Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hani Yang

Taek Woon Kim

Min Jin Song

Odo Yu

Jaeyu Seo

Sang Chul Won

A refrigerator and a home appliance, of which the exterior design can be changed without replacing an exterior panel by changing the exterior design using an electrophoretic display (EPD) panel. The refrigerator includes a storage compartment, a door for opening and closing the storage compartment, and including a door body and an electrophoretic display (EPD) panel located in front of the door body, and a processor for controlling the electrophoretic display panel to change color based on at least one of a user's selection or an operation state.

Color changing refrigerator, color changing home appliance, and control method for same

There is provided a refrigerator, including an input unit configured to receive information on a user, the user's health information, and an examination time; a control unit configured to perform control such that the received user information and health information are stored and displayed, identify a reception time at which the health information is received, and perform control such that at least one time of the examination time and the reception time is stored and displayed; a storage unit configured to accumulate and store the user's health information and examination time and match the user information and the health information for each examination time and store; and a display unit configured to display the health information in order of the examination time. According to the present disclosure, since a health state is determined according to accumulated health information and the determined health state is displayed through the display unit, the user is continuously informed of the health state and is well aware of health. Further, the user may improve eating habits to prevent and manage various types of diseases.

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Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea

Hani Yang