Patents Assigned to Electronics, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11428458
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet and a door. The cabinet includes an inner case provided with a storage compartment and a middle plate covering an upper surface of the inner case. The door is disposed on a front portion of the cabinet to open and close the storage compartment, and the cabinet further includes a cabinet cover which is attachably and detachably coupled to an upper side of the middle plate to cover an upper surface of the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kihyun Park, Kiyoung Lim, Daehyun Yoo
  • Patent number: 11428420
    Abstract: There is disclosed an outdoor unit an outdoor unit that may attach a cover to a case by using a magnetic member and have an empty space formed between the case and the cover as large as the thickness of the magnetic member, wherein air or a sound-proof or meta material may be filled in the empty space and a cover for covering the case of the outdoor unit may include several pieces that are detachably connected with each other like Lego pieces, and the cover may be attached to the other area of an outer surface of the outdoor unit except the area having an inlet for sucking external air and an outlet hole for discharging the external air drawn into the outdoor unit via the inlet outside again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangjin Sung, Dongsoo Lee, Sunghyun Ki, Seungyup Kim
  • Patent number: 11428455
    Abstract: A defrosting apparatus includes: a heating unit including a heater case and a heater, where the heater case defines an inner flow path having an inlet and an outlet at ends thereof, and the heater is mounted in the heater case to heat a working fluid within the inner flow path; and a heat pipe inserted into the inside of the heater case through the inlet and the outlet, and which has at least a part thereof disposed to be adjacent to a cooling pipe of an evaporator such that heat is radiated to the cooling pipe of the evaporator by means of the working fluid at a high temperature that is heated by the heater and then is transferred, where the heater is configured to stop emit heat at a preset temperature or higher since an electric current is suppressed due to a sharp increase in resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Minjae Jeong, Woocheol Kang, Geunhyung Lee, Eonhwa Hwang
  • Patent number: 11427954
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus include: a cabinet; a tub disposed in the cabinet; a drum rotatably disposed in the tub, and having a cylindrical portion formed of a ferromagnetic material and a rear wall portion for closing an open rear end of the cylindrical portion, wherein the cylindrical portion has a plurality of through-holes formed therein and allows laundry to be loaded thereinto through an opening portion formed on a front surface; an induction heater disposed in the tub and configured to heat the drum by inducing an eddy current in the cylindrical portion; a duct disposed on an outer side of the tub, having an inlet communicating with an open front surface of the cylindrical portion, and an outlet communicating with the tub through a side surface of the tub surrounding the cylindrical portion; and an air blower configured to suction air, discharged from the drum, into the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Bio Park, Beomjun Kim, Sangwook Hong
  • Patent number: 11429822
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fabric identifying system including a fabric identifying apparatus for identifying the type of a fabric of clothing and a server. The fabric identifying apparatus includes an image camera for obtaining image information on a fabric structure of clothing, a fabric identifier for performing a function of identifying the type of the fabric based on the fabric structure of the image information. The server includes an artificial intelligence model learner for generating a fabric type identifying engine for learning the fabric structure of the image information of the received clothing through a deep neural network, the server is configured to transmit the learned fabric type identifying engine to the fabric identifying apparatus. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to identify the type of the fabric of the clothing by using the artificial intelligence (AI), the artificial intelligence based screen recognition technology, and the 5G network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yeon Kyung Chae
  • Patent number: 11432263
    Abstract: The present invention provides a V2X operation method implemented by a V2X (vehicle-to-X) terminal in a wireless communication system, the method characterized by: receiving information which indicates that another communication is implemented on V2X resources; and transmitting a V2X message on the basis of the information, wherein a V2X terminal is a terminal having limited capability to detect the implementation of the other communication on the V2X resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 11430436
    Abstract: A voice interaction method and a vehicle using the same are disclosed. A voice interaction method according to an embodiment of the present invention activates a personal terminal through which a voice signal of an occupant is received as a voice interaction assisting device between the vehicle and the occupant and changes presence or absence of a voice interaction between the vehicle and the occupant and voice interaction settings according to states of the vehicle and the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Soryoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11426907
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mold assembly comprising: a cavity forming an inner space to be filled with resin containing metallic particles, and having a protruding part corresponding to a hole of a molded object; a first gate disposed at any one side of the cavity so as to inject the resin into the inner space; and a second gate disposed at another side of the cavity, and injecting the resin, which flows in a second direction intersecting with a first direction, into the inner space so as to change the arrangement of the metallic particles such that a weld line, formed according to the orientation of metallic particle in the first direction, is blurred in an area at which the flow of the resin is separated by the protruding part and then comes back together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Joonsang Yang, Kyungdo Kim, Seokjae Jeong, Youngkyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11432358
    Abstract: A method of operating a Tx user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving radio access network (RAN) paging by the Tx UE, initiating a radio resource control (RRC) resume procedure by the Tx UE, and transmitting an RRC message based on sidelink radio link failure (RLF) to a base station (BS) by the Tx UE. The RRC message is related to reporting of the sidelink RLF to the BS, and includes a destination identifier (ID) related to the sidelink RLF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Giwon Park, Youngdae Lee, Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Jongyoul Lee
