Patents Assigned to Electronics, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11639574
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a tub for providing therein a space for water to be stored, a drum rotatably disposed inside the tub and providing therein a space for clothes to be stored, wherein the drum includes an open surface for inserting and withdrawing the clothes therethrough and a bottom surface located on an opposite side of the open surface, a pulsator rotatably disposed on the bottom surface and inside the drum, an agitator protruding from the pulsator inside the drum and extending toward the open surface, wherein the agitator is rotatably disposed at a center of the pulsator, and a driver configured to drive at least one of the drum, the pulsator, and the agitator. The pulsator and the agitator may be configured to rotate in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dongcheol Kim, Youngjong Kim
  • Patent number: 11641265
    Abstract: A method for supporting carrier aggregation and a short transmission time interval (sTTI) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by a terminal, and may comprise a step of reporting the maximum number of component carriers supporting a combination of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) sTTI lengths, in units of bands or band combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11640216
    Abstract: A control device comprising a housing assembly, at least one button, and a controller. The housing assembly comprises a front surface including plurality of button zones each comprising a tactile switch and a plurality of touch sensors. The at least one button is adapted to attach to the housing assembly over at least one of the button zones such that a projection extending from a rear surface of the button is aligned with the tactile switch in the at least one of the button zones. The controller determines which button zone and which location of the button zone is actuated in response to receiving signals from at least one of the tactile switches and at least one of the touch sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin M. Slivka
  • Publication number: 20230129945
    Abstract: An apparatus drives and guides movement of a display assembly that includes a display unit. At least one track extends along at least one side of the display assembly and defines a path along which the display assembly is driven. A plurality of pins extend from the display assembly to the at least one track. At least one constant force spring has at one end a coiled part that is rotatably coupled to the display assembly, and an opposing end fastened to a fixed mounting location, and an uncoiled part extending between the coiled part and the opposing end. The at least one constant force spring is configured to drive the display assembly from a lowered position to a raised position while the plurality of pins travels along the at least one track and guide movement of the display assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Pedoeem, David Paolazzi
  • Patent number: 11638325
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method including: selecting to create a configured sidelink grant corresponding to transmissions of at least one media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU); and triggering a transmission carrier selection procedure based on (i) data being available in a sidelink traffic channel (STCH) associated with one or more carriers, and (ii) there being no configured sidelink grant on any carrier, among the one or more carriers, that is allowed for the STCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaewook Lee, Taehun Kim, Youngdae Lee, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11638253
    Abstract: A method for performing wireless communication by a first device includes: receiving information related to a time division duplex (TDD) slot configuration, transmitting, to a second device, a sidelink-synchronization signal block (S-SSB), the S-SSB including a sidelink primary synchronization signal, a sidelink secondary synchronization signal, and a physical sidelink broadcast channel, and transmitting, to the second device, a physical sidelink shared channel based on the information related to the TDD slot configuration. Candidate resources to which a bitmap related to a sidelink resource pool is applied (i) are configured based on the information related to the TDD slot configuration and (ii) include one or more slots. Configuration information related to a sidelink symbol included in each of the one or more slots is received, the configuration information including information related to a position of the sidelink symbol configured to be the same for the candidate resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woosuk Ko, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11638276
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for a terminal transmitting control information and data in a wireless communication system, the method for transmitting the control information and the data comprising the steps of: transmitting a first piece of control information from a control information resource pool; and transmitting data through a resource indicated by the first piece of control information from a data resource pool, wherein the size of a transmission gap between the control information resource pool and the data resource pool is configured according to priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11635212
    Abstract: A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yeonsik Ha
  • Patent number: 11637487
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a first bearing installed on a rotating shaft adjacent to an impeller to support a first support part of the rotating shaft, a second bearing installed on the rotating shaft adjacent to the rotor to support a second support part of the rotating shaft, a bearing bracket receiving the first and second bearings therein, an elastic member inserted between the first bearing and the bearing bracket or between the second bearing and the bearing bracket to press either the first bearing or the second bearing to get closer to each other, and a separation preventing member installed on the bearing bracket to fix the first bearing, the second bearing and the elastic member to an inner space of the bearing bracket such that at least one portion of the separation preventing member overlaps with one of the first bearing, the second bearing and the elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunggi Kim, Byungjik Kim, Eunji Hwang, Jisu Hwang
  • Patent number: 11638219
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and a device for transmitting an uplink channel in a wireless communication system. According to the present disclosure, a UE transmits to a base station information associated with uplink transmission supported by the UE and the UE information includes a subset including at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE. The UE may receive from the base station uplink transmission information including a TPMI for transmitting an uplink channel and transmit to the base station the uplink channel based on the uplink transmission information, and the uplink channel may be transmitted through full transmission power configured by the base station based on a case where the TPMI is included in the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11635604
