System and method for collecting and annotating cooking images for training smart cooking appliances
US12102259B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 13, 2021 |
| Grant date | Oct 1, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 23, 2043 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B2219/2643
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
The method and system disclosed herein presents a food preparation system that provides a user-friendly data collection and data annotation process that leverages crowd-sourced data to reduce the prohibitive costs associated with developing an extensive training set using dedicated cooking experiments and specialized manual annotation efforts. The food preparation system and corresponding method collect one or more data types (e.g., structured data such as temperature and weight data, and unstructured data such as images and thermal maps) and allow the collected data to be annotated by human users in order to provide information regarding the process of cooking, as well as food item identity, location, and/or outline information. A combination of image processing and user input is utilized in order to create models with food recognition and determining cooking progress.
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