JP6566257B2 - Cooking support method, control method, and computer program - Google Patents

Description

  The present disclosure relates to a cooking support method, a control method for controlling a terminal device, and a computer program.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been proposed a cooking support system that supports cooking of a user who uses a terminal by providing recipe information from a server to the terminal.

  For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a system that provides a cooking process and time required for cooking one or more cooking menus. Here, the time required for each cooking step is a fixed time set in advance.

Japanese Patent No. 3515950

  However, cooking skills in the cooking process differ from user to user. Therefore, in a system that simply displays a fixed required time as in Patent Document 1, cooking may not be completed in the displayed required time depending on the user's cooking skill, and may take more time than expected. It will occur.

  The objective which concerns on 1 aspect of this indication is providing the cooking assistance method which can provide the required time of a cooking process according to the cooking skill for every user, the control method which controls a terminal device, and a computer program.

  A cooking support method according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a cooking support method in a cooking support system in which a server device that stores information related to a cooking recipe and a terminal device having a display are connected via a network, Corresponding to each user, user identification information for identifying each user, cooking time information indicating the cooking time required for cooking in the cooking process included in the cooking recipe, and cooking type information indicating the cooking type of the cooking process The attached cooking history data is managed, and the first cooking time information indicating the cooking time required for cooking in the first cooking step included in the first cooking recipe by the first user is received from the terminal device of the first user. And the received said 1st cooking time information is matched with the 1st cooking classification information which shows the cooking classification of the said 1st cooking process, and the 1st user identification information which identifies the said 1st user. And managing the cooking history data and accepting a transmission request for second cooking recipe information indicating a second cooking recipe different from the first cooking recipe from the terminal device of the first user via the network. In this case, it is determined whether or not the second cooking recipe includes a second cooking process that is a cooking process of the first cooking type, and when the second cooking recipe includes the second cooking process, the second cooking recipe includes the second cooking process. Based on 1 cooking time information, the 2nd cooking time which is cooking time required for cooking of the said 2nd cooking process is determined, and the 2nd cooking time is transmitted to the said 1st user's said terminal device via the said network. 2nd cooking time information which shows, and 2nd cooking recipe information showing the said 2nd cooking recipe are transmitted.

  A control method according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a control method for controlling a terminal device that has a display and is connected to a server device that stores information related to a cooking recipe. About the 1st cooking process contained in a cooking recipe, the 1st cooking time information showing the 1st cooking time which the user measured the 1st cooking time required for cooking of the 1st cooking process, and made it measure, and the 1st 2nd cooking recipe which associates and manages the 1st cooking classification information showing the 1st cooking classification which is the cooking classification of 1 cooking process, and shows the 2nd cooking recipe different from the said 1st cooking recipe from the said server apparatus. When the information is received, it is determined whether or not the second cooking recipe information includes second cooking process information indicating a second cooking process which is a cooking process of the first cooking type, and the second cooking recipe is determined. When the information includes the second cooking process information, based on the first cooking time information, the second cooking time, which is a cooking time necessary for cooking in the second cooking process, is determined and determined. The second cooking time is displayed on the display.

  A computer program according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a computer program that is connected to a server device that stores information relating to a cooking recipe and that is executed in a terminal device having a display. About the 1st cooking process contained in 1 cooking recipe, the user measured the 1st cooking time required for cooking of the 1st cooking process, the 1st cooking time information showing the 1st cooking time made to measure, and the above-mentioned 2nd cooking which shows the 2nd cooking recipe different from the said 1st cooking recipe from the said server apparatus, matched and managed the 1st cooking classification information showing the 1st cooking classification which is a cooking classification of a 1st cooking process. When recipe information is received, the second cooking process information indicating a second cooking process that is a cooking process of the first cooking type is included in the second cooking recipe information. If the second cooking process information is included in the second cooking recipe information, the cooking time required for cooking in the second cooking process is based on the first cooking time information. The second cooking time is determined, and the determined second cooking time is displayed on the display.

  According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the time required for the cooking process can be provided according to the cooking skill for each user.

The block diagram which shows an example of a structure of the cooking assistance system which concerns on one embodiment The flowchart which shows an example of the cooking time prediction process which concerns on one embodiment The figure which shows an example of the cooking history data and cooking skill which concern on one embodiment The figure which shows an example of the cooking procedure in the case of implementing the some recipe which concerns on other embodiment in parallel. The figure which shows an example of the hardware constitutions of the computer which implement | achieves the function of each apparatus which concerns on each embodiment with software

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

[Composition of cooking support system]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the cooking support system according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the cooking support system includes a terminal device 100 and a server device 200.

