JP2021056687A - Device, system, method, and program for cooking assistance - Google Patents

Abstract

To improve convenience by allowing for providing appropriate cooking assistance according to a cooking environment based on the cooking environment of a cook and a selected recipe.SOLUTION: A cooking assistance system 10 provided herein has a server 101 (cooking assistance device) comprising: a storage unit 112 for storing recipe information; a cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 for acquiring cooking environment information of a user from a predetermined device; a recipe selection unit 114 for selecting a piece of recipe information specified by the user from among stored pieces of recipe information; and an instruction information generation unit 115 configured to generate cooking procedure instruction information based on the selected piece of recipe information according to the acquired cooking environment information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present disclosure relates to cooking support devices, cooking support systems, cooking support methods and cooking support programs.

In recent years, an increasing number of services provide cooking recipe information to users via networks such as the Internet.

For example, in Patent Document 1, a cook (user) who is unfamiliar with a cooking procedure related to a recipe by displaying cooking-related information related to the cooking procedure for a recipe selected from a plurality of menus (recipe) on a display. ), A cooking support device that enables proper cooking procedures is disclosed.

Specifically, it is suitable for the cook to confirm the cooking progress determination information including the stage information of the planned cooking content and the distinction information of the planned cooking content, and to proceed with the cooking procedure for a plurality of recipes in parallel. While deciding the cooking contents in order, perform the cooking procedure for the cooking contents. As a result, it is possible to perform a cooking procedure for a plurality of recipes satisfactorily while suppressing a large difference in the end time point of cooking for a plurality of recipes depending on the cooking proficiency level of the cook.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2014-211802

By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, it is possible to automatically control the heating power adjustment, the heating time, etc. in the cooking device such as the stove and the grill to be used according to the cooking process, but the number of stoves, the number of frying pans, and the kitchen It does not set conditions related to the cooking environment such as size.

The conditions regarding such a cooking environment may greatly affect the propriety of proper execution of the process (procedure) envisioned in the recipe to be cooked. In other words, apart from the recipe content and its difficulty level and compatibility with the cook, there are conditions that should be carefully considered.

On the other hand, the above-mentioned conditions regarding the cooking environment are related to the daily environment for the cook, and are not the kind that is accurately and comprehensively recognized. Therefore, it is not easy to obtain and utilize information on such conditions from the cook. It is complicated for the cook if he / she needs to input the device information by himself / herself. After all, it also leads to the risk that accurate cooking environment information cannot be obtained.

For this reason, it is difficult to provide appropriate cooking support according to the cooking environment, and there is a problem that it lacks convenience. In addition, depending on the experience value (that is, proficiency level) of the cook, there is a problem that the cooking cannot be done in the time assumed by the original recipe. Further, depending on the cooking environment, there is a problem that the work cannot be performed according to the process assumed in the recipe.

Therefore, this disclosure was made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and it is possible to support cooking according to the cooking environment based on the cooking environment of the user and the selected recipe, and to improve the efficiency of cooking. It is an object of the present invention to provide a cooking support device, a cooking support system, a cooking support method, and a cooking support program that can be used.

In order to solve the above problems, the cooking support device of the present disclosure includes a storage unit that stores recipe information, a cooking environment information acquisition unit that acquires user's cooking environment information from a predetermined device, and the recipe information. A recipe selection unit that selects recipe information designated by the user from the above, and an instruction information generation unit that generates instruction information for a cooking procedure based on the selected recipe information according to the acquired cooking environment information. ..

Further, the cooking support system of the present disclosure includes a storage unit for storing recipe information, a cooking environment information acquisition unit for acquiring user's cooking environment information from a predetermined device, an input unit operated by the user, and the recipe information. A recipe selection unit for selecting recipe information specified by the user in the input unit, and instruction information for generating instruction information for a cooking procedure based on the selected recipe information according to the acquired cooking environment information. It includes a generation unit and a display unit that displays the generated instruction information.

Further, in the cooking support method of the present disclosure, the information processing device holding the recipe information selects a step of acquiring the user's cooking environment information from a predetermined device and the recipe information specified by the user from the recipe information. And the step of generating instruction information of the cooking procedure based on the selected recipe information according to the acquired cooking environment information.

Further, in the cooking support program of the present disclosure, the step of acquiring the cooking environment information of the user from a predetermined device and the recipe information specified by the user are selected from the recipe information in the information processing device that holds the recipe information. And the step of generating instruction information of the cooking procedure based on the selected recipe information according to the acquired cooking environment information.

According to the cooking support device, cooking support system, cooking support method and cooking support program of the present disclosure, it is possible to support cooking according to the cooking environment based on the user's cooking environment and the selected recipe, and the cooking efficiency. It is possible to improve the quality.

