METHOD FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION BETWEEN A HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE AND A MOBILE DEVICE

Abstract The invention relates to a method for exchanging information be tween a household appliance (1) and a mobile device (2), the 5 method comprising the steps of: - providing optical information at a graphical user inter face (3) of the household appliance (1) (S10); - preferably, aligning the mobile device (2) with respect to the household appliance (1) based on one or more o markers (4) displayed at a graphical user interface (5) of the mobile device (2) or based on a time-invariant portion of provided optical information(S11); - receiving optical information at the mobile device (2) by capturing said optical information provided at the 5 household appliance (1) by a camera (6) of the mobile device (2) (S12); - processing said received optical information at the mo bile device (1) in order to derive an information mes sage included in said received optical information 0 (S13); - providing said information message or information asso ciated with said information message at a user interface of the mobile device (2) (S14). 25 Fig. 4 4- -- 5 Providing optical information S10 on GUI of household device Mobile device alignment S11 Receiving optical information S12 at the mobile device Processing optical information S13 at the mobile device Providing information content 14 at the GUI of the mobile device