. The "vegetable room" corresponds to vegetable room 123. The "refrigerating compartment" corresponds to an area where the small refrigerating compartment 125 and the main refrigerating compartment 126 are combined. The "others" correspond to the storage places outside the refrigerator 100.

However, the above division is an example, and the division of the storage location can be set as appropriate. For example, the refrigerating compartment 121 and the fresh food compartment 122 may be divided into different storage locations. The small refrigeration compartment 125 and the main refrigeration compartment 126 may be divided into different storage locations. Further, the storage space may be divided into the "uppermost layer of the refrigerating compartment" and the "right-door storage box of the refrigerating compartment" as finely divided. The "storage location" may also be referred to as a "storage room" or a "storage area". Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, the concept of the fresh food compartment 122 may be included in the case of being referred to as "refrigerating compartment 121", and the concept of the small refrigerating compartment 125 may be included in the case of being referred to as "refrigerating compartment 126".

The latest number of food materials is registered in the "number". In the "history", when the food material is decreased, information indicating the decreased number, the decreased date and time, and the like is registered.

The registration information management unit 522 registers, deletes, and confirms the food materials in the food material list DB601, for example, based on the user operation. In the present embodiment, the registration information management unit 522 notifies the terminal device 400 of the existence of a food material whose expiration date (or due date) is close to a predetermined number of days (for example, one day) before the expiration date (or due date) of the food material registered in the food material list DB 601. The notification is displayed as a push notification on the display screen 411 of the terminal apparatus 400. When the food material registered in the food material list DB601 has passed its shelf life (or due date), the registration information management unit 522 automatically deletes the food material having passed its shelf life (or due date) from the food material list DB601, and moves to register the food material in the trash DB 603 and the candidate list DB 604, which will be described later.

The food deleted from the food list DB601 is temporarily registered in the trash DB 603. For example, the food registered in the food list DB601 is consumed, and the food deleted from the food list DB based on the user's operation is registered in the trash DB 603. In the present embodiment, among the food materials registered in the food material list DB, the food materials that are automatically deleted from the food material list DB by the registration management part 522 due to the expiration date (or due date) being exceeded are also registered in the trash can DB 603. The food materials registered in the trash DB 603 can be registered again in the food material list DB by the user's operation. The food material registered in the trash DB 603 is automatically deleted from the trash DB 603 after a predetermined period (for example, three days) has elapsed from the registration date in the trash DB 603. Further, even if a food whose expiration date (or expiration date) has passed is registered in the food list DB601, the food may be deleted by waiting for a user operation without being automatically deleted from the food list DB 601. Similarly, the food registered in the trash DB 603 may be deleted by waiting for the user's operation, and a period until automatic deletion is not provided. In the trash DB 603, "management ID", "food name", "food classification", and "registration date registered in the trash DB 603" are registered in association with each food.

The "candidate list" is a list that can be supplementarily referred to by the user to prevent forgetting to purchase, and is a list of food materials that are purchase candidates for which the user's purchase plan (e.g., explicit purchase intention) is not confirmed. The "candidate list" is an example of information urging the user to purchase the food material based on the decrease in the stock of the food material. The "candidate list" is purchase recommendation information, and is generated by, for example, a deletion operation of a food material registered in the food material list DB 601. In the candidate list DB 604, for example, "management ID", "food name", "food classification", and "registration date registered in the candidate list DB 604" are registered in association with each food.

The first control application APP 605 is a part of the material management program 600 described later. More specifically, the first control application APP 605 stored in the storage unit 1603 of the control unit 160 of the refrigerator 100 manages the ingredient list DB 601. Further, the first control application APP 605 realizes the function of the food management program 600 in cooperation with the second control application APP 606 stored in the terminal apparatus 400. The food material management program 600 will be described in detail later.

(constitution of terminal Equipment)

Fig. 5 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the terminal device 400. The terminal device 400 includes, for example, a display device 410, a wireless communication module 420, a storage unit 430, and an information processing unit 440. The display device 410 is a liquid crystal display, an organic EL display, or the like, and includes a display screen 411 capable of displaying images and/or videos. The display device 410 includes a touch sensor 412 provided so as to overlap the display screen 411. The wireless communication module 420 includes a high-frequency circuit, an antenna, and the like, and can be connected to the network NW.

