• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.77-83
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• 2000

The previous synthetic aperture techniques have been investigated to increase signal gain, improve angular resolution and peak-to-sidelobe level ratios for towed line array sonar systems. The synthetic aperture method in this paper is performed for conformal array systems by mapping real elements on an axis to control like a linear array. The proposed method for the conformal array performs coherent processing of subaperture signals at successive time intervals in the beam domain via FFT transformations. This was confirmed by the simulation results and compared to the results from use of the synthetic aperture technique under the conformal array.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.25-31
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• 1999

An array aperture synthesis technique is proposed. The proposed method does not require the condition that the overlapped hydrophones have the identical position in space to estimate the phase correction factors. while the existing ETAM algorithm does. Therefore the proposed method increases the available data applied to extend the effective aperture length of the towed array. From the numerical experiments, the proposed method can reduce the mean square error in estimating the direction of a target signal.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.82-86
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• 2001

In this Paper, we Propose synthetic aperture technique for twin-line may. Sin91e-line way is required long aperture size in order to achieve high SNR and angular resolution in shallow water Ultra low frequency signal from far-field has left-right ambiguity at sing1e-line array. To resolve these Problems, we'd like to adopt the synthetic aperture technique to twin-line array. The synthetic aperture method adopts coherent processing of sub-aperture signals at successive tine intervals in the beam domain. The proposed method shows low nile error and improved angular resolution. In simulation result, average sidelobe level is reduced about 7〔dB〕when the array Peformed 5-synthesis.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.240-243
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 칼만 필터 방법을 이용하여 견인 어레이의 3차원 형상을 추정하고, 어레이 합성 기법인 ETAM방법이 추정된 3차원 형상에서도 적용 가능함을 입증한다. 기존의 합성 기법들은 모두 견인 어레이가 직선 형태를 유지하고 있다는 가정을 필요로 하지만, ETAM 방법은 3차원 형상추정이 가능한 경우에 그러한 가정이 필요 없게 된다. 단, 3차원 어레이 형상에서 어레이를 확장하기 위해서는 절대 좌표를 추정할 수 있으며, 어레이가 동일한 견인 경로를 따라간다는 가정이 필요하다. 컴퓨터 모의 실험 결과 신호원의 입사각을 추정하였을 때, 주엽폭과 부엽레벨이 감소하는 등 합성이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.60-61
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• 2012

최근들어 초고화질 방송인 UHDTV 의 오디오 규격으로 다채널 오디오에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있으며, 이를 효과적으로 재생하기 위해 여러 연구기관과 대학에서 음장합성기법(WFS)과 스피커어레이에 관한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 음장합성기법에 대한 여러가지 알고리즘과 청취조건을 시험할 때, 직관적인 인터페이스와 실시간 상호작용이 가능하다면 실험시간을 단축하고, 효과적인 청취시험을 할 수 있다. 이를 위해서 본 논문에서는 이를 위해서 MAXMSP 외부 오브젝트를 이용하여 음장합성기법으로 음원을 재생하고 스피커 어레이를 제어하는 방법에 대해 소개한다. 본 논문에서 구현한 시스템을 통해서 손쉽게 실시간으로 음장합성시의 오브젝트의 위치 제어하고 멀티채널 음원을 재생할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.455-458
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• 2004

소나 시스템의 표적 탐지 성능을 향상시키기 위해 물리적으로 제한된 길이의 어레이를 확장하는 합성 어퍼쳐 소나에 대한 연구와 실험이 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 왜곡된 어레이의 형상을 추정하여 왜곡을 보상한 후에 빔 영역에서 어레이를 합성하는 FFTSA(Fast Fourier Transform Synthetic Aperture) 기법의 성능을 분석하였다. 실험 데이터로는 한국 근해에서 견인 어레이로부터 획득한 데이터를 이용하였으며 실측된 데이터로 부어레이 간의 시-공간적인 위상 차이를 보상함으로써 어레이 길이를 확장하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.172-177
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• 2006

Various research and development on Synthetic Aperture Sonar technique is under way to enhance bearing resolution of a SONAR system. In this paper, we estimated perturbed array shapes, and compensated distortion by using estimated away shapes and synthesized arrays in aperture domain such as an ETAM technique. As experimental data, we used the one obtained from towed array in neighboring waters of the Korean peninsula. Through simulation on data where tow-ship speed is maintained at a constant level, we confirmed that synthesis effect of increasing SNR and narrowed beam width of main lobe was consistently demonstrated for about 1 minute when coherence of target signal was maintained. Also, we showed that the synthesis effect with respect to time was constantly maintained.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.482-488
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• 2003

Line may receiver contains an ambiguity on conjugate bearings, because of lacking aperture in transverse direction. To solve the left/right bearing ambiguity of line-array receiver we used line-array with cardioid beam. In addition, the synthetic aperture method adopts coherent processing of sub-aperture signals at successive time intervals in the beam domain. We presented performances about division of left/right bearing ambiguity according to array synthetic number of times in this paper.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.626-631
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• 2020

In this paper, a study on beam synthesis technique of conformal array was performed. It is applied to various radar systems that can perform beam steering without deterioration of performance due to beam steering in a general linear arrangement. Unlike the beam synthesis technique in the planar linear array, the conformal array has a radiation element located on a curved surface, so it is necessary to compensate for a difference in length from the radaation element to the wave front surface. In addition, by calculating the offset angle for each radiation element and applying it during actual synthesis, it was possible to predict an accurate beam pattern. In this paper, length compensation and offset angle were calculated and applied to beam pattern synthesis to perform beam pattern comparison, and performance was compared through mathematical analysis.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.419-430
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• 2002

In this paper. we propose an efficient method for implementing hi-directional pixel-based focusing(BiPBF) based on a sparse array imaging technique. The proposed method can improve spatial resolution and frame rate of ultrasound imaging with reduced hardware complexity by synthesizing transmit apertures with a small number of sparsely distributed subapertures. As the distance between adjacent subapertures increases, however. the image resolution tends to decrease due to the elevation of grating lobes. Such grating lobes can be eliminated in conventional synthetic aperture imaging techniques. On the contrary, grating lobes arisen from employing sparse synthetic transmit apertures can not be eliminated, which has been shown analytically in this paper. We also propose the condition and method for suppressing the grating lobes below -40dB, which is generally required in practical imaging. by placing the transmit focal depth at a near depth and properly selecting the subaperture distance in Proportion to receive aperture size. The results of both the Phantom and in vivo experiments show that the proposed method implements two-wav dynamic focusing using a smaller number of subapertures, resulting in reduced system complexity and increased frame rate.