EP4274997A1 - Procédé pour déterminer une fin de temps de cuisson d'aliments, et appareil de cuisson électroménager - Google Patents

Procédé pour déterminer une fin de temps de cuisson d'aliments, et appareil de cuisson électroménager

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EP4274997A1
EP4274997A1 EP21836083.2A EP21836083A EP4274997A1 EP 4274997 A1 EP4274997 A1 EP 4274997A1 EP 21836083 A EP21836083 A EP 21836083A EP 4274997 A1 EP4274997 A1 EP 4274997A1
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browning
cooking
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food
cooked
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Julien Adam
Kadir NIGAR
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BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F24C7/00—Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy
    • F24C7/08—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
    • F24C7/082—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination
    • F24C7/085—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination on baking ovens
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  • the invention relates to a method for determining the end of a cooking time for food to be cooked in a cooking chamber of a household cooking appliance, in which a brightness value-separable image of the cooking chamber is generated at the beginning of a cooking process, and the brightness value-separable image is segmented using its color coordinates which results in food-to-be-cooked pixels associated with the food to be cooked and surrounding pixels associated with an area around the food-to-be-cooked, a user is offered the option of entering a target degree of browning, images of the cooking chamber are taken at different times during a cooking process, in these images using the food to be cooked -Pixels a respective actual degree of browning is calculated, the actual degree of browning is compared with the target degree of browning and the food to be cooked is treated in the cooking chamber until the actual degree of browning has reached the target degree of browning.
  • the invention also relates to a household cooking appliance designed to carry out the method. The invention is particularly advantageously applicable to baking ovens.
  • EP 3477206 A1 discloses a cooking appliance comprising a cooking chamber and an image capturing device for capturing an image of food within the chamber.
  • a computing device can be configured to calculate a parameter for the food based on the captured image, which can be displayed on a user interface.
  • WO 2019/091741 A1 discloses an oven that detects whether food in a cooking chamber is cooked, wherein a control unit that receives data provided by a sensor determines color data based on this data and by interpreting said data Color data determines whether the food is fully cooked.
  • a control unit that receives data provided by a sensor determines color data based on this data and by interpreting said data Color data determines whether the food is fully cooked.
  • an RGB image of the cooking chamber is converted into an L*a*b image, in (a*, b*) color plane upper and lower threshold values for the color coordinates a* and b* are specified for those lying within the threshold values
  • Pixels an averaged brightness value is calculated, the averaged brightness value being compared as a measure of browning of the food with a target browning value. It is the object of the present invention to at least partially overcome the disadvantages of the prior art and in particular to provide a possibility of determining the end of a cooking time of a cooking process particularly reliably using a target degree
  • the object is achieved by a method for determining the end of a cooking time for food to be cooked in a cooking chamber of a household cooking appliance, in which at the beginning of a cooking process a light value-separable image of the cooking chamber is generated, the light value-separable image is segmented using the color coordinates Cluster analysis is carried out, which results in food-to-be-cooked pixels associated with the food to be cooked and surrounding pixels associated with an area around the food-to-be-cooked, a user is offered to enter a target degree of browning and images of the cooking chamber are taken at different times during a cooking process, in these images using the food to be cooked -pixels a respective actual degree of browning is calculated and the actual degree of browning is compared to the target degree of browning and the food to be cooked is treated in the cooking chamber until the actual degree of browning has at least approximately reached the target degree of browning.
  • This method has the advantage that cooking product pixels in a recorded image can be separated particularly reliably from surrounding pixels with a comparatively low computing effort.
  • the use of a cluster analysis is particularly advantageous for this purpose, since this results in a significantly better distinction between cooking item pixels and surrounding pixels, in particular if the cooking item has a similar color, in contrast to, for example, segmentation by—particularly fixed threshold values for the color coordinates like its surroundings, e.g. light brown food and baking paper.
  • an actual degree of browning can be compared particularly reliably with a target degree of browning.
  • the procedure can advantageously be carried out independently of the knowledge of the type of food being cooked in the cooking chamber.
  • the domestic cooking appliance can be an oven with at least one heat radiator (e.g. tubular heater or IR radiator), a microwave oven, a steamer or any combination thereof, e.g. an oven with a microwave and/or steamer function.
