Automated cooking system for food accompanied by machine readable indicia
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1. An automated cooking system including a chamber for cooking a plurality of types of food comprising:
- a heater having a controllable power output to heat the food in the chamber;
detectors arranged to measure parameters of the food;
wherein the parameters comprise food weight and food temperature; and
a processor arranged to cook the food by calculating one or more functions comprising the parameters of the food multiplied by one or more coefficients determined through cooking trials, wherein the one or more functions comprise a first function for calculating cooking duration and a second function for calculating the power level of the heater.
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Abstract
An automated cooking system (10) cooks food (12) accompanied by machine-readable indicia, such as a bar code (16) read by a reader (18). Cooking data, including function coefficients, are accessed from an Internet server (20) based on the information in the bar code. An oven (40) cooks the food in phases in response to the cooking data and one or more monitored food parameters of humidity, temperature and weight. The cooking is controlled by functions in which one or more food parameters are multiplied by coefficients that vary according to food type.
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1. An automated cooking system including a chamber for cooking a plurality of types of food comprising:
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a heater having a controllable power output to heat the food in the chamber;
detectors arranged to measure parameters of the food;
wherein the parameters comprise food weight and food temperature; and
a processor arranged to cook the food by calculating one or more functions comprising the parameters of the food multiplied by one or more coefficients determined through cooking trials, wherein the one or more functions comprise a first function for calculating cooking duration and a second function for calculating the power level of the heater. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An automated method for cooking a plurality of types of food by applying heat to the food comprising:
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measuring parameters of the food, wherein the parameters of the food include food weight and food temperature; and
cooking the food by calculating one or more functions comprising the parameters of the food multiplied by one or more coefficients determined through cooking trials, wherein the one or more functions comprise a first function for calculating cooking duration and a second function for calculating the power level of the heat. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An automated cooking system including a chamber for cooking food comprising:
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a heater having a controllable power output to heat the food in the chamber;
a temperature detector arranged to measure the temperature of the food; and
a processor arranged to calculate the power level of the heater in response to the detected temperature, wherein the food is cooked based on at least one of a first function for calculating cooking duration and a second function for calculating the power level of the heat. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. An automated method of cooking food comprising:
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heating the food at a controllable level;
measuring the temperature of the food; and
calculating the level of the heating in response to the measured temperature, wherein food is cooked based on a first function for calculating cooking duration and a second function for said calculating level of the heat. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. An automated cooking system including a chamber for cooking food comprising:
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a heater having a controllable power output to heat the food in the chamber;
a weight detector arranged to weigh the food;
a temperature detector arranged to detect the temperature of the food;
a humidity detector arranged to measure the humidity in at least a portion of the chamber; and
a processor arranged to cook the food during at least a first cooking phase by reading the temperature detector to determine a first temperature, calculating the duration of the first phase in response to the first temperature and calculating the power output of the heater in response to the first temperature, and wherein the processor is arranged to cook the food during a second cooking phase by reading the temperature detector to determine a second temperature, reading the weight detector to determine the food weight, reading the humidity detector to determine said humidity, calculating the duration of the second phase in response to the food weight and humidity and calculating the power output of the heater in response to the second temperature. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. An automated method of food cooking comprising cooking the food in at least a first phase comprising:
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determining a first temperature of the food;
calculating the duration of the first phase in response to the first temperature;
heating the food in at least the first phase at a level determined in response to the first temperature; and
cooking the food in a second phase comprising;
determining a second temperature of the food;
weighing the food to determine the food weight;
determining the humidity adjacent the food;
calculating the duration of the second phase in response to the food weight and determined humidity; and
heating the food in the second phase at a level determined in response to the second temperature. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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