KR20080075933A - Cook book, food information provision system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

A cook book and a food information providing system and method are provided to offer information on food to users in real time such that the users cook conveniently. A food information providing system includes an RF(Radio Frequency) tag(1), a terminal(2) and a server(4). The RF tag stores network address information and information representing specific food. The terminal includes an RF reader module for reading information stored in the RF tag. The server is connected to the terminal and provides information on food to the terminal.

Description

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1 is a block diagram of a food information providing system according to the present invention.

2 is a perspective view of a cookbook;

3 is a cross sectional view taken along the line II ′ of FIG. 2, ie, an internal cross sectional view of a page provided in the cookbook;

4 is a table of information contained in the RF tag.

Figure 5 is a flow chart illustrating in detail the food information providing method according to the present invention.

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1: RFID tag 2: terminal 3: network

4: server 51: cooking information display unit

The present invention relates to a cookbook, a food information providing system, and a food information providing method, and more particularly, to a system in which a user who purchases a book can conveniently obtain food-related information.

When cooking food in a general situation, the user cooks through an experience known in advance. Another case is to learn how to cook food through books and cook food as it is.

As such, the method of providing information on the food using the book remains in a limited state, and the preference of the food, the state of the food made, and the specific examples of cooking the food are subject to the limitations of the book space. Such specific information is often not available. Therefore, when a user reads a book and prepares food, the user often prepares food by speculation even if the information recorded in the book is insufficient.

In addition, there are cases in which food-related information is obtained through the Internet, but in such a case, there is still inconvenience of having to prepare food by finding a way to cook food by going to a study room far from the kitchen.

The present invention eliminates the inconvenience described above, and further proposes a cookbook, a food information providing system, and a food information providing method for allowing a user to view information related to food in real time.

In addition, the present invention proposes a cookbook, a food information providing system, and a food information providing method, which can easily acquire various information related to food by varying the width of food information that a user can know.

In addition, when the sufficient information cannot be provided due to the limitation of space, the cookbook and the cookbook which can enhance the satisfaction of the book buyer by diversifying the use of the book to provide more information. We propose a food information providing system and a food information providing method.

The food information providing system of the present invention includes: an RFID tag containing information on at least network address information and unique information indicating a specific food; A terminal having a built-in RF reader module for reading recorded information of the RFID tag; And a server connected to the terminal and providing food related information to the terminal.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing food information, the method comprising: reading information on an RFID tag embedded in alignment with food information printed on one side of a paper by using a terminal; Connecting to a network using the recorded information of the RF tag; And downloading food related information corresponding to the recorded information from a server connected to the network.

Cookbook according to the invention, the paper; A cooking related information display unit displayed on one side of the paper; RF tag inserted into the paper; And a conductor disposed on the other surface of the RF tag so that the information of the RFID tag is not radiated to the other surface of the RF tag.

According to the present invention, it is possible to increase the range of use of the book, and there is an advantage of easily obtaining real-time food-related information. In addition, there is an advantage that the convenience of the user can be improved by providing a large amount of information.

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

The food information providing system of the present invention is formed of an RFID tag reading system including an RF tag (hereinafter referred to as RF tag) and an RF reader (hereinafter referred to as RF reader). The RFID tag reading system is implemented as an RFID tag and an RFID reader, and when the reader requests tag data transmission for the tag, the tag transmits the dag data to the reader in the form of a radio frequency. . In the present invention, the RFID tag is provided in a book and the RF reader is provided in a terminal.

1 is a block diagram of a food information providing system according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an RFID tag 1 in which unique information about a particular food is recorded, a terminal 2 in which an RFID system is embedded in order to read out food-related information contained in the RFID tag 1, A server 4 for receiving the food-related information from the terminal 2 and processing the reply information, and a network 3 for connecting the server 4 and the terminal 2 to each other.

In detail, the tag 1 is provided in a cook book in which a plurality of sheets of paper are collected. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the cookbook, and FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line II ′ of FIG. 2, that is, an internal sectional view of one page provided in the cookbook.

2 and 3, a picture of a particular food is shown as a cooking related information display unit 51 on each page provided in the book, so that the user can select a desired food through the cooking related information display unit 51. It is more convenient to know in the form of a picture. In addition, an RFID tag 54 is embedded inside the page on which the cooking related information display unit 51 is shown.

The cook's page, in particular, the cooking related information display unit 51, includes a first paper 52 forming an upper surface of each page, an RFID tag 54 containing unique information about food, and the RFID tag 54. In order to prevent the high frequency generated from the radio wave propagating to the lower surface of the paper, a conductor 55 shielding the lower surface of the RF tag 54 and a second paper 53 constituting the lower surface of each page are included.

Referring to the operation of the cookbook, first, since the position where the RFID tag 54 is provided is aligned with the cooking related information display unit 51 up and down, the user can select the terminal 2 in a drawing where food is drawn. By the convenient operation of approaching, it is possible to read the unique information about the food contained in the RFID tag 54.

