Patents Assigned to Electronics, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11445485
    Abstract: A method for transmitting uplink control information of a terminal in a wireless communication system and a terminal using the method are provided. The method generates uplink control information, transmits the uplink control information to a base station using a specific PUCCH format among a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) formats, wherein the specific PUCCH format which is used is determined on the basis of the number of symbols in the time domain used for transmission of uplink control information and the number of bits of the uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sechang Myung, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11445011
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for enabling voice interaction with appliances, services (e.g., media streaming services, gaming services, news feed services, social platform services, etc.), and the like by way of appropriate supplied apps (also referred to as “skills,” “actions,” or the like) which may be presented or downloaded to a smart device having associated therewith one or more cloud-based voice service platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Arsham Hatambeiki, Haiming Huang, Nicu Ahmadi, Rex Xu, Wesley Millora, Steven McAllister
  • Publication number: 20220283775
    Abstract: A system and method are provided herein for dynamically adjusting delay in an audio distribution system, the method comprising: determining what audio processing devices comprise each of a plurality of audio data channels, wherein each of the plurality of audio data channels comprises a path from a digital audio receiving device to a back end audio playing device; obtaining digital audio processing delays for each of the audio processing devices for each of the audio data channels; determining which of the audio data channels has the greatest delay in processing and transmitting digital audio data signals (digital audio data processing delay) prior to broadcasting the digital audio data signals as acoustic audio signals; determining a difference between the audio data channel with the greatest digital audio data processing delay and each of the remaining audio data channels (delay difference per channel); and adding a delay to each digital audio word in each different audio channel that substantially equalize
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ekin Binal, Jason Oster, Doug Jacobson
  • Patent number: 11434599
    Abstract: A drawer guide includes a fixed body; an operation body withdrawable from the fixed body; a base; and a base slit. The base slit includes a linear portion; and a curved portion extending from a front end of the linear portion. The drawer guide includes first and second slides movably coupled to the base; a slide slit penetrating the second slide; a first transfer unit having one end movably coupled to the base slit and the other end inserted in the slide slit; a second transfer unit detachably coupled to the first transfer unit. The second transfer unit moves the first transfer unit to the curved portion from the linear portion when the operation body is moved in the withdrawing direction and vice-versa. The drawer guide includes a spring connecting the base and the first slide; and an attractive power supply unit that supplies a power to the second slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihong Lee, Kwanwoong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11438797
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for discarding data among associated transmission buffers in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device generates a first data packet and a second data packet, and performs a random access (RA) procedure based on the first data packet. When the RA procedure based on the first data packet fails, the wireless device discards the first data packet, and continues the RA procedure based on the second data packet. A media access control (MAC) layer indicates a radio resource control (RRC) layer that the RA procedure based on the second data packet is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunjung Choe, Gyeongcheol Lee, Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 11438853
    Abstract: A method of performing device-to-device (D2D) communication by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving information on a synchronization type for the D2D communication; based on the information on the synchronization type, selecting a synchronization source for the D2D communication; and transmitting information on the synchronization source used by the UE. Further, based on the synchronization type being a first synchronization type, the UE uses a cell of a network as the synchronization source and based on the synchronization type being a second synchronization type, the UE uses an external synchronization source as the synchronization source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Manyoung Jung
  • Patent number: 11435134
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage space; a door including a door unit to open or close the storage space and a drawer unit to provide a receiving space; rails to connect the door and the cabinet to through which the door is drawn in or out of the cabinet; a driving device disposed at the door unit to provide power; and an elevation device disposed at the drawer unit and connected with the driving device to move up or down at the drawer unit. The driving device includes: a motor assembly; a screw unit including a screw to be rotated by the motor assembly and a screw holder to move up or down along the screw; and a lever to connect the screw holder and the elevation device and rotate when the screw holder moves up or down. The motor assembly includes: a driving motor; and a power transmission unit to transmit power from the motor to the screw unit, and the screw is disposed to be inclined with respect to a vertical line passing in a top-bottom direction of the refrigerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seongwon Gwon, Seungyoon Cho, Jinho Chang
  • Patent number: 11437937
    Abstract: A control circuit includes: a converter configured to convert alternating current (AC) power into direct current (DC) power, an inverter configured to generate driving power of at least one motor using the converted DC power, and a first core formed by winding a coil by a number of windings determined in correspondence with an impedance of the at least one motor. The number of windings is determined such that an impedance of the first core is inversely proportional to the impedance of the at least one motor and a driving power line for driving the at least one motor passes through a center of the first core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Soongkeun Lee
  • Patent number: 11434595
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry treatment apparatus including a drum formed of a metal material and provided to accommodate laundry therein, an induction module spaced apart from a circumferential surface of the drum and provided to heat the circumferential surface of the drum via a magnetic field that is generated when current is applied to a coil, and a lifter formed of a metal material and provided in the drum to move the laundry inside the drum when the drum rotates. The lifter is provided so as to be recessed in a direction in which a distance between the induction module and the lifter, which face each other, increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Jang, Hyunwoo Noh, Changoh Kim, Woo Re Kim, Sangwook Hong
  • Patent number: 11438106
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting an HARQ-ACK signal by a UE in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the method is characterized by receiving control information for distinguishing first information and second information, receiving the first information and second information by means of at least one transmission block (TB), respectively decoding the first information and second information on the basis of the control information, and transmitting an HARQ-ACK signal on the basis of a decoding result with respect to the first information and a decoding result with respect to the second information. The reliability requirement of the first information is higher than the reliability requirement of the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Daesung Hwang, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11434909
