• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.207-214
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• 2008

To create 3D sound, we usually use two methods which are two channels or multichannel sound systems. Because of cost and space problems, we prefer two channel sound system to multi-channel. Using a headphone or two speakers, the most typical method to create 3D sound effects is a technology of head related transfer function (HRTF) which contains the information that sound arrives from a sound source to the ears of the listener. But it causes a problem to localize a sound source around a certain places which is called cone-of-confusion. In this paper, we proposed the new algorithm to reduce the confusion of sound image localization. HRTF grouping and psychoacoustics theory are used to boost the spectral cue with spectrum difference among each directions. Informal listening tests show that the proposed method improves the front-back sound localization characteristics much better than conventional methods.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.305-310
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• 2006

TV 프로그램 전송 방식이 아날로그에서 디지털로 바뀌며, TV방송의 다채널화 현상이 일어나고 있다. 동시에 많은 채널을 시청하며, 정보를 습득하고자 하는 바쁜 현대인들에게 두 개 이상의 채널을 동시에 시청하면서, 이를 녹화하거나 모니터링 하고자 하는 Need가 점점 높아져 가고 있다. 두 개의 튜너를 이용하여 두 채널의 방송을 동시에 시청 할 수 있는 PIP(Picture in Picture-동시화면) 기능은 이러한 사용자 욕구를 해소함과 동시에, 프리미엄 TV의 기술적 특성으로 자리잡고 있다. 현재 LG전자 TV의 경우, PIP관련 기능은 5가지로 [동시화면] [부채널+] [부채널 -] [부화면 입력][주부전환] 이 있다. 이러한 PIP관련 기능은 리모컨에서 부가기능 버튼으로 동작하고 있으며, 리모컨 레이아웃의 복잡성을 증대시키는 큰 원인이 되고 있다. 특히 관련 버튼이 숨김 버튼으로 배치되어 있어 사용자는 버튼을 찾지 못하고 오히려TV OSD 메뉴 상에서 PIP기능을 찾는 오류를 범하고 있어 직관적인 사용성을 제안하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 리모컨에서 PIP관련 버튼을 줄임과 동시에 PIP 사용성을 높일 수 있는 개선안을 제안하고자 하였다. 연구 방법은 PIP 사용행태 분석을 통한 문제점 파악 후 2가지 개선안을 도출한 후 각각의 개선안에 대한 사용성 검증을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 기존의 리모컨 버튼으로 접근하는 것이 사용성이 더 좋을 것이라는 예상을 깨고, PIP기능 사용 시 OSD메뉴로 접근하는 것이 수행시간이 줄어들었음을 알 수 있었다. 이것은 TV라는 매체의 특성상 사용자는 TV화면에서 기능 수행 후 Feedback을 기대하며, TV화면 상에서 동작하는 것에 더 익숙하기 때문이다. 이는 향후 새로운 TV기능 구현 시 중요한 Impact로 작용할 수 있다. 그 이유는 리모컨 버튼을 활용하여 모든 기능을 수행하는 것보다, 특정 기능은 OSD상에서 구현하는 것이 TV의 직관적인 사용 Scene에 더 적합한 것을 파악할 수 있었기 때문이다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.169-181
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• 1997

In this paper, we propose and discuss about image enhancement techniques for MPEG-4. which represents very low bit-rate, content-based. and object-based hierarchical audio-visual coding standard. The proposed enhancement technique removes undesired artifacts arising in the compression procedure and increase resolution in both spatial and temporal domains. In order to remove undesired artifacts. we divide the MPEG-4 video algorithm in two parts: MPEG-2 like part and the new part. For removing artifacts caused by the first part. we adopt the conventional blocking artifacts algorithm developed for MPEG-2. On the other hand for removing artifacts caused by the second part. we provide a new degradation model. and propose the corresponding image restoration method. For increasing resolution of the MPEG-4 images, we propose a general framework of multichannel image interpolation process. which includes both spatial and temporal interpolations. As the MPEG-4 standard is under development. various sophisticated techniques are considered. but research on image enhancement techniques is relatively underestimated. By this reason. additional image enhancement techniques will become very important issue in realization phase of MPEG-4.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.71-77
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• 2005

In this paper we implement a headphone-based 5.1 channel 3-dimensional (3D) sound generation system using HRTF (Head Related Transfer Function). Each mono sound source in the 5.1 channel signal is localized on its virtual location by binaural filtering with corresponding HRTFs, and reverberation effect is added for spatialization. To reduce the computational burden, we reduce the number of taps in the HRTF impulse response and model the early reverberation effect with several tens of impulses extracted from the whole impulse sequences. We modified the spectrum of HRTF by weighing the difference of front-back spec01m to reduce the front-back confusion caused by non-individualized HRTF DB. In informal listening test we can confirm that the implemented 3D sound system generates live and rich 3D sound compared with simple stereo or 2 channel down mixing.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.219-230
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• 2009

