Camera-Guided Cooking Control for False Input Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cooking apparatuses often malfunction due to unintended inputs from foreign substances or user errors, leading to incorrect cooking operations.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a camera to capture images of the cooking apparatus and its surroundings, a user interface to detect inputs, and a processor to identify whether the input corresponds to a cooking act, preventing incorrect operations and ensuring compliance with the current cooking step based on recipe information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a user interface is provided for control of the cooking apparatus, then ease of operation is improved, but foreign substances may be detected as inputs causing malfunctions
Solution Approach 1:
A camera is introduced as an intermediary device between the user interface and the control system. The camera captures images of the user interface, and image recognition technology mediates between the physical interface and the control logic, allowing the system to distinguish between intentional user inputs and foreign substance detections, thereby maintaining reliability while preserving ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces direct mechanical/electrical contact-based input detection with an optical detection system using a camera and image recognition. This substitution allows the system to detect inputs without physical contact, eliminating the problem of foreign substances causing false inputs while maintaining user-friendly operation
2Productivity
If the cooking apparatus accepts control inputs through the user interface, then productivity is improved, but incorrect cooking operations may occur due to wrong inputs
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by capturing images of the user interface, recognizing the input intent through image analysis, and verifying whether the detected input corresponds to the current cooking step. This feedback loop ensures that only valid cooking operations are executed, preventing incorrect operations while maintaining high productivity
Solution Approach 2:
The camera continuously captures images of the user interface before actual input detection occurs. This preliminary action allows the system to pre-analyze potential inputs and distinguish between intentional user actions and foreign substance detections, ensuring that only correct cooking operations are triggered
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AI summary
A cooking apparatus and a method for controlling thereof are disclosed. The cooking apparatus includes a camera configured to capture an image of the cooking apparatus and at least part of an area surrounding the cooking apparatus; a user interface configured to detect input for control of the cooking apparatus; at least one memory storing at least one instruction; and at least one processor configured to execute the at least one instruction to: acquire, through the camera, the image of the cooking apparatus and the at least part of the area surrounding the cooking apparatus, detect through the user interface an input for control of the cooking apparatus, based on the image, identify whether the input corresponds to a cooking act using the cooking apparatus, and based on identifying that the input corresponds to the cooking act using the cooking apparatus, control the cooking apparatus to perform a cooking operation corresponding to the input.