Journal of Industrial Convergence (산업융합연구)

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A Study on Dimming Improvement and Flicker Reduction in Visible Light Communication System

가시광통신 시스템에서 디밍 향상 및 플리커 감소 방안에 대한 연구

  • Doo-Hee, Han (Department of ICT Convergence Engineering, Halla University) ;
  • Kyu-Jin, Lee (Department of Electronic Engineering, Semyung University)
  • 한두희 (한라대학교 ICT융합공학부) ;
  • 이규진 (세명대학교 ICT융합공학부)
  • Received : 2022.12.30
  • Accepted : 2023.02.20
  • Published : 2023.02.28
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Abstract

In this paper, research was conducted to solve the problem of reducing the dimming level and flicker that occurs in the visible light communication system. Visible light communication is a convergence technology that provides both communication and lighting, and must satisfy not only communication performance but also lighting performance. However, since the existing data transmission method transmits without considering the transmission data sequence, it reduces the dimming level and causes a flicker phenomenon. To solve this problem, in this paper, the Dimming Improvement and Flicker Reduction Mapping technique was studied. Existing systems simply transmitted data of '0' and '1', but in this system, original data transmission channels and DIFR (Dimming Improvement and Flicker Reduction) transmission channels are assigned to RGB channels. Original data is allocated to the R channel and original data or inverse original data is allocated to the DIFR-G channel, and the DIFR-B channel maintains the maximum dimming level by transmitting through the logical operation of the R channel and the G channel. At the same time, the flicker phenomenon is prevented by preventing continuous occurrence of 'OFF' patterns. Through this, we proposed an adaptive data allocation algorithm that can faithfully play a role as a light as well as a communication function.

본 논문에서는 가시광 통신 시스템의 발생하는 Dimming level 감소 및 Flicker 발생 문제를 해결하기 위한 연구를 진행하였다. 가시광 통신은 통신과 조명을 함께 제공하는 융합기술로, 통신 성능뿐만 아니라 조명의 성능을 함께 만족 해야한다. 그러나 기존의 데이터 전송 방식은 전송 Data sequence를 고려하지 않고 전송하기 때문에, Dimming level을 감소시키고 Flicker 현상을 발생시킨다. 이를 해결하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 Dimming improvement and Flicker Reduction Mapping 기법을 연구하였다. 기존의 시스템은 단순하게 '0'과 '1'의 데이터만 전송하였지만, 본 시스템에서는 RGB 채널에 Original data 전송채널과 DIFR(Dimming Improvement and Flicker Reduction) 전송채널을 할당한다. R채널에는 Original data를, DIFR-G채널에는 Original data or Inverse Original data를 할당하고, DIFR-B채널은 R채널과 G채널의 논리연산을 통해 전송함으로써, 최대 Dimming level을 유지하면서 동시에 'OFF' 패턴이 연속적으로 발생하지 않도록 하여 Flicker 현상을 방지하고 통신 기능뿐만 아니라 조명으로써의 역할을 충실히 할 수 있는 적응형 데이터 할당 알고리즘을 제안했다.

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Acknowledgement

This paper was supported by the Semyung University Research Grant of 2022.

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