CN114279137A

CN114279137A - Refrigerator and information synchronization method

Info

Publication number: CN114279137A
Application number: CN202110748183.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 孔祥键; 卢可敬
Original assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-06-29
Filing date: 2021-06-29
Publication date: 2022-04-05

Abstract

The application discloses a refrigerator and an information synchronization method, which can automatically match a menu according to the reduced food materials of a user in a storage room, and automatically send the menu to related cooking equipment if the matched menu comprises the menu related to the related cooking equipment. And the user can control the cooking equipment to automatically start the cooking program by interacting with the refrigerator, so that the intelligent process from automatic matching of the menu, synchronization of the menu to the cooking equipment and one-key starting of the cooking program is realized, and the use experience of the user is greatly improved.

Description

Refrigerator and information synchronization method

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of refrigerators, in particular to a refrigerator and an information synchronization method.

Background

At present, the intelligent refrigerator with the display can provide multiple functions such as intelligent management, intelligent storage and multifunctional reminding of food materials for a user. For example, the existing food materials in the refrigerator are presented in the form of food material icons in a user interface on a display, and a user knows which of the existing food materials in the refrigerator are according to the food material icons presented in the user interface. The food material icon can be generated according to food material information corresponding to the existing food material in the refrigerator, and the food material information comprises a food material name, a food material shelf life, a food material quantity and the like.

For example, after a user puts a new food material into a refrigerator, the food material information corresponding to the new food material may be input into the refrigerator through some operations, and then the refrigerator may display a food material icon of the new food material in a user interface according to the food material information corresponding to the new food material. Alternatively, for an intelligent refrigerator having a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) function, the food material in the refrigerator may be identified by an RFID tag. The user can display the food material editing interface through operation control, food material information used for being associated with the RFID tag is input in the food material editing interface, and after the food material information input by the user is received by the refrigerator, the food material information is associated with the tag information of the RFID tag and stored. Tag information of the RFID tag on the food material is read through an antenna built in the storage room, and then food material information related to the tag can be determined according to the tag information.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a refrigerator and an information synchronization method.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a refrigerator comprising:

a cabinet having a storage chamber therein for storing food materials;

the door is arranged at the opening of the storage chamber;

the display is arranged on the box door and used for displaying a user interface;

a communicator for communicating with an associated cooking appliance of the refrigerator;

a controller coupled to the display and the communicator and configured to:

receiving a menu information set issued by a server, wherein the menu information set comprises at least one menu information, and the menu information comprises cooking equipment information;

and sending the menu information related to the associated cooking equipment in the menu information set to the associated cooking equipment, wherein the cooking equipment information included in the menu information related to the associated cooking equipment is matched with the associated cooking equipment.

In a second aspect, the present application further provides an information synchronization method applied to a refrigerator, the method including:

and sending menu information related to the associated cooking equipment of the refrigerator in the menu information set to the associated cooking equipment, wherein the cooking equipment information included in the menu information related to the associated cooking equipment is matched with the associated cooking equipment.

According to the technical scheme, the refrigerator and the information synchronization method provided by the embodiment of the application can automatically match the menu according to the reduced food materials of the users in the storage room, and if the matched menu comprises the menu related to the related cooking equipment, the menu is automatically sent to the related cooking equipment. And the user can control the cooking equipment to automatically start the cooking program by interacting with the refrigerator, so that the intelligent process from automatic matching of the menu, synchronization of the menu to the cooking equipment and one-key starting of the cooking program is realized, and the use experience of the user is greatly improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly explain the technical solution of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious to those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without any creative effort.

FIG. 1A is a perspective view of a refrigerator illustrated in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 1B is a schematic view of the exterior of a refrigerator shown in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a hardware configuration of a refrigerator shown in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 illustrates a food material management interface according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic view illustrating an interaction process between a refrigerator and a server and associated cooking devices according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 5 is another food material management interface according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 illustrates a menu detail interface according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic view illustrating an interaction process between a refrigerator and a server and associated cooking devices according to another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a schematic view illustrating an interaction process between a refrigerator and a server and associated cooking devices according to another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 9 is a schematic view illustrating an interaction process between a refrigerator and a server and associated cooking devices according to another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 10 is another recipe detail interface presented in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a flowchart illustrating an information synchronization method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make those skilled in the art better understand the technical solutions in the present application, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

The terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

Fig. 1A is a perspective view of a refrigerator according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, which is provided in an embodiment of the present invention and has a shape of an approximately rectangular parallelepiped. The refrigerator is defined by a storage chamber 110 providing a limited storage space and a door 120 provided at an opening of the storage chamber. The storage chamber 110 is a box having an opening. In the example shown in fig. 1A, the storage room 110 includes a freezing compartment 111 located at a lower side and a refrigerating compartment 112 located at an upper side, the freezing compartment 111 and the refrigerating compartment 112 respectively have one or more independent storage spaces, such as a drawer-type compartment 111A included in the freezing compartment 111 and the like, and a plurality of receiving compartments 1121 and 1123 included in the refrigerating compartment 112, and the overhead illumination lamp 140 is located inside the receiving compartment 1121.

