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Samsung patents fridge that suggests what to buy based on store items

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Samsung describes a system where a refrigerator identifies food categories in a store and checks what you already have at home. It then sends your phone a list of items to buy, recipes, or where to store new purchases.

Why it mattersThis could make grocery trips more efficient by helping shoppers avoid buying duplicates or forgetting ingredients for planned meals.

In the filing’s own words

A shopping information providing method and a refrigerator using the method are provided. The method includes identifying a category of displayed food items on a display stand in front of which a user is located in a store, generating shopping information related to stored food items included in the identified category among one or more food items stored in a refrigerator, and transmitting the generated shopping information to a user terminal, wherein the shopping information includes at least one of a list of the stored food items, locations of the stored food items, an internal image displaying the stored food items, a required list requiring purchase in the category, recipe information related to the displayed food items and the stored food items, and recommended storage location information related to where the displayed food items are to be stored in the refrigerator.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method of providing shopping information, the method comprising: identifying a category of food items for sale in a store; generating shopping information related to stored food items included in the identified category from among at least one food item stored in a refrigerator; and transmitting the generated shopping information to a user terminal, wherein the shopping information comprises at least one of a list of the stored food items, locations of the stored food items, an internal image of the refrigerator displaying the stored food items, a requirement list requiring purchase in the category, recipe information related to the food items for sale and the stored food items, and recommended storage location information related to where the food items for sale are to be stored in the refrigerator.

Facts

Company: Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title: SHOPPING INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND REFRIGERATOR USING SAME
Publication number: US20260320556A1
Application number: 19703796
Filed: Jun 10, 2026
Published: Oct 15, 2026
Inventors: 8
Claims: 20

Classified under

G06Q 10/08774 Physics & computingG06Q 30/0633 Physics & computingH04N 7/188 Electricity & electronics

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