Samsung patents home appliances that keep running during calls
This patent describes a home appliance that can link with a user's phone to detect incoming calls or messages. If the user has not turned on a specific quiet mode, the appliance ignores these notifications and continues operating at its current speed.
In the filing’s own words
A home appliance, a home appliance system, and a controlling method thereof are disclosed. The home appliance includes an input interface, a communication interface, a processor, and a motor, wherein the processor is configured to receive input of an instruction regarding whether to activate a noise control mode from a user through the input interface, receive notification information including at least one of a received call or a received message from a terminal device interlocked with the home appliance through the communication interface, and based on the noise control mode being in an inactivated state, ignore the notification information and maintain the driving speed of the motor.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A home appliance comprising: an input interface; a communication interface; a processor; and a motor, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, through the input interface, user input of an instruction regarding whether to activate a noise control mode; receive, from a terminal device interlocked with the home appliance, notification information including at least one of a received call or a received message, the notification information received through the communication interface; and based on the noise control mode being in an inactivated state, determine whether to ignore the notification information and maintain a driving speed of the motor.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Home appliance, home appliance system and controlling method thereof
- Patent number
- US12761620B2
- Application number
- 18453699
- Filed
- Aug 22, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G05B 19/042 Physics & computingH04L 12/282 Electricity & electronicsG05B 2219/23238 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Phones & computers
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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