In the example shown in fig. 1A, a plurality of drawer compartments 111A are covered by drawer doors 111B. The refrigerating chamber 112 is divided into left and right sides, which are respectively covered by a door 112B pivotably mounted on the cabinet.

It should be noted that fig. 1A is an example of an embodiment of the present application, and the illustrated refrigerator does not constitute a limitation of the refrigerator provided in the present application. For example, in further embodiments of the present application, the refrigerator cabinet is divided into left and right sides, defining the left side cabinet as the freezer compartment and the right side cabinet as the refrigerator compartment, both of which may be covered by a door pivotally mounted on the cabinet. As another example, in further embodiments of the present application, the storage compartments include a refrigeration compartment, a freezer compartment, and a temperature change compartment.

Based on the refrigerator provided by the embodiment, the display is arranged on the outer side of the refrigerator body, so that the refrigerator has a display function.

Fig. 1B is an external view of a refrigerator according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 1B, a display is disposed on a door of a refrigerating chamber, and the display is embedded in a door body. A tag reading area is arranged at the position below the display on the refrigerating chamber door, and an antenna for reading an RFID tag is arranged in the tag reading area and used for identifying the RFID tag at a short distance.

In some embodiments, the screen of the display is flush with the outer surface of the door.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a hardware configuration of a refrigerator according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, and by way of example, the refrigerator 200 may include a display 210, a controller 220, a plurality of antennas 230 for detecting an RFID tag, a detector 240, a memory 250, and several user input interfaces. The display 210, antenna 230, detector 240, and memory 250 are coupled to the controller 220 through a communication interface. The display 210 is configured to receive the image signal output by the controller 220, perform a component for displaying video content and images and a menu manipulation interface, and display a user manipulation UI interface for controlling the refrigerator 200.

The controller 220 may include one or more processing units, such as a system on a chip (SoC), a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Microcontroller (MCU), a memory controller, and the like. The different processing units may be separate devices or may be integrated into one or more processors.

In some embodiments, controller 220 communicates with antenna 230 via a serial port.

In some embodiments, the controller 220 includes an RFID module, and the RFID module, the antenna 230 and the RFID tag form an RFID read/write system, the antenna 230 is used for transmitting radio frequency signals between the RFID module and the RFID tag, and the RFID module completes read/write operations on the RFID tag through the antenna 230.

In some embodiments, the RFID module communicates with the antenna through a serial port.

The memory 250 may include one or more memory units, for example, may include a volatile memory (volatile memory), such as: dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), and the like; non-volatile memory (NVM) may also be included, such as: read-only memory (ROM), flash memory (flash memory), and the like. The different memory units may be separate devices, or may be integrated or packaged in one or more processors or communication interfaces, and become a part of the processors or communication interfaces.

The memory 250 has stored therein program instructions and application programs, such as voice applications. The controller 220 may call the program instructions in the memory 250 or run an application program, so that the refrigerator executes a related method, for example, the method for scanning the food material tags provided in the embodiment of the present application.

The detector 240, including at least a sound collector such as a microphone, may be used to receive the user's voice. Illustratively, a voice signal including a control instruction of the user controlling the refrigerator 200. The detector 240 may further include a door opening and closing state sensor, such as a detection magnetic sensitive switch, a mechanical switch, for detecting an opening and closing signal of each door, and transmitting opening and closing state information to the controller 220 while recording the opening and closing state of the door according to the detected opening and closing signal. Illustratively, when the detector detects an opening signal or a closing signal of any one of the doors, the latest switch state information is transmitted to the controller 220.

A user input interface including at least one of a microphone, a touchpad, a sensor, a key, and other input interfaces. Such as: the user can input a user command through voice, touch, gesture, pressing, and the like, and the input interface converts the received analog signal into a digital signal and converts the digital signal into a corresponding command signal, and sends the command signal to the controller 220.

And a communicator 260 for communicating with a server or a terminal device within the local area network.

In some embodiments, the controller 220 may include a voice recognition module, and the voice recognition module further includes a voice parsing unit and a voice command database, so that the refrigerator can independently perform voice recognition of voice data input by a user and a process of matching recognized voice contents with voice commands in the voice command database.

The number of antennas 230 is not limited in this application. For example, the antenna 230 may include an antenna provided in each of the storage compartments and an antenna provided inside the tag reading area, wherein the antenna provided in each of the storage compartments is mainly used to scan the RFID tag in each of the storage compartments to read the tag information of the RFID tag, and the antenna provided inside the tag reading area is mainly used to scan the RFID tag on the tag reading area to read the tag information of the RFID tag.

In some embodiments, the power of the antennas provided in different storage compartments may be different. And the power of the antenna of each storage room can ensure that the antenna can identify the food materials in the self room, thereby avoiding that the error identification rate is increased when the power is too high and the food materials in the incomplete self room can be identified when the power is too low. In a specific implementation, the power of the antenna can be determined in advance according to the space size of each storage room, and the power of each antenna is set in the refrigerator, and the larger the space is, the larger the power is.

