Patents Assigned to Electronics, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11623553
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an intelligent massage chair and a control method thereof. The intelligent chair includes a sensing unit mounted on the intelligent chair, and including at least one sensor, and a controller. The controller performs a control to determine a user's body condition based on the information about the user's body acquired through the sensing unit, and to determine an operation mode based on the determined user's body condition, and to add the information about the user's body, when it is determined that the determined operation mode is not an optimum operation mode for the user. One or more of an intelligent massage chair, an autonomous vehicle, a user terminal and a server of the present disclosure can be associated with artificial intelligence modules, drones (unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, devices related to 5G service, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jinhwa Jeon
  • Patent number: 11624144
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a first case, a second case, a width-direction bracket for coupling at least one of front walls or rear walls of the first case and the second case to each other in a width direction, a depth-direction bracket for coupling at least one of upper walls or lower walls of the first case and the second case to each other in a depth direction, and a height-direction bracket for coupling at least one of the front walls or the rear walls of the first case and the second case to each other in a height direction. At least two of the width-direction bracket, the depth-direction bracket, or the height-direction bracket are configured to fix at least two surfaces of the first case and the second case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeongryeol Choi, Minhyoung Lee, Seonghui Kim
  • Patent number: 11627577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method of transmitting and receiving a radio signal and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises the steps of receiving data in a time unit #n of a first frequency band and transmitting A/N in a time unit #m+k of a second frequency band in response to the data. In this case, the first frequency band and the second frequency band have different subcarrier spacing and a time unit #m of the second frequency band indicates the last time unit among a plurality of time units of the second frequency band corresponding to the time unit #n of the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Jaehyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11627026
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically, to a method and a device for the method which comprises the steps of: receiving resource allocation information for transmitting uplink data; generating a data demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence; and transmitting the data and the DMRS sequence on a frequency band indicated by the resource allocation information, wherein the frequency band comprises frequency resource units, and the DMRS sequence is generated for each frequency resource unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn, Kijun Kim, Hyunsoo Ko, Eunsun Kim, Seonwook Kim, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11624150
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a garment folding machine and a method of controlling the garment folding machine, in which it is possible to effectively prevent damage to a garment by controlling and reducing tension after detecting and determining a situation in which the tension is applied to the garment during a process of conveying or folding the garment, and it is possible to allow the folding machine to smoothly perform vertical folding by disposing the garment at an appropriate position in order to perform the vertical folding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Keun Joo Kim, Kyosoon Chae, Sung Hoon Ahn, Choongho Lim
  • Patent number: 11627334
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: deriving an inter prediction mode from encoded information; configuring reference picture lists, deriving motion information comprising reference picture indexes for symmetric motion vector differences (SMVD); and generating prediction samples on the basis of the motion information, wherein the reference picture indexes for SMVD can be derived on the basis of short-term reference pictures included within the reference picture lists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Naeri Park, Junghak Nam, Hyeongmoon Jang
  • Patent number: 11624148
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus is disclosed. The clothes treatment apparatus includes a case defining the external appearance and having an open front, a first clothes treatment chamber defining a space in the case to treat clothes using steam or air circulation, a second clothes treatment chamber defining a space at one side of the first clothes treatment chamber in the case to remove wrinkles from clothes by applying pressure to the clothes, a machine chamber provided in the case to spray steam to or circulate air through the first clothes treatment chamber or the second clothes treatment chamber, and a partition plate configured to be movable to a position for closing the second clothes treatment chamber so that the second clothes treatment chamber is separated from the first clothes treatment chamber and to the open front of the case to open the second clothes treatment chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kihyuk Kim, Jaeil Bae, Wookjun Chung
  • Patent number: 11622666
    Abstract: A dishwasher may include a sump configured to store water, a main arm disposed at the sump and configured to supply water from the sump, an auxiliary arm rotatably disposed at the main arm and configured to spray water, and an auxiliary arm connection member disposed at the main arm and configured to rotatably support the auxiliary arm, where the auxiliary arm may include an auxiliary flow passage configured to allow water flow through the auxiliary arm, where the main arm may include a transfer flow passage in fluid communication with the auxiliary flow passage, where the auxiliary arm connection member may include a flow tube disposed at the main arm in fluid communication with the transfer flow passage and the auxiliary flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seyoung Woo, Joonho Pyo, Daegyu Kim, Taehee Lee
  • Patent number: 11627326
    Abstract: A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving and decoding MPM index information for indicating an MPM candidate which is to be used as an intra prediction mode of a current block; generating an MPM candidate list containing a plurality of MPM candidates for the current block; determining the MPM candidate indicated by the decoded MPM index information as the intra prediction mode of the current block, among the plurality of the MPM candidates which constitute the MPM candidate list; and generating a prediction block corresponding to the current block by performing intra prediction for the current block based on the determined intra prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Joonyoung Park, Byeongmoon Jeon, Yongjoon Jeon, Seungwook Park, Jungsun Kim, Jaehyun Lim, Hendry Hendry, Naeri Park, Chulkeun Kim
  • Patent number: 11624142
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a washing machine includes: a cabinet; a tub disposed in the cabinet and configured to receive water; a drum rotatably disposed in the tub and configured to receive laundry; a drawer configured to be inserted into and withdrawn out of the cabinet, the drawer being configured to contain detergent; a first passage connecting the drawer and the tub; a detergent supply device disposed at the cabinet, the detergent supply device being configured to contain detergent; and a second passage disposed between the detergent supply device and the tub or between the detergent supply device and the drawer, the second passage being configured to guide the detergent contained in the detergent supply device to the tub or the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyosoon Chae, Hyundong Kim, Sooyoung Oh, Jaeyong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11626273
    Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include thermionic energy converters with a thermal concentrating hot shell and emitters for thermionic energy converters. In some embodiments, an illustrative thermionic energy converter includes: an emitter electrode; a hot shell configured to concentrate heat flow toward the emitter electrode; a collector electrode; and a cold shell that is thermally isolated from the hot shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Modern Electron, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen E. Clark, David A. Degtiarov, Gregory A. Kirkos, Daniel Kraemer, John J. Lorr, Max N. Mankin, Jason M. Parker, Alexander J. Pearse, Levi D. Rodriguez, Ad de Pijper
  • Patent number: 11624425
    Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus includes an outer tub to receive wash water, a driving motor having a stator fixed to the outer tub, and a rotor rotated relative to the stator, a washing shaft rotated together with the rotor, and a rotatable spin-drying shaft spaced apart from the rotor. The laundry treatment apparatus also includes an inner tub disposed in the outer tub, a pulsator provided in the inner tub at a lower portion thereof, and a clutch assembly. The inner tub is rotated together with the spin-drying shaft and the pulsator is rotated by the washing shaft. The clutch assembly selects one of a plurality of modes including i) at least one restriction mode of restricting the spin-drying shaft to the rotor or the outer tub and ii) a free mode of not restricting the spin-drying shaft to the rotor and the outer tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dongcheol Kim, Youngjong Kim
  • Patent number: 11624540
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a door, an ice making room, a cool air supply duct connecting the evaporation chamber to the ice making room, an ice maker, a cool air guide duct that guides cool air from the ice making room toward the ice maker, and an ice bin below the ice maker to store ice. The ice maker includes an ice tray including cool air guide ribs, and an ice separating guide covering a front surface of the ice tray and a portion of a top surface thereof in which the cool air guide ribs extend from one side of the ice tray toward the other side and are spaced apart from a front surface of a tray body toward a rear surface, and bottom parts of the cool air guide ribs are spaced apart from a bottom part of the cool air guide duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Donghoon Lee, Donghoon Lee, Wookyong Lee, Seungyoon Cho, Heejun Lee, Seungseob Yeom
  • Patent number: 11627644
    Abstract: A wireless induction heating cooker includes a main body configured to receive and heat food objects therein, a lid configured to couple to an upper surface of the main body, and an inner pot configured to be accommodated in the main body and to be heated based on a magnetic field being generated by a heating coil of an induction heating device. The inner pot defines a heat conduction space that is surrounded by a bottom surface, an outer surface, and an inner surface of the inner pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeunsik Nam, Wan Soo Kim, Woo Jin Choi, Byungkyu Park
  • Patent number: 11623545
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control apparatus disposed in a vehicle and a control method of the vehicle. A vehicle control apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is a vehicle control apparatus disposed in a vehicle, and comprises: a camera for capturing an image of an object which approaches the vehicle; a seat driving unit for driving a seat disposed in the vehicle; and a processor for sensing information related to the object on the basis of the image captured through the camera and controlling the seat driving unit such that the seat is disposed at a predetermined position, on the basis of the sensed information related to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoungha Lee, Jungbin Yim, Inyoung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11627341
    Abstract: A video decoding method performed by a video decoding device according to the present document may comprise the steps of: acquiring image information from a bitstream, wherein the image information includes a picture header associated with a current picture, and the current picture includes multiple slices; based on the picture header, acquiring at least one of a first flag indicating whether information required for an inter-prediction operation exists in the picture header and a second flag indicating whether information required for an intra-prediction operation exists in the picture header; based on at least one of the first flag and the second flag, generating prediction samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Hendry Hendry, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11626920
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for a terminal to perform a radio link monitoring in a wireless communication system for supporting a sidelink according to various embodiments. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for a terminal to perform a radio link monitoring in a wireless communication system for supporting a sidelink, the method comprising: a step of setting a beam failure recovery (BFR) parameter for a plurality of services on the basis of service attributes, for each service; and a step of independently sensing a beam failure for at least one beam corresponding to each service on the basis of a block error ratio (BLER) threshold value included in the BFR parameter and the number of beam failure instances (BFIs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Heejin Kim, Sunghoon Jung, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 11624138
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a laundry apparatus for heating a drum by an induction heater and a control method thereof. According to an embodiment, the method of controlling a laundry apparatus including a tub, a drum, an induction heating module mounted on the tub to heat the drum, and a circulation pump configured to pump wash water from the tub to an upper portion of the drum includes supplying wash water into the tub through a water supply valve, circulating the wash water by operating the circulation pump and performing fabrics soaking by driving the drum, performing heating by the induction heating module after termination of the fabrics soaking, and performing washing by driving the drum, wherein a water level of the wash water at the termination of the fabrics soaking is lower than a water level of the wash water at the termination of the water supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Changoh Kim, Sangwook Hong
  • Patent number: 11618986
    Abstract: Disclosed is an artificial intelligence laundry treatment apparatus including a washing tub configured to receive laundry, the washing tub being configured to be rotatable, a motor configured to rotate the washing tub, a controller configured to control the motor such that the washing tub is accelerated to a predetermined target speed at an acceleration gradient of 1.5 to 2.5 rpm/s within a range within which the laundry moves in the washing tub, and a current sensing unit configured to sense current of the motor, wherein the controller is configured to obtain at least one of laundry weight or laundry quality from output of an output layer of an artificial neural network pre-trained based on machine learning using a current value sensed by the current sensing unit during accelerated rotation of the washing tub as input of an input layer of the artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Myunghun Im, Hwanjin Jung, Seonhwa Yu, Sunggyun Kim, Kyungchul Woo, Jaehyun Kim
  • Patent number: D983169
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wendy Feldstein King, Howie Balch, Sae Jhun, Daniel Previti, Douglas Jacobson