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Audio-signal Transfer System Design and Evaluation based on Power Line Communication

  • Kim, Kwan-Kyu;Yeom, Keong-Tae;Kim, Yong-Kab
    • 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.

Sound System Design and Characteristic Analysis based on Power Line Communication (전력선통신 기반 음향 시스템 설계 및 특성 분석)

  • Kim, Kwan-Kyu;Yeom, Keong-Tae;Kim, Kwan-Woong;Kim, Yong-Kab
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2008
  • The paper is to solve the problem of existing sound system, which has difficulties of system organization and the increase of additional install cost and unfriendly interior. To solve the existing system, we drew the new sound system based on PLC and studied it. A transmitter and a receiver were designed using the PLC chip INT5500CS. Sound system was configured with a CD player that sound signals are sent from the transmitter and a speaker connected to the receiver. For analysis of characteristics 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(1kHz), and phase, magnitude. In view of the result so far achieved, the system designed our team has excellent performance, it resolves defect of existing audio signal transmition system.

Implementation of Indoor Environment Monitoring and Automatic Control System based on Internet of Things (사물인터넷 기반 실내 환경 모니터링 및 자동제어 시스템 구현)

  • Lee, Sang Hoon;Kim, Jin-Yeop;Kim, Su-Yeon
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.71-80
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    • 2016
  • Along with the increase in the standard of living, the interest and awareness level of the public about environmental issues have also gradually increased. Recently, time spent on indoor activities have increased and the need for awareness and demand on methods in improving the quality of an indoor environment has been recognized. The purpose of this study is to sense the environment information through real-time monitoring of the room environment by using the IoT based technology and to maintain and improve the indoor environment to an appropriate level through the developed interlocking controller device. This provides an automatic control system in improving the indoor environment at home and other small areas like general offices in place of the traditional passive interior environmental improvement actions or large-scale facility control system. A status analysis with the relative reference values of the air quality and CO2, temperature and humidity and illumination and noise was applied through transmitting a control signal to automatic control module in accordance with the nine indoor environment standards set to improve the indoor environment.

Secret-key-sharing Cryptosystem Using Optical Phase-shifting Digital Holography

  • Jeon, Seok Hee;Gil, Sang Keun
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.119-127
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    • 2019
  • A new secret-key-sharing cryptosystem using optical phase-shifting digital holography is proposed. The proposed secret-key-sharing algorithm is based on the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol, which is modified to an optical cipher system implemented by a two-step quadrature phase-shifting digital holographic encryption method using orthogonal polarization. Two unknown users' private keys are encrypted by two-step phase-shifting digital holography and are changed into three digital-hologram ciphers, which are stored by computer and are opened to a public communication network for secret-key-sharing. Two-step phase-shifting digital holograms are acquired by applying a phase step of 0 or ${\pi}/2$ in the reference beam's path. The encrypted digital hologram in the optical setup is a Fourier-transform hologram, and is recorded on CCDs with 256 quantized gray-level intensities. The digital hologram shows an analog-type noise-like randomized cipher with a two-dimensional array, which has a stronger security level than conventional electronic cryptography, due to the complexity of optical encryption, and protects against the possibility of a replay attack. Decryption with three encrypted digital holograms generates the same shared secret key for each user. Schematically, the proposed optical configuration has the advantage of producing a kind of double-key encryption, which can enhance security strength compared to the conventional Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol. Another advantage of the proposed secret-key-sharing cryptosystem is that it is free to change each user's private key in generating the public keys at any time. The proposed method is very effective cryptography when applied to a secret-key-exchange cryptosystem with high security strength.

