JPS6324222B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a control device for a cooking oven equipped with a screen display means such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), and is particularly aimed at improving operability.

Conventional technology Recently, there has been a remarkable progress in the introduction of microcomputers into home appliances.
Products with high added value are being born. For example, even in cooking ovens, microcomputers are used to execute extremely complex cooking sequences, making it possible to achieve high-quality cooking.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in order to improve the performance of cooking ovens, in addition to the hardware aspect of improving cooking performance mentioned above, there are also issues such as ease of operation of the oven and how to provide instructions for cooking procedures. There is an important issue of improving the software aspects.

Regarding operability, various proposals have been made in the past, such as searching for cooking menus and displaying cooking data such as ingredients and quantities on the screen. Our goal is to provide a convenient cooking oven that will tell you what to do even if you don't know about it.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the cooking oven control device of the present invention provides a method for displaying cooking category tables, cooking menu tables, material lists, etc. in characters.
Character generation means consisting of a CRT controller, semiconductor memory, etc., and a system for providing still images showing the cooking completion status and videos showing the cooking procedure.
an image reproduction means such as a VTR; and the character generation means;
An image display means such as a CRT display for inputting and displaying the video signal output from the image reproduction means, and a pointer display in the cooking category table and the cooking menu table displayed with characters on the image display means. A cooking menu selection means for selecting a predetermined cooking menu by performing an operation such as moving the menu, and various cooking information such as a list of ingredients, a still image of the finished state, a cooking procedure video, etc. related to the selected cooking menu are sequentially displayed. The configuration is provided with a cooking software search means for searching and providing on the image display means.

Function The present invention operates as follows due to the above-described configuration. For example, when a user attempts to make a dish with which he or she has little experience, the user first moves the pointer display from among the cooking category tables displayed in text on the image display means using the cooking menu selection means. For example, a desired cooking category such as Western cuisine is selected and set. Next, a list of cooking menus included in the cooking category you selected earlier is displayed on the image display means, so select and set the menu you want to cook by moving the pointer display in the same way. .

At this stage, by operating the cooking software search means, the ingredients list is displayed in text. A subsequent operation will display a still photo of the finished product, and a further operation will display the cooking procedure on the VTR screen.

After determining the cooking menu in this way, various cooking information can be sequentially provided on the image display means by operating the cooking software search means.

Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described based on the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view, in which 1 is a cooking oven main body, 2 is a front door that can be opened and closed, and the food inside the oven can be seen through a see-through window. Reference numeral 3 denotes an operation panel, which includes a display device, a keyboard, and the like. 6 is a floppy disk device, and 7 is a video tape recorder (hereinafter referred to as VTR), each of which is connected to a connection part (not shown) provided on the back side of the oven body.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the operation panel. Reference numeral 8 denotes a screen display means composed of a cathode ray tube (hereinafter referred to as CRT) or the like, which configures and displays characters, images, patterns, etc. Reference numeral 9 denotes a keyboard, which consists of 12 key groups 9a to 9l having various functions.

FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram of the cooking oven control device. Reference numeral 13 is a microprocessor having 8-bit or 16-bit parallel processing capability, which plays the central role in controlling the cooking oven. Reference numeral 14 denotes a main storage device, which is a semiconductor memory composed of a ROM section in which the entire control program and various cooking data are stored, and a RAM section for writing and reading data.

15 is a bus for transferring signals;
It consists of an AD bus, a data bus, and a control bus.

21 is a cooking oven such as magnetron 2
This is an interface circuit for driving a heating device such as No. 2. 23 is an interface circuit for the keyboard 9.

24 is a CRT controller, which writes the screen display data transferred via bus 15 to the refresh memory 25, and also
It generates a video signal to be displayed on a CRT screen, and constitutes a character generating means for displaying characters such as cooking category tables, cooking menu tables, ingredient lists, etc.

26 is an interface circuit of the floppy disk device 6. 27 is CRT controller 2
4. This is an interface circuit for the switching device 28 for selectively switching the video signal output from the VTR 7 or the like and inputting it to the CRT 8.

29 is an interface circuit for controlling the operation of the VTR 7 and the like.

Incidentally, the VTR 7 constitutes an image reproducing means for providing a still image showing the cooking completion state and a moving image showing the cooking procedure in a timely manner by the function of its interface circuit.

The operation of the present invention will be explained based on the above configuration.