It is a schematic block diagram which shows the structure of the cooking support system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the cooking means list which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the specification information which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a front view of the user terminal including the input screen of the cooking utensil which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a front view of the user terminal including the input screen of the cooking utensil which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a front view of the user terminal including the input screen of the cooking utensil which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a front view of the user terminal including the input screen of the cooking utensil which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the recipe use history which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the acquired information which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a front view of the user terminal including the display screen of the material used which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a front view of the user terminal including the display screen which shows the instruction information of the cooking procedure of the selected recipe which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a front view of the user terminal including the display screen which shows the instruction information after the start of cooking which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a front view of the user terminal including the display screen which shows the instruction information of the cooking procedure based on the cooking environment information which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart for demonstrating operation of the cooking support system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a schematic block diagram which shows the structure of the cooking support system which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a front view of the user terminal including the display screen of each procedure of the selected recipe which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart for demonstrating operation of the cooking support system which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a schematic block diagram which shows the structure of the computer which concerns on embodiment.

Hereinafter, this embodiment will be described. The present embodiment described below does not unreasonably limit the content of the present disclosure described in the claims. Moreover, not all of the configurations described in the present embodiment are essential constituent requirements of the present disclosure.

(First Embodiment)
<Structure>
First, the configuration and outline of the cooking support system 10 including the server 101 that generates instruction information of the cooking procedure according to the cooking environment by the operation from the user terminal 201 in the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. To do. Note that FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the cooking support system 10 of the present embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 1, the cooking support system 10 of the present embodiment is configured such that the server 101, the user terminal 201, and the cooking device 301 can be connected to a network NW such as the Internet or a LAN.

The server 101 is a device that constitutes the cooking support device in the present disclosure, and is composed of an information processing device such as a computer or a mainframe. The connection between the server 101 and the network NW may be wired or wireless. The server 101 includes a server communication unit 111, a storage unit 112, a cooking environment information acquisition unit 113, a recipe selection unit 114, and an instruction information generation unit 115.

The server communication unit 111 is a communication interface that communicates with the user terminal 201 and the cooking device 301 via the network NW. The server communication unit 111 receives cooking environment information and recipe selection information transmitted from the user terminal 201 and the cooking device 301. In addition, the server communication unit 111 transmits recipe information and cooking instruction information to the user terminal 201.

The storage unit 112 stores recipe information. The recipe information is information for making a dish, and is information indicating a recipe including ingredients and a cooking process. The recipe information may be content composed of an image and text, or may be a moving image. The recipe information delivered by the server 101 may be posted by a user (poster or viewer) or may be posted by a service provider.

Further, the storage unit 112 stores the user's cooking environment information acquired by the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113. The cooking environment information is stored in association with the user's ID information. In addition, the storage unit 112 stores characteristic information of cooking utensils and cooking utensils, that is, specification information (hereinafter referred to as characteristic information) indicated by cooking environment information. The cooking means in the present invention includes the concept of cooking utensils and cooking utensils.

The characteristic information of the cooking utensil is, for example, information such as the calorific value of the gas stove and the wattage of the microwave oven. Further, the characteristic information of the cooking utensil is information such as the volume of the pot and the heat capacity. Such characteristic information may be obtained from the specification information 320 of the cooking device 301, standard information provided by the manufacturer may be used, or past use of cooking utensils and cooking utensils used by a plurality of users. It may be estimated using machine learning (AI) from the actual information.

The cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 stores the cooking environment information transmitted from the user terminal 201 or the cooking device 301 in the storage unit 112 in association with the user's ID information. Cooking environment information is information on the types and quantities of cooking utensils and cooking utensils. The cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 applies appropriate algorithms such as image analysis and image recognition to the image data of the user's kitchen that has been photographed and transmitted by the user terminal 201 to generate cooking environment information. You may do so.

The cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 described above transmits information on cooking utensils and cooking utensils (cooking means) held in the storage unit 112 to the user terminal 201 to output the information, and whether or not the user possesses the cooking means. By obtaining the answer, the cooking environment information may be obtained.

As the above-mentioned information output by the user terminal 201, a list of cooking means (cooking means list 1121 in FIG. 2) held in advance by the server 101 in the storage unit 112 can be assumed. This list may be obtained from, for example, the maker WEB site of each cooking means, merged, listed, and generated.

Further, the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 refers to the above-mentioned recipe usage history information regarding the user, which is stored in advance in the storage unit 112, and is used in the recipe information from the recipe information used or searched by the user in the past. Cooking environment information may be obtained by extracting information on cooking means.

Further, the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 acquires the above-mentioned shooting data regarding the user's kitchen from the user terminal 201 (imaging unit 214), and based on the shooting data, the cooking means and the kitchen owned by the user. Cooking environment information including at least one of the size information may be acquired.

Further, the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 may acquire cooking environment information including the information of the cooking device 301 from the above-mentioned user's cooking means, that is, the cooking device 301, which can communicate via the network NW.

Further, the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 refers to information on the maker of the cooking means (eg, URL of the maker WEB site, maker name, etc.) including information on the cooking means obtained from the cooking device 301 or the user terminal 201. Then, cooking environment information including specification information of the cooking means may be acquired from the server device of the manufacturer (accessed by the above-mentioned URL).

