163 results about "Food management" patented technology

A refrigerator includes storage chambers to store food items, and a touchscreen panel displaying a food management picture to manage the food items stored in the storage chambers, and when food addition instructions are input by the user, the touchscreen panel displays a food addition picture to add food items to be stored in the storage chamber. The refrigerator provides the food management picture through the touchscreen panel so as to easily detect storage positions, storage periods, and fresh storage periods of food items stored in the refrigerator, thus effectively managing the stored food items.

The invention relates to the technical field of refrigerator food management and provides a system and method for managing refrigerator food information. The system for managing the refrigerator food information comprises an image acquisition and recognition system, a weight sensor, a data processing module and a display module. The image acquisition and recognition system is used for conducting image acquisition on food placed in or taken out when a refrigerator door is opened and recognizing the food placed in or taken out according to acquired images. The weight sensor is used for inducting the weights of food on shelves and acquiring the weight change values of the food on the shelves. The data processing module is used for receiving data from the image acquisition and recognition module and the weight sensor, processing the data and acquiring the weights and the storage positions of the food placed in or taken out. The display module is connected with the data processing module and displays the processing result of the data processing module. By means of the system, the varieties, weights and the storage positions of the food placed in can be automatically recorded, and therefore intelligent management on distribution of the food on the shelves of a refrigerator is achieved.

The invention discloses an intelligent food management refrigerator system capable of implementing remote monitoring, which comprises a central control unit, a video camera, a bar code scanning module, a storage module, a man-machine interaction module, a wifi (wireless fidelity) module, a power supply management module and an intelligent terminal; the video camera is adopted by the bar code scanning module for bar code scanning, information of names, prices, weights and dates of foods placed in the refrigerator is collected through the bar code scanning, and the obtained information is transmitted to the central control unit; and then after the food information is analyzed and settled, the food information is stored to corresponding storage units, meanwhile the central control unit calculates expiration dates of the foods and sends reminding through the man-machine interaction module, or sends the reminding information to the remote intelligent terminal through the wifi module. The remote sending and checking functions of the food information are realized through the input of the food information as well as a wifi networking mode, and the intelligent food management refrigerator system capable of implementing the remote monitoring has the advantages of rapid speed, low cost, and capability of popularization and application.

The invention is applicable to the field of household appliances, and provides a refrigerator and a food management method and device thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring characteristic point information of an image of a food which passes through a refrigerator entrance and exit; searching food type information of the food and food quality guarantee period information from a database according to the characteristic point information of the image of the food; outputting information of a quality guarantee period of the food placed in the refrigerator for prompting a user and performing timing detection on the food quality guarantee period information of the food; and outputting information for promoting the user that food quality guarantee period limit is up when detecting the information that the food quality guarantee period limit is up in the timing detection process. In the invention, the problems of expiration for food storage, rotting of foods and unnecessary waste caused by expiration of foods in the refrigerator and untimely eating are solved by managing the foods placed in the refrigerator.

The invention relates to a refrigerator and a food management system and method. The food management system of the refrigerator comprises an image capturing module, an image identifying module, a human-computer interaction module, a purchasing list generating module and a display device. By the adoption of the refrigerator and the food management system and method, a user can know the information of objects stored in the refrigerator under the condition that a refrigerator door is not opened and various purchasing lifts can be generated according to needs.

The invention discloses an intelligent refrigerator food management system and method based on cloud service. The management system mainly comprises an intelligent refrigerator, a food management cloud platform system and a mobile terminal. The food management cloud platform comprises a food management system body, an equipment system, an information system and a database. The equipment system and the information system are in signal connection with the intelligent refrigerator and the mobile terminal respectively. A recognizer is installed on the intelligent refrigerator. After the recognizer scans radio frequency tags on food, according to electronic codes corresponding to the food, feature information of corresponding food materials is searched for in the database and called out; or food names are input into the mobile terminal, and according to the food names, the feature information of the corresponding food materials is searched for in the database and called out. By means of the management system and method, operation of users is reduced, a passive acceptance mode of a traditional refrigerator is converted into an active reminding mode, the food can be managed efficiently, food waste is reduced, and the purpose of cutting down expenses for the users is achieved.

