COOKING APPARATUS, COOKING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH COOKING CONTROL PROGRAM IS RECORDED, AND COOKING-INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD

• US 20150213009A1
• Filed: 01/21/2015
• Published: 07/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: NONAKA, MASAO, OHMORI, MOTOJI, MATSUMOTO, SHINGO
• Granted Patent: US 11,010,320 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices

Abstract

A cooking apparatus includes: a storage that stores first cooking information indicating a cooking method for a first foodstuff and second cooking information indicating a cooking method for a second foodstuff; a placement unit on which the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are placed; and a cooking controller that controls cooking of the first foodstuff, based on the first cooking information, and that controls cooking of the second foodstuff, based on the second cooking information, when the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are placed on the placement unit. The storage includes a memory, and the cooking controller includes a processor.

Claims

1. A cooking apparatus comprising:

a storage that stores first cooking information indicating a cooking method for a first foodstuff and second cooking information indicating a cooking method for a second foodstuff;

a placement unit on which the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are placed at different positions; and

a cooking controller that controls cooking of the first foodstuff, based on the first cooking information, and that controls cooking of the second foodstuff, based on the second cooking information, when the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are placed at different positions on the placement unit,

wherein, the storage includes a memory, and

wherein, the cooking controller includes a processor.

2. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communicator that receives the first cooking information and the second cooking information transmitted by a server apparatus connected to a network,

wherein the storage stores the first cooking information and the second cooking information received by the communicator.

3. The cooking apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the communicator transmits identification information for identifying the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff or identifying food including the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff to the server apparatus and receives the first cooking information and the second cooking information that the server apparatus transmits in accordance with the identification information, and the storage stores the first cooking information and the second cooking information received by the communicator.

4. The cooking apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an identification-information generator that generates the identification information, based on an audio signal input by a microphone.

5. The cooking apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an information generator that generates the identification information, based on an image captured by a camera.

6. The cooking apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an information generator that generates the identification information, based on the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff or a barcode attached to a food package that wraps the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff.

7. The cooking apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein, when identification information for identifying the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff or identifying food including the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff is transmitted from a terminal apparatus to the server apparatus, the communicator receives the first cooking information and the second cooking information that the server apparatus transmits in accordance with the identification information, and the storage stores the first cooking information and the second cooking information received by the communicator.

8. The cooking apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the identification information further includes information of a weight of the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff or a weight of food including the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff, and the communicator receives the first cooking information and the second cooking information that the server apparatus transmits, each of the first cooking information and the second cooking information being determined based on the weight information.

9. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a position detector that detects positions of the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff placed on the placement unit,

wherein the cooking controller individually controls the cooking of the first foodstuff and the cooking of the second foodstuff, based on the positions of the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff, the positions being detected by the position detector.

10. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are two different types of food.

11. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are different portions of one type of food.

12. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first cooking information and the second cooking information are information selected based on ordering performed by a plurality of users.

13. A cooking method using a cooking apparatus, the cooking method causing a computer for the cooking apparatus to execute:

reading first cooking information and second cooking information from a storage of the cooking apparatus when a first foodstuff and a second foodstuff are placed at different positions on a placement unit in the cooking apparatus, the first cooking information indicating a cooking method for the first foodstuff and the second cooking information indicating a cooking method for the second foodstuff; and

controlling cooking of the first foodstuff, based on the first cooking information, and controlling cooking of the second foodstuff, based on the second cooking information,

wherein at least one of the reading and the controlling is performed by a processor.

14. A computer-readable non-transitory tangible recording medium on which a cooking control program for a computer is recorded, the cooking control program causing the computer to execute:

reading first cooking information and second cooking information from a storage when a first foodstuff and a second foodstuff are placed on a placement unit included in the computer, the first cooking information indicating a cooking method for the first foodstuff and the second cooking information indicating a cooking method for the second foodstuff; and

controlling cooking of the first foodstuff, based on the first cooking information, and controlling cooking of the second foodstuff, based on the second cooking information.

15. A cooking-information providing method for a cooking-information management system in which a computer is connected to a cooking apparatus through a network to manage cooking information indicating cooking methods for foodstuffs, the cooking-information providing method causing the computer to execute:

searching for, upon receiving identification information for identifying a first foodstuff and a second foodstuff or for identifying food including the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff from the cooking apparatus, first cooking information for the first foodstuff and second cooking information for the second foodstuff in a storage in which cooking information indicating cooking methods for foodstuffs is stored, based on the identification information; and

transmitting the first cooking information and the second cooking information to the cooking apparatus that cooks the first foodstuff, based on the first cooking information, and that cooks the second foodstuff, based on the second cooking information, when the second foodstuff and the first foodstuff are placed at different positions on the placement unit,

wherein at least one of the searching and the transmitting is performed by a processor.