332 results about "Food type" patented technology

System and method for preserving food. Embodiments of the system include a food compartment to store food and a user interface configured to receive user input relating to the preservation of the food stored. The system also includes a humidity sensor configured to sense a humidity level, an ozone generator configured to generate ozone gas, an ozone sensor configured to sense an ozone level and a gas sensor configured to sense a level of residual gases inside the food compartment. The system further includes a controller, responsive to the user interface, the humidity sensor, the ozone sensor and the gas sensor. In one embodiment, the controller preserves the food stored in the food compartment as a function of the user input, the humidity level, the ozone level, the residual gas level and as a function of a type of the food stored in the food compartment.

A system and method for managing food production, inventory and delivery in a restaurant by automatically monitoring the types and quantities of food types that have been cooked and are in a cooked food holding area. Food holding trays are equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and holding cabinets are equipped with RFID interrogators. The type and quantity of food items are determined manually or by machine vision or weighing systems, and the data is stored on the RFID tags and in a controller. The system manages the use of food items on a first-in, first-out basis, alerts operators when the inventory of an item is nearing exhaustion, and alerts operators when food items in the holding area must be discarded. The system manages movable trays of food no matter where in the facility they are located.

A cooking appliance includes a control panel which includes a rotary dial for selecting and entering control information to the cooking appliance, and a control interface for providing a prompt to guide a user through a selection process of the control information. The control information includes at least one of a cooking mode, a food type, a food weight or size, a cooking temperature, and a degree of doneness. The cooking appliance is operatively responsive to the selection of the control information from the rotary dial before and during cooking.

A nutritional information scale having memory means to hold the nutritional data of various foods as well as a computer and input means to enter the type of food and determine nutritional values of the food based on the data stored and the weight of the portion provided. The device permits the use of the user's food containers and / or plate as the weight of the plate can be removed from the weight value, by virtue of a tare calculation. The memory of the device permits the user to store food values of various portions of foods and / or entire meals, and then display either the individual portion values or the values for an entire meal or series of meals. Further, values for more than one user can be provided and displayed.

A system and method for managing food production, inventory and delivery in a restaurant by automatically monitoring the types and quantities of food types that have been cooked and are in a cooked food holding area. Food holding trays are equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and holding cabinets are equipped with RFID interrogators. The type and quantity of food items are determined manually or by machine vision or weighing systems, and the data is stored on the RFID tags and in a controller. The system manages the use of food items on a first-in, first-out basis, alerts operators when the inventory of an item is nearing exhaustion, and alerts operators when food items in the holding area must be discarded. The system manages movable trays of food no matter where in the facility they are located.

The invention discloses a food nutrition analysis and health management system. The food nutrition analysis and health management system comprises an intelligent terminal, a service platform, food storage equipment, food cooking equipment and user physical sign measurement equipment. The food storage equipment is used for acquiring food types, adjusting own storage temperature according to the food types and recommending recipes according to existing food stock; the user physical sign measurement equipment is used for detecting physical sign information of a user and uploading to a service platform; the intelligent terminal is used for controlling the food storage equipment, the food cooking equipment and the user physical sign measurement equipment; the food cooking equipment is used for acquiring recipes from the service platform and cooking according to the recipes; the service platform is used for recommending recipes according to the physical sign information of the user and providing nutrition analysis and health management advices for the user according to the physical sign information and historical dietary information. Therefore, on the basis of daily diet habits of the user, the historical dietary information and physical signal information of the user are dynamically known to intelligently provide healthy recipes for the user.

The invention provides a system and method utilizing, among other things, fluorescence spectroscopy in the ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to determine chemical species and concentrations. The basic measuring system includes optics, a spectrograph, a detector, and an energy source (“head” components), along with a computer and control electronics and power source capable of generating and detecting unique fluorescence signatures for individual and unique mixtures of chemical substances including, for example, prescribed and / or compounded medications, alcohol products, food types, synthetic drugs, narcotics, perfumes, liquids, and the like.

According to the current invention, the new pet feeding system provides a controlled food release to aid individual weight management of a pet. This is what sets the proposed feeder apart from its competitors. The pet feeder includes an automatic computerized weight and food release mechanism. Individual pet information such as current weight, aimed for weight, and pet information is entered via pin pad instructions, the feeder calculates exact amount of food. At each feeding the pet steps on a weight scale which automatically updates pet's weight information and recalculates food output. Another aspect of the invention is the automatic storage and update of the pet's data and weight loss progress. Through a wireless device, the pet's information of weight, feeding times and food amount, food type, and daily caloric intake is saved onto a portable electronic storage device.