  • heat radiator e.g. tubular heater or IR radiator
  • microwave oven e.g. tubular heater or IR radiator
  • steamer e.g. an oven with a microwave and/or steamer function.
  • Generating an image of the cooking chamber "at the beginning" of a cooking process includes using a camera, for example, to take an image of the cooking chamber before the start of the cooking process, at the start of the cooking process or shortly after the start of the cooking process (e.g. within a minute).
  • a lightness-separable image is understood to be an image constructed in the form of pixels, in which the color coordinates of the individual pixels are expressed as coordinates of a color space in which a ("brightness") coordinate corresponds to a brightness ("lightness").
  • a color space can, for example, be the L*a*b* color space according to EN ISO 11664-4 (also referred to as CIELAB or CIEL*a*b*) with the lightness component or coordinate L*.
  • Performing the segmentation on the image that can be separated in terms of brightness value includes in particular an automatic classification of the pixels, in particular all pixels, in a color plane of the color space, ie in two or more subgroups without considering the brightness value coordinate.
  • a particularly good, image-content-dependent separation between the cooking item pixels and the surrounding pixels of the cooking item can be achieved by means of the cluster analysis.
  • an assignment of the pixels in the recorded image to the respective segments is obtained, so that it is known which of the pixels are cooking food pixels and which are surrounding pixels.
  • Color coordinates are understood to mean coordinates of the light value-separable image which are not or do not represent any light value coordinates. In the L*a*b* color space, this corresponds to the coordinates a* and b*, etc. In the following, all coordinates of a (full) color space (eg L*, a* and b*) are used to distinguish them from the color coordinates as "Color space coordinates".
  • segmentation is carried out on the light value-separable image based on the color coordinates therefore includes segmentation being carried out in a "color plane" spanned by the color coordinates, ie the segmentation only considers or takes into account the values of the pixels in this color plane .
  • the image recorded by a camera or an analog color image sensor can originally be in a different color space than in a color space with its own brightness value coordinate, e.g. as an RGB image, which makes it easier to use conventional color cameras for image recording.
  • the recorded image is not present as an image that can be separated in terms of brightness value, it is converted pixel by pixel into an image that can be separated in terms of brightness value and is thereby generated.
  • the recorded image can also be recorded directly in the form of a light value separable image and thereby generated. It is thus a possible embodiment that at the beginning of the cooking process, an RGB image of the cooking chamber is recorded and converted into an image that can be separated by light value.
  • the fact that a user is offered to enter a target degree of tanning can include that a user is asked in color (e.g. using a display of selectable brown colors on a screen or "display") and/or using character strings (e.g. "slight", “with - tel” and “well done", using a number scale, for example between “0” and “10", etc.) a selection is offered to set a degree of browning.
  • the colored browning scale can be permanently specified, e.g. based on a type of cooking product entered by the user.
  • the colored browning scale can be precalculated on the basis of the image recorded at the beginning or initially, which results in a particularly good assessment of the target browning degrees that can be achieved in the course of the cooking process.
  • images of the cooking space are taken at different times during a cooking process includes, in particular, that the images taken during the cooking process
  • the images are analogous to the image recorded at the beginning or initially in a color space that can be separable in terms of brightness value, because their pixels are already originally in this color space or have been transformed into a color space that can be separated in terms of brightness value.
  • This has the advantage that reaching the target degree of browning can be detected particularly reliably.
  • the actual degree of browning and the target degree of browning thus correspond to respective points in the lightness-separable color space, including a value on the lightness coordinate.
  • the target degree of browning is also possible to describe the target degree of browning as a color point in the originally recorded color space (eg the RGB color space) and to leave the images recorded during the cooking process (after the initial image) in the originally recorded color space. This saves on computational effort.
  • the originally recorded color space eg the RGB color space
  • the fact that a respective actual degree of browning is calculated in these images using the cooking item pixels includes in particular that in these images a value averaged over the respective color space coordinates of the cooking item pixels is calculated and the actual degree of browning and the actual degree of browning color point corresponds to these averaged values.
  • the fact that the actual degree of browning is compared with the target degree of browning includes in particular that a distance between the actual degree of browning and the target degree of browning is calculated in the color space.
  • the fact that the target degree of browning is at least approximately reached corresponds to reaching the end of the cooking time.
