Patents Assigned to LG Electronics In.
  • Display apparatus
    Patent number: 10171641
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an image; an input unit configured to receive an input from a user; and a controller configured to display a first image included in a first region of an entire region of an omnidirectionally captured image, and display a second image included in a second region of the entire region of the omnidirectionally captured image if a first input for changing a region displayed on the display unit in the entire region of the omnidirectionally captured image is received, wherein the second region is a region that is symmetrical to the first region with respect to an uppermost portion of the omnidirectionally captured image, and the first input is an input for changing the displayed region from the first region to the second region by passing through the uppermost portion of the omnidirectionally captured region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Mihyun Park, Hongjo Shim, Youngho Sohn, Youngsok Lee
  • Method and apparatus for transmitting channel state information in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 10171153
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method for a terminal for transmitting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: subsampling a first codebook associated with a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) and a second codebook associated with a second PMI according to a reporting mode for a four-antenna port; and reporting the channel state information on the basis of the subsampled first codebook and second codebook, wherein a second codebook index for the second PMI may have any one index from a first index group if the first codebook index for the first PMI is an odd number, and if same is an even number, may have any one index from a second index group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Hyunho Lee, Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim
  • Method for controlling rinsing cycle of washing machine
    Patent number: 10167589
    Abstract: A method for controlling a rinsing cycle of a washing machine is provided. The method may include a primary rinsing by supplying water into the inner tub until a water level in the outer tub becomes a preset circulating water level, wherein some of the water is supplied through a drawer in the washing machine that holds fabric softener, and a remaining amount of water is supplied by spraying the water supplied from the external water source through the direct water nozzle via a direct water supply hose, a secondary rinsing by spraying water into the inner tub through the circulating nozzle, and a third rinsing by spraying the water into the inner tub through the direct water nozzle while draining the outer tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Naeun Kim, Hwanjin Jung, Sanghyun Lee, Bonkwon Koo, Sunho Lee, Dongwon Kim
  • Digital broadcasting receiver and method for controlling the same
    Patent number: 10171848
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitter includes: encoding the broadcast data for broadcast service; encoding signaling information for signaling the broadcast data; assigning the encoded broadcast data and the encoded signaling information into a signal frame; and transmitting a broadcast signal including the signal frame. The broadcast signal further includes a signaling table having access information of the broadcast data. The signaling table includes service id information for identifying the broadcast service and component information for indicating a number of components in the broadcast service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Jong Yeul Suh, Jin Pil Kim, Chul Soo Lee
  • Solar cell module
    Patent number: 10170646
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells each including a semiconductor substrate, an emitter region forming a p-n junction along with the semiconductor substrate, a first electrode connected to the emitter region, and a second electrode connected to a back surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of wiring members connected to the first electrode or the second electrode and configured to electrically connect the plurality of solar cells in series, wherein a number of wiring members connected to the first electrode or the second electrode of each solar cell is 6 to 30, and the wiring members have a circular cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoonsuk Choi, Jinsung Kim, Haejong Cho, Donghae Oh, Youngsik Lee, Sunghyun Hwang, Hyunho Lee, Wondoo Song
  • Refrigerator
    Patent number: 10168096
    Abstract: There is disclosed a refrigerator; a lighting device provided in the storage chamber, a first door rotatably coupled to the case to open and close the storage chamber, an auxiliary storage chamber provided in the first door, a second door, a front panel formed of a transparent material, an evaporation treatment unit evaporated on an overall back surface of the front panel to transmit lights partially, a variable transparency film attached to a back surface of the evaporation treatment unit provided in the front panel to get transparent when the power is supplied, a frame unit with an opening having a corresponding size to an opening provided in the first door, an insulation panel distant from the front panel, a power supply unit for supplying an electric power to the variable transparency film and the lighting device, a proximity sensor provided in the second door to sense a user's approaching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woonkyu Seo, Soonho Jung, Jinhee Park
  • Method for transmitting signal in multiple-antenna wireless communication system and apparatus for same
    Patent number: 10171147
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting a signal of a first base station, for supporting a plurality of vertical directions in a wireless communication system which supports multiple antennas. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: configuring a group so as to include at least one base station, among a plurality of base stations, for a first terminal having a position higher than those of the plurality of base stations; setting a specific sector for supporting coverage of the group; and determining whether to perform beamforming for the first terminal on the specific sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park
  • Method for transmitting D2D signal and terminal therefor
    Patent number: 10172108
    Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting a synchronization signal by a Device-to-Device (D2D) user equipment (UE). The UE receives discovery transmission pool configuration information and synchronization signal resource information, and transmits the synchronization signal based on the discovery transmission pool configuration information and the synchronization signal resource information. When a first subframe of a discovery transmission pool indicated by the discovery transmission pool configuration information corresponds to a subframe indicated by the synchronization signal resource information, the synchronization signal is transmitted in the first subframe of the discovery transmission pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Electronic device and control method for the electronic device
    Patent number: 10168824
    Abstract: An electronic device provided in a vehicle and including a touch screen; a first camera configured to capture an image of a driver of the vehicle; and a controller configured to restrict a touch input function with respect to the touch screen in response to an eyeline of the driver included in the image being out of a preset driving range for more than a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Suhyung Jang
  • Method for reporting beam index for 3D MIMO transmission in wireless communication system, and device therefor
    Patent number: 10171154
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a terminal reports a beam index to a base station in a wireless access system. The beam index reporting method comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of reference signals from the base station; measuring a plurality of beams by using the plurality of reference signals; reporting an index of a first preferential beam among the plurality of beams to the base station; and reporting, to the base station, information on at least one second preferential beam determined on the basis of the first preferential beam, wherein the information on at least one second preferential beam is information on an index difference between the first preferential beam and the at least one second preferential beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Kijun Kim
