Home appliance and method for controlling the same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsIkkyu Lee, Doyoun Han, Woohyuk Choi, Changseok Ock
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Abstract
A home appliance includes: a cabinet defining a storage space, a plurality of doors configured to open and close the storage space, a plurality of lighting devices provided in the plurality of doors, respectively, and configured to show a color of each door, and a control unit configured to control the plurality of lighting devices. The control unit is configured to, based on a color of one door of the plurality of doors being input, control the plurality of lighting devices to synchronize the colors of the plurality of doors to be the same.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising:
- a first door configured to open and close a first region of a first home appliance;
- a first lighting device provided in the first door and configured to display a first color;
- a second door configured to open and close a second region of a second home appliance;
- a second lighting device provided in the second door and configured to display a second color;
- a mobile device configured to communicate with a server and control the second door to change the displayed second color to the first color;
- and
- a control unit configured to communicate with the server and control the second lighting device to change the displayed second color to the first color in the second door,
- wherein at least one door of the first door and the second door comprises:
- a see-through portion through which a space within a refrigerator is displayed, and
- a see-through portion light configured to enable visibility into a rear space of the see-through portion according to a turn on/off state of the see-through portion light and configured to emit light in various colors, and
- wherein the control unit is configured to control an operation of the see-through portion light with the first lighting device or the second lighting device for simultaneous operation.
A method for controlling a home appliance, the method comprising:
- recognizing the home appliance in a server;
- inputting a color of any one of a plurality of doors of the home appliance;
- matching operation information of a plurality of lighting devices provided in the plurality of doors to output the input colors of the plurality of doors;
- and
- operating the plurality of lighting devices to synchronize the colors of the plurality of doors according to the operation information,
- wherein the home appliance is provided in plurality, and each of the plurality of home appliances is recognized in the server,
- wherein operation information of the plurality of lighting devices match each other according to door specifications of the plurality of home appliances, and
- wherein each of the door specifications comprises a size of the respective door or a structure of a lighting device in the respective door.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.