LG Electronics' research institutes continually exert vast efforts to creating standard technology that will be at the core of the company's products.
Major R&D Areas
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- Materials
- Development efforts are ongoing in new energy efficient materials such as solar cells, as well as in the field of healthcare, environmentally friendly next generation lighting and LED backlight units.
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Energy
Infrastructure material technology that will lead the future solar energy sector is being developed, including: technologies for solar cells, which are being recognized as an environmentally friendly reusable energy, next generation high efficiency silicon crystalline solar cells, silicon film solar cells, and chemical compound film and hybrid solar cells.
LED BLU and Lighting
In addition to technology that will lead the way in environmentally friendly green products, research and development efforts are focused on LED backlight units for LCD TV that will reduce electricity consumption, next generation ultra thin and ultra light optical sheets, LED light modules for home appliances and mobile devices and next generation lighting.
Healthcare
In line with the U-Healthcare generation, where people are carrying out health check-ups anytime, anywhere, and managing their health, efforts are focused on developing a new concept medical healthcare diagnosis sensor that combines information technology with bio technology.
Laser Diode
Efforts are being made to develop new optical technologies, such as a miniaturized native green laser diode for projectors (small enough to be able fit in a mobile phone).
New Functional Device
Efforts are focused on creating a miniaturized switch for mobile devices and an ultra small optical engine for mobile projectors by using MEMS — a micro technology for machining various electronic circuits on a single silicone.
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- Information Technology
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Advanced Multimedia Processing
Development efforts are focused on improving the AV quality of mobile phones, such as enhancing the resolution of camera phones and their voice communication clarity, as well as developing differentiated solutions in the multimedia sector. Research is also being conducted in new pioneering technology for signal processing infrastructure.
Device-to-Device Connectivity Application & Solution
Research and development is rigorously carried out on developing differentiated products based on various device-to-device connectivity solutions, such as Bluetooth, Ultra Wide Band (UWB), Near Filed Communication (NFC) and Wireless LAN (WLAN), as well as on developing a killer application that maximizes such technologies.
Data Management Solution
The LG Electronic Institute of Technology holds patented original technologies for mobile phone data management solutions, including the LG Embedded Database Management System (LGeDBMS) and the Personal Information Management System (PIMS).
Speech Technology
Focused research is carried out to develop speech technology that can execute the functions of mobile phones and other IT devices through voice command. Research is also focused on the field of voice recognition and synthetic speech to develop a speech recognition user interface.
Home Networking Solution
Research and development efforts are focused on creating various services for the audio distribution solution and Internet protocol-based broadband TV, as well as developing diverse application programs for homes in the future.
UI Enabling Technology
Research and development is carried out in developing next generation UI Enabling technology using various sensors such as touch, motion and haptic technology.
Robotics
Research is conducted in advanced technologies such as vision-based self-driving technology and in the area of a sensor fusion machine that recognizes and analyzes the multimedia information received through visual surveillance devices such as cameras.
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- Software Center
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Software Quality Engineering
Efforts are made to develop and implement an environment for early detection of software errors. In addition, software quality engineering activities are launched across the company with the establishment of corporate-wide technology documenting and a document sharing environment.
Mobile Application Engineering
Activities are carried out to strengthen the competitive edge in mobile software development, in particular, through designing an API for mobile applications that support the open development environment and by developing advanced UI verification software.
Home Application Engineering
Research and development efforts to strengthen the competitive edge in home application software development capabilities are made through research into add-on architecture for digital TV as well as in designing framework for core software such as BMS, FCS and Security.
Open Source and Linux
Linux and open source development capacity are being enhanced through the development of Linux product differentiated technologies (instant booting, DirectFB based GUI layer, etc.) and through the development of OS- and platform-related advanced technologies.
