Food processor with phonetic recognition ability

• US 8,407,058 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2009
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Lin, Ying-Tzu, Yu, Chao-Ming, Yu, Hao-Hsiang, Lin, Tsang-Gang
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan, Vijay B
• Application Number:
  US12/512,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20100104680A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• Field of Search: 704/256, 704/255, 704/201, 704/243, 704/254, 704/232, 704/270, 704/256.2, 704/240, 704/257, 704/9, 704/270.1, 704/275, 704/249, 704/244, 715/264, 715/256, 715/257
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 3/28 Apparatus for decorating sweetmeats or confectionery
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices

Abstract

A food processor with phonetic recognition ability is disclosed, which comprises: a phonetic recognition module and a food processing module. The phonetic recognition module is capable of receiving sound signals so as to identify a content of characters containing in the received sound signals. The food processing module is capable of producing food products containing characters corresponding to the phonetic recognition result of the phonetic recognition module.

Claims

1. A food processor with phonetic recognition ability, comprising:

a phonetic recognition module, capable of receiving sound signals so as to identify a content of characters containing in the received sound signals; and

a food processing module, capable of producing food products containing the characters corresponding to the phonetic recognition result of the phonetic recognition module.

2. The food processor of claim 1, wherein the content of characters recognized by the phonetic recognition module includes:

characters, phrases, and sentences, and the total number of the characters.

3. The food processor of claim 1, wherein the food processing module further comprises:

a food supplying unit, for supplying at least one food product; and

a character generating unit, for forming at least one character on the food products from the food supplying unit.

4. The food processor of claim 3, wherein the character generating unit is an embossing device capable of impressing on the food product'"'"'s surface for forming characters lowered into or raised out of the surface of the food product while enabling the formed character to have different heights.

5. The food processor of claim 3, wherein the character generating unit is an engraving device capable of forming the characters on the food product'"'"'s surface by carving.

6. The food processor of claim 3, wherein the character generating unit is a painting device capable of forming the characters on the food product'"'"'s surface by painting.

7. The food processor of claim 3, wherein the character generating unit is enabled to shape the food product as the characters.

8. The food processor of claim 7, wherein the character generating unit is an engraving device capable of carving the food product as the characters.

9. The food processor of claim 7, wherein the character generating unit is a painting device capable of outlining the characters on the food product by painting.

10. The food processor of claim 3, wherein character generating unit is enabled to generate punctuation marks and geometrical figures.

11. The food processor of claim 1, further comprising:

a displaying unit, for displaying the content of characters from the phonetic recognition result of the phonetic recognition module.

12. The food processor of claim 11, wherein the content capable of being displayed by the displaying unit includes information selected from the group consisting of:

character form, character size, character color, character arrangement and others.

13. The food processor of claim 11, further comprising:

an input unit, provided for a user to input characters.

14. The food processor of claim 13, wherein the input unit is integrally formed with the displaying unit into a touch screen.

15. The food processor of claim 11, wherein the content capable of being displayed by the displaying unit includes information relating to the types of food product, the taste of food product and the amount of food product.

16. The food processor of claim 15, further comprising:

an input unit, provided for a user to input information relating to the types of food product, the taste of food product and the amount of food product.

17. The food processor of claim 16, wherein the input unit is integrally formed with the displaying unit into a touch screen.

18. The food processor of claim 11, wherein the displaying unit is enabled to display a simulated outlook of the food product being processed by the food processor.

19. The food processor of claim 1, wherein further comprising:

an input unit, provided for a user to input characters.

20. The food processor of claim 19, wherein the input unit further provided for the user to input information relating to the characters, including:

character form, character size, character color, character arrangement and the likes.

21. The food processor of claim 19, wherein the input unit further provided for the user to input information relating to the types of food product, the taste of food product and the amount of food product.

22. The food processor of claim 19, wherein the input unit is electrically connected to the food processing module for enabling the same to produce food products containing characters corresponding to the information inputted by the user.

23. The food processor of claim 1, further comprises:

a database, having at least a character form, at least a character size and at least a character color stored therein.

24. The food processor of claim 1, wherein the food products being produced by the food processing module includes chocolates, candies or cookies.

25. The food processor of claim 1, further comprising:

an emotion recognition module, capable of identifying an emotion containing in the received sound signals.

26. The food processor of claim 25, wherein the food processing module is enabled to produce a food product with a taste corresponding to the emotion recognition result of the emotion recognition module.

27. The food processor of claim 25, wherein the taste is a sense selected from the group consisting of:

sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and the combination thereof.