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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
May. 27, 2016
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 11/40 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2018.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); A47L 9/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 11/4011 (2013.01); A47L 9/2857 (2013.01); A47L 11/4013 (2013.01); G05D 1/0022 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); H04W 4/008 (2013.01); A47L 2201/00 (2013.01); A47L 2201/06 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0203 (2013.01);
Abstract
A robot cleaner is provided. The robot cleaner includes a communication unit configured to communicate with the robot cleaner using a near field wireless communication (NFC) and a processor configured to detect a state of the robot cleaner among a plurality of predefined states. The processor is also configured to, in response to NFC tagging being performed with the mobile terminal, control the communication unit to transmit information corresponding to the detected state to the mobile terminal.