  • at least one action can be triggered, e.g. the cooking process is ended, the temperature of the cooking chamber is lowered to a warming temperature and/or a message is output to a user, e.g. a beep, a display on the screen 8 or a message be output on a mobile device of the user.
  • That the food to be cooked is treated in the cooking chamber until the target degree of browning is at least approximately reached can include that the food to be cooked is treated in the cooking chamber until the difference between the actual degree of browning and the target degree of browning is a predetermined one distance reached or fallen short of.
  • an RGB image of the cooking chamber is recorded and converted into an L*a*b* image—in particular pixel by pixel.
  • An L*a*b* representation has the advantage that a subsequent segmentation using only the color components (in the case of L*a*b* or CIELAB the color space components a* and b*) is particularly simple and reliable leaves.
  • the original recording as an RGB image is advantageous since many commercially available cameras are RGB cameras.
  • the L*a*b* color space describes all perceivable colors. It uses a three-dimensional color space in which the lightness or lightness coordinate L* is perpendicular to the color plane (a*,b*).
  • the a* coordinate indicates the chromaticity and color intensity between green and red and the b* coordinate indicates the chromaticity and color intensity between blue and yellow.
  • L* (“Lightness") can be e.g. B. accept values between 0 and 100 and a* and b* can be varied between e.g. -128 and 127. In the following, automatic segmentation is only performed in the color plane (a*,b*).
  • the segmentation is performed using a cluster analysis, in particular using a k-means-type algorithm.
  • a cluster analysis in particular using a k-means-type algorithm.
  • two or more focal points are set randomly in the (a*; b*) color plane under consideration and then the pixels of the recorded image (in its brightness-separated color space representation) are assigned to the focal points based on their color plane coordinates.
  • the k-means-like algorithm uses two focal points, which is particularly advantageous for differentiating between cooking item pixels and surrounding pixels.
  • the k-means-like algorithm can be a k-means algorithm (as such) or an algorithm derived from it (e.g. a k-median, k-means++ or k-medoids algorithm etc.) be.
  • the k-means algorithm can be implemented as Lloyd's algorithm or MacQueen's algorithm, for example.
  • the cluster analysis can be performed using an expectation maximization algorithm.
  • the k-means algorithm can be viewed as a special case of an expectation maximization algorithm.
  • the trained neural network can, for example, be what is known as a “convolutional neural network” (also referred to as CNN or ConvNet), in particular a deep CNN (“deep convolutional neural network”), advantageously a so-called “deep convolutional semantic segmentation neural network”. ".
  • An example of such a network is the so-called SegNet, as described e.g. in the article "SegNet: A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Image Segmentation” by Vijay Badrinarayanan, Alex Kendall, and Roberto Cipolla, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017.
  • the k-means-like algorithm is followed by an opening operation in a color plane of the image that can be separated in terms of brightness value.
  • a "noisy area” can be understood to mean an area in the recorded image in which cooking item pixels and surrounding pixels are largely unconnected (“noisy"), so that this area cannot be reliably assigned to either the cooking item or the surrounding area.
  • So-called erosion and/or dilatation operators can be used, for example, in a manner known in principle, to carry out the opening operation.
  • An additional or alternative configuration to the use of the k-means-like algorithm consists in carrying out the segmentation using a user-guided "region-growing algorithm". This advantageously enables a particularly reliable separation of cooking item and surrounding pixels, since the cooking item area can be recognized by a user and entered into the domestic cooking appliance. This is particularly useful, for example, if the automatic segmentation is based on only two focal points and the food is placed on baking paper and the color of the baking paper is much closer to the color of the food than the baking tray, or if food of a significantly different color is placed in the cooking space have been.
  • a user can, for example, see the recorded image (in the full color space) and be given the opportunity to identify certain pixels or image areas as belonging to the food, for example by tapping on the image areas on a touch-sensitive screen (“touch screen”). ) or by a selection using a cursor.
  • An area is then defined by the region-growing algorithm in the color plane (eg the (a*; b*) color plane) around the touching point or touching area, the pixels of which have the same or similar color to the color of the touching point or touching area has, and the pixels located in this area are categorized as food pixels.
  • the region-growing algorithm continues to check the pixels that are then adjacent to the pixels taken in until there are no more pixels that meet the condition that they are within the specified distance R.
