Home appliance and mobile terminal

    公开(公告)号:US10015021B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-03

    申请号:US15022077

    申请日:2014-09-16

    Abstract: Disclosed are a home appliance and a mobile terminal. The home appliance includes a drive unit, an acoustic output module configured to output sound, a microphone configured to receive sound from an external source, a memory configured to store information related to the home appliance when the home appliance is being operated, an acoustic communication unit configured to output sound containing the information related to the home appliance to the acoustic output module or to extract prescribed information from the sound received via the microphone based on an acoustic communication mode, and a controller configured to control the drive unit according to the information extracted by the acoustic communication unit. Transmission of information between the home appliance and the mobile terminal is accomplished via acoustic communication.

    Terminal and home appliance system including the same

    公开(公告)号:US10573302B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-25

    申请号:US15065463

    申请日:2016-03-09

    Abstract: A terminal includes a microphone, a display, an audio output module, a communication unit to exchange data with a server or a home appliance, and a controller to control display of a screen including information related to the home appliance and to control output of information corresponding to user voice based on the information related to the home appliance on the screen via the display or the audio output module when the user voice is received via the microphone. Therefore, it is possible to improve user convenience upon utilizing the home appliance.

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