Recipe Matching via Unified Feeling Degree Parameter
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooking recipe systems fail to effectively present recipes based on a user's emotional inclination towards cooking effort and time, often requiring users to manually search through numerous options without considering their specific preferences for effort and ingredient quality.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that acquires a user's specified feeling degree for cooking, calculates a recipe's feeling degree based on attributes like time, effort, and ingredient quality, and presents recipes within a desired range, allowing for the generation of modified recipes if needed, and optionally suggests home delivery services when the feeling degree is low.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a user specifies detailed search conditions (category, calorie, taste, ingredients) to find a recipe, then the recipe search precision is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates because users must manually evaluate multiple attributes and spend time searching through numerous options
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms multiple discrete recipe attributes (cooking time, ingredient quantity, preparation complexity) into a single integrated parameter called 'feeling degree.' This parameter change allows users to specify their cooking preferences with a single value rather than evaluating multiple separate conditions, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining recipe search precision through the comprehensive calculation that considers all underlying attributes.
Solution Approach 2:
The 'feeling degree' acts as an intermediary parameter that mediates between the user's subjective cooking preferences and the objective recipe attributes. Instead of directly comparing users' complex multi-attribute requirements with detailed recipe specifications, the system uses feeling degree as an intermediate representation that simplifies the matching process while preserving the essential characteristics of both sides.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system calculates and presents recipes based on multiple attributes (cooking time, ingredient quantity, preparation steps) to match user preferences, then the adaptability is improved, but the device complexity increases due to the need to calculate and manage multiple recipe attributes and feeling degrees
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies parameter changes by consolidating multiple recipe attributes (cooking time, ingredient quantity, preparation steps) into a single feeling degree parameter. This transformation maintains the adaptability to match various user preferences while reducing the computational and structural complexity of managing and comparing multiple separate attributes throughout the recipe selection process.
Solution Approach 2:
The feeling degree serves as a universal parameter that can represent diverse user preferences across different recipe types and cooking scenarios. By making the system feel-based rather than attribute-specific, it achieves multi-functionality in handling various cooking preferences (quick meals, elaborate dishes, healthy options) through a single unified calculation and comparison mechanism.
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AI summary
It is possible to present a recipe according to a request reflecting how strongly the user feels for cooking. An information processing apparatus acquires a first feeling degree specified by a user as a degree of strength of feelings for cooking. The information processing apparatus acquires a second feeling degree of each recipe on the basis of a plurality of attributes of the recipe. The second feeling degree is calculated as the degree of strength of feelings for cooking. The plurality of attributes are identified from the recipe stored in a storage means. The information processing apparatus searches for one or more recipes whose second feeling degrees within a range according to the first feeling degree is calculated, and causes the found recipe to be presented.