  • the area expanded in this way can be displayed to the user in the image, and the user can then discard the area and/or define further image areas or pixels as belonging to the food to be cooked. It is a further development that the user can adjust the distance R in order to generate the surface more sensitively (smaller R) or less sensitively (larger R).
  • the segmentation follows or can follow the k-means-like algorithm with a user-managed "region-growing algorithm".
  • the user can use the region-growing algorithm to assign an image area incorrectly assigned to the food to be cooked to the environment using the k-means-like algorithm.
  • a browning curve (“predicted browning curve") is calculated for the current item to be cooked.
  • a well-fitting prediction browning curve of the item to be cooked can be created for many applications even without knowledge of the type of item to be cooked.
  • the real browning curves advantageously range from uncooked to fully cooked, possibly even to overcooked.
  • the predicted browning curve can in turn be used, for example, to offer a user various target browning degrees, which are defined by the points of the predicted browning curve, for selection, adapted to the food to be cooked.
  • a user can be offered, for example, to enter a target degree of tanning using color fields that are filled with colors of spaced points of the prediction tanning curve are.
  • a prediction browning curve is understood in particular to mean the calculated future ("predictive") development of the degree of browning of the surface of the food to be cooked in the color space.
  • the database can be a component of the cooking appliance or can be kept in an external instance that can be communicatively coupled to the cooking appliance, such as a network server or a cloud memory.
  • the prediction browning curve is calculated by a linear equation system being created for the individual (time) points of the prediction curve, which links them via matrix factors with the initial averaged color space coordinates of the cooking product pixels and the matrix factors by means of a - in particular linear - are determined from the averaged color space coordinates of the cooking item pixels of the real browning curves stored in the database.
  • a user can now use the predicted tanning curve to select a target degree of tanning among the color points ⁇ are offered for selection.
  • All calculated tanning points of the prediction tanning curve a selection from the calculated degrees of tanning or - for example by interpolation to color points that lie between calculated degrees of tanning of the prediction tanning curve - more than the calculated degrees of tanning can be displayed in color in color fields.
  • individual target degrees of browning are displayed on a screen as respective color fields or boxes and a user is offered the option of displaying additional fields of target degrees of browning that lie between the previously displayed degrees of browning.
  • a corresponding character string can be displayed associated with the boxes, either near the color fields or in the color fields.
  • a user-friendly selection that the user is additionally or alternatively offered the option of entering a target degree of browning using character-based descriptions of the target degree of browning, for example using texts such as “light”, “medium “, dark” or using numbers such as "1", , i.e. without a colored display of the selectable target degrees of browning.
  • the originally recorded image is also displayed. It is a design tion that when a user selects a target degree of browning, the item to be cooked is displayed in the image as browned with the selected target degree of browning, for example in the sense of a “virtual reality”. The higher the selected target browning level, the browner the food is displayed, etc.
  • a user displays real images and/or real browning curves of the same or similar food to be cooked (e.g. a pizza margherita) with different real degrees of browning a database and selects the target degree of tanning based on a selection of an image from the set of images with different degrees of tanning retrieved from the database.
  • a respective degree of browning is stored in the images retrieved from the database, which can then be adopted as the target degree of browning of the current food to be cooked.
  • the degrees of browning of these images can be calculated for carrying out the method.
  • This development has the advantage that the target degree of browning can be determined using recordings of actually browned items to be cooked, which show a more realistic image of the item to be cooked than a simple mathematical superimposition of a degree of browning of the still untanned current item to be cooked.
  • the food to be cooked is treated in one embodiment in the cooking chamber until the target degree of browning in the color space differs from an averaged current one Actual tanning value has passed a minimum.
  • an image of the item to be cooked is recorded at specified, in particular regular, intervals, an average image point is formed in the light value-separable color space based on the image points for the item to be cooked and with the target degree of browning (ie with the target degree of browning corresponding color point in the color space).
  • This configuration is particularly advantageous if the actual degree of browning does not exactly reach the target degree of browning, so that the cooking process - slightly after the ideal termination time - is nevertheless aborted if the actual degree of browning reaches the target degree of browning "so well as possible". It is one embodiment that after the start of the cooking process, images of the current food to be cooked are recorded at predetermined time intervals, the actual degree of browning of the food is determined from these images using the food-to-be-cooked pixels, and the prediction browning curve for the actual degree of browning the current food to be cooked is recalculated and the target degree of browning is adjusted from the prediction browning curve for the current food.
