Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Yuki

Yasuhiro Yuki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11907518
    Abstract: A cooking-recipe display system (51) according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes, an information terminal (200) having a display screen and a controller (210), a data management part (110), and a determination part (120). The data management part (110) includes a recipe group master containing a plurality of cooking recipes, each of which contains both a plurality of procedures indicating a way of cooking a dish and a plurality of ingredients of the dish. The determination part (120) determines an allocation display format indicating an arrangement, on the display screen, of the plurality of procedures contained one cooking recipe selected from the plurality of cooking recipes. The controller (210) causes the cooking recipe to be displayed on the display screen in the allocation display format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki, Yuki Taoka, Taiki Terada, Emi Akutsu, Sumiko Tanaka, Hiroki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230177970
    Abstract: A cooking-learning support system includes a storage, an information presenter, and a controller. The storage stores a recipe including at least one cooking process, a cooking element that is one of an ingredient for cooking, a cooking method for the ingredient, and a combination of the ingredient and the cooking method, and a cooking-element reference level of the cooking element. The information presenter presents the recipe. The controller calculates a recipe reference level corresponding to the recipe, based on the cooking-element reference level of the cooking element corresponding to the cooking process in the recipe, and causes the information presenter to present the calculated recipe reference level along with the recipe. A cooking-learning support method is implemented in the cooking-learning support system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: YUKI TAOKA, YASUHIRO YUKI, MASAFUMI SADAHIRA, HIROKI YAMADA, SHIKI KOU
  • Publication number: 20230066514
    Abstract: A cooking-recipe display system (51) according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes, an information terminal (200) having a display screen and a controller (210), a data management part (110), and a determination part (120). The data management part (110) includes a recipe group master containing a plurality of cooking recipes, each of which contains both a plurality of procedures indicating a way of cooking a dish and a plurality of ingredients of the dish. The determination part (120) determines an allocation display format indicating an arrangement, on the display screen, of the plurality of procedures contained one cooking recipe selected from the plurality of cooking recipes. The controller (210) causes the cooking recipe to be displayed on the display screen in the allocation display format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: YASUHIRO YUKI, YUKI TAOKA, TAIKI TERADA, EMI AKUTSU, SUMIKO TANAKA, HIROKI YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230046227
    Abstract: Cooking recipe display system (100) is provided with database (11), extraction unit (21a), emphasis unit (21b), and output unit (23). Database (11) stores a plurality of cooking recipes each being expressed in natural language sentences. Extraction unit (21a) extracts one or more recipe terms from the natural language sentences constituting one cooking recipe selected from the plurality of cooking recipes. Emphasis unit (21b) determines an emphasis method for the one or more recipe terms. Output unit (23) outputs the one cooking recipe with the one or more recipe terms emphasized according to the emphasis method determined by emphasis unit (21b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: HIROKI YAMADA, YASUHIRO YUKI, MASAFUMI SADAHIRA, YUKI TAOKA
  • Patent number: 11017521
    Abstract: A bottle storage includes a housing portion that houses a bottle therein, a cooling-warming portion that is provided around the housing portion, a sensor which detects insertion of the bottle into the housing portion, an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion, a controller that causes the image capture portion to perform image capture for capturing the image of the bottle when the bottle is sensed to be inserted into the housing portion by the sensor, an information manager that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on recognition result of the bottle image captured by the control of the controller, and an output portion that outputs characteristics of a beverage of the brand identified by the information manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki, Masahiro Ishii, Mitsuhiro Aso, Takayuki Hayami, Tomoko Kajimoto
  • Patent number: 10852930
    Abstract: Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 10796601
    Abstract: First information including related information relating to a cooking action to be carried out by a cook is acquired, a presentation device is made to present the related information, it is determined whether or not an action of the cook that is specified based on second information is the cooking action, an index indicating a degree of attention of the cook recommended for the cooking action is acquired, and the information amount of the related information presented is altered in accordance with the degree of attention indicated by the acquired index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Mitsuhiro Aso, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Publication number: 20200211176
    Abstract: A bottle storage includes a housing portion that houses a bottle therein, a cooling-warming portion that is provided around the housing portion, a sensor which detects insertion of the bottle into the housing portion, an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion, a controller that causes the image capture portion to perform image capture for capturing the image of the bottle when the bottle is sensed to be inserted into the housing portion by the sensor, an information manager that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on recognition result of the bottle image captured by the control of the controller, and an output portion that outputs characteristics of a beverage of the brand identified by the information manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YASUHIRO YUKI, MASAHIRO ISHII, MITSUHIRO ASO, TAKAYUKI HAYAMI, TOMOKO KAJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200146484
    Abstract: A bottle storage includes: a container that contains a bottle; a cooling-warming apparatus surrounding a position where the bottle is contained in the container; a device having a cooling surface facing the bottle and a heat generating surface facing away from the bottle; and a coolant that cools the heat generating surface of the device. The cooling on the cooling surface is performed by current flowing to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro YUKI, Masahiro Ishii, Akira Kataoka, Rinako Kamei, Toyoshi Kamisako, Masanori Fukata