Further, the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 selects, among the cooking means defined by the recipe information selected by the user terminal 201, the cooking means owned by the user that can be replaced, based on the above-mentioned specification information. It may be specified and the information of the cooking means of the user may be used as cooking environment information.

For example, when the cooking method specified in the recipe information was "500 watt microwave oven", the user did not have "500 watt microwave oven", but at "500 watt" If you have a "1200 watt microwave" that can be identified from the specification information that the cooking mode can be selected, this "1200 watt microwave" information can be used as an alternative to the "500 watt microwave". Adopted as cooking environment information.

The recipe selection unit 114 selects recipe information from the storage unit 112 based on the recipe selection information transmitted from the user terminal 201.

The instruction information generation unit 115 generates instruction information for a cooking procedure corresponding to the recipe information from the user's cooking environment information stored in the storage unit 112 and the recipe information specified by the user. Specifically, based on the information on the types and quantities of cooking utensils and cooking utensils indicated by the cooking environment information, each cooking procedure in the recipe indicated by the recipe information is assigned to appropriate cooking utensils and cooking utensils, and instruction information is provided. Generate. In addition, instruction information is generated so that a plurality of cooking procedures are performed in parallel.

Further, the instruction information generation unit 115 can change the cooking time from the recipe information time and generate it as instruction information by using the characteristic information stored in the storage unit 112. For example, in the recipe information, what is specified as 3 minutes in a 500 watt microwave oven is changed so that it can be cooked in 1 minute 30 seconds when the user is using a 1200 watt microwave oven. It can be used as instruction information.

The user terminal 201 displays the information transmitted from the server 101. In addition, the user terminal 201 can transmit information to the server 101.

The user terminal 201 is an information processing device such as a smartphone, a mobile phone, a PHS, a computer, a PDA, a watch, a smart watch, a head mount display, and an image generator, and is a server via a network NW such as the Internet (WAN) or LAN. It is a device that can be connected to 101. The connection between the user terminal 201 and the server 101 may be wired or wireless.

Further, the user terminal 201 may access the server 101 by the installed dedicated application software. Further, the server 101 may be accessed by using the server 101 or an operating environment (API (application programming interface), platform, etc.) separately provided by the server (not shown).

The terminal communication unit 211 is a communication interface that communicates with the server 101 via the network NW. The terminal communication unit 211 receives the cooking instruction information transmitted from the server 101. In addition, the terminal communication unit 211 transmits cooking environment information and recipe selection information to the server 101.

The input unit 212 is an input device for the user to operate the user terminal 201. The input unit 212 may be an input device using a switch such as a physical keyboard, or may be integrated with the display unit 213 and configured as a touch panel.

The display unit 213 is an image device for displaying information on the user terminal 201, and is composed of a liquid crystal display (LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)), an organic EL element, or the like.

The cooking device 301 is a cooking device such as a microwave oven, a microwave oven, and a rice cooker. However, it is assumed that the cooking apparatus 301 in this case includes a communication unit 311 and a storage unit 312, and can communicate with the server 101 via a network NW such as the Internet (WAN) or LAN.

Therefore, the specification information 320 (see FIG. 3) of the cooking device 301 held by the storage unit 312 can be transmitted to the server 101 via the communication unit 311. The connection between the cooking device 301 and the server 101 may be wired or wireless.

The communication unit 311 is a communication interface that communicates with the server 101 via the network NW. The communication unit 311 receives the cooking environment information acquisition request transmitted from the server 101. Further, the communication unit 311 transmits the specification information 320 as cooking environment information to the server 101.

<About the user terminal display screen>
The display screen of the user terminal 201 when the server 101 is used to provide cooking support to the user according to the embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 7.

<< Acquisition of cooking environment information >>
First, a procedure for acquiring cooking environment information from the user terminal 201 will be described. The cooking environment information is information about cooking utensils and cooking utensils used by the user. FIG. 4 is a screen G10 for receiving an answer regarding whether or not the user terminal 201 has a cooking utensil. The answers regarding the existence of possession accepted here are related to the size of the kitchen, the type of stove, the number of stoves, the existence of rice cookers, microwave ovens, etc., and their models. The information on the cooking utensils may include information on the layout of the kitchen.

On the screen G10 of FIG. 4, each item G101 related to the cooking environment and the pull-down G102 for which the user selects the cooking environment are listed. The item G101 includes, for example, those corresponding to cooking utensils such as a gas stove, an electric stove, a rice cooker, an oven range, a microwave oven, an oven toaster, a blender, and a mixer.

The user checks the check box G103 for designating the selection target of the presence or absence of such cooking utensils. In addition, the presence or absence of the cooking utensil of the item is specified by operating the pull-down G102 described above. As for the gas stove, since the number of units corresponds to the number of heating operations that can be performed in parallel during cooking, it is a pull-down for selecting the number of units as well as the presence or absence. Also, regarding the size of the kitchen, a pull-down is arranged to select the size of the area.

