Electric heating – Microwave heating – With control system
Patent
1995-09-06
1997-10-28
Leung, Philip H.
Electric heating
Microwave heating
With control system
219482, 219704, 99325, H05B 668
Patent
active
056814968
ABSTRACT:
A sensor based automated cooking apparatus is provided. A humidity sensor measures the moisture content within a cooking cavity. An output of the sensor is provided to a digital filter to remove noise therefrom before being passed to a feature extractor which performs a data compression step and extracts salient features relating to the shape of the humidity versus time characteristic. The parameters are analyzed by a neural network to estimate a degree of doneness of the food. A controller uses the degree of doneness to estimate the remaining cooking time and appropriate power level. The cooking apparatus then operates in an open loop mode for the remainder of the cooking time using the appropriate power level.
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Brownlow Michael James
Nomura Toshio
Leung Philip H.
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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