Household appliance, particularly top loading vertical axis washing machine, dryer, oven or stove, has controller for controlling function of household appliance, display and contactless input unit

摘要

The household appliance has a controller for controlling a function of the household appliance, a display (3) and a contactless input unit (4). The input unit is designed to distinguish between different trajectories of user hand and to generate different signals depending on the trajectories. Different control functions are released with the controller depending on the different signals.