  • the target degree of tanning can be adjusted in accordance with the probable customer request.
  • the target degree of browning can be adjusted with or without user confirmation or renewed user input.
  • the "newly" calculated prediction tanning curve can also be calculated, for example, using the linear equation system described above and a regression method, the values of the color space coordinates L*, a* and b* for the images already recorded then being known. If, for example, 10 images have already been taken at times t1, . . . , t10 before the prediction tanning curve is recalculated, the above equation system can be used as be formulated, where the values of the color space coordinates for the Times t1, ...., t10 are known. The matrix coefficients k can again be found by means of a regression analysis using the real tanning curves stored in the database.
  • the new calculated prediction tanning curve is shorter than the initially calculated prediction tanning curve (i.e. the most brown color space points of the initially calculated prediction tanning curve includes), a user selected target tanning level relative to a ratio of the lengths of both predicted tanning curves to be shifted on the "new" predicted tanning curve.
  • the new prediction browning curve only includes browning levels that correspond to the tanning degrees "1" to "8" of the initially calculated prediction tanning curve, a new target tanning degree "6" can be selected on the new prediction tanning curve, the color of which corresponds to the target tanning degree selected on the basis of the originally calculated prediction tanning curve "5" corresponds.
  • the target degree of tanning selected on the basis of the initially calculated prediction tanning curve can no longer be achieved. This can be the case, for example, if the food currently being cooked remains comparatively light even after a longer cooking time (e.g. fish), but a user, based on the initially calculated prediction browning curve (which is independent of the type of food currently being cooked), has a comparatively brown color target browning level selected. In this case, for example, a message or a signal can be output to the user that the desired target degree of tanning cannot be achieved and the user can then enter a new target degree of tanning using the new prediction tanning curve. Alternatively or additionally, a target degree of tanning (e.g. "medium”) selected on the basis of the initially calculated prediction tanning curve can be automatically adapted to the new prediction tanning curve.
  • a target degree of tanning e.g. "medium”
  • a household cooking appliance having a cooking chamber, at least one camera directed into the cooking chamber, a graphical user interface and a data processing device, the household appliance being set up to use the at least one color image sensor to determine a brightness value at the beginning of a cooking process - to generate a separable image of the cooking chamber, to use the data processing device to segment the brightness-value-separable image based on the non-brightness color coordinates, which results in cooking item pixels belonging to the item to be cooked and surrounding pixels belonging to an area surrounding the item to be cooked, a user is offered via the graphical user interface to enter a target degree of browning and to use the data processing device to take images of the cooking chamber at intervals during a cooking process, to calculate a respective actual degree of browning in these images based on the cooking product pixels and the actual degree of browning to compare with the target degree of browning and the food to be cooked is treated in the cooking chamber until the actual degree of browning has at least approximately reached the target degree of browning.
  • the household cooking appliance can be designed analogously to the method and vice versa, and has the same advantages.
  • Food to be cooked placed in the cooking chamber can be treated by means of at least one food treatment device, e.g. by thermal radiation (produced e.g. by tubular heating elements, IR radiators, etc.), microwaves (produced by a microwave generator) and/or steam, in particular superheated steam or "Super Heated Steam” (e.g. generated by an evaporator).
  • thermal radiation produced e.g. by tubular heating elements, IR radiators, etc.
  • microwaves produced by a microwave generator
  • steam in particular superheated steam or "Super Heated Steam” (e.g. generated by an evaporator).
  • the at least one color image sensor can include at least one color camera that is sensitive in the visible spectrum and triggers in a pixel-like manner, or another color image sensor.
  • the color image sensor can originally generate RGB images.
  • the graphical user interface may include, for example, a cursor-actuable band/or color touch-sensitive screen ("touch screen").
  • a light value separable image of the cooking chamber can be generated by means of the at least one color image sensor
  • the color image sensor originally generates a light value separable image or that the color image sensor originally creates an image that cannot be bright value separable (e.g. RGB image) is generated, which is converted or converted by the data processing device into a light value separable image.
