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US 12,601,499 B2Granted
Food preparation system
AssigneeBSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsCarlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, Maria Parra Borderías, Agostina Rodriguez Larrosa, Beatriz Villanueva Valero
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Abstract
A food preparation system includes a control unit designed to guide through a process step of a process and to initiate, during guidance through the process, a machine-user interaction which is independent of the guidance through the process.
Claims17
A food preparation system, comprising:
- a cooking appliance;
- an external unit distinct from the cooking appliance;
- and
- a control unit configured to:
- communicate guidance to a user via a user interface (UI) of the cooking appliance regarding performance of a series of process steps of a recipe;
- and
- automatically initiate, in response to receiving information from the external unit, via the UI and during the guidance through the recipe, a machine-user interaction which is independent of the guidance;
- wherein the machine-user interaction comprises the information received from the external unit.
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A cooking appliance of a food preparation system comprising:
- a control unit at least partially integrated in the cooking appliance, wherein the control unit is configured to:
- guide, using a user interface of the cooking appliance, a user through a process step of a process;
- automatically initiate, during the guidance through the process and in response to receiving information from an external unit distinct from the cooking appliance, a machine-user interaction which is independent of the guidance through the process.
A method for operating a food preparation system, the method comprising:
- guiding by a control unit via a user interface of a cooking appliance, through a process step of a process;
- receiving information from an external unit distinct from the cooking appliance;
- and
- in response to receiving the information, automatically initiating, during guidance by the control unit via the user interface through the process, a machine-user interaction which is independent of the guidance through the process.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.