A “Food Logger” provides various approaches for learning or training one or more image-based models (referred to herein as “meal models”) of nutritional content of meals. This training is based on one or more datasets of images of meals in combination with “meal features” that describe various parameters of the meal. Examples of meal features include, but are not limited to, food type, meal contents, portion size, nutritional content (e.g., calories, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, protein, salt, etc.), food source (e.g., specific restaurants or restaurant chains, grocery stores, particular pre-packaged foods, school meals, meals prepared at home, etc.). Given the trained models, the Food Logger automatically provides estimates of nutritional information based on automated recognition of new images of meals provided by (or for) the user. This nutritional information is then used to enable a wide range of user-centric interactions relating to food consumed by individual users.

The invention provides a system and method utilizing, among other things, fluorescence spectroscopy in the ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to determine chemical species and concentrations. The basic measuring system includes optics, a spectrograph, a detector, and an energy source (“head” components), along with a computer and control electronics and power source capable of generating and detecting unique fluorescence signatures for individual and unique mixtures of chemical substances including, for example, prescribed and / or compounded medications, alcohol products, food types, synthetic drugs, narcotics, perfumes, liquids, and the like.

A system and method for managing food production, inventory and delivery in a restaurant by automatically monitoring the types and quantities of food types that have been cooked and are in a cooked food holding area. Food holding trays are equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and holding cabinets are equipped with RFID interrogators. The type and quantity of food items are determined manually or by machine vision or weighing systems, and the data is stored on the RFID tags and in a controller. The system manages the use of food items on a first-in, first-out basis, alerts operators when the inventory of an item is nearing exhaustion, and alerts operators when food items in the holding area must be discarded. The system manages movable trays of food no matter where in the facility they are located.

The invention is applicable to the field of household appliances, and provides a refrigerator and a food management method and device thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring characteristic point information of an image of a food which passes through a refrigerator entrance and exit; searching food type information of the food and food quality guarantee period information from a database according to the characteristic point information of the image of the food; outputting information of a quality guarantee period of the food placed in the refrigerator for prompting a user and performing timing detection on the food quality guarantee period information of the food; and outputting information for promoting the user that food quality guarantee period limit is up when detecting the information that the food quality guarantee period limit is up in the timing detection process. In the invention, the problems of expiration for food storage, rotting of foods and unnecessary waste caused by expiration of foods in the refrigerator and untimely eating are solved by managing the foods placed in the refrigerator.

The invention discloses an intelligent refrigerator and an intelligent refrigerator food storage management method based on an Internet of Things technology. The intelligent refrigerator is connected with a wide area network, and comprises a working area and at least one storage area which are arranged separately, wherein the storage areas comprise storage chambers and refrigerator doors which are arranged correspondingly; microswitches are mounted at contact parts between the storage chambers and the refrigerator doors; main control boards, refrigeration compressors and gateways are mounted in the storage areas; food type information acquisition modules are arranged on top boards of the storage chambers; a plurality of storage cases are placed in the storage chambers; weight acquisition devices are arranged at the bottoms of the storage cases; and temperature sensors are arranged in the storage chambers. The intelligent refrigerator can acquire type information, appearance information, weight information and storage time information of food in the refrigerator in real time, and transmit the information of the food to the wide area network in a wired or wireless mode, and a user accesses the wide area network through external equipment, knows the information of the food in the refrigerator very well at any time, and accurately manages the food according to the information.

An aseptic method of preparing meals using automated means to place food portions of different types such as meat, lamb, chicken, vegetables, starches, rice, and potatoes within individual food type moulds (21) and into an in-line oven (1); each type of the food portions is then cooked as the moulds (21) are conveyed (19) through the oven; and automated means such as a spatula (22) and mould holder and lifting apparatus (24) are used to remove the food from the oven and moulds; and assembling the individual food portions to form a meal within a package (23). Also disclosed is a monitoring means for sue in a multiple stage sequential automatic food processing system that includes a means (15) for assigning a unique identification code or barcode to each individual food portion and sensors for measuring values of predetermined parameters (e.g. temperature, duration) of the process for said identified portions.

