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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2023
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Yumee Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Soomin Park, Seoul, KR;
Jangpyo Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Joonho Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Yongwon Jeong, Suwon-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A clothes care apparatus includes a main body including a clothes care chamber configured to accommodate one or more clothes items; an optical sensor module configured to photograph an inside of the clothes care chamber, the optical sensor module including a plurality of light receiving elements, each being sensitive to different wavelength bands; and a processor configured to: acquire, from the plurality of light receiving elements, a sensing value for the one or more clothes items, acquire spectroscopic data for the one or more clothes items based on the sensing value, acquire feature information corresponding to the one or more clothes items based on the spectroscopic data, input the feature information into a trained neural network model, acquire, from the trained neural network model, information on materials of the one or more clothes items accommodated in the clothes care chamber, and determine an operation course of the clothes care apparatus.