COOKING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, COOKING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COOKING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM

• US 20160219655A1
• Filed: 08/26/2014
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: HIRUKAWA, Keiko, OKURA, Ataru, DOI, Misuzu
• Granted Patent: US 9,844,103 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0261 of food
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/062 for cooking plates or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/668 Microwave heating devices connected to a telecommunication network
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/687 for cooking

Abstract

Provided is a cooking assistance device for providing information that assists cooking using a cooking appliance based on a measurement result of power consumption of the cooking appliance. The cooking assistance device includes a storage unit that stores information that relates to power consumption in cooking, an acquisition unit that acquires a measurement value that relates to power consumption of the cooking appliance, and an output unit that outputs the measurement value and the information that relates to power consumption in cooking.

Claims

1. A cooking assistance device for providing information that assists cooking using a cooking appliance based on a measurement result of power consumption of the cooking appliance, comprising:

a storage unit that stores information which relates to power consumption in cooking;

an acquisition unit that acquires a measurement value which relates to power consumption of the cooking appliance; and

an output unit that outputs the measurement value and the information which relates to power consumption in cooking.

2. The cooking assistance device according to claim 1,

wherein the output unit is configured to output recipe information,

the information which relates to power consumption in cooking is associated with the recipe information, and

the measurement value is a value which relates to power consumption of the cooking appliance in a period which corresponds to the recipe information.

3. The cooking assistance device according to claim 2,

wherein the recipe information includes cooking information on a plurality of procedures,

the information which relates to power consumption in cooking includes a value which relates to power consumption that relates to cooking which corresponds to at least one procedure among the plurality of procedures,

the acquisition unit is configured to acquire a measurement value relating to at least one of the plurality of procedures, and

the output unit is configured to output the recipe information, the information which relates to power consumption in cooking, and the measurement value relating to at least one of the plurality of procedures.

4. The cooking assistance device according to claim 3,

wherein the information which relates to power consumption in cooking includes a value which relates to power consumption by each of two or more cooking devices which relate to cooking that corresponds to the recipe information, and

the acquisition unit acquires a value which relates to the power consumption by each of the two or more cooking devices as the measurement value.

7. The cooking assistance device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an input unit that receives input of information which specifies recipe information; and

a control unit that stores in the storage unit, the measurement value which is acquired by the acquisition unit and the recipe information which is input to the input unit, while associating the measurement value and the recipe information with each other.

5. A cooking assistance method which is executed by a cooking assistance device for providing information that assists cooking using a cooking appliance based on a measurement result of power consumption of the cooking appliance, the cooking assistance device including a storage unit that stores information which relates to power consumption in cooking, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring a measurement value which relates to the power consumption of the cooking appliance; and

outputting the measurement value and the information which relates to power consumption in cooking.

6. A cooking assistance device for providing information that assists cooking using a cooking appliance based on a measurement result of power consumption of the cooking appliance, comprising:

a storing unit that stores information which relates to power consumption in cooking;

an acquisition unit that acquires a measurement value which relates to power consumption of the cooking appliance, and

an output unit that outputs recipe information,

wherein the recipe information includes a first procedure and a second procedure which is a subsequent procedure to the first procedure, and

the output unit is configured to output the second procedure in the recipe information after it is determined that the first procedure is complete in the cooking appliance based on comparison between the measurement value and the information which relates to power consumption in cooking.

8. A cooking assistance system for providing information that assists cooking using a cooking appliance based on a measurement result of power consumption of the cooking appliance, comprising:

a server;

an output device; and

a measurement device for measuring power consumption of the cooking appliance,

wherein the measurement device includes

a measurement unit that measures a value which relates to power consumption of the cooking appliance, and

a first transmission unit that transmits a measurement result by the measurement unit to the server, and

the server includes

a storage unit that stores information which relates to power consumption in cooking,

an acquisition unit that acquires a measurement value which relates to power consumption of the cooking appliance from the measurement result, and

a second transmission unit that transmits data for outputting the measurement value and the information which relates to power consumption in cooking to the output device.