Home appliance and method for controlling home appliance
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsYun Sik Park, Dayun Han, Sung Mok Hwang
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A home appliance and a control method for the home appliance, which is operable in an IoT environment through a 5G communication network and uses a neural network model generated according to machine learning is provided. The home appliance may include a home appliance main body; a container mounted within the home appliance main body to accommodate a treatment target; a camera arranged to photograph the inside of the container; and one or more processors configured to control an operation of the home appliance, wherein the processor is configured to determine an amount of a treatment target based on feature shapes of the container identified in an image of the inside of the container photographed by the camera.
Claims9
A home appliance, comprising:
- a main body;
- a container mounted within the main body to accommodate a treatment target in an interior of the container;
- a camera arranged to photograph the interior of the container;
- a memory including a stored neural network model trained to determine an amount of a treatment target by analyzing an image of the inside of the container acquired through the camera;
- and
- one or more processors programmed to control an operation of the home appliance,
- wherein a first processor of the one or more processors is programmed to perform an operation to determine an amount of the treatment target based on feature shapes of the container identified in an image of the interior of the container photographed by the camera through the neural network model,
- wherein the amount of the treatment target is a volume of the treatment target, and
- wherein the feature shapes of the container are based on holes in a bottom surface or a side surface of the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.