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Patent No.:

US 11486072 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

May. 28, 2019

Automatic color composition detection for laundry washing machine

Applicant:

Midea Group Co., Ltd., Foshan, CN;

Inventor:

Phillip C. Hombroek, Louisville, KY (US);

Assignee:

MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD., Guangdong, CN;

Attorney:

Middleton Reutlinger

Primary Examiner:

David G Cormier

Assistant Examiner:

Thomas Bucci

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 34/18 (2020.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); D06F 34/05 (2020.01); D06F 33/36 (2020.01); D06F 37/40 (2006.01); D06F 103/02 (2020.01); D06F 103/04 (2020.01); D06F 103/40 (2020.01); D06F 105/02 (2020.01); D06F 105/44 (2020.01); D06F 105/52 (2020.01); D06F 105/58 (2020.01); D06F 33/38 (2020.01); D06F 33/40 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 34/18 (2020.02); D06F 37/40 (2013.01); D06F 33/36 (2020.02); D06F 33/38 (2020.02); D06F 33/40 (2020.02); D06F 34/05 (2020.02); D06F 2103/02 (2020.02); D06F 2103/04 (2020.02); D06F 2103/40 (2020.02); D06F 2105/02 (2020.02); D06F 2105/44 (2020.02); D06F 2105/52 (2020.02); D06F 2105/58 (2020.02); G06T 7/90 (2017.01);
Abstract

A laundry washing machine and method automate the selection of one or more parameters of a wash cycle of a laundry washing machine based in part on a color detection sensor disposed proximate an opening of the wash tub and configured to capture color composition data of one or more items added to the wash tub and a weight sensor operatively coupled to the wash tub, where the weight sensor is configured to detect the addition of an item among the one or more items to the wash tub and initiate capturing of the color composition data, and a controller is configured to configure one or more parameters for a wash cycle based upon the captured color composition data.

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