332 results about "Foods types" patented technology

The invention relates to an intelligent oven and a work control method thereof. The intelligent oven comprises a box body; a cooking cavity, a heating execution device for heating food in the cooking cavity, and an oven control device for controlling the heating execution device to operate are arranged in the box body; the intelligent oven is characterized in that an image collection device for collecting images of food in the cooking cavity is arranged in the cooking cavity; the output end of the image collection device is connected with the input end of an image identification device; the image identification device is used for identifying and judging images collected by the image collection device so as to obtain the category of the food in the cooking cavity; the output end of the image identification device is connected with the oven control device; the oven control device controls the operation time of the heating execution device according to the category of the food, identified by the image identification device, in the cooking cavity. Compared with the prior art, the intelligent oven has the advantage of realizing automatic food cooking.

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 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.

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.

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.

An electronic chef's fork is provided which displays indicia such as food type and degree of doneness for a selected food type and temperature and which includes control areas by which the user of the electronic chef's fork selects the meat type. The operational circuitry of the device allows the user to select among an array of food type options and to thereby designate a degree of doneness for the selected type of food. A prompt message is provided to indicate the degree of doneness attained for the selected food type when the device is inserted into the food.

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.

An integrated shopping and order fulfillment method and system is described whereby the customer is able to tailor her grocery shopping list according to her selected preferences from the product inventory offered by a retailer grocer and viewable on the user's mobile phone device. Once the order is placed, the system initiates its order fulfillment methodology whereby a unique barcode is generated for tracking all packages associated with the order. The items are sorted according to their assigned perishability ranking to generate a packing order list for use by the retailer grocer. The packing order list provides an optimized packing order schedule to ensure the freshness of all perishable items upon the order's pickup and delivery. Selected preferences may include red alert options to warn the consumer of an undesired level of a designated ingredient and black out options to eliminate the posting of a particular food type during shopping.

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.

A digital frying pan provides temperature and / or food doneness information associated with food cooked within the pan. A thermal sensor coupled with the pan senses temperature and generates corresponding signals, and processing electronics coupled with the sensor convert the signals to data for display on a LCD. A warning buzzer or LED warns the user of completed cooking. The frying pan may be programmed to desired food types or personal temperatures or food doneness options. The invention also provides a remote sensing food doneness system for remotely viewing and then determining food temperature and / or food doneness. The remote system uses thermal imaging optics and thermal sensing techniques to remotely sense food temperature. Preferably a second optical element images the food onto a CCD to display an image of the food to a user. The system is mounted by a user who views the CCD to ensure appropriate placement in line of sight from the food. A warning is generated by the system to indicate food doneness or desired temperature.

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 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.

There is disclosed a system for estimating the volume of food on a plate, for example meal, with a mobile device. The system uses a camera and a light pattern projector. Images of the food with and without a projected light pattern on it enable to compute the tridimensional shape and volume, while image segmentation and recognition steps estimate one or more food types in said images. By applying accessible knowledge databases, the carbs content is estimated and the associated insulin bolus doses are provided. Developments comprise coding of the light pattern, different light sources and associated wavelengths, motion compensations, additional optics, estimation of fat content and associated multi-wave boluses. The invention can be implemented in a glucometer or in an insulin pump controller provided with a test strip port or with a mobile phone.

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.

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.

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 an intelligent nutrition balance system. The system comprises an intelligent nutrition balance, a cloud server and client software. The method comprises the following steps: weighing foods by the intelligent nutrition balance, transmitting image data of the foods, food name voice data reported by an operator and the like to the cloud server through a network, recognizing the types of the foods through an image recognition and / or voice recognition technology by virtue of a program on the cloud server, and then giving nutrition information of the foods and further diet suggestions or guidance according to a nutritional ingredient database and scientifically recommended diet data. Therefore, the information can be accessed by a user through the client software, the user can correct errors of image recognition and / or voice recognition, and the updated data is analyzed and calculated again by the cloud server.

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).

The invention relates to a refrigerator internal food reminding device and method and a refrigerator. The device comprises a food type obtaining device, a data processing device and an information reminding device connected in sequence; the food type obtaining device generates food type information according to food put in the refrigerator, and sends the food type information to the data processing device; and the data processing device monitors the food placing time length, and controls the information reminding device to send corresponding reminding information according to the food type information, the placing time length and food preservation time length control information corresponding to the food type information. Through the reminding information, users can know present food in the refrigerator, the placing time length and the preservation time length of the food, and conveniently know the information of the food stored in the refrigerator in time; according to the food placing time length, the users can know the freshness degree of the food; and when the freshness degree is lower, the food is taken out in time, so that the waste of the food is prevented, and the use reliability of the refrigerator internal food reminding device is improved.