JP5497710B2 - Food or food video providing system with customer-specific taste judgment function - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a system for judging the taste of a food or dish (determining whether or not it matches the taste taste of each user) and a video providing system for the dish or food having this function. About.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for a fruit such as a watermelon, an apparatus for determining the taste of the fruit (deliciousness for ordinary people) has been put into practical use. Such a device, for example, determines the taste (taste for the general public) by measuring the concentration of a sweet component such as sugar by transmitting infrared rays or ultrasonic waves through the fruit. Yes. Moreover, such an apparatus is installed in a food or a cooking factory, or is installed in a retail store.

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  However, the device for judging the taste of the fruit (taste for ordinary people) as described above only determines “how much is generally delicious from the standpoint of ordinary people”. It cannot be determined whether or not the user feels delicious based on the preference.

The present invention relates to whether or not the taste of one dish or food designated or selected by the user matches or matches the taste taste of the user or to the extent that the taste taste matches or matches the taste taste of the user. It is an object of the present invention to provide a food or food image providing system having a customer taste determination function that allows the user to easily know whether or not the user is satisfied.

(Glossary)

  In the present invention, “the user's taste preference data recording means for recording data relating to the taste of the user's food or dish”, that is, “the place where the user's taste preference data is stored” is, for example, (1) Recording terminals in information terminals and IC cards used by users, (2) “Remote shop side” (virtual shops existing on networks such as the Internet, and remote locations where users communicate via networks A computer recording medium at a certain actual store or a central institution operated for these stores or users).

  In the present invention, the “food or dish sales / service form” that can use the food or dish taste judgment system of the present invention includes (1) When used in a store of “real store” (sold in an actual store) To determine the compatibility of the taste of the food displayed for each user with the taste preference of the individual user, or the compatibility of the taste of the food listed on the menu in an actual restaurant with the taste preference of the individual user And (2) “Catalog mail order” or “Advertising before delivery of dishes such as sushi and pizza” (including the sales form of “Virtual Shop on the Internet (Virtual Mall)”) (When using foods listed in the catalog to determine the compatibility of each user ’s taste preferences, or the taste of the dish shown in the advertisement before serving (3) for each food item displayed in the “real retail store”, the video of the food item is transmitted to a remote user over the Internet. When selling (transactions) the food in real time with a user (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-228506, whose title is “Remote Product Sales System” filed by the present applicant) , This publication is incorporated herein by reference as a prior document))), there are various sales forms, such as when used to determine whether the food meets the taste preference of the user obtain. In other words, the present invention can be applied to real stores (retail stores, restaurants), virtual shops on the Internet, and catalog mail-order vendors using conventional paper media (paper product catalogs). Is.

  When the present invention is applied to the sales form of the virtual shop, the “user-side information communication terminal” includes a terminal that the user uses in a “fixed environment” such as a home or office, and a user that the “mobile body” There may be a terminal used in “environment = mobile environment”. Terminals used in “mobile environment = mobile environment” include “portable” information communication terminals that users take out and use, and “in-vehicle” information communication terminals used in transportation such as automobiles. , Etc. In the present invention, the “determination result output unit” may output the determination result so that the store side recognizes it, or may output it so that the user side recognizes it. In the present invention, the “output” of the determination result includes, for example, a method of displaying on a screen, a method of outputting by sound, and the like.

The invention described in the claims of the present application is as follows.
1. A display means for displaying a video of one or more dishes or foods targeted for service provision or sale to a user, and designated or selected by a user who is the object of service provision or sale; For one dish or food, the taste of the “one dish or food” is the certain one based on the data on the taste of the “one dish or food” and the data on the taste preference of the certain user. Based on information relating to the determination means for determining whether or not the user's taste preference is met or matched, or to what extent the user's taste preference is matched or matched, and information about the determination result from the determination means Then, by performing processing such as transformation, processing or composition with another video of the “one dish or food”, “1 The image of cooking or food having a customer-specific taste determination function, characterized in that it comprises image processing means for performing processing to change the image of `` Cooking or food '' to reflect the determination result Offer system.
2. In remote locations or in real stores so that video of one or more dishes or foods that are targeted for service provision or sale is displayed on the information terminal side at or near the user A video transmission means for transmitting to the information terminal side by means of communication means for exchanging information, and one dish or food that is targeted for service provision or sale and specified or selected by a certain user, Based on the data on the taste of “one dish or food” and the data on the taste preference of the certain user, the taste of the “one dish or food” matches or matches the taste taste of the certain user. Determining means for determining whether or not the user's taste preference matches or matches, and from the determining means Based on the information related to the determination result, the video of the “one dish or food” is obtained by performing processing such as transformation, processing, or composition with another video of the “one dish or food”. An image processing means for performing a process of changing the determination result to be reflected, and a food or food video providing system having a customer-specific taste determination function.

