A bottle storage includes a container that contains a bottle; a cooling-warming apparatus provided to surround a position where the bottle is contained; and an image capturer that captures an image of the bottle contained in the container. The cooling-warming apparatus has a gap at least at a portion of the cooling-warming apparatus corresponding to at least a part of an image capturing region of the image capturer.

Provided is a refrigerator and control method for refrigerator and method for opening a refrigerator door. While a user is holding an object in both hands, a door may be automatically and additionally opened using another part of a body other than hands.

A method of operating a refrigerator appliance is provided. The refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet and an auxiliary light positioned on an exterior of the cabinet. The method includes determining a brightness level setting of the auxiliary light on a user interface of a remote user device and sending a signal from the remote user device to a controller of the refrigerator appliance. The controller is in operative communication with the auxiliary light. The method also includes adjusting a brightness of the auxiliary light to the determined brightness level setting with the controller of the refrigerator appliance based on the received signal.

A method of refrigerator decorating that includes the steps of: placing a removable cover on at least one handle; and incorporating a decorative design in the removable cover. The removable cover preferably may include lighting or include glow in the dark features. The step of placing a removable cover on at least one handle includes placing a removable cover on a first handle and placing a removable cover on a second handle where the refrigerator includes two doors and two handles.

A combination light and pressure relief vent (10) is disclosed which includes a housing (11), a valve assembly (12), and a light assembly (13). The housing include a valve body (16), port tube (17), and an outside louver (18). The valve body has a low positive pressure exhaust port (40), a high positive pressure exhaust port (41), a low negative pressure intake port 44, and a high negative pressure intake port 45. The valve assembly includes a low positive pressure exhaust valve (57), a high positive pressure exhaust valve (59), a low negative pressure intake valve (61), and a high negative pressure intake valve (62). The light assembly includes a heat sink casing (68) which defines a heat chamber (37). The casing is coupled to an LED module (57) wherein heat generated by the LED module is transferred through the casing to the heat chamber to warm the valve assembly.

A refrigerator appliance and ice dispenser is provided herein. The refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, an ice maker attached to the cabinet, a dispenser recess defined on the refrigerator appliance, and a dispenser conduit disposed within the dispenser recess. The dispenser conduit may include a chute wall. The chute wall may define an ice passage, one or more fluid inlets, a manifold channel, and one or more fluid outlets. A fluid inlet may be positioned radially outward from the ice passage in fluid communication with a fluid source selectively supplying a fluid flow thereto. The manifold channel may extend within the chute wall about at least a portion of the ice passage. The manifold channel may be in downstream fluid communication with the fluid inlet. A fluid outlet may be defined through the chute wall in downstream fluid communication with the manifold channel.

A refrigerator includes a cabinet including a space, a door configured to open and close the space and including a light source and a front plate, through which light emitted from the light source passes, an output interface provided on the cabinet or the door to output sound, a communication unit configured to communicate with a remote device and a controller configured to play music through the output interface and to control the light source in association with music playback through the output interface, when a music playback command is received from the remote device through the communication interface.

A refrigerator of the present embodiment comprises: a cabinet provided with a storage space; a refrigerator door opening/closing the storage space; and a dispenser which is provided in the refrigerator door for dispensing water or ice, wherein the dispenser comprises: a dispenser housing forming a space; a protruding member protruding from the upper side wall of the dispenser housing toward the space; a lighting member which is arranged along the circumference of the protruding member; a lighting unit which includes a plurality of light-emitting units emitting light of different colors to the lighting member; and a controller which controls one of the plurality of light-emitting units so as to be turned on according to a mode.

A home appliance includes a cabinet having a space, a door configured to open and close the space and including a light source, an illuminance sensor provided in the cabinet or the door and configured to detect illuminance, a user detection sensor provided in the cabinet or the door and configured to detect user proximity, and a controller configured to control the light source based on information detected by the user detection sensor, wherein, when a user is detected to approach the home appliance within a reference distance by the user detection sensor, the controller controls the light source of the door to be changed from a first state to a second state, and the reference distance is changeable based on one or more of an illuminance and current time detected by the illuminance sensor.

A refrigerator includes: a cabinet defining a storage space, a door configured to open and close the storage space, a microphone configured to receive voice, a speaker configured to output audio, and a controller configured to, based on the microphone receiving a voice command and the audio being output, operate the refrigerator according to the voice command.