Laundry treating appliance with load surface area detection
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsFARHAD ASHRAFZADEH, JAMES P. CAROW, SHREECHARAN KANCHANAVALLY
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Abstract
The invention relates to a laundry treating appliance and method for controlling the operation of the laundry treating appliance by determining the surface area of the laundry based on image data of the laundry.
Claims20
A method for controlling the operation of a laundry treating appliance comprising a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving laundry for treatment in accordance with a treating cycle of operation, the method comprising:
- imaging the laundry to generate image data;
- determining a motion of the laundry from the image data;
- and
- automatically selecting at least one parameter for the treating cycle of operation based on the motion.
A laundry treating appliance, comprising:
- a rotatable treating chamber;
- an imaging device configured to generate image data representative of laundry in the rotatable treating chamber;
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- a controller operably coupled to the imaging device and configured to determine motion of laundry in the rotatable treating chamber from the image data and control the treating cycle of operation based on the motion.
A method for controlling the operation of a laundry treating appliance comprising a rotatable drum partially defining a treating chamber containing laundry, the method comprising:
- imaging the laundry to generate image data;
- determining a surface area of the laundry in the treating chamber from the image data or a number of items in the treating chamber from the image data;
- and
- automatically selecting at least one parameter for the treating cycle of operation based on the determining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.