• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
• /
• v.11 no.5
• /
• pp.806-812
• /
• 2000

In this paper, we theoretically studied on the large antenna array whose element had wider than one wavelength. And we also verified the adaptedness through the experiments. Using grating lobes, we could make antenna have sharp HPBW. Not only HPBW but also SLL could be controlled by giving optimal space for antenna array. In order to verify this method, we designed 4 horn antenna array and measured the radiation patterns at 9 GHz. Each horn antenna has the dimension of 64.3$\times$82.5$\textrm{mm}^2$ and HPBW of 27$^{\circ}$. The space between antennas is longer than one wavelength so that it may have the grating lobes in visible region. As a result of experiments, we could get HPBW of 4.3$^{\circ}$, 3.3$^{\circ}$ and 1.7$^{\circ}$when giving 2.5λ, 2.7λ and 3.0λ of the spacing respectively. We concluded this could be useful making the antenna with narrow HPBW.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
• /
• v.35 no.6
• /
• pp.452-465
• /
• 2016

In this study, the structure of a concave annular array transducer was optimized to generate high intensity focused ultrasound for medical therapeutic application. The transducer has a phased array structure composed of several concentric channels that have 40 mm as the radius of curvature. We derived theoretical equations to analyze the sound field of the transducer and verified the validity of the equations by comparing the results calculated by the equations with those from finite element analyses. We also checked the possibility of dynamic focusing at around the geometric focal point. Further, the level of a grating lobe occurring at an unwanted position in the transducer sound field was confirmed to be reducible through the relation between the number of channels and the frequency of the transducer. Hence, the structure of the transducer was optimized to place the main lobe within a specific range from the zenith while systematically reducing the level of the maximum sidelobe including the grating lobe. The designed structure showed the performance better than that targeted at all the focal points.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
• /
• v.25 no.2
• /
• pp.133-138
• /
• 2015

This paper presents a performance improvement of gray level co-occurrence matrix(GLCM) based on the nonuniform quantization, which is generally used to analyze the texture of images. The nonuniform quantization is given by Lloyd algorithm of recursive technique by minimizing the mean square error. The nonlinear intensity levels by performing nonuniformly the quantization of image have been used to decrease the dimension of GLCM, that is applied to reduce the computation loads as a results of generating the GLCM and calculating the texture parameters by using GLCM. The proposed method has been applied to 30 images of $120{\times}120$ pixels with 256-gray level for analyzing the texture by calculating the 6 parameters, such as angular second moment, contrast, variance, entropy, correlation, inverse difference moment. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a superior computation time and memory to the conventional 256-level GLCM method without performing the quantization. Especially, 16-gray level by using the nonuniform quantization has the superior performance for analyzing textures to another levels of 48, 32, 12, and 8 levels.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
• /
• v.10 no.11
• /
• pp.1946-1953
• /
• 2006

Because the embedded watermark of luminance component guarantees the extraction of ownership information when the color image is converted to gray scale image, the information of ownership right as to the luminance component is embedded in the luminance-chrominance color space such as YCbCr. Therefore, this paper proposes watermark embedding, extraction and authentication algorithm of color image. which considers the device and performance of multimedia contents service by focusing on the robustness and invisibility of watermark. The color image is converted from RGB color space to YCbCr color space, and then the properties of each component of Y(Luminance), Cb(Color Differences) and Cr(Color Differences) are considered in order to embed, extract and certify multi-level watermark in the frequency domain based on the wavelet. As a result, it can guaranteed the robustness for the JPEG compression and invisibility of watermark for multi-level.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
• /
• v.15 no.1
• /
• pp.51-59
• /
• 2004

We design multilevel coding(MLC) with a semi bit-interleaved coded modulation(BICM) scheme based on low density parity check(LDPC) codes. Different from traditional designs, we joint the MLC and BICM together by using the Gray mapping, which can transmit the multimedia data over several equivalent channels with different code rates. To get a good performance from signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) very close to the capacity of the additive white Gaussian noise(AWGN) channel, random regular LDPC code and a simple semi-algebra LDPC(SA-LDPC) code are discussed in MLC with parallel independent decoding(PID). Finally, the numerical results demonstrate that the proposed scheme could achieve both power and bandwidth efficiency for multimedia communication system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
• /
• v.42 no.6 s.336
• /
• pp.31-38
• /
• 2005