The invention discloses an intelligent refrigerator and an intelligent refrigerator food storage management method based on an Internet of Things technology. The intelligent refrigerator is connected with a wide area network, and comprises a working area and at least one storage area which are arranged separately, wherein the storage areas comprise storage chambers and refrigerator doors which are arranged correspondingly; microswitches are mounted at contact parts between the storage chambers and the refrigerator doors; main control boards, refrigeration compressors and gateways are mounted in the storage areas; food type information acquisition modules are arranged on top boards of the storage chambers; a plurality of storage cases are placed in the storage chambers; weight acquisition devices are arranged at the bottoms of the storage cases; and temperature sensors are arranged in the storage chambers. The intelligent refrigerator can acquire type information, appearance information, weight information and storage time information of food in the refrigerator in real time, and transmit the information of the food to the wide area network in a wired or wireless mode, and a user accesses the wide area network through external equipment, knows the information of the food in the refrigerator very well at any time, and accurately manages the food according to the information.

The invention relates to the fields of intelligent refrigerators, food management, image recognition and the like, in particular to an intelligent-refrigerator based food recognition method. The intelligent-refrigerator based food recognition method is provided to solve the technical problems in the prior art, so that when people use the intelligent refrigerators, repeated manual input operations for newly-added food are reduced or omitted, time is saved, and use efficiency is improved. The method includes collecting food information by the intelligent refrigerators and matching food image information by cloud servers.

A refrigerator includes at least one refrigerated compartment and a food product management system. The food product management system includes a container for storing foodstuffs in the at least one refrigerated compartment. The container includes a storage zone and a lid. A tag is arranged on the container to provide a consumer with an indication of whether a food item stored in the container is or is not spoiled. The tag can include a timer having a display, an indicator that changes state upon the passage of a predetermined time period and a computer that notifies a consumer, such as through an email, about a parameter associated with the food item in the container. The tag is affixed to the container with adhesive, snaps, clips, hooks and the like or, alternatively, simply integrally formed with the container.

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic information, in particular to a refrigerator food information management device and method. The refrigerator food information management device and method for automatically identifying food information are utilized in the invention. The refrigerator food information management method comprises the following steps of: collecting food colors, outlines or food bar code information by a video collecting module; carrying out fuzzy identification by a main processor, judging the food bar code information or image information and comparing with a comparison bar code table and comparison image information stored in a memory; then sorting foods according to keyboard and touch screen module settings; and displaying related information via adisplay module. The refrigerator food information management device and method are mainly applied to the field of refrigerator food management.

A system and method according to the invention includes a communication network and a food product manager in communication with a monitored location through the communication network, wherein the manager receives product-temperature condition information from the monitored location and determines a food characteristic for a refrigerated product as a function of a frequency and severity of the product-temperature condition information. The function may be a time-temperature calculation, a degree-minute calculation, or a bacteria-count calculation.

The invention provides a refrigerator with a food management system and a food management method. The food management system comprises a controller, a microprocessor module, a voice module, at least one audio drive amplifying module and a food information storage. The controller comprises at least one power module. The voice module is connected with the microprocessor module. The audio drive amplifying modules are connected with the voice module. The food information storage is connected with the microprocessor module and used for storing the code, name, weight, position, placement time and taking-out mark of food. The food management system further comprises at least one weight detection sensor, at least one sound pickup and at least one loudspeaker, wherein the weight detection sensors are connected with the microprocessor module; the sound pickups are connected with the voice module; the loudspeakers are connected with the audio drive amplifying modules. A door switch is connected with the microprocessor module so that the food management system can be activated by signals sent by the door switch. The refrigerator can manage food automatically, is convenient to operate and reliable in working, and has the rather high practicability.