In some embodiments, the antenna disposed under the tag reading area is referred to as a first antenna, and the antenna disposed in the storage compartment is referred to as a second antenna.

Based on the refrigerator provided by the embodiment of the application, the food materials in the storage chamber can be identified by using the RFID tags, and the tag information (such as tag identification) of the RFID tags has a corresponding relation with the food material information of the identified food materials, so that the virtual association between the RFID tags and the food material information is realized. In practical application, the food material attached with the RFID tag is stored in the refrigerator, the RFID tag in the storage chamber is detected through the second antenna to obtain tag information of the food material, and the food material identified by the tag is determined according to the incidence relation between the tag information and the food material information.

In some embodiments, the tag information includes a tag code, and a particular code segment in the tag code identifies the tag. The corresponding relation between the identification information of the RFID tag and the food material information is established, and the virtual association of the RFID tag and the food material can be realized. And then, after the tag identification of the RFID tag in the storage room is obtained, the food material corresponding to the RFID tag can be determined according to the tag identification and the pre-established corresponding relation.

In some embodiments, the controller 220 implements the food material management function by running a food material management application, and the application interface provided by the food material management application includes: the method can be used as a food material management interface applying a main interface, a label editing interface for establishing the association relationship between the RFID label and the food material information, a menu display interface for displaying the recommended menu information and the like.

In some embodiments, the controller 220 starts the food material management application in response to a power-on or user-input food material management application start instruction. After the food material management application is started, a user can input a tag editing instruction in the food material management application. In response to the tag editing instruction, the food material management application scans the RFID tag placed on the tag reading area by the user through the first antenna to acquire tag information of the RFID tag, such as "a", and displays a tag editing interface. The user can input food material information in the tag editing interface for association with "a". The food material management application receives food material information input by a user and establishes an association relation between the food material information and the 'A'. When the food material management application detects that the RFID tag A exists in the storeroom through the second antenna, the real food material in the storeroom can be determined according to the food material information related to the RFID tag A, and therefore intelligent management of the food material is achieved. It should be understood that when the food management application detects that there is an RFID tag "a" in the storage room through the second antenna, the food item associated with "a" is an existing food item in the storage room.

In some embodiments, the food material information comprises one or more of a food material ID, a food material name, a storage location identification, a number of food materials, a food material shelf life, a start time, and the like. The storage room for storing the food materials can be determined according to the storage position identification. For example, if the storage location identification included in the food material information "apple" is "1", it is determined that "apple" is stored in the refrigerating chamber, and if the storage location identification included in the food material information "apple" is "2", it is determined that "apple" is stored in the freezing chamber. The freshness of the food material can be determined according to the current time, the shelf life of the food material and the starting time. The starting time may be the actual production date of the food material input by the user, such as the production date of bread 2021 year, 5 month and 1 day, or the time when the food material is put into the storage chamber.

In some embodiments, food material information corresponding to existing food materials in the storage room is stored in the local food material information set. The existing food material is the food material currently stored in the refrigerator.

In other embodiments, the food material information corresponding to the historical food materials may also be stored in the local food material information set. The historical food material refers to food material that has been stored in the refrigerator in the past and has been removed from the refrigerator at present. In the specific implementation, the existing food materials and the historical food materials can be distinguished through the storage state marks, for example, the food material information marks of the historical food materials are in a moving-out state, and the food material information marks of the existing food materials are in a putting-in state.

In other embodiments, the food material information of the existing food material and the food material information of the historical food material are stored in different food material information sets.

In some embodiments, after the food material management application is started, the food material information of the existing food material is read from the local food material information set, for example, the food material information with the storage state being the put-in state is read. And then displaying a food material management interface according to the food material information of the existing food material, wherein the food material management interface comprises food material icons drawn according to the food material information, so that the existing food material in the refrigerator is displayed in forms of icons, pictures and texts and the like. In addition, various functional controls, such as an RFID tag editing control, a food adding control, a recipe recommending control, and the like, may be displayed in the food material management interface, so that a user may operate the functional controls to trigger the controller 220 to implement corresponding functions.

Fig. 3 is a user interface according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, which is specifically an exemplary food material management interface. Referring to fig. 3, the food material management interface includes an RFID tag editing control 301, a recipe recommending control 302, and an add food material control 306, and further includes food material display areas corresponding to the storage chambers, such as a food material display area 303 corresponding to the cold storage chamber, a food material display area 304 corresponding to the temperature-changing chamber, and a food material display area 305 corresponding to the cold temperature chamber. Food material icons corresponding to the food materials in the storage chamber are displayed in each food material display area, such as food material 1, food material 2 and food material 3 in the food material display area 303, food material 4 and food material 5 in the food material display area 304, and food material 6 and food material 7 in the food material display area 305. Each food material icon comprises a food material picture and a food material name.

In some embodiments, the user may input the above-mentioned tag editing instruction by operating the RFID tag editing control 301 in the food material management interface.

