DE102008034144A1 - Audio signal e.g. theme song, adjusting method for cooking appliance, involves selecting, adjusting, changing and/or storing assigning of audio signal to release action at user side during assigning process - Google Patents

Abstract

The method involves performing an assigning process by determining a release action by an user input such as switching on or switching off of a part of a cooking appliance. The assigning process is performed by determining an audio signal for the release action, and storing the release action with the audio signal in a memory unit i.e. electrically EPROM, of the appliance. An operating program i.e. cooking program, of the appliance is selected. The assigning of the audio signal to the release action is selected, adjusted, changed and/or stored at a user side during the assigning process. An independent claim is also included for a cooking appliance comprising a cooking chamber.

Description

The The present invention relates to a method for adjusting at least one of an audio playback device of a cooking appliance depending on at least one triggering event Audio signal.

Cooking appliances with an integrated audio playback device and an audio recording device allow communication between the cooking appliance and its user, so that a simplified operation of the cooking appliance can be achieved. For example, the WO 96/42185 A1 a cooking appliance with an integrated voice processing unit for acoustic information or instructions to a user, in particular a user with limited vision. It can be provided that z. B. if necessary, acoustic instructions for stirring and / or turning over of food to be generated by a speaker of the cooking appliance. In addition, acoustic information can be output when the cooking chamber door of the cooking appliance is opened or closed, a cooking process step is started or a selected cooking program is completed. Said voice processing unit also allows the recognition of spoken instructions of the user to control work programs in the cooking appliance.

From the DE 20 2007 015 973 U1 is an operating device for a cooking appliance with a trained separately from the cooking device speakerphone known. The hands-free system comprises a voice command input device and a voice output device, in particular in the form of a headset. Via this hands-free device, a user can communicate bidirectionally with the cooking appliance via voice commands and acoustic signals. The communication between the hands-free device and the cooking appliance can be done by radio or via the Internet.

In the WO 03/031876 A1 a programmable cooking appliance is described which communicates acoustically or visually with a user in preparation for a cooking process. The cooking appliance is wirelessly connected to a network, via which data, such as cooking recipes, can be downloaded. When using such a cooking recipe during a cooking process can be issued to a user acoustic or visual instructions, such as the addition of ingredients to the food or to stir food.

Moreover, from the EP 1 653 833 B1 a cooking appliance for regenerating food on a variety of shelves in the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance known, in which for each shelf level after the expiration of a regeneration period a visual or audible alarm is issued.

The generic US 7,301,130 B2 discloses a furnace system for a supermarket for the automated reproduction of voice messages to supermarket customers. The furnace system comprises a furnace for cooking food with a control unit that can play previously stored voice messages on supermarket-mounted speakers when z. B. a cooking process is selected or terminated. In this case, the control unit selects from a multiplicity of stored audio files an audio file for playback, the content of which relates, for example, to a selected type of cooking product, so that a corresponding voice message is output to the supermarket customers.

adversely The state of the art is that the possibilities of processing of audio signals to simplify the operation of cooking appliances not yet sufficiently used.

It Thus, the object of the present invention, the generic Process such that the disadvantages of the state overcome the technology. In particular, a method for setting an audio signal, which is from a cooking appliance will be provided to a user who is the highest possible level of operating comfort for the user offers.

These The object is achieved according to the invention an assignment of the audio signal to the triggering event selected during a mapping process by the user, can be set, changed and / or stored.

• a. Bestimmen des Auslöse-Ereignisses;
• b. Bestimmen des Audio-Signals für das bestimmte Auslöse-Ergebnisse; und
• c. Speichern des bestimmten Auslöse-Ergebnisses mit dem Audio-Signal, insbesondere in einer Speichereinheit des Gargeräts.

It is preferred that the assignment process comprises the following steps:

• a. Determining the triggering event;
• b. Determining the audio signal for the particular triggering results; and
• c. Storing the determined triggering result with the audio signal, in particular in a storage unit of the cooking appliance.

According to the invention, it is again proposed that the triggering event be determined
by at least one user input, such as switching on or off at least part of the cooking appliance, a selection of a cooking program, comprising at least one cooking program, cleaning program, utility program, diagnostic program and / or optimization programs and / or querying a current state of cooking and / or cooking cabinet,
by at least one cooking appliance event, such as a malfunction occurring, processing of HACCP data or the like,
by at least one food condition and / or
by at least one cooking process event, such as the start or the end of the cooking process or an interruption of the cooking process, in particular due to an action to be performed by the user, wherein
the state of cooking in particular is selected from a group comprising the size of the food, the weight of the food, the caliber of the food, the type of food, the initial state of the food, such as fresh or frozen, the amount of food in the cooking chamber, a temperature of the food such as a surface temperature and / or core temperature, the inner Gargrad of the food and / or the outer Gargrad of the food.

