• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.326-332
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• 1996

In this paper, a method to design the sending loudness rating(SLR) is proposed and the desirable transmission characteristics are considered in order to specify the transmission quality, based on the loudness ratings, for the digital telephone system that is a terminal for digital speech communication. To specify the desirable SLR for digital telephone system, the subjective test defining the preferred range of inout level for CODEC was performed. From the test results, it was identified that the optimal input level for CODEC is -15dB and the range not to cause the quantization noise and the distortion of CODEC fall within -12dB and -18dB.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1201-1206
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• 2009

According to a lot of investigations, distance perception is influenced by many important cues such as sound pressure level, reflections from the room surface, binaural difference (ITD and ILD), a kind of sound source, and head related transfer functions (HRTF). Two psychoacoustical experiments on auditory distance perception were conducted to examine the effectiveness of the sound pressure level loudness as one of the physical cues in the auditory distance perception under a constant loudspeaker's output level and a constant sound level at the subject's position in the absence of reflections in an anechoic room. Our experimental results showed that the perceived distance of sound image is closer than actual sound source distance with the constant loudspeaker's output level and the constant sound level. Futhermore, the perceived distance of a sound image with constant sound level increased when the actual distance increases up to approximately 2 m while the perceived distance saturated when the sound source distance exceed 2 m. On the other hand, when the condition of loudspeaker's output level was kept constantly, the perceived distance of sound image increased up to around 3m, longer than the conditions of constant sound level at the subject's position. We found that the change in the loudness as a function of distance plays an important role in the auditory distance perception in the absence of reflections..

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.617-626
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• 2023

This study aims to investigate the preferred sound level of water sound for various levels of open-plan-office noise regarding soundscape quality and speech privacy. And assessment of the work efficiency of the water sound. For the laboratory experiment, office noise was recorded using a binaural microphone in a real open-plan office. For the assessment of the soundscape quality and speech privacy, Overall Soundscape Quality (OSQ) and Listening Difficulty (LD) were evaluated under three different sound levels (55 dBA, 60 dBA, and 65 dBA) and five different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR -10 dB, -5 dB, 0 dB, +5 dB, and +10 dB). After the evaluation, the preferred SNR was proposed according to OSQ and LD. For the assessment of to work efficiency of water sound, this study evaluated the cognitive performance of both of the condition noise only and combine the water sound with office noise. The results showed that LD increased as the water sound level increased, but OSQ decreased. When the water sound level was more than the office noise level, the OSQ decreased from noise only. Therefore, considering OSQ and LD, the preferred SNR of water sound was -5 dB for all noise levels. At the preferred level of water sound, the cognitive performance results were shown to decrease at 55 dBA compared to noise only, but at 60 dBA and 65 dBA combine the water sound results were increased than the noise only.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.369-377
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• 2018

This study investigated the effect of noise and reverberation on subjective measure of speech transmission performance for elderly person with hearing loss in residential space through listening test. Floor impact, road traffic, airborne, and drainage noise were employed as the residential noise, and several impulse responses were obtained through room acoustical computer simulation for an apartment building. Sound sources for the listening test consisted of residential noises and speech sounds for boh the young (the original sound) and the aged (the sound filtered out by filters with frequency responses of hearing loss of 65 years elderly person). In the listening test, subjects evaluated speech intelligibility and listening difficulty for the presented word ($L_{Aeq}$ 55 dB) at three noise levels ($L_{Aeq}$ 30, 40, 50 dB) and three reverberation times (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 s). Results showed that the residential space with noise level lower than equal to 50 dB ($L_{i,Fmax,AW}$) for jumping noise and 40 dB ($L_{Aeq}$) for road traffic, airborne, and drainage noise had speech intelligibility of 90 % and over and listening difficulty of 30 % and below. Speech intelligibility and listening difficulty for the aged sound source was shown to be 0 % ~ 5 % lower and 2 % ~ 20 % higher than those for the young sound source, respectively.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.15 no.8 s.101
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• pp.980-987
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• 2005

It is very difficult to reduce ambient noise level in the downtown. The best method is to improve the sound amenity of the districts, considering concept of soundscape. This study aims to survey the effect of introducing sound and masking to reduce the background noise level. We carried out the evaluating test for 18 introducing sounds varied S/N ratio(-5, 0, +5) in the city riverside. In these test, subjects evaluated the sound environment with five bipolar adjective scales. It was evaluated that introducing sounds improved the sound environment, and that S/N +5 dB was very appropriate to mask the background noise. But the hearing level was suggested to be S/N 0 dB or less.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.939-946
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• 2008