In some embodiments, the refrigerator may communicate with its associated terminal device. The terminal devices associated with the refrigerator include terminal devices in the same local area network or the same group network as the refrigerator, such as a display device, a portable mobile terminal device, a PC device, an intelligent cooking device, and the like in a home. The terminal device associated with the refrigerator may also be a terminal device that is brought into association with the refrigerator based on the identity information. Wherein, intelligent cooking equipment can be like intelligent electric rice cooker, intelligent oven, intelligent electromagnetism stove, intelligent microwave oven etc.. Further, the identity information may be device information, account information, etc., for example, an account to which the food material management application logs in.

Illustratively, the account registered by the food management application on the refrigerator is called a primary business account. Then, the terminal device associated with the refrigerator may be another terminal device that logs in the main service account, for example, when the user installs the food material management application on the smart oven and logs in the food material management application on the smart oven by using the main service account, the smart oven is called as the terminal device associated with the refrigerator. The terminal device associated with the refrigerator may be a terminal device that logs in a sub-service account bound to the main service account, for example, when a user installs a food material management application on the smart induction cooker and logs in the food material management application on the smart induction cooker by using the sub-service account bound to the main service account, the smart oven is called as the terminal device associated with the refrigerator.

As another example, the terminal device associated with the refrigerator may be a device bound by the device information. For example, the device information of the terminal device as described above is bound to the device of the refrigerator, so that the terminal device is associated with the refrigerator.

It should be understood that the intelligent cooking device refers to a cooking device with an intelligent terminal built therein, the intelligent terminal has basic elements of electronic devices such as a display and a processor memory, and the intelligent terminal enables the cooking device to have functions of image display, data transceiving, data processing and the like. Based on these functions, the intelligent cooking apparatus generally has a one-key cooking function. Taking an intelligent oven as an example, a user can interact with an interface object displayed on a screen of the oven to search, check or select a menu or start cooking, and after the cooking is started, the oven can automatically control parameters such as time and temperature according to cooking information included in the menu selected by the user, so that a one-key cooking function is realized.

As described above, the refrigerator may communicate with its associated intelligent cooking appliance and server. For convenience of description, the intelligent cooking apparatus associated with the refrigerator is referred to as an associated cooking apparatus of the refrigerator.

In some embodiments, the user may input the recipe recommendation instruction by operating the recipe recommendation control 302 in the food material management interface. Referring to fig. 4, in S401, in response to an input recipe recommendation instruction, a refrigerator sends a recipe recommendation request to a server, where the recipe recommendation request at least includes a food material name of an existing food material. The food material name of the existing food material is the food material name read from the local food material information set, wherein the storage state of the food material name is the storage state of the food material name. In S402, after receiving the recipe recommendation request, the server matches a recipe according to the food material name of the existing food material to obtain at least one recipe information, where each recipe information includes cooking device information; in S403, the server returns the matched menu information to the refrigerator. In S404, after the refrigerator receives the recipe information set returned by the server, the corresponding recipe control is displayed on the user interface according to the recipe information therein. At this time, the user may select a menu by clicking on a menu control. In S405, the refrigerator receives a selection operation of a menu control by a user; in S406, it is determined whether the recipe information corresponding to the recipe control is the recipe information related to the associated cooking device, and if so, in S407, a recipe forwarding request including the recipe information and the identification information of the associated cooking device is sent to the server. In S408, the server transmits the recipe information to the associated cooking device related thereto according to the received recipe transfer request and the identification information of the associated cooking device in the request. Therefore, the related menu information can be displayed on the related cooking equipment, so that a user does not need to manually search the menu on the related cooking equipment, the cooking process can be automatically controlled based on the menu information, the user does not need to manually control the cooking process, and the user experience is improved.

The recipe information includes food related information, cooking method related information, cooking device information, and the like, and the cooking device information may be a name, a type, and the like of the cooking device. If the cooking equipment information included in certain menu information is matched with certain associated cooking equipment, the menu information is determined to be related to the associated cooking equipment. Illustratively, the cooking appliance information includes a cooking appliance name, which is used to characterize the desired cooking appliance. If the associated cooking device of the refrigerator includes "induction cooker" and the cooking device name included in certain recipe information is "induction cooker", it is determined that the recipe information is related to "induction cooker". As another example, if the associated cooking appliance of the refrigerator does not include the "induction cooker" and a certain recipe information includes a cooking appliance name of the "induction cooker", it is determined that the recipe information is not related to the "induction cooker".

Fig. 5 illustrates a food material management interface in some exemplary embodiments of the present application. On the basis of the food material management interface shown in fig. 3, the food material management interface further includes a menu display area 510, menu controls 511 and 515 generated according to menus a to E returned by the server are displayed in the menu display area 510, and a corresponding menu name and a cover picture are displayed in each menu control. The user can click any menu control to select the menu, the detailed content of the menu can be displayed based on the selection operation of the user, and the user can click a page turning button '>' to view more menus.

In some embodiments, when the refrigerator receives a selection operation of the displayed menu control, which is input by a user, menu information corresponding to the menu control is displayed in the user interface.

