• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.670-671
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• 2022

In this paper, we intend to develop a new TOF sensor that provides object occupancy information and location information by fusing the pixel value of the camera and the distance value of the TOF sensor. The developed sensor can be applied to school buses, school buses, city buses, and trucks (applicable to passenger vehicles).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.411-413
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• 2022

In this paper, considering the change in the sensing distance according to FoV(Fiele Of View) and the sensing distance according to the reflector, the installation location of the TOF(Time Of Flight) sensor is divided into side part installation and front/rear part installation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.415-423
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• 2016

A TOF type LADAR is utilized for unmanned systems(UGV, UAV, USV, etc.), precision digital elevation maps, and electronic fences. Electronical and optical signal processing techniques are melted in LADAR sensor systems. In this study important factors are examined for high reliability sensor development. By considering those factors, hardwares and softwares of a test LADAR is developed and tested, We report the practical design tips, test results, and future works for better LADAR system development.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.15-19
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• 2015

The depth information of an image is used in a variety of applications including 2D/3D conversion, multi-view extraction, modeling, depth keying, etc. There are various methods to acquire depth information, such as the method to use a stereo camera, the method to use the depth camera of flight time (TOF) method, the method to use 3D modeling software, the method to use 3D scanner and the method to use a structured light just like Microsoft's Kinect. In particular, the depth camera of TOF method measures the distance using infrared light, whereas TOF sensor depends on the sensitivity of optical light of an image sensor (CCD/CMOS). Thus, it is mandatory for the existing image sensors to get an infrared light image by bundling several pixels; these requirements generate a phenomenon to reduce the resolution of an image. This thesis proposed a measure to acquire a high-resolution image through gradual area movement while acquiring a low-resolution image through pixel bundling method. From this measure, one can obtain an effect of acquiring image information in which illumination intensity (lux) and resolution were improved without increasing the performance of an image sensor since the image resolution is not improved as resolving a low-illumination intensity (lux) in accordance with the gradual pixel bundling algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.355-362
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• 2013

A hardware implementation of phase calculator for extracting 3D depth image from TOF(Time-Of-Flight) sensor is described. The designed phase calculator, which adopts a pipelined architecture to improve throughput, performs arctangent operation using vectoring mode of CORDIC algorithm. Fixed-point MATLAB modeling and simulations are carried out to determine the optimized bit-widths and number of iteration. The designed phase calculator is verified by FPGA-in-the-loop verification using MATLAB/Simulink, and synthesized with a TSMC 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS cell library. It has 16,000 gates and the estimated throughput is about 9.6 Gbps at 200Mhz@1.8V.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2005

This paper describes a novel concept of a chemically sensitive scanning force microscope (CS-SFM). It consists of the conventional SFM and the time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS). A switchable cantilever (SC) fabricated by the micromachining technology combines each advantage of two completely different systems, SFM and TOF-MS. The CS-SFM offers to produce both images of topography and chemical information simultaneously. First we employed a rotatable tip holder based on 4 piezotube actuators for demonstration of the possibility of the CS-SFM concept. Second the CS-SFM concept is optimized with the micromachining technology. The micromachined SC with an integrated bimorph actuator and a piezoresistive strain sensor provides a reasonable switching speed of ${\sim}10$ ms which is very attractive for the CS-SFM application. The SC is currently being integrated in an ultra-high-vacuum system to perform various experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.672-673
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• 2022

In this paper, we discuss a camera that is fixed in the same view as the TOF sensor and can be installed horizontally in the vehicle's moving direction. This camera applies 1280×720 resolution to improve object recognition accuracy, outputs images at 30fps, and can apply a wide-angle fisheye lens of 180° or more.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.295-296
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• 2023

VR 헬스장은 시간적 부담과 이동이 힘든 사람들이 운동을 편안하고 정확한 자세로 할 수 있도록 온라인 헬스와 VR 기기를 접목한 가상현실 기반의 헬스케어 시스템이다. tof 센서가 장착되어 있는 카메라를 통해 주변 지형지물과 실제 몸의 움직이는 모션 정보를 정확하게 전달하여 원하는 장소에서 정확한 자세로 PT를 받을 수 있도록 한다. 원하는 시간과 장소에서 하고 싶은 운동을 할 수 있게 제공하여 시공간에 제약받는 사람도 꾸준한 운동을 통해 건강관리가 가능하여 운동하는 사람이 증가하는 것에 의의가 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

The depth camera measures range information of the scene in real time using Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology. Measured depth data is then regularized and provided as a depth image. This depth image is utilized with the stereo or multi-view image to generate high-resolution depth map of the scene. However, it is required to correct noise and distortion of TOF depth image due to the technical limitation of the TOF depth camera. The corrected depth image is combined with the color image in various methods, and then we obtain the high-resolution depth of the scene. In this paper, we introduce the principal and various techniques of sensor fusion for high-quality depth generation that uses multiple camera with depth cameras.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.293-298
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• 2013

This research develops an ultrasonic sensor to measure the distance in underwater. The ultrasonic transducer transmits an acoustic signal to an object and receives the echo signal reflected from the object. The ultrasonic driver calculates a distance by multiplying the acoustic speed to the time of flight(TOF) which is the time necessary for the acoustic signal to travel from the transducer to the object. We apply a thresholding and a cross correlation methods to detect the TOF and show their results. When an echo pulse is corrupted with noise and its shape is distorted, the cross correlation method is used to find the TOF based on the maximum similarity between the reference and the delayed echo signals. The echoes used for the reference signal are achieved at the different environments, which improves the performance of the sensor. This paper describes the driver of the acoustic sensor and analyzes the performance of sensors in different measurement environments.