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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2020
Applicant:
Midea Group Co., Ltd., Foshan, CN;
Inventors:
Phillip C. Hombroek, Prospect, KY (US);
Abubakar Abukar, Louisville, KY (US);
Christopher G. Hoppe, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD., Guangdong, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 34/18 (2020.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); D06F 105/60 (2020.01); D06F 103/02 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 34/18 (2020.02); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); D06F 2103/02 (2020.02); D06F 2105/60 (2020.02);
Abstract
A laundry washing machine and method detect the presence of outlier articles in a load of articles added to a wash tub based in part on color composition data collected from the load of articles using a color detection sensor. In some instances, color composition data may be used to generate an alert to a user to notify the user that an outlier article is potentially present in the load, and in some instances, color compensation data may be used to modify a load type selection to account for the presence of an outlier article in the load.