JPH08202682A - Electronic menu creation device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To provide an electronic menu preparation device capable of preparing a menu suitable for each individual. [Configuration] When the user inputs personal data (height, weight, sex, age) (S25), one food name is selected from a plurality of food names stored in the table 12a (S
30) First, it is determined whether or not there are food names that overlap in the past (S40), and if there is no food name (S40: No), it is determined whether or not the selected food name is suitable for an individual (S40). S55). At that time, the personal data input in S25 is used to perform a predetermined calorie calculation, and based on the calculation result, it is determined whether or not the food name selected this time is suitable in terms of calories. If not suitable (S55: No), another dish name is selected and the same judgment is made.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic menu preparation device for supporting the preparation of cooking menus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in an electronic menu preparation device that supports the preparation of a menu for cooking, some devices are appropriately selected from a list of dishes prepared in advance by the device, and once or for a week. It has been proposed that the menu be configured to present a menu for a certain period such as minutes. The electronic menu preparation device of this type is provided with a function of displaying the amount of ingredients required for the presented menu and the cooking procedure on a screen, printing on paper, and the like.

When selecting a dish, for example, there is a configuration in which a nutritional value is calculated and a dish that is nutritionally balanced is selected based on the calculated value.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned device, the menu is prepared by determining whether or not the nutritional value is balanced based on standard nutritional value data. People, people who want to gain a little more weight,
There is a problem that it is not easy to use because it is not possible to create an appropriate menu according to personal circumstances.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic menu preparation apparatus capable of preparing a menu suitable for each individual.

[0006]

In order to achieve this object, the electronic menu preparation device of the present invention stores various kinds of information about the cooking name, ingredients used, nutritional value, etc. necessary for preparing the menu. In the electronic menu preparation device comprising means and a food name selecting means for selecting at least one food name from the food names stored in the storage means,
The food name selection means includes an input means for inputting personal data such as height and weight, and the food name selection means selects a food name suitable for the individual based on the personal data input by the input means.

Further, a predetermined calculation regarding calories is performed using the personal data input by the input means,
Based on the calculated value, the dish name selecting means selects a dish name suitable for an individual.

Further, the electronic menu preparation apparatus of this embodiment is
The rank information is provided corresponding to each dish name stored in the storage unit, and has rank information indicating the degree of whether the dish name is suitable for diet.

[0009] Then, a diet setting means that is operated when it is desired to select a diet dish is provided, and when the diet setting means is operated, the dish name selecting means,
With reference to the rank information, a food name suitable for dieting is selected from the storage means.

[0010]

In the electronic menu preparation device of the present invention having the above-mentioned structure, the cooking name selecting means is adapted to the individual based on the personal data input by the input means for inputting the personal data such as height and weight. Since a suitable food name is selected from the storage means, it is possible to easily prepare a menu according to the convenience of the individual.

Further, a predetermined calculation regarding calories is performed using the personal data input by the input means,
Based on the calculated value, the dish name selecting means is configured to select a dish name suitable for an individual, so that the user does not perform a troublesome calculation regarding calories,
You can get a proper calorie menu.

Furthermore, the electronic menu preparation device of this embodiment is
It is provided corresponding to each dish name stored in the storage means, and since the dish name is provided with rank information indicating whether or not the dish name is suitable for dieting, the user can select a dish suitable for dieting. It is convenient because you do not need to enter information about

When the diet setting means, which is operated when it is desired to select a diet dish, is operated, the dish name selecting means refers to the rank information and selects a dish name suitable for diet from the storage means. Therefore, even a person who does not have knowledge about diet cooking can easily obtain a menu suitable for diet.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the electronic menu preparation device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the schematic arrangement of the electronic menu preparation device according to the present embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 1, the electronic menu preparation device of the present embodiment is composed of computer parts, and a data processing unit 10 for controlling the entire device is composed of a keyboard and the like, and has an input means of the present invention. The input unit 20, the display unit 30, which is composed of an LCD, and the external storage device 40, which is composed of an IC card, a floppy disk, etc., are connected.

Further, inside the data processing unit 10,
To temporarily store various programs for operating the device, various tables to be described later, ROM 12 storing data on standard calorie values to be described later, contents input by the input unit 20, calculation results, and the like. R
AM13, CPU11 for executing an operation based on the program stored in the ROM12 and for reading and writing the contents of the RAM13, and between these parts, or connected to the data processing unit 10 and its data processing unit 10. I / O for exchanging data with the input unit 20, the display unit 30, and the external storage unit 40 which are stored.
An O port 14 is provided. The data processing unit 10 constitutes the cooking name selecting means of the present invention, and the ROM
12 constitutes the storage means of the present invention.