The storage unit 430 stores a second control application APP 606 for performing food management, remote operation of the refrigerator 100, and the like, and other various general-purpose applications. For example, the storage unit 430 of the present embodiment stores a shopping list DB602 of the food material management program 600, which will be described later, and a home ledger application 607 as an example of a general application. All or a part of the information Processing unit 440 is realized by executing the application program by a hardware processor such as a cpu (central Processing unit) mounted in the terminal device 400.

The information processing unit 440 includes, for example, an operation receiving unit 441, a display device control unit 442, and a data transmitting/receiving unit 443. The information processing unit 440 is an example of a "processing unit".

Fig. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the shopping list DB 602. The "shopping list" is a list that can be referred to by the user when shopping to prevent forgetting to purchase, and is a list of food materials for which the user's purchase plan (e.g., explicit desire to purchase) has been confirmed. The "shopping list" is an example of the "second list" and is a list having a higher purchase probability than the above-described candidate list. However, the "shopping list" is not limited to the explicit purchase intention of the user, and may include a material registered by estimation based on the stock intention of the user (intention of a certain material as stock). The food material registered in the "shopping list" is registered in the "shopping list" by moving from the "candidate list" to the "shopping list" based on the intention of the user (operation of the user), for example, after being registered in the "candidate list" at one time. In addition, the food materials registered in the "shopping list" may be directly registered to the "shopping list" based on the operation of the user without via the candidate list. The "shopping list" is displayed on the display screen 411 of the terminal device 400.

The food materials displayed as the "shopping list" are registered in the shopping list DB 602. In the shopping list DB602, "management ID", "food name", "food classification", "number", and "unit" are registered in association with each food. The registration information management unit 522 registers, deletes, and confirms food materials with respect to the shopping list DB602 based on the user operation.

The operation receiving unit 441 receives a user operation on the display screen 411 via the touch sensor 412. The data transmitting/receiving unit 443 controls the wireless communication module 420 to transmit and receive control signals and data to and from the server system 500. The data transmitting/receiving unit 443 transmits information indicating the operation content of the user received by the operation receiving unit 441 to the server system 500. The data transmitting/receiving unit 443 outputs a display-related control instruction and display data received from the server system 500 to the display device control unit 442. The display device control unit 442 displays an image or video included in the display data received from the server system 500 on the display screen 411 based on the control instruction received from the server system 500.

The configuration of the terminal device 400 of the present embodiment is not limited to the above example. For example, the terminal device 400 may also have a camera 450. In this case, the image of the food material captured by the camera 450 or the receipt image at the time of shopping may be used for food material management. This will be described later.

(composition of food Material management program)

Fig. 6 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a material management program 600 according to the present embodiment. As shown in fig. 6, the food material management program 600 includes a food material list DB601, a shopping list DB, a first control application APP 605, and a second control application APP 606. In the present embodiment, the material list DB601 and the first control application APP 605 of the material management program 600 are stored in the storage section 1603 of the control section 160 of the refrigerator 100. On the other hand, shopping list DB602 and second control application APP 606 are stored in storage section 403 of terminal device 400. That is, the material management program 600 of the present embodiment associates the material list DB601 with the shopping list DB602 in cooperation with the first control application APP 605 and the second control application APP 606 by communicating with the terminal device 400 through the refrigerator 100.

As described above, the home ledger application 607 is stored in the storage unit 403 of the terminal device 400, for example. The terminal device 400 can analyze an image of a receipt or the like acquired by the camera 450 and register detailed information of a purchase of the user with the home ledger application 607.

Fig. 9 shows an example of a screen of the home ledger application 607 displayed on the display screen 411 of the display device 410 of the terminal apparatus 400. As shown in fig. 9, the commodities purchased by the user include food materials (pork and cabbage) and daily necessities (detergent, towel, and shampoo) other than the food materials. As a result of the image analysis, the name of the purchased product and the amount of money thereof are registered in the home book application 607.

