JPH08123857A - Electronic menu preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an electronic menu preparing device which can easily prepare a menu in response to the cooking time designated by a user. CONSTITUTION: When the desired cooking sorts, cooking time, etc., are inputted through an input part 20, at least a cooking name is selected as a menu candidate out of those cooking names stored in a ROM 12. Then the total cooking time is calculated based on the information stored in the ROM 12 and then compared with the total cooking time inputted through the part 20. If it is decided that the calculated total cooking time is not valid to the inputted total cooking time, a cooking name is selected again.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic menu preparation device for supporting the preparation of cooking menus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in an electronic menu preparation device that supports the preparation of a menu for cooking, some devices are appropriately selected from a list of dishes prepared in advance by the device, and once or for a week. It is devised to present a menu for a certain period such as minutes. And, in this kind of electronic menu creation device, the dishes of the same classification, for example, the function of preventing the meat dishes from overlapping, the function of selecting the dishes so that the nutritional value is balanced during a predetermined period, the Some are equipped with a cooking method and a function for displaying cooking time.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned device, the user cannot specify the cooking time in advance even though the cooking time for the prepared menu is known. So when you're busy and don't have much time,
There was a problem that sometimes time-consuming dishes were selected.

For example, when making a weekly menu,
On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have an errand and prefer cooking with a short cooking time. On the other hand, on Saturdays, I have plenty of time, so
Suppose there is a desire to make elaborate dishes that take time. However, in the conventional device, such a request cannot be directly input to the device.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and provides an electronic menu preparation device capable of easily preparing a menu suitable for a cooking time designated by a user. It is an object.

[0006]

In order to achieve this object, the electronic menu preparation device of the present invention has an input means for instructing a desired food classification and the like, and a food name necessary for preparing the menu. , A material name used for the dish, a storage means storing various information such as the cooking method and cooking time of the dish, and a selection of at least one of the food names stored in the storage means And means,
A cooking time calculating means for calculating the total cooking time of the dishes selected by the cooking name selecting means based on various information stored in the storage means, and a total cooking time input by the input means. A comparing means for comparing the total cooking time calculated by the cooking time calculating means, and a cooking time in which the total cooking time calculated by the cooking time calculating means by the comparing means is input by the input means. And a selection control unit that causes the dish name selecting unit to select the dish name again when it is determined that the dish name is invalid.

Display means for displaying the food name selected by the food name selecting means may be provided.

Further, based on the food name displayed on the display means, the material name required for the food, the cooking method of the food, the cooking time, etc. may be displayed on the display means.

Further, there may be provided cooking time correction means for correcting each cooking time stored in the storage means to the cooking time of each actually consumed food and storing the cooking time in the storage means.

[0010]

In the electronic menu preparation device of the present invention having the above-described structure, when the desired food classification, cooking time, etc. are input from the input means, the food name selection means selects from the food names stored in the storage means. , At least one cooking name serving as a menu candidate is selected, and based on the selected cooking name, the cooking time calculating means calculates the total cooking time of the dishes from the information stored in the storage means. The comparison means compares the calculated total cooking time with the total cooking time input by the input means, and as a result, the total cooking time calculated by the cooking time calculation means is calculated by the input means. The selection control means controls the food selection means to select the food name again when it is determined to be invalid as compared with the input total cooking time.

Further, the food name selected by the food name selecting means is displayed on the display means.

Further, based on the food name displayed on the display means, the material name required for the food, the cooking method of the food, the cooking time, etc. are displayed on the display means.

Further, each cooking time stored in the storage means is corrected to the cooking time of each dish actually taken by the cooking time correction means and stored in the storage means.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the electronic menu preparation device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the schematic arrangement of the electronic menu preparation device according to the present embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 1, the electronic menu preparation apparatus of this embodiment is composed of computer parts, a data processing section 10 for controlling the entire apparatus, and an input section as input means composed of a keyboard and the like. 20, a display unit 30 as a display unit composed of an LCD or the like, and an external storage device 40 composed of an IC card or a floppy disk or the like are connected to an I / O port described later.

