Clothes dryer and control method therefor

Abstract

A clothes dryer comprising: a cabinet; a control panel including a power button and a display; a drum rotatable inside the cabinet; a filter to filter air discharged from the drum; a filter sensor to detect a mounting state of the filter and output a detection signal based on the mounting state of the filter detected; a memory to record a change in the mounted state of the filter as an event based on the mounting state of the filter detected by the filter sensor; and a processor to communicatively connect to the control panel, the filter sensor, the memory, and to control the display so that the display displays a notification related to the management of the filter based whether the event due to the change in the mounting state of the filter is recorded in the memory.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.