COOKING APPLIANCE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120027904A1
• Filed: 09/03/2009
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lim, Chang-Seob
• Application Number:
  US13/263,969
• Publication Number:
  US 20120027904A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/523
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/082 on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination

Abstract

A cooking appliance includes a main body having an inner space, the main body defining an outer appearance, a cooktop part disposed on an upper end of the main body to heat a food or a container containing the food disposed on a top surface thereof, an oven part disposed under the cooktop part to cook the food received in the inner space, a manipulation panel including a manipulation part for manipulating operations of the cooktop part and the oven part, and a display part in which cooking by category according to a signal of the manipulation panel is displayed on an upper menu, a lower menu of the upper menu in which a first input signal of a user is inputted is displayed, and an operation of the lower menu in which a second input signal of the user is displayed.

Claims

1-27. -27. (canceled)

28. A method of controlling a cooking appliance, the method comprising:

a first process for determining whether a food exists or detecting a signal by user'"'"'s selection;

a second process for expressing an upper menu by category when the food does not exist or the user'"'"'s selection is detected in the first process;

a third process in which the upper menu expressed in the second process expresses a lower menu by upper menu according to a first input signal;

a fourth process in which the lower menu expressed in the third process express a cooking progress according to a second input signal.

29. The method according to claim 28, wherein the category comprises cooking enable by time.

30. The method according to claim 29, wherein a cooking menu enable within a predetermined time is expressed in the lower menu in the cooking enable by time.

31. The method according to claim 29, wherein a cooking menu enable within a preset time is expressed in the lower menu in the cooking enable by time.

32. The method according to claim 28, wherein the category comprises cooking enable by ingredient.

33. The method according to claim 32, wherein an ingredient stored by the user is expressed in the lower menu in the cooking enable by ingredient.

34. The method according to claim 32, wherein the lower menu comprising poultry, fish, meat, vegetable, and pasta is expressed in the cooking enable by ingredient.

35. The method according to claim 28, wherein the category comprises cooking enable by course.

36. The method according to claim 35, wherein the lower menu comprising appetizers, mains, and desserts is expressed in the cooking enable by course.

37. The method according to claim 35, wherein the lower menu comprising sides is expressed in the cooking enable by course.

38. The method according to claim 28, wherein the category comprises cooking enable by function.

39. The method according to claim 38, wherein the lower menu comprising bakes, roast, broil, and convection is expressed in the cooking enable by function.

40. The method according to claim 28, wherein the category comprises cooking enable by occasion.

41. The method according to claim 40, wherein the lower menu comprising quick &

easy, healthy eating, gourmet meals, holiday, parties, and in season is expressed in the cooking enable by occasion.

42. The method according to claim 28, wherein the category comprises cooking enable by cuisine.

43. The method according to claim 28, wherein the lower menu comprising country or location is expressed in the cooking enable by cuisine.

44. The method according to claim 28, wherein the category comprises cooking enable by weather, day of the week, and user'"'"'s feeling.