As can be seen from the embodiment shown in fig. 5, when a user selects a certain recipe on the screen of the refrigerator, if the recipe is related to a certain associated cooking device of the refrigerator, the refrigerator synchronizes the recipe to the associated cooking device. On the one hand, the related cooking equipment can also display the menu, so that a user does not need to search the menu on the cooking equipment, on the other hand, the related cooking equipment conveniently and directly automatically starts a cooking program according to the menu, and a one-key cooking function is realized.

It should be noted that, in some embodiments, after receiving the recipe information set returned by the server, the food management application directly screens out the recipe information related to the associated cooking devices from the recipe information set, and respectively sends the recipe information related to each associated cooking device.

In some embodiments, an interactive user interface object for triggering synchronization of certain specified recipe information may be displayed in the user interface, which when a user interacts with actively triggers synchronization of certain specified recipe information to its associated cooking device. Illustratively, in conjunction with fig. 4 and fig. 5, when a menu control is displayed in the user interface, in response to a click operation of a certain menu control by a user, a menu detail interface as shown in fig. 6 is displayed, and details of a corresponding menu and a "synchronized menu" control are displayed in the menu detail interface. The user can control the refrigerator to send the menu information to the related cooking equipment by clicking the 'synchronous menu' control. In specific implementation, the food material management application responds to the click operation of a user on the 'synchronous menu' control, determines relevant cooking equipment related to the user according to the cooking equipment information in the menu information, and then sends the menu information to the relevant cooking equipment through the server.

Fig. 7 illustrates an interaction process among a refrigerator, a server and an associated cooking appliance according to further embodiments of the present application. Unlike the above-described embodiment shown in fig. 5, in these embodiments, after receiving the recipe information set returned by the server, the refrigerator filters out the recipe information that matches the associated cooking device (S704). And displaying a corresponding menu control in the user interface according to the menu information matched with the associated cooking equipment (S705). At this time, the recipes displayed to the user are all recipes related to the related cooking equipment, the user can select the recipe by clicking a certain recipe control, and any recipe selected by the user is all the recipes related to the related cooking equipment. When the food management application receives a selection operation of a certain menu control by a user, a menu forwarding request can be directly sent to the server, and the menu forwarding request contains the menu information and identification information of related cooking equipment (S707). And the server receives the recipe forwarding request, and sends the recipe information to the related cooking equipment according to the identification information of the related cooking equipment.

It can be understood that, if a user wants to store or take out food materials with RFID tags in or out of the storage room, the door of the storage room needs to be opened or closed. Based on this, referring to fig. 8, in some embodiments, in S801, the refrigerator detects a door closing signal; in S802, it is detected whether the food material in the storage room is decreased. When a decrease in the food in the storage room is detected, in S803, a recipe recommendation request including the food name of the target food, which is the detected decreased food, is transmitted to the server. After receiving the recipe recommendation request, the server matches a recipe according to the food material name of the target food material in S804 to obtain at least one recipe information, wherein each recipe information comprises cooking equipment information; in S805, the server returns the matched recipe information to the refrigerator. After the refrigerator receives the menu information set returned by the server, in step S806, menu information matched with the associated cooking equipment is screened out from the menu information set; in step S807, a corresponding recipe control is displayed in the user interface according to the recipe information matched with the associated cooking device; in S808, the refrigerator receives a selection operation of a menu control by a user; in S809, the refrigerator sends a recipe forwarding request to the server, where the recipe forwarding request includes the recipe information and identification information of the associated cooking device. After receiving the recipe transfer request, the server transmits the recipe information to the related cooking device according to the identification information of the related cooking device in the request in S810.

In the above embodiment, the food material management application detects whether the food material in the storage room is reduced by performing the tag inventory operation. The checking means that the controller scans all the RFID tags in the storage room through the RFID module and the related antenna, and the checking result is the scanned tag information. The relevant antenna here refers to an antenna for scanning RFID tags in the storage room, such as a second antenna provided in the storage room. After the checking is finished, on one hand, the controller can update the food material icons in the food material management interface according to the checking result, and then the latest food material storage condition is displayed to the user in time; on the other hand, the controller can determine that the user moves out of the label (food material) of the storage room by comparing the current checking result with the last checking result, so that the food material corresponding to the label moved out by the user is determined to be the reduced food material.

In some embodiments, the local food material information set is a set of food material information corresponding to all RFID tags in the current storage room. It should be understood that after the food material management application finishes checking the food materials in the storage room, the food material information set may be operated according to the checking result to update the set. The aforementioned operations include add, delete, and modify operations. For example, if the tags in the storage room are detected to be reduced, which indicates that the user takes some tags out of the storage room, the food material information corresponding to the tags can be deleted from the set; if the fact that the number of the labels in the storage room is increased is detected, the fact that a user puts some labels into the storage room is indicated, food material information corresponding to the labels can be added into the set; if the change of the food material information corresponding to some labels is detected, which indicates that the user modifies the food material information corresponding to the labels, the modified food material information can be used for replacing the food material information before modification.

