CUISINE SEARCH DEVICE, CUISINE SEARCH METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150120705A1
• Filed: 12/26/2012
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Osaki, Shoichi
• Granted Patent: US 10,055,496 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines

Abstract

Recipes including almost the same ingredients can be easily found. A cooking information search device obtains, in response to a user'"'"'s instruction, one of a plurality of pieces of cooking information from cooking information storing means for storing the pieces of cooking information, each piece of cooking information which includes information on a plurality of ingredients and cooking procedures. The cooking information search device selects a part of the plurality of ingredients included in the obtained cooking information, and obtains related cooking information retrieved from the cooking information storing means under a condition that the retrieved related cooking information includes the part of the selected ingredients. The cooking information search device outputs data included in the obtained cooking information and the retrieved related cooking information so that the data is presented to the user.

Claims

1. A cooking information search device comprising:

cooking information obtaining means for obtaining, in response to a user'"'"'s instruction, one of a plurality of pieces of cooking information from cooking information storing means for storing the plurality of pieces of cooking information, each piece of cooking information which includes information on a plurality of ingredients, cooking procedures and a dish name, which is a generic name of a dish;

ingredient selecting means for selecting a part of the plurality of ingredients included in the obtained cooking information;

related dish search means for obtaining one or more pieces of related cooking information that is retrieved from the cooking information storing means under a condition that the retrieved related cooking information includes a dish name that is different from a dish name included in any of the plurality of pieces of cooking information and includes the part of the selected ingredients; and

cooking information output means for outputting data included in the obtained cooking information and the retrieved related cooking information so that the data is presented to the user.

8. The cooking information search device according to claim 1,

wherein of the plurality of pieces of cooking information respectively include a plurality of ingredients, information on cooking procedures of respective dishes, titles, which are names representing the dishes, and dish names indicating dish groups to which the dishes belong and generic names of the dishes, and

wherein the related dish search means obtains the cooking information retrieved from the cooking information storing means as related cooking information under a condition that the retrieved related cooking information includes the part of the selected ingredients and a dish name that is different from a dish name included in one of the pieces of cooking information.

9. The cooking information search device according to claim 1,

wherein the related dish search means obtains the retrieved related cooking information under a condition that the retrieved related cooking information includes the part of the selected ingredients based on the appearance frequency of the dish name included in the plurality of pieces of cooking information obtained by the cooking information obtaining means in response to the user'"'"'s previous instruction.

13. The cooking information search device according to claim 1,

wherein the cooking information obtaining means obtains, based on a search condition entered by the user, one of a plurality of pieces of cooking information from the cooking information storing means for storing the plurality of pieces of cooking information, each piece of cooking information which includes information on a plurality of ingredients and cooking procedures, and

wherein the related dish search means obtains the related cooking information retrieved from the cooking information storing means under a condition that the related cooking information includes the part of selected ingredients and satisfies the search condition.

2-7. -7. (canceled)

10. A cooking information search method comprising:

obtaining, in response to a user'"'"'s instruction, one of a plurality of pieces of cooking information from cooking information storing means for storing the plurality of pieces of cooking information, each piece of cooking information which includes information on a plurality of ingredients, cooking procedures and a dish name, which is a generic name of a dish;

selecting a part of the plurality of ingredients included in the obtained cooking information;

obtaining one or more pieces of related cooking information that is retrieved from the cooking information storing means under a condition that the retrieved related cooking information includes a dish name that is different from a dish name included in any of the plurality of pieces of cooking information and includes the part of selected ingredients; and

outputting data included in the obtained cooking information and the retrieved related cooking information so that the data is presented to the user.

14. The cooking information search device according to claim 10,

wherein, in the step of obtaining the related cooking information, the retrieved related cooking information is obtained under a condition that the retrieved related cooking information includes the part of selected ingredients based on the appearance frequency of the dish name included in the plurality of pieces of cooking information obtained by the cooking information obtaining means in response to the user'"'"'s previous instruction.

11-12. -12. (canceled)