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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2020
Haier Us Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Nicholas Matthew Dillon, Louisville, KY (US);
Matthew R. Hunter, Louisville, KY (US);
Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a washing machine appliance is provided. The washing machine appliance includes a wash basket rotatably mounted within a wash tub and defining a wash chamber configured for receiving of a load of articles. A camera is positioned with a view of the wash chamber. The method includes obtaining one or more images of the wash chamber with the camera, analyzing the one or more images using a machine learning image recognition process to determine that the articles are tangled, and adjusting at least one operating parameter of the washing machine appliance in response to determining that the articles are tangled.