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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2014
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed are a control panel provided on an apparatus to control the apparatus, a control method thereof, and a clothes treating apparatus having the control panel. The control method includes the actions of receiving, at a clothes treating apparatus, a power supply command through a power input unit; and based on receiving power to the control panel, controlling a target light emission unit located on a panel body of the clothes treating apparatus. The controlling includes the actions of dividing a duty cycle of current supplied to each of a plurality of light emission units into a duty cycle of the target light emission unit and a duty cycle of a background light emission unit, the plurality of light emission units being located under the light discharge unit and being configured to emit light toward the light discharge unit.