Patents Assigned to Electron, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12260600
    Abstract: A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments may comprise the steps of: encoding point cloud data; and transmitting a bitstream including the point cloud data. A point cloud data reception method according to embodiments may comprise the steps of receiving a bitstream comprising point cloud data; and decoding the point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sooyeon Lee, Sejin Oh
  • Patent number: 12261413
    Abstract: A tunable laser assembly housed in a single enclosure and a method of control is described wherein the tunable laser, pump and semiconductor optical amplifier do not share a common optical axis but are all aligned to optical waveguides on an intervening planar lightwave circuit (PLC). Wavelength monitoring circuitry is included on the PLC to enable monitoring and control of the tunable laser center wavelength and optical bandwidth. The design of the PLC does not introduce perturbations into the swept-source laser output spectrum that would cause artifacts in imaging applications such as optical coherence tomography (OCT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. S. Heim, John Hryniewicz, Jacob Mertz, Jianfei Wang
  • Patent number: 12258025
    Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an event camera disposed in a cabin of a vehicle and viewing the head of a driver of the vehicle. The dynamic range of the event camera is at least 100 dB. The response time of the event camera is less than 10,000 microseconds. The event camera has a quantum efficiency of at least 15% for near-infrared light having a wavelength of 940 nm. The system, responsive to processing of data output by the event camera, monitors the driver of the vehicle. Responsive at least in part (a) to monitoring of the driver of the vehicle and (b) to vehicle kinematic data provided to the ECU, at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) a driver attentiveness alert is generated, (ii) a driver drowsiness alert is generated, (iii) steering of the vehicle is controlled and (iv) braking of the vehicle is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Niall R. Lynam
  • Patent number: 12258964
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is disclosed. The scroll compressor includes a rotating shaft coupling portion axially extending from a central portion of an orbiting end plate to radially overlap an orbiting wrap, such that an eccentric portion of a rotating shaft is coupled thereto, and a portion of the orbiting wrap may extend from an end surface of the rotating shaft coupling portion facing a fixed end plate. With the configuration, a distance between bearing reaction force and gas reaction force acting on the orbiting scroll can be reduced, to stabilize a behavior of the orbiting scroll and thus reduce back pressure, thereby decreasing friction loss between scrolls. Simultaneously, compression chambers can be formed even in a central portion of the orbiting scroll, which can increase a compression ratio and improve volumetric efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byungkil Yoo, Jungsun Choi, Seheon Choi
  • Patent number: 12258014
    Abstract: A method for enhancing a vehicular driving assistance system includes obtaining in-vehicle test data representative of performance of the vehicular driving assistance system of a vehicle during operation of the vehicular driving assistance system and determining, using the in-vehicle test data, a second order transfer function that models operation of the vehicular driving assistance system. The second order transfer function matches a magnitude response of the in-vehicle test data. The method includes providing a simulation environment. The simulation environment simulates the vehicular driving assistance system using the second order transfer function. The method includes determining, using the simulation environment, a feedforward contribution and a feedback contribution of the vehicular driving assistance system, and enhancing the vehicular driving assistance system based on adjustment of the feedforward contribution and the feedback contribution of the vehicular driving assistance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Tejas Murlidhar Varunjikar, Arpit Awathe, Subhabrata Ganguli
  • Patent number: 12256103
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present specification comprises the steps of: deriving transform coefficients through inverse quantization on the basis of quantized transform coefficient for a target block; deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) of the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of residual samples for the target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform of the modified transform coefficients, wherein the step of deriving the modified transform coefficients is characterized in deriving 16 modified transform coefficients by applying a transform kernel matrix to 8 transform coefficients in a 4×4 region of the target block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Jaehyun Lim, Seunghwan Kim, Mehdi Salehifar
  • Patent number: 12253303
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet forming a storage space, a main door that opens and closes the storage space while defining an opening part that is in communication with the storage space, a sub-door mounted to the main door and configured to open and close the opening part, the sub-door including a panel assembly for allowing selective viewing of an inside of the opening part, the injection port is provided at a lower side of the sub-door to direct an insulating foaming solution to a space in the sub-door, a detection device for detecting an operation of a user, a lighting unit inside the refrigerator that turns on based on user operation to allow selective viewing of the inner side of the opening part, and a display unit inside the refrigerator at a position corresponding to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Kwanghyun Choi
  • Patent number: 12252834
    Abstract: A detergent storage container for a laundry treating apparatus includes a detergent storage member that defines a storage space configured to store laundry detergent, and a residual amount detecting unit disposed at the detergent storage member and configured to detect a residual amount of laundry detergent stored in the detergent storage member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sungwoon Jung, Hunjun Jang
  • Patent number: 12253298
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet and a door. The door includes a door body including a door liner, a front plate, a cap decor connected to the door liner and the front plate and having a recessed handle, and an insulator filled between the door liner, the front plate, and the cap decor. The door includes a panel assembly detachably mounted on a front surface of the door body and defining a front surface of the door. The panel assembly includes a panel defining an outer appearance of the front surface of the door and an insertion protrusion protruding backward from the panel and inserted into a front surface of the cap decor when the panel is mounted to restrict the panel assembly. The insertion protrusion extends from the outside of a recessed space of the handle in a direction crossing the recessed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Myeongseong Park, Daekil Kang, Ohchul Kwon, Sangho Jung, Hyuncheol Lee
  • Patent number: 12252074
    Abstract: A vehicular camera includes an imaging array sensor that includes one million photosensors arranged in rows and columns and a microlens array. The microlens array includes a plurality of microlenses disposed at the imaging array sensor. Each individual microlens of the plurality of microlenses includes a respective plurality of refractive indices. The microlens array is disposed at the imaging array sensor so that light incident at the vehicular camera passes through the microlens array to be incident at the imaging array sensor. Light incident at and passing through each individual microlens of the microlens array is incident at a respective sub-array of the photosensors of the imaging array sensor. The vehicular camera is configured to be disposed at a vehicle equipped with a vehicular vision system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Xiyuan Liu