  The terminal device 100 and the server device 200 are connected via a network (not shown). The network may be a wireless network, a wired network, or a network in which a wired network and a wireless network are mixed.

  The server device 200 is an information processing device that provides recipe data to the terminal device 100.

  The terminal device 100 is an information processing device that displays recipe data provided by the server device 200, and is, for example, a smartphone, a tablet, a PC, or a TV.

  Recipe data is comprised from cooking process data, cooking time data, and material data, for example. The cooking process data is data including a description of the recipe cooking process. The cooking time data is data including the time required for each cooking process. Here, the cooking time data included in the recipe data is a time (constant) set in advance for each recipe. Ingredient data is data including ingredients required for cooking a recipe and the amount thereof.

[Configuration of Terminal Device 100]
Hereinafter, the configuration of the terminal device 100 will be described.

  A terminal device 100 illustrated in FIG. 1 includes a transmission processing unit 101, a reception processing unit 102, an output unit 103, an input unit 104, a storage unit 105, and a control unit 106.

  The transmission processing unit 101 and the reception processing unit 102 are communication interfaces that communicate with other devices. For example, the transmission processing unit 101 transmits to the server device 200 an acquisition request for cooking time (described later) for each cooking process measured by the control unit 106 or a cooking time (described later) of a similar skill user.

  The reception processing unit 102 receives recipe data from the server device 200. The recipe data is stored in the storage unit 105 under the control of the control unit 106. Further, the reception processing unit 102 receives the cooking time of the similar skill user from the server device 200. The cooking time data of the similar skill user is output to the control unit 106.

  The output unit 103 is a display device such as a display. For example, the output unit 103 displays information received from the control unit 106, for example, a description of the recipe cooking process, cooking time, and material information on the screen.

  The input unit 104 is an input device such as a button or a touch panel. For example, the input unit 104 receives a switching operation by the user. The switching operation is an operation for requesting switching (transition) of the screen display of the cooking process, for example, flick input. The screen display switching by the switching operation is, for example, scrolling or page unit switching.

  The storage unit 105 is a storage device such as a memory or a hard disk device. For example, the storage unit 105 stores recipe data received from the server device 200 and user cooking history data received from the control unit 106.

  The control unit 106 is a control device such as a processor that executes various types of information processing. The control unit 106 includes an input / output control unit 161, a cooking time measurement unit 162, and a cooking time prediction unit 163.

  When recipe data is received by the reception processing unit 102, the input / output control unit 161 stores the data in the storage unit 105. Then, the input / output control unit 161 reads recipe data from the storage unit 105 at a predetermined timing. The predetermined timing is, for example, a timing at which the input unit 104 receives an instruction to execute a cooking process screen display from the user.

  When a switching operation by the user is performed at the input unit 104, the input / output control unit 161 receives information indicating that the switching operation has been performed from the input unit 104.

  The input / output control unit 161 transmits the cooking time for each cooking type measured by the cooking time measuring unit 162 as cooking history data to the server device 200 via the transmission processing unit 101 and stores it in the storage unit 105. To do. The server device 200 accumulates cooking history data transmitted from each terminal device 100 for each user.

  The cooking time measuring unit 162 measures the cooking time of the user in each cooking process of the cooking menu included in the recipe data. The measured cooking time is associated with the cooking type of each cooking step and accumulated as cooking history data for each user. The cooking history data is stored in the storage unit 105 and transmitted to the server device 200.

  For example, when the description of one cooking process per screen is displayed on the output unit 103, the cooking time measuring unit 162 performs the next switching operation from the timing when information indicating that the switching operation has been performed is received. The time until the timing when the information indicating that it has been received is received is measured as the cooking time of the cooking type in one cooking process.

  That is, the cooking time measured by the cooking time measuring unit 162 is the time from the transition to one cooking process to the transition to the next cooking process. Or it can be said that the cooking time measured in the cooking time measurement part 162 is the display time when the description of one cooking process is displayed.

  For example, the cooking type is represented as a combination of “material” and “cooking operation” that are cooking targets. As an example of the cooking type, ("chopped" of "vegetable"), ("chopped" of "vegetable"), ("three pieces of grated" of "fish") and the like can be mentioned. Note that the vegetables and fish as “materials” may be further subdivided and stored for each type.

  Moreover, the cooking time measurement part 162 may normalize the measured cooking time to the time per unit quantity using the quantity of the material shown by recipe data. Thereby, the terminal device 100 holds the cooking time per unit amount as cooking history data. The cooking time per unit amount may be transmitted to the server device 200 and accumulated as cooking history data.

