• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 2012

In this paper, we consider a channel selection method for the coexistence of heterogeneous systems in the TV white space (TVWS). First, we define the target heterogeneous system structure. Then, under the defined system structure, we discuss how the heterogeneous systems share the TVWS channels. Specifically, the heterogeneous systems having different bandwidths cannot use the TVWS channels due to the lack of wideband channels when only narrowband channels are remained. Hence, in order to minimize the blocking from the different bandwidth problem, we propose a channel selection method for the narrowband systems to firstly occupy the narrowband channels rather than the wideband channels. The proposed narrowband-first channel selection is shown to enhance the spectral efficiency of the TVWS, especially in the IEEE 802.19.1 wireless coexistence system.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.85-95
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.244-246
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 LCD TV의 인치에 따라 다르게 적용되는 기존의 전원 구동 분리형 시스템과 전원 구동 IP 시스템을 검토하여, 두 시스템의 장점만을 모아 LCD TV 전원 시스템의 표준화가 가능한 새로운 방식의 구동 전원 통합 시스템을 제안한다. 제안 시스템은 가격 및 효율이 우수한 2단 구성으로 이루어져 있고, 안전규격을 만족하기 위하여 EMI측면에 유리한 1:1 Trans.를 사용하였다. 인버터 부의 최적 동작을 위해 인버터 구동신호의 주파수와 시비율을 고정하고 펄스 개수를 제어하는 Pulse Count Modulation(PCM)방식을 채용 하였다. 제안 시스템의 인버터단은 전 부하 범위에서 영전압 스위칭이 가능하여 스위치의 발열이 우수하고, 별도의 전류 평형 Trans.가 필요치 않으므로 Balance Coil의 삭제가 가능하다. 이로 인해 신뢰성이 높은 제품 구성이 가능하고, PCB Size 축소 및 제품 제작 단가가 낮아지는 장점을 갖는다. 최종적으로 제안 시스템을 기존 시스템과 비교 및 실험적 검증을 통하여 제안 시스템의 그 우수성을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1925-1926
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 UHF TV방송 전 대역 Ch.14(473MHz)$\sim$Ch.69(803MHz)까지의 모든 채널에서 동작하는 유도결합구조의 RF동조회로를 설계하였다. 기존 자기결합구조의 RF동조회로는 PCB 양면을 사용하여야 하고 수작업으로 Air Coil 간격을 조절해야만 한다. 부품의 집적화와 양산 효율성 측면에서 자기결합구조의 단점을 해결할 수 있도록 하기 위해 본 논문에서 제안한 유도결합구조는 수동부품인 칩인덕터와 칩커패시터 및 가변용량 다이오드만을 사용하여 RF동조회로를 설계하였다. 칩인덕터는 Air Coil에 비해 낮은 소자 Q값을 가진다. 상대적으로 낮은 Q값을 갖는 칩인덕터를 사용하기 때문에 이를 보완하기 위해 Peaking용 칩인덕터를 설계 디자인에 적용하였다. 가변형 대역통과필터로 동작하기 위해 자기결합구조와 동일하게 가변용량 다이오드를 이용하였다. UHF TV방송 전 대역(470$\sim$806MHz)에서 -2.88 $\sim$ -3.97dB의 삽입손실 특성 및 -8dB 이상의 반사손실 특성과 330MHz의 중심주파수 변화 범위를 갖는다. 현재 상용중인 지상파 튜너에 적용되고 있는 자기결합구조의 RF동조회로를 대치하여 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.167-172
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• 2010

In this paper, we analyze and simulate the performance of a pilot signal detection algorithm based on fast Fourier transform (FFT) for several system parameters in order to detect advanced television system committee digital television (ATSC DTV) signals. Requirements for detecting DTV signals are analyzed. And the detection performance is compared according to sensing frequency and time. Form the simulation results, it is confirmed that the signal detection performance increases as the sensing frequency rises. The results of this paper can be applied for implementing cognitive radio (CR) systems in the frequency band of DTV signals.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.1296-1303
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• 1994

