Cookpad Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Masayuki Ioki

Akihisa Kaneko

Tomomichi Sumi

Shinya Ohtani

Toyotaro Suzumura

Kaori Fujiwara

Jun Harashima

A recipe translation server includes circuitry which acquires quantitative recipe information which is made by converting qualitative expressions in recipe information written in a first language into quantitative expressions of numerical values. The quantitative recipe information includes nodes and edges, each node representing information on an ingredient of a dish and each edge provided between nodes and represents information on an action for cooking the dish. The circuitry acquires edge information by translating the edges written in the first language into edges written in a second language and by referring to an edge database. The circuitry then acquires node information by translating the nodes written in the first language into nodes written in the second language and by referring to a dictionary database, and generates translated quantitative recipe information corresponding to the recipe information translated into the second language.

Recipe translation server and control method for recipe translation system

A server apparatus which includes a memory that stores recipe information including a plurality of cooking processes, and circuitry that acquires the recipe information, specifies, in the acquired recipe information, a cooking process described with a qualitative expression, searches the recipe information stored in the memory for the qualitative expression described in the specified cooking process, converts the qualitative expression described in the specified cooking process into a quantitative expression based on a result of the search, and sends, to a user terminal via the internet, quantitative recipe information including the quantitative expression which corresponds to the acquired recipe information, for controlling a cooking appliance based on the quantitative recipe information.

Server apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for quantitative expressed recipe

A device control system that includes a memory, and processing circuitry that acquires recipe data of a culinary dish, the recipe data being represented by a graph including a plurality of nodes and edges between the nodes, and processes the acquired recipe data for controlling a device, and the plurality of nodes include an ingredient node that represents an ingredient of the culinary dish, and a culinary dish node that represents the culinary dish, the edge represents an action that is necessary for state transition between the nodes, an ingredient ID that uniquely identifies the ingredient is assigned to the ingredient node, an action ID that uniquely identifies the action is assigned to the edge, and the processing circuitry controls the device based on the acquired recipe data.

Device control system, device control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for recipe

The invention provides a support system for searching for a function, including: a first storage for storing a history of at least one output parameter of each of a plurality of functions; an input section for receiving an input of an output parameter expected as an output of a function for a search; a calculating section for calculating first indexes respectively indicating proximity of the output parameter as inputted to each of those stored in the first storage, and summing the calculated first indexes for each function; and an output section for selecting, from among the plurality of functions, a function having a sum of the first indexes larger than a predetermined value, and outputting the selected function.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Ioki