Further can be provided that the audio signal is determined by Create a new audio signal, by customizing one previously created audio signal or by selecting an audio signal from a variety of previously created audio signals, with the Preferably save a previously created audio signal from the user-defined one Audio signal can be overwritten.

With The invention also proposes that the audio signal at least a voice message, at least one piece of music and / or includes at least one sound.

It can be provided in turn that the voice message includes an explicit action statement, a service message, a help message, a status message, a comment and / or an alarm message, and / or
the music piece comprises a recognition tune of a cooking appliance operator, a scale and / or a national anthem, in particular matching the country of origin of a selected dish, and / or
the noise corresponds to an animal sound, such as a chicken cluck, a pig's grunt, a deer's pipe, or a cow's cattle, and / or to characterize the type of food to be cooked, and / or the sound is essentially a pitch is characterized as in a ringtone or buzzer, and / or
the noise corresponds to a crunch of a food crust for characterizing a user input "crisp crust", a smack to indicate a user input "juicy" and / or a clash of coins to indicate a user input "economy mode";
and / or the noise is an implicit handling instruction to the user, such as the sound of a cutting knife prompting the user to cut food or water splashing to prompt the user to pour food over the water, especially during a cooking process.

invention Methods may also be characterized in that the trigger event with a rolling load the Garende in a rack level of a variety of shelves cooking compartment and the audio signal the shelf level determined.

Further According to the invention, it is proposed that the audio signal can be stored in the form of an audio file, preferably the Audio file from a network, especially the Internet, a Mobile network and / or a local network, preferably via a connecting device of the cooking appliance, downloaded is and / or from a data carrier, in particular a USB stick, a CD, a DVD, an MP3 player, a portable one Hard disk and / or a floppy disk, preferably via a Data carrier read-in device of the cooking appliance, is read.

moreover can be provided that the voice message is set by recording spoken words of a user, in particular by means of an audio recording device of the cooking appliance, and, preferably after an analog-to-digital conversion stored becomes.

With The invention also proposes that the voice message via a speech synthesis of a text input, preferably via the user input device of the cooking appliance is entered, is set, with the speech synthesis either before storage of the then synthesized audio signal or after storage and before playing the un-synthesized audio signal he follows.

Further According to the invention, it is proposed that a Pitch and / or volume of the audio signal is set, preferably via the user-read device.

moreover can be provided that the audio signal in digital form and / or as MP3, MIDI, or WAVE file is saved.

The invention also provides a cooking appliance comprising
a cooking chamber with a plurality of shelves for receiving food supports, at least one user input device, such as a keyboard, a touch screen, a switch and / or a knob,
at least one audio playback device, such as a speaker and / or a headphone,
at least one memory unit, in particular with a non-volatile memory, such as an EEPROM memory, and
a control device in operative connection with the user input device, the audio reproduction device and / or the storage unit,
wherein the control device is designed for carrying out a method according to the invention.

there cooking appliances are preferred according to the invention, characterized by at least one audio recording device, especially comprising and / or a microphone preferably as a headset, formed together with the audio playback device, at least a connection device, in particular to a network, such as Internet, a local network and / or a mobile network, and / or at least one data carrier read-in device, such as a CD-ROM drive, a DVD drive, a USB port, a floppy disk drive and / or a Bluetooth connection unit.

After all can also be a cooking appliance according to the invention be characterized by at least one display device, such as a screen or a touchscreen, at least a first sensing device, in particular in the form of a temperature sensor pike which can be inserted into a food to be cooked, preferably with a plurality of temperature sensors, a second Sensing device, in particular for detecting cooking appliance events, at least one Heizein direction, a microwave source, a moisture supply device, a moisture removal device, a circulation device, an energy storage device, a blower device and / or a cleaning device.