In this paper, we proposed an optical security system based on a gray-image exclusive-OR encryption using multi-phase separation and phase-wrapping method. For encryption, a gray image is sliced into binary images, which have the same pixel value, and these images are encrypted by modified XOR rules with binary random images. The XORed images and the binary images respectively combined and converted into full phase images, called an encrypted image and a key image. For decryption, when the encrypted image and key image are used as inputs on optical elements, Practically due to limited controllability of phase range in optical elements, the original gray image cannot be efficiently reconstructed by these optical elements. Therefore, by decreasing the phase ranges of the encrypted image and key image using a phase-wrapping method and separating these images into low-level phase images using multi-phase separation, the gray image can be reconstructed by optical elements which have limited control range. The decrytion process is simply implemented by interfering a multiplication result of encrypted image and key image with reference light. The validity of proposed scheme is verified and the effects, which are caused by phase limitation in decryption process, is analyzed by using computer simulations.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
• /
• v.7 no.1
• /
• pp.116-123
• /
• 2007

This paper proposed a new amplitude width modulation for OLED data driver IC. The data driver controls brightness of OLED by adjusting amplitude and width of the data drive current pulse. There were two conventional methods; pulse amplitude modulation(PAM) and pulse width modulation(PWM). The PWM method suffered from lower light emitting time efficiency at low luminance signal. The PAM method suffered from large chip area using DACs for each column. The proposed method was aiming at accurately controlling of the current level by MSB data and light emitting efficiency by LSB data to improve the inefficiencies of the PAM and a PWM. The proposed AWM driver circuit implemented using $0.35-{\mu}m$ 3-poly 4-metal CMOS high voltage process. The simulation result shows the improvement in the accuracy of the gray level control even though the driver circuit is smaller than the PAM.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
• /
• v.1 no.2
• /
• pp.66-73
• /
• 1996

The present study investigates experimentally the characteristics of liquid jet, which is, the spray flow in the normal direction of the air stream under the flow conditions of air velocity $110\sim125m/s$. The present study adopts with the flow visualization technique using a short duration light bulb and the image processing analyse with CCD camera. Two types of injector were used: one is a flat plate type, and the other is backward facing step type, which height are 5, 8, 10mm. Dispersion of liquid jet can be represented by gray level of CCD camera. In the upstream of liquid jet, the backward facing step shows better liquid jet penetration. However, in the downstream. mean droplet size for backward facing step injector is smaller than that for flat plate injector

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
• /
• 2007.04a
• /
• pp.283-286
• /
• 2007

임계값을 이용한 영상 분할은 대표적인 영상 분할 기법으로 Otsu의 임계값 결정법, Fuzzy 엔트로피를 이용한 H&W의 기법 및 Clustering을 이용한 Kwon의 기법 등 많은 방법이 있다. 대부분의 임계값 결정 기법은 영상에서 얻어진 빈도수 히스토그램의 분석을 통해서 임계값을 결정한다. 특히 Otsu의 임계값 결정 기법은 빈도수 히스토그램의 분산을 최대화하는 방법으로 임계값을 결정하는 빈도수 히스토그램에 기반한 대표적 기법이다. 하지만 영상 기술이 발전함에 따라서 하나의 임계값으로부터 영상을 이진화 하는 기법은 효용성이 떨어지고 있다. 따라서 다중의 임계값을 결정하는 효과적인 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 그레이 레벨간의 관계성을 파악하고 이러한 관계성으로부터 다중의 임계값을 결정하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법의 효용성은 모의실험에서 다중 임계값을 사용한 분할영상을 통해서 보인다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
• /
• v.4 no.1
• /
• pp.209-214
• /
• 1997

In this paper, we propose a new preorder tree method for binary images, named the Compact Complementary Quadtree (CCQ). In the proposed method we use type codes for representing nodes in the quadtree instead of using the symbols G, B, and W. From the experimental results, we have confirmed that the CCQ has a higher compression ratio than of the DF-expression. CCQ can be effectively applied to progressive transmission of binary images such as line drawings, geographical maps, and halftones.