Qualcomm Corporate R&D - New Technologies for Next Gen Smartphones

• Speaker: Dr. Te-Won Lee - Head of the Qualcomm Korea R&D Center
• Abstract: The increasing smartphone market penetration is accelerating the speed of adoption of new technologies and posing new opportunities for R&D. In this talk I will cover several areas of wireless and multimedia research topics in Qualcomm corporate R&D. Research in the Korea R&D Center focuses on new mobile multimedia solutions including audio, vision and machine learning technologies.
• Time : 14:15~15:30 on March 30 (wednesday)
• Location : Engineering Building 2, E205
• Contact : Giljin Jang , Ph.D.(2119), email: gjang@unist.ac.kr

Introduction

• 2009-2014: 2G to 3G migration (1.2B 3G subscriptions in 2010 -> 2.7B in 2014)
• Next Level of Mobile Internel:
  • Always-On connectivity
  • All-Day battery Life
  • Instant On
  • Location Aware
  • Multimedia Performance
• Qualcomm:
  • Focus on Semiconductor Business (#1 in Wireless)
  • R&D Expenditures: >15.4B in 2010
  • HR:
    • 30% of engineers with PhD, 50% masters
    • Systems, HW, SW, standards, test engineering
    • Ventures, business development, technical marketing, program management

The Wireless Future with Core and New Projects

• 3G/4G: innovations to WWAN technology
• Push the Air Interface Performance Boundary: 3G & 4G Radio Link * Major difference btw 3G & 4G: download & upload speed
• Transforming the Overall Wireless Experience:
  • eZone: Universal Wireless Charging (remove cables to charge devices)
  • Service Continuity: transfer, replicate
  • IndoorLBS: indoor positioning & map tools for indoor location based applications
  • Manticore
  • Personal Area Network: Next gen Ultra Low power * HSPA+: Extending 3G's Performance Gains
  • UMTS Performance Enhancements:
    • 3x voice capcity, 2x data capacity * LTE-Advanced

The Remote Control For Your Life

• Mobile Phone as your Digital 6th sense.
  • Learns what you like
  • Filters out the irrelevant
  • Knows you and what is around you
  • Interacts with networks
  • Discovers things relevant to you
  • Sense local content and services.

Mobile Augmented Reality (AR): Bridging the Physical & Digital Worlds

• Combination of real objects & virtual information, interface, objects, etc
• 30+ times per sec: Scans -> compares -> positions -> Renders.
• Applications:
  • Gaming & Play, media/Advertising, Instructional, Navigation & Discovery, Social Networking, etc
• developer.qualcomm.com/ar

Next Gen Smart Phones will have Listen & Vision Functions

• Audio & Video processing
• a smart phone being able to listen in and understand the auditory environment:
  • base on sound of enviroment to know where u are
• Capture & process text: translator, currency converter...

Qualcomm Korea

Qualcomm Korea R&D Center

• 10 PhD researchers from SNU & KAIST with strong industry & academic exp.
• Partnership with SNU, KAIST, Yonsei, Korea university for PhD Fellowship funding
• MoU with SKT for technology trials

Qualcomm Korea R&D Center is Hiring

• Ful time researchers with:
  • Speech, audio signal processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
• Interns
  • Excellent programming skills required