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Granted Patent B2
US 12,236,070 · App. 17/630,934 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Meal planning menu proposal system

Inventor: Susumu Okuzawa (Kanagawa, JP)
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Patent No.
US 12,236,070
App. No.
17/630,934
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

[Problem] To provide a system in which candidates for breakfast, lunch, and dinner can be visually attractively expressed, and when wanting to change lunch while adopting breakfast and dinner, only a candidate for lunch can be changed to the next candidate while being visually attractively expressed. [Solution] This dish menu proposal system, which displays a dish menu proposal on a screen which is a touch panel, has: a dish storage unit that stores a plurality of dishes and a plurality of dish images; a menu proposal unit that proposes two or more menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, respectively; a menu display unit that displays, on a breakfast display section, a lunch display section, and a dinner display section on the screen, menu images for the breakfast, lunch, and dinner; and a menu update display unit that when a slide input has been performed on any among the breakfast display section, the lunch display section, and the dinner display section, slides the slide-input menu image for the breakfast, lunch, or dinner on a second menu image pertaining to a second menu.

Claims (27)

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium which stores a program for causing a computer to function as a meal planning menu proposal system for displaying a proposal for a meal planning menu on a screen as a touch panel, the program being configured to be executed by one or more processors, the meal planning menu proposal system comprising:

a dish storage means configured to store a plurality of dishes and images of the plurality of dishes;

a menu proposal means configured to propose two or more menus for each of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the two or more menus including a first menu and a second menu, the second menu being a menu for a same day as the first menu and being different from the first menu;

a menu display means configured to read out images of dishes included in the first menus of the breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus from the dish storage means, and simultaneously display the images in a breakfast display section, a lunch display section, and a dinner display section on the screen as menu images for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, respectively; and

a menu update display means configured to, in response to a slide input to any one of the breakfast display section, the lunch display section, and the dinner display section on the screen, slide the menu image for breakfast, lunch, or dinner to which the slide input is made to a second menu image for the corresponding second menu, wherein

a background color of the menu image for breakfast, lunch, or dinner to which the slide input is made changes and the menu image for breakfast, lunch, or dinner to which the slide input is made is enlarged.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a picture reception means configured to receive a picture; and

a foodstuff analysis means configured to perform image analysis on the picture received by the picture reception means to analyze foodstuffs, wherein

the menu proposal means proposes menus using the foodstuffs analyzed by the foodstuff analysis means as the first menu and the second menu.

3. A meal planning menu proposal system for displaying a proposal for a meal planning menu on a screen as a touch panel, the meal planning menu proposal system comprising:

a display;

one or more processors;

one or more memory devices that store program configured to be executed by the one or more processors; and

a dish storage means configured to store a plurality of dishes and images of the plurality of dishes;

the program contains instructions which, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

proposing two or more menus for each of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the two or more menus including a first menu and a second menu, the second menu being a menu for a same day as the first menu and being different from the first menu;

reading out images of dishes included in the first menus of the breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus from the dish storage means,

displaying the menu images for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a breakfast display section, a lunch display section, and a dinner display section on the screen of the display respectively and simultaneously;

determining a slide input is made to any one of the breakfast display sections, the lunch display section, and the dinner display section to determine a slide input section to which the slide input is made;

sliding out the menu image for breakfast, lunch, or dinner displayed on the slide input section; and

displaying the second menu image of the second menu on the slide input section;

wherein a background color of the menu image for breakfast, lunch, or dinner to which the slide input is made changes and the menu image for breakfast, lunch or dinner to which the slide input is made is enlarged.

4. The meal planning menu proposal system according to claim 3 , further comprising:

a picture reception means configured to receive a picture; and

a foodstuff analysis means configured to perform image analysis on the picture received by the picture reception means to analyze foodstuffs, wherein

the menu proposal means proposes menus using the foodstuffs analyzed by the foodstuff analysis means as the first menu and the second menu.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-138452 · Jul 29, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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