  • Method and device for transmitting data by using spatial modulation scheme in wireless access system
    Patent number: 10171137
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for transmitting and receiving data and control signals by applying a spatial modulation scheme to a wireless access system, and devices for supporting same. The method whereby a transmitter transmits data signals by using a spatial modulation (SM) scheme in a wireless access system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise the steps of: selecting two or more transmission antennas for transmitting the data signals; deriving data bit strings for selecting the two or more transmission antennas; configuring the data signals by using the SM scheme on the basis of the data bit strings; and transmitting the configured data signals via the selected two or more transmission antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bonghoe Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Method for receiving downlink control channel by MTC device, and terminal
    Patent number: 10171931
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present specification provides a method for receiving a downlink control channel by a machine type communication (MTC) device. The method comprises: a step of receiving, by the downlink control channel, setting information about the maximum number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) which can be transmitted by a base station; a step of receiving, by the MTC device, setting information about a set of control channel monitoring PRBs which should monitor the downlink control channel; and a step of monitoring the downlink control channel on the PRBs according to the setting information about the set of control channel monitoring PRBs, wherein if the number of sets of control channel monitoring PRBs exceeds the maximum number of PRBs, the downlink control channel may be monitored only on the sets of PRBs equal to or less than the maximum number of PRBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyangsun You, Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn
  • IoT device, mobile terminal and method for controlling the IoT device with vibration pairing
    Patent number: 10172168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an IoT (Internet of Things) device, a mobile terminal, a method of pairing the IoT device using the mobile terminal, and a control method. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes the steps of, when an IoT device contacted with at least one side of the mobile terminal is recognized, generating a vibration using a designated vibration pattern, receiving vibration pattern information from the IoT device, and when the received vibration pattern information is identical to the designated vibration pattern, performing paring with the IoT device. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a user can intuitively perform pairing between the mobile terminal and the IoT device through the paring method between the mobile terminal and the IoT device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Younkyung Jang, Cheol Choi, Chamo Je, Sungjun Park
  • Method for triggering power headroom reporting in a dual connectivity system and a device therefor
    Patent number: 10172103
    Abstract: A method is provided for a user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system. The UE is configured with a first medium access control (MAC) entity and a second MAC entity. The UE triggers a power headroom reporting (PHR) in the first MAC entity if a condition is satisfied. A PHR MAC control element (CE) is generated for the triggered PHR. The UE transmits the PHR MAC CE to a first base station. The condition includes: there is an uplink (UL) transmission on any cell of the second MAC entity, and a required power backoff for the any cell of the second MAC entity has changed more than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Method and apparatus for handling E-RAB switch problem for dual connectivity in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 10172166
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) radio access bearer (E-RAB) switch failure for dual connectivity in a wireless communication system is provided. A master evolved NodeB (MeNB) in dual connectivity receives an E-RAB modification confirm message including a list of E-RABs failed to be modified from a mobility management entity (MME). The MeNB may keep old general packet ratio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnels for the failed E-RABs, and trigger a secondary eNB (SeNB) release procedure or a SeNB modification procedure for releasing the failed E-RABs. Alternatively, the MeNB may trigger an E-RAB release procedure for releasing the failed E-RABs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jian Xu, Daewook Byun
  • Method of mapping physical resource to logical resource in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 10172129
    Abstract: A method of mapping a physical resource to a logical resource in a wireless communication system is described. The method includes dividing a physical frequency band into at least one frequency partition. Each frequency partition is divided into a localized region and a distributed region in a frequency domain. The method further includes mapping the at least one frequency partition into at least one logical resource unit. The localized region is directly mapped into the logical resource unit and the distributed region is mapped into the logical resource unit after rearranging subcarriers within the distributed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Sam Kwak, Hong Won Park, Sung Gu Cho, Ki Ho Nam, Seung Hee Han, Min Seok Noh, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Hyun Woo Lee, Dong Cheol Kim
  • Method and device for transmitting data in wireless LAN
    Patent number: 10172019
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data in a wireless LAN may comprise the steps of: receiving a non-target clear to send (CTS) frame from a second station (STA) by a first STA; transmitting a request to send (RTS) frame to a first access point (AP) coupled with the first STA within a network allocation vector (NAV) interval configured on the basis of the non-target CTS frame by the first STA; receiving a CTS frame in response to the RTS frame from the first AP by the first STA; and transmitting a first data frame to the first AP by the first STA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Giwon Park, Kiseon Ryu, Jeongki Kim, Hangyu Cho, Suhwook Kim
  • Method and apparatus of link adaptation in a wireless local area network system
    Patent number: 10172030
    Abstract: A method of transmitting information on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) in a wireless local area network system is provided. A responding station receives a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) from a requesting station, configures a MCS feedback (MFB) based on the PPDU, and transmits feedback information to the requesting station. If the MFB is configured as a response to a MFB request (MRQ) of the requesting station, the feedback information includes the configured MFB and a MFB type field indicating that the MFB is configured as a response to the MRQ of the requesting station. If the MFB is not configured as a response to the MRQ of the requesting station, the feedback information includes the configured MFB, a MFB type field indicating that the MFB is not configured as a response to the MRQ of the requesting station, and coding information indicating a PPDU coding type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Byeong Woo Kang, Yong Ho Seok, Dong Wook Roh
  • Notebook laptop computer
    Patent number: D837202
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heechang Lee, Taejin Lee, Gangho Woo, Sooyoung Park
  • Air conditioner
    Patent number: D837353
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungho Baek, Gangui Cho, Inhyeuk Choi, Hyesun Lee