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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2011
Deulre Min, Changwon-si, KR;
Eunyoung Park, Changwon-si, KR;
Deulre Min, Changwon-si, KR;
Eunyoung Park, Changwon-si, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to refrigerators, and a method for controlling the same. The refrigerator includes a body, a door rotatably coupled to the body, a storage space in the body for storing goods therein, a camera unit mounted in the storage space for sensing an infrared ray from the stored goods to visualize a surface temperature distribution of the stored goods, a memory unit for storing the surface temperature distribution of the stored goods visualized thus by the camera unit therein, and a control unit for determining whether the stored goods are damaged or not with reference to a difference of the surface temperature distributions of the stored goods stored in the memory unit.