• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.553-558
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• 2016

A DC-DC converter for CMOS image sensors in bio-sensor chips is proposed. The DC-DC converter generates a PCP voltage, that is an on voltage of a pixel, and an NCP voltage, that is an off voltage of a pixel. The PCP voltage with a ripple voltage of within 1.33V is obtained from a positive charge pump of VPP (=5V) with a ripple voltage of 45.35 by using a regulator. Also, the NCP voltage with a ripple voltage of 0.05mV is obtained from a negative charge pump of VNN (=-2V) with a ripple voltage of 62.8 by using a regulator.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.173-178
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• 2005

This paper focuses on the use of the virtual dialog system whose aim is to build more convenient living environments. In order to realize this, the main emphasis of the paper lies on the description of the multimedia signal processing on the basis of the technologies such as speech recognition, speech synthesis, video, or sensor signal processing. For essential modules of the dialog system, we incorporated the real-time speech recognizer based on HM-Net(Hidden Markov Network) as well as speech synthesis into the overall system. In addition, we adopted the real-time motion detector based on the changes of brightness in pixels, as well as the touch sensor that was used to start system. In experimental evaluation, the results showed that the proposed system was relatively easy to use for controlling electric appliances while sitting in a sofa, even though the performance of the system was not better than the simulation results owing to the noisy environments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.767-773
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a design of Intra prediction angular mode decision for HEVC encoder. Intra prediction coding of HEVC is a method for predicting a current block by referring to samples reconstructed around a current block. Intra prediction supports a total of 35 modes with 1 DC mode, 1 Planar mode, and 33 Angular modes. Intra prediction coding of HEVC works by performing all 35 modes for efficient encoding. However, in order to process all of the 35 modes, the computational complexity and operational time required are high. Therefore, this paper proposes comparing the difference in the value of the original pixel, using an algorithm that determines angular mode efficiently. This new algorithm reduces the Hardware size. The hardware which is proposed was designed using Verilog HDL and was implemented in 65nm technology. Its gate count is 14.9K and operating speed is 2GHz.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.45-50
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• 2005

A UV camera is being used in various application regions such as industry, medical science, military, and environment monitoring. A ROIC(ReadOut IC) is developed and can read the responses from UV photodiode sensors which are made with III-V nitride semiconductors of GaN series haying high resolution and high efficiency. To design FPA(Focal Plane Array) UV $8{\times}8$ ROIC, the photodiode type sensor devices are modeled as the capacitor type ones. The ROIC reads out signals from the detector at)d outputs sequentially pixel signals after amplifying and noise filtering of them. The ROIC is fabricated using the $0.5{\mu}m$ 2Poly 3Metal N-well CMOS process. And then, it and photodiode array are hybrid bonded by gold stud bumping process using ACP(Anisotropic Conductive Paste). After the packaging, UV images appearing on PC verified the operations of the ROIC.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.9
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• pp.663-670
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• 2001

This paper proposes a new power reduction method for 2D FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filters. We exploited the spatial redundancy of image data in order to reduce power dissipation in multiplication of FIR filters. Since the higher bits of input pixels are hardly changed, the redundant multiplication of higher bits is avoided by separating multiplication into higher and lower parts. The calculated values of higher bits are stored in memory cells, cache such that they can be reused when a cache hit occurs. Therefore, we can reduce power in 2D FIR Filter modules about 15% by using the proposed separated multiplication Technique (SMT).

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.36 no.5_2
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• pp.939-948
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• 2020

CAS500-1 and CAS500-2 are high-resolution Earth-observing satellites being developed and scheduled to launch for land monitoring of Korea. The satellite information will be used for land usage analysis, change detection, 3D topological monitoring, and so on. Satellite image data of region of interests must be acquired in the stereo mode from different positions for 3D information generation. Accurate 3D processing and 3D display of stereo satellite data requires the epipolar image resampling process considering the pushbroom sensor and the satellite trajectory. This study developed an epipolar image resampling module for CAS-500 stereo data processing and verified its accuracy performance by testing along-track, across-track, and heterogeneous stereo data.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.859-872
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• 2016

