Patents Assigned to Electronics, Inc.
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Patent number: 11318961Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a robot provided in a vehicle capable of performing a function related to the vehicle. The robot includes a body, a head positioned above the body, an actuator configured to apply an external force to allow the head to move relative to the body, a camera disposed on the head to capture an image, a communication unit configured to perform communications with one or more devices provided in the vehicle, and a processor configured to control the actuator so that the camera is directed toward an inside or outside of the vehicle based on information received via the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyongguk Kim, Hyeongjin Im, Yoonjung Hong
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Patent number: 11321754Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for detection of a network signal identifying an electronic device in response to a transaction initiated by an entity. For example, the network signal can be transmitted by the electronic device in response to an initial network connection. An entity identifier identifies the entity associated with initiating a transaction based on matching identifying information contained in the network signal with transaction information from a supply chain. A configurator to configure the electronic device specific to the identified entity can be based on a feature set determined by channels through which the electronic device came to an end user. The feature set programs the electronic device to interoperate with a network device in response to the initial network connection.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kurt Roman Thielen, Robert Edward Taylor, Patrick James Sansonetti, Ryan Michael Melville, James Joseph Alviani
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Patent number: 11320187Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator including a cabinet forming one of a refrigerator compartment and a freezer compartment, a main door opening and closing the refrigerator compartment or the freezer compartment and including a storage space opened forward, a sub door installed on the main door and opening and closing the storage space of the main door, and a dispenser disposed on the sub door and dispensing water.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seonil Yu, Kyeongchul Cho, Insun Yeo, Hongsik Kwon
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Patent number: 11323965Abstract: A method by which a station (STA) receives a frame in a wireless (WLAN) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: receiving a first wake-up frame through wake-up radio (WUR); monitoring primary connectivity radio (PCR) according to reception of the first wake-up frame; and receiving a PCR beacon frame through the PCR, wherein the STA maintains monitoring of the WUR for a predetermined period while monitoring the PCR and ends monitoring of the WUR when the STA detects a second wake-up frame indicating transmission of unicast data through the WUR or succeeds in transmitting an uplink (UL) PCR frame to an access point (AP) even before the predetermined period has elapsed.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jeongki Kim, Suhwook Kim, Kiseon Ryu, Jinsoo Choi
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Publication number: 20220129026Abstract: A feedback control circuit is described herein, comprising: an operational amplifier (op-amp) integrated circuit, wherein a first output of the op-amp provides a feedback error control signal; at least two transistors provided in a feedback path between the first output of the op-amp and an inverting input to the op-amp; and a plurality of discrete electrical components in the feedback path, such that in the response to either an increase or decrease of an inverting input voltage at the inverting input that exceeds a predetermined level, will speed up substantially. The feedback control circuit provides the feedback error control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Crestron Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Robert Buono
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Publication number: 20220127299Abstract: Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compounds, compositions, and methods of use thereof for sequencing a nucleic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Ronald Graham, Olga Adelfinskaya, Megha Cila, Rodrigo Rodriguez
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Patent number: 11313065Abstract: The present application relates to a laundry treatment apparatus. The laundry treatment apparatus includes: a cabinet having a front panel and an opening provided by penetrating through the front panel; a drawer body configured to be ejected from the cabinet through the opening of the cabinet; a tub provided in the drawer body and defining a space configured to receive water; a drum rotatably provided in the tub and configured to receive laundry; a drawer panel fixed to the drawer body and configured to open the opening of the cabinet when the drawer body is ejected from the cabinet and to close the opening of the cabinet when the drawer body is retracted into the cabinet; and a drawer holder configured to fasten the drawer panel to the cabinet when the drawer panel closes the opening of the cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jihong Lee, Wooseong Kim
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Patent number: 11317432Abstract: The method for reception of a signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise a step of monitoring control channel candidates on the basis of information on precoding granularity. Specifically, even if information on the precoding granularity instructs to the terminal to assume that the reference signal with respect to the control channel candidates is mapped to all resource element groups (REGs) included in consecutive resource blocks in the first control resource set, when some of the consecutive resource blocks overlap with a second control resource set set by a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH), the terminal may not assume that the reference signal with respect to the control channel candidates is mapped to the REGs included in some resource blocks which are overlapping.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Yunjung Yi
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Patent number: 11317265Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating secure localized communications in a local communications network are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: detect proximity of portable communication devices; pair a central communication hub with a first portable communication device and pair the central communication hub with a second portable communication device; receive instructions, from a first client computing platform that is associated with a first supervisory user; generate the one or more messages for transmission to the one or more portable communication devices; and transmit the one or more messages to the one or more portable communication devices via the secondary wireless communication links such that a first message is transmitted to the first portable communication device.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: H.M. Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Maisha Makeda Cox, Michael Scott Hubbard
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Patent number: 11313604Abstract: A temperature controlled container includes a case which has a storage space formed therein; a thermoelectric element; a heat transfer body in communication with the thermoelectric element and facing the storage space. The heat transfer body includes a heat transfer case which has an enclosed space formed therein and is wider than the thermoelectric element, and includes a portion facing the thermoelectric element; a phase change material which is accommodated in the enclosed space; and a heat transfer body which is disposed in the heat transfer case so as to be positioned in the enclosed space. The heat transfer body has a first body portion which is in communication with the portion of the heat transfer case facing the thermoelectric element and a second body portion, and the first body portion in communication with the second body portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Minkyu Oh
