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Home appliance and mobile terminal

US10015021B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 16, 2014
Grant dateJul 3, 2018
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Expiry dateJan 20, 2035

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2012/285
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

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.

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