    Abstract: A luminous flux collector comprises a housing, a wide-angle light capturing device and an optical collimating device, arranged around a longitudinal axis. The housing surrounds and protects the wide-angle light capturing device and the optical collimating device. The housing also provides structural support to hold the other elements in position. The wide-angle light capturing device can include a receptacle for receiving a light source, and the wide-angle light capturing device collects light with a spread angle of at least 120 degrees from the light source. The wide-angle light capturing device is disposed within a proximal end of the housing along the longitudinal axis. The optical collimating device extends from the wide-angle light capturing device to a distal end of the housing along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Lee Measel, Hamed Karimi Sharif, Nicholas Stephen Downes
  • Patent number: 11637671
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for controlling transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless access system supporting machine type communication (MTC) and devices for supporting same. A method for controlling transmission of an SRS by an MTC terminal in a wireless access system supporting MTC, according to an embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving an upper layer signal comprising information about an SRS which is to be repeatedly transmitted; configuring the SRS on the basis of the information about the SRS; and transmitting the SRS by means of a subband to which a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is allocated and which is being frequency hopped. The subband comprises six physical resource blocks (PRB), and the SRS can be sequentially transmitted to the subband being frequency hopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Bonghoe Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11638310
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving signals to enable a terminal to perform a random access channel procedure (RACH procedure) in an unlicensed band. In particular, the method comprises: transmitting an uplink signal including a first physical random access channel (PRACH) and a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to a base station; and receiving, from the base station, a downlink signal related to contention resolution in response to the uplink signal, wherein a power ramping counter is used to set the transmission power of the uplink signal, and the value of the power ramping counter may be increased on the basis of a transmission spatial beam for the transmission of the uplink signal being configured in the same manner as a transmission spatial beam for the transmission of a PRACH prior to the uplink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeongsu Lee, Sukhyon Yoon, Hyunsoo Ko, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Youngdae Lee, Seokmin Shin
  • Patent number: 11635217
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes: a blower configured to discharge air, the blower being connected to an outdoor unit, a parameter generator configured to generate at least one parameter during a time period for which the air conditioner is operated with a first cooling capacity based on a set temperature, a learning unit configured to receive the generated at least one parameter as a learning factor and generate operation mode information, an operation mode controller configured to control at least one of the blower or the outdoor unit based on the generated operation mode information, and a central controller configured to control the parameter generator, the learning unit, and the operation mode controller. The air conditioner is operated with a second cooling capacity after the air conditioner is operated with the first cooling capacity for the time period, the second cooling capacity being different from the first cooling capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yun Sik Park, Young Tag Kwon, Dongwoo Han
  • Patent number: 11637717
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a command input device. The method includes: sensing contact between a home appliance and the command input device; based on sensing the contact between the home appliance and the command input device, determining the home appliance as a target home appliance to be controlled by the command input device; and based on the determination of the home appliance as the target home appliance to be controlled by the command input device, activating a remote controller provided by the command input device and configured to control the target home appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seonghun Lee, Hwanyong Kim, Sooyong Park
  • Patent number: 11638279
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, a method for receiving a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may include the steps of: receiving PTRS configuration information, wherein the PTRS configuration information includes information on a frequency density of a PTRS; receiving downlink control information (DCI), wherein a plurality of TCI states are indicated on the basis of the DCI; and receiving the PTRS, wherein on the basis that resources in a frequency domain associated with each TCI state of the plurality of TCI states do not overlap with each other, the frequency density of the PTRS is determined by the number of resource blocks associated with each TCI state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 11638282
    Abstract: In the present specification, a user equipment may: receive RRC configuration including first configuration information relating to a first DCI format and second configuration information relating to a second DCI format; receive a configured grant configuration including a repetition scheme and resource allocation information; determine resource allocation of a configured grant on the basis of i) configuration information, which includes the same repetition scheme as the repetition scheme in the configured grant configuration, among the first configuration information and the second configuration information, and ii) the resource allocation information; and perform PUSCH transmission on the basis of the resource allocation. Each of the first configuration information and the second configuration information may include a TDRA table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Duckhyun Bae, Hyunho Lee, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11634851
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a tub containing water, a drum disposed rotatably in the tub, the drum receiving laundry and a detergent supply device supplying detergent to the tub, wherein the detergent supply device comprises a plurality of cartridges respectively containing detergent, a pump sucking detergent contained in the plurality of cartridges and a passage switching valve selectively allowing the pump to be fluidly communicated with one of the plurality of cartridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyosoon Chae, Hyundong Kim, Sooyoung Oh, Jaeyong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11638023
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding device, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: deriving a chroma quantization parameter table on the basis of quantization parameter data; deriving a quantization parameter for combined chroma coding on the basis of the chroma quantization parameter table; deriving prediction samples of a current chroma block on the basis of prediction information; deriving transform coefficients of the current chroma block on the basis of residual information; deriving residual samples by dequantizing the transform coefficients on the basis of the quantization parameter; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the prediction samples and the residual samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11638129
    Abstract: Provided are a method for operating a terminal for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. The method includes receiving data from another terminal, and transmitting an acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) for the data only when the distance to the another terminal is equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jongyoul Lee, Youngtae Kim, Hanbyul Seo