Oven and control method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSang Jun Park, Boo Keun Yoon, Han Jun Sung
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an oven. The oven includes a case having a cooking chamber therein, a door unit connected to the case, configured to open or close the cooking chamber, and having a transparent portion configured to enable a user to see the inside of the cooking chamber, a handle protruding from the door unit to the outside, and a camera module configured to photograph the inside of the cooking chamber, and disposed to be biased toward one end of the handle from the center in longitudinal direction of the handle.
Claims23
An oven comprising:
- a case having a cooking chamber therein;
- a door unit connected to the case, configured to open or close the cooking chamber, and having a transparent portion which enables viewing inside of the cooking chamber;
- a handle which protrudes from the door unit toward outside of the case;
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- a camera module provided in the handle, configured to photograph the inside of the cooking chamber, and disposed to be biased by a predetermined distance from a center area of the handle in a longitudinal direction of the handle so that the camera module is biased toward one end of the handle,
- wherein the transparent portion comprises a mirror glass coating layer.
An oven comprising:
- a door unit configured to open or close a cooking chamber;
- at least one light source provided inside of the door unit;
- a handle which protrudes from the door unit toward an outside of the oven;
- a camera provided in the handle, and configured to photograph the inside of the cooking chamber to acquire image information of the inside of the cooking chamber;
- an illuminance sensor configured to sense an illuminance of an area in a range of a predetermined distance from the camera;
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- a microcomputer configured to adjust an illuminance of the at least one light source based on the illuminance sensed by the illuminance sensor to adjust a brightness of the inside of the door unit.
A method of controlling an oven, the oven including a door unit configured to open or close a cooking chamber, a handle provided on an outside of the door unit, and a camera module provided on the handle and offset approximately eighty millimeters from a center of the handle towards an end of the handle, the method comprising:
- receiving a control signal for photographing an inside of the cooking chamber using the camera module including a camera;
- sensing an illuminance of an area in a range of a predetermined distance from the camera;
- adjusting an illuminance of at least one light source provided inside of the door unit, based on the sensed illuminance;
- photographing the inside of the cooking chamber based on the adjusted illuminance of the at least one light source to acquire image information of the inside of the cooking chamber;
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- transmitting the image information of the inside of the cooking chamber to an external device.
An oven comprising:
- a case having a cooking chamber therein;
- a door unit connected to the case, configured to open or close the cooking chamber, and having a transparent portion which enables viewing an inside of the cooking chamber;
- a handle which protrudes from the door unit toward an outside of the case;
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- a camera module provided in the handle, configured to photograph the inside of the cooking chamber, disposed to be in a depression in an outer surface of the handle, and disposed to be biased approximately eighty millimeters toward one end of the handle from a center area of the handle in a longitudinal direction of the handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.