Alternatively, as shown in the screen G20 of FIG. 5, the model of the target cooking utensil may be selected by the pull-down G202 instead of the presence or absence of each cooking utensil. In that case, the user selects, for example, the model "AB-100C" for the rice cooker with the pull-down G202, and also selects the model "DR500W" for the microwave oven, among the cooking utensils owned by the user. Select the model "OT-200X" for the oven toaster. Also, although this user has a blender, he does not know the model, so he selects "Unknown".

In this way, the user who has performed the selection operation regarding the cooking utensil owned by himself / herself clicks, for example, a predetermined confirmation button (not shown). On the other hand, the user terminal 201 that receives this recognizes that the user has completed the selection regarding the presence / absence of the cooking utensil, and transitions to the selection screen (screen G30 of FIG. 6) regarding the presence / absence of the cooking utensil.

6 and 7 are diagrams showing screens G30 and G40 for the user to select the presence / absence and the number of cooking utensils using the user terminal 201, respectively. The information on cooking utensils is information on the presence and quantity of each cooking utensil such as a frying pan, a pot, and a kitchen knife.

Similar to the screens for accepting selections regarding cooking utensils (FIGS. 4 and 5), on the screen G30 for accepting answers regarding the presence or absence of cooking utensils, each item G301 for each cooking utensil and the pull-down G302 for selecting the cooking utensils are displayed. Enumerated. Item G301 includes, for example, those corresponding to cooking utensils such as frying pans, pots, Chinese pots, clay pots, pressure cookers, knives, kitchen knives, kitchen knives, and kitchen knives.

The user checks the check box G303 for designating the selection target of the presence or absence of these cooking utensils. In addition, the presence or absence of cooking utensils for the item is specified by operating the pull-down G302 described above.

Alternatively, as shown in the screen G40 of FIG. 7, the number of target cooking utensils may be selected by the pull-down G402 instead of the presence or absence of each cooking utensil. In that case, among the cooking utensils that the user owns, for example, for a frying pan, the possession number "1", for a pot, the possession number "2", and for a pressure cooker, the possession number "1". For kitchen knives, the number of possessions "2" is selected, and for kitchen scissors, the number of possessions "1" is selected by pull-down G402.

In this way, the user who has performed the selection operation regarding the cooking utensil owned by the user clicks, for example, a predetermined confirmation button (not shown). On the other hand, the user terminal 201 that receives this recognizes that the user has completed the selection regarding the presence / absence and the number of cooking utensils, and the selection content regarding the cooking means is determined. The user terminal 201 transmits the confirmed input content to the server 101 as cooking environment information.

Further, the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 refers to, for example, the recipe usage history 1122 (see FIG. 8) held by the storage unit 112, and cooks using the recipe information from the recipe information used or searched by the user in the past. The cooking environment information may be obtained by extracting the information of the cooking means used in the above. For example, in the recipe usage history 1122 in FIG. 8, from the content of the recipe "r00115" used by the user ID "00001" "microwave oven with output 500W for 3 minutes ...", "500W" and "microwave oven" respectively. Extract vocabulary and use these as cooking environment information. At this time, it is assumed that the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 holds in advance a dictionary for specifying the vocabulary corresponding to the cooking means from the sentences.

Further, the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 acquires shooting data related to the user's kitchen from the imaging unit 214 of the user terminal 201, and based on the shooting data, the cooking utensils or cooking utensils owned by the user and the kitchen area At least one of the above information may be acquired as cooking environment information.

In this case, the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 identifies the cooking utensils and cooking utensils among the subjects included in the shooting data by inputting the above-mentioned shooting data to the image recognition engine. Of course, the above-mentioned image recognition engine can identify the subject with the required recognition accuracy by performing appropriate learning regarding the recognition of cooking utensils and cooking utensils.

In addition, the image recognition engine has a function of estimating the size of the kitchen by, for example, identifying each vertex of a pillar or ceiling in the kitchen space from shooting data and calculating the dimension between each vertex. It is assumed that there is.

Further, the cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 acquires the specification information 320 of the cooking device 301 as the cooking environment information from the above-mentioned cooking device 301 that can communicate via the network NW. The cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 stores the kitchen shooting data thus obtained, the specification information 320 of the cooking device 301, and the like as acquisition information 1123 (see FIG. 9) in the storage unit 112.

The cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 acquires information about the maker of the cooking device 301 from the above-mentioned cooking device 301 (cooking utensil), for example, the URL of the maker WEB site, and uses this URL as the access destination to the server of the maker. The device may be notified of the request for acquisition of the specification information of the cooking device 301 to acquire the specification information as the cooking environment information.

<< Display of cooking procedure instruction information >>
Next, a display screen for displaying cooking support instruction information according to the user's cooking environment information for the recipe selected by the user will be described. FIG. 10 is a screen G50 on which the ingredients used in the “full course of seafood that can be made at home”, which is a recipe selected by the user, are displayed on the user terminal 201. The user terminal 201 can return to the screen G50 and display it based on the user's operation even when another screen different from the screen G50 is displayed. Therefore, the user can check the material at any time.