As described above, according to the present invention, whether or not the taste of one dish or food designated or selected by the user matches or matches the taste preference of the user or the taste preference of the user The user can easily know how much they match or fit .
For example, according to the present invention, when a user orders purchase of a certain food or dish (when ordering at a real store (retail store or restaurant), the user places an order through a network such as the Internet. Or when ordering by phone or fax from a catalog mail order dealer), because you can easily know in advance whether the taste of the food or dish meets your taste preference It is very convenient. That is, when a user orders a certain food at a real store, when ordering a virtual shop via a network such as the Internet, or when ordering a catalog mail order by telephone or FAX, the computer screen Specify or select the food displayed on the screen, determine whether or not the taste of the food matches the taste preference of the user, and output the determination result on a screen display etc. This is very convenient because the user does not have to regret that they should not buy it because they did not meet their taste preferences after purchasing the food. In addition, when a user orders a certain dish at an actual store (such as a restaurant), when ordering a delivery or delivery of a certain dish to the actual store by telephone, FAX, e-mail, or the like, When ordering home delivery and home delivery via a network to a virtual shop on the Internet, specify the dish displayed on the computer screen and whether or not the taste of the dish matches the taste preference of the user Users can determine whether they match, and the results of the determination can be output on a screen display, etc., so the user says, “I tried the food after ordering and it did not match my taste preference. It's very convenient because you don't have to regret it if you don't order.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-73243 discloses an “automatic correlation system and method for consumer preference and electronic shopping information”, which creates a “personal electronic shopping information database”. It is not a prior document that denies the inventive step of the present invention in that it does not determine whether the food or dish of the present invention meets the taste preferences of individual users.

It is a block diagram for demonstrating the Example of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of a present Example. It is a figure for demonstrating the operation | movement of a present Example.

  A preferred embodiment of the present invention is, for example, as shown in Example 1 below.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment for carrying out the present invention. The example shown in FIG. 1 shows a case where the present invention is applied to a sales form of a virtual shop established on the Internet (a kind of “catalog mail order form” in a broad sense). In FIG. 1, 1 is a user-side information communication terminal (such as a personal computer), 2 is the Internet, and 3 is a virtual shop-side server (a computer connected to a network such as the Internet).

In the user terminal 1 of FIG. 1, 11 is an input unit comprising a keyboard, mouse, microphone, etc., 12 is a display, 13 is a speaker, and 14 is a transmission / reception unit. Further, in the virtual shop side server 3 of FIG. 1, 31 is a transmission / reception unit, 32 is video data and taste data relating to a plurality of foods or dishes that are targets of catalog mail order sales (sales using an electronic catalog transmitted over the Internet). A food or cooking database (data storage / recording device) 33 that stores various data such as a food or cooking video based on the food or cooking video data from the food or cooking database 32 via the transmission / reception unit 31 A food or cooking video providing unit 34 for providing (transmitting) to a user's taste preference database (data storage and recording device) for recording data on taste preferences of individual users transmitted from individual users ), 35 is the taste data of each food or dish from the food or dish database 32. And how much a certain food or dish matches the user's taste preference (compatibility) based on the user's taste preference data from the user's taste preference database 34 and the determination result The determination unit 36 for outputting matches each user's taste preference for each food or dish based on the determination result from the determination unit 35 and the video data of each food or dish from the food or dish database 32. Processed, deformed, or combined with food or cooking video so that the user can easily understand whether or not it matches (compatibility), and processed / modified / composited Is an image processing unit for outputting the image to the food or cooking image providing unit 33 . The virtual shop of this embodiment is not only for mail order sales of food, but also for food (sushi, soba, cutlet, pizza, spaghetti, etc.), and advertisements for the food are also available in the form of electronic data. Suppose that it is transmitting to the side.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. First, the operation when the user transmits his / her taste preference data to the virtual shop side server side will be described based on the flowchart of FIG. In this case, first, the user accesses the homepage of the virtual shop via the Internet and applies for “Please send the screen data of the taste preference questionnaire format” (step S1 in FIG. 2A). Then, in response to this, the taste preference questionnaire format screen is transmitted from the server 3 on the virtual shop side to the user terminal 1 and displayed on the screen of the user terminal 1 (step S2). Then, on the screen, the user inputs an answer to a questionnaire about favorite food, cooking, disliked food, cooking, seasoning, and the like, and transmits it to the virtual shop side server 3 (step S3). Thereby, the data regarding the taste preference of the user is accumulated in the “user taste preference database” 34 in the recording device of the virtual shop side server 3 (step S4).

