The present disclosure relates to a decorative panel made of flat glass for electronic household appliances, in particular, for large stationary household appliances. The decorative panel comprises a base body made of thermally tempered flat glass with an operational front and an operational back and has at least one digital print on the operational back.

A system of networked appliances for implementing cooking instructions for a prepackaged food item in a cooking appliance includes an imaging device configured to read an input associated with the prepackaged food item, a cooking instruction database comprising a list of prepackaged food cooking instructions, and a query module comprising executable instructions to query the cooking instruction database based on the input and return cooking instructions for the prepackaged food item.

A domestic appliance, in particular a refrigeration appliance, contains a door having a recessed grip and an illumination device for shining light onto the recessed grip. The illumination device has a projection device for projecting information onto the recessed grip. A method is used to operate a domestic appliance which contains the door having the recessed grip and the projection device for shining light onto the recessed grip, in which method information is projected onto the recessed grip by the projection device. The domestic appliance can be a refrigerator, a freezer, a preservation appliance or combinations thereof.

Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided. The apparatus, for example, can include a process chamber comprising a chamber body defining a processing volume and having a view port coupled to the chamber body; a substrate support disposed within the processing volume and having a support surface to support a substrate; and an infrared temperature sensor (IRTS) disposed outside the chamber body adjacent the view port to measure a temperature of the substrate when being processed in the processing volume, the IRTS movable relative to the view port for scanning the substrate through the view port.

Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided. The apparatus, for example, can include a process chamber comprising a chamber body defining a processing volume and having a view port coupled to the chamber body; a substrate support disposed within the processing volume and having a support surface to support a substrate; and an infrared temperature sensor (IRTS) disposed outside the chamber body adjacent the view port to measure a temperature of the substrate when being processed in the processing volume, the IRTS movable relative to the view port for scanning the substrate through the view port.

A cooking appliance and methods for operating the same in a crisp reheat cycle are provided. In one example aspect, the cooking appliance includes features for crisp reheating a food item that has been cooked and chilled thereafter. The cooking appliance includes a casing defining a cooking cavity configured to receive food items. The cooking appliance also includes a controller. The controller can access data that provides a plurality of crisp reheating instructions for operating the cooking appliance in a crisp reheat cycle for various food items. The controller retrieves a crisp reheating instruction associated with a food type selected by a user. The controller then commences the crisp reheat cycle by activating heating elements of the cooking appliance, such as a microwave module, an upper heater module, a lower heater module, and a convection module.

An oven may include a cooking chamber configured to receive a food product, a radio frequency (RF) heating system configured to provide RF energy into the cooking chamber using solid state electronic components to heat the food product, and a context awareness engine. The context awareness engine may include processing circuitry configured to receive RF signature data (including measurements of at least forward power and reflected power) associated with provision of RF energy into the cooking chamber, and to correlate an RF signature with a phenomenon observed with respect to the food product to define a signature profile for the phenomenon observed.

Examples and techniques pertaining to avoidance of interference between wireless operation and microwave oven operation are described. A processor configures at least one of a magnetron of a microwave oven or a wireless transceiver of the microwave oven. The processor then controls operations of the magnetron and the wireless transceiver such that wireless communication by the wireless transceiver is not interfered by radiation from the magnetron as a result of the configuring.

Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.

A cooker with a door includes: a proximity sensor configured to detect presence or absence of an object in proximity to the cooker; and a door opening controller configured to control the door to open and close on a detection signal from the proximity sensor, wherein the door opening controller opens the door when receiving the detection signal from the proximity sensor twice or more within a predetermined time period, the detection signal indicating the presence of the object.