Abstract: A control method of a washing machine, in which a hydraulic pressure of water supplied into the washing machine is estimated, enabling sensing of a laundry weight and measurement of a supply amount of the water. The control method includes calculating a first water supply time required to initially supply water to a setup water level, calculating a second water supply time required to additionally supply water according to a variation in water level due to laundry wetting after the initial supply of water, sensing a laundry weight according to a ratio of the first water supply time to the second water supply time, and measuring a flow rate of water using the amount of water supplied to the setup water level and the laundry weight data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a washing machine that is capable of maintaining the balanced state of laundry to more smoothly perform a spin-drying operation and a control method thereof. The control method of the washing machine including a drum to receive laundry and a motor to rotate the drum to reduce unbalance generated due to the nonuniform distribution of the laundry, includes wrapping the laundry by accelerating the drum such that the laundry sticks to an inner wall of the drum, detecting motor current during the wrapping of the laundry, determining an unbalanced state of the laundry based on the detected motor current, and controlling speed of the drum based on a result of the determination.

Abstract: A control method of a washing machine, in which a hydraulic pressure of water supplied into the washing machine is estimated, enabling sensing of a laundry weight and measurement of a supply amount of the water. The control method includes calculating a first water supply time required to initially supply water to a setup water level, calculating a second water supply time required to additionally supply water according to a variation in water level due to laundry wetting after the initial supply of water, sensing a laundry weight according to a ratio of the first water supply time to the second water supply time, and measuring a flow rate of water using the amount of water supplied to the setup water level and the laundry weight data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a washing machine that is capable of maintaining the balanced state of laundry to more smoothly perform a spin-drying operation and a control method thereof. The control method of the washing machine including a drum to receive laundry and a motor to rotate the drum to reduce unbalance generated due to the nonuniform distribution of the laundry, includes wrapping the laundry by accelerating the drum such that the laundry sticks to an inner wall of the drum, detecting motor current during the wrapping of the laundry, determining an unbalanced state of the laundry based on the detected motor current, and controlling speed of the drum based on a result of the determination.