Electric Cooker State Alerts via Smart Terminal Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Intelligent electric cookers often fail to effectively alert users of cooking states, especially when users are distant or unfamiliar with the device's prompt sounds, leading to a poor user experience.
Innovation Solution
An electric cooker detects its current cooking state and generates alert information for preset conditions, such as completion, target cooking stages, or remaining time, which is then sent to a target terminal like a smartphone or smart TV for timely user notification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the electric cooker uses only built-in prompt sounds to alert users, then the device complexity is low, but the user experience deteriorates when users are far away or unfamiliar with the prompt sounds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a terminal device (smartphone, smart speaker, or smart display device) as an intermediary between the electric cooker and the user. The terminal device receives cooking state information from the cooker and presents it through multiple channels including visual displays, familiar notification sounds, and text messages, thereby improving alert effectiveness without significantly increasing the complexity of the cooker itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a single-dimension audio alert system to a multi-dimensional notification system that combines visual, auditory, and textual information. By sending cooking state data to a terminal device, the system leverages the terminal's display capabilities and familiar notification interfaces to enhance user awareness across multiple sensory dimensions.
2Ease of operation
If the electric cooker sends alert information to a target terminal, then the user experience is improved through recognizable notifications, but the device complexity increases due to additional communication components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent leverages the existing multi-functional capabilities of terminal devices (smartphones, smart speakers, smart displays) that users already possess. These terminal devices serve multiple purposes including communication, information display, and notification, so adding them to the cooking system does not significantly increase overall system complexity while providing enhanced user experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent assumes users already have terminal devices with communication capabilities for other purposes. By utilizing these existing self-service devices for cooking alerts, the system avoids the need to design and manufacture dedicated alerting hardware, thereby minimizing the increase in device complexity while still achieving improved user experience.
3Loss of information
If the electric cooker monitors and sends detailed cooking state information, then the information completeness is improved, but the loss of time for data processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential cooking state information (such as cooking completion status, current cooking stage, or time remaining) and sends this extracted data to the terminal device. This selective extraction approach ensures that the most important information is communicated without the need to process and transmit all possible cooking parameters, thereby maintaining information completeness for user needs while minimizing data processing time.
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AI summary
Disclosed are a method, apparatus, and storage medium for alerting a cooking state of an electric cooker. The method includes: detecting a current cooking state of an electric cooker; generating cooking state alert information when a preset cooking state is detected; and sending the cooking state alert information to a target terminal for alerting a user to the current cooking state of the electric cooker.