System and Method for Maintaining Recipe Ratios when Measuring Ingredients for Culinary Combinations

• US 20150362359A1
• Filed: 08/21/2015
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Perfect Company Limited (Perfect Resources (M) Sdn. Bhd.), Pure Imagination LLC
• Original Assignee: Perfect Company, Inc.
• Inventors: Wallace, Michael, Odom, Philip T., Richardson, Brian, Barri, Darin
• Granted Patent: US 10,473,516 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 35/00 Food or foodstuffs not provided for in groups A23L5/00 – A23L33/00; Preparation or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2002/00 Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 17/00 Apparatus for or methods of weighing material of special form or property determining weight by measuring volume G01F
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/00 Weighing apparatus or methods adapted for special purposes not provided for in the preceding groups electric measuring arrangements involving comparison with a reference value G01R17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/22 for apportioning materials by weighing prior to mixing them ratio regulation G05D11/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/40 with provisions for indicating, recording, or computing price or other quantities dependent on the weight indicating means for weighing apparatus G01G23/18; recording means for weighing apparatus G01G23/18; computers in general G06
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/4144 for controlling weight of goods in commercial establishments, e.g. supermarket, P.O.S. systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/56 combined with handles of tools or household implements
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/02 Food
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/382 using universal interface adapter
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip

Abstract

A system and method for assisting a user in assembling a culinary combination according to a recipe. The system comprises a scale and a computing device configured to communicate with the scale. The system displays information regarding ingredients of the recipe and displays a progress of assembling the culinary combination based on the information from the scale. In some embodiments, a bar graph is displayed with a bar proportional to the measured amount of an ingredient of the recipe compared to a target amount for the ingredient. In some embodiments, the system displays a build column of one or more recipe blocks, representing actions or ingredients of the recipe. An active recipe block is displayed with a portion of the recipe block displayed in a different manner in proportion to the measured amount of an ingredient of the recipe compared to a target amount for the ingredient.

Claims

1. A method for a computing device to assist a user in assembling a culinary combination according to a recipe, the recipe identifying one or more ingredients and one or more target amounts for the ingredients, the method comprising:

receiving information from a scale;

selecting a first ingredient from the one or more ingredients of the recipe;

displaying information regarding the ingredients, including displaying a name and the target amount for the first ingredient;

determining an amount added to the scale based on information received from the scale;

determining a measured amount of the first ingredient based on the amount added to the scale; and

transferring association, upon user command, of the amount added to the scale from the measured amount of the first ingredient to a measured amount of a second ingredient from the one or more ingredients of the recipe.

2. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform steps of a method for assisting a user in assembling a culinary combination according to a recipe, the recipe identifying one or more ingredients and one or more target amounts for the ingredients, the steps comprising:

receiving information from a scale;

selecting a first ingredient from the one or more ingredients of the recipe;

displaying information regarding the ingredients, including displaying a name and the target amount for the first ingredient;

determining an amount added to the scale based on information received from the scale;

determining a measured amount of the first ingredient based on the amount added to the scale; and

transferring association, upon user command, of the amount added to the scale from the measured amount of the first ingredient to a measured amount of a second ingredient from the one or more ingredients of the recipe.