First, when cooking, a cooking menu is searched. "COOK" key 9 on keyboard 9
When a is pressed, a character display as shown in FIG. 4a appears on the CRT screen. This is a category table for selecting cooking categories. Here, 36 is a pointer display type, and "SELECT"
By pressing function selection keys 9c and 9d, which are called keys, they are moved to a desired function (cooking category) and that function is selected and set. Here, 9c is a backward function selection key used to move the pointer display 36 in the reverse direction, and 9d is a forward function selection key.

Now that the cooking category has been selected, the user selects and sets the desired cooking menu from among the cooking menus included in the selected category.

9i is a screen advance key called the "STEP" key, and when this key is pressed, a character display as shown in FIG. 4b appears. This is a cooking menu table included in the above-mentioned selected cooking category.
Again, by using the "SELECT" keys 9c and 9d,
Pointer display 36 appears at the desired cooking menu
By moving , the cooking menu is selected and set, and at the same time the cooking sequence becomes executable. Note that the series of cooking menu selection processes described above can be defined as being performed by the cooking menu selection means.

At this point, you can press the "START" key 9j to start cooking, but before that, press the "STEP" key.
By pressing the key 9i, a video screen of the selected cooking menu as shown in FIG. 4c can be displayed.

Further, when the "STEP" key 9i is subsequently pressed, a text display showing a list of ingredients required to prepare the selected cooking menu as shown in FIG. 4d appears.

Furthermore, when the "STEP" key 9i is pressed, a text description of the cooking procedure of the selected cooking menu as shown in FIG. 4e is displayed.

Furthermore, when the "STEP" key 9i is pressed, a video screen showing the cooking procedure of the selected cooking menu as shown in FIG. 4f is sent from the VTR 7 and displayed. At this time, it will be easier to understand if you explain it with audio at the same time.

Note that 9i is a forward screen feed key for updating the screen display contents in the forward direction, and 9h is a reverse screen feed key for returning to the opposite direction.

Also, after selecting the desired function (cooking category) using the above-mentioned "COOK" key 9a and function selection keys 9c and 9d, pressing the screen search key 9b called the "SEARCH" key will display the selected cooking Video screens showing the completion status of multiple cooking menus included in the category are displayed one after another on the CRT 8 at fixed time intervals. The user is
When the desired display screen is reached, the display screen can be fixed by pressing a screen stop key 9e, called a "STOP" key. At this time, the cooking menu displayed on the screen is selected and set, and the cooking sequence becomes executable.

The above-described search process for providing various information screens related to cooking on the screen display means in a timely manner can be defined as the function of the cooking software search means.

After completing the above cooking preparations, press "START"
When the key 9j is pressed, heating finally starts, and a pre-stored cooking sequence pattern 37 as shown in Fig. 4g appears on the CRT 8 screen.
is displayed. The bar graph in the figure shows the cooking time in the horizontal direction and the heating power in the vertical direction.If you change the color depending on the heating power, you can make the display very intuitive and easy to understand. .

Further, the progress status of the cooking sequence can be displayed by, for example, changing the color of the time portion 39 that has already passed and the time portion to be performed from now on in the cooking sequence pattern 37, or by putting a mark on the portion currently being executed. This allows for a more visually clear display.

Furthermore, by providing a timer display section 38 that displays the cooking time in numerical form, an accurate time count can also be provided to the user.

In the above description of the screen display in FIGS. 4a to 4g, for the character display screen, the screen display signal source is mainly the semiconductor memory or floppy disk device 6, and for the video screen, the screen display signal source is is VTR7.

The operation of the present invention explained above is based on the main storage device 14.
This is accomplished by the microprocessor 13 executing a control program stored in the microprocessor 13, so it is difficult to draw it in a drawing, but if it is shown in a functional block diagram, it is as shown in FIGS. 5 to 8.

FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram for explaining the operation of the screen advance keys 9h and 9i. Each time the screen forwarding keys 9h, 9i are pressed, the address generating means 40
screen display signal sources 41-1 to 41 in turn.
-N is selectively addressed. Screen display data from the selected screen display signal source is input to the screen display means 8' and displayed on the screen.

There are multiple sets of data 42 in the screen display signal sources 41-1 to 41-N, and which data is to be used can be determined by using the function selection keys 9c and 9d.
This is set by moving the pointer display 36.

FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram for explaining the operation of the function selection keys 9c and 9d. Each time the function selection keys 9c, 9d are pressed, the decoding means 43 selects one of the decoding output lines 44-1 to 44-M. The selected decode output lines 44-1 to 44-M cause the pointer display 8' to be displayed at a predetermined position on the screen display means 8', and the function execution means 45 executes a predetermined function.

FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram for explaining the pattern display operation of the cooking sequence.

Cooking sequence data 48 stored in advance in semiconductor memory or floppy disk
The screen forwarding key 9 is pressed via the function execution means 45.
h, 9i and function selection keys 9c, 9d to select and set the cooking sequence execution means 46. Regarding the content of the cooking sequence, screen display data is created by the pattern generating means 47 based on a predetermined display pattern format, and is written into the refresh memory 25. Refresh memory 2
The contents of 5 are determined by the CRT controller 24.
The screen is displayed on the screen display means 8'.

FIG. 8 is a functional block diagram for explaining the operations of the screen search key 9b and the screen stop key 9e. When the screen search key 9b is pressed, the timing means 49 starts operating, and at fixed time intervals,
A START signal for starting the operation of the motor drive means 50 and an address update signal for counting up the address counter means 51 are output.

A motor 52 is rotated by a motor drive means 50, and a video tape 53 is run.

53-1 is a video signal storage unit; 53-2
is a screen address storage section. 54 is a video signal reading head, and the read video signal is displayed on the screen display means 8' via an amplifier 55.

56 is a screen address reading head, and the read screen address is inputted to address comparison means 58 via an amplifier 57. The address comparison means 58 determines whether or not the read screen address and the address value output from the address counter 51 match, and if they match,
Output the STOP signal to the motor drive means,
The rotation of the motor 52 is stopped and the screen display is temporarily fixed.

Thereafter, when the timing means 49 outputs the START signal and the address update signal after a certain period of time, the motor 52 rotates again, and through the same operation as described above, the video signal having the next screen address is output. The image is displayed on the screen display means 8'.

Such operations are repeated, and the video screen is continuously updated one after another.

Further, when the screen stop key 9e is pressed, the operation of the timing means 49 is stopped, so the START signal and address update signal are not output, and the screen remains in a stopped state. The function (cooking menu) corresponding to the display screen at that time can be determined by the address data output from the address counter means 51, and cooking sequence settings etc. are performed via the function execution means 45. .

Effects of the Invention As described above in detail, in the present invention, when cooking, the user can move the pointer display from the cooking category table and the cooking menu table in which characters are displayed. , After selecting a cooking menu, displaying a list of ingredients and simple cooking instructions in text, or providing a still screen showing the cooking completion status and a video showing the cooking procedure using a VTR, etc. It is a system that searches and provides various cooking software in a very easy-to-understand manner and in a timely manner, so even if it is your first time using the cooking menu, you can cook without a cookbook. Oven controls can be provided.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a cooking oven showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the main parts, FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram, and FIGS. Screen display diagram for explaining the operation of the invention, No. 5
6 is a partial functional block diagram, FIG. 7 is a partial functional block diagram, and FIG. 8 is a partial functional block diagram. 6...Floppy disk device, 7...Video tape recorder, 8...Cathode ray tube, 8'...Screen display means, 9...Keyboard means, 9c, 9d...
...Function selection key, 9h, 9i...Screen forwarding key,
14... Semiconductor memory, 36... Pointer display body, 41-1 to 41-N... Screen display signal source means, 47... Pattern generation means, 9b... Screen search key, 9e... Screen stop key.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Semiconductor memory that stores font data for displaying cooking category tables, cooking menu tables, ingredient lists, etc.; accesses this semiconductor memory, retrieves data, and draws predetermined characters on a CRT display, etc. A character generation means consisting of a CRT controller, etc., and a CRT that generates still images showing the cooking completion status and videos showing the cooking procedure.
An image reproduction means such as a VTR for reproduction on a display, etc., and a CRT display for inputting and displaying video signals for displaying characters and images output from the character generation means and image reproduction means. ,
A predetermined cooking menu is selected by operating a screen display means such as a liquid crystal display and moving a pointer display in a cooking category table and a cooking menu table displayed in text on this screen display means. The cooking menu selection means for the selected cooking menu sequentially searches for various kinds of cooking information such as ingredient lists, finished state still images, cooking procedure videos, etc., and uses the character generation means and image playback means to generate necessary information as appropriate. A control device for a cooking oven comprising cooking software search means for providing information on a screen display means.