Cooking apparatus, cooking method, non-transitory recording medium on which cooking control program is recorded, and cooking-information providing method

• US 11,010,320 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2015
• Issued: 05/18/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nonaka, Masao, Ohmori, Motoji, Matsumoto, Shingo
• Primary Examiner(s): Stapleton, Eric S
• Application Number:
  US14/601,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20150213009A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,309 Days
• Field of Search: 99325-338, 99468, 700 94, 700207, 700274, 700299, 700300, 219702, 219710, 219715, 219720, 219492, 219506
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices

Abstract

A cooking apparatus includes: a storage that stores first cooking information indicating a cooking method for a first foodstuff and second cooking information indicating a cooking method for a second foodstuff; a placement unit on which the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are placed; and a cooking controller that controls cooking of the first foodstuff, based on the first cooking information, and that controls cooking of the second foodstuff, based on the second cooking information, when the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are placed on the placement unit. The storage includes a memory, and the cooking controller includes a processor.

Claims

1. A cooking apparatus comprising:

a table;

a cooking device configured to heat or cook a first foodstuff and a second foodstuff;

a weight scale that measures a weight of the first foodstuff on the table;

a processor configured to generate first identification information for identifying the first foodstuff, second identification information for identifying the second foodstuff, and weight information indicating the weight of the first foodstuff, the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff being (i) placed at different positions on the table or (ii) included in a food, and the first identification information further including the weight information;

a communicator configured to (i) transmit, via a network, the first identification information and the second identification information to a server apparatus including a first memory which stores a plurality of pieces of cooking information, the plurality of pieces of cooking information including a first piece of cooking information and a second piece of cooking information, the first piece of cooking information including third identification information that corresponds to the first identification information transmitted from the communicator and first cooking method information indicating a first cooking method to cook the first foodstuff, and the second piece of cooking information including fourth identification information that corresponds to the second identification information transmitted from the communicator and second cooking method information indicating a second cooking method to cook the second foodstuff and (ii) receive, from the server apparatus via the network, the first cooking method information included in the first piece of cooking information and the second cooking method information included in the second piece of cooking information, the first cooking method information and the second cooking method information being selected from the first memory by the server apparatus in accordance with the first identification information and the second identification information; and

a storage including a second memory, the storage being configured to store the first cooking method information and the second cooking method information, both of which are received from the server apparatus,

wherein the processor is configured to control the cooking device to (i) cook the first foodstuff based on the first cooking method indicated by the first cooking method information received from the server apparatus, and (ii) cook the second foodstuff based on the second cooking method indicated by the second cooking method information received from the server apparatus,

the first cooking method information is selected from the first memory by the server apparatus in accordance with the weight information included in the first identification information, and

the processor controls the cooking device to cook the first foodstuff based on the first cooking method indicated by the first cooking method information received from the server apparatus.

2. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor generates the identification information, based on an audio signal input by a microphone.

3. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor generates the first identification information and the second identification information, based on an image, including the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff, captured by a camera.

4. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor generates the first identification information and the second identification information, based on the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff or a barcode attached to a food package that wraps the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff.

5. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor detects positions of the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff placed on the table, and

wherein the processor controls the cooking of the first foodstuff and the cooking of the second foodstuff, based on the detected position of the first foodstuff and the detected position of the second foodstuff.

6. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are two different types of food.

7. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are different portions of one type of food.

8. The cooking apparatus according to claim 1,

further comprising:

an input interface that receives second ranking information indicating a second ranking regarding the first cooking method of the first foodstuff,

wherein the communicator further transmits the second ranking information to the server apparatus, and

wherein the communicator receives the first cooking method information which corresponds to a first ranking information regarding the first cooking method of the first foodstuff, from the server apparatus when it is determined by the server apparatus that a first ranking indicated by first ranking information stored in the memory matches the second ranking indicated by the second ranking information transmitted from the communicator.