Method for loading dishes
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsBENJAMIN N. FULBRIGHT, CHARLES E. NEARPASS, THOMAS M. O'BRIEN, ANTONY MARK RAPPETTE
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Abstract
A method of loading dishes within at least one or more racks of a dishwasher using a mobile device having an imager, a user interface, and a processor. The method further includes capturing an image of a subset of dishes, determining a loading pattern of the subset of dishes based on at least one dish parameter of the subset of dishes and at least one rack parameter of the one or more racks, and providing the loading pattern as an image comprising the at least one or more racks and the subset of dishes.
Claims20
A method of loading dishes within a dishwasher using a mobile device having an imager, a user interface, and a processor, the dishwasher having a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber, with an access opening, at least one or more racks positioned within the treating chamber, the method comprising:
- capturing, with the imager of the mobile device, an image of a set of dishes;
- determining, at the processor of the mobile device, a loading pattern of at least a subset of dishes of the set of dishes based on at least one dish parameter of the subset of dishes and at least one rack parameter of the one or more racks;
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- providing, at the user interface, the loading pattern as an image comprising the at least one or more racks and the subset of dishes.
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