Patent ID: 8733132

Claim:
A control system for a laundry treating appliance having a plurality of components that are operated to implement a treatment cycle having multiple operating parameters on a load of laundry received within a treating chamber of the appliance, the control system comprising: a controller operably coupled with at least one of the plurality of components to control the operation of the at least one of the plurality of components to implement a treatment cycle and configured to provide: a selection landscape subdivided into multiple selection zones, each selection zone representing a system input for the control system and having a boundary defining an area for each selection zone; and a boundary adjuster operably coupled to the selection landscape to alter at least one boundary and thereby alter a corresponding area of at least one of the multiple selection zones; and wherein the controller is configured to determine a system input weighting based on the area of at least one of the multiple selection zones relative to a total area of all of the selection zones, and determine at least one of the multiple operating parameters as a function of the determined system input weighting; and wherein a user may control the operation of the treatment cycle by moving the boundary adjuster relative to the selection landscape to change the system input weighting.