An automated food handling system for food servings comprising a transfer means for transporting food servings therealong; a plurality of treatment modules coupled in parallel to the transfer means; means for sensing and recognizing the type of food servings being transported on the transfer means; and means for automatically diverting the food serving from the transfer means into one of the treatment modules. The treatment modules may be machines that bring the food servings to the desired temperature. An inventory system is also provided.

The invention discloses an intelligent refrigerator food management method and an intelligent refrigerator. The intelligent refrigerator food management method includes the steps of photographing images of the storing and taking operation conducted by a user through a camera arranged in the intelligent refrigerator when an intelligent refrigerator door is opened; identifying the images, and when the identification fails, prompting the user to input the type of the storing and taking operation and the name of a corresponding food through voice; and monitoring voice information input by a microphone arranged on the refrigerator and updating a preset food list according to the voice information. According to the intelligent refrigerator food management method and the intelligent refrigerator, the camera is used for collecting the images of the food storing operation conducted by the user, the image identification is combined with the voice input so as to obtain food information related to the storing operation, the food list is updated according to the food information, the operation of manually inputting the food information by the user is avoided, and convenience is brought to the use for the user.

The invention discloses a refrigerator healthy diet recommendation method. The refrigerator healthy diet recommendation method includes the steps that (1) user information is input; (2) the bodily form is calculated according to the stature and the weight; (3) the all-day energy demand of a user is calculated according to the bodily form, the age bracket, the exercise amount, the season and other factors; (4) according to the proportion of the acceptable daily intake of the human body to three main nutrients including carbohydrate, fat and protein, the quantity demand of the user for three-meal heat production nutrients is calculated; (5) according to the content of the three main nutrients of different kinds of foods and the user disease status, the all-day food kind and weight are recommended to the user; and (6) according to the equal value exchange weight of different kinds of foods, an all-day nutrition amount-referred menu list is recommended to the user. According to the refrigerator healthy diet recommendation method, a diet menu and suggestions can be scientifically and reasonably recommended to different refrigerator users, and the reliability and the practicability of the food management function of an intelligent refrigerator are improved.

The invention discloses a wireless identification tags using wireless identification tags (RFID) management of the food refrigerators, including using for the storage of food, installed in the internal storage containers; installed on the side of the storage containers, contain certain information retention period RFID components; to manage equipment from storage containers put food storage containers from the side of RFID components for the preservation of reading information stored with the corresponding food management information control devices in the control device under the control of the input information, as well as the preservation of the period. Accordingly food management information to users show display devices. The invention is effective in management of food, and in a variety of storage containers in the storage size of the food, improving the utilization of the refrigerator.

The invention discloses a refrigerator and a control method of the refrigerator and relates to the field of household appliances. The accuracy of the refrigerator for monitoring food in the refrigerator can be improved. According to the specific scheme, a camera is installed in the refrigerator and used for monitoring objects in a target monitoring space in the refrigerator and generating real-time monitoring data. The control method of the refrigerator includes the steps that the real-time monitoring data sent by the camera are received; and when it is confirmed that conditions triggering photographing are met according to the real-time monitoring data, the camera is controlled to photograph the interior of the refrigerator, wherein the conditions triggering photographing include the condition that it is confirmed that after any object in the refrigerator moves, the objects in the refrigerator return to be static according to the real-time monitoring data; and food management is completed according to pictures obtained after photographing. The control method is used for manufacturing the refrigerator.

The invention relates to a method of intelligent refrigerator food management. The method includes: a, acquiring food image inside the refrigerator after the intelligent refrigerator is closed; b, judging whether to update the food image to back stage servers, if not, go to Step c, and if yes, go to Step e; c, performing image identification on the food image of the intelligent refrigerator and displaying food names; d, storing data acquired in Step c and performing data synchronism with the data in the back stage intelligent refrigerator; e, updating food image to the back stage server to identify images to enable the back stage server to respond the identified food names to the intelligent refrigerator to display; f, storing data in Step e by the back stage server to enable the data in the intelligent refrigerator and the back stage server synchronized. With the method, users can check food in the intelligent refrigerator without manual operation, management of food in the intelligent refrigerator is facilitated for users and interaction, experience and practicability of users are effectively increased.

