Patents Assigned to LG Electronics Inc.
  • Method and apparatus of paging an idle mode station in multi-hop relay communication system
    Patent number: 8649318
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of paging an idle-mode terminal in a multi-hop relay communication system, the method including receiving an idle mode request message from the terminal, sending an idle mode response message to the terminal, the idle mode response message including paging information, receiving a superframe from a base station, the superframe including a paging message of the terminal, and staggering the superframe number by a multi-hop count apart from the base station so as to send to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Giwon Park, Kiseon Ryu, Genebeck Hahn, Heejeong Cho, Yongho Kim, Youngsoo Yuk
  • Apparatus for determining motion vectors and a reference picture index for a current block in a picture to be decoded
    Patent number: 8649621
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder. The decoder is configured to obtain first and second motion vectors of a block other than the current block. The other block neighbors the current block at one of a left, top and top right position. The decoder is configured to determine first and second motion vectors of the current block using the first and second motion vectors of the other block such that the first motion vector of the current block has a same direction as the first motion vector of the other block and the second motion vector of the current block has a same direction as the second motion vector of the other block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byeong Moon Jeon, Yoon Seong Soh
  • Method of allocating resource region to reduce map overhead
    Patent number: 8649330
    Abstract: A method of allocating a radio resource in a wireless access system includes transmitting, by a base station (BS) to a mobile station (MS), a MAP message comprising a persistent MAP information element, wherein the persistent MAP information element includes resource allocation information for persistently allocating a resource allocation region for communicating data with the MS and acknowledgment (ACK) information indicating an ACK transmission region; waiting for an ACK message from the MS, wherein the ACK message represents a successful reception of the persistent MAP information element; and determining that the persistent MAP information element has not been successfully received by the MS if the ACK message is not transmitted via the ACK transmission region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeong Ki Kim, Ki Seon Ryu, Hee Jeong Cho, Jae Won Lim, Ae Ran Youn
  • APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140035852
    Abstract: An apparatus for displaying an image and including a display unit configured to display the image; an input unit configured to receive an input to change a state of displaying the image; and a controller configured to change the state of the displayed image, save history information including the changed state of the displayed image in a memory associated with the mobile terminal, receive a revival command for displaying the saved history information, and display the saved history information on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sungchae NA, Taeyoung JEON
  • METHOD FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN MULTIPLE RECEPTION LEVELS
    Publication number: 20140036752
    Abstract: There is provided a method for enabling a user equipment (UE) to transition between a non-discontinuous reception (Non-DRX) level and at least one discontinuous reception (DRX) level. The LIE in a DRX level wakes up periodically to monitor a scheduling channel. The method includes receiving a DRX indicator in a Non-DRX level with continuously monitoring the scheduling channel and transitioning from the Non-DRX level to a DRX level indicated by the DRX indicator. The UE can transition between multiple DRX levels by an explicit command/signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Duck Chun, Young Dae Lee, Sung Jun Park, Seung June Yi
  • METHOD FOR WASHING
    Publication number: 20140033449
    Abstract: A method for washing of the present invention comprises: a water supply step of supplying water into a tub; a motor actuating step of actuating the motor for rotating a drum provided inside the tub; and a spray step of spraying water into the drum through a gasket nozzle by actuating a pump for circulating the water inside the tub, when the motor stops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myong Hun Im, Won Hyuk Jang, Chang Woo Son, Kwang Hyun Kim
  • METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A VIDEO SIGNAL
    Publication number: 20140037008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method for adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type to prediction of a macroblock in coding a video signal. Some implementations may include obtaining a macroblock type, when a macroblock includes the intra prediction coded sub-macroblock and the inter prediction coded sub-macroblock based on the macroblock type, obtaining prediction mode flag information indicating whether the sub-macroblock is the intra prediction coded or the inter prediction coded, and obtaining a prediction value of the sub-macroblock. Accordingly, implementations disclosed herein may raise coding efficiency of video signal by adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type in predicting a macroblock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Wook Park, Jung Sun KIM, Young Hee CHOI, Byeong Moon JEON, Joon Young PARK
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATION OF DISCONTINUOUS UPLINK RESOURCE
    Publication number: 20140036840
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, wherein the method for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system comprises: a step of receiving a control channel signal containing resource allocation information; and a step of transmitting an uplink signal in accordance with the control channel signal, wherein the resource allocation information has a combination index r to be used for indicating two sets of resource blocks, and each set of resource blocks includes one or more continuous resource blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel YANG, Mingyu KIM, Joonkui AHN, Dongyoun SEO
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140036764
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a signal of a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a first signal to the relay station through the transmission period in a subframe including a transmission period and a guard time for transmission/reception switching of a relay station, and transmitting a second signal to a macro user equipment through the guard time. Accordingly, a signal can be effectively transmitted in the wireless communication system employing the relay station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Han Byul SEO, Byoung Hoon KIM
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING RECEPTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140036889
    Abstract: The present invention and embodiments thereof relate to a method for transmitting a signal of a base station in a wireless communication system using a carrier merge. The method includes transmitting to a terminal a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH) on a downlink secondary cell and a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH) indicating the PDSCH on a downlink primary cell; and receiving a reception acknowledgement response on the PDSCH, which is transmitted from the terminal to an uplink primary cell. The PDSCH is transmitted when the downlink secondary cell becomes available, and the transmission timing of the reception acknowledgement response is determined by one of the PDSCH transmission timing or the PDCCH transmission timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Channel Switching Method in a Medical Body Area Network
