Lg Electronics Inc.

Jeongyo Ha

Joongkeun Lee

Hyunsung Park

Sangyun Kim

Sungmok Hwang

Jinok Kim

Youngtag Kwon

A refrigerator according to the present embodiment comprises: a cabinet comprising a storage chamber; a drawer that is provided in the storage chamber and can slide in and out; a drawer sensing unit that is provided in the cabinet and can sense whether the drawer is in or out; a refrigerator door for opening and closing the storage chamber; a camera that is installed in the cabinet and captures an image of the storage chamber including the drawer during the opening and closing of the drawer; and a controller that controls so that one image is selected from among a plurality of images sequentially captured by the camera, and a result image including at least a portion of the selected image is displayed in a display unit, wherein the controller extracts a region of interest (ROI) image corresponding to the drawer from each of the plurality of images, determines a movement direction and movement amount of the drawer on the basis of the plurality of extracted ROI images, selects one ROI image from among the plurality of ROI images on the basis of the determined movement direction and movement amount of the drawer, and determines the selected one ROI image as an image to be displayed.

Refrigerator

A refrigerator, according to the present embodiment, comprises: a cabinet having a storage chamber; a storage chamber camera provided in the cabinet to photograph the storage chamber; a first door for opening and closing the storage chamber; a second door spaced apart from the first door in a horizontal direction and including a main door including a door storage unit and a sub-door that opens and closes the door storage unit and is rotatable about a hinge with respect to the main door; a first camera and a second camera which are provided in the sub-door and photograph the door storage unit when the sub-door is opened; a controller to which the second camera is independently connected; and a USB hub which is connected to the controller and to which the first camera and the storage chamber camera are connected.

A refrigerator according to the present embodiment comprises: a cabinet comprising a storage chamber; and a door for opening and closing the storage chamber. The door comprises: a main door comprising an opening and a door storage unit; a sub-door that opens and closes the opening and can rotate about a hinge with respect to the main door; a first camera and a second camera that are provided spaced apart from each other in the sub-door, and capture images of the door storage unit in a state where the sub-door is open; a marker provided on the main door and image-captured by the first camera; and a display unit for displaying result images including at least a portion of images captured by the first and second cameras.

An artificial intelligence refrigerator includes: a display, a cabinet having a storage room receiving food, a camera provided in the cabinet and capturing an image of the storage room, a storage room sensor detecting whether the storage room is opened or closed, and a processor configured to control, based on the storage room sensor detecting that the storage room is opened, the camera to capture the image of the storage room, transmit, based on a maximum opening time point or a closing time point of the storage room being detected through processing of the captured image, a capture command to the camera, the closing time point being a time point at which the storage room starts closing, acquire a storage state of the storage room based on an image captured according to the capture command, and control the display to display food management information based on the acquired storage state.

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Seoul, South Korea

Jeongyo Ha