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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2015
Signify Holding B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Tatiana Aleksandrovna Lashina, Eindhoven, NL;
Philip Steven Newton, Waalre, NL;
Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Eindhoven, NL;
Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Eindhoven, NL;
Dirk Valentinus René Engelen, Heusden-Zolder, BE;
Tim Dekker, Eindhoven, NL;
SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Various inventive methods and apparatus disclosed herein relate to associating state machines with touch event profiles, and to initiating state machines in response to touch events detected at home appliances. In some embodiments, a touch event may be detected at a touch sensor associated with a home appliance (). The home appliance may be operated to perform its primary function in response to the detected touch event. It may be determined whether the touch event satisfies a predetermined touch event profile. A state machine may be operated at a computing device () remote from the home appliance in response to the determining.