  The cooking time prediction unit 163 uses the cooking history data and the recipe data received from the server device 200 to predict the cooking time for each user who uses the terminal device 100 for each cooking type in the recipe cooking process.

  Specifically, the cooking time prediction unit 163 acquires cooking history data corresponding to the cooking type to be predicted from the cooking history data stored in the storage unit 105. Here, when the cooking history data stored in the storage unit 105 does not include cooking history data corresponding to the cooking type to be predicted, the cooking time prediction unit 163 compares the cooking history of the similar skill user with the server device 200. Request data retrieval. Then, the cooking time prediction unit 163 acquires cooking skill data of similar skill users from the server device 200 via the reception processing unit 102.

  Then, the cooking time prediction unit 163 calculates the estimated cooking time for each cooking type using the acquired cooking history data for each cooking type. For example, when a plurality of cooking times for the same cooking type are stored as the cooking history data in the storage unit 105, the cooking time prediction unit 163 calculates an average time of the plurality of cooking times as a cooking prediction time.

  For example, when the acquired cooking history data is normalized as the cooking time per unit amount, the cooking time prediction unit 163 indicates the cooking time per unit amount indicated in the cooking history data in the recipe data. The estimated cooking time for the cooking type may be calculated by multiplying the amount of the material.

  In this way, the estimated cooking time for each cooking type in the cooking process of the recipe data is set. The set estimated cooking time is output from the output unit 103 as individual recipe data for the user who uses the terminal device 100.

[Configuration of Server Device 200]
Hereinafter, the configuration of the server device 200 will be described.

  The server device 200 includes a transmission processing unit 201, a reception processing unit 202, a storage unit 203, a determination unit 204, and a management unit 205.

  The transmission processing unit 201 and the reception processing unit 202 are communication interfaces that communicate with other devices. For example, the transmission processing unit 201 transmits recipe data to the terminal device 100. The reception process part 202 receives the acquisition request | requirement of the cooking history data which shows the cooking time for every cooking classification of the user measured in each terminal device 100, or a cooking skill data of a similar skill user.

  The storage unit 203 is a storage device such as a memory or a hard disk device. For example, the storage unit 203 stores recipe data. Further, the storage unit 203 stores cooking history data for each user transmitted from each terminal device 100. The cooking history data will be described later in detail with reference to FIG.

  The determination part 204 determines the cooking skill for every user using the cooking time for each user's cooking type. For example, using the cooking history data of the determination target user, the determination unit 204 calculates an average time of cooking times of a predetermined number of times of cooking in the same cooking type performed most recently as the cooking skill of the user. The calculated cooking skill is stored in the storage unit 203 together with the cooking history data. The cooking skill may be determined for a specific cooking type or may be determined for all cooking types.

  Moreover, the determination part 204 will extract the other user who has the cooking skill similar to a user's cooking skill, if the acquisition request of the cooking skill data of a similar skill user is received. For example, the determination unit 204 refers to the cooking skills of a plurality of users stored in the storage unit 203 and is a user (hereinafter referred to as a target user) who uses the terminal device 100 that has requested acquisition of cooking history data. A user who has the same or substantially the same cooking skill as the cooking skill is extracted as a similar skill user. The “substantially the same cooking skill” means, for example, a cooking skill whose difference (for example, α) from the cooking skill of the target user (for example, the average cooking time) is within a predetermined range (± α). It is.

  Moreover, the determination part 204 may determine a similar skill user using the cooking skill with respect to a specific cooking classification. The specific cooking type may be, for example, a cooking type different from the cooking type specified by the terminal device 100 that has requested the cooking time of the similar skill user.

  For example, when the terminal device 100 requests the cooking time of a similar skill user for “chopped” of “vegetable”, the determination unit 204 has a cooking skill for “chopped” of “vegetable” of the target user “vegetable”. A similar skill user may be extracted from the same or substantially the same user as the “chopped” cooking skill.

  Further, the specific cooking type may be, for example, a material different from the material specified by the terminal device 100 that has requested the cooking time of the similar skill user.

  For example, when the terminal device 100 requests the cooking time of a similar skill user for “sauté” “vegetable”, the determination unit 204 determines that the cooking skill for “sauté” “meat” is “meat” of the target user. A similar skill user may be extracted from the same or substantially the same user as the cooking skill of “stir fry”.