The various programs and various tables may be stored in the external storage device 40. Also,
An external storage device 40 may be used instead of the RAM 13 as a temporary storage location.

In the RAM 13, an area 13a for storing and holding the selected food name, an area 13b for storing and storing the calculation result of the nutritional value of the selected food name, and an individual such as height and weight to be input. An area 13c for storing and holding data is provided.

Next, the details of the various tables stored in the ROM 12 will be described with reference to FIGS.

In the RAM 12, tables 12a-12 are provided.
3 tables c are provided, and the table 12b
As shown in the schematic diagram of FIG. 3, information on the material name and the nutritional value of the material is stored in the. Here, the IDs (1, 2, ...) In FIG. 3 are codes sequentially assigned to the respective material names. In addition, the unit is the unit amount that becomes the standard of the nutritional value of each material, such as calories, calcium,
For 8 items of iron, protein, salt, fiber, vitamin C and vitamin A, the nutritional value per unit amount is
Stored for each material. For example, in table 12b, "beef" has an ID of "1" and beef 100
In g, calories are 200 kcal and calcium is 20
mmg, iron content 10 mmg, protein 20 g, salt content 1 mmg, fiber 2 g, vitamin C 20 mmg, vitamin A 4 IU. The table 12c has
As shown in the schematic diagram of FIG. 4, information about cooking methods is stored. Here, ID (a, b, ...) In FIG.
Is a code attached to each recipe in order.
For example, in the table 12c, the cooking method "baking" is
The ID is “a”.

As shown in the schematic view of FIG. 2, the table 12a stores information about a dish name, ingredients used for the dish, a cooking method, and the like. Here, the classification is a classification to which each food name belongs, and the main and sub items indicate whether or not the food is a main dish. In addition, the material is represented by the ID code of the table 12b and the required quantity, and the number (A, B, ...) Is sequentially attached to each material. Furthermore, the cooking method is I on Table 12c.
It is represented by a combination of the D code and the number assigned to each material.

For example, in the table 12a, when the dish name is "hamburger", the classification is "meat dishes",
The main and sub are "main" (main dishes), and the ingredients are 200g of beef (A: 1x200) and 200g of pork (B: 2x20).
0), 1/2 onion (C: 3x0.5), 4 fresh shiitake mushrooms
Plate (D: 4x4), Bread crumbs 10g (E: 5x10), Milk 400ml (F: 6x400), Egg 1/3 (G: 7x0.
3), a little nutmeg (H: 8xs), salt (I: 101), and pepper (J: 102). The recipe is that bread crumbs are softened with milk (EFe), then chopped onion. Stir fry (Cdc), then chop raw shiitake mushrooms (Dd), and finally knead them, beef, pork, eggs, nutmeg, salt and pepper ((EFe + Cdc + Dd + AB
GHIJ) fa).

The diet mark is a ranking of how effective diet food is, and "1" is suitable for diet food,
"2" represents something that is not very suitable, and "3" represents something that should never be done.

The tables 12a to 12c may be provided in the external storage device 40.

Further, the RAM 13 is provided with a menu table for storing menus for a predetermined period in the past as shown in the schematic diagram of FIG. 5, and the menu table includes the tables 12b and 12c described above. Created. Figure 5
In the example of the schematic diagram shown in, the menu on August 1st is that the main dish is "
Fried chicken "and side dishes are" vegetable soup "and" corn salad ".

The menu table is stored in the external storage device 4.
It may be provided within 0.

Next, the operation of the electronic menu preparation device configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. It is assumed that the menu table is stored at the time of preparing the menu as shown in FIG.

First, by turning on the power of the apparatus, R
The program in the OM12 starts, and the display unit 30 displays
The dish classification selection screen as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed and waits for the user to input a desired dish classification (step 10, hereinafter abbreviated as S10. Other steps are the same). For example, depending on the user, "1. meat dish", "4.
It is assumed that "soup, soups" and "6. Designate by dish name" are selected. When "6. Designate by dish name" is selected, the user is instructed to enter the desired dish name.
When the user inputs, for example, "octopus salad", FIG.
The past period input screen as shown in is displayed on the display unit 30.

When the user designates August 1 to August 7 on the past period input screen (S15), the menu within the designated period presents one menu on August 8 this time. Will be referred to when doing.