Inside the data processing section 10, various programs for operating the apparatus and a ROM 12 as a storage means for storing various tables to be described later,
A RAM 13 for temporarily storing the contents input by the input unit 20, a calculation result, and the like, and a CPU 11 for executing a calculation based on a program stored in the ROM 12 and for reading and writing the contents of the RAM 13. When,
Between these parts or the data processing unit 1
0 and the input unit 2 connected to the data processing unit 10
0, the display unit 30, and the I / O port 14 for exchanging data with the external storage unit 40 are connected via the system bus 5.

The various programs and various tables may be stored in the external storage device 40. Also,
An external storage device 40 may be used instead of the RAM 13 as a temporary storage location.

Next, the details of the various tables stored in the ROM 12 will be described with reference to FIGS.

In the ROM 12, tables 12a-12 are stored.
3 tables c are provided, and the table 12b
As shown in the schematic diagram of FIG. 3, information on the material name and the nutritional value of the material is stored in the. Here, the IDs (1, 2, ...) In FIG. 3 are codes sequentially assigned to the respective material names. In addition, the unit is the unit amount that becomes the standard of the nutritional value of each material, such as calories, calcium,
For 8 items of iron, protein, salt, fiber, vitamin C and vitamin A, the nutritional value per unit amount is
Stored for each material. For example, in table 12b, "beef" has an ID of "1" and beef 100
In g, calories are 200 kcal and calcium is 20
mmg, iron content 10mmg, protein 20g, salt content 10mmg, fiber 2g, vitamin C 20mmg,
Vitamin A is 4 IU.

Further, as shown in the schematic view of FIG. 4, the table 12c stores information on cooking methods.
Here, the IDs (a, b, ...) In FIG. 4 are codes sequentially assigned to the respective cooking methods. For example, in the table 12c, the cooking method "baking" has the ID "a".
Is.

Further, in the table 12a, as shown in the schematic view of FIG. 2, information on a dish name, ingredients and cooking method used for the dish, cooking time, etc. is stored. Here, the classification is a classification to which each food name belongs, and the main and sub items indicate whether or not the food is a main dish.
In addition, the material is represented by the ID code of the table 12b and the required amount, and the number (A,
B, ...) are attached. Furthermore, the cooking method is represented by a combination of the ID code of the table 12c and the number assigned to each ingredient. The cooking time indicates the standard cooking time for this cooking in minutes.

For example, in the table 12a, when the dish name is "hamburger", the classification is "meat dishes",
The main and sub are "main" (main dishes), and the ingredients are 200g of beef (A: 1x200) and 200g of pork (B: 2x20).
0), 1/2 onion (C: 3x0.5), 4 fresh shiitake mushrooms
Plate (D: 4x4), Bread crumbs 10g (E: 5x10), Milk 400ml (F: 6x400), Egg 1/3 (G: 7x0.
3), a little nutmeg (H: 8xs), salt (I: 101), and pepper (J: 102). The cooking method is that bread crumbs are softened with milk (EFe), then chopped onion. Stir-fry (Cdc), then chop raw shiitake mushrooms (Dd), and finally knead them, beef, pork, eggs, nutmeg, salt and pepper ((EFe + Cdc + Dd + AB
GHIJ) fa). The standard time for this cooking is 30 minutes.

The tables 12a to 12c may be provided in the external storage device 40.

Next, the operation of the electronic menu preparation device configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, by turning on the power of the apparatus, R
The program in the OM12 starts, and the display unit 30 displays
A dish classification selection screen as shown in FIG. 6 is displayed, and the user waits for the desired dish classification to be input (step 10, hereinafter, step is represented by S). It is assumed that the user selects “1. meat dish”, “4. soup, soups” and “6. designation by dish name”. And
When “6. Designate by dish name” is selected, the user is instructed to enter the desired dish name, and when the user inputs “octopus salad”, the cooking time as shown in FIG. The input screen is displayed on the display unit 30.

