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Whirlpool Designs Method for Better Detergent Dosing

It entails image recognition of the brand logo or detergent container.

An image from US Patent 12,146,254 B2

US Patent No. 12,146,254 B2 (Adriano Carafini, Omar Rachid Murad, Jean Ricardo Rusczak, Mauro Roberto Ushizima, Caio Cesar Rodrigues Ferrari); Appliance maker Whirlpool Corporation patented a method for improved laundry detergent dosing in a washing machine.

It entails receiving an image of a product container captured by the consumer; performing image recognition to identify the product based on one or more of shape, color, text, and/or brand logo of the product container; identifying parameters of the product based on the image; and recommending and/or controlling release of a dose of the product for a wash cycle of the washing machine according to those parameters.

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