阅读说明：本技术 确定烹饪器具的烹饪模式的方法和烹饪器具 (Method for determining cooking mode of cooking appliance and cooking appliance ) 是由 邓家璧 陈翀 王鹏飞 于 2019-01-14 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种确定烹饪器具的烹饪模式的方法和烹饪器具,通过摄像头采集烹饪器具烹饪的食物的食物图像；使用卷积神经网络模型识别食物图像,确定食物图像中食物的类型；根据食物的类型,得到预估的烹饪数据,其中,预估的烹饪数据至少包括：不同烹饪阶段的烹饪温度、烹饪器具内压力、烹饪时间和排气时间；基于预估的烹饪数据控制烹饪器具对食物进行烹饪。上述方案基于人工智能技术,通过米种识别和优化控制达到了智能识别与决策的目的,解决了现有技术的烹饪器具在蒸煮谷物的过程中,烹饪模式相对单一,导致烹饪控制灵活性差的技术问题。(The invention discloses a method for determining a cooking mode of a cooking appliance and the cooking appliance, wherein a camera is used for acquiring a food image of food cooked by the cooking appliance; identifying a food image by using a convolutional neural network model, and determining the type of food in the food image; obtaining estimated cooking data according to the type of the food, wherein the estimated cooking data at least comprises the following steps: cooking temperature, pressure inside the cooking appliance, cooking time and venting time for different cooking stages; and controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data. Above-mentioned scheme is based on artificial intelligence technique, through rice kind discernment and optimal control reach the purpose of intelligent recognition and decision-making, has solved prior art's cooking utensil at the in-process of cooking cereal, and the culinary art mode is single relatively, leads to the poor technical problem of culinary art control flexibility.)

1. A method of determining a cooking mode of a cooking appliance, comprising:

acquiring a food image of food cooked by the cooking appliance through a camera;

identifying the food image by using a convolutional neural network model, and determining the type of food in the food image;

obtaining estimated cooking data according to the type of the food, wherein the estimated cooking data at least comprises: cooking temperature, pressure inside the cooking appliance, cooking time and venting time for different cooking stages;

controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data, the method further comprises:

receiving an input cooking mode, wherein the cooking mode comprises at least one preset cooking data;

adjusting cooking data in the cooking mode using the estimated cooking data.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein after controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data, the method further comprises:

monitoring a pan parameter of the cooking appliance via at least one of the following sensors: a pressure sensor and a temperature and humidity sensor;

and dynamically adjusting the estimated cooking data based on the monitoring result.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising: and under the condition that the electric cooker is powered off due to faults or the power supply is automatically powered off after cooking is finished, starting the electric energy in the storage battery, wherein the electric energy in the storage battery is generated by exhausting through an exhaust valve in the cooking process.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the cooking appliance comprises: the utility model provides a steam recovery mechanism, generator in discharge valve, setting are in discharge valve upper portion, wherein, produce the electric energy in the battery through the exhaust of discharge valve in the culinary art, include:

if the exhaust valve is detected to exhaust, the steam recovery mechanism drives the generator to work by using the steam exhausted by the exhaust valve;

storing electrical energy generated by the generator to a battery, wherein the battery stores electrical energy that powers one or more of the following components of the cooking appliance: the device comprises an exhaust valve, a heating part, a timing module, a decision module, a display module, a communication module and an alarm module.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein in controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data, the method further comprises:

detecting steam data of an exhaust port of the exhaust valve through the temperature and humidity sensor;

and acquiring feedback information based on the steam data detected by the temperature and humidity sensor, wherein the feedback information is used for triggering the steam recovery mechanism to start working.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the steam recovery mechanism is internally provided with a wind wheel structure, and wherein controlling the steam recovery mechanism to drive the generator to operate by using the steam discharged from the exhaust valve comprises:

and a wind wheel structure in the steam recovery mechanism converts the steam into mechanical energy, and the mechanical energy drives the generator to operate so as to drive the generator to work.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the camera is an external camera independent from the cooking appliance or a camera installed inside the cooking appliance, wherein the camera installed inside the cooking appliance has waterproof and high temperature resistant material and structure.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the case where the food is rice, the type of rice comprises at least one of: whole rice, broken rice and sticky rice.