  Next, the user determines whether (or how much) the taste of the food or dish being sold / serviced matches the taste preference of the user with the virtual shop side server 3. The operation when receiving a service will be described. In this case, the user accesses the homepage managed by the virtual shop server 3 via the Internet, opens the online sales page, and displays the food or dish to be sold / serviced on the screen (see FIG. 2B). Step S11). In this case, for example, a screen as shown in FIG. In Fig. 3 (a), a total of four types of confectionery, pudding, cheesecake, matcha mousse, and bavaroa, are displayed on the screen for online sale (displaying images of dishes such as sushi, soba, and pizza) May be)

Next, the user clicks the button (icon) specified on the screen with the indication "Please click this button if you want to receive the taste determination (determination of taste compatibility) service". Then, a “request for taste determination service” is performed (step S12). In the virtual shop side server 3 that has received this request, the user's taste preference data (stored in the “user taste preference database” 34) collected and accumulated in a questionnaire form regarding taste preferences in advance, The determination is performed by comparing and collating with taste data of one or more foods or dishes to be determined designated when the user requests taste determination (step S13). In this step S13, the determination unit 35 obtains the degree of compatibility of whether or not the designated food or dish matches the taste preference of the user and how much it matches, and uses this as the determination result as the image processing unit. 36 (see FIG. 1) (step S14). In the video processing unit 36, based on the determination result and the video data of the food or dish from the “food or dish database” 32, the food or dish image as a sales / service target reflects the determination result. Then, the video is processed (deformed / synthesized) (step S15). The video processing unit 36 sends the processed food or cooking video to the food or cooking video providing unit 33, and the food or cooking video providing unit 33 sends the video to the transmission / reception unit 31 . The transmission / reception unit 31 transmits the processed food or cooking video to the user's terminal 1 via the Internet, and the processed food or cooking video (video of the object of online sales / service). Is displayed on the display 12 of the user terminal 1 (step S16).

  FIGS. 3B and 3C show the case where the video processed by the video processing unit 36 in step S15 so as to reflect the determination result is displayed on the screen of the display 12 of the user terminal via the Internet (see above). An example of the screen of step S16) is shown respectively. In the example shown in FIG. 3B, it is assumed that the user requests determination of the degree of taste compatibility for all four sweets on the screen when requesting the “taste determination service”. The video processing unit 36 determines a predetermined reference value (for example, the user's taste preference based on the determination result “whether each food or dish matches the user's taste preference” from the determination unit 35). Matcha mousse and cheesecake that have a higher degree of compatibility than the standard value with a score of 100 being a perfect score of 100, and the compatibility is lower than the reference value. An image with rough pixels (or an image in a semi-transparent state) is displayed on the screen for the pudding and bavaria not to be used.

  Further, in the example shown in FIG. 3C, similarly, when the user requests the “taste determination service”, it is assumed that the user requests the determination of the degree of taste compatibility for all four sweets on the screen. The video processing unit 36 then determines the right side of the video of the pudding based on the determination result indicating the degree of compatibility of each food or dish with the user's taste preference from the determination unit 35. “△ 40 points” is displayed at the bottom, “◎ 90 points” is displayed at the lower right of the cheesecake image, “70 points” is displayed at the lower right of the image of the matcha mousse, and Bavaroi ’s “× 20 points” is displayed in the lower right of the video. In this case, the portions “Δ”, “◎”, “○”, and “×” are for displaying the judgment result for each confectionery (food or dish) so that the user can visually intuition. . In addition, “40 points”, “90 points”, “70 points”, and “20 points” are displays for allowing the user to understand numerically the degree of compatibility with a maximum of 100 points when the compatibility is extremely high. is there.

  In this embodiment, the determination result from the determination unit 35 is further sent to the transmission / reception unit 31 as audio information (not just transmitted to the user as video data as described above), May be sent via the Internet to the user terminal 1 and the content of the determination result may be output from the speaker 13 of the user terminal 1 by voice.

