Automatic color composition detection for laundry washing machine
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorPhillip C. Hombroek
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Abstract
A laundry washing machine and method automate the selection of one or more parameters of a wash cycle of a laundry washing machine based in part on a color detection sensor disposed proximate an opening of the wash tub and configured to capture color composition data of one or more items added to the wash tub and a weight sensor operatively coupled to the wash tub, where the weight sensor is configured to detect the addition of an item among the one or more items to the wash tub and initiate capturing of the color composition data, and a controller is configured to configure one or more parameters for a wash cycle based upon the captured color composition data.
Claims28
A laundry washing machine, comprising:
- a wash tub disposed within a housing;
- a color detection sensor disposed proximate an opening of the wash tub and configured to capture color composition data of one or more items added to the wash tub;
- a weight sensor operatively coupled to the wash tub;
- and
- a controller coupled to the color detection sensor and the weight sensor and configured to detect an addition of an item among the one or more items to the wash tub with the weight sensor and initiate capturing of the color composition data with the color detection sensor responsive thereto,
- wherein the controller is further configured to configure one or more parameters for a wash cycle based upon the captured color composition data.
An apparatus comprising:
- an image sensor disposed on a mobile computing device and configured to capture one or more images of one or more items to be washed by a laundry washing machine;
- and
- a controller in communication with the image sensor and configured to process the one or more images to determine color composition data from the one or more images of the one or more items, the controller further configured to configure one or more parameters for a wash cycle of the laundry washing machine based upon the color composition data.
A laundry washing machine, comprising:
- a wash tub disposed within a housing;
- a color detection sensor disposed proximate an opening of the wash tub and configured to capture color composition data of an item added to the wash tub;
- and
- a controller coupled to the color detection sensor and configured to detect a stain on the item added to the wash tub,
- wherein the controller is configured to configure one or more parameters for a wash cycle based on the stain detected.
A laundry washing machine, comprising:
- a wash tub disposed within a housing;
- a color detection sensor disposed proximate an opening of the wash tub and configured to capture color composition data of an item added to the wash tub;
- a retractable cover configured to selectively cover the color detection sensor;
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- a controller coupled to the color detection sensor and the retractable cover configured to initiate automatic retraction of the retractable cover in response to opening of a door that covers an opening of the wash tub and initiate capturing of the color composition data with the color detection sensor,
- wherein controller is further configured to configure one or more parameters for a wash cycle based upon the captured color composition data.
-44. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.