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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2010
Applicants:
Mun Seok Seo, Seoul, KR;
Jin Seong Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Dae Geun Seo, Gwangmyeong-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electric appliance and a control method thereof are disclosed. The electric appliance includes a communication device connected with a smart grid net to recognize electric power information including power-rate information for each time period, a sensing device configured to sense a predetermined operation mode and an operation state according to the operation mode, and a control device configured to implement power-saving operation based on the received electric power information and the state information sensed by the sensing device.