The invention discloses a food management method for a refrigerator. The food management method comprises the steps that an image collecting device is controlled to collect an image of target food located on the outer side of the refrigerator and determine the types of the target food according to the image; an optimum preservation temperature value is determined according to the type of the target food; a temperature sensor is controlled to collect real-time temperature values of storage units inside the refrigerator; if current operation is that the target food is stored in the refrigerator, a first storage position of the target food stored in the refrigerator is determined, and the target food is subjected to food entering operation; and the difference value of the real-time temperature value of the first storage position and the optimum preservation temperature value of the target food is smaller than a set threshold. By adopting the method, food management can be conducted on all storage spaces inside the refrigerator, and the user experience is improved.

The invention discloses a food management system and a food management method for a refrigerator. The system comprises an MCU (microprogrammed control unit), a display device, a storage device, a timing device, an input device and an alarm device, wherein the display device, the storage device, the timing device, the input device and the alarm device are connected with the MCU; the input device is provided with induction keys; the display device is an LCD (liquid crystal display); the timing device is used for counting down storage lives of stored foods; the storage device is used for storing the preset storage lives of the foods, information of a storage position and food information set by a user; and the alarm device generates relevant alarm prompt according to comparison of preset parameters by the aid of the MCU. By the aid of the food management system and the food management method, the storage lives of the foods and the storage position can be displayed, the lengths of the storage lives of different foods can be clearly differentiated via colors on an interface displaying the storage lives of the foods, the food management system is simple and convenient to operate, and the food management system and the food management method can be widely popularized and applied.

A method and apparatus for providing a customized food life service is provided. The method includes: sensing a wireless frequency identification tag attached to food to receive data; processing and storing the received data; analyzing and modeling the stored data; and providing food management information based on the analyzing and modeling result.

The invention discloses a food management system based on an intelligent refrigerator. The food management system based on the intelligent refrigerator comprises the intelligent refrigerator and a remote commercial tenant server, wherein the intelligent refrigerator comprises a refrigerator and an intelligent refrigerator module in which account numbers of members are saved; the intelligent refrigerator module comprises a data input part, a data output part, a data management part and a network connecting part; the intelligent refrigerator module is connected with the internet through the network connecting part, is associated with the remote commercial tenant server through the saved account numbers of the members, and is applied to remote data synchronization through the internet; food inventory data are saved inside the intelligent refrigerator module; a data generation mode comprises remote consumption data synchronization, manual input of users and inventory verification correction. By adopting the food management system, the inventory data management of the intelligent refrigerator is optimized, and a user does not need to frequently input food inventory data, that is, the inventory amount, the purchase and the allocation of stored food can be managed and controlled by taking the intelligent refrigerator as a core.

The invention provides a recipe and cooking recommendation method and system and a refrigerator. The recipe and cooking recommendation method comprises the steps that a cooking recommendation command is received; food information in the refrigerator is obtained according to the cooking recommendation command; cooking equipment, a cooking manner and a cooking recipe are recommended according to the food information; and the cooling equipment is controlled to conduct cooking according to the cooking recipe and the cooking manner. The refrigerator not only has the function of freshness retaining of the food, but also has the functions of food management, interconnection and cooking equipment recommendation, the appropriate cooking recipe is matched automatically for users according to the food information by means of the functions, the intelligent recommendation from food to cooking is achieved, and convenience and fastness are brought to the users in modern life.

The invention discloses a food management method, device and system. The method comprises the following steps that the picture of food is taken through a mobile terminal; the expiration date of the food is acquired, the attribute information of the food is acquired, meanwhile, relevant food data of the food are built, and the food data comprise the picture, the expiration date and the attribute information; whether the reminding condition is met or not is judged according to the food data; if it is judged that the reminding condition is met, a user is reminded through the mobile terminal. According to the method, when it is judged that the reminding condition is met according to the food data, the user is reminded, for example, before the food is out of date, the user is reminded to eat the food in time, and therefore the food is prevented from being wasted. In addition, the user can check the food data at any time to master the condition of the food, and great convenience is brought to the user.

