• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.611-616
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• 1998

Using three dimensional finite element model of the human brain, vibratory characteristics of the human brain according to vibratory direction was analyzed. From this analysis 9, 14Hz and 2, 3Hz natural frequencies were calculated for adult's and baby's brain model respectively. Regardless of the vibratory direction relatively high shear stress, pressure and von Mises stress variation except acceleration were detected in the baby brain model. At each natural frequencies, adult's model showed relatively high stress level in the region of lower limb control area compared with upper limb control area at 14Hz natural frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.138-143
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• 2000

This paper addresses experimental results carried out to investigate the transmission of seat vibration to the head for Korean. Vertical seat vibration in the frequency range of 0.5-30 Hz was applied to a seated Korean male subject. To examine the intra-variable effects on transmissibility, five different postures and three different vibration excitation levels were considered. The applied acceleration and head accelerations of the seated subject were measured simultaneously by using a 6-axes bite-bar. Detailed experimental results of measured transmissibilities are illustrated for each posture and/or vibration excitation level. They are found to allow the identification of dynamic characteristics of Korean seated body for various real vibration environments. Furthermore, they are expected to be very useful in designing new seats for automotive and railway vehicles and in improving their vibration ride quality.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.368-376
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• 1999

This paper predicts the changes in the spring constant, the resonant frequency, the electrostatic force, and the displacement of a resonant structure due to non-ideal anisotropic RIE etching process. First, a $6\;{\mu}m$ thick polysilicon was etched by RIE and the anisotropy of the etched structure was measured as a function of a RF power, a $Cl_2$ flow rate and a chamber pressure. In the experimental results, an anisotropy was decreased as the RF power, the $Cl_2$ flow rate, or the chamber pressure was increased. A comb actuator's operation characteristic was predicted depending on the anisotropy variations in RIE etching. Comb actuators with three different support beam structures were investigated : fixed-fixed, crab-leg, and double crab-leg. As the RIE etch anisotropy becomes non-ideal, i.e. the cross section becomes rather a trapezoidal than a rectangular shape, it decreases spring constant, resonant frequency and electrostatic force of a comb actuator but it increases the displacement of the mass. Among the three structures, the comb actuator with double crab-leg support beams is more influenced by anisotropy variation in RIE etch than other two.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.59-65
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• 2000

This paper describes the analysis of vibration characteristics through the human body as the research for voice therapy and diagnosis. The oscillation signal is not external forces but the self-voice to be pronounced the vowels ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'). The experiment system consists of microphones, accelerometers and amplifiers. The input data are stored by the computer. At the same time, the voice is stored by the microphone and the vibration signal of the human body is stored by accelerometer. The 63 points are appointed in head, neck, trunk of human body. The positions and number of times are changeable by the purpose. The analysis parameters are amplitude, phase, fundamental. frequency, formant and the correlation of vibration signal and voice is measured by coherence function. The results show that the vibration signals have characteristic vibration in the positions of human body.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.120-126
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• 2007

A principal components analysis of the entire median HRIRs in the CIPIC HRTF database reveals that the individual HRIRs can be adequately reconstructed by a linear combination of several orthonormal basis functions. The basis functions cover the inter-individual and inter-elevation variations in median HRIRs. There are elevation-dependent tendencies in the weights of basis functions, and the basis functions can be ordered according to the magnitude of standard deviation of the weights at each elevation. We propose a HRIR customization method via tuning of the weights of 3 dominant basis functions corresponding to the 3 largest standard deviations at each elevation. Subjective listening test results show that both front-back reversal and vertical perception can be improved with the customized HRIRs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.712-712
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 지연-가중-합 빔형성 방법이 적용된 지향성 헤드폰의 마이크로폰 배치 설계를 설명한다. 마이크로폰의 갯수, 마이크로폰 간의 간격 등이 헤드폰 지향성에 영향을 미치는 설계 변수가 된다. 본 논문에서는 현실성을 고려하여 4개 이하의 마이크로폰을 포함한 10cm 길이의 배열을 타겟으로 한다. 전방으로부터의 소리를 증폭하고 후방으로부터의 소리를 감쇠하여, 전-후방 음압차를 최대화하는 것을 목표로 하였다. 구형 머리전달 함수를 이용한 시뮬레이션을 통해 최적의 마이크로폰 배치를 결정하였다. 설계된 헤드폰은 3개의 마이크로폰을 이용하여 300~3000Hz의 주파수 대역에서 평균 34.6dB의 전-후방 음압차를 보였다. 이 결과는 선행 연구에서 수행된 지연-합 빔형성 방법을 이용한 결과에 비해 8.8dB 뛰어난 성능이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.611-616
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• 2003

