• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.935-938
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose a new auto focus algorithm using variance which estimate spread characteristic of image. In the proposed algorithm, the focus value is calculated via variance of difference between two adjacent pixels. This algorithm, we propose, show much more sharp focus curve than any other algorithms. It is shown experimentally that the proposed auto focus algorithm can be a efficient alternative to existing Tenengrad-based auto focusing algorithms.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.1003-1006
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• 2005

이동단말기에 적용되는 카메라의 단 초점에서 자동초점으로 적용이 점차 화대 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이동단말기에 적용되는 카메라에서의 자동초점기능을 구현하기 위한 기본 원리 및 실제 구현을 a적으로 하다. 자동초점을 위해서는 Image Sensor, Lens, Lens구동을 위한 CCM(Camera Control Module)이 필요한 구성이다 현재까지 적용되는 AF용 CCM에는 VCM방식과 Piezo 방식이 있다. 본 논문에서는 적용된 방식은 VCM적용 방식이다. Camera Control을 위해서 적용될 수 있는 MCU는 ISP(혹은 DSP)나 Base Band Core에서 직접 Control할 수 있겠다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.2087-2093
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• 2006

In this paper, auto focus actuator, which is used to move a lens module in the mobile phone having a camera module, is developed. Camera module containing auto focus actuator requires to minimize total size because of characteristics of the application area such as mobile phone, digital camera, and personal digital assistant. There are stepping motor, voice coil motor, and piezoelectric motor as auto focus actuator. In this paper, voice coil motor having new electromagnetic configuration is proposed. And actuator using proposed voice coil motor is developed by optimal design method using magnetic circuit analysis. The sectional area of the developed actuator is reduced to 32.4% compared with actuator using general electromagnetic configuration. From the performance test, the developed actuator has moving stroke of 0.64 mm for 2.1 volt, hysteresis of 40 $\mu$m, full stroke current of 54 mA, and unit step motion of 3 $\mu$m.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제50권9호
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• pp.447-453
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• 2001

In this paper, a new auto-focusing algorithm for digital cameras is proposed. One of the primary concerns of digital image processing is to increase image quality, and the most important factor for degrading the images is the blurring effect due to inexact focusing. The blurring effect occurs when the focusing lens is located on an unsuitable position. Therefore, focusing on an object should be proceeded before acquiring images. The proposed auto-focusing algorithm is MMDT(min-max difference threshold), and the performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the use of the focus curve. It is shown that the proposed algorithm is superior to other previous auto-focusing algorithms in both the focus shape and computation time aspects. Especially, the improvement of the focus curve shape in both monotonousness and slope indicates that focusing can be done rapidly in comparison with other previous proposed algorithms.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.168-173
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• 2006

This paper proposes an auto-focusing method for production of compact camera module (CCM). The CCM test handlers are mainly used in the final CCM production stage to test and adjust the lens focus of CCMs. To improve the productivity of CCM test handlers, we propose the auto-focusing method adjusting the lens focus efficiently. The max-min-difference (MMD) method is newly developed to compute the focus value efficiently, and two-stage searching method is also developed to find the best focus position quickly. Experimental results are presented to verify the usefulness of proposed method.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.94-99
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• 2000

Optical monitoring using the chromatic aberration of focusing optics is applied to auto-focus control in laser welding. The spectral transmittance of thermal radiation from a weld pool through an aperture depends on the wavelength of the spectral band and on the distance of the weld pool from the focusing optics. Its dependence has been used to monitor the focus shift in laser welding by measuring the spectral band signals filtered by the aperture. The difference between pulsed and continuous laser welding is analyzed. Furthermore, the dependence of the focus shift monitoring on the weld pool size variation is optimized to monitor the focus shift independently from the laser power change at the weld pool. The performance of the auto-focus control with chromatic filtering is presented for pulsed laser welding.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.17-20
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• 2001

This paper has been studied a vedio camera system with AF (auto-focus), AE (auto exposure), AWB(auto-whitebalance). And then this paper has designed an advanced method to improve AF, AE and AWB video camera system

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 타겟과의 거리 및 EO/IR 장비 내부 온도정보를 이용한 전통적인 방식의 초점조절 방식의 단점을 보완할 수 있는 향상된 영상기반 초점 조절 기법을 제안하였다. 영상기반 초점조절시 카메라시선의 흔들림에 의해 동일한 표적으로 시선을 지향하지 못해 영상의 다른 영역에 초점 윈도우를 설정함으로 인해 정확한 초점 값을 계산할 수 없게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 영상추적 기법을 적용하여 동일한 위치에 포커스 윈도우가 설정되도록 하여 최적의 초점위치 탐색 정확도를 향상시키고자 하였다. 또한 동일한 초점위치에서 플랫폼의 진동이나 흔들림 그리고 대기환경에 의한 영상 불안정으로 인해 동일한 초점 값이 계산되지 않기 때문에 인접프레임 중에 보다 안정적인 상태에서 획득된 프레임을 선택함으로써 국부최대값(Lcoal maxima) 빠지지 않고 최적의 초점 위치를 찾는 기법을 제안하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an edge detection algorithm for auto focus of infrared camera. We designed and implemented the edge detection of infrared image by using a spatial filter on FPGA. The infrared camera should be designed to minimize the image processing time and usage of hardware resource because these days surveillance systems should have the fast response and be low size, weight and power. we applied the $3{\times}3$ mask filter which has an advantage of minimizing the usage of memory and the propagation delay to process filtering. When we applied Laplacian filter to extract contour data from an image, not only edge components but also noise components of the image were extracted by the filter. These noise components make it difficult to determine the focus state. Also a bad pixel of infrared detector causes a problem in detecting the edge components. So we propose an adaptive edge detection filter that is a method to extract only edge components except noise components of an image by analyzing a variance of pixel data in $3{\times}3$ memory area. And we can detect the bad pixel and replace it with neighboring normal pixel value when we store a pixel in $3{\times}3$ memory area for filtering calculation. The experimental result proves that the proposed method is effective to implement the edge detection for auto focus in infrared camera.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.531-532
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• 2012