Miele & Cie. Kg

Volker Ennen

Matthias Stahl

Daniel Ebke

Thomas Metz

Frank Holtmann

Niels Ohrmann

Nils Marius Gehring

Sarah Peter

Stefan Rüther

Christoph Stecker

Christian Bökenkamp

Marco Micola Von Fürstenrecht

Kai Bergmeier

Michael Hormann

Simon Gross

Christian Böhm

Britta Hölscher

Uwe Brunkhorst

Christoph Müller

Hermann Stahl

Hannes LÄSSIG

Henrik Wilkens

Tino Bergmeier

Timo Schridde

A method for automatically correlating at least one cooktop utensil with at least one cooking zone of an inductive cooktop having a plurality of cooking zones which are inductively heated by at least one respective heating coil, includes: providing the cooktop with a cooktop controller configured to drive the heating coils with a correlation signal; providing the at least one cooktop utensil with an induction coil inductively couplable with the heating coils of the cooktop and a transmitter unit; supplying the transmitter unit with an operation power when a voltage is induced by at least one of the heating coils into the induction coil of the cooktop utensil that is placed on the cooking zone associated with this heating coil; transmitting, by the transmitter unit of the cooktop utensil, by the operating power, a response signal that identifies the cooktop utensil and correlates with the induced correlation signal.

Method for automatically correlating at least one cooktop utensil with at least one cooking zone of an inductive cooktop, inductive cooktop, cooktop utensil and system for carrying out the method

A method for controlling operation of an appliance by a user through voice control includes at least the steps of: detecting, by the appliance, a control action performed by the user on the appliance; activating a voice control system by the appliance; capturing, by the voice control system, a voice input from the user as a captured voice input; recognizing, by the voice control system, a piece of information and/or an instruction in the captured voice input from the user as a recognized information and/or instruction; and executing, by the voice control system, a user control action on the appliance in accordance with the recognized information and/or instruction.

Method for controlling the operation of an appliance by a user through voice control

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