In this paper, a design of active inductors and their application in a frequency converter are proposed. In MMIC design, passive spiral inductor takes larger area than any other passive and active elements. A conventional spiral inductor generates undesired crosstalk, and its performance cannot have certainty and reproducibility. Meanwhile the active inductor eliminates these drawbacks, and operates for much wider bandwidth. Furthermore, its size is smaller and nearly independent of inductance. the performance of MMIC frequency converter with active inductors is directly compared with that of the frequency converters with spiral inductors. The size is 28.6% smaller with better performance in MMIC frequency converter.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.805-814
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• 2012

Intermittent or periodic signals with undulating amplitudes of mobile devices cause interference noise at audible frequency to the sound system which is installed nearby. In this regard, it is recently issued that the intermittently transmissions of LTE mobile phones cause the interference noises with sound systems, similar to that of GSM mobile phones. For retaining the immunity to noises, a national regulation KN20 suggests a 1 kHz AM 80 % and a CDMA modulation signal as reference signals for immunity test of sound and television broadcast receiver. In this paper, the effects of interference noises of AM and CDMA are compared with those of GSM and LTE, and the improvement of reference signal for national immunity test of sound systems is suggested. It is recommended to delete the CDMA modulation signal from reference signals for immunity test because it hardly cause interference noise with sound systems. On the other hand, it is desirable to select the modulation signal of LTE instead of CDMA as a reference signal for immunity test of sound system and television broadcast receiver because many people use the LTE service and it is analysed that the LTE signal causes considerable interference noises.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.289-294
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• 2002

The broadband high power 3-way combiner was designed and fabricated for the digital TV repeater. To achieve increase of the bandwidth and the high power capability, Wilkinson type power divider was adopted in our research. First of all, Wilkinson type power divider of equal-split and unequal-split were combined, and the characteristics of the four port in-phase power combiner was simulated for each thickness of dielectric substrates. As the results of simulation, the power combiner fabricated by using dielectric substrate of 120 mil-thickness has the characteristics as follows: insertion loss of less than -651 dB, reflection coefficient of less than -13 dB, isolation among the output ports of less than -15 dB, and pose difference among the output ports of smiler than 13$^{\circ}$. Therefore, this power combiner was possible to improve the limit of microstrip line width due to high impedance, the problem of power loss due to interaction between strip lines in a high power combiner and narrow bandwidth simultaneously. Furthermore, making broadband and high power could be achieved since the fabricated 3-way combiner has good characteristics of insertion loss, the reflection coefficient, separation between ports, and phase difference.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.29-39
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• 2010

This paper presents and analyzes laboratory test results of distributed translator (DTxR) for distributed frequency network (DFN) in the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) terrestrial digital TV broadcasting system. The DTxR laboratory test is classified to receiving part test and transmitting part test. The receiving part test includes dynamic range, random noise, single echo, and adjacent channel interference. The transmitting part test includes quality of output signal (out-of channel emission, quality of transmitting signal, and phase noise), frequency synchronization among output signals, and TxID (Transmitter Identification) signal's affect to the legacy receiver. By the laboratory test results, the receiving part of DTxR eliminates average -2.5 dB of single echo and has average 17.5 dB at TOV (Threshold of Visibility) under random noise environment. In addition, the transmitting part of DTxR satisfies the specification of US FCC (Federal Communications Commission), and frequency difference among DTxR output signals is less than 0.001 Hz.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.1663-1674
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a new watermarking technique for copyright protection of stereo image. The proposed technique embeds watermark to the region which corresponds to occlusion of the disparity map to be extracted by the proposed stereo matching and the frequency coefficient with the appropriate value. We use discrete wavelet transform for frequency transform tool. The proposed algorithm consists of stereo matching, watermark rearrange, mark space selection, and watermark embedding/extracting. We tested the experiment about 4 stereo images which are from Middlebury site. We embedded the watermark to 4 stereo images and extracted it from the images after attacks. We also visually analyzed the watermark embedding images in 3D TV environment.