As can be seen from the embodiment shown in fig. 8, the food storage condition in the storage chamber can be detected in time by using the closing signal of the refrigerator door as the trigger condition of the food inventory operation. The reduction of food materials in the storage room is used as a trigger condition for acquiring menu information from the server, so that the real requirements of the user are fully considered, and the use experience of the user is facilitated. Fig. 9 illustrates an interaction process among a refrigerator, a server and an associated cooking appliance according to further embodiments of the present application. Unlike the embodiment shown in fig. 8, in these embodiments, the recipe recommendation request sent by the refrigerator to the server may include related information associated with the cooking device in addition to the food item name (S903). After receiving the recipe recommendation request, the server matches the recipe according to the related information of the associated cooking equipment and the food material name to obtain at least one recipe information which is matched with the food material and related to the associated cooking equipment (S904), and returns the matched recipe information to the refrigerator (S905). And the refrigerator receives the menu information set returned by the server, and displays a corresponding menu control in the user interface according to the menu information in the menu information set (S906). In this way, since the recipe information received by the refrigerator is the recipe information related to the associated cooking apparatus, the step of screening the recipe information is saved.

In the above embodiment, the identification information of the associated cooking apparatus is previously bound with the identification information of the refrigerator. For example, assuming that the associated cooking device includes an intelligent electric cooker, the refrigerator first obtains identification information of the intelligent electric cooker, and then generates a recipe forwarding request according to the identification information of the intelligent electric cooker and recipe information related to the intelligent electric cooker, so that the request server sends the recipe information related to the intelligent electric cooker according to the identification information of the intelligent electric cooker.

It should be noted that the recipe forwarding request may include a plurality of sub-requests, and one sub-request corresponds to one associated cooking device. In other words, the identification information of the associated cooking appliance and its related recipe information included in the different sub-requests are different. For example, a certain recipe forwarding request includes a first sub-request and a second sub-request. The first sub-request comprises identification information of the intelligent electric cooker and menu information related to the intelligent electric cooker, and the server can send the menu information related to the intelligent electric cooker according to the identification information of the intelligent electric cooker; the second sub-request comprises identification information of the intelligent oven and menu information related to the identification information, and the second sub-request enables the server to send the menu information related to the intelligent oven according to the identification information of the intelligent oven.

In some embodiments, the food management application presents the first prompt in the user interface and/or plays the first prompt in voice when it is determined that the recipe information is successfully sent to the associated cooking device. The first prompt language is used for reminding the user of successful sending of the menu information and guiding the user to input a user instruction for indicating whether to start cooking. The user command may be a command entered by interacting with an interactive object on the interface or by speaking a voice password.

For example, the first prompt language may be a voice prompt indicating whether a "certain" menu is prepared for you and whether a "certain" device starts cooking is started now, wherein the "certain" menu is a menu name and the "certain" device is a name of an associated cooking device. In specific implementation, when the recipe information is judged to be successfully sent to the oven, the food material management application pulls up the voice application and transmits the following parameters into the voice application:

<“command”，“cookingRequest”>

< "recipe _ name", "recipe name" >)

After the voice is passively pulled up, if the command field is confirmed to be the cooking request, the user is asked to: "you have prepared" a certain "recipe, if the oven is now started to start cooking". Based on the guidance of the first prompt, the user may input an instruction to indicate whether cooking may be started. For example, the user may reply with: the voice passwords such as 'start cooking', 'cook immediately', 'cook after half an hour' and the like input a user instruction for instructing to start cooking; or say "no cooking needed," a user instruction is entered indicating not to initiate cooking.

For another example, the first prompt is displayed on the current user interface in the form of a user interface object. For example, when the user clicks the "synchronize menu" control in fig. 6, and then determines that the menu information is successfully sent to the associated cooking device, the food management application presents an interface prompt with the content "a certain" menu has been prepared for you, and whether a certain "device starts cooking" is now started in the user interface, as shown in fig. 10. Meanwhile, a plurality of operation options including 'cooking immediately', 'cooking after half an hour' and 'cancel' are displayed in the interface. The user may input a corresponding user instruction by clicking a certain option, which is not described herein.

In the above embodiment, the server sends the recipe information related to a certain associated cooking device to the associated cooking device according to the recipe forwarding request sent by the refrigerator, and then returns a response message to the refrigerator, where the response message is used to notify that the refrigerator information is successfully sent. Furthermore, the refrigerator may determine whether the recipe information is successfully transmitted to the associated cooking device by determining whether the response message returned by the server is received, and if the response message returned by the server is received, determine that the recipe information is successfully transmitted to the associated cooking device.

In some embodiments, when the user instruction satisfies the first circulation condition, the refrigerator sends a cooking control instruction to the associated cooking device, the cooking control instruction is used for controlling the associated cooking device to start a cooking program, and the cooking program corresponds to the menu information received by the associated cooking device. And ending the flow when the user instruction meets a second flow condition. That is, the first circulation condition is a condition that triggers the start of the cooking program, and the second circulation condition is a condition that triggers the end of the current flow. Illustratively, if the user instruction input by the user is a voice instruction with the contents of "start cooking", "cook immediately", or "cook after half an hour", the user instruction satisfies the first circulation condition; if the user instruction input by the user is a voice instruction whose content is "no cooking needed", the user instruction satisfies the second streaming condition.

