Sony patents cooking robot that creates recipes from chemical data
Sony has been granted a patent for a system that uses a computer to create new recipes. It combines chemical data about ingredients, sensor readings of their taste, and human feedback on flavor to design meals. The system then sends instructions to a robot to perform the actual cooking.
In the filing’s own words
The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a cooking robot, a cooking method, and cooking equipment capable of generating a new recipe. An information processing device of one aspect of the present technology generates a new recipe on the basis of chemical structure information representing chemical structures of food ingredients used for cooking, sensing information obtained by measuring flavors of food ingredients using a sensor, and flavor subjective information representing subjective evaluation of people with respect to flavors of food ingredients. The present technology can be applied to a computer prepared in a kitchen.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing device comprising: circuitry configured to generate a new recipe based on chemical structure information representing chemical structures of food ingredients used for cooking, sensing information obtained by measuring flavors of food ingredients using a sensor, and flavor subjective information representing subjective evaluation of people with respect to flavors of food ingredients, and generate commands for causing a cooking robot to execute cooking operations, wherein the circuitry generates the new recipe based on transformation information with respect to a same food ingredient.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- Information processing device, information processing method, cooking robot, cooking method, and cooking equipment
- Patent number
- US12754875B2
- Application number
- 17632028
- Filed
- Jul 27, 2020
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 12
Classified under
G06F 15/025 Physics & computingG01N 33/02 Physics & computingG06Q 50/12 Physics & computingMore from Sony in Robots & automation
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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