• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.52-63
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• 2022

Immersive media, also known as spatial media, has become essential with the decrease in face-to-face activities in the COVID-19 pandemic era. Teleconference, metaverse, and digital twin have been developed with high expectations as immersive media services, and the demand for hyper-realistic media is increasing. Under these circumstances, MPEG-I Immersive Media is being standardized as a technologies of navigable virtual reality, which is expected to be launched in the first half of 2024, and the Audio Group is working to standardize the immersive audio technology. Following this trend, this article introduces the trend in MPEG-I immersive audio standardization. Further, it describes the features of the immersive audio rendering technology, focusing on the structure and function of the RM0 base technology, which was chosen after evaluating all the technologies proposed in the January 2022 "MPEG Audio Meeting."

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.233-241
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• 2020

In this paper, a new buffer control method is proposed for improving the performance of the frequency domain part of the 3D audio (3DA) core codec. For the proposed buffer control method, we first combine the 3DA RM9 with the 3GPP AAC buffer control method which includes the psychoacoustic model and rate-distortion control process with the spectral hole avoidance algorithm. Then, we revise the 3GPP buffer control method so as to achieve a faithful bit allocation to the frames with higher activity. With the MUSHRA test, we prove that the proposed buffer control method demonstrates better performance than the 3DA RM9 and 3GPP AAC.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.897-903
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• 2011

A hybrid ${\Delta}{\Sigma}$ modulator for audio applications is presented in this paper. The pulse generator for digital-to-analog converter alleviates the requirement of the external clock jitter and calibrates the coefficient variation due to a process shift and temperature changes. The input resistor network in the first integrator offers a gain control function in a dB-linear fashion. Also, careful chopper stabilization implementation using return-to-zero scheme in the first continuous-time integrator minimizes both the influence of flicker noise and inflow noise due to chopping. The chip is implemented in a 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology (I/O devices) and occupies an active area of 0.37 $mm^2$. The ${\Delta}{\Sigma}$ modulator achieves a dynamic range (A-weighted) of 97.8 dB and a peak signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio of 90.0 dB over an audio bandwidth of 20 kHz with a 4.4 mW power consumption from 3.3 V. Also, the gain of the modulator is controlled from -9.5 dB to 8.5 dB, and the performance of the modulator is maintained up to 5 nsRMS external clock jitter.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.123-127
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• 2008

The paper is to solve the problem of existing audio signal transfer system which has a difficulties of system organization and the increase of additional install cost and unfriendly interior. To solve the existing system, we drew the new audio signal transfer system based on PLC and evaluated it. A transmitter and a receiver were designed using the PLC chip INT5500CS. An audio signal transfer system was configured with a CD player to which audio signals are sent from the transmitter and a speaker connected to the receiver. For performance evaluation of this system, a USBPre external sound card and Smaart Live 5 which is a PC-based sound measuring program were added. As a result of our experiment, the measured signal level is $2{\sim}3$ dB lower than reference signal, latency is 16.69 ms, and the specific character of coherency is bad in high frequency band. Otherwise, this system transmits and receives signals over 90 % in good condition as a result of measuring pink noise, frequency (1 kHz), and phase, magnitude. In view of the result so far achieved, the system designed this study has excellent performance, it resolves defect of existing audio signal transfer system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 사용자의 입력에 따라 3차원 오디오 장면을 재구성하여 전달할 수 있는 대화형 오디오 방송단말의 구현 예를 제시한다. MPEG-4 AudioBIFS 규격에 따라 계층적으로 표현한 오디오 장면의 속성을 사용자의 입력에 따라 갱신하고, 주어진 속성을 참조하여 오디오 데이터를 3차원 공간상에 재합성하는 방식을 취한다 속성을 갱신하는 모듈은 MPEG-4 Audio 프로파일을 지원하게 하되 AudioBIFS 노드 유형에 따른 사용자 인터페이스를 미리 정의하여 단말 측에 저장해 두고 이용함으로써 대화형 방송 서비스를 구현했다. 3차원 오디오 데이터를 재생하는 기능은 사용자의 입력에 대한 피드백을 풍부하게 하여 대화형 방송의 효과를 극대화하고, 사실감을 제고하는 데 중요한 역할을 담당한다. 요소기술로 음상의 위치, 지향성, 모양, 잔향특성 등을 구현하기 위한 3차원 오디오 기술에 대해 소개한다. 또한 대화형 3차원 오디오 방송단말을 이용한 서비스의 예로 대화형 합주 및 합창 프로그램을 소개한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.71-78
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• 2019

