Patent 7959313 was granted and assigned to Samsung on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A refrigerator which has a main body cabinet forming at least one storage chamber therein, the refrigerator includes: an illuminator provided in the storage chamber and illuminating an inside of the storage chamber; an input unit provided to set at least one of a color, a hue saturation and a brightness of the illuminator; and a controller storing a setting value set through the input unit and controlling the illuminator according to the setting value.