Home appliance and method for controlling thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11404172-B2
Application number	US-202016793700-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 18, 2020
Priority date	Mar 4, 2019
Publication date	Aug 2, 2022
Grant date	Aug 2, 2022

Abstract

A home appliance is provided. The home appliance includes a motor configured to execute a predetermined function of the home appliance, and a processor configured to determine an upper limit of noise of the home appliance based on ambient noise information of the home appliance and control a driving speed of the motor to have magnitude of noise of the home appliance equal to or less than the upper limit of the noise.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A home appliance comprising:
a motor configured to execute a predetermined function of the home appliance;
an accelerometer configured to generate acceleration information by measuring acceleration of the motor; and
at least one processor configured to:
determine an upper limit of noise of the home appliance based on ambient noise information,
control a driving speed of the motor to have magnitude of noise of the home appliance equal to or less than the upper limit of the noise,
redetermine the upper limit of the noise during a user's absence or base d on a predicted noise information of the home appliance, and
control the driving speed of the motor using the redetermined upper limit of the noise,

wherein the processor is further configured to:
extract an operation frequency of the motor using the acceleration information,
generate reference data having a predetermined size and phase using the extracted operation frequency,
generate noise information of the home appliance using the reference data and a noise estimation algorithm, and
control the driving speed of the motor using the noise information and the upper limit of the noise of the home appliance.

2. The home appliance of claim 1 , further comprising:
a memory configured to store noise level information according to the driving speed,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
determine an upper speed limit of the motor using the upper limit of the noise and the noise level information, and
control the driving speed of the motor to operate at a speed equal to or less than the upper speed limit.

3. The home appliance of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
generate the predicted noise information of the home appliance using the noise information of the home appliance, and
control the driving speed of the motor using the noise information, the predicted noise information, and the upper limit of the noise of the home appliance.

4. The home appliance of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to determine the upper limit of the noise of the home appliance by removing the noise of the home appliance from the ambient noise information using the noise information of the home appliance.

5. The home appliance of claim 1 , further comprising:
a microphone configured to measure ambient sounds,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to obtain the ambient noise information through the microphone.

6. The home appliance of claim 1 , further comprising:
a communication device,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
control the communication device to request an external device to transmit ambient noise information, and
obtain the ambient noise information from the external device.

7. The home appliance of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
determine a frequency spectrum of the upper limit of the noise for a plurality of predetermined frequency bands, and
control the driving speed of the motor using the determined frequency spectrum of the upper limit of the noise.

8. The home appliance of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
redetermine the upper limit of the noise using feedback information of a user regarding noise information of the home appliance, and
control the driving speed of the motor using the redetermined upper limit.

9. A method for controlling a home appliance including a motor, the method comprising:
determining an upper limit of noise of the home appliance based on ambient noise information;
controlling a driving speed of the motor to have magnitude of noise of the home appliance equal to or less than the upper limit of the noise;
redetermining the upper limit of the noise during a user's absence or based on a predicted noise information of the home appliance; and
controlling the driving speed of the motor using the redetermined upper limit of the noise,
wherein the controlling of the driving speed of the motor comprising:
generating acceleration information by measuring acceleration of the motor,
extracting an operation frequency of the motor using the acceleration information,
generating reference data having a predetermined size and phase using the extracted operation frequency,
generating noise information of the home appliance using the reference data and a noise estimation algorithm, and
controlling the driving speed of the motor using the noise information and the upper limit of the noise of the home appliance.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
storing noise level information according to the driving speed,
wherein the controlling of the driving speed of the motor comprises:
determining an upper speed limit of the motor using the upper limit of the noise and the noise level information; and
controlling the driving speed of the motor to operate at a speed equal to or less than the upper limit speed.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
generating the predicted noise information of the home appliance using the noise information of the home appliance,
wherein the controlling of the driving speed comprises controlling the driving speed of the motor using the noise information, the predicted noise information, and the upper limit of the noise of the home appliance.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determining of the upper limit of the noise of the home appliance comprises determining the upper limit of the noise of the home appliance by removing the noise of the home appliance from the ambient noise information using the noise information of the home appliance.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
measuring the ambient noise information using a microphone.

14. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
requesting an external device to transmit ambient noise information; and
obtaining the ambient noise information from the external device.

15. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
determining a frequency spectrum of the upper limit of the noise for a plurality of predetermined frequency bands,
wherein the controlling of the driving speed of the motor comprises controlling the driving speed of the motor using the determined frequency spectrum of the upper limit of the noise.

16. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
redetermining the upper limit using feedback information of a user regarding noise information of the home appliance,
wherein the controlling of the driving speed of the motor comprises controlling the driving speed of the motor using the redetermined upper limit of the noise.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Nokhaeng

Classifications

• H04L67/01 Primary

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