The invention relates to a remote meal-ordering module, a meal-ordering terminal and a method thereof. The remote meal-ordering module is capable of sending catering information to a customer or meal-ordering information to a caterer through the Internet and comprises a control module, a mobile positioning module and a food management module, wherein the control module has a central management function and is used for coordinating the transmission and execution of a system instruction; the mobile positioning module is used for judging the present position of a user and tracking the position change of the user in real time; and the food management module is provided with a database for storing the catering information corresponding to different geographical positions and is used for orderly arraying the catering information according to the position information recognized by the mobile positioning module. The invention also discloses the meal-ordering terminal with the remote meal-ordering module and a meal-ordering method. According to the invention, a user can achieve a remote meal-ordering purpose; the operations of paying remotely and obtaining food information, caterer information, and the like, can be performed according to the present position of the user; the dining time of the customers is saved; and especially, a dinning place can be quickly found by the customers in a strange place.

A refrigerator includes at least one refrigerated compartment and a food product management system. The food product management system includes a container for storing foodstuffs in the at least one refrigerated compartment. The container includes a storage zone and a lid. A tag is arranged on the container to provide a consumer with an indication of whether a food item stored in the container is or is not spoiled. The tag can include a timer having a display, an indicator that changes state upon the passage of a predetermined time period and a computer that notifies a consumer, such as through an email, about a parameter associated with the food item in the container. The tag is affixed to the container with adhesive, snaps, clips, hooks and the like or, alternatively, simply integrally formed with the container.

An automated food handling system for food servings comprising a transfer means for transporting food servings therealong; a plurality of treatment modules coupled in parallel to the transfer means; means for sensing and recognizing the type of food servings being transported on the transfer means; and means for automatically diverting the food serving from the transfer means into one of the treatment modules. The treatment modules may be machines that bring the food servings to the desired temperature. An inventory system is also provided.

The invention discloses a refrigerator having a food management function and a control method thereof. The refrigerator comprises a sensing unit mounted on a tank, an image acquisition unit, and a control unit. The sensing unit comprises a first sensing portion disposed near the door body and a second sensing portion remote from the door body. The first sensing portion and the second sensing portion respectively include a signal transmitting end and a signal receiving end which are respectively arranged on both sides of the tank oppositely, and in the case where there is no foreign objects obstructed, detection signals transmitted by the signal transmitting end are received by the signal receiving end. The image acquisition unit installed at an upper middle position of the tank is used for taking a picture when the preset camera triggering condition is satisfied; the control unit is used for determining the moving direction of the food materials according to the feedback signal of the sensing unit, controlling the image acquisition unit to acquire images and extract the characteristics of the food materials by image identification; updating the entry label according to the moving direction and the characteristics of the food materials.

The invention discloses a refrigerator and a food material management method. The food management method comprises the following steps of: when the condition that all doors are closed is detected, instructing RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices) detection modules connected to the doors to identify RFID tags in all storage rooms for obtaining the identification information of each RFID tag; obtaining the first Information set; determining the target labels put in the storage rooms by comparing the first information set and the second information set; determining the target putting timecorresponding to the target labels according to the current time; and using the target putting time for updating the food material putting time corresponding to the target tags, and thus, a user doesnot need to manually set the putting time of each food material. The food management method can improve the user experience and ensure the accuracy of the obtained time.

A computerized refrigerator / freezer system uses rotating carousels and assigns specific storage locations based on bar code readings or user input. Retrieval and replacement of food items is facilitated by computer-controlled rotation of the carousels to provide convenient access from the front of the refrigerator or freezer. A transparent “door-within-a-door” in the front of the refrigerator allows convenient and energy-conserving access to food items without opening the larger main access door. The system computer performs inventory tracking and control and can perform optional re-stocking through an internet connection.