FIG. 11 is a screen G60 in which a procedure for creating a recipe selected by the user is displayed on the user terminal 201. The procedure of how to make indicates for each cooking utensil or cooking utensil of the user at what time each cooking utensil or cooking utensil is used for cooking.

This procedure of making is instruction information generated by allocating the cooking procedure of the recipe to the cooking utensil or the cooking utensil according to the time based on the cooking environment information of the user who selected the recipe. Specifically, FIG. 11 shows instruction information of the cooking procedure of the recipe selected by the user based on the cooking environment information in which the cooking means of the user is “cutting board, frying pan, pot 1, pot 2, microwave oven”. Shown.

This instruction information screen shows a procedure in which the cutting board is used for about 2 minutes from the start of cooking, the ingredients processed on the cutting board are transferred to the pot 2, and the ingredients are simmered for about 2 to 24 minutes. The procedure of using a cutting board for 8 to 10 minutes, transferring the processed food to a frying pan, and baking it is shown. Further, the procedure of using the cutting board for 16 to 18 minutes, transferring the processed food to a frying pan, and baking according to the previously baked food is shown. In addition, the procedure of using the pot 1 for 15 minutes, transferring the ingredients baked in the frying pan to the pot 1 and simmering is shown. The microwave oven shows the procedure of heating the foodstuffs boiled in the pot 1 for 28 to 32 minutes. Then, the procedure of combining the ingredients simmered in the pot 2 after heating is shown.

FIG. 12 is a screen G70 showing instruction information after the start of cooking on the user terminal 201, and a specific procedure is displayed. The current time is indicated by a dotted time bar, and FIG. 12 shows that 13 minutes have passed since the start of cooking. Further, at the lower part of the screen G70, specific instruction information of the cooking procedure at the time indicated by the time bar is displayed. During this time, the frying pan and the pot 2 are cooking at the same time. Since the frying pan starts cooking 10 minutes after the start of cooking in the pan 2, the cooking procedure using the frying pan is displayed. The time bar can be moved by the user to see past and past cooking procedures. In this way, it is possible to display a plurality of cooking procedures in parallel according to the cooking environment of the user and support the cooking of the user.

Next, FIG. 13 is a screen G80 showing instruction information of the cooking procedure of the recipe selected by the user based on the cooking environment information in which the user's cooking utensil is “cutting board, frying pan, pot, microwave oven”. Yes, the specific procedure is displayed.

Unlike the cooking environment information (two pots) shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, it shows instruction information of the cooking procedure when there is one pot. That is, in this case, since it is necessary to sequentially perform the cooking procedure using the pot, the cooking procedure performed in the pot 1 in FIG. 12 is used as instruction information for cooking from about 24 minutes, and the cooking procedure for the cutting board and frying pan is also included accordingly. It is said that the instruction information starts around 18 minutes. In this way, even when one recipe is selected, it is possible to display the instruction information of the cooking procedure according to the cooking environment information of the user.

<Processing flow>
Next, the operation of the cooking support system 10 according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 14 and FIGS. 4 to 7 showing the display screen of the user terminal 201. The flowchart of FIG. 14 shows the related state of each operation of the server 101 and the user terminal 201 or the cooking device 301.

In step S101, the user terminal 201 accepts the selection of cooking environment information from the user. Specifically, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 7, the user uses the user terminal 201 to input the presence / absence of cooking utensils and cooking utensils, which is cooking environment information, from the input unit 212, and this is input to the user terminal 201. Will be acquired. The details of the cooking environment information acquisition in the user terminal 201 are as described above.

In step S102, the user terminal 201 transmits the cooking environment information selected in step S101 to the server 101. Specifically, the user terminal 201 transmits the cooking environment information that has been selected by the user to the network NW via the terminal communication unit 211.

In the example of FIG. 14, the user terminal 201 acquires the cooking environment information and transmits it to the server 101, but the cooking device 301 provides the specification information 320 in response to a request or in a predetermined manner. It may be delivered to the server 101 when the timing arrives.

In step S103, the server 101 receives the cooking environment information transmitted from the user terminal 201 in step S102, and stores this in the storage unit 112. Specifically, the server 101 stores the cooking environment information received by the server communication unit 111 in the storage unit 112 in association with the user ID that uses the user terminal 201.

In step S104, the user terminal 201 accepts the input of the recipe selection information from the user. Specifically, a plurality of recipe information provided from the server 101 is displayed in a selectable manner, and the input unit 212 accepts the selection of the recipe information desired by the user.

In step S105, the user terminal 201 transmits the recipe selection information obtained in step S104 to the server 101. Specifically, the user terminal 201 transmits the recipe selection information to the network NW via the terminal communication unit 211.

In step S106, the recipe selection unit 114 of the server 101 reads the recipe information selected by the user from the storage unit 112 based on the recipe selection information described above.

In step S107, the instruction information generation unit 115 of the server 101 prepares cooking corresponding to the recipe information from the type and number of cooking utensils and cooking utensils which are the above-mentioned cooking environment information of the user and the recipe information selected by the user. Generate instruction information for the procedure. Further, by using the characteristic information of the cooking utensil or the cooking utensil, that is, the specification information used by the user, the cooking time can be changed from the recipe information time and generated as instruction information.