This paper describes a design for a RF receiver to receive satellite digital audio service. The RF receiver designed in this study is a planar structure that is easy to install on the rooftop of a car and is compact in size. In addition, it can be applied to certain commercial models because it has low noise and high gain characteristics. The impedance bandwidth of antenna is 17.8%(415MHz), and the axial ratio is below 3dB as good properties for the bandwidth of 40MHz which is a satellite digital audio service band. Also, it had a broad radiation beamwidth of $95.41^{\circ}$ in H-plane and $117.45^{\circ}$ in E-plane. From the results of the field test of satellite digital audio service reception for the RF receiver, it demonstrated good C/N rate(10.2dB).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.186-189
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• 2014

그 동안 오디오 기술은 채널 개수, 해상도, 매체의 특징에 따라 구분되어 발전해 왔다. 그러나 채널 개수에 있어서는 5.1 채널을 정점으로 가정에서의 설치 및 유지의 어려움으로 인해 시장에서의 고전을 면치 못하고 있다. 최근 영화 사운드 시장에서 돌비 ATMOS, IOSONO, AURO3D 등 잇단 객체기반 오디오 기술이 도입되면서, 방송 오디오 시장에서도 도입이 검토되고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 오디오 기술의 변화는 유연성이 결여된 채널기반 오디오의 기술 발전 및 시장 성장의 활로를 개척하는 기회가 될 것으로 전망된다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 UHDTV, 무안경 3DTV, 파노라마 영상, 홀로그램 영상 등 차세대 TV 방송 매체에 활용할 수 있는 UHD 오디오 기술의 콘텐츠 포맷 및 재현 기술에 대해서 논하고 향후 전망을 고찰해 보고자 한다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.406-412
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• 2006

In this paper, we analyzed the performance of digital watermarking by using audio signal as well as logo image watermark. By utilizing the OFDM/QPSK system under AWGN channel environment, watermarked image are transmitted and detected. Experimental results showed that audio signal-based watermark embedding scheme is superior to that of logo image-based, which is able to restore a signal at SNR=3[dB].

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06e
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• pp.55-58
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• 2002

This paper describes an RF module for 2.4GHz wireless audio/video transmission. The pre-processed baseband input signals are FM-modulated using a VCO and then transmitted through an antenna after RF filtering. The designed circuits are implemented using a Teflon board of which the size is 52mm${\times}$62mm. The measured maximum output signal levels are around -3dBm and the harmonics are less than -450dBc. The manufactured module consumes 130mA from a 8V supply.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.102-106
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• 2016

With the popularity of smart phones and the help of high-speed wireless communication technology, high-quality multimedia contents have become common in mobile devices. Especially, the release of Oculus Rift opens a new era of virtual reality technology in consumer market. At the same time, 3D audio technology which is currently used to make computer games more realistic will soon be applied to the next generation of mobile phone and expected to offer a more expansive experience than its visual counterpart. This paper surveys concepts, algorithms, and systems for modeling 3D sound virtual environment applications. To do this, we first introduce an important design principle for audio rendering based on physics-based geometric algorithms and multichannel technologies, and introduce an audio rendering pipeline to a scene graph-based virtual reality system and a hardware architecture to model sound propagation.