Shoe dryer and control method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroto Ohnari, Daisuke Fukuoka, Kazutoshi Takenoshita, Suguru Nakagawa, Toshiyuki Fujiyoshi
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Abstract
A shoe dryer including a main body, a shoe receiver provided inside the main body and configured to receive a shoe, a blower configured to blow air toward the shoe received in the shoe receiving portion, a camera configured to obtain an image of the shoe by photographing the shoe received in the shoe receiver, and a control device configured to recognize information about the shoe from the image of the shoe obtained by the camera, and control a direction of air blown by the blower based on the information about the shoe.
Claims20
A shoe dryer comprising:
- a main body;
- a shoe receiver provided inside the main body and configured to receive a shoe;
- a blower configured to blow air toward the shoe received in the shoe receiver;
- a camera configured to obtain an image of the shoe by photographing the shoe received in the shoe receiver;
- and
- a control device configured to recognize information about the shoe from the image of the shoe obtained by the camera and control a direction of air blown by the blower based on the information about the shoe.
A method of controlling a shoe dryer including a shoe receiver configured to receive a shoe, and a blower configured to blow air toward the shoe received in the shoe receiver, the method comprising:
- acquiring an image of the shoe received in the shoe receiver by photographing the shoe;
- recognizing information about the shoe from the acquired image of the shoe;
- and
- controlling a direction of air blown by the blower based on the information about the shoe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.