• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.147-150
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 기존의 중간조 처리 방법들의 단점을 개선하고 원영상의 색을 충실히 재현하기 위해 도트 패턴 데이터베이스를 사용한 모델 기반의 중간조처리 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 우수한 화질의 풀력 영상을 얻기 위해 BNM을 기반으로 도트 패턴을 생성한 후 원형 도트 중첩 모델과 하드웨어의 점이득을 적용하여 도트 패턴 데이터베이스를 생성한다. 도트 패턴 데이터베이스는 하나의 밝기값에 도트 패턴각각 하나씩 구성되므로 출력 영상에서 원영상 화소의 색을 충실히 재현할 수 있다. 이 과정에서 인간 시각특성을 적용하여 현재 화소의 색에 대해 국부적으로 인간 시각에 적합한 도트 패턴을 선택한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.208-217
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• 2001

Model-based color image halftoning method using dot-pattern database is proposed for low-resolution color image printing. Dot-pattern database used in the proposed method is based on Blue-Noise Mask. The database consists of dot-patterns constructed by circular dot-overlap model according to each color value. In halftoning procedure, input color value is reproduced as the dot-pattern selected to minimize the difference between the color values of the original image and those of the printed image. Also, the contrast sensitivity function as a human visual model is used to improve the perceived quality of the printed image in dot-pattern selection. Thus, the proposed method can substantially reproduce the color values of the pixels in original image and obtain better image quality. In the experiment, the proposed method has less ΔΕ/Sub ab/ between the original image in monitor and the printed one than that of ED and BNM halftoning. This result approves that the proposed method reproduces better image quality.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.165-171
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• 2017

Reading Pen is used mostly in educational purpose, yet its possibility is great as an input device for various IT devices. Reading Pen recognizes tiny dot patterns printed in papers, converts the patterns to corresponding codes, and plays audio contents that match the codes. Recognizing dot patterns and converting to the codes are the main function of Reading Pens, on which we focus and propose a novel algorithm. Such technology is never open to public and this paper is the first open attempt in this area. We test the algorithm and obtain 85% recognition ratio.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.979-984
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• 2009

In this paper, the technique for production and encoding of new dot-type print watermark is proposed. The print watermark has characteristics similar to those of the digital watermark and function as link which change various first informations(texts, symbols, figures, etc) on the printed matter to secondary contents (sound, video, character, etc) corresponding each to informations on the printed matter. The proposed dot-type print watermark pattern is represented as $16{\times}16$ matrix in $0.4mm^2$ area and dots are printed on only 23 elements of $16{\times}16$ matrix. The size of each dot is so small(0.02mm)that it can not be seen. Because position of printed dots correspond to the position of each digit in binary notation in this paper, they are encoded easily and there are about 8,000,000 watermark patterns enough to express first information of printed matters. It was showed that the proposed print watermark patterns are recognized without difficulty by the own recognition device.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.267-274
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• 2022

In this paper, we report the design and fabrication of binary diffractive optical elements (DOEs) for random-dot-pattern projection for Schlieren imaging. We selected the binary phase level and a pitch of 10 ㎛ for the DOE, based on cost effectiveness and ease of manufacture. We designed the binary DOE using an iterative Fourier-transform algorithm with binary phase optimization. During initial optimization, we applied a computer-generated pseudorandom dot pattern of uniform intensity as a target pattern, and found significant intensity nonuniformity across the field. Based on the evaluation of the initial optimization, we weighted the target random dot pattern with Gaussian profiles to improve the intensity uniformity, resulting in the improvement of uniformity from 52.7% to 90.8%. We verified the design performance by fabricating the designed binary DOE and a beam projector, to which the same was applied. The verification confirmed that the projector produced over 10,000 random dot patterns over 430 mm × 430 mm at a distance of 5 meters, as designed, but had a slightly less uniformity of 84.5%. The fabrication errors of the DOE, mainly edge blurring and spacing errors, were strong possibilities for the difference.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.361-362
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.1215-1219
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• 2003

Light Guide Panel(LGP) is a key part of backlight unit(BLU) which transforms line-light of lamp to surface-light. Dot pattern is formed on the injected LGP surface by screen printing. This dot pattern is composed of several ten thousands micro dots of diameter 150-180$\mu\textrm{m}$ or so. The dot patterning by screen printing causes low productivity and low performance of TFT-LCD. This research develops the micromachining technology for LGP mould which could form micro dot pattern by injection molding, removing the existing screen printing process.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.2 s.308
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• pp.40-47
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• 2006

This paper proposes a multitoning method using threshold modulation of MJBNM(Modified Jointly Blue Noise Mask) for banding artifacts reduction. As banding artifacts in multitoning appear as uniform dot distributions around the intermediate output levels, such multitone output results in discontinuity and visually unpleasing patterns in smooth transition regions. Therefore, to reduce these banding artifacts, the proposed method rearranges the dot distribution by introducing pixels in the neighborhood of output levels that occurs banding artifacts. First of all principal cause of banding artifacts are analyzed using mathematical description. Based on this analytical result, a threshold modulation technique of MJBNM which takes account of chrominance error and correlation between channels is applied. The original threshold range of MJBNM is first scaled linearly sot that the minimum and maximum of the scaled range include two pixel more than adjacent two output levels that cover an input value. In an input value is inside the vicinity of any intermediate output levels produce banding artifacts, the output is set to one of neighboring output levels based on the pointwise comparison result according to threshold modulation parameter that determines the dot density and distribution. In this case, adjacent pixels are introduced at the position where the scaled threshold values are located between two output levels and the minimum and maximum threshold values. Otherwise, a conventional multitoning method is applied. As a result, the proposed method effectively decreased the appearance of banding artifacts around the intermediate output levels. To evaluate the quality of the multitone result, HVS-WRMSE according to gray level for gray ramp image and S-CIELAB color difference for color ramp image are compared with other methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.11-11
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• 2001

일반적 칼라 출력 장치는 제한된 범위의 색만을 재현 할 수 있다. 특히 프린터와 같이 색의 재현성이 부족한 장비에서는 하드웨어 특성에 따른 채색 면적이나 인쇄에 사용되는 용지의 특성에 따라 염료의 확산 등에 대해서도 고려해야 한다. 특히, 색을 프린트하기 위해서는 출력 과정에서 색의 선형적인 증가와 감소가 이루어져야 하며 또한 정확한 색의 모델링이 가능하여야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이를 위해 프린터 출력시 실제 채색 면적과 시각적 색감을 고려할 수 있는 디더링 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 실제 채색 면적을 고려한 패턴 데이터 베이스를 만들어 이를 디더링 패턴으로 이용하게 된다. 그리고 이 데이터 베이스에서 정확한 패턴을 선택하기 위해서는 인간시각의 색 인지력을 모델링한 대조 민감도 함수를 사용하게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 저해상도의 칼라 출력장치에서도 고화질의 색을 재현할 수 있게 해준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.111-112
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• 2006