The cooking environment information acquisition unit 113 identifies, for example, the cooking means that can be replaced by the cooking means owned by the user among the cooking means specified by the recipe information selected by the user, based on the acquisition information 1123. Information on the cooking means of the user may be used as cooking environment information.

In step S108, the server 101 loops up to step S111 until the instruction information is completed. The user terminal 201 also continues to operate in conjunction with this loop.

In step S109, the server communication unit 111 transmits the instruction information generated in step S107 to the user terminal 201.

In step S110, the user terminal 201 receives the instruction information transmitted from the server 101 and displays it. Specifically, the instruction information received by the terminal communication unit 211 is displayed on the display unit 213. The content of the screen displayed on the display unit 213 is a procedure of how to make a recipe selected by the user described in FIG. 11 and a specific procedure corresponding to the time bar described in FIG. 12 after the start of cooking. The displayed contents change depending on the passage of time and the input operation of the user. The user terminal 201 may display the instruction information and acquire the cooking status.

In step S111, the server 101 loops up to step S108 until the instruction information is completed.

As described above, the server (cooking support device) 101 according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure generates instruction information of the cooking procedure based on the recipe information specified by the user according to the cooking environment information selected by the user. However, cooking support can be provided by displaying the instruction information on the user terminal 201. By cooking according to the instruction information of the cooking procedure displayed on the user terminal 201, the user can perform a plurality of cooking procedures in parallel according to the cooking environment of the user, and can efficiently perform cooking. Can be done.

In addition, the user terminal 201 may display the instruction information and acquire the cooking status. For example, the voice during cooking is acquired from the microphone unit of the user terminal 201, it is determined from the voice whether or not the instructed cooking procedure is completed, and if it is determined that the cooking procedure is completed, the cooking status that the cooking procedure is completed is determined. It may be transmitted to the server 101. Further, each cooking utensil may be provided with a sensor and a communication function, and the cooking status may be transmitted to the server 101. From the cooking status, it is possible to know whether or not the user has completed the cooking procedure on time in the instruction information. When the cooking procedure is completed on time or earlier than the time, the user is presumed to be good at cooking, and the proficiency value associated with the user ID may be increased. The instruction information generation unit sets the time for instruction information of the cooking procedure shorter when the user's proficiency level is high than when the user's proficiency level is low, and instructs the user to cook more efficiently and efficiently. Information may be generated.

(Second embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment of the present disclosure will be described. In the second embodiment, two users A and B jointly cook. As shown in FIG. 15, the configuration is different in that the user terminal 201 of the first embodiment is the user terminal 201a and the user terminal 201b, but the configuration is the same as that of the first embodiment. The description of the part will be omitted. User A uses user terminal 201a, and user B uses user terminal 201b.

<About the user terminal display screen>
The screen G90 shown in FIG. 16 is a procedure of how to make a recipe selected by the user displayed on the user terminal 201a and the user terminal 201b, and shows at what time each cooking utensil or cooking utensil is used for cooking. It is a thing. Further, this screen G90 is a screen showing instruction information after the start of cooking, and a specific procedure is displayed.

The cooking utensil of the user shows instruction information of the cooking procedure of the recipe selected by the user A based on the cooking environment information of "cutting board, frying pan, pot 1, pot 2, microwave oven". The screen of this instruction information shows a procedure in which the cutting board is used by the user A for about 2 minutes from the start of cooking, the ingredients processed by the cutting board are transferred to the pan 2, and the user B stews from about 2 to 24 minutes. Further, the procedure in which the user A uses the cutting board for 8 to 10 minutes and the foodstuff processed by the user B is transferred to a frying pan and baked is shown. Further, the procedure in which the user A uses the cutting board for 16 to 18 minutes, the foodstuff processed by the user B is transferred to a frying pan, and is baked according to the previously baked foodstuff is shown. Further, the procedure in which the user B uses the pot 1 for 15 minutes, transfers the ingredients baked in the frying pan to the pot 1 and simmers them is shown. A user A shows a procedure for heating foodstuffs boiled in a pot 1 in a microwave oven for 28 to 32 minutes. Then, the user A shows a procedure for combining the ingredients boiled in the pot 2 after heating.

The current time is indicated by a dotted time bar, and in the example of FIG. 16, it is shown that 13 minutes have passed since the start of cooking. Further, at the lower part of the screen G90, specific instruction information of the cooking procedure at the time indicated by the time bar is displayed. At this time, the procedure in which the user A cooks in the pan 2 and the procedure in which the user B cooks in the frying pan are displayed. The time bar can be moved by the user to see past and past cooking procedures.

In this way, it is possible to display a plurality of cooking procedures in parallel according to the cooking environment of the user and support the cooking of the user. In this way, the person in charge of the cooking procedure is assigned to the user A and the user B, and the instruction information is generated and displayed for each user.

