Abstract: An oven appliance is provided. The oven appliance includes a light emitting device with a plurality of light emitters. Light emitters of the plurality of light emitters can be selectively activated and deactivated in order to provide visual information regarding various operations of the oven appliance to a user of the oven appliance.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for measuring temperature in a cooking appliance, both of which utilize a circuit for reading an input from a thermal resistive device. By including a processor and an amplifier in the circuit, embodiments reduce the number of processor pins required to modify the amplified input arising from the amplifier. In one embodiment, the processor utilizes a single processor pin, through which is distributed a control output corresponding to the input and modifying the operating parameters of the amplifier.

Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one functional device configured to perform at least one specified task, and a controller operatively coupled to the at least one functional device and communicatively coupled to a remote server via a network. The controller is configured to control display of a human machine interface (HMI) via a display device, receive a user input via the HMI to identify a desired application, initiate direct communication with the remote server via the network, and, in response to the initiated communication, to receive data files associated with the identified application from the remote server via the network in response to the user input, wherein the data files include predetermined operation settings associated with the at least one specified task associated with the identified application.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for measuring temperature in a cooking appliance, both of which utilize a circuit for reading an input from a thermal resistive device. By including a processor and an amplifier in the circuit, embodiments reduce the number of processor pins required to modify the amplified input arising from the amplifier. In one embodiment, the processor utilizes a single processor pin, through which is distributed a control output corresponding to the input and modifying the operating parameters of the amplifier.

Abstract: A cooking appliance comprises one or more power consuming features/functions including at least one of a cooking cavity having a heating element and a cooking surface having a surface heating element. A controller is configured to receive and process a signal indicative of current state of an associated energy supplying utility. The controller operates the cooking appliance in one of a plurality of operating modes, including at least a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode, in response to the received signal. The controller is configured to at least one of selectively delay, adjust and disable at least one of the one or more power consuming features/functions to reduce power consumption of the cooking appliance in the energy savings mode.