It is thus the surprising finding of the invention that allows a simplified operation of a cooking appliance is, by the user side, an assignment of an audio signal, which an audio playback device of the cooking appliance in dependence of at least one triggering event to a user during the triggering event an assignment process is set. The inventive method thus allows for the first time a user-specific configuration of audio signals coming from the audio playback device of the cooking appliance. By adapting Audio signals to the individual wishes of the user Thus, a high degree of individualization can be achieved To achieve ease of use.

to user-specific setting of an audio signal is initially the trigger event associated with the audio signal is to be, in particular via a user-input device of the cooking appliance selected by the user. thereupon can send a custom audio signal to three different ones Ways to set: by creating a new audio signal, by adjusting a previously created audio signal or by selection an audio signal from a variety of previously created audio signals. The custom audio signal thus set will be thereafter assigned to the triggering event. Finally, a Storing the custom audio signal, in particular in a storage unit of the cooking appliance, the above created audio signal may be overwritten by the user defined audio signal becomes.

One user-specific audio signal is then triggered when a specific triggering event has occurred. The Trigger event can be determined by a user input, such as turning on or off the cooking appliance, a Selecting a cooking program, requesting help functions, activating a saving operation of the cooking appliance and / or a request for a current cooking status, by a cooking appliance event, as an occurring malfunction of the cooking appliance or a processing of HACCP data, by a food state, such as For example, the type of food or the size of the food, and / or by at least one cooking process event, such as the start or the end of the cooking process or an interruption the cooking process due to an action to be taken by the user. Such a trigger event is inventively from User assigned an audio signal, the audio signal is a Voice message, a piece of music and / or a sound may include. This way it can be adjusted to the individual preferences of a user are received flexibly.

The Setting a custom audio signal can be different Done way. For example, the audio file from a network, in particular the Internet, a mobile network or a local Network, preferably via a connection device to be downloaded from the cooking appliance. Alternatively, you can the audio file also from a disk, in particular a USB stick, a CD, a DVD, an MP player, a portable one Hard disk or a floppy disk, preferably over one Data carrier read-in device of the cooking appliance, be read. In other words, in these cases mentioned each transfer the audio file as such to the cooking appliance and stored in its memory unit.

In addition, the custom audio signal can also be recreated by the user. In particular, via the user input device of the cooking appliance or an audio recording on direction of the cooking appliance. To set a user-specific voice message, for example, a text can be entered via the user input device, which is converted into an audio signal by means of a speech synthesis. The speech synthesis can be done either before the storage of the then synthesized audio signal or after storage and before the playback of the not yet synthesized audio signal. In another variant, a user-specific voice message can be set by recording spoken words of the user, in which case, in particular, an audio recording device of the cooking appliance is used. The recorded voice message is typically stored after an analog-to-digital conversion in the form of an audio file in the storage device of the cooking appliance. In addition, it is provided that the pitch of an audio signal can be adjusted by the user, preferably via the user-read device. For example, the pitch of a ringtone can be adjusted to the wishes of the user.

One Cooking appliance according to the invention comprises a User input device, such as a keyboard, a touchscreen, a switch and / or a knob, an audio playback device, such as a speaker and / or a headphone, at least a storage unit, especially with a non-volatile one Memory, such as an EEPROM memory, as well as a control device, which is in operative connection with the user input device, the Audio playback device and / or the storage unit is. Advantageously, the memory unit may be formed together with the control unit be.

Further Features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following Description, in the embodiments of the invention will be explained in detail.

greeting when switching on the cooking appliance

One Audio signal can then be played back as a triggering event a user input, such as in the form of switching on the cooking appliance, he follows. By application of the invention Procedure, the user has the option of a user-specific Assign audio signal to this switch-on process. It can do that Audio signal such as a voice message, such as a welcome message, and / or a piece of music, such as a welcoming melody, include. If the operator of the cooking appliance is a company which is a music piece for advertising purposes, like a theme song or a recognition jingle, it's especially beneficial this company-specific piece of music in response on the switching on the cooking appliance, if necessary in conjunction with a corresponding greeting text.

typically, becomes in the aforementioned examples of the welcome text over entered a keyboard of the cooking device while the company-specific music piece from a disk is copied into the storage unit of the cooking appliance.

Acoustic instructions during a cooking process

Some Recipes or dishes require during the cooking process a user-side intervention in the cooking process, such as a stirring of food, a cutting of food or a refilling of water on the food. To this end can define a cooking event as the triggering event for example, at the end of a first cooking process step the cooking process occurs, because after the first cooking process step one of the above user-side actions required is. Subsequently, a second cooking process step of Cooking process started.

Around can prompt the user to stir food For example, an explicit instruction in the form of a voice message "stirring" of reproduced the audio playback device of the cooking appliance become. Alternatively, instructions can also be found in indirect form, for example by playing a sound, transmitted to the user. This is the appropriate Cooking process event user-side a characteristic noise assigned to the action to be performed. Such characteristic For example, noise can be the sound of rippling water to prompt the user for pouring water on the food or the noise cutting a knife into bread at the request of the user for cutting food to be cooked.

