1. Overview of Smart Home Appliances
1.1 Smart Household Robot
1.2 Smart HVAC
1.3 Smart Refrigerator
1.4 Smart Laundry
1.5 Smart TV

2. Patent Mining

3. Data Analysis
3.1 Patent Distribution by Country
3.2 Patent Distribution by Sector and by Field
3.3 Key Technologies & Applications

MIC Perspective
Computer Technology and Control are Major Fields; IT Methods for Management and Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy, Relatively Uncontested
Digital Data Processing is the Core Technology; Prospective Vendors Have Better Chance in Cloud Computing, HMI, Information Security, and AI

Appendix
Glossary of Terms
List of Companies

Overview of the major smart home appliance products and vendors, including smart household robot, HVAC, refrigerator, laundry, and TV

Patent mining procedure and data analysis—including patent distribution by country, by sector, and by field—of the 1,702 smart home appliance patents identified by the use of data mining technique; also included are the key technology fields identified by the text mining procedure
 

Figure 1: Popular Smart Home Appliances on the Market
Figure 2: Smart Home Appliance Patents by Country
Figure 3: Smart Home Appliance Patents by Sector
Figure 4: Smart Home Appliance Patents by Field
Figure 5: Smart Home Appliance Patents by Category
 

Table 1: Product Deployment of Major Smart Home Appliance Brands
Table 2: Key Technology Fields Identified by Text Mining