The refrigerator can analyze the user intention by analyzing the user instruction. The user's intention may include a time for starting cooking, in addition to whether or not to start cooking. Illustratively, if the user inputs a voice command with "cook immediately", the parsed user intention is to start cooking at the current time, and if the user inputs a voice command with "cook after half an hour", the parsed user intention is to start cooking after half an hour.

Based on this, in some embodiments, the refrigerator generates a cooking control command including a time field having a specific time value according to time information indicated by a user command. Illustratively, when the user instruction indicates immediate start of cooking, the field value is a first value, and the cooking control instruction is used for controlling the associated cooking device to start a cooking program at the current time. When the user instruction indicates to start cooking in a delayed manner, the field value is a second value, the second value may be specifically a delay time, and the cooking control instruction is used for controlling the associated cooking device to start the cooking program at a preset time, that is, the cooking program is started after the second value is delayed. Illustratively, the first value may be 0 and the second value may be greater than 0.

Illustratively, if the user replies to the ' cooking after half an hour ' based on the fact that the user has prepared a ' certain ' menu for you and whether the voice prompt of ' certain ' equipment starts to cook ' is started, the voice application receives the voice data, analyzes the command information from the voice data and sends the command information to the food management application in a broadcast mode.

The command information is as follows:

<“command”,“cookingRequestReply”>

<“start_cooking”,“yes/no”>

<“cooking_delay”,“0/1800”>

after receiving the command information, the food management application analyzes the 'start _ tracking' field, if yes, determines that the command information meets a first circulation condition, further analyzes the tracking _ delay field, and if the tracking _ delay field is not empty and is greater than 0, sets a field value of a time field of a cooking control instruction according to the field value and sends the cooking control instruction to the associated cooking equipment. And if the field of the start _ tracking is 'no', determining that the command information meets the second flow conversion condition, and ending the current flow.

In some embodiments, after receiving a user instruction input by the user based on the first prompt, the second prompt is displayed in the user interface, and/or the second prompt is played in a voice mode. Illustratively, the content of the second cue may be "good".

It can be seen from the above embodiments that, according to the refrigerator provided by the embodiments of the present application, the reduced food materials in the refrigerator can be detected through the automatic checking function of the refrigerator, the recipe can be automatically matched according to the reduced food materials, and if the matched recipe includes a recipe related to the associated cooking device, the recipe is automatically sent to the cooking device related thereto. And the user can control the cooking equipment to automatically start the cooking program by interacting with the refrigerator, so that the intelligent process from automatic matching of the menu, synchronization of the menu to the cooking equipment and one-key starting of the cooking program is realized, and the use experience of the user is greatly improved.

According to the embodiment, the embodiment of the application further provides an information synchronization method which is applied to the refrigerator. Referring to fig. 11, the method includes:

and S111, receiving a menu information set issued by the server, wherein the menu information set comprises at least one menu information, and the menu information comprises cooking equipment information.

In some embodiments, when the closing signal of the door is detected, whether the food material in the storage chamber is decreased is detected; when the food materials in the storage room are detected to be reduced, a recipe recommendation request is sent to the server, the recipe recommendation request comprises the food material name of a target food material, the target food material is the detected reduced food material, and the recipe recommendation request is used for requesting the server to issue the recipe information set according to the target food material.

In some embodiments, the recipe recommendation request further includes related information of the associated cooking device, and the recipe recommendation request is further configured to request a server to issue at least one recipe information related to the associated cooking device according to the related information of the associated cooking device.

And S112, transmitting the menu information related to the associated cooking equipment of the refrigerator in the menu information set to the associated cooking equipment, wherein the cooking equipment information included in the menu information related to the associated cooking equipment is matched with the associated cooking equipment.

In some embodiments, S112 specifically includes: displaying recipe information related to an associated cooking device in the user interface; receiving selection operation of displayed menu information input by a user; and sending the menu information selected by the user to the associated cooking equipment related to the menu information.

In some embodiments, S112 specifically includes: recipe information in the set of recipe information in the user interface; receiving selection operation of displayed menu information input by a user; and if the menu information selected by the user is judged to be related to the related cooking equipment, the menu information selected by the user is sent to the related cooking equipment related to the menu information.

In some embodiments, transmitting recipe information corresponding to a recipe selected by a user to an associated cooking device associated with the recipe information includes: acquiring identification information of the associated cooking equipment according to the identification information of the refrigerator, wherein the identification information of the refrigerator is associated with the identification information of the associated cooking equipment; and sending a recipe forwarding request to a server, wherein the recipe forwarding request at least comprises identification information of the associated cooking equipment and related recipe information, and the recipe forwarding request is used for requesting the server to send the recipe information related to the associated cooking equipment according to the identification information of the associated cooking equipment.