  Alternatively, the determination unit 204 determines whether or not the cooking skill is substantially the same as the cooking skill of the target user as described above for all the cooking types of each user, and the cooking type that is substantially the same cooking skill. Is counted for each user. Then, the determination unit 204 may determine a user having the largest number of cooking types determined as substantially the same cooking skill as a similar skill user.

  The management unit 205 manages recipe data. Specifically, the management unit 205 reads recipe data stored in the storage unit 203 and transmits the recipe data to the terminal device 100 via the transmission processing unit 201.

  In addition, when the management unit 205 receives an acquisition request for cooking history data of a similar skill user from the terminal device 100, the management unit 205 instructs the determination unit 204 to determine the similar skill user, and is requested for the determined similar skill user. Cooking history data related to the cooking type is acquired from the storage unit 203. The cooking history data is transmitted to the terminal device 100 via the transmission processing unit 201.

  In addition, when the management unit 205 receives the cooking time information for each cooking type from the terminal device 100, the management unit 205 updates the cooking history data stored in the storage unit 203. For example, the management unit 205 may store, in the storage unit 203, information on the cooking times of the predetermined number of times most recently performed for each cooking type, and the storage unit 203 stores the average value of the most recent predetermined number of cooking times. May be stored.

[Cooking time prediction process]
Next, the detail of the cooking time prediction process in the terminal device 100 mentioned above is demonstrated using FIG. 2 and FIG.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the cooking time prediction process in the cooking time prediction unit 163.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of cooking history data of a plurality of users held by the server device 200. As illustrated in FIG. 3, the server apparatus 200 stores cooking history data and cooking skills of a plurality of users 1 to N. Note that each of the terminal devices 100 used by the users 1 to N stores cooking history data of users who use the terminal devices 100 among the data shown in FIG. In the example shown in FIG. 3, the cooking time included in the cooking history data indicates the cooking time required for the most recently performed cooking, and the cooking skill indicates the average time of the cooking time included in the cooking history data. .

  In step S11 illustrated in FIG. 2, the cooking time prediction unit 163 sets a cooking process to be subjected to the cooking time prediction process from among a plurality of cooking processes included in the recipe data.

  In step S <b> 12, the cooking time prediction unit 163 specifies the cooking type (material and cooking operation) included in the prediction target cooking process. Note that each cooking step includes one or more cooking types.

  For example, the cooking time prediction unit 163 analyzes the cooking type “material” and “cooking operation” from the explanatory text included in the cooking process data included in the recipe data. Alternatively, data indicating the cooking type may be registered in advance in the cooking process data.

  In step S <b> 13, the cooking time prediction unit 163 determines whether or not cooking time information corresponding to the cooking type specified in step S <b> 12 is stored in the storage unit 105.

  When the cooking time information corresponding to the cooking type identified in step S12 is stored in the storage unit 105 (S13: YES), the cooking time prediction unit 163 in step S14 causes the cooking time stored in the storage unit 105 to be cooked. Using the history data, the cooking time of the cooking type to be predicted is predicted.

  For example, in FIG. 3, when the cooking type specified by the terminal device 100 of the user 1 in step S <b> 12 is “3 fish grated”, the cooking time prediction unit 163 displays the “1” of the user 1 stored in the storage unit 105. The estimated cooking time is set using the cooking time (9 minutes, 8 minutes, and 7 minutes) for “3 pieces of fish”.

  For example, the cooking time prediction unit 163 may set an average value of 8 minutes of a plurality of cooking times (9 minutes, 8 minutes, and 7 minutes) as the cooking prediction time, and is finally performed in the cooking history data ( The latest cooking time (e.g., 7 minutes) of cooking may be set as the estimated cooking time, or the shortest or longest cooking time (e.g., 7 minutes or 9 minutes) of the cooking history data is predicted to be cooked. It may be set to time.

  That is, when the cooking time of the user who uses the terminal device 100 is accumulated as cooking history data, the cooking time prediction unit 163 calculates the estimated cooking time using the cooking time of the user. In other words, for the cooking type that the user of the terminal device 100 has cooked in the past, the estimated cooking time based on the actual time that the user actually cooked is set.

  On the other hand, when the information of the cooking time corresponding to the cooking type specified in step S12 is not stored in the storage unit 105 (S13: NO), the cooking time prediction unit 163 in step S15, Request cooking history data of similar skill users for the cooking type to be predicted. In response to the request, the server device 200 extracts similar skill users as described above, refers to the cooking history data of the similar skill users, and transmits the cooking history data of the cooking type to be predicted to the terminal device 100. To do.