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Next, the operation of the cooking support system 20 according to the second embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 17 and FIG. 16 showing the display screen of the user terminal 201. The flowchart of FIG. 17 shows the related state of each operation of the server 101, the user terminal 201a, and the user terminal 201b.

In step S201, the user terminal 201a accepts the selection of cooking environment information from the user. Specifically, the user terminal 201a receives information on cooking utensils and cooking utensils, which is cooking environment information selected by the user.

In step S202, the user terminal 201a transmits the cooking environment information received in step S201 to the server 101. Specifically, the user terminal 201a transmits the cooking environment information to the network NW via the terminal communication unit 211.

In step S203, the server 101 receives the cooking environment information transmitted in step S202 and stores it in the storage unit 112. Specifically, the cooking environment information received by the server communication unit 111 is stored in the storage unit 112 in association with the user ID that uses the user terminal 201.

In step S204, the user terminal 201a accepts the input of the recipe selection information from the user. Specifically, the user terminal 201a receives the selection of the recipe information desired by the user from the plurality of recipe information provided by the server 101 by the input unit 212.

In step S205, the user terminal 201a transmits the recipe selection information selected in step S204 to the server 101. Specifically, the user terminal 201a transmits the recipe selection information to the network NW via the terminal communication unit 211.

In step S206, the recipe selection unit 114 of the server 101 reads the corresponding recipe information from the storage unit 112 based on the recipe selection information transmitted in step S205.

In step S207, the instruction information generation unit 115 of the server 101 prepares cooking corresponding to the recipe information from the type and number of cooking utensils and cooking utensils which are the above-mentioned cooking environment information of the user and the recipe information selected by the user. Generate instruction information for the procedure. As the instruction information, instructions for each of the user A and the user B are generated. Further, by using the characteristic information of the cooking utensil or the cooking utensil used by the user, the cooking time can be changed from the time of the recipe information and generated as instruction information.

In step S208, the server 101 loops up to step S214 until the instruction information is completed. The user terminal 201 also continues to operate in conjunction with this loop.

In step S209, the server communication unit 111 transmits the instruction information generated in step S207 to the user terminal 201a and the user terminal 201b.

In step S210, the user terminal 201a displays the instruction information transmitted from the server 101. Specifically, the display unit 213 displays the instruction information received by the terminal communication unit 211. The content of the screen displayed on the display unit 213 is a specific procedure corresponding to the time bar described with reference to FIG. Similarly, in step S211 the user terminal 201b displays the instruction information transmitted from the server 101.

In step S212, the user terminal 201a displays the instruction information and transmits the cooking status. For example, the voice during cooking is acquired from the microphone unit of the user terminal 201a, it is determined from the voice whether or not the instructed cooking procedure is completed, and if it is determined that the cooking procedure is completed, the cooking status that the cooking procedure is completed is determined. It sends to the server 101. Each cooking utensil may be provided with a sensor and a communication function, and the cooking status may be transmitted to the server 101. Similarly, in S213, the user terminal 201b displays the instruction information and transmits the cooking status. The server 101 can recognize from the transmitted cooking status whether the instructed cooking procedure is completed on time.

In step S214, the server 101 loops up to step S208 until the instruction information is completed.

As described above, the server (cooking support device) 101 according to the second embodiment of the present disclosure generates instruction information of the cooking procedure based on the recipe information specified by the user according to the cooking environment information of the user. Cooking support can be provided by displaying instruction information on the user terminal 201a and the user terminal 201b. The user A and the user B cook according to the instruction information of the cooking procedure displayed on the user terminal 201a and the user terminal 201b, so that each user can share the cooking procedure and cook the cooking procedure in parallel. It becomes possible and cooking can be performed efficiently.

Further, the user terminal 201a and the user terminal 201b may display the instruction information for the user A and the instruction information for the user B separately.

Further, from the cooking situation, it is possible to know whether or not the user A and the user B have completed the cooking procedure on time of the instruction information, respectively. Therefore, the difference between the time of the instruction information and the actual cooking time may be converted into points and calculated as the total of both points until the completion of cooking (information on the cooking achievement state). By determining the skill of the cooking work of the user A and the user B based on the superiority or inferiority of the total points and notifying both of them, it is possible to give the cooking playability.

In the present embodiment, the number of users who cook is two, user A and user B, but the number of users may be two or more.

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FIG. 18 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of the computer 801. The computer 801 includes a CPU 802, a main storage device 803, an auxiliary storage device 804, and an interface 805.

Here, the details of the program for realizing each function constituting the server 101 according to the embodiment will be described.

The server 101 is mounted on the computer 801. Then, the operation of each component of the server 101 is stored in the auxiliary storage device 804 in the form of a program. The CPU 802 reads the program from the auxiliary storage device 804, expands it to the main storage device 803, and executes the above processing according to the program. Further, the CPU 802 secures a storage area corresponding to the above-mentioned storage unit in the main storage device 803 according to the program.

Specifically, the program selects the recipe information specified by the user from the stored recipe information, the step of storing the recipe information, the step of accepting the selection of the user's cooking environment information, and the computer 801. It is a program that realizes a step and a step of generating instruction information of a cooking procedure based on the selected recipe information according to the cooking environment information acquired by receiving a user selection by a computer.

