Cooking apparatus and method for controlling same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSoon-cheol Kweon, Joon-hyung Kwon
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Abstract
A cooking apparatus including a transmission antenna for irradiating a substance to be cooked with beamformed electromagnetic waves; a reception antenna for receiving reflected waves reflected from the substance to be cooked; and a controller for determining the temperature of the substance to be cooked corresponding to the received reflected waves on the basis of the property in which the electromagnetic waves, with which the substance to be cooked is irradiated, are reflected differently in accordance with the temperature of the substance to be cooked.
Claims15
A cooking apparatus to heat a substance, the cooking apparatus comprising:
- a transmission antenna configured to irradiate the substance with electromagnetic waves so that the electromagnetic waves are reflected from the substance;
- a reception antenna configured to receive the reflected electromagnetic waves;
- a heat portion to heat the substance;
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- a processor configured to
- determine, based on a property of the received reflected electromagnetic waves, a current temperature of the substance, a target temperature to which the substance is to be heated from the current temperature, and a cooking time for the determined current temperature to reach the determined target temperature, and
- control the heat portion to heat the substance from the determined current temperature to the determined target temperature for the determined cooking time.
A controlling method of a cooking apparatus which heats a substance, the method comprising:
- irradiating the substance with electromagnetic waves so that the electromagnetic waves are reflected from the substance;
- receiving the reflected electromagnetic waves;
- determining, based on a property of the received reflected electromagnetic waves, a current temperature of the substance, a target temperature to which the substance is to be heated from the current temperature, and a cooking time for the determined current temperature to reach the determined target temperature, and
- heating the substance from the determined current temperature to the determined target temperature for the determined cooking time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.