Sony patents cooking system that checks if steps are done correctly
Sony describes a system that uses sensors to measure specific details during cooking, such as temperature or time, to check if a step is complete. It compares these measurements against a recipe's target values and alerts the user if a step was not performed correctly.
In the filing’s own words
In a cooking support system, a storage or a Web server retains, for each cooking step of a plurality of cooking steps in which each of target states is defined by target parameters based on sensor data measurable at a time of cooking, recipe data including information indicating content of cooking work and information indicating the target state, a control unit compares a cooking state in the cooking step set as a target and the target state to thereby perform success or failure determination for cooking work in the cooking step set as the target, and, when it is determined that the cooking work has been unsuccessful, an information presentation unit presents information indicating that the cooking work has been unsuccessful.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A cooking support system comprising: a retaining unit that retains, for each cooking step of a plurality of cooking steps in which each of target states is defined by target parameters based on sensor data measurable at a time of cooking, recipe data including information indicating content of cooking work and information indicating the target state; a control unit that compares a cooking state in the cooking step set as a target and the target state to thereby perform success or failure determination for cooking work in the cooking step set as the target; and a presentation unit that, when it is determined that the cooking work has been unsuccessful, presents information indicating that the cooking work has been unsuccessful.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- COOKING SUPPORT SYSTEM, COOKING SUPPORT METHOD, AND COOKING SUPPORT PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260268796A1
- Application number
- 19165972
- Filed
- Mar 18, 2024
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 13
Classified under
G09B 19/0092 Physics & computingG06F 16/904 Physics & computingMore from Sony in Chips & hardware
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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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