METHOD AND SYSTEM OF A SMART-MICROWAVE OVEN

• US 20160057816A1
• Filed: 08/25/2014
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ani Abraham Joy, Arjun Sarath, Nibu Alias
• Original Assignee: Ani Abraham Joy, Arjun Sarath, Nibu Alias
• Inventors: ALIAS, NIBU, SARATH, ARJUN, JOY, ANI ABRAHAM
• Application Number:
  US14/467,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20160057816A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/6438 allowing the recording of a program of operation of the microwave heating apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/668 Microwave heating devices connected to a telecommunication network
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 40/00 Technologies aiming at improving the efficiency of home appliances, e.g. induction cooking or efficient technologies for refrigerators, freezers or dish washers

Abstract

In one exemplary aspect, a smart-oven system includes a recipe module accessing a remote recipe database that comprises one or more recipe instructions, and downloading a downloaded recipe instruction to a local memory of the smart oven. A user-input module receives a user-specified cooking instruction. A cooking module manages one or more oven heating mechanisms in the smart oven according to the downloaded recipe instruction and the user-specified cooking instruction. A personalization module obtains a personalized recipe from a user of the smart oven and uploading the personalized recipe to a remote recipe database. A crowd sourcing module records user entered recipe instructions and automatically calculates cooking time and constitutes both into a complete recipe to be uploaded in the recipe store.

Claims

1. A smart-oven system comprising:

a recipe module accessing a remote recipe database that comprises one or more recipe instructions, and downloading a downloaded recipe instruction to a local memory of the smart oven;

a user-input module receiving a user-specified cooking instruction;

a cooking module managing one or more oven heating mechanisms in the smart oven according to the downloaded recipe instruction and the user-specified cooking instruction;

a personalization module obtaining a personalized recipe from a user of the smart oven and uploading the personalized recipe to a remote recipe database; and

a crowd sourcing module recording a user-entered recipe instruction and automatically calculating a cooking time for the user-entered recipe instruction.

2. The smart-oven system of claim 1, wherein the user-specified cooking instructions comprise a modification of the downloaded recipe.

3. The smart-oven system of claim 2, wherein the modification of the downloaded recipe is uploaded by the personalization module to the remote recipe database.

4. The smart-oven system of claim 3, wherein the modification of the downloaded recipe is stored in the remote recipe database if the modification of the downloaded recipe comprises a minimum of three steps, at least one oven trigger signal, a fixed temperature range, and a fixed cooking time range.

5. The smart-oven system of claim 4, wherein the downloaded recipe instruction comprises a computer-readable instruction that triggers one or more smart-oven cooking mechanisms.

6. The smart-oven system of claim 5, wherein the smart oven comprises a smart-microwave oven.

7. The smart-oven system of claim 5 further comprising:

a gesture-recognition input system obtaining user gesture input to provide cooking instructions to the smart-oven system.

8. The smart-oven system of claim 5 further comprising:

a voice-recognition input system obtaining user voice input to provide cooking instructions to the smart-oven system.

9. The smart-oven system of claim 8, wherein an operating system of the smart-oven system comprises an Android®

operating system or a Linux®

operating system.

10. The smart-oven system of claim 9, where the operating system comprises a text-to-speech module for converting a recipe-instruction text to a computer-voice output.

11. The smart-oven system of claim 10, wherein the crowd-sourcing module learns a recipe update used by the user and saves the recipe update to the remote recipe database or the local memory of the smart oven.

12. The smart-oven system of claim 1, wherein the user-entered recipe instruction comprises a complete recipe to be uploaded in an online recipe store.

13. A computerized system of a smart-microwave oven comprising:

a processor configured to execute instructions;

a memory containing instructions when executed on the processor, causes the processor to perform operations that;

accessing a remote recipe database that comprises one or more recipe instructions, and downloading a downloaded recipe instruction to a local memory of the smart oven;

receiving a user-specified cooking instruction;

managing one or more oven heating managers and timing managers in the smart oven according to the downloaded recipe instruction and the user-specified cooking instruction; and

obtaining a personalized recipe from a user of the smart oven and uploading the personalized recipe to a remote recipe database.

14. The computerized system of the smart-microwave oven of claim 13, wherein the memory containing instructions when executed on the processor, further causes the processor to perform operations that:

record a user-entered recipe instruction; and

automatically calculate a cooking time for the user-entered recipe instruction.

15. The computerized system of the smart-microwave oven of claim 13, wherein the user-specified cooking instructions comprise a modification of the downloaded recipe.

16. The computerized system of a smart-microwave oven of claim 15, wherein the modification of the downloaded recipe is uploaded by the personalization module to the remote recipe database.

17. The computerized system of the smart-microwave oven of claim 16, wherein the modification of the downloaded recipe is stored in the remote recipe database if the modification of the downloaded recipe comprises a minimum of three steps, at least one oven trigger signal, a fixed temperature range, and a fixed cooking time range.

18. The computerized system of the smart-microwave oven of claim 17, wherein the downloaded recipe instruction comprises a computer-readable instruction that triggers one or more smart-oven cooking mechanisms.