    Publication number: 20140036863
    Abstract: The disclosure of the present invention provides a method for a Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) to control, through a master, the channel switching of an MBAN terminal that uses a channel of a first frequency band in an MBAN system. The method includes: receiving information related to the use of each channel of a second frequency band from an MBAN controller; and transmitting information on a channel of the second frequency band that the MBAN terminal is to switch on the basis of the received information related to the use of each channel of the second frequency band. The first frequency band and the second frequency band are distinguished from each other based on whether the MBAN terminal uses a corresponding frequency band first.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaewon Lim, Suhwook Kim, Bonghoe Kim
  • MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140038624
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, which facilitates a terminal to be used in further consideration of user's convenience. The present invention includes receiving a call signal for requesting an establishment of a second session from a second counterpart via a wireless communication unit while a first session with a first counterpart is established and transmitting user data to the second counterpart using an available radio resource of a standby session for waiting for the establishment of the second session. Accordingly, if an incoming call is received from a different counterpart in the course of a call to a prescribed counterpart, a prescribed data is sent to the different counterpart to inform that the call cannot be connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sukhwan MUN, Yunseong NAM, Hyungin YOO, Dongho KIM
  • HEAT EXCHANGER
    Publication number: 20140034272
    Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a refrigerant tube through which a refrigerant flows and a fin having at least two tube through holes in which the refrigerant tube is inserted. The fin includes a fin body, a plurality of flow guide protruding from one surface of the fin body, the plurality of flow guides being spaced apart from each other, and a plane part partitioning one flow guide and the other flow guide of the plurality of flow guides, the plane part having a flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Juhyok Kim, Hongseong Kim, Hanchoon Lee, Sangyeul Lee
  • METHOD FOR SCHEDULING DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL RESOURCE BLOCKS
    Publication number: 20140036834
    Abstract: A method for transmitting downlink data using resource blocks at a base station in a wireless mobile communication system includes transmitting downlink data mapped to physical resource blocks (PRBs) to a user equipment, wherein indexes of virtual resource blocks (VRBs) are mapped to indexes of the PRBs for a first slot and a second slot of a subframe, and the indexes of the PRBs for the second slot are shifted with respect to the indexes of the PRBs for the first slot based on a predetermined gap, and wherein a predetermined offset is applied to an index of a PRB when the index of the PRB is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn SEO, Eun Sun KIM, Bong Hoe KIM, Joon Kui AHN
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SETTING BACKHAUL LINK SUBFRAME IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING CARRIER AGGREGATION TECHNIQUE APPLIED THERETO
    Publication number: 20140036740
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a method for a base station to set a backhaul link subframe for a relay node in a wireless communication system, to which a carrier aggregation technique is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • CAPACITIVE TYPE STYLUS AND MOBILE TERMINAL COMPRISING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140035884
    Abstract: A capacitive type stylus is provided. The stylus includes a body made of a conductive material, the body being configured to be elastically deformed and, once deformed, to maintain a deformed shape until deformed again, a cover configured to cover at least a portion of the body and a pen tip connected to a first end of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunseok OH, Myungsun KIM, Hyungmo KOO, Dongguk KANG, Yonghyun LEE
  • MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF PERFORMING NFC PAYMENT USING THE MOBILE TERMINAL
    Publication number: 20140040120
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile terminal that has a function of changing a payment credit card at the time of near field communication (NFC) payment in a low battery state, and a method of performing the NFC payment using the mobile terminal. In the mobile terminal according to the present invention, unlike in a mobile terminal in the related art in which payment is simply performed with a default credit card, if the NFC payment is requested in the low battery state where the mobile terminal is powered off, a payment application based on a light operating system, which is executed on an embedded Linux, is displayed, and the NFC payment with a credit card selected from the payment application based on the corresponding light operating system is performed. Therefore, a credit card payment can be effectively performed in a low battery state as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyoungmin Cho, Ayoung Hyung, Hyonmi Choi, Yunju Jeon
  • METHOD FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS FOR ALLEVIATING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND A DEVICE THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20140036851
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method whereby a terminal sends and receives signals between itself and a serving cell in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the invention comprises the steps of: receiving information relating to a default bandwidth and an allocation bandwidth from the serving cell; and, if the terminal is positioned at a cell edge, either sending an uplink signal to the serving cell or receiving a downlink signal from the serving cell on the basis of the allocation bandwidth, and, here, the allocation bandwidth is either smaller than or the same as the default bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Hakseong Kim
  • SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140036853
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting signals over an unlicensed band phase of a base station in a wireless communication system, which comprises the steps of: transmitting a physical down-link control channel (PDCCH) from a licensed band; and transmitting a physical down-link shared channel (PDSCH) over a time interval of the unlicensed band corresponding to the sub-frame transmitted by the PDCCH, wherein a reservation signal can be transmitted to a pre-set point from the point the unlicensed band is available to the base station, if the base station performs wave transmission sensing for the unlicensed band for transmission of the PDSCH, and the pre-set point is earlier than the point at which the unlicensed becomes available from the transmission sensing results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Display screen with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D699255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Hea Kim, Jung Hyun Lee, Kyung Eun Hwang