Cooker hood, and method and system for controlling same

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing menu production processes for cooker hoods are inconvenient for users as they require holding a device like a mobile phone or camera to record the cooking process, making it difficult to produce and share cooking content.

Innovation Solution

An image collection apparatus is integrated into the cooker hood, allowing for automatic image collection and sound recording during cooking, with the ability to generate menus by invoking stored images and text descriptions, and enabling sharing and editing operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a user holds a mobile phone or camera to record the cooking process, then the cooking process can be recorded, but user operations become inconvenient and menu production becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser operations convenienceVSAvoidmenu production process
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the image collection apparatus into the cooker hood itself, merging the recording function with the cooking equipment. This eliminates the need for users to separately hold mobile phones or cameras, thereby improving operational convenience while maintaining the ability to record cooking processes for menu production

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The cooker hood performs image collection automatically during the cooking process without requiring user intervention to hold or operate separate recording devices. The system serves itself by capturing images through its integrated apparatus, simplifying the menu production process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11365890B2Cooker hood, and method and system for controlling same
Publication Date: 2022.06.21 BSH HAUSGERATE GMBH
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AI summary

A cooker hood, and a method and system for controlling same are provided. An image collection apparatus is disposed on the cooker hood. The control method includes: when a menu production start instruction is received, controlling the image collection apparatus to perform an image collection operation; storing a collected image; and after a menu production end instruction is received, invoking the collected image, to generate a corresponding menu. By means of the foregoing solutions, user operations in a menu production process can be simplified.