Land cover classification is an important tool for preventing natural disasters, collecting environmental information, and monitoring natural resources. Hyperspectral imaging is widely used for this task thanks to sufficient spectral information. However, the curse of dimensionality, spatiotemporal variability, and lack of labeled data make it difficult to classify the land cover correctly. We propose a novel classification framework for land cover classification of hyperspectral data based on convolutional neural networks. The proposed framework naturally incorporates full spectral features with the information from neighboring pixels and has advantages over existing methods that require additional feature extraction or pre-processing steps. Empirical evaluation results show that the proposed framework provides good generalization power with classification accuracies better than (or comparable to) the most advanced existing classifiers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.453-453
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• 2012

최근 디스플레이 시장에서는 저전력 자발광 소자인 OLED가 많은 관심 속에 연구 진행 되고 있다. 높은 효율과 투명, 플렉서블 디스플레이가 실현 가능한 OLED 소자는 초기 수명감소, 저전압구동 및 신뢰성에 대한 문제점을 개발 중에 있기에 많은 가능성을 현실화 하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 OLED소자의 역방향 반송자 회복 수명을 측정함으로써 스트레스에 의한 소자 열화를 전기적으로 분석하는 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 우선 5cm5cm의 면적에 네 개의 픽셀이 들어가는 후면 발광 Blue OLED를 제작하고 $-40^{\circ}C$부터 $100^{\circ}C$까지 $10^{\circ}C$간격으로 온도 스트레스를 주어 수명을 측정하였다. 전원공급기를 사용하여 직류 전압을 2V 인가하고 함수 발생기를 사용하여 +3V, -0.5V의 구형파를 500 kHz 주파수로 인가하였다. 이러한 조건으로 측정된 소자는 오실로스코프를 이용하여 전압 회복시간을 측정하고 온도 스트레스에 따른 수명을 산출하였다. $-40^{\circ}C$일 때 는 약 1.92E-7s이고 $100^{\circ}C$일 때 는 약 1.49E-7s로 약 0.43E-7s정도 감소하였다. 양의 전압이 인가되었을 때의 소자 내부의 전압은 온도가 증가함에 따라 꾸준히 감소하였고, 이에 따라 또한 꾸준히 감소하였다. 그러나 음의 전압이 인가되는 부분에서는 무설 전류에 의하여 음의 방향으로 흐르게 되는 전압의 절대값이 꾸준히 증가하였고 대체적으로 온도가 증가함에 따라 그래프가 아래로 이동하는 현상이 관찰되었다. 이러한 경향은 이상적인 다이오드의 반송자 축적 식을 통하여 온도가 증가함에 따라 가 증가하는 것과 관련이 있음을 확인하였다. 따라서 다수 층의 레이어로 이루어진 OLED소자의 열적 스트레스에 대한 수명 변화의 물리적 조건이 이상적인 다이오드 특성에 부합한다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.257-261
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• 2004

A coded-aperture gamma camera was developed to increase the sensitivity of a pin hole camera made with a pixellated CsI(Tl) scintillator and a position-sensitive photomultiplier tube. The modified round-hole uniformly redundant array of pixel size $13{\times}11$ was chosen as a coded mask considering the detector spatial resolution. The performance of the coded-aperture camera was compared with the pin hole camera using various forms of Tc-99m source to see the improvement of signal-to-noise ratio or the improvement of the sensitivity. The image quality is much improved despite of a slight degradation of the spatial resolution. Though the camera and the test were made for low energy case, but the concept of the coded-aperture gamma camera could be effectively used for the radioactive environmental monitoring and other applications.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.437-449
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• 2016

Previous image processing techniques based on plane-to-plane transformations cannot be utilized for spherical panoramic images. In this paper, we propose a new method to inpaint a spherical panoramic image using exemplar, which is deformed by the location of the patch. Our proposed method makes the deformed exemplar patch by latitude and uses it as the reference patch to restore the damaged area. The exemplar-based inpainting method is based on the planar image coordinate system and thus the classical method cannot be applied to the spherical panoramic image. The merit of our proposed method is the fact that it is not dependent on the location of the damaged area. From the experimental results, we proved that our proposed method satisfies the original purpose of the exemplar-based inpainting technique for the spherical panoramic image.