  • Patent number: 10621712
    Abstract: A bottle storage includes: a housing portion that houses a bottle therein; a cooling-warming portion (cooling-warming devices) that is provided around the housing portion; a rotation portion (rotation motor) that rotates the bottle housed in the housing portion; an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion; a controller that controls the bottle rotation performed by the rotation portion and the image capture performed by the image capture portion, based on the bottle image captured by the image capture portion; an information manager (storage manager) that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on the bottle image captured by the control of the controller; and an output portion (display portion) that outputs at least one of the brand identified by the information manager and relevant information regarding the identified brand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki, Masahiro Ishii, Mitsuhiro Aso, Takayuki Hayami, Tomoko Kajimoto
  • Patent number: 10582790
    Abstract: A bottle storage includes a container that contains a bottle; a cooling-warming apparatus provided to surround a position where the bottle is contained; and an image capturer that captures an image of the bottle contained in the container. The cooling-warming apparatus has a gap at least at a portion of the cooling-warming apparatus corresponding to at least a part of an image capturing region of the image capturer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki, Masahiro Ishii, Akira Kataoka, Rinako Kamei, Toyoshi Kamisako, Masanori Fukata
  • Patent number: 10455651
    Abstract: A information processor of a terminal apparatus reads from a memory identification information of a food handling apparatus and a table, identifies a function associated with the identification information of the food handling apparatus received by a information receiver in accordance with the table, and starts up the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masao Nonaka, Takashi Morimoto, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 10438508
    Abstract: A method for distributing information used by an information distribution system includes receiving, from a cooking appliance, first identification information for identifying a first food, first end time information indicating a first end time, at which a first cooking operation performed by the cooking appliance on the first food ends, and first log information indicating an operation output and an operation time of the first cooking operation, obtaining, on the basis of the received first identification information and first log information, first questionnaire information indicating a questionnaire relating to the first food from a memory, and distributing the first questionnaire information or second questionnaire information, which is generated using the first questionnaire information, to the display device if first additional cooking information indicating that the cooking appliance has performed an additional cooking operation on the first food has not been received from the cooking appliance in a fi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Publication number: 20190220180
    Abstract: Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Yuki SHINOMOTO, Hiroyuki KUBOTANI, Yasuhiro YUKI
  • Patent number: 10303136
    Abstract: A control method for controlling a terminal device includes using a memory that manages cooking appliance logs each including at least a cooking time of a food and first information indicating an age-related deterioration level of one of the cooking appliances to acquire, from among candidates of a recommended cooking time calculated based on the first information and the cooking time and stored in a server apparatus, third information indicating a recommended cooking time corresponding to second information indicating an age-related deterioration level of the first cooking appliance, displaying, on a display, a user interface that allows a user to select one of the candidates including at least the recommended cooking time for the first cooking appliance using the third information, and outputting a setting command for setting the selected cooking time to the first cooking appliance upon detecting selection of one of the cooking times through the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 10282079
    Abstract: Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 10210444
    Abstract: A cooking assistance method includes: receiving, from a first food, first food information indicating the first food; receiving appliance identification information for identifying the cooking apparatus for cooking the first food; obtaining first setting details regarding cooking to be performed by the cooking apparatus, based on the received first food information and the received appliance identification information, the first setting details being associated with the first food and the cooking apparatus; and transmitting first setting information indicating the obtained first setting details to the cooking apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Rinako Kamei, Yasuhiro Yuki, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Kazuki Funase
  • Publication number: 20180235392
    Abstract: A bottle storage includes a container that contains a bottle; a cooling-warming apparatus provided to surround a position where the bottle is contained; and an image capturer that captures an image of the bottle contained in the container. The cooling-warming apparatus has a gap at least at a portion of the cooling-warming apparatus corresponding to at least a part of an image capturing region of the image capturer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: YASUHIRO YUKI, MASAHIRO ISHII, AKIRA KATAOKA, RINAKO KAMEI, TOYOSHI KAMISAKO, MASANORI FUKATA
  • Publication number: 20180240229
    Abstract: A bottle storage includes: a housing portion that houses a bottle therein; a cooling-warming portion (cooling-warming devices) that is provided around the housing portion; a rotation portion (rotation motor) that rotates the bottle housed in the housing portion; an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion; a controller that controls the bottle rotation performed by the rotation portion and the image capture performed by the image capture portion, based on the bottle image captured by the image capture portion; an information manager (storage manager) that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on the bottle image captured by the control of the controller; and an output portion (display portion) that outputs at least one of the brand identified by the information manager and relevant information regarding the identified brand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: YASUHIRO YUKI, MASAHIRO ISHII, MITSUHIRO ASO, TAKAYUKI HAYAMI, TOMOKO KAJIMOTO
  • Patent number: D839679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki, Masahiro Ishii