  • Patent number: 12253893
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power supply apparatus. The power supply apparatus includes at least one power unit and a magnetic unit. The magnetic unit is stacked with and electrically connected to the at least one power unit. The magnetic unit comprises a plurality of pins and a magnetic core. The at least part of the plurality of pins extends out of a projection of the magnetic core in a connection plane of the at least one power unit and the magnetic unit to connect to the at least one power unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Min Zhou, Yuliang Zhang, Jianhong Zeng
  • Patent number: 12252829
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus is disclosed. The laundry treating apparatus includes a first treating apparatus having a first front panel disposed on a front face thereof, a second treating apparatus disposed beneath the first treating apparatus to support the first treating apparatus, wherein the second treating apparatus has a second front panel disposed on a front face thereof, and a control panel disposed between the first front panel and the second front panel, wherein the control panel is signally connected to the first treating apparatus and the second treating apparatus, wherein the control panel has a top face facing toward the first front panel. A drain passage extending along a lateral direction is defined in the top face, so that water delivered to the top face flows in the lateral direction along the drain passage and is drained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngho Jung, Donghyun Jin, Daehan Kwon
  • Patent number: 12256102
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: receiving image information including residual information for a current block; and generating residual samples of the current block on the basis of the residual information, wherein the residual information includes information on transform coefficients of the current block, and the residual samples are generated from the information on the transform coefficients on the basis of low-frequency non-separable transform (LFNST) index information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Junghak Nam, Jaehyun Lim, Moonmo Koo, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12252832
    Abstract: A washing machine includes: an outer tub, an inner tub, a drain pump driven by an electric current to thereby drain water from the outer tub, a motor providing a rotational force to the inner tub, and a control unit controlling the drain pump and the motor. The control unit rotates the motor to increase a rotation speed of the inner tub to a preset first target speed during a sub spin-drying cycle to remove moisture from laundry in the inner tub, measure the current of the drain pump to measure an amount of water dehydrated from the laundry, measure, based on the current being increased and then decreased to or below a preset reference current, the rotation speed of the inner tub, and change a preset rotation time of the inner tub in a main spin-drying cycle according to the measured rotation speed of the inner tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jongmin Lee, Byunghyun Moon, Sangwook Lee, Youngjong Kim
  • Patent number: 12251069
    Abstract: A dish washer includes: a tub configured to receive an object to be washed and providing a washing space having an opening at a front side of the tub, a door configured to rotate relative to the tub between (i) a closing position that closes the opening of the washing space and (ii) a full opening position that exposes an entirety of the opening of the washing space, and a door position sensing part configured to sense a position of the door. The door position sensing part is configured to sense whether the door moves from the closing position and whether the door reaches a predetermined risk area start position set between the closing position and the full opening position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seongmin Lee
  • Patent number: 12256444
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selective connection establishment for a broadcast-multicast service in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device receives bandwidth information for a broadcast-multicast service. A wireless device determines whether a connection to receive the broadcast-multicast service is required or not, based on the bandwidth information. A wireless device receives the broadcast-multicast service based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Sunghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 12253297
    Abstract: An appliance includes a cabinet in which a storage space is defined and a door configured to open and close the storage space. The door includes a door body and a panel assembly mounted on a front surface of the door body. The panel assembly includes a panel which is configured to define a front surface of the door and through which light is transmitted, a lighting device configured to allow the panel to shine with a set color, a back cover configured to define a rear surface of the panel assembly, and a panel holder configured to fix the panel assembly to the door body. The panel holder includes a base fixed inside the panel assembly and a holder protrusion protruding from the base to pass through the back cover and coupled to the door body when the panel assembly is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seongmin Song
  • Patent number: 12252935
    Abstract: A battery-operated motorized roller shade that can be charged through an installation bracket. The roller shade comprises a roller tube, a motor and at least one battery disposed within the roller tube, and a motor head disposed at a terminal end of the roller tube having a motor head interface. The installation bracket comprises an installation bracket interface and an exterior wall comprising an installation bracket connector adapted to removably connect to and electrically interface with a power adapter. The motor head is adapted to removably attach to the installation bracket wherein the installation bracket provides electrical power to the at least one battery within the roller tube when the installation bracket is connected to the power adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor M. Menendez, Michael Campagna, Charles R. Derk, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12256478
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cooking apparatus having a heating module capable of moving in a two-dimensional space and, particularly, to a cooking apparatus comprising: an upper plate configured to support a cooking vessel, a heating module disposed movably in a space provided under the upper plate and included a coil, and a rail disposed under the heating module to guide movements of the heating module, wherein electric current is supplied to the rail and the heating module supplies an alternating current through the rail. According to the present disclosure, the heating module supplies a current through the rail rather than receiving a current through a separate connection coil or wiring from an external power supply, thereby enabling shorting or disconnection of a current to be prevented even if the heating module moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eui Sung Kim, Yangkyeong Kim, Hyunwook Moon
  • Patent number: 12252836
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a door, and a steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a heat pump unit that is located in the cycle chamber and that is configured to circulate and condition air in the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply tank that is installed in the tank installation space, that is connected to the steam unit, and that is configured to supply water to the steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage tank that is separably installed in the tank installation space, that is configured to store condensed water generated in at least one of the treatment chamber or the heat pump unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply level sensor. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage level sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunghoo Park, Youngjin Doh, Hyoungsup Park