Heating Cooker Image Recognition for Multi-Food Control Setting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing heating cookers require complex operations for setting control details, especially when handling multiple foods, and previous solutions involve bothersome registration processes or manual temperature setting.
Innovation Solution
A heating cooker equipped with an imaging unit, setting unit, storage, notification unit, and controller that captures images of foods, associates them with pre-set heating control details, and automatically presents matching settings for similar foods, allowing easy input and automatic retrieval of heating control details.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a user designates food and sets temperature manually, then heating control can be customized, but the operation becomes bothersome and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic image recognition of the food and automatically retrieves and presents corresponding heating control details from the database, eliminating the need for manual food designation and temperature setting. The notification unit then guides the user through minimal required inputs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple heating sources are provided for various cooking types, then cooking versatility is improved, but the operation for setting control details becomes complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses image recognition to identify the food, automatically queries the database for appropriate heating control details based on the identified food type, and presents the relevant settings to the user. This feedback loop eliminates the need for users to navigate complex heating source selections manually.
3Extent of automation
If image capture and registration are required for automatic cooking initiation, then cooking method selection is automated, but the registration process becomes bothersome
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically captures an image of the food using the imaging unit, performs image recognition to identify the food type, and automatically retrieves the corresponding heating control details from the database without requiring user intervention in the registration process.
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AI summary
Provided are heating unit (102), imaging unit (106) that captures an image of an interior of a heating chamber, setting unit (107) that sets heating control details, and storage (108) that registers the captured image and the set heating control details in association with each other. Further provided are plural-article determination unit (109) that determines whether a plurality of types of foods are present, similarity determination unit (111) that determines a degree of similarity of a plurality of images, control detail identification unit (113) that identifies heating control details corresponding to a food included in a captured image in accordance with a determination result obtained by similarity determination unit (111), and controller (112). Controller (112) presents heating control details indicating each food on display unit (115) in accordance with a number of the foods. This configuration can provide a heating cooker capable of facilitating heating control setting.