The present application relates to a method, apparatus, computer device and storage medium for controlling a cooking device. The method includes: scanning a coded pattern preset on a to-be-cooked food to obtain to-be-cooked food information characterizing the to-be-cooked food; sending a standby instruction to the cooking device when the to-be-cooked food information meets a preset standby condition, so as to bring the cooking device into a standby state; sending a cooking instruction to the cooking device when the cooking device is in the standby state and the preset cooking condition is met, so as to control the cooking device to cook the to-be-cooked food; and receiving state information fed back by the cooking device, wherein the state information is configured to characterize the cooking state of the cooking device.

The invention relates to a touch panel device for a dimmer lighting control system and a method for controlling a light circuit. The device comprises a touch sensitive surface; a light sensor; a motion sensor and a processor operatively connected to the touch sensitive surface, the light sensor, the motion sensor for generating control signal. The processor is configured for modifying the control signal based on a learning from a stored historical data in a secondary device, accepting or rejecting a device operation using a user input.

An equipment unit state controlling method and device, and an equipment unit. After receiving control data transmitted from a state controller, a unit controller detects whether the unit controller communicates with a display panel controller, in which the state controller transmits the control data to the unit controller and the display panel controller simultaneously. If the unit controller communicates with the display panel controller, the unit controller performs an operation on the equipment unit corresponding to instruction information transmitted from the display panel controller, and if the unit controller does not communicate with the display panel controller, the unit controller parses the control data by itself to obtain the parsing result and performs the operation on the equipment unit corresponding to the parsing result.

A control device is configured to control an information presentation system including at least one home appliance having a communication function and a plurality of communication devices. The control device includes: a behavior prediction unit configured to perform behavior prediction processing to predict a behavior using the at least one home appliance of a subject user on the basis of operation information and an operation history of the at least one home appliance; and a suggestion information processing unit configured to perform suggestion information processing to generate suggestion information useful for the subject user to perform the behavior predicted by the behavior prediction unit such that the suggestion information is presented to the subject user using a subject communication device.

A smart light switch includes a control block and heat generating components such as a light actuator, a processor and memory, a data communications module, and an environmental sensor. The processor is operable to receive as an input a measured temperature value from the environmental sensor and a power consumption value from the of heat generating components. The processor is operable to select a temperature offset value from a dataset of temperature offset values that is stored in memory. Each temperature offset value stored in the dataset of temperature offset values is associated with a potential combination of power consumption inputs. The processor is further operable to determine a calibrated temperature value from the measured temperature value adjusted by the temperature offset values selected from the dataset of temperature offset values.

A method for data communication with a domestic appliance by a mobile computer device. The domestic appliance and the mobile computer device are interconnected or interconnectable via a wireless data connection. The wireless data connection is adapted for transferring signals between the domestic appliance and the mobile computer device. Further, the present invention relates to application software for the mobile computer device. Moreover, the present invention relates to a domestic appliance. Additionally, the present invention relates to a mobile computer device including a display or touch screen.

Systems and methods for monitoring dish ware position and modifying the wash and dry cycle of a dishwasher by capturing and analyzing image data utilizing a plurality of cloud-connected cameras.

The present invention relates to an advantageously interactive item of furniture and/or appliance comprising: at least one worktop formed from at least one substrate made of a monolithic glazing material and of area larger than 0.7 m.sup.2, said substrate having a lightness L* higher than 10, a light transmission T.sub.L lower than 50%, an opacity indicator higher than 90, and if needs be a haze higher than 15%; at least one heating element; at least one light source, in particular intended to light up one or more zones or one or more elements or displays of the substrate, in particular by projection, this source for example being located plumb with the substrate; and at least one interface for communicating with at least one element of the worktop such as the one or more light sources and/or the one or more heating elements and/or if needs be wirelessly with at least one external element.

A computer-assisted cooking method is provided. The method comprises operating a chef-side computer system to collect cooking session information from a chef cooking session; uploading to, and storing on, a remote server the cooking session information; and receiving at the remote server, a request from a user-side computer system for the cooking session information, and, in response, downloading the cooking session information the user-side computer system.

Systems and methods for monitoring dish ware position and modifying the wash and dry cycle of a dishwasher by capturing and analyzing image data utilizing a plurality of cloud-connected cameras.