The invention discloses a food recognition method at an intelligent terminal, and the method is based on a convolution neural network method, and comprises a training process and an automatic classification process. The training process comprises the following steps: firstly building a training sample set; secondly constructing a network structure model according to a classic AlexNet network; thirdly carrying out network training through an open-source Caffe network framework, and continuously adjusting initial conditions so as to obtain an optimal network structure model and parameter configuration. The automatic classification process comprises the steps: enabling a to-be-recognized image photographed by a user to serve as an input image of the network; configuring the network according to parameters of a trained network structure in a computer, and classifying input images; and finally displaying the former 10 optimal classification results to the user. The method can achieve the automatic recognition of the type of food at the intelligent terminal, is high in speed, is small in storage capacity, is high in accuracy, and is good in user experience.

A cutting board, which is used for the preparation of all food types respectively in a kitchen. The cutting board includes a board body having a receiving cavity and two cutting surface, a plurality of cutting panel differed in appearance is received within the receiving cavity in overlapped manner. The size of the cutting panel is less than the size of the board body, such that a user is able to selectively extract appropriate cutting panel and detachably mount onto the cutting surfaces for preparing different type of foods.

The present invention provides a movable load bearing structure with a surface that includes antimicrobial agents capable of eliminating, preventing, retarding or minimizing the growth of microbes and also minimizing cross-contamination when the load bearing structure is being reused for cargos that differ from a previously transported cargo, for example, different food types, such as poultry, fresh vegetables, and fresh fruit. The load bearing structure may be a dunnage platform or a container for storing and / or shipping cargo.

The invention discloses a food identification method. The method comprises: food pictures of food eaten by a user are obtained and pretreatment is carried out on the obtained food pictures; feature extraction is carried out on the food pictures after pretreatment and corresponding feature vectors is obtained, and basic information of all food eaten by the user is obtained by combining a food identification model; and according to the food pictures after pretreatment, a proportional relationship between reference substances in the food pictures and food containers in the food pictures is obtained and proportions of food in the food containers are obtained, and volumes of all food eaten by the user are obtained by combining a food volume identification module. In addition, the invention alsoprovides an electronic device, a storage medium, a food identification apparatus, and a nutrition and health analysis method and system. According to the invention, with application of the image recognition technology to food identification, food type identification as well as food volume identification is realized, so that a problem that people are guided to carry out diet planning only by relying on professionals like a nutritionist or a fitness instructor in the prior art is solved.

An automated food handling system for food servings comprising a transfer means for transporting food servings therealong; a plurality of treatment modules coupled in parallel to the transfer means; means for sensing and recognizing the type of food servings being transported on the transfer means; and means for automatically diverting the food serving from the transfer means into one of the treatment modules. The treatment modules may be machines that bring the food servings to the desired temperature. An inventory system is also provided.

The invention discloses a refrigerator and a control method and device thereof. The control method comprises the steps as follows: receiving a food type selection command input by a user, wherein the food type selection command is a command selected by the user for refrigerating different types of foods; determining a refrigerating temperature corresponding to the food type selection command; and controlling the refrigerator to run according to the determined refrigerating temperature. Through the control method, temperatures corresponding to food types are pre-stored in the refrigerator, so that when the refrigerator is used by the user, only the food types need to be selected and the refrigerator can run according to the refrigerating temperatures corresponding to the food types; and the refrigerator is simple to operate and convenient to use.

An apparatus and method are disclosed for penetrating convenience store food markets with a customer-engaging food merchandising module. The customer-engaging food merchandising module comprises three units: a food storage and display unit attached to a food preparation and display unit, and a shell unit attached to at least one of the other two units. One embodiment of the apparatus comprises: a glass-door freezer for storing and displaying at least one type of frozen food, a microwave oven attached to the freezer, and a shell attached to the freezer. The shell is used to support advertising and instructional graphics and also to give the apparatus a unitary appearance. The microwave oven has pre-programmed buttons corresponding to each of the types of food displayed in the freezer, each button activating the microwave oven to correctly heat a corresponding type of frozen food. The shell may extend above the freezer / microwave combination. The apparatus may be completely assembled in a factory and shipped ready-to-use. Maintenance may be by replacement of defective or outdated units. The entire apparatus plugs into one ordinary wall outlet for electrical power.