The mentioned characteristic noises can offered by the manufacturer of the cooking appliance on the Internet for download be, allowing a user from a variety of sounds and other audio signals after the acoustic operation can develop his taste.

Assignment of an audio signal to a selected type of food

Before the start of a cooking process, the cooking process, in particular the corresponding type of food to be cooked, for example chicken, is selected via the user input device of the cooking appliance. From the It is known in the art that during and / or after this selection, the type of food to be cooked is displayed graphically on a display device of the cooking appliance. An increased ease of use is inventively achieved in that in addition a food-specific noise is reproduced, for example, a cackle or a "Kikeriki" in each case in the case of a chicken. Regardless of a visual contact with the display device, the user is thus informed about the choice made by him, which means an additional ease of use.

optional can enter a selected cooking process or a court Be assigned to music piece. If about the previous one mentioned chicken as an ingredient cooked a Spanish "paella" is to be selected and a corresponding cooking process The Spanish national anthem can be used as a piece of music by the user selected when the court is selected, to illustrate the country of origin of the court.

Assignment of an audio signal to a shelf level

From the EP 1 653 833 B1 , which has already been discussed in the introduction to the description, a cooking appliance for the regeneration of food to be cooked is known, which has a plurality of insertion levels. In the case of a rolling feed, food supports with food to be cooked are inserted into the cooking space with a time offset and pulled out again. In this case, an acoustic alarm in the form of a buzzer sound indicates the end of a regeneration process for a particular shelf level, the pitch of the buzzer sound being the same for each shelf level. An improvement of the operation according to the invention can be done by the user side, the pitch of the buzzer sound via the user-input device, in particular via a knob, is set separately for each rack level. Based on the pitch is thus a simple acoustic assignment of the rack level to the corresponding trigger event, ie the end of the regeneration process on this rack level, possible. Instead of just one buzzer tone with a user-specific pitch, a sequence of summer tones, each with different pitches, or another individual audio signal, such as a ringtone, may also be used.

saving mode

When In addition, trigger event can turn on of a savings mode activated via a user input can be defined. The aim of a savings operation is known, to reduce the Energieaufnahnne the cooking appliance and therefore to reduce the associated costs. If now the saving operation enabled, this trigger event may be a user-specific one Audio signal in the form of the sound of clashing ones Money coins are assigned.

Voice messages to others user

user Voice messages can be stored in the storage unit of the cooking appliance be deposited at a later date, d. H. at Occurrence of a corresponding triggering event, again to be called. An exemplary embodiment such a voice message is a help message that a first user created for a second user or established. In a first variant, while the help message via the user input device, in particular via the Keyboard, be entered, so first only one Text message is present, which by means of speech synthesis in an audio signal must be converted before playing over the Audio playback device can be done. The entered text message can be saved directly or after synthesizing as an audio file stored in the storage unit of the cooking appliance. at Save as text must be a speech synthesis accordingly before playing the text message. In general, a storage in text form has the Advantage that less disk space compared to an audio file is required. In a second variant, the help message about the audio recording device of the cooking appliance, in particular via a microphone, recorded directly. In doing so, the spoken ones First user words through the microphone first converted into electrical signals and then following a Analog-to-digital conversion stored as an audio file in the storage unit. A second user may be over at a later date a user input select a help function, so that a triggering event is initiated and this triggering event associated audio signal through the audio playback device of the cooking appliance is played. A voice message can also a service message, a status message, a comment or an alarm message.

The in the above description and in the claims Features of the invention can be used individually or as well in any combination for the realization be essential to the invention in its various embodiments.

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Cited patent literature

• WO 96/42185 A1 [0002]
• - DE 202007015973 U1 [0003]
• WO 03/031876 A1 [0004]
• EP 1653833 B1 [0005, 0038]
• US 7301130 B2 [0006]

Claims (15)

