Patent ID: 7337015

Claim:
A method of controlling a home appliance, using a control signal transmitter to output a control signal and a signal receiver coupled to a gate system of the home appliance to establish a system activation/inactivation mechanism which continues supplying power to the signal receiver under an off status of the gate system, the method comprising: executing an off operation according to an off command, and executing detection operation by a basic input/output system (BIOS); detecting whether an external port of the gate system is coupled to the signal receiver by the BIOS; waking up the signal receiver by the control signal transmitter according to configuration of the BIOS of the gate system, and changing a pin state of an external connection port of the gate system when the signal receiver receives a control signal transmitted form the control signal transmitter; and generating a system activation signal according to the pin state of the external connection port, and inputting the activation signal to execute an on and off operation of the gate system, and controlling operation of the home appliance by controlling the control signal transmitter.