User-interactive refrigerator and control method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsChang-nyeun Kim, Gun-ho Hong
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Abstract
A refrigerator having a cooling compartment provides a memory storing data about a user and data on food items stored in the cooling compartment; a user recognition device recognizing a present user; a controller reading the food item data corresponding to the user data relevant to the present user recognized by the user recognition device; and a display displaying the food item data read by controller. Thus, the refrigerator may be provided, which displays food item information appropriate to a user and reflecting the user's taste, physical constitution and health condition.
Claims18
A refrigerator having a cooling compartment comprising:
- a memory storing user data about a user and food item data on food items stored in the cooling compartment;
- a user recognition device recognizing a present user, wherein the user recognition device includes a biometric technology;
- a controller reading the food item data corresponding to the user data relevant to the present user recognized by the user recognition device from the memory;
- a display displaying the food item data read by the controller, and
- a health information input device that includes at least one among a device measuring a pulse frequency of the present user, a device measuring a blood sugar level of the present user and a device measuring a weight of the present user.
A user-interactive refrigerator having a cooling compartment comprising:
- a user recognition device;
- and
- a health information system, reading, storing and displaying health information of a present user and data on food items stored in the cooling compartment corresponding to the health information of the present user,
- wherein the user recognition device includes a biometric technology,
- wherein the health information of the present user includes at least one of:
- a pulse frequency, a blood sugar level, and a body weight.
A user-interactive refrigerator having a cooling compartment comprising:
- a biometric user recognition device;
- and
- a health information device, reading, storing and displaying:
- a pulse frequency, a blood sugar level, a body weight of a present user, or a combination of at least two thereof and corresponding stored food item data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.