Dynamic recipe control

• US 9,528,972 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2015
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Iceberg International SARL
• Original Assignee: Iceberg International SARL
• Inventors: Minvielle, Eugenio
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, THIEN MINH
• Application Number:
  US14/667,608
• Publication Number:
  US 20150260699A1
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 23546201-46203, 235/381
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A23P 10/00 Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the products
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 27/04 for cooking food in steam; Devices for extracting fruit juice by means of steam ; Vacuum cooking vessels steam-heated vessels for hotels, restaurants or canteens A47J27/16
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/44 Parts or details or accessories of beverage-making apparatus filters or strainers A47J31/06
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/00 Parts, details or accessories of cooking-vessels A47J27/00 - A47J33/00 take precedence insofar as these parts, details or accessories are restricted to a particular kind of cooking-vessel provided for in a single one of these groups
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/321 the electronic control being performed over a network, e.g. by means of a handheld device
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0623 Small-size cooking ovens, i.e. defining an at least partially closed cooking cavity A47J37/0605 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/08 Bread-toasters
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/0716 for machines with tools driven from the lower side A47J43/0727 - A47J43/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/02 Food
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

Nutritional substance systems and methods are disclosed enabling the tracking and communication of changes in nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values of nutritional substances, and further enabling the adaptive storage and adaptive conditioning of nutritional substances.

Claims

1. A method for conditioning a nutritional substance, the method comprising:

determining, using a control system comprising one or more processors, an identity of the nutritional substance based on information received regarding the nutritional substance output from a camera;

receiving, at an input panel, consumer input regarding preferences for conditioning of the nutritional substance;

accessing, using the control system, data relating to conditioning protocols from a database referenced to known nutritional substances wherein the conditioning protocols each comprise a sequence of steps for conditioning a referenced one of the known nutritional substances, and wherein each of the steps comprise different conditioning parameters; and

adapting, using the control system, a conditioning sequence for the nutritional substance based on at least a subset of the accessed data relating to conditioning protocols referenced to the nutritional substance and the consumer input; and

executing the conditioning sequence in a conditioner in communication with the control system.

2. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 1, wherein the consumer input manually controls the time or temperature of at least a portion of the conditioning sequence for the nutritional substance.

3. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 1, wherein the consumer input relates to a type of nutritional substance.

4. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 1, wherein the consumer input relates to a category of conditioning protocol.

5. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 4, further comprising:

sending data relating to options for selecting one of a set of specific conditioning protocols that are referenced to the consumer input regarding the category of conditioning protocol; and

receiving a second consumer input relating to the consumer'"'"'s choice of one of the set of specific conditioning protocols.

6. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 4, wherein the type of conditioning protocol is one of fast, traditional, or master conditioning protocols.

7. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 1, wherein the adapted conditioning sequence based on at least a subset of the accessed data relating to conditioning protocols for the nutritional substance and the consumer input is stored as a custom conditioning protocol.

8. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 7, wherein the consumer input is used to make modifications to conditioning protocols not utilized in the conditioning sequence and wherein the modified conditioning protocols are stored as custom conditioning protocols.

9. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 8, wherein the modifications include proportional changes in time or temperature.

10. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 9, wherein the proportional changes or based on proportional differences in weight or a predetermined proportional formula for translating changes to apply from one conditioning protocol to another conditioning protocol.

11. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 1, further comprising:

after executing the conditioning sequence, sending data to a consumer input panel relating to options for selecting one of a set of specific end conditioning protocols;

receiving data representing a second consumer input relating to the consumer'"'"'s choice of one of the set of specific end conditioning protocols;

accessing data relating to end conditioning protocols from a database referenced to known nutritional substances;

adapting an end conditioning sequence for the nutritional substance based on the data representing the second consumer input and the data relating to end conditioning protocols.

12. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 11, wherein the conditioning sequence is modified based on the data representing the second consumer input and stored as a custom conditioning protocol referenced to the nutritional substance.

13. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 1, wherein determining an identity comprises determining a type of nutritional substance.

14. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 13, wherein the type of nutritional substance is a chicken breast.

15. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 1, wherein the information received regarding the nutritional substance is a dynamic information identifier.

16. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 1, wherein the information received regarding the nutritional substance relates to a sensed attribute of the nutritional substance.

17. A dynamic control module for a conditioning system for nutritional substances comprising:

a database of conditioning protocols referenced to known nutritional substances, wherein the conditioning protocols each comprise a sequence of steps for conditioning one of the known nutritional substances and wherein each of the steps comprise different conditioning parameters;

a memory containing machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions for performing a method of identifying and conditioning a nutritional substance;

a control system comprising one or more processors coupled to the memory, the control system configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the processor to;

receive, at the control system, information related to an identity of a nutritional substance output from a camera;

receive, at the control system, consumer input regarding preferences for conditioning of the nutritional substance; and

send, by the control system, a request to the database for information relating to a plurality of conditioning protocols, wherein the request comprises the information relating to the identity of the nutritional substances; and

send, by the control system, a conditioning sequence to a conditioner in communication with the control module based on at least one of the plurality of conditioning protocols and the consumer input.

18. The dynamic control module of claim 17, wherein the consumer input comprises instructions for manually controlling the time or temperature of at least a portion of the conditioning sequence for the nutritional substance.

19. The dynamic control module of claim 17, wherein the consumer input relates to a type of nutritional substance.

20. The dynamic control module of claim 17, wherein the consumer input relates to a category of conditioning protocol.

21. The dynamic control module of claim 20, wherein the type of conditioning protocol is one of fast, traditional, or master conditioning protocols.

22. The dynamic control module of claim 17, wherein the information relating to the identity of the nutritional substance comprises information relating to a type of the nutritional substance.

23. The dynamic control module of claim 17, wherein the information relating to the identity of the nutritional substance comprises a dynamic information identifier referenced to a known nutritional substance.

24. The dynamic control module of claim 17, wherein the information relating to the identity of the nutritional substance comprises information related to a sensed attribute of the nutritional substance.

25. A method for providing a conditioning protocol for a nutritional substance, the method comprising:

receiving, at a server, a request for conditioning protocols, the request including information relating to the identity of a nutritional substance output from a camera;

accessing, by the server, a database with the identification information for nutritional substances referenced to known nutritional substances;

determining, by the server, an identity of the nutritional substance by comparing the identification information output from the camera to the information in the database;

accessing, by the server, conditioning protocols referenced to the identified nutritional substance, wherein the conditioning protocols each comprise a sequence of steps for conditioning one of the known nutritional substances, and wherein each of the steps comprise different conditioning parameters; and

sending, in response to the request, information relating to a plurality of conditioning protocols referenced to the identified nutritional substance.

26. The method of providing a conditioning protocol for a nutritional substance of claim 25, wherein the information relating to the identity of the nutritional substance is a dynamic information identifier.

27. The method of providing a conditioning protocol for a nutritional substance of claim 25, wherein the information relating to the identity of the nutritional substance is data related to a sensed attribute of the nutritional substance.

28. The method of providing a conditioning protocol for a nutritional substance of claim 25 further comprising:

receiving data relating to consumer input regarding preferences for conditioning of the nutritional substance;

sending to a conditioner control module, in response to the receiving data relating to consume input, one of the plurality of conditioning protocols that is selected based on the consumer input.

29. The method of providing a conditioning protocol for a nutritional substance of claim 28, further comprising:

adapting a conditioning sequence based on the one of the plurality of conditioning protocols and the consumer input.

30. The method of providing a conditioning protocol for a nutritional substance of claim 29, wherein the conditioning sequence is saved as a custom conditioning protocol.

31. The method of providing a conditioning protocol for a nutritional substance of claim 29, wherein the wherein the consumer input is additionally used to make modifications to conditioning protocols not utilized in the conditioning sequence and wherein the modified conditioning protocols are stored as custom conditioning protocols.

32. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 31, wherein the modifications include proportional changes in time or temperature.

33. The method for conditioning the nutritional substance of claim 32, wherein the proportional changes or based on proportional differences in weight or a predetermined proportional formula for translating changes to apply from one conditioning protocol to another conditioning protocol.

34. The method of providing a conditioning protocol for a nutritional substance of claim 25, wherein the information related to the identity of a nutritional substance is based on input by a consumer.