• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
• /
• v.47 no.5
• /
• pp.74-80
• /
• 2010

Speech and audio codecs have been developed based on different type of coding technologies since they have different characteristics of signal and applications. In harmony with a convergence between broadcasting and telecommunication system, international organizations for standardization such as 3GPP and ISO/IEC MPEG have tried to compress and transmit multimedia signals using unified codecs. MPEG recently initiated an activity to standardize the USAC (Unified speech and audio coding). However, USAC RM (Reference model) software has been problematic since it has a complex hierarchy, many useless source codes and poor quality of the encoder. To solve these problems, this paper introduces a new RM software designed with an open source paradigm. It was presented at the MPEG meeting in April, 2010 and the source code was released in June.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
• /
• v.45 no.1
• /
• pp.78-84
• /
• 2008

In this paper, the reconfigurable annular ring slot antenna with circular polarization diversity is proposed for SDMB(Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) system. The proposed antenna consists of a ring slot with four tuning stubs. Four PIN diodes are attached to switch circular polarization diversity. By switching the diodes ON or OFF, the proposed antenna can be operated either RHCP mode or LHCP mode. The experimental result shows that the proposed antenna has an impedance bandwidth(VSWR${\leq}$2) of 570MHz(2.47-3.04GHz) at LHCP mode, an impedance bandwidth (VSWR${\leq}$2) of 560MHz(2.45-3.01GHz) at RHCP mode, a maximum gai of 3.1dBi at RHCP mode, 4.76dBi at LHCP mode. The 3dB CP bandwidth of about 100MHz at both RHCP and LHCP mode is achieved at the center frequency 2.63GHz. The proposed antenna is suitable for application such as mobile satellite communications, WLAN(Wireless Local Area Networks), and broadband wireless communication systems.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
• /
• v.41 no.5
• /
• pp.117-124
• /
• 2004

Various multimedia systems have been developed and their application areas widely proliferate. Thus, the interoperability is getting important among various networks and devices. The video transcoding is a technology to solve this interoperability problem among various coding standards. Transcoding can be defined as the conversion of one compressed coded data to another. In this paper, MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 transcoder in the spatial domain is compared with that in the DCT domain. The transcoder is very useful when a video sequence that is originally encoded for digital TV, DVD or satellite broadcasting is served in mobile environment. In order to compare two transcoders, all modules except motion compensation and down sampling are implemented identically. In addition, both transcoders do not search for motion vector. Instead, the decoded information is reused to the encoder. The experimental results show that the transcoder in the spatial domain is usually better than that in the DCT domain with respect to PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio), bitrate and execution time.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
• /
• v.19 no.2
• /
• pp.138-144
• /
• 2008

In this paper, we propose a novel single-feed dual-band circular polarization square patch antenna for GPS(global positioning system)/DMB(digital multimedia broadcasting) receiver. The proposed antenna has folded slots at the 4 corners and a diagonal slot at the center of the square patch. The measured -10 dB impedance bandwidths of the proposed antenna were 84 MHz ranging from 1.516 GHz to 1.600 GHz for the low frequency band(GPS) and 109 MHz ranging from 2.596 GHz to 2.705 GHz for the high frequency band(DMB). The measured peak linear antenna gains of the proposed antenna were 6.23 dBi at 1.575 GHz for GPS and 6.97 dBi at 2.642 GHz for DMB band.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
• /
• v.5 no.1
• /
• pp.23-30
• /
• 2010

The H.264/AVC is increasingly used in broadcast video applications such as Internet Protocol television (IPTV), digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) because of high compression performance. But the H.264/AVC coded video can be delivered to the widespread end-user equipment for MPEG-2 after transcoding between this video standards. This paper suggests a new transcoding algorithm for H.264/AVC to MPEG-2 transcoder that uses motion vector clustering in order to reduce the complexity without loss of video quality. The proposed method is exploiting the motion information gathered during h.264 decoding stage. To reduce the search space for the MPEG-2 motion estimation, the predictive motion vector is selected with a least distortion of the candidated motion vectors. These candidate motion vectors are considering the correlation of direction and distance of motion vectors of variable blocks in H.264/AVC. And then the best predictive motion vector is refined with full-search in ${\pm}2$ pixel search area. Compared with a cascaded decoder-encoder, the proposed transcoder achieves computational complexity savings up to 64% with a similar PSNR at the constant bitrate(CBR).

