# US 12,110,630 B2 · Clothing treatment device, electronic apparatus, and method for controlling same > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,110,630 B2 - Document ID: US12110630B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/255,782 - Filed: 2019-07-10 - Published: 2021-05-13 - Granted: 2024-10-08 - Earliest claimed: 2018-08-14 - Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Jihyouk Choi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12110630B2 ## CPC - D06F 58/36: Control of operational steps, e.g. for optimisation or improvement of operational steps depending on the condition of the laundry - D06F 33/32: Control of operational steps, e.g. optimisation or improvement of operational steps depending on the condition of the laundry - D06F 34/18: Condition of the laundry, e.g. nature or weight - D06F 58/10: Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means - D06F 58/30: Drying processes (controlling a series of operations in domestic laundry dryers D06F58/32) - G06V 20/20: in augmented reality scenes - G06V 30/19013: {Comparing pixel values or logical combinations thereof, or feature values having positional relevance, e.g. template matching (specially adapted for image segmentation G06T7/10; specially adapted for the analysis of motion G06T7/20; specially adapted for image alignment G06T7/30; specially adapted for the calculation of depth from stereo images G06T7/50; specially adapted for position determination G06T7/70)} - G06V 30/2247: {Characters composed of bars, e.g. CMC-7} - D06F 34/05: for wireless communication between components, e.g. for remote monitoring or control - D06F 73/02: having one or more treatment chambers - D06F 2103/06: Type or material - D06F 2105/52: Changing sequence of operational steps; Carrying out additional operational steps; Modifying operational steps, e.g. by extending duration of steps - D06F 2105/58: Indications or alarms to the control system or to the user - G06V 30/10: Character recognition - G06V 2201/10: Recognition assisted with metadata - D06F: LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## Abstract A clothing treatment device is disclosed. The disclosed clothing treatment device includes a clothing support device for supporting or fixing in place clothing inside an accommodation space of the clothing treatment device, a spray device for spraying steam or air on the clothing inside the accommodation space, a circulation device for circulating the air inside the accommodation space, a memory for storing a plurality of clothing management methods, and operation information of the spray device and the circulation device for each clothing management method, a processor which identifies the cloth information of the clothing inside the accommodation space, determines a clothing management method corresponding to the identified cloth information, from among the plurality of clothing management methods, and controls the spray device and the circulation device on the basis of the stored operation information corresponding to the determined clothing management method. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A clothing treatment apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a clothing support device configured to support or fix clothing inside an accommodation space of the clothing treatment apparatus; a spray device configured to spray steam or air on the clothing inside the accommodation space; a circulation device configured to circulate the air inside the accommodation space; memory configured to store a plurality of clothing management methods, and operation information of the spray device and the circulation device for each of the plurality of clothing management methods; and a processor configured to: identify cloth information of the clothing inside the accommodation space, the cloth information including a type of each fabric included in the clothing inside the accommodation space, determine a representative fabric based on a fabric type and a composition rate of fabric among the cloth information, the composition rate being a percentage of each different fabric type present in the accommodation space, determine a clothing management method corresponding to the identified cloth information based on the determined representative fabric, from among the plurality of clothing management methods, control the spray device and the circulation device based on the stored operation information corresponding to the determined clothing management method. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising: a camera configured to capture an image of a label on clothes, wherein the processor is configured to obtain cloth information of the clothes using the image captured by the camera. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising: a communication device configured to communicate with an external server, wherein the processor is further configured to: extract barcode information in the image, control the communication device to transmit the extracted barcode information to the external server, and receive cloth information corresponding to the barcode information from the external server. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising: a camera configured to photograph clothes, wherein the memory is configured to store a plurality of clothes images and cloth information with respect to each of the plurality of clothes images, and wherein the processor is further configured to determine an image of clothes corresponding to a photographed image from among the plurality of clothes images using an image photographed by the camera, and determine a clothing management method using the stored cloth information corresponding to the determined image of clothes. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the representative fabric in consideration of a weighted value corresponding to information on the fabric type. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to, based on a predetermined type being included in the information on the fabric type, determine the predetermined type as the representative fabric. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to, based on the predetermined type being included in the fabric type more than a predetermined composition rate, determine the predetermined type as the representative fabric.