Cooking Recipe Display Format for Smartphone Screen Optimization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Cooking recipe display systems on small information terminals, such as smartphones, require excessive scrolling due to long character strings and image enlargement, making it difficult for users with dirty hands to navigate and recognize the displayed content.

Innovation Solution

A cooking-recipe display system that determines an optimal allocation display format for the information terminal's screen, allowing for easy viewing without extensive scrolling, by managing the arrangement of cooking procedures and ingredients, using a data management part and determination part to select and display the recipe in a format that fits the screen without requiring manual enlargement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of stationary object

If the character string explaining the cooking procedures is reduced in size, then the whole cooking recipe can be displayed on the screen, but the image of the cooking recipe needs to be enlarged requiring pinching-out operation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay area utilizationVSAvoidoperation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The cooking recipe is segmented into multiple pages, with each page displaying a specific portion (either ingredient list or cooking procedures) to fit the screen area. This segmentation allows the content to be divided into manageable sections that can be displayed without requiring enlargement operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically switches between different display modes (ingredient list view and cooking procedures view) based on user selection. This dynamic switching allows the display to adapt to different information needs without requiring screen enlargement, as each mode is optimized for its specific content type.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Area of stationary object

If the character string explaining the cooking procedures is reduced in size, then the whole cooking recipe can be displayed, but hands with cooking ingredients make operation difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay area utilizationVSAvoidcontamination risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting the recipe into separate pages for ingredients and procedures, the system reduces the need for continuous scrolling. Users can view the entire procedures section on one page, minimizing the need to touch the screen with contaminated hands during cooking.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides self-service functionality by allowing users to pre-select and save their preferred view (ingredient list or procedures) before cooking begins. This eliminates the need to interact with the device during the cooking process, reducing contamination risk from dirty hands.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Loss of information

If scrolling operations are required to view the cooking recipe, then the display can show part of the recipe, but it is not easy for users to recognize what part they are seeing

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation visibilityVSAvoidnavigation difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The recipe is divided into distinct pages (ingredient list page and cooking procedures page), making it clear to users which section they are viewing. This segmentation eliminates confusion about location within the recipe, as each page represents a complete, identifiable section.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-organizing the recipe content into logically separated pages before display. This allows users to immediately understand the structure and their current position without needing to track scrolling movements or remember previous views.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

4Manufacturing precision

If the cooking recipe is displayed with standard character size, then readability is good, but extensive scrolling is required on small screens

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay qualityVSAvoidtime to view complete recipe

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting the recipe into focused pages, the system allows users to view complete sections (all ingredients or all procedures) on single screens. This eliminates the need for extensive scrolling while maintaining standard character sizes, reducing the time required to view and process the complete recipe information.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11907518B2Cooking recipe display system, information terminal, cooking recipe display method, and program

Publication Date: 2024.02.20 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD

AI summary

A cooking-recipe display system (51) according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes, an information terminal (200) having a display screen and a controller (210), a data management part (110), and a determination part (120). The data management part (110) includes a recipe group master containing a plurality of cooking recipes, each of which contains both a plurality of procedures indicating a way of cooking a dish and a plurality of ingredients of the dish. The determination part (120) determines an allocation display format indicating an arrangement, on the display screen, of the plurality of procedures contained one cooking recipe selected from the plurality of cooking recipes. The controller (210) causes the cooking recipe to be displayed on the display screen in the allocation display format.