Food Processor with Recognition Ability of Emotion-Related Information and Emotional Signals

• US 20110029314A1
• Filed: 04/12/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Yu, Hao-Hsiang, Lin, Ying-Tzu, Lin, Tsang-Gang, Yu, Chao-Ming
• Granted Patent: US 8,380,520 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270
• CPC Class Codes: A21C 15/002 Apparatus for spreading granular material on, or sweeping or coating the surface of baked articles of pieces of dough A21C9/04; for confectionary A23G3/28
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 3/0097 Decorating sweetmeats or confectionery
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 3/28 Apparatus for decorating sweetmeats or confectionery
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices

Abstract

A food processor with recognition ability of emotion-related information and emotional signals is disclosed, which comprises: an emotion recognition module and a food processing module. The emotion recognition module is capable of receiving sound signals so as to identify an emotion containing in the received sound signals. The food processing module is capable of producing food products with a taste corresponding to the emotion recognition result of the emotion recognition module.

Claims

1. A food processor with recognition ability of emotion-related information and emotional signals, comprises:

an emotion recognition module, capable of receiving sound signals so as to identify an emotion containing in the received sound signals; and

a food processing module, capable of producing food products with a taste corresponding to the emotion recognition result of the emotion recognition module.

2. The food processor of claim 1, wherein the taste is a sense selected from the group consisting of:

sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, cool and the combination thereof.

3. The food processor of claim 1, further comprising:

a phonetic recognition module, capable of receiving the sound signals so as to identify a content of characters containing in the received sound signals.

4. The food processor of claim 3, wherein the food processing module is enabled to produce food products containing the characters corresponding to the phonetic recognition result of the phonetic recognition module.

5. The food processor of claim 3, wherein the content of characters recognized by the phonetic recognition module includes:

characters, phrases, and sentences, and the total number of the characters.

6. The food processor of claim 3, wherein the food processing module further comprises:

a food supplying unit, for supplying at least one food product; and

a character generating unit, for forming at least one character on the food products from the food supplying unit.

7. The food processor of claim 6, wherein the character generating unit is an embossing device capable of impressing on the food product'"'"'s surface for forming characters lowered into or raised out of the surface of the food product.

8. The food processor of claim 6, wherein the character generating unit is an engraving device capable of forming the characters on the food product'"'"'s surface by carving.

9. The food processor of claim 6, wherein the character generating unit is a painting device capable of forming the characters on the food product'"'"'s surface by painting.

10. The food processor of claim 6, wherein the character generating unit is enabled to shape the food product as the characters.

11. The food processor of claim 10, wherein the character generating unit is an engraving device capable of carving the food product as the characters.

12. The food processor of claim 10, wherein the character generating unit is a painting device capable of outlining the characters on the food product by painting.

13. The food processor of claim 1, further comprising:

a displaying unit, for displaying information relating to the food products being produced by the food processing module whereas the information includes the type of food product, the taste of food product and the amount of food product.

14. The food processor of claim 13, further comprising:

an input unit, provided for a user to input information relating to the type of food product, the taste of food product and the amount of food product.

15. The food processor of claim 14, wherein the input unit is integrally formed with the displaying unit into a touch screen.

16. The food processor of claim 14, wherein the input unit is electrically connected to the food processing module for enabling the same to produce food products corresponding to the information inputted by the user with respect to the taste, the type and the amount.

17. The food processor of claim 13, wherein the displaying unit is enabled to display the content of characters recognized by the phonetic recognition module.

18. The food processor of claim 17, wherein the content being displayed by the displaying unit includes information selected from the group consisting of:

character form, character size, character color, character arrangement and others.

19. The food processor of claim 17, further comprising:

an input unit, provided for a user to input characters.

20. The food processor of claim 19, wherein the input unit is integrally formed with the displaying unit into a touch screen.

21. The food processor of claim 19, wherein the input unit is electrically connected to the food processing module for enabling the same to produce food products containing characters corresponding to the information inputted by the user.

22. The food processor of claim 1, further comprising:

an input unit, provided for a user to input information relating to the taste of food product.

23. The food processor of claim 22, further comprising:

an input unit, provided for a user to input information relating to the type of food product and the amount of food product

24. The food processor of claim 22, wherein the input unit is electrically connected to the food processing module for enabling the same to produce food products containing characters corresponding to the information inputted by the user.

25. The food processor of claim 3, further comprising:

a database, having at least a character form, at least a character size and at least a character color stored therein.

26. The food processor of claim 1, wherein the food products being produced by the food processing module includes chocolates, candies, drinks, cakes or cookies.