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Patent No.:

US 11982034 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2021

Image quality detection for a camera assembly in a laundry appliance

Applicant:

Haier Us Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);

Inventor:

Khalid Jamal Mashal, Louisville, KY (US);

Assignee:

Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:

Dority & Manning, P.A.

Primary Examiner:

Joseph L Perrin

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 34/14 (2020.01); D06F 23/02 (2006.01); D06F 34/28 (2020.01); D06F 37/26 (2006.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01); D06F 103/04 (2020.01); D06F 103/24 (2020.01); D06F 105/54 (2020.01); D06F 105/58 (2020.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 34/14 (2020.02); D06F 23/02 (2013.01); D06F 34/28 (2020.02); D06F 37/266 (2013.01); G06T 9/002 (2013.01); D06F 2103/04 (2020.02); D06F 2103/24 (2020.02); D06F 2105/54 (2020.02); D06F 2105/58 (2020.02); G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30164 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30168 (2013.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01);
Abstract

A laundry appliance includes a basket that is rotatably mounted within a cabinet and that defines a chamber for receiving a load of clothes. A camera assembly is mounted within the cabinet for taking images of the chamber and a controller obtains an image of the chamber when the basket is empty and not rotating. The image is analyzed using an autoencoder neural network process to determine an image quality and a responsive action is implemented when an image quality drops below a quality threshold.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Mashal, Khalid. (2024). Image quality detection for a camera assembly in a laundry appliance (U.S. Patent No. 11982034). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11982034

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