Patent ID: 11866868
Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC D  G | IPC D  G

Claim 0:
1. A laundry washing machine, comprising:
a wash tub disposed within a housing;
a color detection sensor positioned to capture color composition data of a load of articles over time as the load of articles is added to the wash tub; and
a controller coupled to the color detection sensor and configured to initiate the capture of the color composition data with the color detection sensor as the load of articles is added to the wash tub, the controller further configured to initiate a color decision algorithm to characterize the captured color composition data by assigning each of a plurality of pixel values in the captured color composition data to one of a plurality of color categories;
wherein the controller is further configured to generate an alert in response to detection of one or more outlier articles from the load of articles added to the wash tub in the categorized color composition data to notify the user of the presence of the one or more outlier articles in the load.