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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2020
Haier Us Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Hoyoung Lee, Seoul, KR;
Khalid Jamal Mashal, Louisville, KY (US);
Je Kwon Yoon, Seongnam Gyeonggi, KR;
JaeHyo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A washing machine appliance includes a wash basket that is rotatably mounted within a wash tub and that defines a wash chamber for receiving a load of clothes. A camera assembly is mounted within the wash tub for taking images of the load of clothes during and/or after a wash or rinse cycle. A controller is operably coupled to the camera for obtaining and analyzing the images using a neural network image recognition process (such as an R-CNN process) to determine a whether the level of suds or bubbles exceeds a suds threshold. If there are too many suds in the wash tub, the controller may implement corrective action, e.g., by decreasing a water temperature, adding more water, or reducing the amount of detergent that is auto-dispensed in a subsequent wash cycle.