• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.259-266
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• 2007

The parameters of electric acoustic characteristic used as standards to evaluate the performance of a small microphone are composed of sensitivity, harmonic distortion, frequency response, directivity and others. Such characteristic parameters should be designed differently depending on a purpose, so it is important to verify whether a small microphone was made appropriately for the purpose after measuring the acoustic characteristics. Therefore, a system that can measure the acoustic characteristic parameters of a small microphone using DSP, not only simultaneously but also in real-time, was implemented in this paper. To verify the implemented system, four kinds of microphones were measured and the results were compared with the data values of the acoustic characteristics of each microphone. There were a little discrepancy between them because the conditions when measuring the characteristics were not identical. But it was verified that the errors are within the error tolerance and it proved that the system can be used in place of the conventional equipment used in measuring the acoustic characteristics of small microphones.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.47-56
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• 2020

The sound source localization technique has various application fields in the era of internet-of-things, for which the probe size becomes critical. The localization methods using the acoustic intensity vector has an advantage of downsizing the layout of the array owing to a small finite-difference error for the short distance between adjacent microphones. In this paper, the acoustic intensity vector and the Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) method are compared in the viewpoint of the localization error in the far-field. The comparison is made according to the change of spacing between adjacent microphones of the three-dimensional microphone array arranged in a tetrahedral shape. An additional test is conducted in the reverberant field by varying the reverberation time to verify the effectiveness of the methods applied to the actual environments. For estimating the TDoA, the Generalized Cross Correlation-Phase transform (GCC-PHAT) algorithm is adopted in the computation. It is found that the mean localization error of the acoustic intensimetry is 2.9° and that of the GCC-PHAT is 7.3° for T₆₀ = 0.4 s, while the error increases as 9.9°, 13.0° for T₆₀ = 1.0 s, respectively. The data supports that a compact array employing the acoustic intensimetry can localize of the sound source in the actual environment with the moderate reflection conditions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.8-15
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• 2008

In this paper, in order to analyze property of frequency response in optical microphone, system was implemented. The capacitance microphone and fiber-optic transmission path type fiber-optic microphone (FOM) have weaknesses in directivity, size, weight, and price. However suggested optical microphone can be constituted by cheap devices, so it has many benefits like small size, light weight, high directivity, etc. Head part of optical microphone which is suggested in this paper is movable back and forth by sound pressure with the attached reflection plate. Operating point is determined by measuring the respond characteristics and choosing the point on which has maximum linearity and sensitivity while changing the distance between optical head and vibrating plate. We measured the output of the O/E transformed signal of the optical microphone while frequency of sound signal is changed using sound measurement/analysis program, Smaart Live and USBPre, which are based on PC, and compared the result from an existing capacitance microphone. The measured Optical microphone showed almost similar output characteristics as those of the compared condenser microphone, and its bandwidth performance was about 300[Hz]-3[kHz] at up to 3 [dB].

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

스마트폰, 태블릿 PC의 등장과 더불어 모바일 IT 제품들은 빠르게 소형화, 슬림화, 저전력화 되고 있으며, 이런 시스템의 요구에 대응하기 위하여 음향부품은 기술 전환기를 맞이하고 있다. 대표적 음향소자로는 소리를 전기적 신호로 변환하는 센서인 마이크로폰과 전기 에너지를 소리 에너지로 변환하는 액추에이터인 스피커가 있는데, 최근초소형 MEMS 마이크로폰과 초박형 압전 스피커와 같은 새로운 제품이 시장에서 주목받고 있다. 본 고에서는 음향소자의 기술 개요, 새로운 제품의 장단점 및 개발 동향, 그리고 시장 및 산업 동향을 살펴봄으로써 관련 국내 업계가 기술 전환기를 대비하는 데 필요한 기초 정보를 제공하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.1032-1035
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• 2004

Pressure distribution is measured by way microphones to identify noise sources in the space. For example, beam-forming method or acoustic holography use phase information to identify the source. Therefore, the phase is significant information to correctly identify the source position. However, due to the microphone characteristics and measuring systems, measured signals always have errors, which make the identification difficult. Therefore, phase calibration of microphones is needed. Duct and speaker systems are generally used as calibrators. Acoustic characteristics of the calibrator are, of course, functions of many Parameters of the system: i.e. duct size, frequency, and microphone spacing. In this paper, design parameters which effect on the performance and size of the calibrators are considered. Then the parameters would be applied to design and real product of the phase-calibrator.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.115-118
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 소형 DC 모터 완성품의 제품검사에서 객관성이 결여된 판정기준인 작업자의 청각에 의한 관능검사에 대신하여 자동 진단 시스템의 적용으로 고신뢰성을 확보하기 위하여 음향신호를 취득하여 분석하는 방법을 제안하였다. 소형 모터가 회전할 때 발생하는 음향신호를 마이크로폰으로 취득하여, 취득한 신호에 단구간 Hanning Window를 걸어 시간에 따라 이동하면서 신호의 주파수 성분을 시간에 따라 전개하는 STFT(Short-Time Fourier Transform) 기법으로 정상적인 모터와 이상인 모터에서 발생하는 음향신호를 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.630-633
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• 2021

Microphones can convert received voice signals to electric signals. They have been widely used in various industries such as radios, smart devices and vehicles. Recently, the demands for small size and high sensitive microphones are increased according to the minimization of wireless earphone with the development of smart phone. A MEMS system is a good candidate for an ultra-small size microphone of a next generation and a read out IC for high sensitive MEMS sensor is researched from many industries and academies. Since the microphone system has a high sensitivity from environment noise and electric system noise, the system requires a low noise power supply and some low noise design techniques. In this paper, a low noise LDO is presented for small size MEMS microphone systems. The input supply voltage of the LDO is 1.5-3.6V, and the output voltage is 1.3V. Then, it can support to 5mA in the light load condition. The integrated output noise of proposed LDO form 20Hz to 20kHz is about 1.9uV. These post layout simulation results are performed with TSMC 0.18um CMOS technology and the size of layout is 325㎛ × 165㎛.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.83-92
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• 2013

IT 기술이 발달함에 따라 저전력, 초소형 센서노드를 설치하여 무인으로 정보를 얻을 수 있는 시스템의 도입이 점차 확대되는 추세이며, 이것을 위하여 온도, 습도, 가스 등 환경정보를 획득할 수 있는 센서뿐만 아니라 초소형 저전력 복합환경센서 ROIC(Read-Out Integrated Circuit)의 중요성이 증가하고 있다. 또한 휴대폰, 노트북, 스마트폰, 태블랫 PC 등의 모바일 IT 제품들은 빠르게 소형화, 슬림화, 저전력화 되고 있다. 이런 시스템의 요구에 따라 음향부품도 기본적인 음향감지/출력 성능 이외에 크기 및 소모전력이 중요한 기능요소로 크게 부각되고 있으며, 이것을 위하여 소형화, 저가격화가 가능한 MEMS(Microelectromechanical Systems) 음향센서 및 ROIC 개발이 요구되고 있다. 따라서 본고에서는 복합환경센서 ROIC 및 MEMS 마이크로폰 ROIC의 기술동향 등에 대해서 고찰하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.585-591
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• 2003

In this paper, fiber optic sensor using Fabry-Perot interferometer which had benefit of minimize and light-weight was used. The sensor head has 1cm in length, total length of fiber is 9.5 chi and the sensor supported at both ends, simply. To analyze the acoustic characteristic non-directional speaker is used as a sound source. Acoustic applied in lateral direction and detected two signals were compared each other. Below 1㎑ fiber optic sensor has more sensitive than microphone, but in 2㎑ fiber optic sensor has less sensitive than microphone. This characteristic varies to the supporting system of fiber optic sensor. It was confirmed that the Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor detected acoustic signal, effectively. This kind of sensor can be applied to the structural health monitoring field of intellectual structure.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.57-62
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• 2006

최근 들어 IT 기술의 비약적인 발전과 더불어 사용자의 편의성을 극대화 시키는 웨어러블 컴퓨팅 기술이 주목을 받고 있다. 이러한 기술은 일반인 뿐만 아니라 장애인들에게 큰 도움이 될 것이고, 현재 관련된 연구들이 활발히 진행 중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 청각장애인을 위해 개발된 웨어러블 단말 인터페이스 기술을 소개하고자 한다. 웨어러블 단말장치는 소형 마이크로폰을 통해 입력된 주변의 소리로부터 미리 정해진 주요한 소리를 실시간 감지하여, 시각과 촉각 정보로 변환하여 소리의 종류 및 방향을 청각장애인에 알려주는 기능을 한다. 시각정보는 안경식 소형 디스플레이를 통해 상황에 맞는 그래픽아이콘을 보여주고 동시에 소형 진동자들이 부착된 햅틱 슈트를 통해 촉각 정보가 전달된다. 본 연구에서 개발한 웨어러블 단말장치를 통해 청각장애인이 일상생활에서 발생되는 여러 가지 위험상황 또는 긴급상황에 적절하게 대처할 수 있도록 도와주고자 한다.