Computing Device Programmed to Automatically Detect and Generate Digitized Information Relating to a Process Involving a User-Operated Device

A computerized kitchen appliance comprising:

• one or more ingredient processing devices;
• a user interface;
• computer storage;
• at least one sensor device;
• and
• a computing unit that is configured to perform automatically generating and storing, in the computer storage, a digitalization of a user-known recipe, comprising:
• generating a recording of manual user interactions with the computerized kitchen appliance during a cooking process;
• wherein generating the recording includes capturing an action sequence of the manual user interactions, via the user interface of the computerized kitchen appliance, during the cooking process;
• wherein each manual user interaction of the action sequence triggers a function for processing one or more ingredients stored in the computerized kitchen appliance;
• detecting multiple operating parameters of the computerized kitchen appliance by the at least one sensor device of the computerized kitchen appliance during the action sequence of manual user interactions;
• recording, in a set of operating parameter data, each of the multiple operating parameters during or as a result of one or more of the manual user interactions,
• correlating the multiple operating parameters with the recording of the manual user interactions;
• analyzing one or more reference data sets of a reference database to identify a set of partial steps of the user-known recipe and one or more ingredients involved in the set of partial steps;
• wherein each of the one or more reference data sets comprises one or more of:
• reference operating parameters,
• reference user interactions, or
• associations of known ingredients with reference action sequences and/or reference operating parameters;
• and
• wherein each partial step of the identified set of partial steps is associated with reference data comprising one or both of:
• reference operating parameters that are identical or similar to operating parameter data of the set of operating parameter data, or
• reference user interactions that are identical or similar to at least a portion of the action sequence of the recording of manual user interactions;
• based, at least in part, on the identified set of partial steps of the user-known recipe and the one or more ingredients involved in the set of partial steps, storing, in the computer storage, a plurality of action sequences to create the digitalization of the user-known recipe.

A computing system comprising:

• a kitchen appliance comprising:
• one or more ingredient processing devices,
• a user interface, and
• at least one sensor device;
• computer storage;
• and
• a computing unit, communicatively coupled to the kitchen appliance and the computer storage, the computing unit being configured to perform automatically generating and storing, in the computer storage, a digitalization of a user-known recipe, comprising:
• generating a recording of manual user interactions with the kitchen appliance during a cooking process;
• wherein generating the recording includes capturing an action sequence of the manual user interactions, via the user interface of the kitchen appliance, during the cooking process;
• wherein each manual user interaction of the action sequence triggers a function for processing one or more ingredients stored in the kitchen appliance;
• detecting multiple operating parameters of the kitchen appliance by the at least one sensor device of the kitchen appliance during the action sequence of manual user interactions;
• recording, in a set of operating parameter data, each of the multiple operating parameters during or as a result of one or more of the manual user interactions,
• correlating the multiple operating parameters with the recording of the manual user interactions;
• analyzing one or more reference data sets of a reference database to identify a set of partial steps of the user-known recipe and one or more ingredients involved in the set of partial steps;
• wherein each of the one or more reference data sets comprises one or more of:
• reference operating parameters,
• reference user interactions, or
• associations of known ingredients with reference action sequences and/or reference operating parameters;
• and
• wherein each partial step of the identified set of partial steps is associated with reference data comprising one or both of:
• reference operating parameters that are identical or similar to operating parameter data of the set of operating parameter data, or
• reference user interactions that are identical or similar to at least a portion of the action sequence of the recording of manual user interactions;
• based, at least in part, on the identified set of partial steps of the user-known recipe and the one or more ingredients involved in the set of partial steps, storing, in the computer storage, a plurality of action sequences to create the digitalization of the user-known recipe.