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
• /
• v.13 no.6
• /
• pp.838-848
• /
• 2008

Recently, new multimedia techniques using lighting and projection are often used for the production of broadcasting programs. Also news programs use DLP(Digital Lighting Processing) videos with good resolution escaping from the existing set changes. This paper examined the correlations between lighting sources and the resolution of DLP videos, and had a simulation, and then it proposed DLP used ideal lighting for news programs. This paper comparatively examined the resolution of DLP videos influenced by the conditions of lighting, using the videos picked up on the HD camera and the measuring monitor.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
• /
• v.20 no.11
• /
• pp.1130-1137
• /
• 2009

This paper proposes a new clock routing design for suppressing clock harmonic effects in a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) for a terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting(DMB) system. Typical crystal reference frequencies that are widely used in DMB tuners are 16.384 MHz, 19.2 MHz, 24.576 MHz. When the high-order harmonic components of these reference frequencies fall near the RF channel frequencies, receiver sensitivity of the tuners is seriously degraded. In this work, we propose a new clock routing design in order to address the clock harmonic coupling issue. The proposed design incorporates two inductors for isolating the clock ground from the main ground, and adopts a new strip line-style routing instead of the conventional microstrip line style routing to minimize the overlap area with the main ground. As a result, the RF sensitivity of the T-DMB tuner is improved by 2 dB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
• /
• 2003.10a
• /
• pp.512-515
• /
• 2003

MPEG-4 has mediocrity Standing encoding personality to process multimedia data including audio and video etc in the Internet and computer. It can use extensively without being limited to one territory of communication, computer, broadcasting, Mobile etc. Like this, according as digital contents do fetters to MPEG-4 is circulated, copyright problem was risen. So, people had a lot of interests to protect and manage copyright. Hereupon, MPEG of the ISO/IEC established IPMP(Intellectual Property Management and Protection) standard, and supplements and corrects continuously standard. Therefore, existing system does fetters to MPEG-4 need system that process IPMP information. Hereupon, in this paper, designed system module that is processed by IPMP extension standard that progress now, and embodied copyright protection and management system that user can insert and update IPMP information efficiently within whole or specification part of MPEG-4 digital contents.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
• /
• v.15 no.3
• /
• pp.346-354
• /
• 2010

T-DMB is using MPEG-4 BIFS standard format for broadcasting interactive data service. BIFS enables us to represent contents as a scene which consists of various objects such as AV, image, graphic, and text. It also enables us to control objects by using user interaction. BIFS was designed to be adapted to multimedia systems with various input devices. Today, however, we are in lack of considering about mobile device with restricted input unit. The problem is that a consistent user control of interactive data contents is not possible due to the limitations of input units in T-DMB terminals. To solve the problem, we defined KeyNavigator node that provides a means to select or navigate objects (like menu) in BIFS contents by arrow keys and enter key of mobile terminal. By using KeyNavigater node, not only BIFS contents providers can make BIFS contents as they want, but also users can get a way to control BIFS contents consistently and easily.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
• /
• v.31 no.8C
• /
• pp.777-785
• /
• 2006

H.264 is the prominent video coding standard in various applications such as real-time video streaming and digital multimedia broadcasting, since it provides enhanced compression performance, error resilience tools, and network adaptation. Since compressed video stream is vulnerable to packet loss, error resilience and error concealment(EC) tools are essential for the transmission of video over the Internet. In this paper, we first propose a simple temporal EC method that improves the EC performance for intra-frame in H.264 when the amount of motion is relatively small. Then we propose a new hybrid EC method for intra-frame in H.264, which combines the spatial EC and temporal EC adaptively. The simulations are performed in packet-lossy environments, and the proposed hybrid EC method shows about 0.5-4dB PSNR improvement compared to the conventional spatial EC method that is used for intra-frame in H.264.