10. A cooking appliance comprising:

the image acquisition device is used for acquiring food images of food cooked by the cooking appliance;

a processor for identifying the food image using a convolutional neural network model, determining a type of food in the food image, and obtaining estimated cooking data according to the type of food, wherein the estimated cooking data at least comprises: cooking temperature, pressure inside the cooking appliance, cooking time and venting time for different cooking stages;

a controller for controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data.

11. The cooking appliance of claim 10, wherein an external surface of the cooking appliance is provided with an interactive interface for receiving externally input cooking parameters, wherein the estimated cooking data is used to adjust the externally input cooking parameters.

12. The cooking appliance of claim 10 or 11, further comprising:

at least one sensor for monitoring a pan parameter of the cooking appliance and dynamically adjusting the estimated cooking data based on the monitoring result;

wherein the sensor comprises: pressure sensor and temperature and humidity sensor.

13. The cooking appliance of claim 10, further comprising:

the exhaust valve is used for exhausting;

a temperature and humidity sensor for sensing whether the exhaust valve exhausts,

the steam recovery mechanism is arranged at the upper part of the exhaust valve and is used for driving the generator to work by utilizing the steam exhausted by the exhaust valve;

the storage battery is connected with the generator and used for storing the electric energy generated by the generator, wherein the electric energy stored by the storage battery is used for auxiliary power supply of one or more components of the cooking appliance.

14. The cooking appliance according to claim 13, wherein a wind wheel structure is provided inside the steam recovery mechanism, and the wind wheel structure converts the steam into mechanical energy, wherein the mechanical energy drives the generator to operate, so as to drive the generator to operate.

15. A storage medium, characterized in that the storage medium comprises a stored program, wherein when the program runs, the storage medium is controlled by an apparatus to execute the method for determining the cooking mode of a cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

16. A processor for executing a program, wherein the program is executed to perform the method for determining the cooking mode of a cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of intelligent small household appliances, in particular to a method for determining a cooking mode of a cooking appliance and the cooking appliance.

Background

With the development of science and technology and the progress of society, the artificial intelligence technology has been developed rapidly and the application scenes are increased continuously. Many household appliances are also closely connected with the technology of internet of things and artificial intelligence, and the demand of novel household products based on the combination of the internet of things and the artificial intelligence is also recognized by the public.

Because the pace of life is accelerated, the time that people stay in the kitchen is less and less, so that a cooking appliance which is energy-saving, time-saving and easy to operate and can perfectly exert the nutrition contained in food is urgently needed to be developed. Traditional electric rice cooker economizes on electricity the property less than, and to the grain of rice type of difference, often adopts same kind of culinary art mode, leads to the taste of rice good time bad, and volatile nutrient element runs off seriously, and can not be controlled by the user.

Aiming at the problem that the cooking mode is relatively single in the process of steaming and boiling grains by a cooking appliance in the prior art, so that the cooking control flexibility is poor, an effective solution is not provided at present.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a method for determining a cooking mode of a cooking appliance and the cooking appliance, which are used for at least solving the technical problem that the cooking mode is relatively single in the process of cooking grains by the cooking appliance in the prior art, so that the flexibility of cooking control is poor.

According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of determining a cooking mode of a cooking appliance, including: acquiring a food image of food cooked by the cooking appliance through a camera; identifying a food image by using a convolutional neural network model, and determining the type of food in the food image; obtaining estimated cooking data according to the type of the food, wherein the estimated cooking data at least comprises the following steps: cooking temperature, pressure inside the cooking appliance, cooking time and venting time for different cooking stages; and controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data.

Optionally, before controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data, the method further comprises: receiving an input cooking mode, wherein the cooking mode comprises at least one preset cooking data; and adjusting the cooking data in the cooking mode by using the estimated cooking data.

Optionally, after controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data, the method further comprises: monitoring a pan parameter of the cooking appliance via at least one of the following sensors: a pressure sensor and a temperature and humidity sensor; and dynamically adjusting the estimated cooking data based on the monitoring result.

Optionally, the method further comprises: and under the condition that the electric cooker is powered off due to faults or the power supply is automatically powered off after the cooking is finished, starting the electric energy in the storage battery, wherein the electric energy in the storage battery is generated by exhausting the exhaust valve in the cooking process.

Optionally, the cooking appliance comprises: discharge valve, set up steam recovery mechanism, the generator in discharge valve upper portion, wherein, produce the electric energy in the battery through the exhaust of cooking in-process discharge valve, include: if the exhaust valve is detected to exhaust, the steam recovery mechanism drives the generator to work by using the steam exhausted by the exhaust valve; storing the electrical energy generated by the generator to a battery, wherein the battery stores electrical energy for powering one or more of the following components of the cooking appliance: the device comprises an exhaust valve, a heating part, a timing module, a decision module, a display module, a communication module and an alarm module.