  In step S16, the cooking time predicting unit 163 predicts the cooking time of the cooking type to be predicted using the cooking history data of the similar skill user requested in step S15. For example, when a plurality of cooking times are included as cooking history data of similar skill users, the cooking time prediction unit 163 may set an average value of the plurality of cooking times of similar skill users as the estimated cooking time. The cooking time of the last (latest) cooking performed in the history data may be set as the estimated cooking time, or the shortest or longest cooking time in the cooking history data is set as the estimated cooking time. May be.

  That is, when the cooking time of the user who uses the terminal device 100 is not accumulated as cooking history data, the cooking time predicting unit 163 is another user (similar to the cooking skill that is the same as or substantially the same as the cooking skill of the user). The estimated cooking time is calculated using the cooking time accumulated as cooking history data for the same cooking type of the skill user. In other words, for the cooking type that the user of the terminal device 100 has not cooked in the past, the estimated cooking time is set based on the cooking time of a similar skill user having cooking skills equivalent to the user.

  In addition, in the prediction of the cooking time in step S14 or step S16, when a plurality of cooking types are included in the cooking process, the total cooking prediction time set for each cooking type is required for the cooking process. Set as time.

  When the recipe data is received from the server device 200, the cooking time prediction process is preferably executed for each cooking process included in the received recipe data. At this time, in server device 200, it is determined whether cooking history data of the target user corresponding to the cooking type of the cooking process included in the received recipe data is accumulated. When cooking history data is accumulated, the above-described cooking time prediction process is executed based on the cooking history data. When cooking history data is not accumulated, cooking time set in advance for each cooking process is set as time required for the cooking process, or cooking using cooking skill data of a similar skill described later Time prediction processing is executed.

  Hereinafter, a cooking time prediction method using cooking history data of similar skill users will be described using a specific example shown in FIG.

  For example, in FIG. 3, when the cooking type specified by the terminal device 100 of the user 1 in step S <b> 12 is “vegetable shredded”, the terminal device 100 holds the time when the user 1 actually performed the shredded vegetable. Not done. Therefore, the terminal device 100 of the user 1 requests the server device 200 to obtain cooking history data for the similar skill user “chopped vegetables”.

  In this case, the server device 200 extracts similar skill users having cooking skills that are the same or substantially the same as the cooking skills of the user 1. For example, the server device 200 extracts similar skill users based on the cooking skill of “chopped vegetables”, which is a different cooking operation of the same material as “chopped vegetables”. In this case, as shown in FIG. 3, the cooking skill (average cooking time) of the user 1 “chopped vegetables” is “4 minutes”, whereas the cooking skill of the user 2 “chopped vegetables” ( The average cooking time is also “4 minutes”. Therefore, the server device 200 extracts the user 2 as a similar skill user for the user 1.

  And the server apparatus 200 transmits the cooking history data (4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes) with respect to the "2 pieces of vegetables" of the user 2 to the terminal apparatus 100 of the user 1.

  The terminal device 100 (cooking time prediction unit 163) of the user 1 predicts the cooking time for the “chopped vegetables” of the user 1 using the cooking history data for the “chopped vegetables” of the user 2. For example, the terminal device 100 of the user 1 may set the average time of 3 minutes of the cooking time (4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes) of the similar skill user (user 2) as the estimated cooking time. Any one of time (4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes) may be set as the estimated cooking time.

  The cooking time prediction method using cooking history data of similar skill users has been described above.

  Returning to FIG. 2, in step S <b> 17, the cooking time prediction unit 163 determines whether or not the cooking times of all the cooking processes included in the recipe data have been set. When cooking times of all cooking processes included in the recipe data are not set (S17: NO), the cooking time prediction unit 163 returns to the process of step S11 and sets other cooking processes as prediction targets. When the cooking time of all the cooking processes included in the recipe data is set (S17: YES), the cooking time prediction unit 163 ends the cooking time prediction process.

  Note that part or all of the cooking time prediction process described above may be performed by the server device 200 instead of the terminal device 100. For example, the server device 200 may transmit recipe data including the predicted cooking time to the terminal device 100, and the terminal device 100 may display the received recipe data on the screen.

  In this case, when a new recipe data reception request is received from the terminal device 100, it is preferable that the server device 200 executes the cooking time prediction process for the cooking process included in the recipe data.

  Also, the cooking time prediction unit 163 predicts the cooking time (constant) shown in the recipe data without predicting the individual cooking time for a process that does not depend on the skill of the user among the cooking processes included in the recipe data. It may be used. As a process that does not depend on the skill of the user, for example, a cooking process with a long waiting time such as “boil for XX minutes (boiled)”, “wait for XX minutes” (for example, the ratio of the waiting time to the total time exceeds a threshold value) Process) or a process using a cooking utensil (microwave oven, oven, etc.).