The invention provides a refreshing control method of food in a refrigerator. The refreshing control method comprises the following steps of: reminding users of inputting food type in a display screen of the refrigerator after the users place the food in a temperature variable chamber of the refrigerator, receiving the food type input by the users, setting the temperature of the temperature variable chamber and reminding time according to the food type, as well as reminding the users when the placing time of the food in the temperature variable chamber exceeds the reminding time. According to the embodiment of the invention, appropriate temperature can be rapidly set according to the food type, and the operation of the users is facilitated; the refreshing control method has a function of expiration reminding of the food refreshing period, thereby reminding the users of taking out the food and preventing the refreshing period from exceeding; and the refreshing control method has the advantage of guaranteeing food freshness. The invention also provides the refrigerator.

The invention discloses a food cooking process for an intelligent food cooker and aims at providing a food cooking process for the intelligent food cooker, which is free from manual vending, convenient and time-saving. <0}{0><}0{>The key points of the technical scheme are as follows: bowl quantity and food types are selected from an operating panel of a rack, then coin insertion is performed, and bowl taking, heating and outputting are sequentially performed in the rack after coin insertion is performed, so that during the whole process, manpower is not needed to make contact with bowls so as to perform operations, and the safety, sanitation and convenience of foods in the bowls during a whole process from heating to selling can be effectively ensured; furthermore, the bowls are refrigerated in a bowl storage mechanism, and the foods in the bowls are seasoned and heated during selling, so that fresh foods can be stored in the bowls, and further the nutrition and mouthfeel of the foods can also be ensured.

The invention provides an intelligent refrigeration method. The intelligent refrigeration method comprises the steps that the food type of current food put into a current storage space is determined;the appropriate storage temperature corresponding to the food type is obtained; and refrigeration is conducted on the current storage space according to the appropriate storage temperature. By using the intelligent refrigeration method, self-adapted refrigeration can be conducted according to the food type, and storage for the food can be more reasonable.

A cutting board, which is used for the preparation of all food types respectively in a kitchen. The cutting board includes a board body having a receiving cavity and two cutting surface, a plurality of cutting panel differed in appearance is received within the receiving cavity in overlapped manner. The size of the cutting panel is less than the size of the board body, such that a user is able to selectively extract appropriate cutting panel and detachably mount onto the cutting surfaces for preparing different type of foods.

The invention discloses an intelligent food preservation device, a preservation method and a refrigerator using the intelligent food preservation device. An irradiation generator is used for emitting an irradiation signal for sterilization; an image detector is used for acquiring image and ingredient information of food; a gas sensor array is used for acquiring smell emitted by food; a pressure sensor, the irradiation generator, the image detector, the gas sensor array, a humidity sensor and a humidity regulator are connected with an analysis and control unit respectively for data transmission; a display mechanism is used for displaying data signals transmitted by the analysis and control unit. By acquisition of concentration changes of gas emitted by food in a preservation process, the freshness and security degree of food in the current refrigerator can be accurately judged; weight of different kinds of food in the refrigerator is further detected dynamically, and specific food types are recognized and detected through combination with images, therefore, information related to the food preserved in the refrigerator can be known more comprehensively and effectively.

The invention discloses a food storage method of a refrigerator and a refrigerator. The method comprises the following steps: detecting food types of foods in the refrigerator and recording storage time; obtaining shelf lives of the foods according to the food types; detecting residual storage periods of the foods; judging whether the storage periods of the foods are close to the shelf lives according to the storage time; and providing corresponding prompts according to the residual storage periods if the storage periods of the foods are close to the shelf lives. According to the method, the user can know the storage situation of the foods in the refrigerator in time without the need of seeing the storage situation of the foods in the refrigerator, thereby preventing the foods from exceeding the shelf lives or being used up; the convenience is brought to the user; the user experience of the refrigerator is improved.

The invention provides an intelligent dining table system and a healthy diet control system based on the Internet of Things, relates to the technical field of software development of the healthy diet control system, and solves the problems that the existing dining table system is not integrated into the Internet of Things, thus the diet of a user cannot be supervised and controlled. A data acquisition module is used for performing image acquisition and weight acquisition, so as to acquire dining data of the user, including facial features, diet type and quantity, weight and dining time; a wireless transmission module is used for uploading the dining data to a system server and a medical institution database; a data early-warning management module is used for giving corresponding food type and quantity according to an expected caloric value set by the user, and also used for comparing weight change data of the user before and after dining with a long-term accumulated average value in a personal digital health file of the user, when the weight change data exceed the average value, then giving a warning, and if the dietary amount is under an exceeded state for a long time, then giving an early warning by the dining table system. According to the intelligent dining table system and the healthy diet control system based on the Internet of Things provided by the invention, the user can automatically acquire related data and an analysis report through an APP (Application).