Abstract: A washing machine and a method of controlling the same that is capable of determining whether laundry is a single load or a multiple load based on detected value of eccentricity or detected laundry amount and changing revolutions per minute of a motor or the number of eccentricity detections based on the determined load amount such that different spin-drying actions are performed. The washing machine comprises an eccentricity detecting unit for detecting eccentricity of laundry received in a drum, a motor driving unit for driving a motor such that the drum is rotated, and a microprocessor for determining whether the laundry is a single load or a multiple load based on the value of eccentricity detected by the eccentricity detecting unit and changing revolutions per minute of the motor or the number of eccentricity detections of the eccentricity detecting unit based on the initially determined load amount.

Abstract: A method and a device for processing of speech information uses the input and/or storage and/or the acoustical reproduction and/or for the transmission of speed and data information to other devices for local storage and/or reproduction, as well as searching for one or several speech segments in the stored speech information. A recording and search/reproduction of speech information is ensured without manual designation and classification and without the requirement of a vocabulary. Spoken words and/or correlated sentences (memorandums) are digitally recorded as speech signals in a memory which, in a partial scope of at least one word, are again spoken for search purposes and are compared in a device with the recordings and subsequently evaluated, from which a score between the two speech patterns is determined and the memorandum with the smallest score is issued/reproduced acoustically.

Abstract: A color test strip for detecting predetermined substances which carries on a support at least one coloring pad and at least one pad for. The correction pad having a pH which is adjusted in relation to pH of the coloring pad. The color test strip can avoid false positive and false negative results.