Age- and Gender- Specific Reference Levels for Hearing Thresholds of Normal Aging in Korean (한국인의 정상적인 노화에 의한 성별 연령별 순음청력에 의한 기준청력)

  • Kim Sung Hee;Shin Jong Heon;Yeo Chang Ki;Han Young Kyung;Lee Jung Ki;Jarng Soon Suck
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.353-357
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    • 2005
  • Declining auditory performance with advanced age is a well known and common problem that is becoming more Prevalent due to the increasing number of elderly people in our society. We introduce a novel ARCISM (Audiogram Result Computer Input. Save & Management software) data management program which enables the assessment of the risk of past history of hearing impairment on the basis of known risk factors. This study investigates the reference levels of pure tone hearing threshold of normal aging in Korean and the difference between fenders. The subjects were carefully selected by questionnaire and absence of any history of otologic infection, noise exposure. and ototoxic drug among 1603 subjects. who visited Health Promotion Center in Daegu Fatima Hospital for one year. The results show (1) hearing sensitivity declines with age. (2) higher frequency shows steeper slope of hearing declines than lower frequency. and (3) there were more hearing loss at 4 and 8 kHz in men than in women. Due to the ARCISM program. it was possible to manage huge data of hearing results and to obtain the reference level of a9e-related hearing declines. Furthermore, we expect that the results of this study can be the fundamental data for hearing rehabilitation for the elderly and for developing suitable hearing aids for Korean.

Evaluation of Image Quality in Micro-CT System Using Constrained Total Variation (TV) Minimization (Micro-CT 시스템에서 제한된 조건의 Total Variation (TV) Minimization을 이용한 영상화질 평가)

  • Jo, Byung-Du;Choi, Jong-Hwa;Kim, Yun-Hwan;Lee, Kyung-Ho;Kim, Dae-Hong;Kim, Hee-Joung
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.252-260
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    • 2012
  • The reduction of radiation dose from x-ray is a main concern in computed tomography (CT) imaging due to the side-effect of the dose on human body. Recently, the various methods for dose reduction have been studied in CT and one of the method is a iterative reconstruction based on total variation (TV) minimization at few-views data. In this paper, we evaluated the image quality between total variation (TV) minimization algorithm and Feldkam-Davis-kress (FDK) algorithm in micro computed tomography (CT). To evaluate the effect of TV minimization algorithm, we produced a cylindrical phantom including contrast media, water, air inserts. We can acquire maximum 400 projection views per rotation of the x-ray tube and detector. 20, 50, 90, 180 projection data were chosen for evaluating the level of image restoration by TV minimization. The phantom and mouse image reconstructed with FDK algorithm at 400 projection data used as a reference image for comparing with TV minimization and FDK algorithm at few-views. Contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), Universal quality index (UQI) were used as a image evaluation metric. When projection data are not insufficient, our results show that the image quality of reconstructed with TV minimization is similar to reconstructed image with FDK at 400 view. In the cylindrical phantom study, the CNR of TV image was 5.86, FDK image was 5.65 and FDK-reference was 5.98 at 90-views. The CNR of TV image 0.21 higher than FDK image CNR at 90-views. UQI of TV image was 0.99 and FDK image was 0.81 at 90-views. where, the number of projection is 90, the UQI of TV image 0.18 higher than FDK image at 90-views. In the mouse study UQI of TV image was 0.91, FDK was 0.83 at 90-views. the UQI of TV image 0.08 higher than FDK image at 90-views. In cylindrical phantom image and mouse image study, TV minimization algorithm shows the best performance in artifact reduction and preserving edges at few view data. Therefore, TV minimization can potentially be expected to reduce patient dose in clinics.

Image Evaluation for A Kind of Patient Fixing Pad in 64 Multi-Channel Detector Computed Tomograph (64 다중채널 검출기 전산화단층촬영에서 환자고정자 재질에 대한 영상평가)

