US 12,031,257 B2
Clothes treatment apparatus and method for controlling the same
Hyun Jin Ahn, Suwon-si (KR); Joon Ho Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Dong Bin Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Seung Woo Hong, Suwon-si (KR); Bo Bin Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Hae Yoon Park, Suwon-si (KR); Dong Min Lee, Suwon-si (KR); and Kyoung Ae Lim, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/566,372.
Application 17/566,372 is a continuation of application No. 16/279,834, filed on Feb. 19, 2019, granted, now 11,242,634.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0019159 (KR), filed on Feb. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0120007 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. D06F 33/44 (2020.01); D06F 33/70 (2020.01); D06F 34/06 (2020.01); D06F 34/18 (2020.01); D06F 34/28 (2020.01); D06F 58/46 (2020.01); D06F 34/32 (2020.01); D06F 101/20 (2020.01); D06F 103/04 (2020.01); D06F 103/08 (2020.01); D06F 103/24 (2020.01); D06F 103/38 (2020.01); D06F 105/02 (2020.01); D06F 105/56 (2020.01); D06F 105/58 (2020.01)
CPC D06F 33/44 (2020.02) [D06F 33/70 (2020.02); D06F 34/06 (2020.02); D06F 34/18 (2020.02); D06F 58/46 (2020.02); D06F 34/28 (2020.02); D06F 34/32 (2020.02); D06F 2101/20 (2020.02); D06F 2103/04 (2020.02); D06F 2103/08 (2020.02); D06F 2103/24 (2020.02); D06F 2103/38 (2020.02); D06F 2105/02 (2020.02); D06F 2105/56 (2020.02); D06F 2105/58 (2020.02)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clothes treatment apparatus comprising:
a drum configured to accommodate clothes;
a display;
an inputter configured to receive a first command to select one program among a plurality of programs and receive a second command to start the selected one program;
a storage configured to store first information on a setting time corresponding to a weight level of clothes for each program and configured to store second information on a default time corresponding to a weather for each program previously executed, in a form of tables;
a processor configured to:
receive weather information;
in response to receiving the first command, control the display to display, as a remaining time, the default time for the selected one program corresponding to a weather in the second information indicated by the received weather information;
in response to receiving the second command, determine a weight of clothes in the drum
identify a setting time corresponding to the determined weight of clothes and the selected one program based on the first information;
control the display to change the remaining time from the default time to the identified setting time;
control an execution of the selected one program based on the identified setting time; and
store, in the storage, as the second information, an operation time of the selected one program and the weather indicated by the received weather information.