Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Da Hey Yoo

Kyung Hoon Lee

Tae Hyoung Cho

Kyoung Ae Lim

Ye Kyung Yoo

Mi A Oh

Yoo Lim Baek

Sae Mi Kim

Jung Hwi Eun

Mun Keun Lee

Young Bin Jung

Su Jung Youn

Kyoung-Ae Lim

Sang-Ok Cha

Pa Ra Kang

Ye Eun Choi

A refrigerator provides visual information indicating a map of the refrigerator and technical operations of the corresponding regions. The refrigerator includes a voice recognition function using a proximity sensor. The refrigerator has input/output (I/O) management functions for foods stored therein. The refrigerator communicates with a peripheral device over a network.

Refrigerator

Disclosed herein are a refrigerator and method of controlling the same. Refrigerator includes a memory configured to store at least ones of characteristics of one or more goods items that are able to be stored in the refrigerator and a user's purchasing characteristics; a controller configured to display a user interface including at least one icon for at least one goods item selected based on the at least ones of the characteristics of the goods items and the user's purchasing characteristics stored in the memory, on a display unit, and to collect the user's purchase history to set a method of displaying the at least one icon for the at least one goods item; and a proximity sensor configured to measure a distance to the user, wherein the controller changes the user interface that is displayed on the display unit based on the distance to the user.

Refrigerator and method of controlling the same

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Seoul, South Korea

Da Hey Yoo