Patent ID: 11896182
Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 13:
14. A dishwasher, comprising:
a wash tub;
a fluid supply configured to supply fluid to the wash tub;
an imaging device configured to capture images in the wash tub;
a plurality of controllably-movable sprayers in fluid communication with the fluid supply, wherein at least one of the plurality of controllably-movable sprayers is a multi-zone sprayer configurable to spray fluid into each of first and second zones in the wash tub; and
a controller coupled to the imaging device and the plurality of controllably-movable sprayers, the controller configured to control the imaging device to capture one or more images of the first and second zones in the wash tub and to assign the multi-zone sprayer to one of the first and second zones based upon a load configuration for a load in the dishwasher and determined from the captured one or more images, wherein the controller is further configured to perform concurrent wash operations in the first and second zones by controlling controllably-movable sprayers among the plurality of controllably-movable sprayers to concurrently spray fluid into each of the first and second zones, and wherein the controller is further configured to control the multi-zone sprayer to spray fluid into the assigned one of the first and second zones when performing the concurrent wash operations.