The food material management program 600 of the present embodiment manages, by a processing unit not shown, a food material list DB601 stored in the refrigerator 100 in cooperation with a shopping list DB602 stored in the terminal device 400 held by the user. The functions of the processing unit of the food management program 600 are realized, for example, by processing an application program stored in the storage unit 1603 of the refrigerator 100 and an application program stored in the terminal device 400 held by the user in the information processing unit 1601 of the refrigerator 100 and the information processing unit 440 of the terminal device 400, respectively.

For example, when the refrigerator 100 is installed in a predetermined place (for example, in the home of the user), the application corresponding to the food management program 600 is installed in the terminal device 400 held by the user, whereby the terminal device 400 held by the user is associated with the refrigerator 100. In this case, the home book application 607, which has been stored in the terminal device 400, is coordinated with the food material management program 600.

Hereinafter, the flow of food material management by the food material management program 600 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in fig. 10.

Before purchasing a product, the user can register information of food materials of the purchase plan in the shopping list DB602 of the terminal device 400 as necessary. When registering information of ingredients of a purchase plan, a user can manually input the name, number, and the like of a product of the purchase plan based on his/her own purchase intention. As described above, the name, number, and the like of the product planned for purchase can be automatically registered in the shopping list DB602 based on the number, shelf life, and the like of the food materials registered in the food material list DB601 stored in the refrigerator 100. Further, the information about the food materials registered in the candidate list stored in the refrigerator 100 may be transmitted to the terminal device 400 and displayed on the display screen 411 of the display device 410 of the terminal device 400, so that the user can select a product planned for purchase and register the product in the shopping list DB 602. The user can also determine the food material registered in the shopping list DB602 by combining the above methods. After registering food materials in the shopping list DB602, the user makes a shopping.

As shown in fig. 10, the user purchases an article, and registers the purchased article in the home ledger application 607 of the terminal apparatus 400 (step S10). At this time, the user does not need to manually input information of the purchased product, and for example, a receipt is captured using the camera 450 of the terminal device 400, and the home ledger application 607 performs image recognition on the acquired image, thereby acquiring and registering the name, the number, the amount, and the like of the purchased product.

When the registration of the purchased items with the home ledger application 607 is completed, the food material management program 600 proceeds to the next step S11.

In the food material management program 600, the second control application APP 606 stored in the terminal device 400 cooperates with the home book application 607 to acquire a list of purchased articles from the home book 607. The second control application APP 606 confirms whether or not the purchased item list acquired from the home book application 607 contains the food material (step S11). In step S11, the food material management program 600 can check the purchased products using various well-known methods. For example, the food material management program 600 may check the purchased item using a keyword of the name of the registered food material, a given management code, or the like, and determine whether or not the purchased item contains the food material. In step S11, when the food management program 600 determines that the purchased item contains a food material (yes in step S11), the second control application APP 606 extracts only information of the food material and transmits the information to the first control application APP 605 stored in the refrigerator 100. The information of the food material includes, for example, the name, number, and management code of the food material.

The first control application APP 605 receives information of the food material transmitted by the second control application APP 606. Next, the food material management program 600 proceeds to step S12.

If the food material management program 600 determines in step S11 that no food material is contained in the purchased goods (no in step S11), the flow proceeds to step S16, and the food material management process ends.

In step S12, in a case where the food material management program 600 includes a food material in a purchased item, the first control application APP 605 registers only information of the food material in the food material list DB 601.

Next, the food material management program 600 proceeds to the next step S13.

In step S13, the food material management program 600 controls the internal temperature of the refrigerator 100 so as to temporarily decrease from the normal temperature. The food material management program 600 can lower the temperature inside the refrigerator 100 at an appropriate timing after the food material is registered to the food material list DB 601. For example, the temperature inside the refrigerator 100 can be lowered at a timing before the food is registered in the food list DB601 and the food is put into the refrigerator 100. However, in the present embodiment, the configuration of the food material management program 600 is not limited to this. For example, the temperature in the refrigerator 100 may be temporarily decreased from the normal temperature at the timing when the food is registered in the food list DB601 and actually put in the refrigerator 100. Further, the temperature in refrigerator 100 may be temporarily decreased from the temperature at the normal time at a timing when the temperature in refrigerator 100 is increased after the food is registered in food list DB601 and actually put in refrigerator 100.

