◈ Title : Robotics and Computer Vision Research in LG Electroncis
◈ Speaker : Dr. Jeongsuk Yoon (LG Electronics)
◈ Date & Time : Friday, May 20, 2011 (10:30am ~ 12:00am)
◈ Place : LG Research Building, Room #101
◈ Host : Prof. Se-Young Oh (Tel. 2214)
◈ Abstract : Over the past few years, vacuum-cleaning robots have helped out a lot on your daily housework. However, a less advanced automated vacuum cleaner that navigates randomly until it faces an obstacle could not satisfy the customer‘s demand. For this reason, LG has created a new vacuum-cleaning robot  called LG HomBot that uses a unique combination of dual cameras, ultrasonic and infrared sensors to enable faster and more efficient cleaning of a home environment while building an environmental map accurately. In this talk, a summary of the most updated research activities regarding robotics  and computer vision are presented, especially focusing on HomBot.

 

◈ Title : Future Mobile SoC
◈ Speaker : Dr. Kangmin Lee (SAMSUNG Electronics)
◈ Date & Time : Friday, May 20, 2011 (14:00pm ~ 15:30pm)
◈ Place : LG Research Building, Room #101
◈ Host : Prof. Sungjoo Yoo (Tel. 2379)
◈ Abstract : This talk is about future mobile devices and their SoC designs. It will show  industry trends from the past to the near future of handheld devices such as smartphones, tablets, and other radical wearable devices. It briefly covers trends of core platforms, display, imaging, connectivity, interactions and sensors. It also presents the key technologies and issues for the mobile SoC designs – high-performance processors, programmable ASIC, low-power, high-speed interfaces, and integation techniques. 

 

◈ Title : Smart Device Technology and Service Evolution
◈ Speaker : Joon Woo Lee,  Senior Executive Vice President (Pantech Group)
◈ Date & Time : Friday, May 27, 2011 (14:00pm ~ 15:30pm)
◈ Place : LG Research Building, Room #101
◈ Host : Prof. Bumman Kim (Tel. 2231)
◈ Abstract : §In order to develop keen insight for mobile device market that is transforming at an incredible rate, we have reviewed recent advances and trends in the following areas; •Mobile Market •Platform Technology •Content & Service § First, the smartphone market is expected to grow rapidly as LTE networks have been built on carriers and vendors while showing a rapid increase in mobile data traffic. At the same stage, based on research for consumer usage habit and attitude, a majority of smartphone users are likely to require devices optimized for high performance system making various web & app services available. § Second, LTE network & Multi-core chipset are supposed to be the driving force behind the development of mobile platform technology. Otherwise, the advancement of high resolution display, high-end camera, low energy consuming battery, and biometric/or context aware sensors will play a critical role in differentiation of smartphone marketing. § Based on the technology progress, HD mobile video services(mainly Game &Movie) are likely to become the main stream for next mobile business. Instead, the 4G network environment enforces the diversity of mobile-driven cloud services while broadening the eco-system of N-screen market. §To sum up, since mobile users tend to consider mobile devices as a smart tool to consume mobile content through activities like web browsing, social networking, and watching video, a mobile device supplier should enhance cross-platform services for its devices and need to step up market-oriented insights in order to become a leading player in the smartphone market.

▣ Title : MRAM Technology : Current Status and Future Challenges

▣ Speaker

: Jae-kyu Lee (SAMSUNG) 

▣ Date

& Time : Friday, October 25 (2:00

~ 3:30pm) 

▣ Place

: LG Research Building, Room #101 

▣ Host

: Prof. Jeong Soo Lee (Tel.

2380)

▣ Abstract :

As

the conventional memories scale down dramatically, the development of DRAMs has

faced many technical problems and challenges to meet the requirements of the

performance such as static refresh and driving current of cell access

transistor.  Many researchers have made

great efforts on those issues and tried to develop novel concepts in

memory devices to overcome physical limitations. Among several alternative

memory concepts, one of the most promising devices is STT-MRAM (Spin

Transfer Torque- Magnetoresistive Random

Access Memory) to replace conventional memories due to

its speed, cost and data retention. In this talk, I

will introduce STT-MRAM as a prominent emerging memory

and review STT-MRAM in accordance with the replacement of DRAM and new

applications. The basic operation of STT_MRAM will be explained

compared to conventional memories such as DRAM and Flash memory. Along

with the process integration of STT-MRAM, some design issues are also

discussed.

 

▣ Title : Display and Innovation

▣ Speaker

: Joohyung Lee (SAMSUNG DISPLAY)

▣ Date

& Time : Friday, November 29 (4:00

~ 5:30pm)

▣ Place

: LG Research Building, Room #101

▣ Host

: Prof. Jeong Soo Lee

(T. 2380)

▣ Abstract :

Future

is expected to be a display-centric world, where people will be hyper-connected

through various display devices with high speed connectivity and clouding

services.  The future flexible display

technologies make display an important part of human lives. The superior

performances of AMOLED will be discussed in comparison with the existing

others.  Innovative flexible AMOLED will

be a predominant future display technology, leading to the changes in human

lives.  The eleven key technologies for

such innovation will be addressed in detail, providing the future works to

do.