On the cooking time input screen, the user "1. does not specify", [2. Within _hours_minutes ",
"3._hours_minutes" can be selected (S20).
[2. Within _hours_minutes "," 3._hours_minutes "
Shall specify the number as well as the time.
If the user selects "1. Not specified",
Adds no cooking time restrictions to creating a menu. "2.
If “_hours_minutes” is selected, select the dishes that can be cooked within the specified time, and if “3._hours_minutes” is selected, the dishes that can be cooked within the specified time are selected. select. (For example, a dish is selected such that the error between the designated time and the cooking time calculated by the data processing unit 10 is within 20% of the designated time.) In the present embodiment, the user selects " 2.1 hours 30
Within minutes ”is selected.

Next, in S30, the food name of the food category selected in S10 is extracted one by one from the large number of food names stored in the table 12a, and the extracted food name is stored in the RAM 13. Store in. As an extraction method, random numbers may be used for random extraction, or the cooking name used for the recent menu may be stored in the RAM 13 and the cooking name that does not overlap with the cooking name may be preferentially extracted. May be. The process of S30 functions as a food name selection unit.

Here, for the food category "meat dishes" selected by the user in S10, the food name extracted in S30 is "hamburger", and the food name extracted for the food category "soup, soups". Was "egg soup". The dishes extracted for the food category “designated by dish name” are fixed as “octopus salad” designated by the user. Next, in S40, the table 12a
With reference to, the total cooking time of the extracted food names is calculated. According to Table 12a, "hamburger" is cooked for 30 minutes and "egg soup" is cooked for 20 minutes.
Min, because the cooking time of "octopus salad" is 20 minutes,
Simply add, 30 + 20 + 20 = 70 (min),
That is, it takes 1 hour and 10 minutes. The process of S40 functions as the cooking time calculation means of the present invention.

Next, the cooking time calculated in S40,
The cooking times designated in S20 are compared (S50), and it is determined whether they are appropriate (S60). If it is valid, the extracted dish name is displayed on the display unit 30 as the final menu (S70). At this time, the tables 12a, 12b,
With reference to 12c, the material name, cooking method, nutritional value, cooking time, etc. can be displayed. If it is not appropriate in S60, the process returns to S30, and a different food name from the previous one is extracted for the food category selected by the user. here,
Different food names may be extracted for one food classification, or different food names may be extracted for all food classifications. The processing step of S50 functions as a comparison means for comparing the total cooking time input by the input means with the total cooking time calculated by the cooking time calculation means. When the comparing means determines that the total cooking time calculated by the cooking time calculating means is longer than the total cooking time input by the input means, a selection control for selecting the cooking name again by the cooking name selecting means Functions as a means.

In this embodiment, the cooking time calculated in S40 is 1 hour and 10 minutes, and the cooking time specified in S20 is 1 hour and 30 minutes or less. Therefore, it is judged to be appropriate in S60 and S30 The food name extracted in step 3 is selected as a menu and displayed on the display unit 30 as shown in FIG. Here, for example, when the material item is selected, the table 12
Referring to a, 12b, and 12c, the ingredients are displayed as shown in FIG. 9, and when the item of the cooking method is selected, the table is similarly referred to and the cooking method is displayed as shown in FIG. By the way, as a result of actually cooking based on this menu, when the actual cooking time is significantly different from the cooking time shown in FIG. 8, items for correcting the cooking time in the state of FIG. You can change the cooking time by selecting (Fig. 1
1). For example, when it takes about 40 minutes to cook a hamburger in the present embodiment, the hamburger cooking time may be input as 40 minutes in FIG. 11. Then R
The hamburger cooking time of the table 12a in the OM 12 is corrected to 40 minutes, the table 12a is written in the external storage unit 40, and when the menu is created thereafter, the table in the external storage unit 40 is not stored in the table 12a in the ROM 12. 12a is referred to. This processing functions as the cooking time correction means of the present invention.