  The operations of the terminal device 100 and the server device 200 have been described above.

  Thus, according to the present embodiment, the cooking time for each user is set for each of the plurality of cooking types included in the recipe data. Therefore, the time required for the cooking process can be provided according to the cooking skill for each user.

  In addition, according to the present embodiment, even when the cooking type has not been cooked by the user in the past, the cooking time when the similar skill user having the same cooking skill as the user cooked in the past is used. Thus, the cooking time for each user is predicted. Thereby, even if it is the cooking classification which the user has not cooked in the past, the required time of a cooking process can be provided according to a user's cooking skill.

[Other embodiments]
Although the embodiment according to one aspect of the present disclosure has been described above, the present disclosure can be variously modified without departing from the spirit of the present disclosure. Hereinafter, modifications of the above embodiment will be described.

(Modification 1)
For example, it is assumed that the cooking support system according to the above-described embodiment provides a cooking procedure when a plurality of recipes are performed in parallel (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In this case, in the cooking support system, the terminal device 100 may predict the cooking time for the cooking type included in each of the plurality of recipes, as in the above embodiment.

  And if prediction of the cooking time with respect to all the cooking classifications is completed, the terminal device 100 may specify an optimal cooking procedure based on the cooking time in each cooking process of a some recipe, and may provide it to a user.

  FIG. 4A and FIG. 4B are diagrams showing, as an example, a part of a cooking procedure when a user performs a plurality of recipes in parallel in time series.

  4A and 4B, the cooking type in the cooking procedure A1 of the recipe A is “carrot of carrot”, the cooking type of the cooking procedure B1 of the recipe B is “boil potatoes”, and the cooking procedure B2 of the recipe B The cooking type is “sauté the carrot”.

  As described above, the cooking time for each cooking type is set individually for each user. Thus, for example, as shown in FIG. 4A, the cooking time of the “carrot of carrot” process is set to be shorter than the cooking time of the “boiled potatoes” process, as shown in FIG. 4B. 2 may be set longer than the cooking time of the “boiled potatoes” process in the “carrot of carrot” process.

  In this case, as shown in FIG. 4A, the terminal device 100 used by the user 1 completes the “carrot of carrot” process during the “boil potatoes” process, and the “boil potatoes” process is completed as soon as the process is completed. The procedure to proceed to the “sauté carrot” process may be presented.

  On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4B, the terminal device 100 used by the user 2 starts the “boiled potatoes” process and then proceeds to the “carrot shredded” process. Upon completion of the “carrot shredded” process, The procedure to proceed to the “sauté carrot” process may be presented.

  Thus, even when providing a user with a cooking procedure for performing a plurality of recipes in parallel, the cooking support system according to the present modification provides an optimal cooking procedure for each user according to the individual cooking skill. Can be provided.

(Modification 2)
In the said embodiment, although the method using the timing of the switching operation of a screen by a user was demonstrated as a cooking time measurement method in the terminal device 100 (cooking time measurement part 162), a measuring method is not limited to this. Absent.

  For example, when a check operation indicating the completion of each cooking process is performed by the user, the cooking time measuring unit 162 displays the recipe data regarding one cooking process, and then the check operation indicating the completion of the cooking process is performed by the user. You may measure the time until it is performed as cooking time by a user.

  Moreover, the cooking time measuring unit 162 may cooperate with a sensor that determines whether or not the user exists in a cooking place (such as a kitchen) when measuring the cooking time. Specifically, the cooking time measuring unit 162 determines the time from the timing at which the information indicating that the switching operation has been performed to the timing at which the information indicating that the next switching operation has been received (one You may measure the time which excluded the time determined that a user does not exist in a cooking place from the display time of a cooking process as cooking time of a cooking classification.

  Moreover, the cooking time measuring unit 162 may cooperate with a refrigerator that detects opening and closing of the door. Specifically, the cooking time measuring unit 162 determines the time from the timing at which the information indicating that the switching operation has been performed to the timing at which the information indicating that the next switching operation has been received (one You may measure the time which excluded the time (opening-closing time) until a user opens and closes a refrigerator door in the said display time from the display time of a cooking process) as cooking time of cooking classification.