In the present embodiment, the food material management program 600 can adjust the temperature in the refrigerator 100 to a temperature suitable for storing the registered food material by controlling the temperature in the refrigerator 100 to temporarily decrease from the normal temperature. The food material management program 600 may be controlled to decrease the temperature in the refrigerator 100 from the normal temperature by about one hour, or may be stopped at a timing when the temperature in the refrigerator 100 is stabilized at a temperature suitable for storing food materials.

In step S13, the food material management program 600 can perform control for reducing the temperature of the entire refrigerator 100. However, the configuration of the material management program 600 according to the present embodiment is not limited to this. For example, the material management program 600 may determine the type of the material registered in the material list DB601 and temporarily lower the temperature of the storage room corresponding to the type of the material.

The food material management program 600 performs control for temporarily lowering the temperature in the refrigerator 100 according to the type of food material, and then proceeds to step S14.

In step S14, the food material management program 600 checks the food materials registered in the shopping list DB602 of the terminal device 400 against the food materials registered in the food material list DB601 in the refrigerator 100 to determine whether all the food materials registered in the shopping list DB602 are contained in the food material list DB 601. When the food material management program 600 determines that all of the food materials registered in the shopping list DB602 are contained in the food material list DB601 (yes in step S14), it means that all of the food materials scheduled to be purchased have been purchased. Therefore, the food material management program 600 proceeds to step S16, and ends the food material management process.

The food material management program 600 determines that at least a part of the food materials registered in the shopping list DB602 is not included in the food material list DB601 (no in step S14). Here, either of the following two cases is included: a part of the food materials registered in the shopping list DB602 are not contained in the food material list DB601, and the number of the specific food materials registered in the food material list DB601 does not reach the number registered in the shopping list DB 602. That is, it means that at least a part of the food materials of the purchase plan are not purchased among the products purchased by the user at the time of shopping.

When the food material management program 600 determines that at least a part of the food materials registered in the shopping list DB602 is not included in the food material list DB601, the flow proceeds to step S15. The food material management program 600 extracts the food materials that have been registered in the shopping list DB602 and are not registered in the food material list DB601, and reports to the user (step S15).

In step S15, the food material management program 600 urges the user to purchase food materials by reporting to the user food materials that have been registered in the shopping list DB602 and that have not been registered in the food material list DB 601. However, the manner in which the material management program 600 presents the user with the material that is not registered in the material list DB601 is not particularly limited. For example, the food management program 600 may cause the display screen 411 of the display device 410 of the terminal device 400 owned by the user to display the food not registered in the food list DB601 at the top of the shopping list DB 602. The material management program 600 may display, on the display screen 411 of the display device 401 of the terminal apparatus 400 owned by the user, materials that are not registered in the material list DB601 by color characters. The material management program 600 may display a material that is not registered in the material list DB601 on the display screen 411 of the display device 401, and notify the user of the display by vibration or the like.

After the food material management program 600 prompts the user for food materials that are not registered in the food material list DB601, the process returns to step S10, and waits until the user purchases food materials and registers the purchased products in the home ledger application 607.

The steps of food material management by the food material management program 600 of the present embodiment are described above. According to the food material management program 600 of the present embodiment, food materials included in purchased goods registered in the home ledger application 607 are automatically registered in the food material list DB601 of the refrigerator 100. Therefore, the user does not need to manually perform the operation of registering with the food material management program 600, and the convenience of use can be improved.

According to the material management program 600 of the present embodiment, when a material purchased by a user is registered in the material list DB601, the temperature of a storage room in which the material is stored in the refrigerator 100 is temporarily lowered. Therefore, it is possible to achieve both suppression of temperature rise when food is put into refrigerator 100 and reduction of power consumption.

According to the food material management program 600 of the present embodiment, it is possible to present to the user the food materials that have been registered in the shopping list DB602 and that have not been registered in the food material list DB 601. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the user from forgetting to purchase the food material with the purchase plan, and it is possible to improve the convenience of use of the food material management system.

