US 12,421,641 B2
Laundry treatment appliance and method of using the same according to matched laundry loads
MyungGeon Chung, Seoul (KR); and Hyeonsoo Moon, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed by Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/969,020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0133100 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0229319 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. D06F 34/18 (2020.01); D06F 23/04 (2006.01); D06F 33/32 (2020.01); D06F 34/04 (2020.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01); G06V 20/60 (2022.01); D06F 101/02 (2020.01)
CPC D06F 34/18 (2020.02) [D06F 23/04 (2013.01); D06F 33/32 (2020.02); D06F 34/04 (2020.02); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01); G06V 20/60 (2022.01); D06F 2101/02 (2020.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A laundry treatment appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the laundry treatment appliance comprising:
a cabinet defining a receiving space;
a wash tub provided within the receiving space;
a wash basket received within the wash tub; and
a controller provided within the cabinet, the controller being configured to direct a laundry operation, the laundry operation comprising:
receiving a plurality of wash requests from a plurality of external devices associated with a plurality of unique users, wherein each wash request of the plurality of wash requests comprises an image of a unique laundry load and one or more wash parameters corresponding to the unique laundry load;
analyzing, by one or more computing devices using a machine learning image recognition model, a first image to evaluate one or more laundry load characteristics of a first unique laundry load;
analyzing, by the one or more computing devices using the machine learning image recognition model, a second image to evaluate one or more laundry load characteristics of a second unique laundry load;
matching a first unique user and a second unique user from the plurality of unique users, the first unique user and the second unique user having a matching laundry load characteristic from the one or more laundry load characteristics;
generating a joint washing cycle comprising one or more wash parameters corresponding to the unique laundry load subsequent to matching the first and second unique users based on the matching laundry load characteristics; and
initiating the joint washing cycle at the laundry treatment appliance according to the one or more wash parameters.