In some embodiments, the information synchronization method provided in the embodiments of the present application further includes: when the menu information is judged to be successfully sent to the associated cooking equipment, displaying a first prompt in a user interface, and/or playing the first prompt in a voice mode; receiving a user instruction input by a user based on the first prompt; when the user instruction meets a first circulation condition, sending a cooking control instruction to the associated cooking equipment, wherein the cooking control instruction is used for controlling the associated cooking equipment to start a cooking program, and the cooking program corresponds to the menu information received by the associated cooking equipment; and ending the flow when the user instruction meets a second flow transfer condition.

In some embodiments, the cooking control instruction includes time information, where the cooking control instruction is configured to control the associated cooking device to start a cooking process at a current time when the time is a first value, and the cooking control instruction is configured to control the associated cooking device to start the cooking process at a preset time when the time information is a second value, where the preset time is determined according to the second value.

Based on the information synchronization method provided by the embodiment of the application, the reduced food materials in the refrigerator can be detected through the automatic checking function of the refrigerator, the menu can be automatically matched according to the reduced food materials, and if the matched menu comprises the menu related to the related cooking equipment, the menu is automatically sent to the related cooking equipment. And the user can control the cooking equipment to automatically start the cooking program by interacting with the refrigerator, so that the intelligent process from automatic matching of the menu, synchronization of the menu to the cooking equipment and one-key starting of the cooking program is realized, and the use experience of the user is greatly improved.

In specific implementation, the present invention further provides a computer storage medium, where the computer storage medium may store a program, and the program may include some or all of the steps in the embodiments of the information synchronization method provided by the present invention when executed. The storage medium may be a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a read-only memory (ROM) or a Random Access Memory (RAM).

Those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the techniques of the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented as software plus a required general purpose hardware platform. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention may be essentially or partially implemented in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a storage medium, such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk, etc., and includes several instructions for enabling a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to execute the method according to the embodiments or some parts of the embodiments.

The same and similar parts in the various embodiments in this specification may be referred to each other. In particular, for the embodiment of the refrigerator, since it is substantially similar to the embodiment of the method, the description is simple, and the relevant points can be referred to the description of the embodiment of the method.

The above-described embodiments of the present invention should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A refrigerator, characterized by comprising:

a cabinet having a storage chamber therein for storing food materials;

the door is arranged at the opening of the storage chamber;

a controller coupled to the display and the communicator and configured to:

2. The refrigerator of claim 1, wherein transmitting recipe information related to the associated cooking appliance comprises:

displaying recipe information related to an associated cooking device in the user interface;

receiving selection operation of displayed menu information input by a user;

and sending the menu information selected by the user to the associated cooking equipment related to the menu information.

3. The refrigerator of claim 1, wherein transmitting recipe information related to the associated cooking appliance comprises:

recipe information in the set of recipe information in the user interface;

receiving selection operation of displayed menu information input by a user;

and if the menu information selected by the user is judged to be related to the related cooking equipment, the menu information selected by the user is sent to the related cooking equipment related to the menu information.

4. The refrigerator according to claim 2 or 3, wherein transmitting recipe information corresponding to a recipe selected by a user to an associated cooking apparatus related to the recipe information comprises:

acquiring identification information of the associated cooking equipment according to the identification information of the refrigerator, wherein the identification information of the refrigerator is associated with the identification information of the associated cooking equipment;

and sending a recipe forwarding request to a server, wherein the recipe forwarding request at least comprises identification information of the associated cooking equipment and related recipe information, and the recipe forwarding request is used for requesting the server to send the recipe information related to the associated cooking equipment according to the identification information of the associated cooking equipment.

5. The refrigerator of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to:

when the menu information is judged to be successfully sent to the associated cooking equipment, displaying a first prompt in a user interface, and/or playing the first prompt in a voice mode;

receiving a user instruction input by a user based on the first prompt;

when the user instruction meets a first circulation condition, sending a cooking control instruction to the associated cooking equipment, wherein the cooking control instruction is used for controlling the associated cooking equipment to start a cooking program, and the cooking program corresponds to the menu information received by the associated cooking equipment;

and ending the flow when the user instruction meets a second flow transfer condition.

6. The refrigerator according to claim 5, wherein the cooking control command includes time information, wherein when the time is a first value, the cooking control command is used to control the associated cooking device to start the cooking process at a current time, and when the time is a second value, the cooking control command is used to control the associated cooking device to start the cooking process at a preset time, and the preset time is determined according to the second value.

7. The refrigerator of claim 1, wherein prior to receiving the set of menu information sent by the server, the controller is further configured to:

when a closing signal of the door is detected, detecting whether the food in the storage chamber is reduced or not;

when the food materials in the storage room are detected to be reduced, a recipe recommendation request is sent to the server, the recipe recommendation request comprises the food material name of a target food material, the target food material is the detected reduced food material, and the recipe recommendation request is used for requesting the server to issue the recipe information set according to the target food material.

8. The refrigerator of claim 7, wherein the recipe recommendation request further includes information related to the associated cooking device, and the recipe recommendation request is further configured to request a server to issue at least one recipe information related to the associated cooking device according to the information related to the associated cooking device.

9. An information synchronization method, applied to a refrigerator, the method comprising: