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A Study on the Design of Inaudible Acoustic Signal in Acoustic Communications and Positioning System

음향 통신 및 위치측정 시스템에서의 비가청 음향 신호 설계에 관한 연구

  • Oh, Jongtaek (Dept. of ICs Engineering, Hansung University)
  • 오종택 (한성대학교 전자정보공학과)
  • Received : 2016.11.29
  • Accepted : 2017.04.07
  • Published : 2017.04.30

Abstract

According to the ubiquitous usage of smartphone, so many smartphone applications have been developed, and especially data communications and position measurement technologies without additional equipments have been developed using acoustic signal. But there is a limitation to select the frequency of the acoustic signal due to the smartphone hardware, and there is non-linearity in the electronic circuits in a sound generation devices, the audible sound generated from the speaker is not avoidable. And it causes critical difficulty to the commercial system deployment. In this paper, a simulation technique to calculate the power of the audible acoustic signal by human is applied to several types of acoustic signals to evaluate the loudness. These could be referred when the acoustic communications or positioning systems are designed, for the purposed of inaudible sounding to human.

스마트폰의 사용이 보편화됨에 따라 스마트폰을 이용한 다양한 응용서비스가 개발되고 있으며, 추가적인 장치없이 음향 신호를 이용하여 데이터를 송수신하거나 위치를 측정하는 기술이 활발하게 개발되고 있다. 그러나 스마트폰 장치의 한계로 음향 주파수의 선택에 한계가 있고, 음향신호 발생 장치의 전자회로의 비선형성으로 인해 인간이 감지할 수 있는 음향신호 잡음이 발생하는 문제가 있다. 따라서 시끄러운 소리가 나므로 실용화에 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 인간이 감지하는 음향 신호의 크기 측정 방법을 제안하고, 이에 따라 여러 가지 음향 신호를 비교 분석함으로써 음향 통신 및 위치측정 시스템 개발시에 비가청 음향 신호 설계에 활용하도록 한다.

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