Laundry treating apparatus

A laundry treating apparatus comprising:

• a cabinet;
• a drum disposed rotatably inside the cabinet and configured to accommodate laundry therein, the drum including an electrode sensor configured to measure a moisture amount in contact with the laundry;
• a fluid circulator including a condenser, a compressor, and an evaporator circulating fluid therethrough, the fluid circulator including a compressor sensor configured to measure a temperature of fluid discharged from the compressor;
• an air circulator including a fan configured to cause air heated by passing through the fluid circulator to flow into the drum;
• a driver including (i) a first driver configured to rotate the drum and (ii) a second driver configured to rotate the fan;
• and
• a controller configured to perform a drying operation of the laundry by controlling the compressor, the first driver, and the second driver, respectively,
• wherein the drying operation includes (i) an efficiency increasing process for increasing a drying efficiency that is related to a humidity of the air inside the drum, (ii) an efficiency maintaining process for maintaining the drying efficiency, and (iii) an efficiency decreasing process for reducing the drying efficiency, and
• wherein the controller is configured to:
• terminate the efficiency increasing process and perform the efficiency maintaining process when a measured value of the compressor sensor reaches a preset efficiency maintaining process entry compressor sensor value in the efficiency increasing process, and
• terminate the efficiency maintaining process and perform the efficiency decreasing process when a measured value of the electrode sensor reaches a preset efficiency decreasing process entry electrode sensor value in the efficiency maintaining process.