• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.79-89
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• 2023

A multi-view display is regarded as the most practical technology to provide a three-dimensional effect to a viewer because it can provide an appropriate viewpoint according to the observer's position. But, most multi-view displays with flat shapes have a disadvantage in that a viewer watches 3D images only within a limited front viewing angle. In this paper, we proposed a spherical display using a ball lens with spherical symmetry that provides perfect parallax by extending the viewing zone to 360 degrees. In the proposed system, each projection lens is designed to be packaged into a small modular array, and the module array is arranged in a spherical shape around a ball lens to provide vertical and horizontal parallax. Through the applied optical module, the image is formed in the center of the ball lens, and 3D contents are clearly imaged with the size of about 0.65 times the diameter of the ball lens when the viewer watches them within the viewing window. Therefore, the feasibility of a 360-degree full parallax display that overcomes the spherical aberration of a ball lens and provides a wide field of view is confirmed experimentally.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.117-124
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• 2004

In this paper, we took the clinical data of Korean eyes and designed the schematic eye with the same optical properties of the real eye. In the design process, we took the clinical emmetorpia data of young Korean adults collected in the past and analyzed to get a basic specification of the real eye for the design of schematic eye. The purpose of design was for the schematic eye to have the same optical properties of real eye in spherical aberration and astigmatism.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.212-216
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• 1994

We have designed and constructed a scanner optics for thermal imaging system operating in 8 - 12 /lfll band. The scanner consists of rotating polygon and oscillating mirror for serial-parallel scan using 5 elements SPRITE HgCdTe. A spherical mirror is used for scan relay mirror to minimize size of the scan mirrors and pupil aberration. The scanner has $40^{\circ}\times26.67^{\circ}$ wide scan field of view and the calculated diffraction MTF shows diffraction limited performance. As a result we have obtained high resolution thermal image. image.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.669-675
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• 2005

This paper proposes coordinates transformation and calibration algorithm using 3D parabolic coordinate transformation and delta-bar-delta neural algorithm for the omni-directional image captured by catadioptric camera. Experimental results shows that the proposed algorithm has accuracy and confidence in coordinate transformation which is sensitive to environmental variables.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1998 no.11
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• pp.215-216
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• 1998

The ultrasonic imaging systems using synthetic aperture beamforming has been formed in the way that one element transmits and then receives a pulse. Because the amplitude of a pulse from one element is too small to propagate a long distance, the SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio)is low. This paper proposes the method to make a circular wave almost equal to one generated by one element using several elements. The amplitude of the wave made up of several elements is much larger than that of one element. And we can improve the SNR.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.43.1-43.1
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• 2011

근적외영역의 타이탄 측광영상에서 나타나는 주연감광(Limb Darkening) 및 주연증광(Limb Brightening) 현상의 원인을 설명하기 위해 구면기하(spherical geometry)에 의한 효과 외에 헤이즈(haze) 자체의 성질 변화량을 추정해 본다. 근적외영역의 강한 메탄 흡수 밴드 부근에서 타이탄의 대기를 관측하면 파장에 따라 표면 부근에서 성층권 사이의 정보를 얻을 수 있으며, 이를 복사전달모델과 비교해 대기 중에 존재하는 연무 입자의 성질을 유추할 수 있다. 관측자료는 2006년 2월 Gemini/North Observatory의 Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer(NIFS)를 이용해 얻은 측 분광 자료를 사용하였다. NIFS의 공간분해능은 화소당 0.05"로, 타이탄의 적도부분을 약 17화소로 분해할 수 있으므로, 각 지역별로 분광선 모델을 만들어 관측자료와 비교하는 데에 용이하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.679-682
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• 2003

카타디옵트릭 카메라는 거울을 이용하여 $360^{\circ}$의 3차원 이미지를 한 장에 촬영할 수 있는 이미지 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 이 시스템을 사용할 때에 발생하는 이미지 왜곡 문제를 해결하는 구형투영 알고리즘을 제안한다. 흔히 사용하는 실린더형 알고리즘의 경우 계산은 비교적 간단하지만, 거울의 바로 아래에 있는 물체의 경우 전체적인 영상을 볼 수 없다는 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서 사용한 카메라는 포물면 거울을 사용한 카타디옵트릭 카메라이며, 쌍곡면거울을 사용한 카메라에 대해서도 이론적으로 공식을 유도하였다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.403-414
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• 2004

In the accompanying paper, we proposed a real. time volumetric imaging method using a cross array based on receive dynamic focusing and synthetic aperture focusing along lateral and elevational directions, respetively. But synthetic aperture methods using spherical waves are subject to beam spreading with increasing depth due to the wave diffraction phenomenon. Moreover, since the proposed method uses only one element for each transmission, it has a limited transmit power. To overcome these limitations, we propose a new real. time volumetric imaging method using cross arrays based on synthetic aperture technique with linear wave fronts. In the proposed method, linear wave fronts having different angles on the horizontal plane is transmitted successively from all transmit array elements. On receive, by employing the conventional dynamic focusing and synthetic aperture methods along lateral and elevational directions, respectively, ultrasound waves can be focused effectively at all imaging points. Mathematical analysis and computer simulation results show that the proposed method can provide uniform elevational resolution over a large depth of field. Especially, since the new method can construct a volume image with a limited number of transmit receive events using a full transmit aperture, it is suitable for real-time 3D imaging with high transmit power and volume rate.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.147-153
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• 2012

Multi-view 3D displays based on a limited number of pixels have the problem that the stereo-scopic image has a low resolution because of increasing view number. To solve the problem of low resolution, we propose an optical approaching method that focuses the width of a unit pixel by using a commercial spherical shape lenticular lens sheet and increases the effective resolution by increasing the number of sources of light in the multi-view 3D display system based on projection type. The method was performed in such an order that several main derivable parameters were defined, and, through the theoretical and experimental result, the value of the contractible unit pixel width and the scalable effective resolution was derived in a given system environment. As a result, for the case that the ray of light from the projector transmitted the 25 LPI lenticular lens sheet which has the pitch size 1.016 mm, the focused unit pixel width was 0.19 mm and the scalable effective resolution was, at most, 5 times wider than the original one. In addition, the range of depth of focus was 1.496 mm, which shows us the range of thickness tolerances of commercial spherical shape lenticular lens sheet and sufficient optical alignment tolerances.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.798-802
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• 2007

The synthetic focusing in the ultrasonic imaging systems has been formed in the way that one element transmits a circular wave and receives an echo signal. The amplitude of the signal transmitted from one element is too small to propagate a long distance so that the SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio) is very low in an image obtained by the synthetic focusing. To solve this problem, a defocusing method which uses several elements has been proposed. In this method, the SNR is improved due to using several elements to transmit the circular wave. But if the number of transmitting elements increases, the phase distortion is severe in the defocusing method. In this paper, we propose a new method that can generate a circular wave using a lot of elements without phase distortion. At first, we generate limited plane waves with different propagation angles and then superpose them to make a circular wave. We show that the circular wave can be used to improve SNR in the real-time 3D ultrasonic imaging as well as the synthetic focusing through computer simulation and experiments.