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Patent number: 11313367Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a roller that is provided with oil grooves concavely formed in a centrifugal direction from an inner circumferential surface of the roller facing an eccentric portion. The oil grooves are disposed at positions not overlapping an intake and a discharge port in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Ki Sun Kim, Sangha Lee, Jaeyeol Lee
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Patent number: 11317347Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for providing a service by a first device with a main device in a wireless communication system. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus in which: in a specific state, a first device transmits an advertising packet indicating a state of the first device to the main device, connects with the main device via Bluetooth LE, on the basis of the advertising packet, and then activates the main power in order to provide a specific service together with the main device, wherein the specific mode state indicates a state in which a low power wireless communication module for transmitting or receiving a packet of the Bluetooth LE has been activated and the main power has been deactivated, and the main power is activated when the first device recognizes activation of the main power of the main device.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sungwon Jung, Donghyun Kang, Taeyoung Song
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Patent number: 11317397Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring a data subband in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives an indication of a data subband from a network, configures at least one data subband according to the indication, and performs communication with the network via the at least one data subband. One data subband consists of contiguous or noncontiguous physical resource blocks (PRBs).Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Kijun Kim, Byounghoon Kim
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Patent number: 11313606Abstract: A refrigerator that includes: a storage space configured to be cooled by a refrigeration cycle cooling system; a wall defines a boundary of the storage space; a low temperature case that is arranged adjacent to a portion of a first surface of the wall; a thermoelectric element module (TEM) assembly that is configured to supply cool air to the low temperature case; and a TEM accommodating part that protrudes from the first surface of the wall and that accommodates the TEM assembly, wherein the low temperature case includes an opening through which the TEM accommodating part is inserted, and wherein a sealant is provided between the low temperature case and the wall to couple the low temperature case to the first surface of the wall is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yoo Min Park, Myeongha Yi, Jinho Son
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Patent number: 11316566Abstract: Disclosed are a codebook-based signal transmission and reception method in a multi-antenna wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting or receiving a signal on the basis of a codebook by a terminal in a 2-dimensional multi-antenna wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) through a multi-antenna port from a base station; and reporting channel state information to the base station, wherein the channel state information may include a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for indicating a precoding matrix, the PMI may include a first PMI for selecting a set of precoding matrixes from the codebook and a second PMI for selecting one precoding matrix from the set of precoding matrixes.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Haewook Park, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park
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Patent number: 11312103Abstract: Provided is a composite thermal insulation sheet including an aerogel and a method for manufacturing the same. The methods yield an ultra-thin aerogel composite sheet having characteristics of low dust, high strength and high thermal insulation, thereby having an increased applicability thereof to an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignees: LG Chem, Ltd., LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kyoung Shil Oh, Je Kyun Lee, Byoung Wook Han, Yong Seog Jeon, Sang Woo Park, Joong Nyon Kim
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Patent number: 11315410Abstract: In response to a detected presence of an intended target appliance within a logical topography of controllable appliances identity information associated with the intended target appliance is used to automatically add to a graphical user interface of a controlling device an icon representative of the intended target appliance and to create at a Universal Control Engine a listing of communication methods for use in controlling corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance. When the icon is later activated, the controlling device is placed into an operating state appropriate for controlling functional operations of the intended target appliance while the Universal Control Engine uses at least one of the communication methods to transmit at least one command to place the intended target appliance into a predetermined operating state.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.Inventors: Paul D. Arling, Brian Barnett
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Patent number: 11317382Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message by a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a device using the method. The method comprises: performing an operation of excluding candidate resources on the basis of a PSSCH-RSRP threshold value in a selection window; determining whether the ratio of remaining candidate resources in the selection window is smaller than a predetermined threshold value; when the ratio is smaller than the threshold value, according to whether at least one of the delay requirement and priority of the V2X message satisfies a predetermined condition, increasing the PSSCH-RSRP threshold value and performing an operation of excluding candidate resources on the basis of the increased PSSCHRSRP threshold value; and transmitting the V2X message by using a resource selected among the remaining candidate resources in the selection window.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae, Kyuhwan Kwak
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Patent number: 11314976Abstract: A vehicle control device is disclosed. The vehicle control device includes: an interface unit that is connected to a camera for capturing a vehicle passenger and to a plurality of devices installed inside the vehicle; and a processor that receives an image captured by the camera through the interface unit and exchanges information with the plurality of devices through the interface unit, wherein the processor detects the position of the passenger from the image acquired by the camera, configures a space adjacent to the passenger as a virtual control space, matches a device corresponding to the position of the passenger, among the plurality of devices, to the virtual control device, and, upon detecting a preset gesture through the virtual control space, controls the device based on the preset gesture.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Minsick Park
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Patent number: 11313360Abstract: A linear compressor according to the present disclosure may include a cylinder provided with at least one groove, a piston reciprocating within the cylinder, a motor configured to provide a driving force to move the piston within the cylinder, an inverter configured to perform a switching operation to transmit electric power to the motor, and a controller configured to receive temperature information from the electronic device and control the inverter to preheat the motor based on the received temperature information.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Nayi Ryu, Chulgi Roh, Gahyun Oh
