• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.487-495
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• 1998

In this paper, a new type of implantable middle ear hearing aid, which consists of external loop coil, a small magnet and a simple external device, is proposed. The internal device of proposed type consists of only a small magnet and the external device does not need to be positioned behind the ear or in the ear canal. The proposed type is excellent in cosmetic sides and very convenient to use, because the external device can be hidden in upper garment and collar of clothes. Also, purposely this type doesn't need to be small on the size of battery, which means it has longer battery life. Therefore, the battery is not necessary to be charged frequently. It also can solve the difficulty of gap calibration at surgical operation which conventional Implantable middle. Therefore, the battery is not necessary to be charged frequently. It also can solve the difficulty of gap calibration at surgical operation which conventional implantable middle ear hearing aid has. We investigate the performance of proposed implantable middle ear bearing aid and we analyze that proposed type is appropriate for mild and severe hearing impaired person and the result of experiment showed the accuracy of our analysis. For the validation of our analysis we used the temporal bone at the experiment and confirm that ossicles can be vibrated when the proposed system In startled in the body.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.647-654
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• 2022

Wearable devices come in a variety of shapes and sizes in numerous fields in numerous fields and are available in various forms. They can be integrated into clothing, gloves, hats, glasses, and bags and used in healthcare, the medical field, and machine interfaces. These devices keep track individuals' biological and behavioral data to help with health communication and are often used for injury prevention. Those with hearing loss or impaired vision find it more difficult to recognize an approaching person or object; these sensing devices are particularly useful for such individuals, as they assist them with injury prevention by alerting them to the presence of people or objects in their immediate vicinity. Despite these obvious preventive benefits to developing Internet of Things based devices for the disabled, the development of these devices has been sluggish thus far. In particular, when compared with people without disabilities, people with hearing impairment have a much higher probability of averting danger when they are able to notice it in advance. However, research and development remain severely underfunded. In this study, we incorporated a wearable detection system, which uses an infrared proximity sensor, into a backpack. This system helps its users recognize when someone is approaching from behind through visual and tactile notification, even if they have difficulty hearing or seeing the objects in their surroundings. Furthermore, this backpack could help prevent accidents for all users, particularly those with visual or hearing impairments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.364-367
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• 2009

This paper presents a scheme that generates a caption file by extracting a Closed Caption stream from DTV signal. Note that Closed-Captioning service helps to bridge "digital divide" through extending broadcasting accessibility of a neglected class such as hearing-impaired person and foreigner. In Korea, DTV Closed Captioning standard was developed in June 2007, and Closed Captioning service should be supported by an enforcing law in all broadcasting services in 2008. In this paper, we describe the method of extracting a caption data from MPEG-2 Transport Stream of ATSC-based digital TV signal and generating a caption file (SAMI and SRT) using the extracted caption data and time information. Experimental results verify the feasibility of a generated caption file using a PC-based media player which is widely used in multimedia service.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.34C no.2
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• pp.61-70
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• 1997

Human-hand gestures have been used a means of communication among people for a long time, being interpreted as streams of tokens for a language. The signed language is a method of communication for hearing impaired person. Articulated gestures and postures of hands and fingers are commonly used for the signed language. This paper presents a system which recognizes the korean sign language (KSL) and translates the recognition results into a normal korean text and sound. A pair of data-gloves are used a sthe sensing device for detecting motions of hands and fingers. In this paper, we propose a dynamic gesture recognition mehtod by employing a fuzzy feature analysis method for efficient classification of hand motions, and applying a fuzzy min-max neural network to on-line pattern recognition.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.761-764
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• 2013

IT의 기술이 급속하게 발전하고 있으며 많은 기술이 등장하고 있다. 이러한 기술을 활용하여 사회적 약자인 장애인의 위험에 미리 대처하여 사고를 예방을 할 수 있는 기술이 필요하다. 일반인들은 소리를 들을 수 있거나 볼 수 있고 원하는 행동을 할 수 있기 때문에 언제 어디서든지 위험을 미리 감지하여 사고를 미리 대처할 수 있지만 청각장애인은 소리를 들을 수 없기 때문에 그만큼 사고가 일어날 확률이 높아질 수밖에 없다. 따라서 본 논문에서 위험한 상황이 아님에도 불구하고 사고가 일어나는 청각장애인을 위해 큰 사고를 미연에 방지 할 수 있는 자동차 위험감지 시스템을 설계한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.305-311
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• 2013

