Automatic cooking device and method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyun-ki Jung, Jun-beom Han, Sang-min Lee, Byeong-hoon Kwak, Joon-hyun Lee, Sung-hoon Yim
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system for simulating functions, such as recognition and determination, of the human brain by using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning, and an application thereof. Provided are an automatic cooking device and method for selectively emitting light of different wavelength bands to a food material, identifying the food material by obtaining information about the food material, based on reflected light, and controlling a cooking process of the food material.
Claims11
An automatic cooking device comprising:
- a light emitter configured to emit light of different wavelength bands;
- a photographing unit including an image sensor;
- a memory storing computer executable instructions;
- at least one processor configured to execute the computer executable instructions to control the light emitter and the photographing unit to obtain information about a kind of a food material by performing vision recognition based on a captured image of the food material, obtain characteristic information of the food material by performing spectroscopic analysis based on light reflected by emitting light of a wavelength band selected from among the different wavelength bands according to the information about the kind of the food material, and control a cooking process of the food material, based on the information about the kind of the food material and the characteristic information of the food material;
- and
- a probe configured to obtain information about internal temperature and composition of the food material;
- a cooker configured to operate according to the cooking process of the food material,
- wherein the at least one processor is further configured to identify a position of the probe by using the photographing unit, and to control the cooking process of the food material by identifying a cooked state of the food material, based on the characteristic information of the food material and the information about the internal temperature and composition of the food material, and
- wherein the position of the probe is changeable by a user.
An automatic cooking method comprising:
- obtaining information about a kind of a food material by performing vision recognition based on a captured image of the food material;
- obtaining characteristic information of the food material by performing spectroscopic analysis based on light reflected by emitting, to the food material, light of a wavelength band selected from among different wavelength bands according to the information about the kind of the food material;
- obtaining information about internal temperature and composition of the food material by identifying a position of a probe configured to obtain the information about the internal temperature and composition of the food material;
- and
- controlling a cooking process of the food material, based on the information about the kind of the food material and the characteristic information of the food material,
- wherein the information about the kind of the food material and the characteristic information of the food material are obtained by a light emitter which emits light of the different wavelength bands and a photographing unit including an image sensor,
- wherein the controlling of the cooking process of the food material comprises controlling the cooking process of the food material by identifying a cooked state of the food material, based on the characteristic information of the food material and the information about the internal temperature and composition of the food material, and
- wherein the position of the probe is changeable by a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.