Lg Electronics Inc.

Sungjun Yun

Hunjun Jang

Yongwoon Jang

Hyosang Shin

Byung Woo Jun

A clothing treatment apparatus includes: a cabinet; a tub provided inside the cabinet; a drum rotatably provided inside the tub and accommodating laundry therein; a detergent supplier coupled to the tub and supplying detergent to the tub by driving a detergent pump connected to a first detergent container and a second detergent container in which detergent is stored; and a controller that, when the detergent stored in the first detergent container or the second detergent container corresponds to a scheduled detergent change state in which the detergent is scheduled to be changed to a different type of detergent, drives the detergent pump to perform a residual detergent discharge process, corresponding to the scheduled detergent change state, of discharging residual detergent from the first detergent container or the second detergent container.

Clothing treatment apparatus

Provided is a home appliance that performs a washing or drying operation based on a start command input through artificial intelligence and voice recognition a method for controlling such a home appliance. According to the present disclosure, the home appliance and the method for controlling such a home appliance include a sensor that senses a state of a door installed in a washing unit and a controller that executes an operation command based on a change of a state of the door sensed by the sensor. At this time, when the door is changed from an open state to a close state after the power of the home appliance is turned on, the controller controls the operation of the washing unit based on the operation command extracted from the voice signal of the user. Thus, the present disclosure may enable performing an command to start an operation input based on voice recognition.

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Seoul, South Korea

Sungjun Yun