Home appliance and control method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJunmyung CHOI, Baekeun KWON
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Abstract
Disclosed are a home appliance and a control method thereof. The disclosed home appliance performs a first home appliance operation for objects corresponding to shapes of a human body in a space, and thereafter, excludes an object other than a user from among the objects and performs a second home appliance operation for the user only. In this case, the first home appliance operation and the second home appliance operation are not simultaneously performed and are different from each other.
Claims20
A home appliance comprising:
- a camera configured to obtain plurality of images of a space;
- a processor configured to execute at least one instruction;
- and
- an operation device as configured, to perform a first home appliance-related operation and to perform a second home appliance-related operation,
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- receive the plurality of images obtained by the camera;
- control the operation device to perform the first home appliance-related operation on a plurality of objects corresponding to a shape of a human-body, based on a first image among the plurality of images;
- and
- control the operation device to perform the second home appliance-related operation only on a user among the plurality of objects, based on a second image among the plurality of images, wherein the first home appliance-related operation is different from the second home appliance-related operation, and wherein the second image is obtained after the first image is obtained.
A method for controlling a home appliance that includes a processor and a camera, the method comprising:
- receiving, from the camera, a plurality of images of a space;
- performing a first home appliance-related operation with respect to an object of a plurality of objects corresponding to a shape of part of a human based on a first image among the plurality of images;
- and
- performing a second home appliance-related operation only with respect to a user, among the plurality of objects, based on a second image among the plurality of images, wherein the first home appliance-related operation is different than the second home appliance-related operation, and wherein the second image is obtained after the first image is obtained.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.