  The cooking time measuring unit 152 detects a manual operation performed by the user using a sensor such as a cutting board with a sensor or a knife with a sensor, and measures the time (working time) when the detected manual operation is performed. You may cooperate with cooking utensils to do. Specifically, the cooking time measuring unit 162 performs the above-described period from the timing at which the information indicating that the switching operation has been performed to the timing at which the information indicating that the next switching operation has been received. You may measure the sum total of the work time measured with the cooking utensil as cooking time of a cooking classification.

  Thereby, the measurement precision of a user's cooking time can be improved.

(Modification 3)
In the said embodiment, when the information of the cooking time of the user applicable to the cooking process of a recipe does not exist, the case where the information of the cooking time of another user comparable as the said user's cooking skill was utilized was demonstrated.

  In this modification, for prediction of cooking time, the terminal device 100 (cooking time prediction unit 163) uses information on cooking time of another user instead of using information on cooking time of another user. The case of using will be described. Specifically, the terminal device 100 classifies a plurality of “cooking operations” for the same “material” according to the level of difficulty, and predicts the cooking time according to the level.

  For example, it is assumed that the difficulty level of “chopped vegetables” is level 1 and the difficulty level of “chopped vegetables” is level 2 for “vegetables”. Moreover, the ratio of the cooking time with respect to the same amount shall be preset between the level 1 and the level 2. For example, the ratio of the cooking time between “chopped vegetables” and “chopped vegetables” is set to 1: X (where X> 1).

  Here, it is assumed that there is a cooking time corresponding to “chopped vegetables” as cooking history data, and there is no cooking time corresponding to “chopped vegetables”. In this case, the terminal device 100 calculates X times the cooking time corresponding to “chopped vegetables” as the estimated cooking time for “chopped vegetables”.

  By doing so, the terminal device 100 uses the information on the cooking time of another cooking type of the same user, even when there is no information on the cooking time of the cooking type corresponding to the cooking process of the recipe. Cooking time can be predicted.

(Modification 4)
Each process (a cooking time prediction process, a cooking time measurement process, a cooking skill determination process, etc.) of the terminal device 100 and the server apparatus 200 described in the above embodiment may be performed in another apparatus. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the user-specific cooking time is predicted in the terminal device 100 has been described, but the user-specific cooking time prediction may be performed by the server device 200. In this case, the terminal device 100 receives cooking time data indicating the user-specific cooking time as a prediction result from the server device 200.

<Example of implementation by computer program>
As described above, the embodiment according to an aspect of the present disclosure has been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the functions of the terminal device 100 described above can be realized by a computer program.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a computer that realizes the functions of each unit by a program. The computer 1000 includes an input device 1001 such as an input button and a touch pad, an output device 1002 such as a display and a speaker, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 1003, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 1004, and a RAM (Random Access Memory) 1005. . Further, the computer reads information from a recording medium such as a hard disk device, a storage device 1006 such as an SSD (Solid State Drive), a DVD-ROM (Digital Versatile Disk Read Only Memory), or a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory. A transmission / reception device 1008 that performs communication via a network is provided. Each of the above parts is connected by a bus 1009.

  Then, the reading device 1007 reads the program from a recording medium on which a program for realizing the functions of the above-described units is recorded, and stores the program in the storage device 1006. Alternatively, the transmission / reception device 1008 communicates with the server device 200 connected to the network, and causes the storage device 1006 to store programs for realizing the functions of the respective units downloaded from the server device 200.

  Then, the CPU 1003 copies the program stored in the storage device 1006 to the RAM 1005, and sequentially reads and executes the instructions included in the program from the RAM 1005, thereby realizing the functions of the above-described units. Further, when executing the program, the RAM 1005 or the storage device 1006 stores information obtained by the various processes described in the embodiment, and is used as appropriate.

  The present disclosure is suitable for use in a cooking support system that supports user cooking.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Terminal device 101,201 Transmission processing part 102,202 Reception processing part 103 Output part 104 Input part 105,203 Storage part 106 Control part 161 Input / output control part 162 Cooking time measurement part 163 Cooking time prediction part 200 Server apparatus 204 Determination part 205 Management Unit 1000 Computer 1001 Input Device 1002 Output Device 1003 CPU (Central Processing Unit)
1004 ROM (Read Only Memory)
1005 RAM (Random Access Memory)
1006 Storage device 1007 Reading device 1008 Transmission / reception device 1009 Bus

Claims (10)