As described above, in the electronic menu preparation apparatus of this embodiment, it is possible to easily prepare a menu suitable for the cooking time designated by the user.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described in detail above, and within the scope of the invention,
Various changes can be made.

For example, in this embodiment, the case of making a menu for one time has been described as an example, but the menu for a predetermined period such as one day and one week can be collectively determined and presented. Good. Further, when preparing a menu for one week, the cooking time can be designated within one hour on weekdays and about two hours on weekends.

Further, in this embodiment, the number of people is not designated to create the menu, but the number of people may be designated. In that case, the ingredients may be multiplied by the number of people, but the cooking time does not necessarily double even if the number of people doubles. Minutes, cooking time is 12 minutes for 2 people, and cooking time may be stored for each number of people.

Further, in the present embodiment, the cooking time of each dish is simply summed up as a method of calculating the cooking time.
In fact, there are many cases where cooking can be done in parallel, such as making a salad while boiling curry. Therefore, among the cooking times in the table 12a, information is stored that indicates how many minutes a different dish can be cooked in parallel, and when the cooking time is calculated, another dish is cooked in parallel. The total cooking time may be calculated by applying the cooking time of. For example, according to the table 12a of FIG. 2, the cooking time of curry is 90 minutes, of which 50 minutes is the time during which cooking can be performed in parallel. If the selected dish name is curry, egg soup, or octopus salad, the total cooking time is 40 minutes for egg soup and octopus salad, and 50 minutes for cooking in parallel with curry. The total cooking time is
It is 90 minutes (1 hour 30 minutes), which is the same as the cooking time of curry.

[0037]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the electronic menu preparation apparatus of the present invention, the menu suitable for the cooking time designated by the user can be easily prepared.

Further, since the food name selected by the food name selecting means is displayed on the display means, the user can easily confirm the contents of the menu.

Further, based on the food name displayed on the display means, the material name required for the food, the cooking method of the food, the cooking time, etc. are displayed on the display means.
The user can easily check the nutritional balance of the dish,
Furthermore, it is possible to cook without knowledge of the cooking method.

Further, since each cooking time stored in the storage means is corrected to the cooking time of each dish actually taken by the cooking time correction means and stored in the storage means, the actual cooking time taken By inputting, it is possible to obtain the effect that the cooking time adapted to an individual can be calculated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of an electronic menu preparation device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a table in which information related to cooking names, ingredient names, and cooking methods is stored.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a table in which information on material names and nutritional values is stored.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a table in which information on cooking methods is stored.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic menu preparation device according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen for instructing input of a food category.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen for instructing the input of cooking time.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying a selected food name.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying ingredients of a selected dish.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying a cooking method of a selected dish.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for instructing input of actual cooking time.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 data processing unit 11 CPU 12 ROM 12a to 12c table 13 RAM 14 I / O port 20 input unit 30 display unit 40 external storage unit

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. Input means for instructing a desired food classification, etc., and various names such as a food name necessary for preparing a menu, a material name used for the food, a cooking method of the food, and a cooking time. In an electronic menu preparation device comprising a storage means for storing information and a food name selection means for selecting at least one of the food names stored in the storage means, the electronic food selection device is selected by the food name selection means. The cooking time calculation means for calculating the total cooking time of the dish based on various information stored in the storage means, the total cooking time input by the input means, and the cooking time calculation means Comparing means for comparing the total cooking time with the total cooking time, and the total cooking time calculated by the cooking time calculating means by the comparing means is the total cooking time input by the input means. An electronic menu preparation device further comprising: selection control means for selecting the dish name again by the dish name selecting means when it is determined to be invalid by comparison with the above. 2. The electronic menu preparation device according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying a food name selected by the food name selecting means. 3. Based on the food name displayed on the display means, a material name required for the food, a cooking method of the food, a cooking time, etc. are displayed on the display means. The electronic menu creation apparatus according to claim 2, which is characterized in that. 4. A cooking time correction means for correcting each cooking time stored in said storage means to the cooking time of each actually consumed food and storing it in said storage means. The electronic menu preparation device according to Item 1.