This study analyzed the oral status after recording the images by using QLF-D with targets of 38 youth people with hearing impairment and hearing language impairment. In order to investigate the state of oral hygiene, plaque index (O'Leary index) and contents of investigation of the state of the teeth included the number of sound teeth, the number of caries teeth, dental caries experience and the number of filling teeth. The following results were obtained. First, women lacked the management on plaque and had more caries teeth compared with men. In terms of impairment classification, subjects with both hearing and language impairment lacked the management on plaque and had more caries teeth. Second, subjects who did not get an oral exam for one year had more caries teeth. Oral hygiene score was the highest with the brushing time for 3-4 minutes. The number of sound teeth was increased as the brushing time was increased. In addition, the oral hygiene management time was the highest when cleaning the teeth, gums and tongue at the same time. Third, it was shown that the satisfaction of oral health education by using the new equipment was high. As a result of this study, in order to improve the oral health level of impaired students, they shall be trained to manage their teeth by themselves and educated to increase their motivation and practice. Thus, it is thought that various approaches which are differentiated from existing methods are required to be tried.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.105-114
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• 2012

Various RFID-based smart-walk systems have been developed for guiding disabled people. The system sends appropriate message whenever the disabled people arrived at a specific point. We propose universal design concept and optimization techniques for the smart-walk systems. Universal design concept can be adopted for supporting various kinds of disabled such as a blind person, a hearing-impaired person, or a foreigner in a system. It can be supported by storing appropriate messages set in the message database table depending on the kinds of the disabled. System optimization can be done by analyzing operational log(stream) data accumulated in the system. Useful information can be extracted by analyzing or mining the accumulated operational log data. We show various analysis results from the operational log data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.1214-1216
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• 2017

사물인터넷 관련 기술들의 다양한 연구개발은 정치 경제 문화 등 사회 각 분야의 진화를 촉진시키는 기반이 되고 있으며, 이러한 현상은 장애인을 포함한 사회적 약자를 위한 각종 제도 및 기기들의 다양한 개발 및 활용을 촉진시키는 기화로도 작용하고 있다. 그러나 아직까지 장애인을 위한 사물인터넷 기반 장비의 개발은 더디게 이루어지고 있는 것이 사실이다. 특히, 청각장애인의 경우 위험을 회피할 수 있는 소리를 사전에 인지할 수 있을 경우, 다른 장애인 대비 매우 높은 확률로 위험을 회피할 수 있음에도 불구하고 아직까지 이에 대한 연구개발이 매우 부족하다. 때문에 본 논문에서는 청각장애인들이 주변의 소리를 사전에 인지/확인할 수 있도록 하여, 발생할 수 있는 위험을 미연에 방지할 수 있는 디바이스의 개발을 제안한다. 제안하는 디바이스는 특정 크기 이상의 소리를 인지할 수 있는 소리 측정센서를 통해 해당 소리를 청각장애인이 인지할 수 있도록 알림을 제공하는 디바이스이며, 아두이노를 기반으로 하고 있기 때문에 기존의 다양한 청각보조기구 대비 매우 저렴하게 개발이 가능하다. 이를 통해, 청각장애인은 소리의 미인지로 발생할 수 있는 사고의 위험을 회피할 수 있으며, 안전한 보행권 및 이동권을 확보할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.111-116
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• 2016

According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning's survey of information gap, smartphone retention rate of disabled people stayed in one-third of non-disabled people, the situation is significantly less access to information for people with disabilities than non-disabled people. In this paper, we develop an application, CallHelper, that helps to be more convenient to use mobile voice calls to the auditory disabled people. CallHelper runs automatically when a call comes in, translates caller's voice to text output on the mobile screen, and displays the emotion reasoning from the caller's voice to visualize emoticons. It also saves voice, translated text, and emotion data that can be played back.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.552-554
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• 2019

Deaf mutism (a hearing-impaired person and speech disorders) communicates using sign language. There are difficulties in communicating by voice. However, sign language can only be limited in communicating with people who know sign language because everyone doesn't use sign language when they communicate. In this paper, a finger language translation system is proposed and implemented as a means for the disabled and the non-disabled to communicate without difficulty. The proposed algorithm recognizes the finger language data by leap motion and self-learns the data using machine learning technology to increase recognition rate. We show performance improvement from the simulation results.