A cooking support method in a cooking support system in which a server device for storing information related to a cooking recipe and a terminal device having a display are connected via a network,
Corresponding to each user, user identification information for identifying each user, cooking time information indicating the cooking time required for cooking in the cooking process included in the cooking recipe, and cooking type information indicating the cooking type of the cooking process Manage the cooking history data
From the terminal device of the first user, the first user receives first cooking time information indicating a first cooking time required for cooking in the first cooking step included in the first cooking recipe,
Corresponding the received first cooking time information to first cooking type information indicating a cooking type of the first cooking step and first user identification information for identifying the first user, the cooking history data Manage in
When receiving a transmission request for second cooking recipe information indicating a second cooking recipe different from the first cooking recipe from the terminal device of the first user via the network, the second cooking recipe includes the Determining whether a second cooking step, which is a cooking step of the first cooking type, is included,
When the second cooking step is included in the second cooking recipe, based on the first cooking time information, a second cooking time that is a cooking time necessary for cooking in the second cooking step is determined,
Transmitting the second cooking time information indicating the second cooking time and the second cooking recipe information indicating the second cooking recipe to the terminal device of the first user via the network;
Cooking support method. When cooking history data is determined using the cooking history data and the second cooking step is not included in the second cooking recipe, the cooking skill is the same as or substantially the same as the cooking skill of the first user. Determining the third cooking time required for cooking in the third cooking step, which is a cooking step included in the second cooking recipe, using the cooking time managed in the cooking history data of the other user having
Transmitting the third cooking time information indicating the third cooking time and the second cooking recipe information indicating the second cooking recipe to the terminal device of the first user via the network;
The cooking support method according to claim 1. When the cooking history data of the first user includes information on a plurality of cooking times corresponding to the first cooking type, the second cooking time is determined based on an average time of the plurality of cooking times.
The cooking support method according to claim 1. The cooking time information is normalized to the time per unit quantity and managed by the cooking history data, and the time per unit quantity indicated in the cooking history data is multiplied by the amount of ingredients used in the cooking recipe. To calculate the second cooking time,
The cooking support method according to claim 1. The first cooking time is a time from when it is determined at the terminal device that the first user has started the first cooking process until it is determined that the first cooking process has been completed.
The cooking support method according to claim 1. Determining whether the first user is present in the kitchen;
The first cooking time is determined from the time from when it is determined at the terminal device that the first user has started the first cooking process until it is determined that the first cooking process has been completed. It is the time excluding the time when the user is determined not to exist in the kitchen,
The cooking support method according to claim 1. The cooking support system is further connected to a refrigerator,
Opening / closing information indicating opening and / or closing of the refrigerator door is received from the refrigerator,
Based on the opening and closing information, determine the opening and closing time until the refrigerator opening and closing door is closed,
The cooking time is determined from the time from when it is determined at the terminal device that the first user has started the first cooking process until it is determined that the first cooking process has been completed.
It is a time excluding the opening and closing time,
The cooking support method according to claim 1. From the terminal device, further receiving work time information indicating the work time when the user cooked using a cooking utensil,
The cooking time is a total of a plurality of work times made in a period from transition to one cooking process to transition to the next cooking process.
The cooking support method according to claim 1. A control method for controlling a terminal device connected to a server device for storing information relating to a cooking recipe and having a display,
For the computer of the terminal device,
About the 1st cooking process included in the 1st cooking recipe, the user measures the 1st cooking time required for cooking of the 1st cooking process,
The first cooking time information representing the measured first cooking time and the first cooking type information representing the first cooking type that is the cooking type of the first cooking step are associated with each other and managed.
When the second cooking recipe information indicating a second cooking recipe different from the first cooking recipe is received from the server device, a second cooking process that is a cooking process of the first cooking type in the second cooking recipe information. Whether or not the second cooking process information indicating is included,
When the second cooking process information is included in the second cooking recipe information, a second cooking time that is a cooking time necessary for cooking in the second cooking process is determined based on the first cooking time information. ,
Displaying the determined second cooking time on the display;
Control method. A computer program connected to a server device for storing information relating to a cooking recipe and executed in a terminal device having a display,
For the computer of the terminal device,
About the 1st cooking process included in the 1st cooking recipe, the user measures the 1st cooking time required for cooking of the 1st cooking process,
The first cooking time information representing the measured first cooking time and the first cooking type information representing the first cooking type that is the cooking type of the first cooking step are associated with each other and managed.
When the second cooking recipe information indicating a second cooking recipe different from the first cooking recipe is received from the server device, a second cooking process that is a cooking process of the first cooking type in the second cooking recipe information. Whether or not the second cooking process information indicating is included,
When the second cooking process information is included in the second cooking recipe information, a second cooking time that is a cooking time necessary for cooking in the second cooking process is determined based on the first cooking time information. ,
Displaying the determined second cooking time on the display;
Computer program.

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