Method and device for evaluating cooking quality

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing cooking quality evaluation methods for appliances like rice cookers are subjective and fail to provide an objective assessment, as they rely on user evaluations with varying food preferences, leading to inconsistent and unreliable results.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that retrieve assessment results and evaluation information, applying preset weights and rules to compute an objective evaluation result, incorporating measurement data from devices to assess cooking quality based on predefined indices such as surface flatness, loftiness, and gelatinization degree.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If user evaluation feedback is used to assess cooking quality, then the evaluation process is simple and easy to implement, but the evaluation result is subjective and unreliable

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation process simplicityVSAvoidevaluation result objectivity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple evaluation sources including user feedback, expert assessments, and objective measurement data into a unified evaluation system. This merging of diverse evaluation methods allows the system to maintain operational simplicity while improving result reliability through comprehensive data integration and weighted scoring mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Measurement precision

If objective measurement data is incorporated into evaluation, then the evaluation accuracy and reliability are improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary evaluation system that processes and integrates various data sources including objective measurement data. This intermediary layer manages the complexity by standardizing data formats, applying weighted scoring rules, and producing unified evaluation results, thereby maintaining measurement precision while controlling system complexity through structured information processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11574220B2Method and device for evaluating cooking quality
Publication Date: 2023.02.07 FOSHAN SHUNDE MIDEA ELECTRICAL HEATING APPLIANCES MFG CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is a method for evaluating cooking quality that includes: in response to receiving evaluation information of a food sent by a terminal, retrieving an assessment result corresponding to the food, the assessment result being an assessment result of the cooking quality of a cooking appliance; and determining an evaluation result of the cooking quality of the cooking appliance based on the assessment result, the evaluation information, and a preset evaluation rule. Also disclosed is a device for evaluating cooking quality. With this disclosure, both the assessment result and the evaluation information are weighted in computing the evaluation result of the cooking quality of the cooking appliance. Such an evaluation result not only reflects users' subjective evaluation of the cooking quality, but it also reflects an objective and tenable evaluation of the cooking quality, making the evaluation of the cooking quality more reasonable.