US Patent Issued to Haier Smart Home, QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE on April 14 for "Method and apparatus for controlling device based on tapping and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,195, issued on April 14, was assigned to Haier Smart Home Co. Ltd. (Qingdao, China) and QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling device based on tapping and storage medium" was invented by Xiaopeng Ding (Qingdao, China), Zhenxing Huang (Qingdao, China) and Sheng Xu (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a method and apparatus for controlling a device based on tapping and a storage medium. The method includes: in response to a tapping action from a user, acquiring sound information triggered by the tapping action; performing recognition pro...