본 논문은 시청자의 위치에 최적화된 입체음향을 제공하는 TV 개발에 관한 것으로 2 개의 TV 스피커만으로 5.1 채널 스피커가 주는 입체음향 효과를 제공해준다. 기존의 Speaker Virtualizer 기술은 시청자가 특정 위치(Sweet Spot)를 벗어나면 입체음향 성능이 현저히 저하된다. 반면, 본 논문에서 제안하는 Adaptive Virtualizer 기술은 초음파가 장착된 리모콘을 사용하여 시청자의 위치를 인식하고 인식된 시청자의 위치 정보를 활용하여 청취위치에 해당하는 HRTF로부터 설계된 Filter를 Update 하고 두 스피커의 출력레벨 및 시간지연 값을 보정함으로써 최적의 입체음향을 재현한다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 구현을 위해 Speaker Virtualizer의 계산량을 최소화하는 기술을 제안하고 다양한 청취 위치에 해당하는 Filter를 설계하고 설계된 Filter를 효율적으로 Update 하는 Adaptive Virtualizer 기술을 제안한다. 또한, 초음파를 이용한 시청자 위치 인식 기술 및 전체 시스템 통합 기술을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.55-57
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• 2004

이동 컴퓨팅(Mo띠le Computing) 환경에서 빈번한 접속 단절은 클라이언트의 캐시 일관성(Consistency) 문제로 직결된다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 일한 무효화 보고(Invalidation Report. In)중 하나를 제시한다. 기존의 IR방식은 대량의 데이터와 빈번한 데이터의 갱신(Update)시 IR 길이의 증기폭이 상당히 크다. 이는 타임스탬프가 IR에서 차지하는 비중이 큼으로써 오는 현상이다. 또한 기존방식은 캐시 레벨의 선택적 청취(Selective tuning)를 지원하지 못하는 문제점을 가지오 있다. 이러한 점을 극복하고자 B＋Tree를 기반으로 시간 값을 구성하고 이에 따른 데이터 아이디를 재구성하는 IR방식을 제안한다. 이를 활용하면 각 클라이언트가 자신의 단절(Disconnect)된 시간에 맞는 갱신 정보를 확인할 수 있게 된다. 이러한 방법은 기존 IR의 단점을 보완하며 선택적 청취론 유도할 수 있는 효과적인 방법이다.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.17-39
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 다채널 오디오 시스템에서 사용되어지는 음향신호처리에 대하여 저자들이 그간 제안하였던 방법들을 중심으로 다뤘다. 다룬 내용은 첫째로 각 스피커에서 청자의 위치까지의 공간응답의 영향을 배재할 수 있는 역 필터링이고, 둘째로 다채널 스피커의 위치를 파악하여 최적 위치와의 차이를 자동적으로 보상할 수 있는 방법이다. 셋째로 인간의 인지적인 측면을 고려하는 다채널 스피커로부터의 에너지 레벨 정렬 방식에 대하여 다뤘고, 마지막으로 특정공간의 반사음의 분포 패턴을 구하여 이를 일반적인 청취공간에서 재현해 내는 음장 재현 방식에 대하여 요약하였다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.762-763
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• 2009

최근 단말기는 MP3, DMB 등 멀티미디어 모듈이 탑재되어 있다. 대부분의 멀티미디어 기능은 이동중에 사용되므로 이어폰으로 음향을 청취하는 것이 일반적이다. 그러나 이어폰의 장시간 사용은 난청과 같은 신체적 부작용이 발생시킨다. 본 논문에서는 단말기 이어폰의 최대 음압 레벨을 측정할 수 있는 평가방법을 제안하였다. 본 연구는 유럽 규격인 EN50332_1를 참고하여 평가 기준을 확립하였다. 제안한 방법은 몇 개의 파라미터를 정량적으로 측정하고 관리함으로써 제조물 책임법 위반 사고를 예방할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.5-11
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• 1991

Articulation test is a good predictor of spatial speech transmission quality. Like many other languages, articulation testing method using Korean language was proposed in 1989, and which was proved as a valid indicator in rooms with static background noise. In this paper, the testing method is examined in variable noise conditions. According to the experiment performed in 26 classrooms with variable background noise, the proposed articulation testing method using Korean Language is still in variable conditions.