• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8C
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• pp.822-829
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• 2009

This paper proposes a new method of improving the quality of High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC). HE-AAC encodes input source by allocating bits for each scalefactor bands appropriately according to human ear's psychoacoustic property. As a result, insufficient bits are assigned to the bands which have relatively low energy. This imbalance between different energy bands can cause decreasing of sound quality like musical noise. In the proposed system, a Linear Prediction (LP) module is combined with HE-AAC as a pre-processor to improve sound quality by even bits distribution. To apply accurate human being's psychoacoustic property, the psychoacoustic model uses Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) spectrum of original input signal to make masking threshold. In its implementation, masking threshold of psychoacoustic model is normalized using the LP spectral envelope in prior to quantization of the LP residual. Experimental result shows that, the proposed algorithm allocates bits appropriately for insufficient bits condition and improves the performance of HE-AAC.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.700-702
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• 2005

A 5.0-inch transmissive type plastic TFT arrays were successfully fabricated on a plastic substrate at the resolution of $400{\times}3{\times}300$ lines (100ppi). All of the TFT processes were carried out below $150^{\circ}C$ on PES plastic films. After thin film deposition using PECVD, thin film failures such as film delamination and cracking often occurred. For successful growth of thin films (about 1um) without their failures, it is necessary to solve the critical problem related to the internal compressive stress (some GPa) leading to delamination at a threshold thickness value of the films. The Griffith's theory explains the failure process by looking at the excess of elastic energy inside the film, which overcomes the cohesive energy between film and substrate. To increase the above mentioned threshold thickness value there are two possibilities: (i) the improvement of the interface adhesion (for example, through surface micro-roughening and/or surface activation), and (ii) the reduction of the internal stress. In this work, reducing a-Si layer film thickness and optimizing a barrier SiNx layer have produced stable CVD films at 150oC, over PES substrates

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.808-811
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• 2015

Cognitive radio has been proposed as a promising dynamic spectrum allocation paradigm. In cognitive radio, spectrum sensing is a fundamental procedure that enables secondary users (unlicensed) employing unused portion of spectrum of primary users (licensed) without causing harmful interference. However, the performance of single-user spectrum-sensing scheme was limited by fading, noise uncertainty shadowing and hidden node problem. Cooperative spectrum sensing was proposed to mitigate these problem. In this paper, we observe cooperative sensing scheme with energy detection using three adaptive thresholds for local decision, which can mitigate sensing failure problem and improve sensing performance at local node. In cooperative scheme we employed OR rules as decision combining at fusion center. We evaluate our scheme through computer simulation, and the results show that with OR combination rule our scheme can achieve best performance than other schemes.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.685-692
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• 2011

DC/DC switching power converters produce DC output voltages from different DC input sources. The converters can be used in regenerative braking of DC motors to return energy back in the supply, resulting in energy savings for the systems containing frequent stops. The current mode DC/DC converter is composed of a PWM (pulse width modulation) controller, a MOSFET, and inductor, etc. Pulse width modulation is applied to control and regulate the total output voltage. It is shown that the variation of threshold voltage at MOSFET and the offset voltage increase caused by radiation effects make the PWM pulse unstable. In the PWM operation, the missing pulses, the changes in pulse width, and a change in the period of the output waveform are studied by simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (SPICE) and experiments.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06d
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• pp.98-101
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• 2000

On CELP type Vocoders G.723.1 6.3kbps/5.3kbps Dual Rate Speech Codec, which is developed for Internet Phone and videoconferencing, uses VAD(Voice Activity Detection)/CNG (Comfort Noise Generator) in order to reduce the bit rate in a silence period. In order to reduce the bit rate effectively in this paper, we first set the boundary condition of the energy threshold to prevent the consumption of unnecessary processing time, and use three decision rules to detect an active frame by energy, pitch gain and LSP distance. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm we use silence-inserted speech data with 0, 5, 10, 20dB of SNR. As a result when SNR is over 5dB, the bit rate is reduced up to about 40% without speech degradation and the processing time is additionally decreased.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1990.02a
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• pp.59-63
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• 1990

Two-stage TEA(transversely excited atmospheric pressure) CO2 laser amplifier system, Amp I and Amp II are consturcted and their amplification characteristics are investigated theoretically and experimentally. Multiple-wire corona preionization method is used for uniform discharge in laser oscillator and amplifiers. At optimumm gas ratio, CO2 : N2 : He = 1 : 1 : 3, output pulse energy of the oscillator is 0.4J and finally two-stage amplification gives 1.5J output energy which is larger than pumping threshold of para-H2 Raman laser. The rate equations of the amplifiers are solved numerically, and the results are compared with the experimental results. In conclusion, the small signal gain cocfficient of AMP I is 0.025/cm and that of AMP II is 0.02/cm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.64-66
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• 2005

In order to evaluate impact characteristics for the laminates with or without delaminations, carbon fiber/epoxy laminated composite were fabricated. After trying several ways to develop delaminations within the laminates, an insertion of teflon-tape was found to be most effective. The locations for delamination was determined after several trial-and-error experiments. The low impact energy did not produce measurable difference for composites with or without delamination, which indicated the presence of impact energy threshold. The impact chacteristics for composites with the delamination were found to be different from those for composites with other type of defect including fiber failures.

• Rapid Communication in Photoscience
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.76-78
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• 2015

We report on the photoluminescence (PL) properties of poly[2,7-(9-9-dioctylfluorene)] (PF) thin film under strong optical pumping using a streak camera system. When the excitation energy density increases above $72{\mu}J{\cdot}cm^{-2}$, the emission spectrum becomes narrower and PL decay curve comes to be faster simultaneously. These behaviors are clear evidence of Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) due to a waveguided Stimulated Emission in slab structure of thin film. ASE threshold of $72{\mu}J{\cdot}cm^{-2}$ is comparable with previous reports and PF is attractive as a gain medium for plastic lasers.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.56-61
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• 2005

In this thesis, propose speech period and pitch detection for continuous speech recognition. This mathod is distinguishes between vowel and consonant to frame unit in continuous speech, for distinguishable voice. Powerful extraction of speech period could threshold energy make use of input signal to real noise environment. Also algorithm of this method distinguish between vowel and consonant at the same time in voice make use of zero crossing rate and short time energy to extractible speech period.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.371-374
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• 2012

DC/DC switching power converters produce DC output voltages from different stable DC input sources regulated by a bi-polar transistor. The converters can be used in regenerative braking of DC motors to return energy back in the supply, resulting in energy savings for the systems containing frequent stops. The voltage mode DC/DC converter is composed of a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) controller, a MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor), an inductor, and capacitors, etc. PWM is applied to control and regulate the total output voltage. It is shown that the output of DC/DC converter depends on the variation of threshold voltage at MOSFET and the variation of pulse width. In the PWM operation, the missing pulses, the changes in pulse width, and a change in the period of the output waveform are studied by SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) and experiments.