Claims (6)

Display means for displaying to the user an image of one or more dishes or foods that are to be offered or sold;
Data relating to the taste of the “ one dish or food ” and data relating to the taste preference of the user for one dish or food designated or selected by a user who is the object of service provision or sale Whether or not the taste of the “ one dish or food ” matches or matches the taste taste of the certain user, or how well the taste tastes or matches the taste taste of the certain user Determining means for determining
Based on the information on the determination result from the determination means, the “one dish or food” is transformed, processed, or combined with another image to perform the “one dish or food”. Image processing means for performing processing for changing the video of "so that the determination result is reflected ;
A system for providing food or food images with a customer-specific taste determination function. In remote locations or in real stores so that video of one or more dishes or foods that are targeted for service provision or sale is displayed on the information terminal side at or near the user Video transmission means for transmitting to the information terminal side by communication means for exchanging information ;
Data relating to the taste of the “ one dish or food ” and data relating to the taste preference of the user for one dish or food designated or selected by a user who is the object of service provision or sale Whether or not the taste of the “ one dish or food ” matches or matches the taste taste of the certain user, or how well the taste tastes or matches the taste taste of the certain user Determining means for determining
Based on the information on the determination result from the determination means, the “one dish or food” is transformed, processed, or combined with another image to perform the “one dish or food”. Image processing means for performing processing for changing the video of "so that the determination result is reflected ;
A system for providing food or food images with a customer-specific taste determination function. Display means for displaying to the user an image of one or more dishes or foods that are to be offered or sold;
Data relating to the taste of the “ one dish or food ” and data relating to the taste preference of the user for one dish or food designated or selected by a user who is the object of service provision or sale Whether or not the taste of the “ one dish or food ” matches or matches the taste taste of the certain user, or how well the taste tastes or matches the taste taste of the certain user Determining means for determining
Based on the information on the determination result from the determination means, the “one dish or food” is transformed, processed, or combined with another image to perform the “one dish or food”. Image processing means for performing processing for changing the video of "so that the determination result is reflected ;
A system for providing food or food images with a customer-specific taste determination function. In remote locations or in real stores so that video of one or more dishes or foods that are targeted for service provision or sale is displayed on the information terminal side at or near the user Video transmission means for transmitting to the information terminal side by communication means for exchanging information ;
Data relating to the taste of the “ one dish or food ” and data relating to the taste preference of the user for one dish or food designated or selected by a user who is the object of service provision or sale Whether or not the taste of the “ one dish or food ” matches or matches the taste taste of the certain user, or how well the taste tastes or matches the taste taste of the certain user Determining means for determining
Based on the information on the determination result from the determination means, the “one dish or food” is transformed, processed, or combined with another image to perform the “one dish or food”. Image processing means for performing processing for changing the video of "so that the determination result is reflected ;
A system for providing food or food images with a customer-specific taste determination function. Display means for displaying to the user an image of one or more dishes or foods that are to be offered or sold;
Data relating to the taste of the “ one dish or food ” and data relating to the taste preference of the user for one dish or food designated or selected by a user who is the object of service provision or sale Whether or not the taste of the “ one dish or food ” matches or matches the taste taste of the certain user, or how well the taste tastes or matches the taste taste of the certain user Determining means for determining
Based on the information on the determination result from the determination means, the “one dish or food” is transformed, processed, or combined with another image to perform the “one dish or food”. Image processing means for performing processing for changing the video of "so that the determination result is reflected ;
A system for providing food or food images with a customer-specific taste determination function. In remote locations or in real stores so that video of one or more dishes or foods that are targeted for service provision or sale is displayed on the information terminal side at or near the user Video transmission means for transmitting to the information terminal side by communication means for exchanging information ;
Data relating to the taste of the “ one dish or food ” and data relating to the taste preference of the user for one dish or food designated or selected by a user who is the object of service provision or sale Whether or not the taste of the “ one dish or food ” matches or matches the taste taste of the certain user, or how well the taste tastes or matches the taste taste of the certain user Determining means for determining
Based on the information on the determination result from the determination means, the “one dish or food” is transformed, processed, or combined with another image to perform the “one dish or food”. Image processing means for performing processing for changing the video of "so that the determination result is reflected ;
A system for providing food or food images with a customer-specific taste determination function.

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