• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.652-664
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• 2017

The practice of producing and transmitting TV programs with uneven loudness can harm audiences' welfare in the digital environment where audiences are entitled to be offered quality broadcasting service. The purpose of this paper is to investigate issues concerning the digital loudness policy institutionalized in Korea since May 2016, and to offer policy suggestions. This paper reviews previous studies on audience welfare in digital broadcasting, focusing on the close link between loudness policy and audience welfare. In order to explore the state of international policy, this paper examines loudness standards developed by international standardization organizations including ITU, ATSC, and EBU, along with loudness regulations in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Korea, respectively. Based on the analysis, this paper suggests recommendations for policy makers and broadcasters. First, policies on mandating regular monitoring and establishing penality system should be established for broadcasters not to violate loudness standards. Second, broadcasters are recommended to collect audience feedback, to be equipped with loudness measuring devices, to offer personnel training programs, and to check the compliance of loudness standards when they outsource TV programs.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.229-241
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• 2006

In this paper we propose and analyze a novel modulation and pre-equalization method to minimize signal processing time delay for the Equalization Digital On-Channel Repeater (EDOCR) in ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) terrestrial digital TV system. The proposed modulation method uses Equi-Ripple (ER) filter coefficients instead of conventional Square Root Raised Cosine (SRRC) after coefficients for VSB (Vestigial Side Bands) pulse shaping. And the proposed pre-equalization method calculates pre-equalizer filter coefficients by using baseband signal as reference signal and demodulated repeater output signal, then generates a new VSB pulse shaping filter coefficients by convolutioning ER filter coefficients and pre-equalizer filter coefficients. The newly generated pulse shaping filter does not have minimized time delay by adjusting the number of pre-taps of the filter, but also compensates linear distortions caused by ER filter and mask filter.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.185-192
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• 2008

지난 몇 년간 HCI 분야에서 사용자 경험 (User Experience)이라는 용어는 전통적 의미의 사용성부터 심미적, 유희적, 감성적 그리고 기술 사용을 포함하는 사용의 전반적인 경험을 일컫게 되었다. 기술 성숙과 더불어 제품의 빈번한 상호작용으로 인해, 사용자는 제품의 도구적 의미의 유용성과 사용성에 대한 기대 충족 뿐만 아니라, 심미성, 감성 등 사용자의 내재적 가치까지 만족시켜주길 원한다. 본 연구는 사용자의 실용적인 목적 뿐만 아니라, 내재적 가치까지도 고려한 전체 사용자 경험 연구를 위해, 제품의 '도구적 요구 관점' 과 '비도구적 요구 관점' 을 함께 고려하고자 한다. 비인간 대상을 사람으로 간주하는 의인화 (Anthropomorphism) 연구에서는 대상을 도구적임과 동시에 비도구적으로 대하려는 현상을 보여준다. 이런 의인화 연구들을 착안하여, 본 연구는 의인화의 의의와 도출 과정을 살펴보고 HCI 분야에서 왜 의인화 관점의 연구가 중요한지, 사용자들은 언제 어떻게 사용하는 제품을 의인화하려는지 다른 분야의 의인화와 비교 설명하려 한다. [연구 1]에서는 2 개국 (독일, 인도) 에서 4 개의 디지털 기기 (핸드폰, MP3 플레이어, TV, 냉장고) 사용자를 대상으로 Contextual Interview 를 실시 후, 분석하여 국가별 디지털 기기 별 주요 의인화 요소들을 도출하였다. [연구 2]에서는 의인화 관점의 분석 결과가 문화적 차이에 따라 어떤 영향을 받는지를 검증하기 위해 [연구 1]의 통일 2 개국에 문화적 성향 측정을 위한 설문을 실시하였다. [연구 1]과 [연구 2]의 결과를 통해 HCI 분야에서의 의인화 관점 연구의 의의와 프레임웍을 설명하고, 문화적 차이를 반영한 제품의 의인화 가이드라인을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.11
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• pp.61-65
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• 2009

It is crucial to derive a protection ratio between two communication systems before deploying a new communication systems in the vicinity of frequencies occupied by the existing communication systems. In this paper, computer simulation based protection ratio estimating scheme between ASTC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) digital broadcasting systems and WiBro (Wireless Broadband Internet) systems is proposed. The proposed scheme can be effectively exploited when a new communication services are deployed in the surplus frequency band after the expiration of the analog television broadcasting scheduled in 2012 in Korea.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3A
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• pp.337-344
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a multi-view video codec for 3DTV system. The proposed algorithm is not only to reduce the temporal and spatial redundancy but also to reduce the redundancy among each view. With these results, we can improve the coding efficiency for multi-view video sequences. In order to reduce the redundancy of each view more efficiently, we define the assembled image(AI) that is generated by the global disparity compensation of each view. In addition, the proposed algorithm is based on MPEG-2 structure so that we can easily implement 3DTV system without changing the conventional 2D digital TV system. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs very well. It also performs better than MPEG-2 simulcast coding method. The newly proposed codec also supports the view scalability, accurate temporal synchronization among multiple views and random access capability in view dimension.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.931-938
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• 2018