Optionally, in the process of controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data, the method further includes: detecting steam data of an exhaust port of the exhaust valve through a temperature and humidity sensor; and acquiring feedback information based on the steam data detected by the temperature and humidity sensor, wherein the feedback information is used for triggering the steam recovery mechanism to start working.

Optionally, the inside of vapor recovery mechanism is provided with the wind wheel structure, and wherein, control vapor recovery mechanism and utilize the exhaust steam drive generator work of discharge valve, include: the wind wheel structure in the steam recovery mechanism converts steam into mechanical energy, and the mechanical energy drives the generator to operate, so that the generator is driven to work.

Optionally, the camera is an external camera independent from the cooking appliance, or a camera installed inside the cooking appliance, wherein the camera installed inside the cooking appliance has waterproof and high temperature resistant materials and structures.

Optionally, where the food is rice, the type of rice includes at least one of: whole rice, broken rice and sticky rice.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a cooking appliance including: the image acquisition device is used for acquiring food images of food cooked by the cooking appliance; a processor for identifying the food image using the convolutional neural network model, determining the type of the food in the food image, and obtaining estimated cooking data according to the type of the food, wherein the estimated cooking data at least comprises: cooking temperature, pressure inside the cooking appliance, cooking time and venting time for different cooking stages; and the controller is used for controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data.

Optionally, an interactive interface is arranged on the outer surface of the cooking appliance and used for receiving the externally input cooking parameters, wherein the estimated cooking data is used for adjusting the externally input cooking parameters.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises: at least one sensor for monitoring parameters in the pot of the cooking appliance and dynamically adjusting the estimated cooking data based on the monitoring result; wherein, the sensor includes: pressure sensor and temperature and humidity sensor.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises: the exhaust valve is used for exhausting; the temperature and humidity sensor is used for sensing whether the exhaust valve exhausts or not; the steam recovery mechanism is arranged at the upper part of the exhaust valve and is used for driving the generator to work by utilizing the steam exhausted by the exhaust valve; and the storage battery is connected with the generator and is used for storing the electric energy generated by the generator, wherein the electric energy stored by the storage battery is used for auxiliary power supply of one or more components of the cooking appliance.

Optionally, the inside of steam recovery mechanism is provided with wind wheel structure, and wind wheel structure converts steam into mechanical energy, and wherein, mechanical energy drives the generator operation for the drive generator work.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a storage medium including a stored program, wherein when the program is executed, an apparatus on which the storage medium is controlled performs any one of the above methods for determining a cooking mode of a cooking appliance.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a processor for executing a program, wherein the program executes any one of the above methods for determining a cooking mode of a cooking appliance.

In the embodiment of the invention, the food image of the food cooked by the cooking appliance is collected through the camera; identifying a food image by using a convolutional neural network model, and determining the type of food in the food image; obtaining estimated cooking data according to the type of the food, wherein the estimated cooking data at least comprises the following steps: cooking temperature, pressure inside the cooking appliance, cooking time and venting time for different cooking stages; and controlling the cooking appliance to cook the food based on the estimated cooking data. Above-mentioned scheme is based on artificial intelligence technique, through rice kind discernment and optimal control reach the purpose of intelligent recognition and decision-making, has solved prior art's cooking utensil at the in-process of cooking cereal, and the culinary art mode is single relatively, leads to the poor technical problem of culinary art control flexibility.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without limiting the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a flow chart of an alternative method of determining a cooking mode of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of an alternative electric cooker according to the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of an alternative vapor recovery mechanism according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a logic diagram of an alternative electric cooker control according to the embodiment of the present application; and

fig. 5 is a schematic view of an alternative cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present application.

The electric cooker comprises a main body of the electric cooker, a pot cover, an exhaust valve, a steam recovery mechanism, a wind wheel mechanism 41, a pressure sensor 5, a temperature and humidity sensor 6, a wifi module 7, a decision-making module 8, a bolt 9, a storage battery 10, a camera 11 and a thermal resistance heating plate 12.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions of the present invention better understood, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present invention and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the invention described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, apparatus, system, article, or device that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, apparatus, article, or device.