公开(公告)号：US11335340B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US16521520

申请日：2019-07-24

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Hyosang Shin ,  Sungjun Yun ,  Yongwoon Jang ,  Byung Woo Jun

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  D06F33/00 ,  D06F39/14 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G10L13/08 ,  D06F105/50 ,  D06F101/00 ,  D06F33/47

Abstract: Provided is a home appliance that performs a washing or drying operation based on a start command input through artificial intelligence and voice recognition a method for controlling such a home appliance. According to the present disclosure, the home appliance and the method for controlling such a home appliance include a sensor that senses a state of a door installed in a washing unit and a controller that executes an operation command based on a change of a state of the door sensed by the sensor. At this time, when the door is changed from an open state to a close state after the power of the home appliance is turned on, the controller controls the operation of the washing unit based on the operation command extracted from the voice signal of the user. Thus, the present disclosure may enable performing an command to start an operation input based on voice recognition.