Appliance and food management system
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsHaitian Hu, Hairong Li
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Abstract
A system and method for data transmission and appliance communication is provided. The system is configured to obtain a food identifier input and a preparation instruction input, generate a database correlating the food identifier input to the preparation instruction input, capture an image of food to be prepared, transmit the image of food to be prepared to a computing system, compare, at the computing system, the captured image to the database, and determine a preparation instruction corresponding to the captured image.
Claims20
A method for data transmission and appliance communication, the method comprising:
- obtaining a food identifier input and a preparation instruction input;
- generating a database correlating the food identifier input to the preparation instruction input;
- capturing an image of food to be prepared;
- transmitting the image of food to be prepared to a computing system;
- comparing, at the computing system, the captured image to the database;
- and
- determining a preparation instruction corresponding to the captured image.
An appliance data transmission system, the system comprising an imaging device, a cloud-computing system, and a cooking appliance, the system configured to:
- obtain and transmit, via the imaging device, a food identifier input and a preparation instruction input to the computing system;
- generate a database comprising the food identifier input correlated to the preparation instruction input;
- capture and transmit, via the imaging device, an image of food to be prepared;
- compare, at the computing system, the captured image to the database;
- and
- determine a preparation instruction corresponding to the captured image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.