The auxiliary storage device 804 is an example of a non-temporary tangible medium. Other examples of non-temporary tangible media include magnetic disks, magneto-optical disks, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, semiconductor memories, etc. connected via interface 805. When this program is distributed to the computer 801 via the network NW, the distributed computer 801 may expand the program to the main storage device 803 and execute the above processing.

Further, the program may be for realizing a part of the above-mentioned functions. Further, the program realizes the above-mentioned function in combination with another program already stored in the auxiliary storage device 804, that is, a so-called difference file (difference program).
It may be.

Although some embodiments of the present disclosure have been described above, these embodiments can be implemented in various other embodiments, and various omissions, replacements, and modifications are made without departing from the gist of the invention. It can be performed. These embodiments and modifications thereof shall be included in the scope of the invention described in the claims and the equivalent scope thereof, as well as in the scope and gist of the invention.

10, 20 Cooking support system 101 Server 111 Server communication unit 112 Storage unit 113 Cooking environment information acquisition unit 114 Recipe selection unit 115 Instruction information generation unit 201 User terminal 211 Terminal communication unit 212 Input unit 213 Display unit 301 Cooking equipment 311 Communication unit 312 Storage unit 320 Specification information 801 Computer 802 CPU
803 Main storage 804 Auxiliary storage 805 Interface

Claims (15)

A memory unit that stores recipe information and
The cooking environment information acquisition unit that acquires the user's cooking environment information from a predetermined device,
A recipe selection unit that selects recipe information specified by the user from the recipe information, and
An instruction information generation unit that generates instruction information for a cooking procedure based on the selected recipe information according to the acquired cooking environment information.
Cooking support device equipped with. The cooking environment information acquisition unit acquires the cooking environment information by outputting information on the cooking means held in the storage unit and acquiring a response from the user as to whether or not the cooking means is possessed. The cooking support device described in. The cooking environment information acquisition unit refers to the recipe usage history information regarding the user in the storage unit, and from the recipe information used or searched by the user in the past, cooking used for cooking using the recipe information. The cooking support device according to claim 1, wherein the cooking environment information is acquired by extracting the information of the means. The cooking environment information acquisition unit acquires shooting data about the user's kitchen from an imaging device, and includes at least one of the cooking means owned by the user and the size of the kitchen based on the shooting data. The cooking support device according to claim 1, which acquires the cooking environment information. The cooking support device according to claim 1, wherein the cooking environment information acquisition unit acquires the cooking environment information including the information of the cooking means from the cooking means of the user, which can communicate via a network. The cooking environment information acquisition unit refers to the information about the maker of the cooking means included in the information of the cooking means, and acquires the cooking environment information including the specification information of the cooking means from the server device of the maker. The cooking support device according to claim 5. The cooking environment information acquisition unit identifies, based on the specification information, the cooking means defined by the selected recipe information that can be replaced by the cooking means owned by the user, and the user's cooking means. The cooking support device according to claim 6, wherein the information of the cooking means is used as the cooking environment information. The cooking support device according to claim 1, wherein the cooking environment information includes information on at least one of the type and quantity of the cooking means possessed by the user. The recipe information is stored in the storage unit in association with the cooking means used for each cooking process.
The instruction information generation unit is described in claim 1, wherein the instruction information generation unit generates the instruction information from the acquired cooking environment information, the cooking means required for the selected recipe information, and the acquired cooking environment information. Cooking support device. The cooking support device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the instruction information generation unit generates the instruction information based on a proficiency level determined according to the past cooking situation of the user. The instruction information generation unit is any one of claims 1 to 10 that generates the instruction information by assigning the person in charge of the cooking procedure to the plurality of users when there are a plurality of users who perform cooking. The cooking support device described in. The cooking support device according to claim 11, wherein the instruction information generation unit calculates information on the cooking achievement status of the plurality of users from the cooking status of the plurality of users. A memory unit that stores recipe information and
The cooking environment information acquisition unit that acquires the user's cooking environment information from a predetermined device,
The input section that the user operates and
A recipe selection unit that selects recipe information specified by the user in the input unit from the recipe information, and a recipe selection unit.
An instruction information generation unit that generates instruction information for a cooking procedure based on the selected recipe information according to the acquired cooking environment information.
A display unit that displays the generated instruction information and
Cooking support system equipped with. The information processing device that holds the recipe information
Steps to acquire the user's cooking environment information from a predetermined device,
A step of selecting recipe information specified by the user from the recipe information, and
A step of generating instruction information of a cooking procedure based on the selected recipe information according to the acquired cooking environment information, and
Cooking support method to carry out. For information processing devices that hold recipe information
Steps to acquire the user's cooking environment information from a predetermined device,
A step of selecting recipe information specified by the user from the recipe information, and
A step of generating instruction information of a cooking procedure based on the selected recipe information according to the acquired cooking environment information, and
Cooking support program to execute.

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