South Korea’s state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute recently lost a long-running patent lawsuit against China’s Huawei Technologies in the United States, sources told The Korea Herald on Monday. According to the US District Court for the Southern District of California, Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo dismissed last month a wireless patent suit filed by ETRI’s litigation agent SPH America against Huawei in 2013. A dismissal of a case means the plaintiff’s lawsuit is terminat

Samsung Display will unveil its stretchable display for the first time at the US display conference, the company said on Monday. The Korean display maker said it is showcasing 9.1-inch stretchable organic light-emitting diode panel at the Society for Information Display 2017, which kicks off on Tuesday at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Stretchable display is the most advanced flexible display -- among bendable, foldable and rollable -- which can be stretched to be used for various high techn

KT said Monday it would move to provide free Wi-Fi roaming services for KT subscribers when they travel to China and Japan. The mobile carrier said it proposed its partners China Mobile and NTT Docomo to cooperate on the free service at the Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement conference held in Sichuan province, China, on Monday.  (Yonhap)SCFA is a consultative body among the three Northeast Asian mobile carriers, established by KT in 2011. KT aims to launch the free Wi-Fi service by the e

SK Telecom aims to commercialize two flagship connected car technologies in the second half of this year, the mobile carrier announced Monday. The No.1 telecom business said it will unveil the T RemotEye Vehicle to Everything, known as V2X, and the Remote Advanced Driving Assistance System, or Remote ADAS, at the upcoming World IT Show on Wednesday.  Models test an alarm service by the Remote ADAS in a Socar vehicle on Monday in Seoul. (SK Telecom)The two technologies are under development with

How do we perceive the world? Information in the external world, i.e., sensory information, needs to be actively processed in the brain to be transformed into a “percept.” Sensory processing (computation of sensory stimuli in the brain) is the gateway to sensory perception, and efficient sensory processing is required for the perceptual behavior of the animal. How do our brain circuits execute this amazing function? We answer this question by studying cortical circuits that control animal percep

Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday its accumulated production of compressors for refrigerators reached 200 million since it first started making the products in 1976.The South Korean company said compressors, which produce cold air, can be considered the "engine" of a refrigerator which combines various top-of-the-line technologies. The figure translates into the company producing a compressor unit every three seconds, according to Samsung. (Yonhap)The company said it has been making continuous

South Korea’s former handset maker Pantech has been struggling to seek some profit by handing over its patents for the US market to a local patent troll, media reports said Sunday. According to the reports, Pantech agreed to transfer a total of 230 US patents to Golden Peak Innovations, a patent firm established in Seoul last October. (Yonhap)The patent firm was reportedly founded to help Pantech secure liquidity by transacting the company’s intellectual properties and licenses. Golden Peak now

Patent requests for virtual personal assistants have shot up in recent years, official data showed Sunday, on growing prospects that artificial intelligence will become a part of our everyday lives.According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the number of applications for AI-based smart assistant programs stood at just 11 in 2013, but this jumped to 36 in the following year and reached 61 filings in 2016. (Yonhap)The office said the interest shown reflects ongoing trends that assistant

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A forum on a new technology to develop silver nanowire-based film, considered a groundbreaking tech for the mass production of foldable displays, will be held this week, the ICT ministry said Sunday.The forum to take place on Tuesday is part of the so-called government-run "Nano Fusion 2020," a project to commercialize technologies developed by the combination of nanotechnologies and conventional technologies, said the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. (Yonhap)The "flexionet" technol

AhnLab Inc., South Korea's largest computer anti-virus service provider, said Friday that its latest smartphone security application has surpassed the 4 million mark in cumulative downloads.AhnLab said in a statement that the "V3 Mobile Security" app, which is designed for Android-based smartphones, reached the download milestone on Tuesday.The free-of-charge security app also placed fifth in the popularity rankings of overall applications available on Google Play, the company added. Launched in

Startup COOLJAMM Company announced Thursday that it is planning to release an iOS version of its independently developed music composition application “HumOn” in August. HumOn is a mobile application that analyzes a melody hummed by the user and converts it into sheet music and even creates accompaniment chords. In this way, the application enables those with no professional training in music to create and write their own music simply by humming a tune.  A screenshot of the music composition app

Startup Crevel Korea announced on Thursday that it entered into a business agreement with the large Chinese baby goods store Cheerbb for the use of Crevel’s trademarks and trademark rights and technology transfers related to its products. Crevel produces innovative toy blocks designed to nurture the creativity of infants and children.The most prominent feature of Crevel’s toy blocks is that they are made from a flexible material, unlike the typical rigid and sharply angled products of other comp

Startup Radsone announced Thursday that it will be launching a campaign on Kickstarter, the American crowdfunding platform, for its high-definition Bluetooth receiver EarStudio on May 31. A Radsone spokesperson explained the product, saying, “EarStudio uses dithering to eliminate the noise that is present in most digital audio signals, allowing for the reproduction of sound that is both natural and sharp. We will be selling EarStudio on Kickstarter to early-bird customers at the discount price o