• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.213-216
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• 2018

As the advantages of smart devices based on artificial intelligence and voice recognition become more prominent, Virtual Assistant is gaining popularity. Virtual Assistant provides a user experience through smart speakers and is valued as the most user friendly IoT device by consumers. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there are differences in people's perception of the key virtual assistant brand voice recognition. We collected tweets that included six keyword form three companies that provide Virtual Assistant services. The authors conducted semantic network analysis for the collected datasets and analyzed the feelings of people through sentiment analysis. The result shows that many people have a different perception and mainly about the functions and services provided by the Virtual Assistant and the expectation and usability of the services. Also, people responded positively to most keywords.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.41-46
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• 2022

Smart home in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment aims to provide an optimal living environment for users by connecting all devices in the home. In such a smart home environment, artificial intelligence speakers are being used as a way to manage and control all devices. The existing speaker function is changing from simple music playback to the role of an interface that controls and manages all devices in the smart home space. This study dealt with the market status and usability analysis in the US and Korea, the leader in artificial intelligence speakers. The main target companies were Amazon, Google, and Apple in the US, as well as Kakao, SKT, and KT in Korea. In addition, based on the reaction results of domestic users to artificial intelligence speakers, the derivation of major problems and directions for improvement were described.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.61-67
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• 2015

The existing methods for control between smart devices in near used Bluetooth, WiFi-Direct, or socket communication using Wi-Fi. However, those have a problem that can not use when operating system of each smart devices is different or when socket server is not working. In this paper, we proposed a new near control technology using High frequencies in audible frequency between smart devices to supplement the problem of existing methods. High frequencies use micro-phone and speaker of smart device and are a control signals that is combined high frequencies within 18kHz ~ 22kHz among audible frequency range. The proposed technology using High frequencies do not need any extra communication modules or socket servers and can use the most smart devices without operating system of devices. To evaluate the performance of the proposed technology, we developed a music play and music control application applied the proposed technology and tested a control experiment using the developed applications. The control success rate was 97% and recognition rate of surrounding people about using high frequencies was under 5%. Therefore, the proposed technology will be the useful technology to control between smart devices in near.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.21-25
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• 2016

Recent development in multi-channel surround is emerging in various formats to provide better stereoscopic and sound effects to consumers in recent broadcasting. The ability sound localize the sound sources in space is most considerable design factor on multi-channel surround system for human earing perception model. However, this paper propose the change of the sound localization according to the spacing of the speakers, which is not covered in the existing research focus on sound system design. Presently the sound system uses the position and number of the speakers to localize the sound. In the multi-channel surround environment, the proposed design uses the sound localization is caused by the directional characteristics of the speaker, the distance between the speakers and the distance between the listener and the speaker according to the directivity is required. The proposed design is simulated using virtual measurement with MATLAB simulation environment and performances are measured.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.111-116
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• 2022

In the paper, A prototype Fetal Heart Monitor, mini - size, was designed and produced for pre-mothers to measure the rate and rhythm of their features's heart at home.Pre-mothers could listen fetal heart rhythm through an inner bluetooth speaker ant the monitor. LED colors show the frequency of fetal heart rate variability on the monitor. All measured health information, by ultrasonic resonator and bluetooth speaker, is linked to a mother's smart phone. A test verified this simple measuring device helps users discover the symptoms of fetal health. Patients using at home devices usefully prevent sudden cardiac death and myocardial infraction by discovering symptoms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.939-946
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• 2008

본 논문은 시청자의 위치에 최적화된 입체음향을 제공하는 TV 개발에 관한 것으로 2 개의 TV 스피커만으로 5.1 채널 스피커가 주는 입체음향 효과를 제공해준다. 기존의 Speaker Virtualizer 기술은 시청자가 특정 위치(Sweet Spot)를 벗어나면 입체음향 성능이 현저히 저하된다. 반면, 본 논문에서 제안하는 Adaptive Virtualizer 기술은 초음파가 장착된 리모콘을 사용하여 시청자의 위치를 인식하고 인식된 시청자의 위치 정보를 활용하여 청취위치에 해당하는 HRTF로부터 설계된 Filter를 Update 하고 두 스피커의 출력레벨 및 시간지연 값을 보정함으로써 최적의 입체음향을 재현한다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 구현을 위해 Speaker Virtualizer의 계산량을 최소화하는 기술을 제안하고 다양한 청취 위치에 해당하는 Filter를 설계하고 설계된 Filter를 효율적으로 Update 하는 Adaptive Virtualizer 기술을 제안한다. 또한, 초음파를 이용한 시청자 위치 인식 기술 및 전체 시스템 통합 기술을 제시한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.199-205
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• 2015

Indoor positioning technology has been developed very actively for the smart phone handheld by most users. Especially, many TDOA positioning systems using acoustic signal have been studied, and it estimates the smart phone position by measuring the distance between the smart phone speaker and the microphones which is installed to receive the acoustic signal from the smart phone, and by calculating the hyperbolic equations. But there are always errors for the distance measurements, and furthermore the microphone installation error produces huge position estimation error. In this paper, the position estimation error due to the position error of acoustic sensor in the 3 dimensional TDOA positioning system, is analyzed by PDOP simulation and experiment.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.71-77
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a conversational quality measurement (CQM) system for providing the objective QoS of high quality mobile VoIP voice telecommunication. For measuring the conversational quality, the VoIP telecommunication system is implemented in two smart phones connected with VoIP. The VoIP telecommunication system consists of echo cancellation, noise reduction, speech encoding/decoding, packet generation with RTP (Real-Time Protocol), jitter buffer control and POS (Play-out Schedule) with LC (loss Concealment). The CQM system is connected to a microphone and a speaker of each smart phone. The voice signal of each speaker is recorded and used to measure CE (Conversational Efficiency), CS (Conversational Symmetry), PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) and CE-CS-PESQ correlation. We prove the CQM system by measuring CE, CS and PESQ under various SNR, delay and loss due to IP network environment.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.43-50
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the case of constructing information and communication facilities in daycare centers and to propose an educational environment that can foster young talents who can lead the era of the fourth industrial revolution. In particular, after COVID19, a method was proposed to create an information and communication environment suitable for children to receive personalized education, and to create an environment for experiential education if possible, and at the same time to enable averaging of customized learning. Since there has been no research on information and communication facilities in daycare centers, we intend to place significance on starting, and in the future, to foster creative and contextual children, we will reduce the movement of teachers through smart speakers and mobile devices, and tailor the educational environment through AI data. I think that the design of the daycare center should be changed in the direction of making the product. To this end, the CM role of information and communication supervision is needed, and it is hoped that it will become a design standard for daycare centers after COVID19 by developing research on daycare centers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.10
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• pp.1376-1383
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• 2020

Although studies on fire evacuation systems are increasing, studies on the evacuation of evacuees in indoor spaces are insufficient. According to the latest research, it has been suggested that the use of high frequency might be effective for identifying the location of evacuees indoors. Accordingly, in this paper, the authors intend to develop evacuation location recognition technology and fire evacuation guidance system using high-frequency and a smartphone. The entire system was developed, including an app server, evacuees location recognition unit, an evacuation route search, an output unit, and a speaker unit based on Wi-Fi communication. The experimental results proved the possibility of the effectiveness of the system in the fire situation data. It is expected that this study could be used as an essential study of a fire evacuation guidance system using high frequency data in case of fire.