  • Kim, Kee-Bok;Goo, Eun-Hoe
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.89-95
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this experiment intend to evaluate the quality of the image based on the orbit and basal ganglia with high radiosensitivity for the noise, SNR and dose using the five kinds patient fixing pad in brain phantom MDCT(BrillianceTM CT 64 slice, PHILIPS, Netherward). The noise had a higher values in AP than those of others, but the SNR was lower in AP than those of others. The SNR was higher in UP than those of RP, PP, SP and AP. The UP, RP and PP were no statistically significant(p>0.05), whereas it was significant difference between UP, RP, PP and SP, AP(p<0.05). This is causes of the noise difference is generated due to the differences in the radiation absorption dose in accordance with each the component of the absorbed dose level of the detector according to the reference line and each of SOML when the radiation exposured. The CTDIvol(mGy) and DLP of orbit and basal ganglia were 56.95, 911.50, respectively. There is no difference between both mean dose. In conclusion, it is possible to distinguish among a kind of 5 patient fixing pad by using brain phantom MDCT. Overall, patient fixing pad of UP, RP and PP based on a brain phantom MDCT can provide useful information.

A VLSI Design for High-speed Data Processing of Differential Phase Detectors with Decision Feedback (결정 궤환 구조를 갖는 차동 위상 검출기의 고속 데이터 처리를 위한 VLSI 설계)

  • Kim, Chang-Gon;Jeong, Jeong-Hwa
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.74-86
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    • 2002
  • This paper proposes a VLSI architecture for high-speed data processing of the differential phase detectors with the decision feedback. To improve the BER performance of the conventional differential phase detection, DF-DPD, DPD-RGPR and DFDPD-SA have been proposed. These detection methods have the architecture feedbacking the detected phase to reduce the noise of the previous symbol as phase reference. However, the feedback of the detected phase results in lower data processing speed than that of the conventional differential phase detection. In this paper, the VLSI architecture was proposed for high-speed data processing of the differential phase detectors with decision feedback. The Proposed architecture has the pre-calculation method to previously calculate the results on 'N'th step at 'M-1'th step and the pre-decision feedback method to previously feedback the predicted phases at 'M-1'th step. The architecture proposed in this paper was implemented to RTL using VHDL. The simulation results show that the Proposed architecture obtains the high-speed data processing.

A Review of the Possible Causes of Negative Source Impedance in Fluid Machines (유체기계에 있어서 부의 음원 임피던스의 원인에 관한 고찰)

  • ;Keith S. Peat
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.76-82
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    • 2001
  • Most fluid machines can be considered as periodic noise sources when operated under constant conditions, which allows for a frequency domain representation of the source and the associated acoustic field In the duct. In such a representation, the source is characterized by frequency-dependent values of both strength and impedance. Although knowledge of these values can be gained by either experimentation or by modeling, one-port acoustic characteristics of an in-duct source with high flow velocity, high temperature, and high sound level can be measured only by the multiload method using an overdetermined set of open pipes with different lengths as applied loads. However, the problem is that negative source resistances have been often measured. This paper reviews the possible causes of the problem, with reference to experimental and theoretical results, in an attempt to clarify the issue. A new interpretation is given for the violation of basic assumptions and the defect in the algorithm of multiload method. The major cause and mechanism of the problem is due to the violation of time invariance assumption of the source and the load impedance can seriously affect the final measured result of source impedance.

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A New Switching Strategy for PWM Voltage Source Inverters (PWM 전압원 인버터의 새로운 스위칭 방법)

  • Jo, Gyu-Min;Gang, Wan-Sik;Kim, Nam-Jeong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.84-93
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    • 2000
  • In PWM voltage source inverters operated by conventional switching method, the dead time is inserted in switching signals to prevent tile short circuit of the DC voltage source. The dead time causes detrimental effects to the control performance of the inverter system. So we need to compensate the dead time effects. And the dead time minimization switching method can be considered as the best way to avoid the dead time effects fundamentally. In this paper, a new switching strategy is proposed which is a kind of dead time minimization switching methods. According to the proposed switching method, very short dead time is adopted in only once when the current polarity is changing. And the adopted dead time is equal to the turn off time of the swtiching device or shorter than it. As the proposed method can be done with the polarity information of the reference current in case that the output current of the inverter is controlled, it is easy to solve some problems in comparison with the case that the real current is used to get the polarity changing time; level detection difficulty, noise problem and so on

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