D-CATV VOD service provides various contents such as drama and movie with high quality regardless of time and place. As the usage time of the VOD service increases, the viewing time of real-time terrestrial broadcasting is shortened. As the demand for VOD service is high and the number of digital users is increasing, the VOD market is rapidly growing. Therefore this study investigates the age and gender analysis of digital cable TV users and analyzed the usage patterns and audience cases of users. VOD service has been shown to be used by many users for the first time through remote control and free coupons. Non-users of VOD service did not use it because of charge and did not feel the necessity, but some non-users did not recognize the free VOD service.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.55-80
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• 2004

Multichannel on digital TV not only gave opportunities to the TV audience to view a wide range of programs. but also made it difficult for them to search for the program which they plan to view among over 1000 programs broadcasted on more than 100 channels. In this paper the functions of EPG (Electronic Program Guides) required by the users on digital TV were derived from the systematic analysis of multichannel viewing situations. In the situation analysis the situations where they viewed programs on more than 100 channels were generated systematically and the viewing processes in those situations were analyzed to identify user needs and derive the required functions of EPG. We surveyed the viewing behavior of the audience who subscribed to a digital satellite broadcast. SkyPerfecTV. in Tokyo. Japan. The purpose of the survey was to verify the validity of the functions derived from the situation analysis and to identify hidden user needs which were difficult to in the situation analysis. The functions were implemented on a working prototype of EPG based on a digital TV simulator which broadcasts 500 programs on 100 channels and can be controlled by three working prototypes of personal remote controllers. The working prototype will be used in Participatory Design to make it possible for the users to experience and verify the usefulness of the required functions of EPG and also find problems in user interface design of EPG

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.1 s.26
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• pp.103-118
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• 2005

Since the introduction of digital broadcasting, an additional advanced service called EPG has been brought to viewers. EPG (Electronic Program Guide) helps people select channels or programs. But existing user Interfaces for EPG are not convenient enough for the viewer. TV is the media anyone can access. Therefore, the 'look and feel' user interface is needed to guide the viewer to select their favorite programs without any difficulties. Generally, TV programs can be categorized by their attributes such as genre, broadcasting hours, and TV ratings. At the present moment, those attributes are not categorized systematically enough for easy program navigation. This paper presents how to organize the attributes of TV programs systematically and offers a user friendly interface to help the viewer access their favorite programs by specifying the values of the attributes in any order comfortable to them.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.43-52
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• 2012

This paper presents and analyzes laboratory test results of Interference Cancellation Digital On Channel Regenerative Repeater(IC-DOCR) to broadcast digital television signals in the Advanced Television Systems Committee(ATSC) transmission systems using single frequency networks(SFN). IC-DOCR laboratory test is classified to receiver test, transmitter test, and feedback interference cancellation test. The receiver part includes random noise, single echo, multi-path ensembles, and adjacent channel interference test. The transmitter part includes out-of channel emission, equality of transmitting signal, and phase noise test. By the laboratory test, the receiver part of the IC-DOCR eliminates 28dB of feedback signal higher than the received signal and has 17.8dB at TOV(Threshold Of Visibility) under random noise environment. Also, the transmitter part satisfies the specification of US FCC(Federal Communications Commission) as well as maintains good output signal quality for guaranteeing more than SNR 30dB.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.167-175
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• 2000

Compressed bitstreams generated by an MPEG-2 video encoder (or digital TV picture transmission are quite sensitive to channel errors. Due to the coding structure of the MPEG-2 video compression algorithm, a single bit error can affect not only the current Picture frame but also succeeding frames. Error concealment algorithms attempt to repair damaged portions of the picture by exploiting spatial and temporal redundancies in the correctly received and reconstructed video frames. In this paper, we analyze the effect of channel errors in MPEG-2 video bitstreams and estimate lost motion vectors by exploiting temporal redundancies in the video frames. Motion vectors can be estimated from the vertically adjacent extended region of lost macroblocks. Finally, we conceal the damaged macroblocks by compensating the displacement with the estimated motion vectors. Simulation results demonstrate that both the weighted sum algorithm and the extension matching algorithm achieve good performance in terms of PSNR values as well as subjective image quality.