  • FIG. 1 shows a sketch of a domestic cooking appliance as a sectional side view
  • FIG. 2 shows a possible sequence of a method for determining the end of a cooking time for food to be cooked in a cooking chamber of the household cooking appliance from FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 shows a plan view of a screen 8 of the household cooking appliance from FIG. 1, which is designed with three color fields for selecting a target degree of browning;
  • FIG. 4 shows a plan view of a screen 8 of the household cooking appliance from FIG. 1, which is designed with six color fields for selecting a target degree of browning
  • the cooking chamber 1 shows a household cooking appliance in the form of an oven 1 with a cooking chamber 2 whose loading opening on the front can be closed by a door 3 .
  • the cooking chamber 2 can be heated here by radiant heaters in the form of upper heating element 4 and lower heating element 5 shown as an example.
  • the camera 6 is coupled in terms of data technology to a data processing device 7 , the data processing device 7 also being coupled in terms of data technology to a graphical user interface in the form of a color screen 8 .
  • the household cooking appliance can also have lighting means for illuminating the cooking chamber 2 (not shown).
  • FIG. 2 shows a possible sequence of a method for determining the end of a cooking time for food G to be cooked in a cooking chamber of the oven 1.
  • a step SO the food to be cooked G is placed in the cooking chamber 2 and the process sequence is started via the screen 8 or another actuating device of the oven 1 .
  • a step S 1 an RGB image of the cooking chamber, which also shows the item to be cooked G, is recorded by the camera 5 and transmitted to the data processing device 7 .
  • a step S2 the RGB image is converted into an L*a*b* image using the data processing device 7 .
  • step S3 the data processing device 7 uses a k-means algorithm with two performed. As a result, each of the pixels is classified as a cooking item pixel or as a surrounding pixel.
  • a step S4 the data processing device 7 performs an opening operation in the (a*; b*) color plane.
  • pixels present in areas of the image affected by noise are from the groups of food pixels and surrounding pixels
  • a user is offered the implementation of a "region growing" via the screen 8 and, if the user uses this, carried out.
  • pixels previously classified as environment pixels can be regrouped as cooking product pixels, or vice versa, in a user-controlled manner
  • step S6 mean values of the three color space coordinates L*, a* and b* are formed from the food image points by means of the data processing device 7, namely and a linear equation system is set up therefrom (step S6a).
  • step S6b a linear regression analysis is then carried out using the data processing device 7 using the linear equation system and using real browning curves of various cooking items retrieved from a (device-internal or device-external) database D, which results in the matrix coefficients of the linear system of equations.
  • step S6c a predicted browning curve for the item to be cooked G in the L*a*b* color space is calculated by the data processing device 7 using the linear equation system.
  • a step S7 several color fields are displayed to the user on the color screen 8, the colors of which correspond to spaced points of the prediction tanning curve and thus to different target degrees of tanning, as shown by way of example in FIG.
  • the color fields can be identified by text and/or numbers, eg "low”, “medium” and “through” or "1" to "10".
  • the user can now select a specific target degree of tanning, for example by touching a desired color field or by a corresponding cursor operation.
  • the target degree of browning corresponds to a corresponding target point FL * a * b * color space.
  • FIG. 3 also shows the possibility of selecting the target degree of tanning using color fields F1, F2, F5 defined in the color screen 8, which are homogeneously filled with one of the colors of the prediction tanning curve with increasing target degree of tanning here.
  • the individual points of the prediction tanning curve thus correspond to the respective degrees of tanning.
  • the user can select a target degree of tanning by tapping on a color field F1, F2 or F5 and then confirm it if necessary.
  • Descriptive texts are also available in the color fields F1, F2, F5, here: “Light” for a little cooked food G, “Medium” for a medium-brown cooked food G and “Dark” for a well or darkly cooked food G.
  • descriptive texts can also be arranged outside of the color fields, e.g. below or above.
  • a field FG for displaying an image of the item to be cooked G can also be present on the color screen 8, e.g. the image originally recorded or an image recorded during the cooking process.
  • the latter case can be present, for example, if the target degree of tanning is to be calculated using a new prediction tanning curve, as is already described in more detail above and below.
  • the food G can be colored in such a way that its color corresponds to the associated target degree of browning, e.g. in the manner of a "virtual reality" adaptation.
  • a field FE is defined in the color screen 8, which, when actuated, displays additional target degrees of tanning, as shown in FIG. 4 using the additional color fields F2, F4 and F6.