Next, in S25, a personal data input screen for inputting height, weight, sex and age as shown in FIG. 9 is displayed on the display unit 30. The height, weight, sex and age data of the individual input on the personal data input screen are used in the menu preparation process described later. The entered height, weight, sex and age data are stored in the RAM 13
It is stored in the inner area 13c.

Here, if the input personal data is
"Height 160 cm, weight 50 kg, gender / woman, age 20"
I was old. "

Next, in S30, one food name of the food classification selected in S10 is extracted from the large number of food names stored in the table 12a, and the extracted food name is stored in the RAM 13. In the area 13a. As the extraction method, simple extraction may be performed from the beginning of the table 12a, or random extraction may be performed using random numbers or the like. Then, the food name extracted in S30 is S1.
The period designated by No. 5 (August 1 to August 7 in this embodiment)
(S4) compares and checks whether or not they overlap (S4).
0). The period for this comparison check may be configured to be designated again by the user.

Here, for the food category "meat food" selected by the user in S10, if the food name extracted in S30 is "hamburger",
Referring to the menu table shown in FIG. 5, since there is no overlap within the past designated period (S40: No), it is subsequently determined whether or not the selected dish name is the main dish (S45). ”
Since "hamburger" is the main dish (S45: Yes), the nutritional value of the "hamburger" is calculated by referring to the tables 12a and 12b and stored in the area 13b in the RAM 13 (S50).
It was assumed that the nutritional value was 800 Kcal.

Next, calories are calculated based on the following calculation formulas, and it is determined whether or not the selected food name is appropriate.

[0036]

[Equation 1]

Here, the standard calorie value in the formula (A) is
It is a standard value of calories required for humans to live, and is preset according to age and sex,
It is stored in the ROM 12. In the present embodiment, the case of preparing a menu for one time is described as an example, so that the standard calorie value for one time is 1000 Kc.
Let's say al. In addition, 200K from standard calorie value
Usually, cal is drawn, when making a menu, it is rare to make a menu with only one cooking name,
This is because the menu is created by combining with rice, soup, etc., and the caloric value of these is assumed to be 200 Kcal in advance.

The standard calorie value may be configured to be changed by breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and the menu may be prepared so that the total calorie of the day approaches the standard calorie. Alternatively, the daily standard calorie value may be presented so that the user can freely set the calorie value for three meals within the range.

For "weight kg" and "height cm", the data input in S25 is used. Further, although α in the formula (A) is usually set to “2”, it is set to “3” or more depending on the degree of obesity judged from personal data so that calorie restriction is appropriately performed. Has been done.

If the standard calorie value = 1000 Kcal, the weight = 50 kg, the height = 160 cm, and α = 2, the calculation of the formula (A) gives R = 808. Further, in the formula (B), it is determined whether or not the calorie value of the selected food name is suitable. When R = 808 and the calorie of the selected food name (hamburger) = 800 Kcal, the formula (B) is 783 ≦ 800 ≦ 833, which satisfies the calculation formula. Therefore, the personal data is “height 160 cm, weight 50 kg, It is judged that the "hamburger" selected this time is appropriate as a menu for a person of "sex / woman, age 20" (S55: Yes). Then, the selected dish name "hamburger" is stored in the external storage device 40 (S60),
Next, it is determined whether or not the user has selected a food name for all the food classifications designated in S10 (S65),
If it is not selected (S65: No), the process returns to S30, and the food name is selected for the next food classification. In this embodiment, since "4. Soup, soups" is selected in addition to the meat dish in S10, an appropriate dish name is selected by the same process as above.

Here, when "Poached egg soup" is selected for the food classification "4. Soup, soups",
The data is stored in the area 13a in the RAM 13. Then, similarly to the above-described processing, it is comparatively checked whether or not the "poached eggs" are overlapped during the period designated in S15 (August 1 to August 7 in this embodiment) (S40). Referring to the menu table shown in FIG. 5, since there is no overlap within the past designated period (S40: No), it is subsequently determined whether or not the selected dish name is the main dish (S45). "Poached egg soup" is not the main dish (S45: N
o), without calculating calories, go to S65.

When it is judged that the food name has been selected for all the specified food classifications (S65: Ye
s), the process proceeds to S70, and the selected food name is displayed on the display unit 30, as shown in FIG. Here, in the display state shown in FIG. 10, for example, if the item of “ingredient” is designated, as shown in FIG. 11, the material required for the dish name selected this time can be displayed. Nutritional value "
By specifying the item, the nutritional value of the current menu can be displayed as shown in FIG.