With the development of broadcasting technology from analogue to interactive digital, the number of TV channels and TV contents provided to audiences is increasing in a rapid speed. In this multi-channel world, it is difficult to adapt to the increase of the TV channel numbers and their contents merely using remote controller to search channels. For these reasons, the EPG system, one of the essential services providing convenience to audiences, is proposed in this paper. Collaborative filtering method with multi-step filtering is used in EPG to recommend contents according to the preference of audience groups with similar preference. To implement our designed TV contents recommendation EPG, we prefer DiTV and use JavaXlet programming based on MHP. The European DVB-MHP specification will be also our domestic standard in DiTV. Finally, the result is verified by OpenMHP emulator.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.15-19
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• 2013

Lithium-ion batteries have been used for high density energy storage system due to the features such as low self-discharge rate. And the unit cell battery with the voltage less than 4V is recommended to use the series connections for a high voltage charger. When batteries are charged or discharged with series connection, there may be an explosion or degradation of unit cell battery owing to undistributed internal resistance of cell battery. therefore, the voltages of unit cell batteries should be monitored to prevent an overcharging and a deep discharging. This paper introduces the implementation of CVM (Cell Voltage Monitoring) system that can transmit the 12 channel's information including voltages and temperatures with the 12-bits resolutions and the transmission speed of 192 kbps.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.8B
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• pp.721-729
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• 2004

In this paper, we applied a group scheduling algorithm to core nodes in an optical burst switching (OBS) network and measured its performance by simulation. For the case of core nodes with multi-channel input/output ports, performance of the group scheduling has been compared to that of the immediate scheduling. Since the group scheduling has a characteristic of scheduling a group of bursts simultaneously in a time window using information collected from corresponding burst header packets arrived earlier to a core node, simulation results show that the group scheduling outperforms the immediate scheduling in terms of both burst loss probability and channel utilization and the difference gets larger as the load increases. Another node configuration in which wavelength converters are equipped at the output ports has also been considered. In this case, even though both performance metrics of the group scheduling are almost the same as those of the immediate scheduling in the offered load range between 0.1 and 0.9, the group scheduling has lower wavelength conversion rate than the immediate scheduling by at least a factor of seven. This fact leads us to the conclusion that the group scheduling makes it possible to implement more economical OBS core nodes.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.401-411
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• 2009

This study focused on the crisis of local private broadcasting and political solution. The local private broadcasting has launched in 1995. Until now, local private broadcasting is successful in stable management and ensuring profit but it is attributed to a role of transmission pipe of SBS. However, this kind of syndication system has been a major problem of local private broadcasting and local private broadcasting has become weak and weak from outside impact. Presently broadcasting market has been changed very fast. It enters into unlimited competition era of multimedia and multichannel. However, especially local private broadcasting has both of public and private characteristics. Thus, local private broadcasting should not be hung by the wall any more. In this study administrative outcome of local private broadcasting will be analyzed and some hot political issues will be analyzed also then the political solution might be looked up at the same time. Now local private broadcasting also should be changed to totally new broadcasting company pursuing creative local contents and new digital concept.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.2
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• pp.81-92
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• 2010

There has been some research in the equipment defect detection based on vibration information. Most research of them is based on vibration monitoring to determine the equipment defect or not. In this paper, we introduce more accurate system for engine defect detection based on vibration information and we focus on detection of engine defect for boat and system control. First, it uses the duplicated-checking method for vibration information to determine the engine defect or not. If there is a defect happened, we use the method using error part of vibration information basis with error range to determine which kind of error is happened. On the other hand, we use the engine trend analysis and standard of safety engine to implement the vibration information database. Our simulation results show that the probability of engine defect determination is 100% and the probability of engine defect classification and detection is 96%.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2009

BCI technology is to control communication systems or machines by brain signal among biological signals followed by signal processing. For the implementation of BCI systems, it is required that the characteristics of brain signal are learned and analyzed in real-time and the learned characteristics are applied. In this paper, we detect feature vector of EEG signal on left and right hand movements based on incremental approach and dimension reduction using the detected feature vector. In addition, we show that the reduced dimension can improve the classification performance by removing unnecessary features. The processed data including sufficient features of input data can reduce the time of processing and boost performance of classification by removing unwanted features. Our experiments using K-NN classifier show the proposed approach 5% outperforms the PCA based dimension reduction.