CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is the U.S. National Stage of International Application No. PCT/IB2018/051264, filed Feb. 28, 2018, which designated the United States and has been published as International Publication No. WO 2018/163024 A1 and which claims the priority of Chinese Patent Application, Serial No. 201710135293.8, filed Mar. 8, 2017, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d).

BACKGROUND

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of household appliance technologies, and specifically, to a cooker hood, and a method and system for controlling same.

Related Art

A cooker hood is an electric appliance in a kitchen for cleaning an environment in the kitchen. The cooker hood can rapidly discharge waste generated when a fire burns in a stove and lampblack that is generated during a cooking process and that is harmful to human bodies, to clean the air, and has safety assurance functions of anti-poison and anti-explosion.

With the development of various social networks, a user hopes that a process of cooking by himself or herself in a kitchen can be recorded. After cooking, the user can edit the cooking process by using a text, produce a menu by using the text and a corresponding image, and then share the menu on a corresponding social network.

In an existing menu production process, a user usually records a cooking process by using a device such as a mobile phone or a camera. The user needs to hold the device such as a mobile phone or a camera while cooking. Therefore, user operations are quite inconvenient, causing relatively difficult menu production.

SUMMARY

A problem to be resolved in embodiments of the present invention is how to simplify user operations during a menu production process.

To resolve the foregoing problem, the present invention provides a method for controlling a cooker hood, characterized in that, an image collection apparatus is disposed on the cooker hood, and the method includes: when a menu production start instruction is received, controlling the image collection apparatus to perform an image collection operation; storing a collected image; and after a menu production end instruction is received, invoking the collected image, to generate a corresponding menu.

Optionally, the controlling the image collection apparatus to perform an image collection operation includes: controlling a plurality of cameras disposed on a housing of the cooker hood to perform an image collection operation on a corresponding image collection area.

Optionally, the image collection operation includes at least one of the following: performing image collection by means of video shooting; performing image collection by means of photographing; or performing image collection by means of video snapshot.

Optionally, the image collection operation further includes: performing a sound collection operation by using a microphone disposed on the cooker hood.

Optionally, the storing a collected image includes: transmitting stored information to a cloud server and storing the information in the cloud server.

Optionally, the method further includes: obtaining a speech or text description part corresponding to the collected image by using a human-machine interaction interface of the cooker hood or by logging in to the cloud server; and the invoking the collected image, to generate a corresponding menu includes: making the collected image correspond to the obtained speech or text description part, to generate the corresponding menu.

Optionally, the human-machine interaction interface is a touchable projection surface.

Optionally, the method further includes at least one of the following: when an instruction of sharing or downloading the menu is received, inputting corresponding information by using a reminder; and when an instruction of determining to perform the sharing or downloading operation is received, performing a corresponding operation on the menu; or when an editing instruction of editing the menu is received, controlling the menu to be in an editable state, so as to receive an input editing operation.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a system for controlling a cooker hood, the system including: a cooker hood body; an image collection apparatus and a controller that are disposed on the cooker hood body; a memory coupled to the controller; and a generation apparatus coupled to the memory, where the controller is coupled to the image collection apparatus, and configured to: when a menu production start instruction is received, control the image collection apparatus to perform an image collection operation; the memory is configured to store a collected image; and the generation apparatus is configured to: after a menu production end instruction is received, invoke the collected image, to generate a corresponding menu.

Optionally, the image collection apparatus includes: a plurality of cameras disposed on a housing of the cooker hood body, and the plurality of cameras corresponds to at least one image collection area.

Optionally, the image collection operation includes at least one of the following: performing image collection by means of video shooting; performing image collection by means of photographing; or performing image collection by means of video snapshot.

Optionally, the image collection apparatus further includes: a microphone disposed on the cooker hood body.

Optionally, the controller is configured to transmit collected information to a cloud server and store the information in the cloud server.

Optionally, the system further includes: an input apparatus disposed on the cooker hood body and coupled to the generation apparatus, where the input apparatus is configured to obtain a speech or text description part corresponding to the collected image by using a human-machine interaction interface of the cooker hood or by logging in to the cloud server, where the generation apparatus is configured to make the collected image correspond to the obtained speech or text description part, to generate the corresponding menu.

Optionally, the human-machine interaction interface is a touchable projection surface.

Optionally, the generation apparatus includes at least one of the following: a first execution unit, configured to: when an instruction of sharing or downloading the menu is received, input corresponding information by using a reminder; and when an instruction of determining to perform the sharing or downloading operation is received, perform a corresponding operation on the menu; or a second execution unit, configured to: when an editing instruction of editing the menu is received, control the menu to be in an editable state, so as to receive an input editing operation.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a cooker hood, the cooker hood including: a cooker hood body, and an image collection apparatus, a controller, a memory, and a generation apparatus that are disposed on the cooker hood body, where the controller is coupled to the image collection apparatus, and configured to: when a menu production start instruction is received, control the image collection apparatus to perform an image collection operation; the controller is coupled to the image collection apparatus, and configured to: when a menu production start instruction is received, control the image collection apparatus to perform an image collection operation; the memory is coupled to the controller, and configured to store a collected image; and the generation apparatus is coupled to the memory, and configured to: after a menu production end instruction is received, invoke the collected image, to generate a corresponding menu.

Compared with the prior art, the technical solutions of the present invention have the following advantage:

By means of the foregoing solutions, the image collection apparatus is disposed on the cooker hood, so as to control, when a menu production start instruction is received, the image collection apparatus to perform an image collection operation and store an image. Compared with that a user holds a device such as a mobile phone and a camera to record a cooking process, user operations during a menu production process can be simplified, therefore it is convenient to produce a menu.