    Abstract: Provided is a compressor apparatus comprising: a casing defining appearance of the apparatus; and a drive portion coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the casing and configured to rotate a rotatable shaft; a compression portion coupled to the rotatable shaft and configured to compress fluid, wherein the compression portion apparatus is characterized in that the drive portion and the compression portion are fixed to the fastening member which is detachably attached to at least one of the side face of the drive portion or the side face of the compression portion and thus, the combination of the drive portion and the compression portion is coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the casing. Further, provided is a manufacturing method of the compression portion apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kangwook Lee, Jungsun Choi, Cheolhwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11434887
    Abstract: A compressor includes a casing, a piston accommodated in a cylinder disposed inside the casing to reciprocate forward and backward, the piston being configured to define a suction space in which a refrigerant is accommodated therein, a suction muffler connected to the piston to guide the refrigerant to the suction space, a suction guide disposed behind the suction muffler and fixed to the casing, the suction guide being disposed parallel to the suction muffler in an axial direction, and a suction pipe passing through the casing to extend into the suction guide, the suction pipe being configured to suction the refrigerant. A portion of the suction muffler is disposed to overlap the suction guide in a direction crossing the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyunyoung Lee, Kiwon Noh
  • Patent number: 11438858
    Abstract: There is provided a method for measuring a frame timing difference. The method performed by a User Equipment (UE) and comprises: based on (i) that an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access (EUTRA) cell is configured for a primary cell and based on (ii) that a secondary cell is not configured, measuring the frame timing difference between the E-UTRA cell and a New Radio (NR) cell based on a Synchronization Signal (SS)/Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) Block (SSB) Measurement Time Configuration (SMTC) period, wherein the NR cell is found regardless of a position of a SSB of the NR cell; and reporting a System Frame Number (SFN) and Frame Timing Difference (SFTD) based on the frame timing difference to the E-UTRA cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yoonoh Yang, Sangwook Lee, Suhwan Lim, Manyoung Jung, Jinyup Hwang
  • Patent number: 11434593
    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: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngho Jung, Donghyun Jin, Daehan Kwon
  • Patent number: 11434888
    Abstract: A compressor includes: a driving unit including a stator, a rotor, and a rotary shaft provided in the rotor, having an oil guide path formed at an inner side in a radius direction; a compression unit coupled to the rotary shaft, having a cylinder and a piston reciprocating in the cylinder by a driving force of the driving unit; and an oil supply unit coupled to a lower end of the rotary shaft, supplying oil toward the compression unit. The oil supply unit includes a rotary portion for supplying oil toward the oil guide path while being rotated together with the rotary shaft and a fixed portion having an inner space partitioned to accommodate at least a portion of the rotary portion, and the oil guide path is formed to pass through the rotary shaft along a length direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Younghwan Kim, Seungwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11435758
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic control system including: a plurality of blade processors and a plurality of backplanes. One or more of a vehicle, electronic control system, and autonomous driving vehicle, disclosed in the present invention, are able to realize connection with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) module, a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a robot, an Augmented Reality (AR) device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, a 5G service device, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinkyoung Kim, Namyong Park, Namsu Lee, Sangwoo Han
  • Patent number: 11434886
    Abstract: A linear compressor includes, a cylinder, a piston configured to reciprocate inside the cylinder, a motor configured to supply driving force to the piston, a detector configured to detect a motor current and a motor voltage that are applied to the motor, and a controller configured to estimate a stroke of the piston based on the motor current and the motor voltage and to determine a phase difference between the stroke and the motor current. The controller is configured to detect operation information of the linear compressor, determine whether to perform a resonance operation based on the operation information, and control operation of the motor to allow the phase difference to be within a preset phase range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Daegeun Park, Nayi Ryu, Sungjin Lim
  • Patent number: 11433769
    Abstract: Provided are a motor driving apparatus and a clothing treatment apparatus including the same. The motor driving apparatus includes an inverter unit including a plurality of upper switches and a plurality of lower switches and configured to output AC power to a motor by a switching operation and a processor configured to control the inverter unit to perform power generation braking by maintaining the plurality of upper switches in a full off state and maintain the plurality of lower switches in a full on state. The processor performs a current control step of complementarily switching phase currents flowing into the plurality of upper switches and the plurality of lower switches prior to the power generation braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hanbeom Yeom
  • Patent number: 11438203
    Abstract: A method for transmitting an uplink signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving information indicating one of a cyclic prefix-orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing (CP-OFDM) scheme and a discrete Fourier transform-spreading-OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) scheme from a base station; generating a waveform of an uplink signal according to the indicated scheme; and transmitting the generated waveform of the uplink signal to the base station, wherein modulation of the uplink signal by a terminal through a modulation scheme having a lowest modulation order may be allowed only when the waveform of the uplink signal is generated by the DFT-s-OFDM scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangrim Lee, Hojae Lee, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 11437042
    Abstract: A communication robot capable of communicating with other electronic devices and an external server in a 5G communication environment by performing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and/or machine learning algorithms to be loaded and performing a speech recognition, and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The method for driving a communication robot according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may include receiving an utterance speech uttered by a user who has approached within a predetermined distance from the communication robot, and selecting any one ASR module capable of processing the uttered speech among plural ASR modules as an optimized ASR module. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to improve user's satisfaction with the use of the communication robot by reducing the inconvenience that the user has to manually set a first language in the preprocessing operation in order to receive a service from the communication robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Gyeong Hun Kim