The cookbook 5 is provided in a form in which a plurality of sheets of paper are collected. Therefore, there is a fear that when accessing the R Frieder, the unique information about the food is read out from the RFID tag embedded in the previous page. In order to solve such a problem, in order to read only the information of the RFID tag 54 of the page designated by the user, a conductor is built in the lower side of the RFID tag 54 contained in each page. The RFID tag 54 embedded in any one page by the conductor 55 emits high frequency only to the upper side thereof. Of course, the RFID tag embedded in the next page of the page desired by the user is shielded by the conductor 55 of the current page.

By the configuration of the cookbook as described above, the user can always read the unique information about the food of the desired page, the desired picture.

Referring again to FIG. 1, the RFID tag 1 of the present invention includes an IC chip 11 containing at least food-specific information and an antenna for radiating information contained in the IC chip 11 in a high frequency form. 12) is provided. Of course, the antenna 12 can receive energy from the terminal 2.

The terminal 2 includes an antenna 21 for exchanging a high frequency signal with the RF tag 1 and a data reader 22 for processing information received by the antenna 21. Since the antenna 21 and the data reader 22 play a role of an RFF, the two parts may be collectively referred to as an RFF module. In addition, the terminal 2 has a control unit 24 for controlling the entire system of the terminal, a display 25 for displaying the state and other information of the terminal 2, and the terminal 2 communicates with other external systems. It includes a communication module 23 for performing.

The communication module 23 is connected to the server 4 via the network 3 to exchange data with each other.

The operation of the food information providing system will be described.

The IC chip 11 of the RFID tag 1 contains at least food-related unique information, and the information is transmitted to the terminal 2 through the antenna 12. In this case, since the RF tag is provided in a state aligned with the cooking related information display unit 51 of the cookbook 5, the user can conveniently read the food related unique information about the desired food.

The information contained in the RFID tag is shown in FIG. 4.

Referring to Fig. 4, a code indicating the start of data is recorded in a start code, and a code indicating the end of data is recorded in an end code. The authentication code contains an authentication code of the terminal 2 for reading information and a code used for authentication of the RF tag 1 in the server 4. The error field contains a code for verifying whether an error has occurred during data transmission. Each field described above is code necessary for the operation of the RF tag reading system, and may vary depending on a specific state.

In addition to such information, in the food information providing system of the present invention, the hierarchical information of the food, the address information on the network where the server is located, and the unique ID of the food are contained in each tag.

In detail, the hierarchical information of the food, if the food in the form of food, the food in the form of the pizza in the case of the pizza, in the case of the pan pizza among the pizza, used only vegetables in the pan pizza In the case of a pizza, information in the form of a plurality of hierarchies having additional submenus as shown in [0001] is listed. As a result, the hierarchical information of the food includes information having a hierarchical structure such as [0002/0001/0002/0001]. The address information on the network where the server 4 is located may be an IP address on the Internet. In addition, the server 4 is a server of a book company that provided the cookbook, and may be proposed in the form of providing an additional service to the buyer who purchased the cookbook. Here, the network 3 refers to both wired and wireless networks, and in the case of a wired network, an internet network may be used as described above. And, not limited to this can be connected to a server installed in the home as address information of the home network. The address information of the wireless network may be applied by using the wireless Internet when the terminal is a terminal such as a mobile phone.

The unique ID of the food is a combination of a unique name such as [pan-sized vegetable pizza] which directly displays the name of the food, and a number such as [12345678] as a shortcut number for allowing the unique name to be easily recognized by the server. And other symbols.

Referring back to FIG. 1, the information transmitted to the terminal 2 is read by the data reading unit 22 and then transmitted to the outside by the communication module 23. Specifically, it is transmitted to the server 4 via the network 3 in a state controlled by the control unit 24 of the terminal 2.

The information transmitted to the server 4 is recognized as a particular food by various methods, and then information about the corresponding food is collected. The collected information is again transmitted to the terminal 2 via the network 3, and the transferred information is displayed via the display 25. Furthermore, although not shown, it may be output as sound information through a speaker.

When the food-related information is output through the display 25, the user may obtain additional information of the corresponding food by referring to this. For example, it is possible to obtain information of other foods related to the corresponding food, and in the case of a particular type of oven, additional cooking methods suitable for the oven may be obtained, and information related to a video of cooking food may be obtained. It may be possible to obtain information about food preferences that others feel about a particular food.

In this way, the user can view the information related to food in real time, so that the user can obtain the latest information on the food more accurately, and the variety of food information that can be known by the user can be diversified to easily obtain various information related to the food. If it can be acquired and sufficient information cannot be provided due to the limitation of space, it is possible to provide more information by diversifying the utility of the book.

