Cooking apparatus and cooking system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11501771-B2
Application number	US-201816643783-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 23, 2018
Priority date	Aug 31, 2017
Publication date	Nov 15, 2022
Grant date	Nov 15, 2022

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a cooking system: a cooking apparatus configured to input and output a speech, transmit speech data corresponding to the speech, and cook food in a cooking chamber; a first server configured to perform communication with the cooking apparatus, when speech data is received from the cooking apparatus, perform speech recognition based on the received speech data, transmit response information to the speech recognition to the cooking apparatus, obtain a menu requested by the user based on the received speech data, and transmit a cooking time and a cooking temperature for the obtained menu to the cooking apparatus; and a second server configured to store information about at least one recipe for a plurality of menus, perform communication with the first server, and transmit the information about at least one recipe to the first server.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cooking apparatus comprising:
a communicator configured to perform communication with a server for performing speech recognition and storing cooking information for each menu;
a heating part configured to generate heat to heat food;
a sound input configured to receive a speech from a user;
a controller configured to control the communicator to transmit speech data corresponding to the received speech to the server, receive cooking information transmitted from the server, and control operation of the heating part based on the received cooking information; and
a sound output device configured to output speech data transmitted from the server in voice,
wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether the cooking apparatus is in an error state based on an operation state of a plurality of loads, transmit error information to the server in response to determining that the cooking apparatus is in the error state, and receive measure information corresponding to the error information from the sever.

2. The cooking apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
an input configured to receive a command to execute a speech recognition mode,
wherein, when the command to execute a speech recognition mode is received through the input, the controller activates operation of the sound input and operation of the sound output device.

3. The cooking apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a circulator configured to circulate the heat generated by the heating part,
wherein the controller is configured to control operation of the circulator based on the received cooking information.

4. The cooking apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
an input configured to receive a command to set user information,
wherein, when the command to set user information is received through the input, the controller is configured to activate operation of the sound input and operation of the sound output device and control the communicator to transmit speech data corresponding to a speech received when the sound input is operating, to the server as the user information.

5. The cooking apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the user information comprises at least one of identification information of the user, event information of the user, religion information of the user, and the address information of the user.

6. The cooking apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a display configured to display the received cooking information,
wherein, when recipe information is received from the server, the controller is configured to control the display to display the received recipe information.

7. The cooking apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a door configured to open or close a cooking chamber;
an open/close detector configured to detect an open state and a closed state of the door; and
an object detector configured to detect whether or not the cooking chamber contains food,
wherein, when the door is in the closed state and the food is contained in the cooking chamber, the controller is configured to control the sound output device to output a notification sound corresponding to start of cooking.

8. The cooking apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a detector to detect the operation state of the plurality of loads.

9. A cooking system comprising:
a cooking apparatus configured to input and output speech, transmit speech data corresponding to the input speech, and cook food in a cooking chamber; and
a server configured to perform communication with the cooking apparatus, when the speech data is received from the cooking apparatus, obtain request information of a user, query information of the user, and reaction information of the user corresponding to the received speech data, obtain cooking information based on at least one of the request information of the user, the query information of the user and the reaction information of the user, transmit the obtained cooking information to the cooking apparatus, and transmit response information to the query information to the cooking apparatus,
wherein the cooking apparatus comprises a controller configured to determine whether the cooking apparatus is in an error state based on an operation state of a plurality of loads, transmit error information to the server in response to determining that the cooking apparatus is in the error state, and receive measure information corresponding to the error information from the sever.

10. The cooking system of claim 9 , wherein the cooking information includes a cooking temperature and a cooking time.

11. The cooking system of claim 9 , wherein the server includes:
a first converter configured to convert the received speech data to text data;
a natural language recognizer configured to perform natural language recognition on the converted text data, obtain the request information of the user, the reaction information of the user and the query information of the user based on the natural language recognition, and generate response information to the obtained query information;
a data portal configured to transmit the obtained request information to a recipe providing server, and receive recipe information from the recipe providing server; and
a second converter configured to convert the generated response information into speech data, and transmit the converted speech data to the cooking apparatus.

12. The cooking system of claim 11 , wherein the server further comprises:
an error responder configured to obtain measure information for error information of the cooking apparatus, and transmit the obtained measure information to the cooking apparatus.

13. The cooking system of claim 9 , wherein the server includes:
an information storage configured to store user information;
a controller configured to obtain information about an optimum recipe from a plurality of recipes based on the request information and the user information, and transmit the obtained optimum recipe information to the cooking apparatus.

14. The cooking system of claim 13 , wherein the user information comprises at least one of identification information of the user, event information of the user, religion information of the user, and address information of the user.

15. The cooking system of claim 9 , wherein the server further comprises:
a first server configured to obtain a menu requested by the user based on the received speech data, and transmit a cooking time and a cooking temperature for the obtained menu to the cooking apparatus; and
a second server configured to store information about at least one recipe for a plurality of menus, communicate with the first server, and transmit the information about at least one recipe to the first server.

16. The cooking system of claim 15 , wherein the first server is configured to obtain information about a preference of the user based on a cooking history of the cooking apparatus, stores at least one of identification information of the user, event information of the user, religion information of the user, address information of the user and the user preference information as user information, and transmit the stored user information to the second server,
wherein the user preference information comprises at least one of a menu name, an amount to be cooked, a degree to which the food is baked, a water content, a level of each flavor, and a texture of food.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shin Woo Cheol
• Cho Nam Gook
• Chun Eun Jin
• Jeon Seol Hee

Classifications

• H05B1/02

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• F24C7/08

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• G06F16/9035

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• G06Q50/12

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• G10L21/0208

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