Method for setting at least one audio signal reproduced by an audio reproduction device of a cooking device as a function of at least one triggering event, characterized in that an assignment of the audio signal to the triggering event during a mapping process is selected by the user , changed and / or stored. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that that the mapping process includes the following steps: a. Determining the triggering event; b. Determine the Audio signal for that particular triggering results; and c. Save the specific trigger result with the audio signal, in particular in a storage unit of the cooking appliance. Method according to claim 2, characterized in that that the triggering event is determined through at least a user input, such as power on or off, at least a part of the cooking appliance, a selection of a work program the cooking appliance, comprising at least one cooking program, cleaning program, Utility, diagnostic program and / or optimizers and / or a query of a current state of cooking and / or cooking space, by at least one cooking appliance event, such as one occurring Malfunction, HACCP data processing or the like, by at least one food condition and / or through at least one Cooking process event, such as the start or the end of the cooking process or an interruption of the cooking process, in particular due to a to be performed action of the user, wherein the cooking state in particular is selected from a group comprising the size of the food, the weight of the food, the caliber of the food to be cooked, the type of food to be cooked, the initial state of the food, how fresh or frozen, the amount of food in the oven, a temperature of the food, such as a surface temperature and / or core temperature, the inner Gargrad of the food and / or the outer cooking degree of the food. Method according to claim 2 or 3, characterized that the audio signal is determined by creating a new one Audio signal, by adjusting a previously created audio signal or by selecting an audio signal from a variety of previously created audio signals, wherein when saving preferably a Overwrite previously created audio signal from custom audio signal can be. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the audio signal comprises at least one voice message, at least one piece of music and / or at least one sound includes. Method according to claim 5, characterized in that that the voice message an explicit instruction, a service message, a help message, a status message, includes a comment and / or an alarm message, and / or the Music piece a signature tune of a cooking appliance operator, a scale and / or a national anthem in particular suitable to the country of origin of a selected court, and / or the Sound of an animal noise, like a cackling a chicken, a grunt of a pig, a tube a deer or a mare of a bovine, corresponds, and / or to identify the type of food to be cooked, and / or the Sound essentially characterized by a pitch becomes, as with a ringtone or a buzzer sound, and / or the Sound of a crash of a food crust for labeling a user input "crisp crust", a Schmatzen to identify a user input "juicy" and / or a clash of coins for identification corresponds to a user input "economy mode", and or the noise is an implicit instruction to the user represents the sound of a cutting knife to prompt the user to cut food or a Rippling of water to prompt the user to pour over of food with water, especially during one Cooking process. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the triggering event at a Rolling loading the Garende in a rack level of a a variety of insertion levels comprehensive cooking chamber of the cooking appliance determines, and the audio signal determines the shelf level. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the audio signal is in the form of an audio file is storable, preferably the audio file from a network, in particular the Internet, a mobile network and / or a local Network, preferably via a connection device of the cooking appliance, is downloaded and / or from one Data carrier, in particular a USB stick, a CD, a DVD, an MP3 player, a portable hard disk and / or a floppy disk, preferably via a data carrier read-in device of the cooking appliance, is read. Method according to one of claims 5 to 8, characterized in that the voice message is set is obtained by recording spoken words of a user, in particular by means of an audio recording device of the cooking appliance, and, preferably after an analog-to-digital conversion stored becomes. Method according to one of claims 5 to 9, characterized in that the voice message via a speech synthesis of a text input, preferably via entered the user input device of the cooking appliance is set, with the speech synthesis either before the Storage of the then synthesized audio signal or after the Storage and before playback of the not yet synthesized Audio signal takes place. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a pitch and / or volume the audio signal is adjusted, preferably via the Users read-in device. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the audio signal is in digital form and / or saved as an MP3, MIDI, or WAVE file. Cooking appliance, comprising a cooking space with a multitude of insertion levels for holding food carriers, at least a user input device, such as a keyboard, a touch screen, a switch and / or a knob, at least one audio playback device, like a speaker and / or a headphone, at least a memory unit, in particular with a non-volatile Memory, such as an EEPROM memory, and a control device in operative connection with the user input device, the audio playback device and / or the storage unit, the control unit being to carry out a method according to any one of the preceding claims is. Cooking appliance according to claim 13, characterized by at least one audio recording device, in particular comprising and / or a microphone preferably as a headset, together with the Audio playback device formed, at least one connecting device, especially to a network, such as the Internet, a local Network and / or a mobile network, and / or at least one Disk reader device, such as a CD-ROM drive, a DVD drive, a USB port, a floppy disk drive and / or a Bluetooth connection unit. Cooking appliance according to claim 13 or 14, characterized by at least one display device, such as a screen or a touch screen, at least a first sensing device, in particular in the form of a temperature sensor pike which can be inserted into a food to be cooked, preferably with a plurality of temperature sensors, a second Sensing device, in particular for detecting cooking appliance events, at least one heating device, a microwave source, a moisture supply device, a moisture removal device, a circulation device, an energy storage device, a blower device and / or a cleaning device.