  • Patent number: 11432204
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancing a handover procedure for supporting conditional handover in a wireless communication system. A source base station (e.g. source gNB/eNB) receives a message informing that a wireless device is handed over from the source base station to a target base station (e.g. target gNB/eNB). The target base station is one of candidate target base stations in the conditional handover procedure. After receiving the message, the source base station transmits a sequence number (SN) status transfer message to the target base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Daewook Byun, Hongsuk Kim, Jian Xu, Seokjung Kim
  • Patent number: 11421366
    Abstract: A method of controlling a washing machine includes: sensing a laundry amount accommodated in a drum; performing water supply into the drum according to the sensed laundry amount; rotating a pump motor at a certain initial rotation speed and transferring washing water discharged from the drum to at least one nozzle for spraying water into the drum; sensing a water level in the drum; performing a re-supply of water at least once until the sensed water level reaches a set water level; and increasing the rotation speed of the pump motor whenever the re-supply of water is performed, so that as the rotation speed of the pump motor is increased, the reaching range of the water stream sprayed through the nozzle gradually expands from the lower side of the circumferential surface of the drum to the rear surface of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Myunghun Im, Hwanjin Jung, Kyungchul Woo
  • Patent number: 11423877
    Abstract: A robot for providing a guidance service in a first language using artificial intelligence includes a microphone configured to receive voice data, a camera configured to acquire image data, an output unit, and a processor configured to determine a second language used to provide the guidance service based on one or more of the voice data or the image data, change the language used to provide the guidance service from the first language to the second language when the determined second language is different from the first language and output the guidance service through the output unit in the changed second language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wonho Shin, Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11423867
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing device and the image display apparatus including the same include a scaler configured to scale input images of various resolutions to a first resolution and a resolution enhancement processor configured to perform learning on the input images having the first resolution and to generate a first image having a second resolution higher than the first resolution. Accordingly, resolution may be stably improved even if input images of various resolutions are input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jungeun Lim
  • Patent number: 11421473
    Abstract: Battery operated shade comprising a shade material operably connected at its top end to a motor drive unit that raises and lowers the shade material between an upper limit and a lower limit to adjustably cover a structural opening. The shade comprises a housing that at least partially conceals the motor drive unit. The shade further comprises a battery compartment for providing power to the motor drive unit and a pair of swing arms each pivotally connected at their proximal end to the shade housing and at their distal end to the battery compartment. The pair of swing arm are adapted to pivot with respect to the shade housing to swivel the battery compartment from a first position, where the battery compartment is at least partially concealed by the shade housing and the pair of swing arms are retained by a pair of retaining clips, to a second position where the battery compartment extends out of the shade housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Campagna, Stan Wisniewski, Bruce Ryan Dahlgren
  • Patent number: 11421926
    Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator including a cabinet having a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment defined therein, and an ice maker disposed in the freezing compartment, wherein the ice maker includes an upper tray made of an elastic material, and having a plurality of hemispherical upper chambers defined therein, a lower tray made of an elastic material, wherein the lower tray comes into contact with the upper tray by pivoting to define a plurality of spherical ice chambers therebetween, a driver for pivoting the lower tray to open and close the upper tray and the lower tray, and each rib formed along a circumference of each upper chamber or each lower chamber in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yonghyun Kim, Jinil Hong, Hyunji Park
  • Patent number: 11425401
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, scaling list data transferred from an adaptation parameter set (APS) can be signaled through a hierarchical structure, and restrictions are placed on the scaling list data transferred from the APS, whereby the amount of data to be signaled for video/image coding can be reduced, and easiness in implementation can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11421369
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a clothes treatment apparatus and, more particularly, to a clothes treatment apparatus for directly heating a drum accommodating clothes. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a clothes treatment apparatus comprising: a tub; a drum, made of a metal, which accommodates clothes and is rotatably provided inside the tub; and an induction module, provided in the tub so as to have a spacing from a circumferential surface of the drum, for generating an electromagnetic field to heat the circumferential surface of the drum, wherein the induction module comprises: a coil which is formed by winding a wire such that electric current is applied thereto to generate a magnetic field; and a base housing mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the tub, wherein the base housing is provided with a coil slot for defining the shape of the coil in such a manner that the wire is mounted therein so as to have a predetermined distance between wire and wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Beomjun Kim, Woore Kim, Bio Park, Seulgi Park, Jaehyuk Jang, Sangwook Hong, Changoh Kim, Hyunwoo Noh
  • Patent number: D961450
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Kim, Kyukwan Choi, Minsub Kim
  • Patent number: D961560
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Martin van Til, Niek Fox, Luigi D'Andrea
  • Patent number: D962179
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Hyunjoon Kwon, Agnieszka Libson