If the personal data is "height 160 cm,
If the body weight is 70 kg, the sex / woman, and the age is 20 years old, the same processing as described above is performed based on the flowchart shown in FIG. 6, but the standard calorie value = 1000 Kcal, the body weight = 70 kg, in the determination in S55. Height = 1
When calculation of the formula (A) is performed with 60 cm and α = 2, R
= 768. Further, in the formula (B), it is determined whether or not the calorie value of the selected food name is suitable. R
= 768, calorie of selected dish name (hamburger) =
In the case of 800 Kcal, the formula (B) is 743 ≦ 800 ≦
Since it is 793, which does not satisfy the calculation formula, it is judged that the "hamburger" selected this time is inappropriate as a menu for the person whose personal data is "height 160 cm, weight 70 kg, sex / woman, age 20". (S55: No). Then, the process returns to S30, another dish name is selected, and until it is determined in S55 that the dish name is appropriate, S30-
The process of S55 is repeated.

That is, in the case of an obese person, based on the input personal data, a cooking name having a caloric value less conservative than the standard caloric value is selected and a menu is prepared. It is possible to obtain a menu according to the body shape of the user without performing troublesome calorie calculation.

The processing of S30 and S55 functions as the cooking name selecting means of the present invention.

When "7. Diet food" is selected in S10, the menu is prepared by selecting the food name suitable for the diet based on the diet mark in the table 12a. The diet mark is a ranking of how effective the dish name is as a diet dish, "1" is suitable as a diet dish, "2" is not very suitable, and "3" Represents something that should never be done. In the flowchart shown in FIG. 6, instead of performing the processes of S45 to S55, based on the diet mark,
It is determined whether or not the food name selected in S30 is suitable for dieting.

For example, in S30, "hamburger"
Is selected, the diet mark of this "hamburger" is "3", so it is determined that the diet is not suitable for dieting, and another dish name is selected again in S30. The item of "7. Diet food" described above constitutes the diet setting means of the present invention.

Thus, when the user wants to perform a diet, even a person who has no knowledge about diet can create a menu suitable for diet.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but various modifications can be added.

In this embodiment, whether or not the side dishes are appropriate is not particularly determined, but it may be so arranged that whether or not the side dishes are appropriate is also determined. For example, the calorie value of the side dish is calculated, and when it is added to the calorie value of the main dish selected previously, it is determined whether or not the standard calorie value (1000 Kcal in this embodiment) is exceeded,
If the standard calorie value is exceeded, a method such as selecting another side dish can be considered.

[0051]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the electronic menu preparation device of the present invention, the menu suitable for the body shape of the individual can be easily prepared by inputting the personal data such as height and weight. can do. Further, by operating the diet setting means, even a person who does not have knowledge about diet can easily obtain a menu suitable for diet.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of an electronic menu preparation device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a table in which information on food names, ingredient names, and cooking methods is stored.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a table in which information on material names and nutritional values is stored.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a table in which information on cooking methods is stored.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a menu table.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic menu preparation device according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen for instructing input of a food category.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen for instructing input of a past period.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen for instructing input of personal data.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying a selected food name.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying a selected menu material.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying the nutritional value of the selected menu.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 data processing unit 11 CPU 12 ROM 12a to 12c table 13 RAM 20 input unit 30 display unit

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A storage means for storing various kinds of information regarding a cooking name, ingredients used, nutritional value, etc. necessary for preparing a menu, and at least one dish selected from the cooking names stored in the storage means. An electronic menu creation device including a food name selection unit for selecting a name, including an input unit for inputting personal data such as height and weight, wherein the food name selection unit is an individual input by the input unit. An electronic menu preparation device characterized by selecting a dish name suitable for the individual based on the data. 2. A predetermined calorie calculation is performed using the personal data input by the input means, and based on the calculated value, the dish name selecting means selects a dish name suitable for an individual. The electronic menu creation device according to claim 1, which is configured. 3. The rank information is provided corresponding to each food name stored in the storage means, and rank information indicating a degree of whether the food name is suitable for dieting is provided. The electronic menu preparation device described in 1. 4. A diet setting unit that is operated when it is desired to select a diet dish, and when the diet setting unit is operated, the dish name selecting unit refers to the rank information and a dish suitable for dieting. The electronic menu preparation device according to claim 3, wherein the name is selected from the storage means.