The headphone is regarded as the most effective means for reproducing 3-dimentional virtual sound due to its channel separation property. However, there still exist several serious problems in headphone reproduction, such as, 'front-back confusion' and in-head localization'. These well-known problems are in general assessed by the subjective test that is based on human judgment. In this paper, an objective test is conducted in parallel with the subject test in order to validate the objective reproduction performance. Such a combined approach may be a more scientific and systematic approach to the reproduction performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.633-636
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• 2005

최근의 전자기기는 소형, 경량화가 가속화되고 있고, 특히 휴대용 기기에서의 MP3, MOD, VOD, DMB, 3D 게임, 등 다양한 멀티미디어 콘텐츠에 대한 일반인의 접근성이 확대됨에 따라 휴대용 기기에서의 입체음향 효과에 대한 사용자의 관심이 고조되고 있다. 하지만, 휴대용 기기에서의 입체음향 효과 구현은 PC 환경에서의 구현과는 다르게, 적은 CPU 점유율, 작은 메모리 사용, 등 열악한 재생환경에서의 구현이 필요해, 기대만큼의 성능을 내기가 쉽지 않다. 이러한 제약된 환경에서 만족스러운 입체음향 효과의 구현을 위해서는 기기별 H/W 특성을 감안한 알고리듬 최적화가 필수이다. 본 논문에서는 휴대용 기기 환경에 최적화된 입체음향 기술과 동향, 국내에서 상용화된 XEN$^{TM}$ 솔루션에 대해 살펴봄으로서 향후 휴대용 기기를 위한 입체음향 기술개발 방향을 제시하고자 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.282-288
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• 2014

Three-dimensional multimedia industry such as 3D TV, movie and broadcast has been developed vividly. For generating 3D contents with high quality, virtual auditory display, so called VAD, is being researched to offer more realistic experience to listeners. When people render VAD using headphones or two speakers, head-related transfer function(HRTF) plays a key role. The best solution is measuring all individuals' HRTFs, but it is hard to measure all listeners' HRTFs. To overcome this difficulty, many research groups have tried to construct their own measurement system and to build HRTF databases. However, some of them have not enough subjects or spatial resolution and they are mainly focused on Caucasian. There exists difference between Korean and Caucasian in a view of physical features. In other words, if Koreans hear three-dimensional sound rendered by HRTF database based on Caucasian, performance might be hindered. To verify this possibility and remedy the drawbacks, construction of new HRTF database aimed at Korean is needed. Therefore, our laboratory built HRTF measurement system which can measure HRTF of three-dimensional space with dense spatial resolution. With this system, 55 Korean males and 45 females' HRTFs were measured and Korean HRTF database was built based on these data.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.1E
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• pp.7-15
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• 2005

This paper addresses issues encountered in measuring the general, 6-degree-of-freedom motion of a human head, A complete mathematical description for measuring the head motion using the six-accelerometer configured bite-bar is suggested, The description shows that the six-axis vibration cannot be completely obtained without the roll, pitch and yaw angular velocity components, A new method of estimating the three orthogonal (roll, pitch and yaw) angular velocities from the six acceleration measurements is introduced. The estimated angular velocities are shown to enable further quantitative error analysis in measuring the translational and angular accelerations at the head. To make this point clear, experimental results are also illustrated in this paper. They show that when the effects of angular velocities are neglected in the head vibration measurement the maximum percentage errors were observed to be more than $3 \%$ for the angular acceleration of the head and to be close to $5 \%$ for its translational acceleration, respectively. It means that the inclusion of all the angular velocity dependent acceleration components gives more accurate measurement of the head vibration.