  • the cooking curtain is started in step S8 by activating the top heating element 4 and/or the bottom heating element 5.
  • the camera records an actual RGB image of the cooking chamber 2 at a point in time ti of the cooking process and converts it into a L*ä*b* image.
  • mean values of the three color space coordinates L*, a* and b* are formed on the basis of the cooking product pixels of the actual image recorded at time ti of the cooking process, viz ( ) ( ) ( ) which corresponds to an actual degree of browning in the form of an actual color point in the L*a*b* color space.
  • a distance of the actual color point F(ti) of the last recorded image from the target point F target in the L*a*b* color space is calculated. It is also checked whether the - possibly coordinate-dependent - distance reaches or falls below a predetermined value. If this is not the case ("N", ie the actual degree of browning of the item to be cooked G is still comparatively far from the target degree of browning), the process branches back to step S9. In this case, successive images are recorded by the camera 5, in particular at regular time intervals (e.g. every 10 s, 30 s or 60 s).
  • At least one action will be triggered in a step S11, e.g. the cooking process will be ended, the temperature of the cooking chamber will be lowered to a warming temperature and/or a message will be output to a user (e.g. a beep , a display on the screen 8 or a message on the user's mobile device).
  • a user e.g. a beep , a display on the screen 8 or a message on the user's mobile device.
  • step S11 a course of the distances between the actual color points F(ti) is recorded in step S11, it not being necessary to check in the alternative version whether the distance has reached or fallen below a predetermined value.
  • step S12 it is then alternatively or additionally checked whether the course has reached a minimum. If this is not the case ("N"), a branch is made back to step S9, otherwise ("Y") a transition is made to step S12. Not shown, but optional against, is the possibility of checking how often, for example, steps S9 to S11 have been run through and at regular time intervals (e.g.
  • step S6 the prediction tanning curve is recalculated analogously to step S6, but then in the linear system of equations instead of the average values of the color space coordinates the average values of the color space coordinates L * ( ti ) of the captured images at the corresponding steps or time points ti are used, insofar as ti is available for the corresponding steps or points in time, as described above.
  • a new prediction tanning curve then results. This possibility can be followed by a step similar to step S7, in which the user can adjust his target degree of tanning using the new prediction tanning curve. Alternatively, the target degree of browning can be adjusted automatically.
  • the possibility of adjusting the target degree of tanning can only be offered and possibly carried out in a further development if the new prediction tanning curve deviates noticeably from the previously calculated prediction tanning curve, e.g. because the curve deviation (e.g. calculated using the method least squares) exceeds a predetermined level and/or because the previously set target degree of tanning is no longer contained in the new prediction tanning curve.
  • the curve deviation e.g. calculated using the method least squares
  • step S8 Since the cooking process is already running, step S8 is skipped and the process goes directly to step S9.

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L'invention concerne un procédé (S1-S12) pour déterminer une fin de temps de cuisson d'aliments à cuire (G) situés dans une chambre de cuisson (2) d'un appareil de cuisson électroménager (1), ledit procédé comprenant les étapes suivantes : au début d'un processus de cuisson (S8), une image séparable en valeurs de luminosité de la chambre de cuisson (2) est générée (S1-S2); sur la base des coordonnés de couleur de l'image séparable en valeurs de luminosité, ladite image est segmentée (S3-S5) au moyen d'une analyse en groupes, la segmentation produisant des pixels d'aliments associés aux aliments à cuire (G) et des pixels d'environnement associés à l'environnement des aliments à cuire (G); un utilisateur a la possibilité d'entrer un degré de brunissement cible (S7); des images de la chambre de cuisson (2) sont prises à certains intervalles temporels pendant un processus de cuisson (S9); un degré de brunissement réel est calculé dans les images sur la base des pixels d'aliments (S10) et le degré de brunissement réel est comparé au degré de brunissement cible (S11); et les aliments à cuire (G) sont traités dans la chambre de cuisson (2) jusqu'à ce que le degré de brunissement réel ait atteint au moins approximativement le degré de brunissement cible (S12). L'invention concerne également un appareil de cuisson électroménager (1) pour réaliser ce procédé. Cette invention est applicable de manière particulièrement avantageuse à des fours.
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