Figure 5 is a flow chart illustrating in detail the food information providing method according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, a user who wants to obtain additional information about a particular food makes the terminal approach a specific location of a cookbook in which an RFID tag is embedded. Then, the terminal 2 requests the RFID tag 1 to transmit the information contained in the RFID tag (S1). At this time, it is natural that energy may be transmitted when the RFID tag 1 is operated passively.

After the request for transmission, the RFID tag 1 transmits the recorded information to the terminal 2 (S2). Previously, the RFID tag may transmit data only when the terminal 2 is authenticated through the authentication procedure.

The terminal 2 receives the data from the RFID tag and then displays the unique information of the food (S3). The information to be displayed may include information such as a [pan-sized vegetable pizza] as a unique ID of the food, and other information about the food hierarchy and address information on the network where the server is placed. The user processes the displayed information (S5) and requests food information to the server 4 (S5). Here, the process of processing the information (S5) may be information that is previously prescribed between the server 4 and the terminal (2) operated by the company producing the cookbook. For example, it may be pre-provisioned by filling a specific transmission field of food and transmitting it to the server 4.

The server 4, which has been requested to transmit the food information, searches for the corresponding food information inside the server or collects information of an external system (S6) and processes the information into information that should be directly transmitted (S7). Herein, as the information to be processed, as described above, when the vegetable pizza is transmitted as other food related to the requested food, information about other foods such as bulgogi pizza and cooking using the specific oven for cooking the vegetable pizza Information on the method, specific video information of a process of preparing food, and information on food preferences of other users who cook and eat vegetable pizza by the method presented in the cookbook.

Before providing the food information to the terminal 2, the server 4 requests authentication information for identifying whether the terminal or cookbook that has made a corresponding request is an authenticated terminal or cookbook (S8). And, the terminal receiving the authentication information transmits the authentication code (S9). The authentication code may be information received from the RFID tag 1 by the terminal 2.

After receiving the authentication code and authenticity of the authentication code is authenticated, the processed food information is transmitted from the server to the terminal (S10).

Thereafter, the various pieces of information received are displayed on the terminal or expressed in sound, and the user can obtain this to obtain additional information about food.

The present invention may further have the following embodiments in addition to the embodiments described above.

First, the cooking related information display unit 51 is preferably provided as a picture. However, it is not intended to be limited to pictures, and may be displayed as text. In the case of a letter, a sentence such as "put a terminal here" indicating the position of the RF reader may be further described. However, it is of course preferable to align the picture to improve the user's recognition.

In addition, in the above-described embodiment, the cookbook is in the form of a general book, and a plurality of sheets of paper are provided in a form in which one side edge is bonded to each other by an adhesive material. However, the present invention is not limited to this form, and a form may be proposed in which each page is made into one book by making a hole in the paper and hooking the hole.

In addition, the authentication request step (S8) and the authentication code transmission (S9) from the server to the terminal side, the food information request step (S5) for requesting food information from the terminal to the server and the server to transmit the food information from the terminal It only needs to be performed between the food information transmitting step (S10), the specific order is irrelevant.

The above-described embodiment of the present invention is merely one example of an embodiment of the present invention, and a person skilled in the art who understands the present invention may add, change, delete, and add other embodiments that fall within the scope of the same idea. The present invention can be easily proposed in accordance with the present invention, and furthermore, the other embodiments can be easily configured by including the elements included in one embodiment in other embodiments. Will be included.

The user can obtain the latest information related to the food of the present invention in real time, and the width of the food information that the user can know is varied so that the user can cook more conveniently, and sufficient information due to the limitation of the space. If it is not possible to provide more information by diversifying the usability of the book, it is possible to enhance the satisfaction of the book buyers.

Claims (9)

An RFID tag containing at least network address information and unique information representing a particular food; A terminal having a built-in RF reader module for reading recorded information of the RFID tag; And A food information providing system connected to the terminal, the server for providing food-related information to the terminal. The method of claim 1, The tag is a food information providing system attached to the book. The method of claim 2, The position where the RFID tag is attached, the food information providing system is aligned with the surface on which the picture or food information of the food is described in the book. The method of claim 1, The information contained in the RFID tag, food information providing system that includes the hierarchical information according to the unique ID of the food or the type of food. The method of claim 1, The food-related information includes a moving picture of making a specific food for a specific food, a cooking method of the specific food, or a preference for the specific food. paper; A cooking related information display unit displayed on one side of the paper; RF tag inserted into the paper; And The other side of the RFID tag, the cookbook includes a conductor placed on the other side of the RF tag to prevent the RF tag information is radiated. Reading recorded information of an RFID tag which is aligned with food information printed on one side of paper by using a terminal; Connecting to a network using the recorded information of the RF tag; And And downloading food-related information corresponding to the recorded information from a server connected to the network. The method of claim 7, wherein The information contained in the RFID tag, food information providing method comprising at least one information selected from the network address information, food ID, and hierarchical information according to the type of food. The method of claim 7, wherein The food-related information includes at least one of a video of a food, a cooking method of food, and information related to a preference for food.

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