The food material management program 600 according to the present embodiment is configured by a food material list DB601 stored in the refrigerator 100, a shopping list DB602 stored in the terminal device 400 owned by the user, and an application program for managing the food material list DB601 and the shopping list DB602 in cooperation with each other. The material management program 600 can cooperate with a known general-purpose application such as the home book application 607. Therefore, the food stored in the user refrigerator 100 can be grasped in real time, and it is possible to prevent forgetting to purchase the food with the purchase plan and reduce unnecessary purchases.

Hereinafter, an example of the food material management program 600 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to fig. 6 to 9.

As shown in fig. 8, the shopping list DB602 has registered therein the food materials "strawberry", "pork", and "cabbage". The management ID "2000015" of the food material "strawberry", the food material classification "fruit", the number "1", and the unit "package" are registered in the shopping list DB 602. That is, the user plans to purchase a package of fruit, i.e., strawberry. In addition, the food materials "pork" and "cabbage" are also described in the same way.

After the user finishes shopping, details of the purchased items are obtained from the image of the receipt into the home ledger application 607. As shown in fig. 9, the user purchased pork and cabbage as food materials, and detergents, towels, and shampoos as daily necessities other than food materials. Therefore, the food material management program 600 extracts only pork and cabbage of the food material from the purchased goods, transmits information about the pork and the cabbage to the refrigerator 100, and registers the information in the food material list DB601 of the refrigerator 100. As shown in fig. 7, 200g of "pork" and 0.5 "cabbage" of the food material purchased by the user are registered in the food material list DB 601.

At this time, the food material management program 600 collates the food materials registered in the food material list DB601 with the food materials registered in the shopping list DB 602. As shown in fig. 7 and 8, among the food materials registered to the shopping list DB602, "strawberry" is not registered to the food material list DB 601. That is, the user does not purchase the food material "strawberry".

When the food management program 600 determines that the food "strawberry" has not been purchased, as shown in fig. 8, the display screen 411 of the terminal device 400 displays "strawberry" at the top of the shopping list DB602 to urge the user to purchase "strawberry". The user confirms the shopping list DB602 displayed on the display screen 411 of the terminal device 400 and purchases "strawberry".

(second embodiment)

Hereinafter, a food material management program and a food material management system according to a second embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in fig. 11, the food material management program 600A of the present embodiment is different from the food material management program 600 of the first embodiment described above in that both the food material list DB601 and the shopping list DB602 and the second control application APP 606 are stored in the storage section 403 of the terminal device 400.

In the food material management program 600A of the present embodiment, the configurations of the food material list DB601 and the shopping list DB602 are the same as those of the first embodiment described above. The food material management program 600A can manage the food materials held in the refrigerator 100 and the food materials purchased by the user through the same processes as those of the first embodiment described above.

According to the food material management program 600A of the present embodiment, both the food material list DB601 and the shopping list DB602 are stored in the storage unit 403 of the terminal device 400, so that it is not necessary to store the food material list DB601 in the refrigerator 100. The food material management program 600A can manage both the food material list DB601 and the shopping list DB602 through the second control application APP 606. In this case, for example, information about the ingredients registered in the ingredient list DB601 can be displayed on the display screen 411 of the display device 410 on the terminal apparatus 400 side. Therefore, information of food materials stored in refrigerator 100 can be more intuitively presented to the user.

Other configurations of the food material management program 600A of the present embodiment are the same as those of the food material management program 600 of the first embodiment described above. Therefore, the food material management program 600A of the present embodiment has the same effects as the food material management program 600 of the first embodiment.

(third embodiment)

Hereinafter, a food material management program and a food material management system according to a third embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in fig. 12, the food material management system 1B of the present embodiment is different from the food material management system 1 of the first embodiment described above in that it further includes a server system 500.

As shown in fig. 12, the server system 500 is a server system in which various data for food material management are recorded. The server system 500 is configured by a plurality of

server apparatuses

501 and 502, for example. The

server devices

501 and 502 are cloud servers connected to the network NW. For example, the server system 500 includes a first server device 501 for controlling the shopping list DB602 stored in the terminal device 400 of the first embodiment, and a second server device 502 for controlling the device of the refrigerator 100. However, the server system 500 may be configured by one server apparatus, or may be configured by a plurality of three or more server apparatuses. The server system 500 may include an information processing unit that performs edge calculation and fog calculation, such as an information processing unit included in the router 300 and/or an information processing unit included in a router in the network NW. Various functional units described later included in the server system 500 may be present in two or more devices.

