US 12,141,210 B2
System, terminal device, method, and program for providing cooking information
Hosei Akazawa, Musashino (JP)
Assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/623,713
Filed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/026433
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/001959, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0245198 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/9032 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/9038 (2019.01) [G06F 16/90328 (2019.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a user terminal device;
a server device; and
a database including cooking recipes,
the server device including a search unit configured to:
search the database in response to receiving information about a first ingredient from the user terminal device, the user terminal device being located in a location where the first ingredient is available for purchase by a user of the user terminal device when the information about the first ingredient is received from the user terminal device, and acquire a second ingredient to be cooked together with the first ingredient;
search the database based on a specification of the second ingredient received from the user terminal device and in response to receiving the information about the first ingredient and the specification of the second ingredient from the user terminal, acquire a first cooking recipe including the first ingredient and the second ingredient; and
search the database in response to receiving a specification of the first ingredient as only one ingredient from the user terminal device and acquire a second cooking recipe including only the first ingredient in response to receiving the specification of the first ingredient,
the user terminal device including a screen display unit configured to:
display a screen including a list of the first ingredient and the second ingredient, the list of the first ingredient including first listing showing a general category of the first ingredient and a second listing showing a sub-category of the first ingredient, the second listing being shown upon receipt of user input that selects the general category of the first ingredient in the first listing;
display a screen including the first cooking recipe including the first ingredient and the second ingredient in response to a specification of the second ingredient in the list, the first cooking recipe including no more than three cooking steps that specify how to prepare the first cooking recipe; and
display a screen including the second cooking recipe including only the first ingredient in response to a specification of the first ingredient as the only one ingredient in the list, the second cooking recipe including no more than three cooking steps that specify how to prepare the second cooking recipe.