In the food material management system 1B of the present embodiment, both the food material list DB601 and the shopping list DB602 are stored in the server system 500. A second control application APP 606 for managing the shopping list DB602 is stored in the terminal device 400, and a first control application APP 605 for managing the food material list DB601 is stored in the refrigerator 100. The user accesses the server system 500 via the second control application APP 606. The user can update or acquire information of the food material list DB601 and the shopping list DB602 by accessing the first server device 501 of the server system 500, for example.

The other configurations of the food material management system 1B of the present embodiment are the same as those of the above-described embodiments. Therefore, the material management system 1B of the present embodiment has the same effects as those of the above-described embodiments. Further, according to the food material management system 1B of the present embodiment, since the information of the food material list DB601 and the shopping list DB602 is stored in the server system 500, it is possible to reduce the information stored in the terminal device 400 and the refrigerator 100, and to improve the security of the information.

While several embodiments of the invention have been described, these embodiments are presented by way of example and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These embodiments may be implemented in other various ways, and various omissions, substitutions, and changes may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are also included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalent scope thereof.

Claims

1. A food material management program comprising:

registering a shopping list of food materials planned to be purchased by a user;

registering a food material list of the food materials purchased by the user; and

a step of managing the shopping list and the food material list,

when an purchased item list in which purchased items of the user are registered is acquired and the food material is included in the purchased item list, only the food material is extracted from the purchased item list and registered in the food material list.

2. The food material management program according to claim 1, comprising the steps of:

when registering the food material in the food material list, the shopping list and the food material list are checked, and the food material which is registered in the shopping list and is not registered in the food material list is reported to the user.

3. The food material management program according to claim 2, comprising the steps of:

displaying the food materials that are registered in the shopping list and that are not registered in the food material list at the top of the shopping list, and reporting to the user.

4. The food material management program according to any one of claims 1 to 3, comprising the steps of:

temporarily decreasing the internal temperature of the refrigerator at any one of a timing of registering the food to the food list, a timing of putting the food into a refrigerator, and a timing of an increase in the internal temperature of the refrigerator due to the putting of the food into the refrigerator.

5. The food material management program of claim 4,

the refrigerator has a plurality of storage compartments respectively corresponding to a plurality of kinds of the foodstuffs,

the material management program includes a step of temporarily reducing only the internal temperature of the storage room corresponding to the material.

6. A food material management system is provided with:

a processing unit for managing the shopping list and the food material list,

the processing unit extracts only the food material from the purchased item list and registers the extracted food material in the food material list when the purchased item list in which the purchased items of the user are registered is acquired and the food material is included in the purchased item list.

7. The food material management system of claim 6,

the processing unit checks the shopping list and the food material list, and reports the food materials that are registered in the shopping list and not registered in the food material list to the user.

8. The food material management system of claim 7,

the processing unit displays the food materials that are not registered in the food material list but registered in the shopping list at the top of the shopping list, and reports the food materials to the user.

9. The food material management system of any one of claims 6-8,

the shopping list is stored in a terminal held by the user,

the list of food materials is stored in a refrigerator,

the processing unit temporarily lowers the internal temperature of the refrigerator at any one of a timing of registering the food material with the food material list, a timing of putting the food material into the refrigerator, and a timing of an increase in the internal temperature of the refrigerator due to the food material being put into the refrigerator.

10. The food material management system of claim 9,

the refrigerator is provided with a plurality of storage chambers corresponding to different kinds of the food materials respectively,

the processing unit performs control to temporarily lower only the internal temperature of the storage room corresponding to the food material.

11. The food material management system of any one of claims 6-8,

the shopping list and the food material list are stored in the terminal held by the user,

the processing unit performs the following control: temporarily decreasing the internal temperature of the refrigerator at any one of a timing of registering the food material to the food material list, a timing of putting the food material into the refrigerator, and a timing of an increase in the internal temperature of the refrigerator due to the putting of the food material into the refrigerator.

12. The food material management system of claim 11,

the refrigerator is provided with a plurality of storage compartments respectively corresponding to different kinds of the foodstuffs,